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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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(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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2/5 |
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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"
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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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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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"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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(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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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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(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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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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(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."
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(1969) |
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"after falling out with the filmmaker on Le Deuxieme Souffle, Lino Ventura agreed to work with Melville again only on condition that they never speak directly to each other on set."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"In a clear-cut case of arrested development, the film that crowns Luc Besson's career is a magical phantasmagoria for the kids, and a derivative mess for their parents."
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(1997) |
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"Much as violence follows hatred, Kassovitz follows up his breakout film La Haine with this challenging investigation into the evolving traditions of male sociopathy."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"an endurance test of good intentions and tangled ideas, exploited facts and fuzzy fictions, where the performances, like the plot, are slapped onto the beautiful backgrounds with the broadest - and clumsiest - of strokes."
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(2008) |
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"The future looks a lot like the past (or at least like past movies) in this lazily derivative SF action flick."
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4/5 |
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"Born of indignation, Bamako bears devastating witness to the iniquities of free trade and globalisation from a Malian perspective."
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(2007) |
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"a timeless tragedy unfolds in slow motion - but the viewer's patience is rewarded with exquisite painterly images, some unexpectedly rapid developments and a truly bleak vision of human error and its consequences."
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(2005) |
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"Much of the 49-minute duration is taken up by the moderator translating the French responses, even though these are also fully (and far more accurately) subtitled on the DVD."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Moody, tense and claustrophobic, Cedar's unconventional war movie allegorises the political tensions within a beleaguered, bunkered Israel."
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"a contemplative, almost poetic examination of the proper workings of justice, and an exemplary depiction of a ruined family rebuilt on the foundations of its own humanistic values."
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(1998) |
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"It is as though Four Weddings And A Funeral had been reimagined by Fellini with a cast of crazy Balkan rogues and a background chorus of farmyard animals."
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"this reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and variation that has evolved over the last thirty or so years since the original Black Christmas screened."
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(1975) |
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"a very basic package, offering as its only extra a five-minute interview with Louis Malle's brother Vincent, who struggles (hilariously) to categorise the film."
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(1975) |
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"A curiosity on the margins of the Malle canon, and a real treat for fans of the phantasmagorical."
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(2007) |
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"Like its ovine stars, Black Sheep is none too smart, but will certainly coat you in its fluffy warmth and put an affectionate smile on your face. Lacks much real bite, mind."
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(2007) |
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"Blackout gets stuck between genres, without enough decent characterisation (or uninterrupted tension) to take it to the next level."
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"Glitterbug is of greater appeal to the hardened Jarman collector than to the casual viewer - but it offers nearly two decades of English twentieth century history in montage."
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(1993) |
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"Derek Jarman's filmic essay on his own blindness and impending death is a monochromatic elegy to a director's loss of vision."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Its hero may lack any real super bark but this comic cartoon comes with a sharply ironic bite."
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"As high on concept as it is low on budget, Henenlotter's 1980s urban horror is cheap, sleazy and irresistibly addictive. It's the best kind of bad trip."
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(1988) |
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"thanks to Second Sight for allowing us to be offended - and bemused - all over again."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This chilling moodpiece is both psychological thriller and ghost story, with each holding up a mirror to how the other half lives."
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(2005) |
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"This is a cut above the usual behind-the-scenes fare."
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"one can only assume that it was the accumulation of Berlusconi's own indiscretions that cost him the 2006 elections rather than the muted blows of this aimlessly incoherent and over-clever satire."
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(2008) |
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"Simon DaVison gets the charmingly clunky look and feel of 1950s SF spot on - but he also captures the genre's more tedious shortcomings a little too accurately for the average viewer's patience to bear."
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"In Mike Nichols' smart satire of US engagement with the Middle East, history is shown to repeat itself as both tragedy and farce."
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(2009) |
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"Na Hong-Jin's feature debut is a bleakly frantic psycho-noir, furiously edited, ferociously performed - and despite allying itself to the serial killer genre so beloved in the west, it is distinctly Korean in its settings and references."
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(2008) |
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"Like the ubiquitous image that it celebrates, this documentary says many things about history, culture and ideology, without ever seeming anything less than clear and compelling."
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(1954) |
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"Hardly Mizoguchi's finest film, but this period passion play has moments of brilliance amidst all the complicated melodrama."
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