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10/10 |
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(1930) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1930) |
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"a biting, often hilarious dream-piece depicting civilisation barely founded, sensuality barely concealed and characters barely awake."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1983) |
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"blank in style and bleak in message... Yet like money itself, the value of L'Argent is no more or less than what one is willing to give it."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1960) |
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"a bleak, even blank, portrait of humanity failing to find again the values it has so carelessly allowed itself to lose."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"the Dardennes have managed to concoct an engaging and often suspenseful drama without ever calling upon fancy camerawork, sensational performances, or even so much as a musical score."
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Eye for Film |
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10/10 |
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(1960) |
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"A timeless, bittersweet carnival of severed roots, disintegrating values, lost innocence and dumbing down. Unmissable!"
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"a complex, ambitious anatomisation of the workings of justice in a deeply iniquitous world"
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(1944) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"an earnest attempt to put the best possible gloss on a mediocre product."
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Eye for Film |
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(1951) |
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"An elegy for Japanese times past and future, leaving a taste as bitter as cyanide."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"in Lady Vengeance, revenge is ultimately a shabby, sordid business that leaves everybody soiled and in need of purification - or at least of a pie in the face."
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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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3.5/5 |
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"A Tokyo Story (or six) about urban alienation - although Ozu never thought to include a talking penis in his oeuvre. Masayuki Miyano's debut may be flashily outrageous and upbeat, but its laughs are rooted in the misery of modern humanity."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"while without question funny at times (and sad at others), [it is] never mocking, degrading or lewd - a true miracle for a film about one man's relationship with a sex doll"
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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Movie Gazette |
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"the dull deleted scenes suggest that Watkins' original 175-minute version of the film really did require the severe cutting that it eventually received, and for reasons unconnected to censorship."
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Channel 4 Film |
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"dirt cheap and deeply flawed, but still worth enduring; for even if the deaths are faked, there's a real enough intelligence behind it all."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"in its way [the film] out-Hanekes Haneke (without feeling like a lecture), by confronting us in the end with what we expected (and possibly also desired) all along from this kind of movie."
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musicOMH.com |
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9/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"even as this odd couple cuts its destructive path through the social order in a story that is essentially a tragedy, they come across as idealised revolutionaries rather than deluded victims of love."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Sadik Ahmed is less interested in cowboy movie pastiche than in an intense drama of misunderstandings, madness and murder."
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Little White Lies |
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(1961) |
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"Leading the viewer up more than one garden path and forever haunting the corridors of the mind, this perplexing enigma is a labyrinth of chillingly perfect construction."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"By the end, or indeed long before then, the viewer, too, is desperate for these workshy wastrels to 'wake up' (as Chica puts it) and get on with growing up."
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Eye for Film |
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(1970) |
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"Top-notch film noir with a bleak existential edge, executed with as much clinical precision as the crime it portrays."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1943) |
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"A masterful blend of dark misanthropy and small-town hysteria"
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Movie Gazette |
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9/10 |
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(1962) |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"This grimly rewarding film reveals a nation trapped in its own historical legacy, and outsiders unable to understand let alone help."
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Channel 4 Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"excessively lengthy, swashbuckling-by-numbers exercise in tedium that fills the cinema with entirely the wrong kind of zs."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"The six featurettes range from two-and-a-half to 10 minutes in length, and cover everything from story development to acting to post-production effects."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"slick, funny and unsettling, slipping between psychological thriller, absurdist farce and ghost story into an unnerving dreamscape where psychosis meets metempsychosis."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(1963) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"It is an erotic narrative whose characters express their innermost feelings in bursts of song, but it never sacrifices its heartfelt, often painful moods on the altar of irony."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Films rarely come as lowest common denominator as this reductive Hammer parody, where wit is replaced with endless knob jokes, and where there are far more mammaries than memories on offer."
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a stunningly poetic work that will appeal not just to the niche market of horror fans, but to any viewer discerning enough to appreciate the beauty of melancholy, the pain of growing up, and the irresistibility of violence."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"You can blame the government, the bourgeoisie, women or the weather, but in the end Jaoui's ensemble comedy, for all its sophisticated wit and note-perfect performances, is washed out by an overwhelming slightness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Kim Rossi Stuart's directorial debut exposes the cracks in a family with edgy incisiveness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"[Perelman] over-explains everything at the end with a montage of repeated scenes that ensures you never need see this film more than once."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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6/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1952) |
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"A beautiful, harrowing portrayal of female servitude and degradation in seventeenth century Japan."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Kaurismäki's underdog tragicomedy is an elegant piece of modern urban noir."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"in interview, Kaurismaki wields an even more minimalist variant on the kind of deadpan humour for which his films are so famous."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Little Fish will leave you full of admiration for its undeniable craft, but perhaps also not entirely sure what its point is."
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musicOMH.com |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"a family road movie brimming with spot-on performances, hilarious situations, and plenty of good feeling - and it treats its comic characters with a rare affection."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2006) |
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"a finely nuanced screenplay into whose naturalistic dialogue an intricate array of suggestive symbols and recurring motifs are subtly folded."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"dares, from the unlikely vantage of Britain's criminal underworld, to look heavenwards - and, in its darkly pessimistic way, to see nothing there."
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musicOMH.com |
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(1972) |
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"...where shock, violence and disgust are presented as heroic responses to the status quo, and where revenge is an attitude born out of present sociopolitical iniquities."
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Little White Lies |
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(1972) |
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"The very first act we see Itto perform is the Shogun-sanctioned beheading of a very young boy, immediately suggesting that there is something deeply wrong with the order that this Official Executioner is duty-bound to uphold"
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Little White Lies |
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