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(2007) |
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"all the pieces are in place for a great thriller - and then, just like your typical Yuletide get-together, it all falls a little flat."
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(1977) |
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"a film of careful balances, setting raw nature against refined culture, and offering family drama that grips from start to finish without once resorting to sentimentality."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"here the business of revenge is as measured and well-tempered as a piano score, and it will turn out that Melanie's Bach is far worse than any bite."
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musicOMH.com |
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(1964) |
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"a lost yakuza classic, part Bob Le Flambeur, part Rebel Without a Cause, but with an ecstatic blankness all its own."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"[In the featurettes] Del Toro is wisely allowed to dominate, ensuring that everything remains engaging."
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Channel 4 Film |
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5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"in Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofelia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain are two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - a story of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"Boasting a sophisticated range of narrative modes and visual styles to match its different characters' delusions, it is engaging, enigmatic and always intelligent - and, like a baseball bat to the skull, it will make your head spin."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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(2008) |
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"As fragmented and disordered as the writings in Alex's notebook, Paranoid Park is a moody, somewhat otherworldly study of the confusion, alienation and furtive secrecy of adolescence"
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musicOMH.com |
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(2009) |
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"It's a bit of The Exorcist, a bit of Poltergeist, a bit of The Blair Witch Project and a bit of Lost Highway - and it all adds up to a whole lot of scary."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"This bittersweet love-letter to France's capital is as richly cosmopolitan as the city itself."
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Channel 4 Film |
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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5/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Beautiful, violent -- and also funny for all the wrong reasons, and boring."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2005) |
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"Here gritty realism meets a more poetic symbolism to expose Winnie's marginalised status without ever resorting to sentiment, preaching or indeed cliché."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1985) |
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"This soft-core mix of The African Queen, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Flash Gordon and Cannibal Holocaust can only be described as half-cocked."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1985) |
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"a comprehensive package... 17 minutes of new interview material with Jaeckin play at times like a spoof."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1980) |
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"this student's film is surprisingly adult about its adolescent preoccupations - and well-nigh unmissable for the Jarmusch fan."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"what might in other hands have been ethnographic agitprop is instead an engaging, character-based tragicomedy, grounded in what might be called the politics of real people."
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Eye for Film |
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(1920) |
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"not just an early horror, but an argument for the moral validity of cinema itself."
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Eye for Film |
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(1979) |
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"these richly entertaining commentaries betray just the sort of eccentric sensibility that might be expected from the creators of such outre films."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(1979) |
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"Thirteen Kafkaesque pieces of puppetry that defy all categorisation, comprehension or reason. Unsettling, baffling and darkly brilliant."
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Channel 4 Film |
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5/10 |
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(2002) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"blends live action and animation to create a surreal hermetic vision that is as beautifully seductive as it is chillingly inaccessible."
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(1959) |
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Intelligent, painful, and ultimately very moving."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"Viscerally exciting enough to wake the dead, and yet politically and morally engaged enough to gore its way right into your brain. What more could anyone want from horror?"
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"shows a real adeptness at confounding the viewer with all manner of genre-bound elements presented in gleefully unpredictable combinations... which merge into a much bigger picture, way beyond the bounds of conventional genre cinema"
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Little White Lies |
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2/10 |
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(2002) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"this genre-savvy trawl through all the silliest aspects of high-octane exploitation is, in its way, as much of a classic as any of the original films that it so lovingly pastiches."
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musicOMH.com |
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8/10 |
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(1967) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror. Pontypool is as astonishing as it is original, and amply repays multiple viewings."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"throws up so many Freudian slips, mixed metaphors and free-associative leaps that in the end the main characters' (and our own) grip on reality comes unstuck, and the unfolding apocalypse takes on a positively Saussurean aspect."
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Eye for Film |
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(1992) |
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"Combining exquisite animation, (slyly subverted) Boys' Own action, and (barely concealed) adult themes, Porco Rosso goes the whole hog, offering anti-war escapades that will appeal to all ages."
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Eye for Film |
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(2005) |
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"a creepy riff on beauty, love, the madness of artists and the treachery of images - but hardly a model of economic, or even compelling, storytelling."
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Eye for Film |
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"A handful of the passengers may eventually get out of the ship alive, but nothing, it seems, can save them from Mark Protosevich's sinking script. At least it looks good as it goes down."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Deliriously tasteless Postal may be, but it is also, to borrow a phrase from one of its minor characters, 'the place where laughter died.'"
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"Perhaps, buried in all of this, there is meant to be some comment on the emasculated state of modern man -- but really it is the film itself that comes off half-cocked."
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Eye for Film |
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(2004) |
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"in the second commentary there is some interesting material regarding the film's creative use of shot composition. "Composition is really cheap", is the succinct explanation offered by one of them."
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Channel 4 Film |
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5/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1987) |
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"Crossing the boundary at the outer reaches of the physical world where science meets superstition and reason collides with the irrational, it tells a tale as miraculous as the Bible and as dry as any technical text."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"Princess is adults-only animation designed, paradoxically, to disillusion anyone of the belief that the world of 'adult entertainment' is in any way alluring or glamorous."
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musicOMH.com |
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(1997) |
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"While Miyazaki's ecological concerns are never in doubt, he neither oversentimentalises the forces of nature, nor demonises the human characters."
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Spring surely follows winter, but there is no sign of a coming thaw in this bleakly melancholic comedy of manners and mortality."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The original was far funnier and somehow managed to cut to the chase with less of a song and dance."
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Eye for Film |
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(2005) |
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"offers a convincing demonstration of the theorem that good writing and sensitive performances can equal an engaging and nuanced piece of cinema."
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Eye for Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite some fine performances and pretty scenery, The Proposal is predictable yet incredible, and devoid of any consistent tone. Better call off that wedding."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"a mythic exploration of the ever shifting frontier between savagery and civilisation in an unforgiving landscape."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"a no-brainer, but also an extravaganza of inventive, visually stunning brutality (by the trunkload)."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately, Protégé is a derivative mess, unable to give viewers already familiar with its influences the hit that they need."
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Eye for Film |
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