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4/5
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97%
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
"
And in its forthright dealing with the play, this becomes one of the most scathingly honest American films ever made."
—
New York Times
Posted May 21, 2003
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4/5
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76%
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8 Mile (2002) |
"
The story is all right: The picture's real excellence is its portrait of the society in which it takes place."
—
New Republic
Posted Dec 2, 2002
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94%
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La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
"
How discomfiting it is to see a good film from a country that is low on any list of film-producing nations."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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90%
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Séraphine (2009) |
"
Provost has made a picture that is almost biblical in its simplicity and its passion."
—
New Republic
Posted Jun 24, 2009
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98%
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Avaze gonjeshk-ha (The Song of Sparrows) (2009) |
"
It is somehow congenial to feel that we are watching a tale that could have been told elsewhere."
—
New Republic
Posted May 6, 2009
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95%
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Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"
The overall effect of Goodbye Solo is of living through a drama of huge subjects, articulated in the vernacular."
—
New Republic
Posted May 6, 2009
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91%
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Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009) |
"
Troell's screenplay, as has often been the case with him, exists for the fullness of its texture, not for dramatic growth and resolution."
—
New Republic
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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78%
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12 (2007) |
"
What keeps the film vital is the acting."
—
New Republic
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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94%
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) |
"
A slick account of ancient crevices in the human psyche rendered in cutting-edge cinematic style."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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68%
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Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2008) |
"
One Day You'll Understand is not exclusively a picture about the Holocaust. It is about a contradiction: human discomfort with some truths and human hunger for them."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 20, 2008
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91%
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Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008) |
"
We are a bit less fraudulently sure of ourselves afterward."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 4, 2008
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80%
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Un Secret (A Secret) (2008) |
"
Miller, a skilled veteran, reverses the old visual pattern for films with lengthy flashbacks: he shoots the past in color and the (evolving) present in black and white."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 3, 2008
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91%
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Momma's Man (2008) |
"
Momma's Man is an act of daring."
—
New Republic
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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81%
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Obsluhoval Jsem Anglického Krále (I Served the King of England) (2008) |
"
The minor protocols and major assaults of the characters are fused, paradoxically, by a truly lyrical talent."
—
New Republic
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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|
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91%
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August Evening (2007) |
"
Eska, who wrote and edited his film, appears to be at the beginning of a good career."
—
New Republic
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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97%
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The Pool (2008) |
"
A film that is a kind of counter-film, which sets expectations in an environment that supports unexpected results."
—
New Republic
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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74%
|
La Fille Coupée en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2008) |
"
As is nearly always the case with Chabrol, a special pleasure pervades the picture."
—
New Republic
Posted Aug 27, 2008
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87%
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Frozen River (2008) |
"
We quickly sense that the director of this film has unusual perception, and that whatever the story and performances turn out to be, she will make the most of them."
—
New Republic
Posted Aug 27, 2008
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88%
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Boy A (2007) |
"
Crowley gets a remarkable performance from Andrew Garfield: his Jack is a person who carries guilt with him even when he is trying to override it."
—
New Republic
Posted Aug 11, 2008
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67%
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A Very British Gangster (2008) |
"
A Very British Gangster proves yet again that one great asset of film is vicarious participation in crime."
—
New Republic
Posted Aug 11, 2008
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81%
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Trumbo (2007) |
"
It is oddly pleasant to know that such a man once existed."
—
New Republic
Posted Jul 21, 2008
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76%
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Une Vieille Maîtresse (The Last Mistress) (An Old Mistress) (2007) |
"
Asia Argento, as Vellini, is a firebrand, a woman who is attractive even in non-seductive moments when she is angry or downcast or 'off-stage.'"
—
New Republic
Posted Jul 21, 2008
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72%
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And When Did You Last See Your Father? (When Did You Last See Your Father?) (2008) |
"
What ensures our pleasure is the dialogue, which is supple, and the quality of the acting."
—
New Republic
Posted Jun 29, 2008
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86%
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Mongol (2008) |
"
Mongol has just enough characterization to sustain its own reason for being -- cinematic fullness."
—
New Republic
Posted Jun 29, 2008
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94%
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My Winnipeg (2007) |
"
My Winnipeg is a mobile collage, and its assemblage is fascinating."
—
New Republic
Posted Jun 29, 2008
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|
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92%
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Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007) |
"
The subtitle of the film is 'A Love Story.' The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving."
—
New Republic
Posted Jun 29, 2008
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67%
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Battle for Haditha (2007) |
"
Films about the Iraq war continue to come and, I hope, will keep coming. Among the most recent, The Battle for Haditha is especially notable."
