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	"*Feels more like a cheap hypermarch�* knock-off with a fancily designed label than the real deal.*" -- european-films.net* Posted Jul 2, 2008	Ca$h (2008)	n/a
	"Having three different protagonists is perhaps too much, as Bollain and Rodr�guez' screenplay only succeeds in reducing each woman's story to its soap-opera essentials." -- european-films.net Posted Jun 30, 2008	Mataharis (2007)	n/a
	"*French director and provocatrice extraordinaire* Catherine Breillat is finally tamed by a partially stilted adaptation of an early 19th century literary classic.*" -- european-films.net* Posted Jun 25, 2008	The Last Mistress (2008)	77%
	"*The documentary Les animaux amoureux (Animals in Love)* might seem cute on paper but lacks the rigour of recent documentary hits such as La marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins) and Earth.*" -- european-films.net* Posted Mar 10, 2008	Animals in Love (2008)	n/a
	"Unflinching would be a gentle word to describe this portrayal of a doomed humanity, but the exact point of the film beyond its doomsday message is never really clear." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 27, 2007	Gruz 200 (2007)	n/a
	"Klopka (The Trap) starts off as a fascinating post-Milosevic film noir but ends up somewhere in the land of day-time soap circa 1985." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 24, 2007	Klopka (2007)	n/a
	"In the Valley of Elah David slew Goliath and Canadian director Paul Haggis tries to slay the US myth on the Good War in Iraq, though David was certainly more successful than Paul." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 2, 2007	In the Valley of Elah (2007)	72%
	"Legal miracle workers or "fixers" hide simple truths behind a calculated barrage of extraneous smoke and mirrors, which is exactly the tactic screenwriter-turned-director Tony Gilroy employs for his directorial debut Michael Clayton." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 1, 2007	Michael Clayton (2007)	91%
	"The intersecting stories are connected by themes of money, power, corruption and the absence of love, though more often than not they play in full-on melodrama mode and are used simply to wring compassion from the audience in the way soap operas do." -- european-films.net Posted Aug 20, 2007	A Casa Nostra (2006)	n/a
	"Rokonok feels somewhat dusty around the edges, though it is certainly solid as an adaptation of a 1932 literary work." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 16, 2007	Rokonok (2007)	n/a
	"In A Dark Place, while certainly competently directed, acted and shot, is too overstuffed with possible explanations to make any sense." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 16, 2007	In A Dark Place (2007)	n/a
	"Bad memories as unfocussed tableaux vivants from a neo-hippy child." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 16, 2007	The Unpolished (2007)	n/a
	"Watching Boli li? would turn the film into a self-fulfilling prophecy, giving the makers exactly the fame they crave, even if it is only for the film�s drawn-out 90 minutes. Do you want to play that game?" -- european-films.net Posted Jul 16, 2007	Does It Hurt? (2007)	n/a
	"*An intelligent treatment of themes such as hard big city life and the exploitation of the male body is overshadowed by what feels like of a case of Ozpetek interruptus." -- european-films.net* Posted Jul 16, 2007	Cover Boy: The Last Revolution (2007)	n/a
	"A Madonna-whore variation on the stark dramas that the Dardennes seemed to have a patent on, but Speth is not as accomplished a storytelller as the Belgian siblings." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 16, 2007	Madonnas (2007)	n/a
	"This quintessentially French item mistakes silence for profundity and has a strangely uneven performance by Patrick Chesnais at its centre." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 13, 2007	Je Ne Suis Pas L� Pour �tre Aim� (2005)	n/a
	"This is the type of dramatic comedy that often gets labelled as pleasant, which means that it is not laugh-out-loud funny and inoffensively hobbles along to an ending that could have been spotted miles away." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 13, 2007	My Best Friend (2007)	75%
	"*French director and provocatrice extraordinaire* Catherine Breillat is finally tamed by a partially stilted adaptation of an early 19th century literary classic.*" -- european-films.net* Posted May 25, 2007	Une Vieille Maitresse (2007)	n/a
	"Interesting for its portrayal of a type of domestic violence rarely seen on screen, but offers little else beyond this new angle and two very brave performances." -- european-films.net Posted May 23, 2007	Gegen�ber (2007)	n/a
	"An arresting true story and a ravishing visual creation, but the two remain separate entities that do not support one another but get in each other's way instead." -- european-films.net Posted May 23, 2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)	94%
	"Could it be that the director feels less certain he gets his message across in a language that is not his? Voice overs from several characters are used to make explicit what should ideally have been inferred from what transpires on screen." -- european-films.net Posted May 19, 2007	My Blueberry Nights (2008)	47%
	"Europudding in chocolate sauce." -- european-films.net Posted Apr 11, 2007	Color of Freedom (2007)	44%
	"*Two touching performances only partially compensate for a weak script that never seems interested in challenging the superb Bella Martha (Mostly Martha)." -- european-films.net* Posted Apr 2, 2007	Eden (2006)	70%
	"A gigantically amoral cliche of a film." -- european-films.net Posted Apr 1, 2007	My Life Without Me (2003)	65%
	"Yella comes off as too intellectual an exercise to be thoughtful or serious entertainment." -- european-films.net Posted Mar 21, 2007	Yella (2008)	76%
