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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Bold yet bland, this dreamy survey of all things Kitano sends several bullets into his past and puts a question mark on his future."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(2003) |
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9/10 |
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(2003) |
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(2006) |
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"a seaworthy effort, both as an impressive debut from someone who has never previously worked in animation, and as a fine (if somewhat bewildering) piece of synoptic adaptation."
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(2008) |
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"The film itself has the feel of something cobbled together in the austerity years -- and it is the better for such Aardmanesque qualities."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"unusually for a biopic, it is Petey's failure to change, from beginning to end, that forms an essential part of his lionisation."
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Channel 4 Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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8/10 |
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(2002) |
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(2008) |
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"despite the calmly logical way in which it allows its revelations to unfold and accumulate, this is an angry powder-keg of a film, exploding the reactionary myth that under certain circumstances torture can be acceptable, serviceable or even necessary."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"if the imagery is always grotesque, and if the characters are always reduced to their basest drives, Pálfi presents his carnivalesque concerns in an artfully aestheticised package that belies the ugliness within."
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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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"a witty satire that explores the state of the (female) body politic, spread-eagled between the puritanical and the priapic in a culturally confused America."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Tell No One retains all the slick dynamism and tension of a classic Hollywood thriller without ever seeming anything but French."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Here Aboriginal identity is neither defined by nor subordinated to Western culture, but shown in its own right as a repository of wisdom, myth and sly humour."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"feels more like a stopgap than a return to the franchise's past form... relentlessly (and uninspiringly) efficient - like a sleek new model Terminator."
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(2007) |
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"As riveting as it is dizzying, Schroeder's documentary thriller takes a mesmerising ad hominem approach to twentieth century terror, offering up for our judgement an advocate whose views ought to be indefensible."
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Channel 4 Film |
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6/10 |
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(2003) |
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"As lumbering as an old iron rust bucket, this joyless live-action exercise takes a pounding from its earlier, superior animated versions."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1974) |
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"All these elements set the stage for some of the most prolonged scenes of sustained panic ever captured by cinema, as Hooper infects characters and viewers alike with the thrill of a madness from which there can be no real escape."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"played so amiably that you barely notice how prickly its barbs are until they have dug right in."
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Knowingly derivative, Ryoo's action-driven elegy is nevertheless full of surprises - not least of which is its relative restraint."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Williams' story twists and turns...veering from Coen caper to Hooper horror -- but the one unifying constant is the film's wicked streak of humour."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Patience, waiting, frustration, bad timing, lost opportunities - it takes a certain directorial boldness to highlight these as the principal themes of what is essentially a claustrophobic two-hander whose duration extends to nearly two and a half hours."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"From cynical beginning to even more cynical end, the Babluanis' 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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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Sanchez-Cabezudo's elegantly bleak fable of human aggression, alienation and anomie shows one long dark night of moral chaos."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"You will be thrilled all the way through Le Serpent, and once the final credits roll, you will be awed by the muscular solidity of its construction."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2007) |
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"Funny, terrifying and haunting all at once, this tripartite vision of postmodern alienation, societal breakdown and mental disintegration is as arresting as a baseball bat to the head - while still cutting to the heart."
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"This superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"What at first seems a morose if witty romantic comedy for adults ends up being an altogether more serious piece about a woman acquiring children but leaving behind childish things."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"qualities normally regarded as the bedrock of the American Dream - rugged individualism, rampant entrepreneurship and rags-to-riches mobility - are flipped over to expose a dark undercurrent of monomaniacal male solipsism."
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7/10 |
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(2002) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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""You control the water, you control everything", says the director of the family dynamics portrayed in the film - but he might as well be discussing a key issue in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The heart of Thirst may be a vampire film but its soul is a morality play, while its flesh is a sensuous playground of desire."
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2002) |
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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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(2005) |
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"Part character study, part Peckinpah-esque border Western, part mystic epic, Three Burials traverses its uncharted territories with a humour and humanity that lighten the burden of its sadness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"Here, adolescence is a pandemic condition, a metaphor for the endless human struggle to become comfortable in one's own skin, blemishes and all."
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Eye for Film |
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4/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2005) |
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"Olmi's first piece is certainly the most substantial and subtle of the film's three episodes, but it is also strangely the least engaging, with a pace that recalls the endless delays of British Rail rather than the more efficient services on the continent"
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"Gilliam's impish presence in all these extras ensures that they remain engaging, even if their sheer number makes the repetition of some material inevitable."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"Not only will you have a pretty good idea from the start what is going to happen to all these 'characters', but, even worse, you will not care when it does. A film so soulless deserves to be confined to DVD hell."
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Eye for Film |
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(1982) |
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"meanders from one episode to the next with a digressive desultoriness that is almost as astonishing as the alien landscapes through which the adventurers wander."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1982) |
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"The absence of an English dub will put some younger viewers off checking out this dvd edition."
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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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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"the 18 minutes of deleted scenes are of unusually high quality, even if their inclusion in the film may, as Ozon suggests, have detracted from its subtlety."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Meticulous plotting, breathless pacing, paradoxes aplenty, and some surprisingly human dilemmas, all make this low-key sci-fi thriller well worth going back over again and again. It is a Primer-like triumph of ideas over budget."
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Channel 4 Film |
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