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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"anatomises a moment in time when smalltown idiocy suffers the most surreally awful repercussions of cause and effect."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2007) |
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"Small-town values are rocked by the tide of history in Porumboiu's grimly funny and determinedly slight retrospective on the 1989 Romanian revolution."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"an impressively noirish moral fable that, for all its bleakness, offers ample rewards to those willing to take a chance on it."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"in terms of quality, 1408 is neither executive suite nor basement broom cupboard."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"the film's narrative journey is too superficial to accommodate the late shift in tone from light French farce to a more sober reflection on love, aging and loneliness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(2005) |
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"This intriguing blend of nostalgia, science fiction, and timeless melancholy will still be haunting viewers in 2046 and beyond."
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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"its boldly atomised narrative, its labyrinthine circularity and its no-nonsense performances make 21 Grams... well worth the weight.
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies."
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Eye for Film |
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(2002) |
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"The two rival wannabes who are his principal characters may learn just how hard it can be to survive in the movie business, but Tsutsumi himself makes filmmaking look easy."
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Eye for Film |
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(2002) |
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"The last piece in this ghostly triptych of films, Peter Chan's Going Home, is as beautiful and sad a piece of urban gothic as you are ever likely to see..."
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Eye for Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"3-Iron matches apparent simplicity to a beguiling inscrutability and ends with the most beautifully bizarre menage a trois to have been seen since Takashi Miike's Gozu."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"a vampire film of unusually grave conviction, way too cold for camp."
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Eye for Film |
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Despite some nuanced performances, 5 x 2 gets relationships the wrong way round."
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Movie Gazette |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Pamela Pettler's screenplay sucks out the very soul of Acker's original creations, leaving little behind but a ghost-like shell, pretty to look at, but free from any substance"
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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"These nine cross-sections of a one-year relationship may be graphic, but they are also suffused with a cool melancholy."
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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Click here to see the review!
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"for all its gripping excitement as a thriller, and its grim realism as a sociopolitical exposé of life inside, A Prophet is also concerned with the mysterious processes of education, assimilation and transfiguration."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"this dystopian paranoid thriller tracks addiction in all its highs and lows, and offers a dignified elegy for its misguided casualties."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"listen very carefully [to the making-of featurette], and you will hear Jobson reveal just a little bit of his own interpretation of the film - something that he rather studiously avoids doing in the commentary."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"An unquantifiable mystery with an intellectual seriousness to match its visual exuberance -- and it's about time, too."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"For the bumpy ride that Aaltra offers, there are simply no seatbelts to fasten... Uproariously funny from beginning to end."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2004) |
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"Whether a moody thriller or a twisted head-trip, Ab-normal Beauty is an exquisitely disorienting portrait of an artist as a troubled soul - beautiful, bloody and rather bewildering."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"All haunted house movies feature labyrinthine corridors and darkened rooms, but few achieve the tangible depth and texture of The Abandoned. After so many inferior generic excursions and aberrations, Cerdà's film feels like a homecoming."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Add to this some winningly low-key performances, a slacker sensibility that refuses to subscribe to the American Dream, and some genuine laughs, and you have a film that feels both wise and real."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Blends spectacular wildlife footage with a sentimentalising, storybook narration that is rife with pathetic fallacy."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2005) |
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"a live-action feature that captures all too depressingly the original TV cartoon's evolution from inventive weirdfest to a more run-of-the-mill brand of dystopian cyberpunk."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"Reflexive, allegorical and poetic, La Antena (The Aerial) is a dizzyingly dense piece of cinema, thriving on paradox, and always matching its medium to its message."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Using popular culture as a window onto the hopes and fears of contemporary Afghanistan, Havana Marking's winning documentary is worth making a song and dance about."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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7/10 |
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(2002) |
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"A compelling drama which forms an essential part of Lucas Belvaux's audacious series."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's sex, lies and videotape in a privileged high school as Antonio Campos casts a cold eye over the adolescent state of postmodernity."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"Al-Daradji's ground-level vision of modern Iraq before and after the 'liberation' is a panoptic tragedy of broken dreams and ordinary madness."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"By the time its three hours are over, you will feel as exhausted as Alexander at the end of his epic campaign - but not as enriched."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Perhaps Sokurov's film will leave some viewers as weary as its protagonist, but this intimate and evocative journey through war is well worth taking."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"in this war, it is ultimately the viewer who is left out in the cold"
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"The future prison looks fantastic, the concept is rock solid, and yet in Ryuhei Kitamura's second feature, something goes wrong in the execution."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1950) |
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"There is so much to admire in All About Eve, even for those too young to be drenched in nostalgia for the spectacle of Bette Davis unleashing her sharp tongue."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"with teenagers, there will always come a time when innocence must be lost - but Levine's film transfixes this moment with the sharpness of a razor."
[movie review] |
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musicOMH.com |
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4/10 |
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(2003) |
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"The performances are convincing, and sufficiently nuanced to elevate the characters beyond mere cliché."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Boe continues to remap Copenhagen with this arthouse sci-fi trip into the outer regions of love, identity and oblivion."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1963) |
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"A sophisticated piece of cinema, both a high-seas adventure (with superb mid-Ocean cinematography), and a psychological study in near pathological solipsism."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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6/10 |
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(2002) |
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"the lightness of its comedy turns out to have a deliciously dark edge"
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"It is as though Scott, like his protagonist Frank, has gone back to source, bringing viewers the most refined product available."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"it becomes haunted by the unwelcome presence of heavy-handedness, making it seem more like a busy domestic melodrama (with a ghost) than a truly unnerving chiller."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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"wonderfully quirky biopic about an ordinary, real guy who is not really ordinary or real at all"
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1994) |
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"It is is in effect 'The Godfather: the next Generation' - an immigrant saga of family, blood and assimilation that just happens to be set in the world of organised crime."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2005) |
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"Punchy, frightening, and far slicker than the original - but for all the refurbishment, something's still not quite right with this haunted house."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"these creatures attack strictly one at a time, so that Anacondas misses every opportunity to live up to its titular promise.
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[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"Vagina dialogue this may be, but it seems much more like a bunch of arse."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2001) |
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"a baroque parable of sin and and retribution, with all the dirt and filth barely concealing the community's much deeper stain of moral contagion and corruption."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"less a plot-driven drama than a series of snapshots of a family trapped in an endless cycle of dysfunction."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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