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1/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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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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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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(2006) |
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"Loud and lurid, this dazzlingly picturesque peek through the courtesans' fishbowl embraces the very cosmetic illusions that it also exposes in a world of exploited women."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(1975) |
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(2006) |
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"With a bigger budget, who knows what horrific gem the Crook brothers could unearth, but in the meantime they have taken all manner of second-hand parts and salvaged from them a modest yet impressively assured psycho-mystery - with a hell of a final twist."
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(1954) |
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"...highlights Mizoguchi's own reputation as a "reckless consumer of prostitutes" who knew all too well the demi-mondes that he was portraying."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1954) |
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"an exceptional film, telling its complicated story in simple images, and creating order from the worst kind of moral chaos."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(1990) |
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(1965) |
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"a maddening celebration of the power of narrative to amuse, bewilder, disorient and entrap."
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(2005) |
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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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"Yes, Scar is entirely average - but it is also in 3D, a perennially appealing gimmick which finds its perfect home in the tawdry sensationalism of horror."
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Little White Lies |
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2/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Leave your brain in the foyer, and your taste in the toilets."
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Movie Gazette |
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3/10 |
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(2003) |
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2.5/5 |
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(1974) |
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"in the whole nunsploitation subgenre, only Walerian Borowczyk's Behind Convent Walls (1977) comes close to the visual heights attained here."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"his unbridled enthusiasm and his metaphorical flourishes ensure that viewers are always as engaged as they are alienated by his peculiar subject matter."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Kechiche projects onto the viewer an immigrant population's impatient longing for liberty, equality and success, concocting a dish that is no more bitter or half-baked than cultural exile itself."
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Channel 4 Film |
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8/10 |
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(2002) |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"from its opening 'shot', Secuestro Express takes its captive audience at gunpoint on a heart-pounding tour of crime, corruption and class war in downtown Caracas."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"A lyrical look at the fabric of maternity."
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(1999) |
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"13 episodes (or 'layers') of lysergic anime whose sparse beauty, convoluted narrative and mindbending obscurantism make the Wachowski brothers' output look like child's play."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(1999) |
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(2005) |
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"these Seven Swords do not so much pierce as bore."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(1973) |
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"the beauty of the images, the postmodern insanity of the story, and the funky delirium of Ichiro Araki's score make Sex And Fury a high-end sexploitation gem."
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Eye for Film |
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(1986) |
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"Gives the stale conventions of the rom com the dark flipside they need, while downsizing that genre's normally bourgeois sensibilities into a class 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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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Revolution is shown as a force both for liberation, and for tragic catastrophe"
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7/10 |
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(2002) |
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"No doubt there are sports pedants who will find themselves echoing the sentiments of one exasperated opponent as he exclaims "Please don't play like this! I really want to play soccer!" -- but everyone else will be too busy grinning...to care very much."
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2002) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4/10 |
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(2004) |
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(2007) |
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"the 'reality drama' that unfolds on-screen takes viewers away from the real ecological issue (much as it took Stewart away from his diving)"
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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(2008) |
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"An impressive, energetic debut that will leave you with a taste for more."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Shifty boasts convincing performances, even-handed characterisation, creeping suspense and energy to burn."
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"for all the probing beauty of Kiarostami's close-ups, Shirin depends entirely on a concept better suited to a shorter duration. By the 20-minute mark, the viewer has got it - and from there on in, the film is just a pretty face (or several)."
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Little White Lies |
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(2007) |
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"a sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-goggling reductio ad absurdum of the action flick to its barest kinetic essentials - like one of those porn compilations of money shots, only in a different genre."
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(1966) |
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"These six unnervingly surreal slices may vary in their quality and impact, but they are well nigh unmissable for anyone devoted to Lynch's special brand of cherry pie."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"There may be a variety of erotic practices on parade here, but the film leaves viewers with few real insights into either human nature or sexuality."
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(2006) |
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"As perhaps befits a film so concerned with being 'under the influence', Breathnach's hallucinogen-driven giallo turns its very derivativeness into a virtue, confounding viewers with a gleeful overdose of cinematic references."
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4/5 |
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"a tale of guilt, revenge and twisted love, set in a world that, for all its sanitised modernity, still remains haunted by fears that are primal and timeless."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2009) |
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"Anderson focuses entirely on cat-and-mouse capers, while failing to reflect in any serious way upon the real-world issues that his plot exploits, so the end result is a disappointingly empty exercise in genre."
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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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(1971) |
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"Here the eternal clash of water and land becomes a powerful metaphor for East and West, constantly, often violently, renegotiating their inevitable interrelationship."
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Film International |
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7/10 |
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(2001) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"although it is rarely if ever jump-out-of-your-seat scary, Silent Hill is an unremittingly creepy municipality of the mind where motherhood, mystery and madness have come home to stay."
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Channel 4 Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"Just like the songs that it celebrates, Giannoli's film may speak to the universal human feelings of love, loss and loneliness, but its rather crusty veneer will not be to everyone's tastes."
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Channel 4 Film |
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