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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"A film that matches all too well the times it portrays, Gabrielle is claustrophobic, stifling, and not a little crusty. Saved only by its exquisitely bitter performances and immaculate design."
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(2005) |
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"far greater insight, analysis and reflection than is normally found in dvd extras."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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(2006) |
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"Gardens In Autumn is hardly the first film to allegorise paradise regained, but few others have done so with such po-faced eccentricity and anarchic energy."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Keen's homespun experiments in montage and collage are by turns fast and furious, funny and horrifying, head-spinning and headache-inducing."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"sees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a weak, if fun, appendix to Romero's excellent trilogy."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"Cut[s] to the very heart of reality television's soulless diversion, in a world where so many people must endure a different kind of reality that is no game."
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Eye for Film |
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(2004) |
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"the mind-blowing story and its reality-bending aesthetic form a sublime continuum, where the medium becomes part of the message...this is animation at its most acute and enthralling."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"the absence of Oshii's magical touch ensures that it is all surface sheen without any deeper brilliance or, if you prefer, all shell without a ghost to give it a poetic soul."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"None of the extras are exactly essential."
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Channel 4 Film |
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6/10 |
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(2002) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Too cold and cynical to be truly enjoyed but the old dog still has a few new tricks up his sleeve."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Wryly amusing, achingly poignant and pleasingly understated, with a stand-out performance from Weaver."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Unlike its malicious tool-wielding antagonist, Gnaw simply fails to make the cut."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Featuring a game whose practitioners cultivate friendships rather than rivalries, in a time and a place where conflict was otherwise all too easy to find, The Go Master is a biopic of rare subtlety, delicacy and stillness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1954) |
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"a pioneering behemoth in the history of Japanese cinema, leaving giant footprints in its trail that many have followed but few have filled so impressively."
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Eye for Film |
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(2004) |
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"Ishii creates an almost unbearable tension, before finally climaxing with an auto-da-fé as explosive as the elemental denouement of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"a disappointing package"
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Channel 4 Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"You will be kept waiting for the twist that never comes in Ringan Ledwidge's derivative psycho-thriller, whose by-the-numbers plotting is as inevitable as roadkill."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(1995) |
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"one-of-a-kind...quirky, moody tale of crime and masculinity"
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"If peeking in on these two characters' most deep-seated dysfunctions might seem as intrusive as stalking and as exploitative as scopophilia, then Palka is at pains to expose the all too human yearnings that underlie both activities."
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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"condenses a national tragedy into an intense domestic drama, and uses the image of a household in disarray to suggest the widening cracks of a country at odds with itself.
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"proves that it is still possible in the cinema, if not in television, to inform without being boring and entertain without condescending."
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Eye for Film |
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5/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"It's exciting, funny, thrilling, and as entertaining as hell - and proves, if proof be needed, that genre knows no borders."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"A deeply affecting portrait of the way that we are all changed in small but significant ways by our encounters with others."
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Eye for Film |
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4/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1968) |
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"Borowczyk documents the strange hierarchies and rituals of an island of the imagination... and the result is a sort of absurdist anthropological allegory of blinkered outlooks, frustrated dreams and recurring tyrannies."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/10 |
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(2004) |
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"An incredible true story unnecessarily embellished with banal fictitious details"
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Grimly beautiful and deeply shocking, this pessimistic state-of-the-nation debut blazes itself into your consciousness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"Amazingly, while being interviewed, Herzog is shot in the belly by a passer-by with an air rifle... and so the director's personal myth as an intrepid outsider is perpetuated."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"As a character critique it is hardly a mauling, for Herzog is too sophisticated a thinker, too respectful towards his subject, and altogether too humane to tear Treadwell apart for a second time."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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[dvd review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"the adult scenes, though providing the film with structural ballast, also weigh it down."
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Eye for Film |
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