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3/5
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88%
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Margin Call (2011) |
"
Chandor proffers a cross-section of a Lehman Brothers-esque company as the realisation dawns that sub-prime speculation has brought the market to an ominous tipping point."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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5/5
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Uncle David () |
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Time Out
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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5/5
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98%
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Ten Canoes (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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1/5
|
19%
|
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
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3/5
|
31%
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Bob Funk (2009) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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4/5
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89%
|
California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) (Endless) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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2/5
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Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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3/5
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76%
|
Objectified (2009) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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—
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76%
|
Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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4/5
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89%
|
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros) (2006) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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—
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91%
|
United 93 (2006) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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4/5
|
94%
|
Weekend (2011) |
"
Sexy, provocative, engrossing and occasionally ornery, it should appeal to anyone whose curiosity about someone new has provoked them to question their own identity."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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3/5
|
31%
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Bob Funk (2009) |
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Time Out New York
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
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3/5
|
58%
|
Villain (Akunin) (2010) |
"
Offers a bleak and rounded, if ultimately conservative, take on a criminal act and its impact on those involved."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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5/5
|
100%
|
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
"
At once a witty comedy of manners, a grotesque serial-killer caper and an acerbic satire on the class system."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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3/5
|
25%
|
Break My Fall () |
"
Both plausibility and suspense, if not quite Fassbinder-grade toxic tension."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 19, 2011
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4/5
|
58%
|
Kaboom (2011) |
"
If there's an undercurrent of impending cataclysm in today's culture, 'Kaboom' senses that feeling, seizes it in a surreal clinch and hurtles with it off a cliff."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 8, 2011
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4/5
|
73%
|
Heartbeats (2011) |
"
It can seem as if style is all in Dolan's films, but as well as revelling in its pleasures, they also dissect its limitations - sometimes without anaesthetic."
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Time Out
Posted May 25, 2011
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|
4/5
|
96%
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) |
"
Herzog notes, 'Time and space lose their meaning.' Inevitably bound by both, his film is as close to their beauty as we will ever get."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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|
2/5
|
24%
|
The Dilemma (2011) |
"
It lacks faith in its story, characters and audience."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 18, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
Try to make 'Showgirls' for 12 year olds and you please no one. What a tease."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2010
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3/5
|
71%
|
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti) (2010) |
"
The feel is somewhat cloistered and the pace rarely gets the pulse racing but this is engaging and affecting stuff, handsomely shot and well acted: Ilaria Occhini is a stand-out as the grandmother."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2010
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4/5
|
83%
|
On Tour (Tournée) (2010) |
"
There's a strong sense of the tour as work - bland hotels, travel co-ordination, Muzak - as well as the situation's propensity to let cooped-up emotions, from anger to lust, marinate."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
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3/5
|
86%
|
Fit () |
"
Avoids preachy didacticism, presenting an impressive range of credible characters undergoing eye-opening experiences."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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3/5
|
55%
|
Mr. Nice (2011) |
"
This adaptation of Marks's autobiography -- a student staple throughout the land -- struggles to capture the sheer breadth of his life."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 6, 2010
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|
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81%
|
Four Lions (2010) |
"
The murderous schemes of laughably fallible humans, the film suggests, are no less tragic for being absurd."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Oct 6, 2010
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
"
Deadpan, handheld technique allows director Sebastián Silva to mine mundane situations for subtle hazard but also to take his story in unexpected directions, initial reticence preserving the potential for surprise."
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Time Out
Posted Aug 26, 2010
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4/5
|
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
The 'Toy Story' films are deservedly seen as the gold standard for computer-generated animation..."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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|
3/5
|
50%
|
Whatever Works (2009) |
"
For all its wobbles, Whatever Works is rooted in an agreeable sensibility: life favours fate over luck more than we'd like to think, so grab whatever chances of happiness come your way."
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Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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|
4/5
|
69%
|
Life During Wartime (2010) |
"
Solondz's ongoing interests ... ensure some shocks but his underlying interests are sincere and humane: the consequences of trauma, the capacity for self-delusion, the possibility of change and the necessity of forgiveness."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 22, 2010
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|
3/5
|
56%
|
Cemetery Junction (2010) |
"
It's refreshing to see a mainstream British film with the ambition to strut its stuff on studio terms."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 15, 2010
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3/5
|
76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
Vaughn directs with efficiency and a good sense of action while Johnson puts in an engaging turn that maintains sympathy and helps paper over some of the plot's more jerky, episodic aspects."
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Time Out
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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3/5
|
52%
|
Green Zone (2010) |
"
Greengrass concocts a formula with a fighting chance of dispelling the Curse of the Hollywood Iraq Movie. If a picture as conventionally accessible as Green Zone tanks, that campaign is surely lost."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 15, 2010
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|
3/5
|
75%
|
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"
The thesis that rapacious capitalism has horrific social consequences is credible and well illustrated, if hardly eye-opening to European viewers."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2010
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|
3/5
|
57%
|
Burlesque Undressed () |
"
Overall, this is a solid if scattershot primer on a scene that seems here to stay."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2010
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4/5
|
73%
|
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"
'Where the Wild Things Are' stands out for its unusually potent evocation of the timbre of childhood imagining, with its combination of the outré and the banal, grand schemes jumbled up with delicate feelings and the urge to smash things up."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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|
2/5
|
61%
|
Bunny and the Bull (2011) |
"
Much to appreciate, then, but less to enjoy."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 27, 2009
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|
5/5
|
89%
|
A Serious Man (2009) |
"
The film's potency is rooted in quiet precision and detailed realisation. Roger Deakins's typically polished photography gives an oppressively hard edge to Midwestern suburbia."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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3/5
|
52%
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"
Feels less like a transcendental breakthrough than a bit of conjuring misdirection. Fun trick, though."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 6, 2009
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5/5
|
100%
|
Citizen Kane (1941) |
"
Many of the novel techniques Welles developed with cinematographer Gregg Toland were calculated to offer new angles on film space."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 30, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"
Gilliam struggles to create a coherent frame for his visual ambition."
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Heat Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"
An endearing character piece shot through with beauty and humility in which, thanks to his leads' open, sometimes vulnerable performances, tolerance and respect take precedence."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 9, 2009
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3/5
|
100%
|
The Godfather (1972) |
"
As filmmaking and storytelling, 'The Godfather' remains a bravura piece of work, its set pieces, dialogue and performances entrenched cinematic icons."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 25, 2009
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|
2/5
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
That every supporting character is depicted as insufferable or pitiable or both would be bad enough; what's worse is that the couple discover nothing about themselves that wasn't obvious from the opening."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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|
4/5
|
84%
|
The September Issue (2009) |
"
Consistently funny and engaging, 'The September Issue' is also a window onto the top echelon of an industry in which fanciful escapism is deadly serious."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Big River Man (2009) |
"
If Werner Herzog had made 'Borat', the results might have been something like this documentary about the unusual athletic overachiever Martin Strel."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
Fired Up (2009) |
"
Clichéd execution, paper-thin characters."
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Heat Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
80%
|
Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (2009) |
"
Surely Glaser the trailblazer warrants a more stylistically adventurous tribute than this."
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Time Out New York
Posted May 20, 2009
|
|
3/6
|
76%
|
Objectified (2009) |
"
For all its intriguing observations, the documentary struggles to develop a strong argument about its subject, or to demonstrate the hidden cultural power of design in such a way as to make the subject compelling to those without a prior interest."
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Time Out New York
Posted May 6, 2009
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