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• TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)

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"Their incessant, obscene banter is meant to be endearing; their total lack of presence makes it simply annoying." -- Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Baseketball (1998)41%
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"Some may sniff at director Rodrigo Plá’s deliberately exaggerated style, but it makes no pretensions to authenticity. Indeed, it’s just audacious enough to work -- like Crash reimagined by Rod Serling." -- New York Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
La Zona (2007)63%
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"The Argentine writer-director downplays the clinical angle and avoids easy melodramatic pitfalls." -- New York Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
XXY (2008)73%
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"What begins as a run-of-the-mill urban drama about two guys from Brooklyn turns into something more epic and resonant." -- Nerve.com
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Liberty Kid (2007)86%
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"In the stacked-deck world of Robert Eisele’s script, this team has an uncanny ability to grab the hindsight-friendly side of every issue." -- New York Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2007
 
The Great Debaters (2007)80%
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"Full Grown Men is a lovely, bewitching film with a lot on its mind." -- New York Magazine
Posted Nov 7, 2007
 
Full Grown Men (2008)40%
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"An immersive meditation on the unsettling power of nature, creating a world in which its human characters are but one link in a tangled natural order." -- New York Magazine
Posted May 4, 2007
 
Times and Winds (2008)77%
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"The Treatment is not without its flaws but its sterling cast makes it a real joy to watch." -- New York Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2007
 
The Treatment (2007)68%
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"It may not break any new aesthetic ground, but Encounter Point might just be the most optimistic film about this conflict you’ll ever see." -- New York Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2006
 
Encounter Point (2006)100%
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"As a story, Wah-Wah is far from perfect, but its wonderful cast brings it a complexity all too rare today." -- New York Magazine
Posted May 12, 2006
 
Wah-Wah (2006)52%
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Posted Oct 19, 2004
 
Deathdream (1972)71%
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Posted Jan 6, 2003
 
Nosferatu (1922)98%
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Click here to read article -- TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)
Posted Jan 6, 2003
 
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)100%
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Posted Jan 6, 2003
 
The Golem (1920)100%
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"Although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness, those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime." -- Citysearch
Posted Nov 29, 2002
 
Dead or Alive: Final (2002)40%
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"The author's devotees will probably find it fascinating; others may find it baffling." -- Citysearch
Posted Jan 18, 2002
 
The Farewell (2002)71%
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"Both exuberantly romantic and serenely melancholy, What Time Is It There? may prove to be [Tsai's] masterpiece." -- Citysearch
Posted Jan 11, 2002
 
What Time Is It There? (2002)84%
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"It's hard to argue with the stunning lead performances by Enrico Lo Verso and Francesco Giuffrida." -- Citysearch
Posted Nov 26, 2001
 
The Way We Laughed (2001)86%
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"Demy is best known stateside for his wondrous musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but some consider this, his debut feature, to be his best work." -- Citysearch
Posted Nov 16, 2001
 
Lola (1961)86%
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"Much of Happenstance comes across as a cinematic parlor game. But what a fun game it is." -- Citysearch
Posted Nov 2, 2001
 
Happenstance (2001)64%
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"Chereau's unhinged, probing camerawork, combined with the intensity of Kerry Fox and Mark Rylance's performances, makes for a near-hypnotic experience." -- Citysearch
Posted Oct 19, 2001
 
Intimacy (2001)65%
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"Consisting of little more than episodes, impressions and stock misfit characters." -- Citysearch
Posted Oct 19, 2001
 
Dog Run (2001)33%
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"The result is a very believable strip club, inhabited by cardboard-thin protagonists who come across as caricatures more than actual people." -- Citysearch
Posted Oct 19, 2001
 
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2001)22%
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"Seems designed only to shock and depress, a film devoid of much insight or humanity." -- Citysearch
Posted Oct 4, 2001
 
La Ciénaga (2001)86%
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"Alternately tedious and compelling." -- Citysearch
Posted Sep 28, 2001
 
The Season of Men (2001)80%
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"Has a keen sense of the pace of everyday life." -- Citysearch
Posted Sep 6, 2001
 
Djomeh (2001)90%
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"Director Tim Blake Nelson brings an invigorating sense of style to this story." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 30, 2001
 
O (2001)63%
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"A perceptive comedy, punctuated with hilarious appearances from such notable faces as Emma Thompson and Rowan Atkinson." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
Maybe Baby (2001)46%
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"An astutely written and acted study of human interaction." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
Together (2001)90%
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"This comedy overdoes the lightheartedness and in-jokes so much that the audience might not care about it all that much, either." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 23, 2001
 
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)53%
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"Challenging, to be sure, but also relentlessly entertaining." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 17, 2001
 
Band of Outsiders (1964)95%
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"Badly acted and humorless." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 17, 2001
 
All Over the Guy (2001)43%
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"Best enjoyed by not having any expectations going in, other than knowing that [Miike will] knock your socks off." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 8, 2001
 
Audition (2001)76%
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"Full of predictable plot machinations." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 3, 2001
 
Under the Sun (2001)74%
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"What starts off as a sleazy melodrama with intriguing co-star chemistry quickly gets bogged down in piled-up plot twists." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 2, 2001
 
Original Sin (2001)12%
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"Kurosawa takes a reasonably engaging thriller plot and turns it into a mesmerizing masterwork." -- Citysearch
Posted Aug 1, 2001
 
Cure (2001)93%
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"A fascinating and sexy performance from Spanish actress Victoria Abril as Lola." -- Citysearch
Posted Jul 27, 2001
 
101 Reykjavik (2001)89%
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"Presents a smug, self-satisfied vision of its own world." -- Citysearch
Posted Jul 13, 2001
 
Downtown 81 (1981)71%
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"Tackles the problem of happiness in today's world with a poetic succinctness all too rare in movies today." -- Citysearch
Posted Jul 6, 2001
 
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001)81%
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"Brings little new to the table." -- Citysearch
Posted Jun 22, 2001
 
Let it Snow (2001)53%
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"The film is an unpretentious slice of life that allows its characters to maintain their dignity." -- Citysearch
Posted May 25, 2001
 
Our Song (2001)90%
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"Even the director's most ardent admirers won't be ready for the soapy goo he delivers here." -- Citysearch
Posted May 24, 2001
 
The Road Home (2001)88%
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"A full-bodied, gripping film about the nature of trauma, memory and moving on." -- Citysearch
Posted May 4, 2001
 
Under the Sand (2001)94%
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"While director Shinji Aoyama's style is understated, meditative and deliberate, he manages to grab the viewer from the very beginning, and rarely lets go." -- Citysearch
Posted May 4, 2001
 
Eureka (2001)90%
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"Aided immeasurably by the acrobatic skills of its brilliant star, Once Upon A Time in China delivers the kinetic goods." -- Citysearch
Posted Apr 26, 2001
 
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)89%
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"A distracted, emotionless affair." -- Citysearch
Posted Apr 26, 2001
 
The Golden Bowl (2001)53%
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"Strange, exhilarating." -- Citysearch
Posted Apr 19, 2001
 
With a Friend Like Harry (2001)95%
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"With this wide, beautiful canvas, Winterbottom may well have produced his masterpiece." -- Citysearch
Posted Apr 19, 2001
 
The Claim (2001)62%
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"Center of the World shows much but leaves many things unsaid. Somehow, that seems perfect." -- Citysearch
Posted Apr 18, 2001
 
The Center of the World (2001)33%
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"Can't help but betray its Saturday morning origins." -- Citysearch
Posted Feb 15, 2001
 
Recess: School's Out (2001)61%

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