—
New Republic
Posted May 27, 2008
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76%
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Padre Nuestro (Sangre De Mi Sangre) (2007) |
"
Plot flaws and all, we can be glad that the picture was made -- because of its acting."
—
New Republic
Posted May 27, 2008
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72%
|
Lust, Caution (2007) |
"
Lust, Caution asks some patience of us, but our patience pays off."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 7, 2007
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36%
|
Sleuth (2007) |
"
This film wants only to entertain, and other talents have gathered with Pinter to help."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 7, 2007
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89%
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Zodiac (2007) |
"
Gyllenhaal always manages to present a person of some sensitivity without leaning on actorish resources."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 18, 2007
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73%
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Family Law (Derecho de Familia) (2006) |
"
Particularly good at the tiny details that become recognition points in daily patterns."
—
New Republic
Posted Dec 29, 2006
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71%
|
The Secret Life of Words (2006) |
"
Like Ceylan -- like many a fine director -- Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood."
—
New Republic
Posted Dec 15, 2006
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72%
|
Climates (Iklimler) (The Climate) (2006) |
"
Like all good art, it evokes a supranational affinity. And there is an unsurprising paradox: this drama of personal uncertainties is lodged in a certainty of form."
—
New Republic
Posted Nov 3, 2006
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79%
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Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) |
"
[Xavier Beauvois] is a clean and sure director, with a good selective eye: he knows where we ought to be looking at any moment. We can hope for more Beauvois films with worlds of their own."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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80%
|
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2006) |
"
What remains most vividly after Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, however, is not its story but its world--the immersion in that world of a foreigner, not a polo-shirted Yank but a stiff-necked Japanese. And it is all overseen by a Chinese director."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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69%
|
World Trade Center (2006) |
"
(Director Oliver) Stone has concentrated on one of the catastrophe's stories and has fashioned it well -- with almost palpable physical detail, and with performances that never sink to exploitation."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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74%
|
The Illusionist (2006) |
"
What (director Neil) Burger and his colleagues have done is to entrance us with a richly acted, beautifully produced story."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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85%
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Old Joy (2006) |
"
About [Kelly Reichardt's] directing, after praising her simplicity, one has to praise her daring. To make this film took considerable conviction -- and, for an artist, conviction usually entails courage."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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70%
|
Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006) |
"
The essence of the film is that [Kushner], with not a touch of evangelistic pomp, cannot conceive of life as anything other than a campaign to improve life."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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97%
|
49 Up (2006) |
"
The segments are so cleverly arranged -- [director Michael Apted] includes past pictorial references for each of the people we revisit -- that now there is something almost mystical involved."
—
New Republic
Posted Oct 26, 2006
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75%
|
Gabrielle (2005) |
"
[Director Patrice Chereau] has drawn exceptional performances from his two principals."
—
New Republic
Posted Jul 14, 2006
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77%
|
Excellent Cadavers (In un altro paese) (2005) |
"
What is strangely transfixing about the film is our agreement, from the beginning, that the struggle is hopeless."
—
New Republic
Posted Jul 10, 2006
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72%
|
Clean (2005) |
"
The chief pleasure in the picture is Nick Nolte's performance."
—
New Republic
Posted May 12, 2006
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67%
|
Stolen (2006) |
"
Whatever the outcome of all this hugger-mugger, as yet unresolved, Stolen gives us hints about a special sort of muscle."
—
New Republic
Posted May 8, 2006
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41%
|
American Dreamz (2006) |
"
A moderately engaging satire, some of it amusing and some of it strained, but in considerable measure it reflects a strange circumstance in all our lives."
—
New Republic
Posted May 5, 2006
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98%
|
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (2006) |
"
Despite the far-off locale, we soon feel surprisingly comfortable, merely because of the film's shape."
—
New Republic
Posted May 2, 2006
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97%
|
Iron Island (Jazire Ahani) (2006) |
"
Iran's recent growlings under its new president make such a film as Iron Island all the more remarkable."
—
New Republic
Posted Apr 21, 2006
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71%
|
Friends With Money (2006) |
"
It engages us from beginning to end without strong narrative, or narratives. It lives through the quality of Holofcener's dialogue and the performances that she has drawn from her actors."
—
New Republic
Posted Apr 21, 2006
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77%
|
Music From the Inside Out (2005) |
"
We hear all kinds of comments -- about personal satisfactions, dissatisfactions, rewards."
—
New Republic
Posted Mar 20, 2006
|
67%
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98%
