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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"
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Channel 4 Film |
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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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(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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(2009) |
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"Blends spectacular wildlife footage with a sentimentalising, storybook narration that is rife with pathetic fallacy."
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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."
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Channel 4 Film |
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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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(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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musicOMH.com |
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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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Channel 4 Film |
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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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(2009) |
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"No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream - and yet this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs. Finding a way out the other side of that contradiction is half the fun for the incredulous viewer"
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Todd Graff’s coming-of-age musical comedy may hardly be original, but the secret is all in the mix: sweet enough to please the kids, while acerbically downbeat enough to keep the attention of any accompanying adults."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"immaculately composed tracking shots... unfold at their own deliberate pace to reveal the meandering paths travelled by a fragile humanity."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"An uncategorisable exploration of the contradictions to be found in Franco-African identity... where a whole history of crime, poverty and colonial exploitation are portrayed through mythology as a clash of the totems."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"all at once an engrossing genre piece, an exceptional exercise in expansive adaptation, and a complex moral allegory, so that this is a Box that requires a lot of unpacking - which of course makes it the gift that keeps on giving..."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"An affecting blend of warm comedy and high pathos, The Boys Are Back brings an unusual all-male perspective to its otherwise familiar themes of domesticity, death and dysfunction."
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Eye for Film |
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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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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"It is an artful blend of hardman viciousness and surreal camp, and while viewers will certainly feel the full force of the film's impact, they will also, like Bronson's bewildered wardens, never be quite sure what has hit them."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"in a film closer to A Clockwork Orange or Blue Velvet than to Chopper, brutal ultraviolence and arthouse oddity make for an arresting mix, while it is impossible to take your eyes off Hardy's intense serio-comic turn."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"it abandons these models of action, comedy and the supernatural, preferring instead to root its horror in the grimly realistic human drama of four random wanderers gradually losing everyone and everything that they hold dear."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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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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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"JeeJa Yanin is a sensational discovery but this mixed assortment of high kicks and even higher melodrama may be an imperfect vehicle for her."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"As a hyperbolic exposé of unnatural obesity and environmental destruction, in many ways this serves as an unacknowledged prequel to the post-apocalyptic nightmare envisaged in Wall-E. Chew (and choke) on that!"
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Glasson's feature debut boasts both writing and performances of great subtlety, although the effect is somewhat undermined by the odd moment of sensationalist grotesquery (fish-fellating, eye-gouging, flashbacks to patricide, etc.)."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The results are simply astonishing. Selick has created a richly detailed, beautifully realised set of parallel worlds and allows us to become as lost as Coraline herself in and between their exquisite textures."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992)."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"as horror in the thrill-ride mould, The Descent: Part 2 certainly delivers cheap sensations aplenty."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There's goo, gore and guffaws galore in this outrageous celebration of everything you used to love about both Sam Raimi and the horror genre itself."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"It is a film very much about its own audience, confronting us all with the insatiable sadism and voyeurism of those who seek to dispel their own innermost fears vicariously."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"unravelling the film's evolving ambiguities is like trying to define the sound of one hand clapping."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"If Geoffrey Hall's cinematography is eerily beautiful, capturing the isolation and subdued menace of the Tasmanian hinterlands, then there is little else in Dying Breed that, to quote protagonist Nina, "nobody's ever seen before"."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Here, the visceral, the intellectual and the spiritual all come together, elevating The Escapist beyond merely escapist entertainment, and offering something that any viewer can dig."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2009) |
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"a fantastic adaptation that manages to surpass its source material while staying entirely true to its spirit."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Everything here cuts to the chase, with personalities presented in a streamlined shorthand, and dramatic plausibility sacrificed to the need for speed... Fast & Furious, Fatuous & Forgotten."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Nothing quite prepares viewers for the unhinged craziness of The Fox Family, whose whimsical way with genre makes it as protean in form as its central characters."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Unfortunately, no matter how clever-clever the all-new screenplay might (occasionally) be at acknowledging the faults of the original, this does not make them magically go away."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"it begins with a suicide, ends with a vision of the apocalypse, and has enough ideas in its supernatural storyline to get any viewer reflecting."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Keen's homespun experiments in montage and collage are by turns fast and furious, funny and horrifying, head-spinning and headache-inducing."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"It's exciting, funny, thrilling, and as entertaining as hell - and proves, if proof be needed, that genre knows no borders."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"A deeply affecting portrait of the way that we are all changed in small but significant ways by our encounters with others."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"One claustrophobic location, two men, a relationship that shifts with the flood tide... and a film that far exceeds the limitations imposed by its low budget and small scale."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In showing a family's self-destructive intransigence (or is it self-preserving cohesion?), Ursula Meier unravels a modern fable in which the forces of conservatism and change pass each other by."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"West... has all at once crafted a film that beautifully reproduces the look and texture of a straight-to-video horror from the '80s, and filled it with the sort of nail-biting tension that works in any decade."
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Little White Lies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bigelow's gripping yet subtle study in the psychology of war is set to the urgent rhythms of a ticking bomb, exploding the myth of the maverick hero."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Ip Man is a highly competent, even slick biopic, but by reshaping its protagonist's life story towards cinematic convention, it ends up being just another martial arts movie."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite the novelty of its 3D visuals and lost world setting, Dawn Of The Dinosaurs pushes the Ice Age franchise ever closer to extinction."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Often funny and always thrilling, this vibrant portrait of one of Italy's most agile political survivors has warnings for us all about the quieter exercises of power."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Showing how politicians, in all their petty ambition and narrow self-interest, can be every bit as dangerous as Weapons of Mass Destruction, this is Dr Strangelove for the post-9/11 era."
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musicOMH.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a no-holds-barred history with alarming lessons for the current 'War on Terror'."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Bijou Phillips... lacks the presence let alone the gravitas to carry off the tragedy of having created her own monster, and so the film's examination of maternity and madness falls short"
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"Occupying similar territory to Heathers (1988), Ginger Snaps (2000) and Teeth (2007), Karyn Kusama's film is sharp, witty and diabolically funny"
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Eye for Film |
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