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(2009) |
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"Nymph is ultimately like [its] lengthy opening shot - deliberately paced, oblique and somewhat meandering... and leaving the viewer to puzzle out what they have seen, and what might have gone on in the shadowy ellipses that have remained off-screen"
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6/10 |
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(2004) |
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"What is touching, however, and perhaps the film's central theme, is the strength, however strangely expressed, of the friendship between Napoleon, Deb and Pedro."
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2004) |
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"A fine comic cast, an irreverent script, and a lot of balls."
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Movie Gazette |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[Cage] ust cannot cut it playing an intellectual, and his Ben is convincing only in the scenes where he is evading bullets or hanging by one hand over an abyss."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"Pretty much everything in New Police Story seems so contrived that Alan Yuen's screenplay may as well have been written with a crowbar."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"If its deadly game of cat-and-mouse is styled like a fancifully violent video game, the social divisions it exposes are real enough."
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Eye for Film |
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(2005) |
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"a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"No doubt there will be more sour to come in both Nick and Norah's lives, but for the duration of this film, things remain irresistibly sweet."
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Eye for Film |
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10/10 |
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(1955) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1960) |
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"In Oshima's bitter political melodrama, the wedding between an unexamined past and a blind present turns out to be a sham."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Not everything on display is sufficiently alive in this museum-set comedy adventure."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"a scattergun trawl through human (albeit mostly American) history and culture, with the emphasis more on entertainment than instruction."
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Little White Lies |
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(1968) |
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"This is horror at its most probing, subversive and socially aware, with a truly harrowing ending that reveals the dangers of misdirected fear and prejudice."
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Eye for Film |
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6/10 |
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(1968) |
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"uses fantasy, horror and gobsmacking special effects to explore the greyer areas of contemporary life."
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Eye for Film |
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6/10 |
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(1982) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1947) |
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"Alongside Todd Browning's Freaks, this is a brilliantly grim assessment of humanity's place in the cruel circus of life."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"for all the curiosity of seeing Foster in a rare comic rôle, her neurotic, tic-afflicted, accident-prone Alexandra annoys more than she engages, which is a problem for a character who contributes so little to the actual plot apart from diversion"
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"Sometimes a product's creative integrity requires that it not quite attain a ten - but when it comes to the cinema of big ideas, The Nines is as close to divine perfection as you are likely to get."
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musicOMH.com |
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"a drab, barely substantial narrative enlivened by a colourful assortment of villains."
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Eye for Film |
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6/10 |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"a film whose long, twisted narrative roads, rather than converging on some obvious, hackneyed point of closure, instead open out to infinite horizons."
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Eye for Film |
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(1997) |
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"all the Tarantino-esque chaos of plot and subplot undercuts itself with such determined bathos that the viewer is more alienated than engaged, and Song's bag of stylistic tics has a similar effect"
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Little White Lies |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1922) |
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"After the destruction was ordered of all negatives and prints, the story of Nosferatu's survival beyond death is almost as preternatural as Count Orlok's own shadowy existence."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1922) |
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"Possibly the best vampire movie ever made."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1922) |
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"the plague-bearing Count Orlok (Schreck) embodies all the anxieties of a nation that had recently lost millions to indiscriminate, implacable death."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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"The small scale of this melancholic romantic comedy is offset by its big themes. Bleak, well observed and dryly funny."
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Channel 4 Film |
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"In keeping with the film they accompany, the extras presented here are modest yet satisfying."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"this lost treasure trove of cringe-making softcore, outrageous horror and balls-to-the-wall action... celebrates a nation humping, slicing and hammering out its modern identity through popular cultural forms."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"a subtle, understated study of a complex individual."
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musicOMH.com |
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(1961) |
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"For all the sublimity of its craft, La Notte will leave most viewers feeling no less bored than its ennui-afflicted characters."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"There is something a bit bland, a bit kitchen sink, a bit telemovie, about this portrait of the artist as a young man."
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Eye for Film |
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(1974) |
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"knowing trash of the most impressively confounding kind, recalling not just the serial sensationalism of Feuillade but also the early, paranoia-inducing gialli of Argento."
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Film International |
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