	"Wastes a potentially brilliant premise for a cult classic with pedestrian execution, lame jokes and sequins instead of character development." -- european-films.net Posted Feb 7, 2007	Poltergay (2006)	n/a
	"Margherita Buy gives a performance that lends some sparkle to an otherwise convoluted and unoriginal story." -- european-films.net Posted Feb 7, 2007	I Giorni dell'abbandono (2006)	n/a
	"*Looks gorgeous, but ultimately collapses under its own weight, as if it were a Chinese Kingdom of Heaven." -- european-films.net* Posted Jan 18, 2007	Seven Swords (2005)	23%
	"Anyone still in primary school will love the second part, which means adults are in the difficult position of having to decide whether to give Ocelot the benefit of the doubt." -- european-films.net Posted Dec 30, 2006	Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006)	n/a
	"Though appropriately claustrophobic and technically on its toes, the film suffers from underdeveloped characters." -- european-films.net Posted Nov 6, 2006	Masz na imie Justine (2005)	n/a
	"It is telling when a film's only truly emotional sequence is the one brought about by spectacular CGI explosions and digitally enhanced gunfire." -- european-films.net Posted Oct 20, 2006	Days of Glory (2006)	82%
	"The film's cast is spot-on but the film's script and editing take a few too many detours to make the trip really worthwhile." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 20, 2006	Those Happy Days (2006)	n/a
	"Never really touches on anything beyond the physical presence of Isild Le Besco, which is impressive but not barely enough to carry such a slight film." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 17, 2006	Untouchable (2006)	n/a
	"*Proof of the director's unwillingness to improve on the scattershot ideas and shaky character development that also plagued his previous effort Respiro." -- european-films.net* Posted Sep 15, 2006	Golden Door (2007)	71%
	"The film's ideas are intriguing but Hattu, who makes his directing debut here and co-wrote the script, fails to completely bring his material into focus." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 15, 2006	7 Ans (2006)	n/a
	"*Consciously mannered and using broad brushstrokes and pumping music, Fallen* follows five female friends for 36 hours.*" -- european-films.net* Posted Sep 15, 2006	Falling (2007)	25%
	"*Some die-hard fans will no doubt like it, but most likely INLAND EMPIRE* (yes - all capitals) will only be remembered as the second orthographically peculiar title after Mullholland Dr.** " -- european-films.net Posted Sep 8, 2006	Inland Empire (2006)	70%
	"An ugly mix of contemporary issues is hacked to unrecognizable bits in this tame, at times insipid thriller trying to impress with impossibly generic analogies to our own time." -- european-films.net Posted Sep 4, 2006	Children of Men (2006)	92%
	"The first approach to the main character is a piece of virtuoso filmmaking (...) but the film does not maintain this wedding of thematic coherence and enigmatic visual style, its narrative soon revealing itself to be predictable and bland." -- european-films.net Posted Aug 25, 2006	Ryna (2005)	n/a
	"Cinematography, the use of Schubert and Bierbichler's performance convince, but the film never fully explains why anyone would fall for what is so obviously a set-up, and the ultimate pay-off is only an afterthought." -- european-films.net Posted Aug 6, 2006	Winter Journey (2006)	n/a
	"Is appropriately moody and gets the music right, but becomes as incoherent and messy as the lives of the protagonists in the film's second half." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 30, 2006	Brothers of the Head (2006)	67%
	"*Whereas Tita, the protagonist of Le conseguenze dell'amore, was a gracefully desperate man, Geremia is just plain ugly." -- european-films.net* Posted Jul 19, 2006	The Family Friend (2006)	82%
	"SherryBaby is more often concerned with getting everything right the American indie way rather than trying to probe its characters and situations for emotional truths." -- Kamera.co.uk Posted Jul 19, 2006	Sherrybaby (2006)	73%
	"Wants to be both an action film and a morality tale rolled into one, but younger children will only envy Juan Carlos' exploits, while parents will probably look on in horror." -- european-films.net Posted Jul 19, 2006	My Quick Way Out (2006)	n/a
	"It feels so safe that when a character dies we do not really mind, since we are reassured by the knowledge that the actors portraying them are just doing their well-paid jobs." -- european-films.net Posted Jun 27, 2006	The Tiger Brigades (2006)	n/a
	"Suggests that the scenes [in the film] were randomly picked from the characters' lives, as if flipping through an album in which the choice of photos was dictated by the need to have had a camera at hand rather than the need to document important moments." -- european-films.net Posted Jun 11, 2006	A Touch of Spice (2006)	n/a
	"Perhaps the fictive demise of Berlusconi is enough for the Italian masses, but others might want something more for their ticket- or rental fee, such as a properly structured and thematically coherent story." -- european-films.net Posted Jun 4, 2006	The Caiman (2006)	39%
	"Smaller children and people looking for a picture postcard overview of the North Pole will be largely satisfied, but for a more demanding viewer, the film leaves much to be desired." -- european-films.net Posted May 18, 2006	La Plan�te blanche (2006)	50%
	"The film is a slow starter, but as it comes to its concluding scenes has reached enough emotional gravitas to warrant a peek on DVD." -- european-films.net Posted May 2, 2006	Netto (2005)	n/a
	"[T]he overly long yarn never knows on which part of the story to focus (politics? history? love triangle? music?), which makes its overall impact much less than the sum of its parts." -- european-films.net Posted Apr 25, 2006	The Red Cockatoo (2006)	n/a

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