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95%
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The Birds (1963) |
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Posted Dec 16, 2011
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80%
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Marnie (2000) |
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Posted Dec 16, 2011
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70%
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The Driller Killer (1979) |
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Posted Oct 28, 2011
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La Luna (1979) |
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Posted Jul 29, 2011
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Dong (2006) |
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Posted Jun 3, 2011
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84%
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The Tree of Life (2011) |
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Tree of Life, in this way, seems unmoored from a linear conception of time and narrative to an extent new to Malick's cinema and quite foreign to Hollywood cinema generally."
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Posted May 31, 2011
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Wuyong (Useless) (2007) |
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Posted May 31, 2011
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60%
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The Disorderly Orderly (1964) |
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Posted May 10, 2011
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Fire and Ice (1983) |
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Posted Apr 29, 2011
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Coonskin (Bustin' Out) (Street Fight) (1975) |
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Posted Apr 19, 2011
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The Ring (1927) |
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Posted Apr 5, 2011
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91%
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) |
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Posted Apr 4, 2011
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100%
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Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) (1963) |
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Posted Apr 4, 2011
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Lust for a Vampire (1971) |
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Posted Feb 18, 2011
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43%
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The Vampire Lovers (1970) |
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Posted Feb 18, 2011
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87%
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The Matrix (1999) |
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It's that balance between blockbuster-style action sequences and in-depth philosophical undertones that I've always admired about The Matrix."
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Posted Jan 27, 2011
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92%
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) |
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Posted Jan 25, 2011
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Paranoiac (1963) |
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Posted Oct 29, 2010
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93%
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Boxing Gym (2010) |
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If anything, Wiseman shows how, in the boxing gym, violence is sublimated in fantasy."
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Posted Oct 8, 2010
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Three Blind Mice (2010) |
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Posted Sep 22, 2010
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60%
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Blonde Venus (1932) |
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Posted Aug 24, 2010
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Huang tu di (Yellow Earth) (1984) |
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Posted Aug 24, 2010
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Champagne (1928) |
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Posted Aug 17, 2010
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78%
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Flight of the Navigator (1986) |
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Posted Aug 17, 2010
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Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985) |
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Posted Jul 30, 2010
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Lions Love (1969) |
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Posted Jul 30, 2010
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100%
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Return of the Dragon (The Way of the Dragon) (1974) |
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Posted Jul 30, 2010
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Spring in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun) (2007) |
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Posted Jul 27, 2010
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Black Panthers (Huey) () |
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Posted Jul 27, 2010
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48%
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Antichrist (2009) |
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A beautiful and ultimately very sad film."
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Posted Jul 6, 2010
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100%
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Rancho Notorious (1952) |
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There is a distinct hokeyness about Lang's vision of the West--pancake-flat sets in a generic studio-backlot Western town; giant, abstract crab-colored boulders made out of papier-mache, brazenly unnaturalistic stage-lighting--but it's the ardent phoneyne"
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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79%
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Chasing a Dream (Miles from Nowhere) (2009) |
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A grand gesture, an exercise in epic biography that explodes the intimate details of Isaiah's life and its effects on his family onto the screen."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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80%
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Akasen chitai (Street of Shame) (1956) |
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The film's cinematography utilizes an unusual technique for a Mizoguchi film, the close-up, whereby the camera gets steadily closer to each protagonist as the various causes of their downfall to prostitution are revealed."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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73%
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Tokyo! (2008) |
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Sandwiched between Gondry and Bong's variously euphoric entries, Carax's contribution seems either a work of deep cynicism from an inveterate party-pooper or a welcome satirical sour note from one of the great talents of 80s and 90s French cinema."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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70%
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Stuff and Dough (Marfa si banii) (2008) |
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Ultimately, like Lazarescu, Ovidiu becomes a mere cog in a social and economic system that would chew him up without a moment's consideration, and it's Puiu's goal to elevate this and other such stories above their banality and into the realm of myth."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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93%
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Bigger Than Life (1956) (1956) |
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Always a shrewd melodramatist, with a particular eye for the domestic space, Ray builds this sense of conflict into the Avery home itself, with its frequently competing horizontal and vertical patterns."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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48%
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The Ruins (2008) |
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So bereft of creativity that it fails even to deliver to its base--teenage boys--the ghouls and boobs they so desperately want to see."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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Dongdong de jiaqi (A Summer at Grandpa's) (1984) |
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Hou's film places demands on our powers of observation, insisting that we, like Tung-tung, attend to the minutiae, ironies, and deeper meanings it offers us."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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91%
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Hairspray (2007) |
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Shankman's crassly theatrical attenuation of Hairspray only draws gay culture away from a moment of American history with which it ought to have a great deal in common"
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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97%
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Hairspray (1988) |
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The shock Waters's cinema offers, then, is not transcendent, but almost reflexive, implicating the viewer in the awkward complexities of his own humanity and forcing him to either celebrate it or run screaming away."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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78%
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Lou Reed's Berlin (2008) |
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Schnabel's set design, onstage projections, and postproduction add a good deal of visual noise to Reed & company's aural variety, which reproduces the album with a mixture of professional exactitude and unpredictable cacophony."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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93%
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This Is England (2007) |
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It is the war within him--and by extension, within the minds of many embittered, working class young men left behind in Thatcher's England--that Meadows's film most strikingly portrays."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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96%
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Somers Town (2009) |
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As in all of Meadows's films, Somers Town emphasizes the importance of character and particularly of camaraderie amongst male characters--here, teenagers who nick clothes from the local laundry, get drunk in the park, and furtively investigate masculinity"
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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Shuga (Chouga) (2007) |
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Ramps down Tolstoy's soap-opera grandiosity, while still managing to elevate the banalities of a high-society dalliance to the level of a cosmic psychodrama"
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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20%
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Obsessed (2009) |
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"I knew it would come to this," hisses Sharon when finding Lisa lurking around her beautiful Brentwood home--at which point I exclaimed, "Me too!"--and then the fun (and, for many, the entire purpose of the film) starts."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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51%
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The Kingdom (2007) |
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A good deal more Transformers than Syriana, a movie that drapes a crisp, lightly browsed copy of The Economist over an enormous pubescent boner for grinding metal, busted glass, and crackling gunfire."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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96%
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Tulpan (2009) |
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With this harsh and beautiful backdrop so attentively rendered, at once otherworldly and palpable, the desires of Tulpan's characters become almost metaphysical imperatives."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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75%
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The Killing of Sister George (1968) |
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Melodrama, slapstick, romance, exploitation, and psychological horror all vie for dominance throughout the film, giving it an air of fickle, feminine hysteria, which the graphic sex scene at the end of the film makes still more difficult to pin down."
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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83%
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Mang Shan (Blind Mountain) (2007) |
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With its complex (and, at times, deeply problematic) intersection of an educated outsider with the stubborn realities of rural life, Blind Mountain explicitly harkens back to those classic works from the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, like Yellow"
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Posted Aug 8, 2009
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