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2/4
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87%
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Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
This is strong and effective documentary filmmaking, but it's only a lengthy prologue to the story on which Liz Garbus clearly wants to focus."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2011
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A Matter of Taste () |
"
This hour-long expose on the life and aspirations of Paul Liebrandt is an unrestrained delight in two parts."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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84%
|
Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010) |
"
As with Enron, Casino Jack very quietly struggles to reconcile a disturbing history-beneath-the-history. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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87%
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Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
Structurally, Bobby Fischer Against the World is a mixed bag."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The Bengali Detective () |
"
That Cox follows the best of these slapstick moments with perhaps the most tragic event in any man's life is an indication of his daring and sophistication as a director. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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65%
|
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011) |
"
Billed and constructed as a whodunit, Resurrect Dead is marginally more complicated than that, but only marginally. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Do It Again () |
"
Only about 30 percent of the film is of genuine interest: the interviews when Edgers is not talking, his historical expertise. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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94%
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
A story about Elmo was never likely to penetrate deeply into the darker corners of human nature."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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91%
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Kings of Pastry (2010) |
"
Chris Hegedes and D.A. Pennebaker's latest, seemingly effortless masterwork begins as an easy-paced chronicle of one man's preparations for a grueling, three-day pastry showdown."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Born Sweet () |
"
So much for an otherwise noble documentary journey."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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83%
|
Stonewall Uprising (2010) |
"
Not to put too fine of a point on it, but Kate Davis and David Heilbroner's essential new history of the events and repercussions of the Stonewall riots is about as expert a piece of analytic documentary filmmaking as can be conceived. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Caretaker for the Lord () |
"
The subtlety through which this storyline develops is McAllister's boldest stroke, and the perfect cap to this display of profound artistic talent."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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89%
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And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) |
"
You wonder whom the director is trying to prove as a master, Spalding or himself."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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2.5/4
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Microphone () |
"
Plays like a film school thesis under construction."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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90%
|
City Slickers (1991) |
"
A different way of tackling the sons-and-fathers story, but right up there with the best of them--and a tremendous western comedy as well."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2008
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3.5/4
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90%
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City Slickers (1991) |
"
A comedy that was and is ambitious and counterintuitive."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2008
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83%
|
The Ice Storm (1997) |
"
Change, or the struggle to make change fit into the established system, is Lee's most familiar chord. He struck it loudest in The Ice Storm."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
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3/4
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83%
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The Ice Storm (1997) |
"
As in any joke, destiny is a major character."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
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91%
|
The Last Emperor (1987) |
"
One of cinema's greatest cinematographic performances combines with a director's epic vision and superb craftsmanship to create a visual masterpiece. Restored by Criterion, this set is well worth remembering."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2008
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4/4
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91%
|
The Last Emperor (1987) |
"
The Last Emperor is most decisively a lesson of nobility."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2008
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Indie Sex: Censored (2007) |
"
A fascinating subject that deserves all the intelligent attention it gets. Just, with The Celluloid Closet or Pornography: A History of Civilization, there have been better efforts."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2008
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100%
|
This Sporting Life (1963) |
"
"You'll be what you are, self-reliant." A ringing quote that defines a film, a movement, a director, and a tremendous DVD set."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2008
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4/4
|
100%
|
This Sporting Life (1963) |
"
This Sporting Life is a quintessential entrant in Britain's kitchen-sink realism of the late-'50s and '60s."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2008
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97%
|
The Lady Vanishes (1938) |
"
Hitchcock and film lovers alike should not pass up this worthy copy of one of the director's British-made masterworks."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
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3.5/4
|
97%
|
The Lady Vanishes (1938) |
"
What separates Lady Vanishes"
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Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
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97%
|
Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
"
A hyper-violent, foul-mouthed war movie that outpaces Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and a dozen others for sheer motive force. This disc, packaged with so many other Kubrick classics, only makes it better."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2007
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4/4
|
97%
|
Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
"
Somehow after the decadence of Barry Lyndon and a philosophical look at horror in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick settled into a film of unrestrained vitriol and aggression."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2007
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96%
|
The Princess Bride (1987) |
"
Lacking the commentaries and home video footage that graced previous The Princess Bride DVD releases, and short any comment from Reiner or Goldman, this pedestrian set hardly excites."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2007
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3.5/4
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96%
|
The Princess Bride (1987) |
"
A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world.""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2007
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36%
|
As You Like It (2006) |
"
Branagh's film suffers when that boldness does not go far enough, creating an adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2007
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97%
|
The Hustler (1961) |
"
The Hustler reaffirms your faith in the movies."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2007
|
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4/4
|
97%
|
The Hustler (1961) |
"
This is the purest examination of an athlete's internal struggle ever mounted for the screen."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2007
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73%
|
Glastonbury (2007) |
"
Sure, the film is about change, but did new culture come from Glastonbury, or did Glastonbury adapt to the culture? Without an answer to this or many similar questions, Glastonbury is a pretty spectacle with no documentary weight."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
73%
|
Glastonbury (2007) |
"
It's hard to pin down the intent and even the honesty of the filmmaker."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2007
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|
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96%
|
Big (1988) |
"
Marshall's film is gold."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Big (1988) |
"
The consummate '80s film about kid-dom and growing old too fast."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2007
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92%
|
That Thing You Do! (1996) |
"
Get this edition if you like the movie, but stick to the theatrical release available as a feature on the first disc."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2007
|
|
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95%
|
The Guns of Navarone (1961) |
"
A cold, hard caper."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
The Guns of Navarone (1961) |
"
David Niven is the subservient but stylish chemist Miller, rounding out a film that ranks among the best war movies."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2007
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——
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James Stewart - Signature Collection (2006) |
"
Cagney's well worth remembering, and this set is a good start to a specific corner of his career."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2007
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85%
|
Major League (1989) |
"
With baseball season underway, it's perfect timing to bring back this quotable classic. Remember The Ueck: "Just a bit outside!""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Major League (1989) |
"
Consider Ward's comic framework and Major League is a top-tier baseball film."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2007
|
|
|
95%
|
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
"
Thirty-one years, plus well over a decade since I was abruptly introduced to the film. It is, as it was then, extraordinary."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
"
A wonderful charm filters through these almost collegiate efforts, as if these underfunded Brits, in doing their best, did it better."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2006
|
|
—
|
25%
|
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
—
Stylus Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2006
|
|
—
|
39%
|
Scoop (2006) |
—
Stylus Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2006
|
|
—
|
69%
|
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
—
Stylus Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2006
|
|
—
|
57%
|
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006) |
—
Stylus Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2006
|
|
—
|
80%
|
Why We Fight (2006) |
—
Stylus Magazine
Posted Nov 4, 2006
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