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(2007) |
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"from the most prosaic of foundations, Tsai has erected a somnolent reverie on alienation, desire and restlessness."
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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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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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(2008) |
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"The title turns out to be the only funny thing about this joyless, turgid feature."
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"By dressing up his domestic tragedy as a boy's own adventure, Kerrigan somehow dilutes, rather than amplifies, the impact of both."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(1955) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Ip Man is a highly competent, even slick biopic, but by reshaping its protagonist's life story towards cinematic convention, it ends up being just another martial arts movie."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a thrilling docudrama in which all the mystery, scandal and conspiracy behind an unsolved political abduction from 1965 are imaginatively refashioned as Melvillean noir."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"This magical realist memoir of the small men (and women) in history is a sprawling carnivalesque treat - as tall and refreshing as a tankard of Czech beer and with the same bitter aftertaste."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This uncategorisable asylum-set ensemble dramedy backs up its extraordinary visual effects with a lot of heart."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"So note-perfect are the performances from all the cast in I've Loved You So Long that you want them to inhabit a film that is somehow less contrived and more honest."
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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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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite the novelty of its 3D visuals and lost world setting, Dawn Of The Dinosaurs pushes the Ice Age franchise ever closer to extinction."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2002) |
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"a bizarre sado-masochistic love story, an unnerving excursion into criminal and sexual extremes, and a comicbook explosion of lurid colours and freakish characters"
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"Often funny and always thrilling, this vibrant portrait of one of Italy's most agile political survivors has warnings for us all about the quieter exercises of power."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2005) |
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"a refreshingly unpatronising primer in the limitless possibilities of computer-generated cinema."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"Rarely is dystopian cyberpunk so inventive, so multi-faceted, or so strange."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Laughter, tears, madness, magic, and E.T. ... moving ..."
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"for the two hours that Costanza's hauntingly earnest film lasts, and perhaps beyond, it is all too easy to forget yourself."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Stylish, clever, and full of insight into the darker side of both male and female sexuality..."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"Showing how politicians, in all their petty ambition and narrow self-interest, can be every bit as dangerous as Weapons of Mass Destruction, this is Dr Strangelove for the post-9/11 era."
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musicOMH.com |
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10/10 |
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(2001) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"One can only wish that there were also an alternative ending (alas, there is not) to replace the final five minutes of clumsily flagged symbolism."
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(2006) |
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Movie Gazette |
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9/10 |
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(2006) |
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Movie Gazette |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Blandly directed, ham-fisted sound and fury battering your brain for attention [that leaves] you with little to take away except, perhaps, a mild headache. Where is Ang Lee when we need him?"
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Stunningly animated, if somewhat derivative, story of an ordinary, extraordinary family."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"take this nostalgic "pathway to another dimension", and for two hours your mind, like Oxley's, will be blissfully empty."
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(2003) |
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"... furiously paced, full of drama, and as tense as elevator cable ..."
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"this story of magic, madness and metempsychosis will have you feeling like a rabbit trying to puzzle out what exactly is going on as wilder wolves circle and headlights career toward you out of the darkness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"allegorises the innocent joys, confused anxieties and newly awakening impulses of pre-pubescence, where the only certainty is that the innocence of the title, like the film itself, must eventually come to an end..."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"it is only after the closing credits have rolled and your fists have unclenched that the film's ambiguities and irrationalities return, not unlike Dalle's creepy 'femme', to haunt you."
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Little White Lies |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"the apotheosis of its genre, honing the heist siege flick to the perfection of a diamond. See it, and be dazzled."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"... well-acted, ambitiously plotted directorial debut which will leave you with a big smile ..."
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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"A gripping and intelligent political thriller that, unusually for these troubled times, promotes articulation of the jawbone over kneejerk reflex."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a no-holds-barred history with alarming lessons for the current 'War on Terror'."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"the characters seem as shallow as the waters through which they paddle."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"like the delicate images from which it is composed, the narrative of Invisible Waves is a series of suggestions and ellipses that viewers must complete and colour for themselves."
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Eye for Film |
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(1966) |
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"A refreshing, if slightly baffling, contribution to the battle of the sexes, as well as a beautifully shot celebration of Japan's seediest underbelly."
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Channel 4 Film |
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8/10 |
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(2002) |
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"If you have a strong stomach, then this deceptively calm tale of self-imposed isolation, extreme emotions and fishing will quickly reel you in, and leave its hooks in you long after you escape the cinema."
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Isolation is a claustrophobic, increasingly icky chiller that is just as horrifying for its underlying ideas as for the more visceral shocks that it presents on screen."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"even the disc's menus are creepy."
[dvd review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Bijou Phillips... lacks the presence let alone the gravitas to carry off the tragedy of having created her own monster, and so the film's examination of maternity and madness falls short"
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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