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38%
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The Pornographer (1999) |
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House Next Door
Posted Feb 11, 2012
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Las Olas () |
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House Next Door
Posted Feb 11, 2012
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Che, Un Hombre Nuevo () |
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House Next Door
Posted Dec 30, 2011
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Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) |
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House Next Door
Posted Dec 30, 2011
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Atmen (Breathing) (2011) |
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (Twenty Years Later) (1985) |
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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Historias que so existem quando lembradas () |
"
Júlia Murat's debut feature unfolds in a small fictional town in the Brazilian forest region of Paraiba, and uses the wide screen to show as much nature as possible."
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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100%
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Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) (1963) |
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The past is being borne ceaselessly into the future in this movie. "
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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Tales Of The Night () |
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You sense that the film could stop and start at any point, but though the repeated act of storytelling grows tiresome, the film's images never bore."
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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Hors Satan () |
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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Breathing Room () |
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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Carnaval Atlântida (1952) |
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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88%
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
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You can probably guess that Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is schematic, but it's also stunning."
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 29, 2011
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V subbotu (Innocent Saturday) () |
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A mainly outdoors movie whose calm, pleasant color tones helps one to focus on the characters."
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 29, 2011
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This Is Not a Film (2003) |
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Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's meta-documentary calls attention to its making from its very beginning."
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 29, 2011
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Hanezu no tsuki (2011) |
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My initial impression of Hanezu was of a glimpse of the life of a region, in which humans appear and disappear over time while the rest of nature moves on."
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 29, 2011
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92%
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The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
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Throughout the whirlwind of motion that adds up to a young boy's journey, each detail and gesture still resonates."
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 25, 2011
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The Day He Arrives () |
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Hong shows people at their loneliest; they're pathetic, but also sweet. "
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 25, 2011
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Une belle fille comme moi (A Gorgeous Bird Like Me)(Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me) (1978) |
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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87%
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Seconds (1966) |
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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73%
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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Permanent Vacation (1980) |
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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2/4
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76%
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The Robber (2011) |
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The Robber's race to mediocrity ends with a dying phone call, which among other things is the death of inspiration. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2011
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Roads of Kiarostami (2006) |
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The lone words on the soundtrack are the director's occasionally asking why roads fascinate him, and answering that they may remind him of his childhood. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Land of Madness (La terre de la folie) () |
"
Essai's gags unfold without a semblance of structure, but they're also inventive, and really funny. Land of Madness's, while pleasant enough (a strange thing to write about a comedy of murders), aren't. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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67%
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Over the Edge (1979) |
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Simultaneously gut-churning, heart-wrenching, and head-thunking, a smorgasbord of alienation and detonation."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The Victors (1963) |
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The movie's script thuds and clunks (Schiaffino: "You love wife. You love me. I love husband. I love you."), and so does its cast. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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74%
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Soul Kitchen (2010) |
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The women exist to support the men; the movie doesn't have much to say politically, and what it does say isn't interesting. But Soul Kitchen is still a lot of fun."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa (Oki's Movie) () |
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It's surprising what a pleasure the entire film is. Oki's Movie is a story about juvenile people that never once feels juvenile. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Visionaries () |
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A disgusting lovefest and a piece of amorphous fluff."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Orion () |
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The plight of Iranian women has been shown on film before, and better, but it also can't be shown enough."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Al-Mummia (The Night of Counting the Years) (1969) |
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It's appropriate to discuss The Mummy's production and restoration circumstances, since the movie's great theme is Egypt's struggle to reclaim itself. "
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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75%
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Tuesday, After Christmas (2011) |
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Director Radu Muntean, like Bergman, keeps the camera close, and follows them."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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63%
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Secretariat (2010) |
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An oddly disjointed piece where people declare "Amen" over a horse that dominates races to the tune of gospel music."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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100%
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The Aviator's Wife (La femme de l'aviateur) (1981) |
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Valuable for being perhaps the most stifled movie that Rohmer ever made, by which I mean the one where characters' eyes meet the least."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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96%
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Silent Souls (2011) |
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Like The Mirror, Fedorchenko's film offers a middle-aged male narrator who starts with his own immediate experiences and ends discussing the passage of time."
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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1/4
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72%
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We Are What We Are (2011) |
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Few things are more irritating than movies that get their jollies off of abusing women, a preference We Are What We Are then emphasizes by showing the dead prostitute's battered face."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2011
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3/4
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84%
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The Time That Remains (2011) |
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One of the many simple conceits of Elia Suleiman's film is the way in which one man's silence becomes a metaphor for an entire nation's. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2011
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2/4
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64%
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Jews And Baseball: An American Love Story (2010) |
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The film feels simultaneously micromanaged and slapdash, spouting generalities about the game while neglecting to show a full at-bat. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 7, 2010
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3.5/4
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98%
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Inside Job (2010) |
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If No End in Sight took on the tone of a tragedy, then Inside Job becomes dark, despairing comedy."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2010
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46%
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Hereafter (2010) |
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Clint Eastwood's Hereafter is a bad movie, even an awful one. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2010
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86%
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The Strange Case Of Angelica (2010) |
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The movie evokes what the Portuguese call saudades, or sentimental longing, but literally reincarnates melancholy as joy."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2010
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88%
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Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
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A film like Certified Copy explodes truisms about acting. Actors may be copying real people, but they also are real people; and while most people don't appear in movies, human beings are constantly acting. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2010
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3/4
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57%
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Film socialisme (2011) |
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Godard has always used clips from and references to other movies in his work, and here he goes further to use other forms of media. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2010
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3/4
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92%
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My Joy (2011) |
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Loznitsa's documentaries are mainly compilations of archival footage, so it makes sense that his first fiction film is also essentially a compilation"
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2010
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96%
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The Social Network (2010) |
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What you're left with is a host of issues far more stimulating than the movie raising them is."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 27, 2010
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93%
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Of Gods and Men (2011) |
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I thought the depth of field was amazing."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2010
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89%
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) |
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It startles you with effects that go back to cinema's origins, a technique that paradoxically feels more revolutionary than regressive."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2010
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92%
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The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011) |
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The goats also give the film its richest moments of humor, many of the jokes based on seeing them act more human than humans. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2010
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