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3/5 |
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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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"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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"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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(2007) |
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"in terms of quality, 1408 is neither executive suite nor basement broom cupboard."
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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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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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"a perfect blend of well-drawn characters, political allegory, grand guignol, flesh-crawling tension and very fast-moving zombies."
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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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(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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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."
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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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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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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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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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Click here to see the review!
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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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(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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(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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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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(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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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"
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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."
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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"
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2003) |
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"The seven so-called 'short films' that accompany Rivers And Tides are more like deleted scenes and outtakes from the film, but they're none the worse for that."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2002) |
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"Deceptively simple, funny and grim all at once - a miracle of a film that transcends its limited budget through sheer inventiveness."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"a fascinating window onto the last four decades of American history and iconography."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A charming and intimate photo album of the imagination in which time and memory, though up to all their usual tricks, still offer snapshots of a singular truth."
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a sophisticatedly modern noir thriller that sorts the sheep from the lambs."
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(2009) |
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"A beautiful battery of depraved images and irrational associations, Lars Von Trier's two-handed essay in horror is as distracting and deadening as depression itself."
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(2009) |
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"it is impossible not to be charmed by [Anvil lead singer Steve Kudlow's] arrested development and to find yourself rooting for his eventual success even as you laugh at his many failures."
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Eye for Film |
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(2003) |
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"Barman's vital ode to Antwerp offers not so much a slice of life as the whole loaf, cut thin but sharp."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2003) |
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"an artfully edited package offering a full retrospective on a genuine creative talent."
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Any Gibson-haters hoping to see the heart ripped out of his success may well find themselves disappointed by Apocalypto's relative merits."
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(2004) |
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"the viewer who abstracts away from the more adolescent elements of plot will find that Appleseed has plenty of ideas at its core to keep the mind stimulated."
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