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64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
Cosmopolis is Cronenberg's first movie since Videodrome to not only identify a particular zeitgeist but embody it in form and content."
—
Film Comment Magazine
Posted Aug 16, 2012
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79%
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013) |
"
The film is more than the play. Most of all, it gifts us with its actors, the most memorable of whom are Mathieu Amalric and Michel Piccoli."
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Sight and Sound
Posted May 23, 2012
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100%
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We Were Here (2011) |
"
The filmmakers have amassed an amazing archive of photos and videotapes, but it is the intimate, personal testimonies that make the film so vital, urgent, and necessary. "
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Film Comment Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2011
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90%
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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010) |
"
Chazelle is an exceptionally talented filmmaker. Let's hope the independent film world has enough life left in it to do him justice."
—
Film Comment
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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97%
|
Ran (1985) |
"
For aficionados of the war movie, the western, and the period action epic, Ran is necessary viewing."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 1, 2008
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33%
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Keep Your Right Up (Soigne ta droite) (2001) |
"
One of those failures by great artists that are more provocative to think about than to experience."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 17, 2007
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61%
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The New World (2005) |
"
A work of great intelligence, ambition and radiant beauty."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Sep 28, 2006
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93%
|
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"
An eco-horror movie that is anything but escapist entertainment..."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Sep 28, 2006
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—
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85%
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Old Joy (2006) |
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Sep 23, 2006
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—
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88%
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Broken Flowers (2005) |
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Aug 7, 2005
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92%
|
Minority Report (2002) |
"
Lacking a consistent view of his source material, Spielberg pulls out all the stops by attempting to roll three wildly different genres -- action-adventure, psychological thriller, and futuristic tone poem -- into one film."
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
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—
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77%
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Seabiscuit (2003) |
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
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—
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38%
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Full Frontal (2002) |
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
|
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—
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78%
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25th Hour (2003) |
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted May 19, 2004
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—
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29%
|
Nothing to Lose (1997) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 18, 2003
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88%
|
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) |
"
Cheung and Leung give the most subtle performances of their careers here."
—
Sight and Sound
Posted Dec 2, 2002
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89%
|
Le Procès (The Trial) (1962) |
"
The Trial is splendid to look at and teeming with ideas about the individual, society, and of course, film itself."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2002
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—
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100%
|
Gimme Shelter (1970) |
—
Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2002
|
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—
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73%
|
The Woman Chaser (2000) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 16, 2002
|
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—
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——
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La Sentinelle (The Sentinel) (1992) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 31, 2002
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—
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——
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Children of Chabannes (2005) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2002
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—
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——
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Shadow Boxers (2003) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2002
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—
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——
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Divorce Iranian Style (1999) |
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Village Voice
Posted Jan 22, 2002
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82%
|
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) |
"
A tricky, empty film adaptation of Michael Lesy's overrated 1973 book of the same name."
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Village Voice
Posted Dec 29, 2001
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—
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——
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Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth () |
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
|
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—
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83%
|
Two Women (Do Zan) (1999) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
|
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—
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——
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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore () |
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
|
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—
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90%
|
Getting to Know You (2000) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 13, 2001
|
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—
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——
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Stella Does Tricks (1996) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 30, 2001
|
|
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100%
|
Yana's Friends (2001) |
"
Kaplun's smart, scrappy romantic comedy Yana's Friends displays an insouciance rarely found in Israeli film."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2001
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100%
|
Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures (Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m.) (2001) |
"
A spare, formally ingenious, journalistically acute piece of filmmaking."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 9, 2001
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72%
|
Training Day (2001) |
"
Propulsive, elegantly written police thriller."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2001
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86%
|
La Ciénaga (2001) |
"
A debut feature that's assured in every aspect."
—
Village Voice
Posted Oct 2, 2001
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70%
|
Liam (2001) |
"
[Frears] limits the film by filtering it through a child's consciousness."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 19, 2001
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11%
|
The Musketeer (2001) |
"
A stale Euro-pudding."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 11, 2001
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40%
|
Bounce - Behind the Velvet Rope (2000) |
"
Mindless, shoddy."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 4, 2001
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64%
|
O (2001) |
"
An unresolved mixture of gimmickry and good intentions."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 28, 2001
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45%
|
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) |
"
The best that can be said of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion ... is that it's not as awful as Celebrity."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2001
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96%
|
Fighter (2001) |
"
Thanks to Lustig, the film has a generosity and antic humor."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 21, 2001
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82%
|
Animal Factory (2000) |
"
It's the relationship between Willem Dafoe, as Earl, the hard-time veteran, and Edward Furlong, as Ron, the new boy he takes under his wing, that makes the film so compelling."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 17, 2001
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70%
|
La Bûche (1999) |
"
Thompson keeps her focus (and ours) on the actors, most of whom have never been as luminous as they are here."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 15, 2001
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95%
|
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964) |
"
Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2001
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62%
|
Session 9 (2001) |
"
The script for Session 9 is so underwritten that even such lively character actors as David Caruso, Peter Mullan, and Brendan Sexton III are left stranded."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2001
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84%
|
The Others (2001) |
"
This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 7, 2001
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—
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29%
|
Coming Soon (1999) |
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2001
|
|
|
29%
|
Jackpot (2001) |
"
Since Sunny is physically unattractive, inept in bed, and a misogynist who sends his wife lottery tickets in lieu of child support, his popularity is a mystery to me."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2001
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46%
|
Greenfingers (2001) |
"
The film, despite the many shots of gardens in full bloom, lacks visual distinction."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 24, 2001
|
|
|
92%
|
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) |
"
Relentlessly assaultive, heavy-handed, and emotionally monochromatic."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 18, 2001
|
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81%
|
Jump Tomorrow (Life: A User's Manual) (2001) |
"
Becomes increasingly charming as it goes along."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 3, 2001
|
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