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100%
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L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno) (2010) |
"
A fascinating exploration of artistic self-destruction and hubris..."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 23, 2010
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62%
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Salt (2010) |
"
Salt is a well-greased, smoothly functioning machine that drives forward with tremendous momentum, elevating your pulse rate and relieving you of the need to think for more than a second or two at a stretch."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 22, 2010
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71%
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Valhalla Rising (2010) |
"
Lots of movies about the Middle Ages can do the mud and blood -- though we sure see a lot of both here -- but in this movie it's like Refn has ripped you out of time and dropped you there."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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100%
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The Circus (1928) |
"
It's a brilliant combination of light and darkness, tenderness and violence and, yes, laughter and tears."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 14, 2010
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69%
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
Larsson's genius was to suggest a connection between those cruel but supposedly dead ideologies and a continuing legacy of misogyny, rape and violence against women."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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57%
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We Own the Night (2007) |
"
An intriguing blend of mainstream audience-pleaser and a more subtle, even intellectual agenda."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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96%
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Restrepo (2010) |
"
A riveting, you-are-there, deployment to a godforsaken place where United States troops are pinned down by enemy fire almost every day..."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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49%
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
"
If New Moon had no story to speak of, Eclipse almost has too much. It's a much better problem to have."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 30, 2010
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52%
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Knight & Day (2010) |
"
Cruise retains an unusual charisma and a natural feeling for the camera."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 23, 2010
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99%
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Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
A bona fide summer delight loaded with action, humor, nostalgia, a veritable blizzard of pop-culture references and general good vibes."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 18, 2010
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91%
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Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) |
"
Stern and Sundberg definitely fulfill the Prime Directive of every celebrity documentary, which is making a famous person -- especially one the audience "knows" and has strong feelings about -- seem recognizably human."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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72%
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Get Him to the Greek (2010) |
"
The setup isn't especially interesting or original, but the movie gets better as it goes through its paces."
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Salon.com
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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43%
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Robin Hood (2010) |
"
Despite its abundant flaws and historical howlers and generally dimwitted tone, Robin Hood is a surprisingly enjoyable work of popcorn cinema, if you're willing to take it on its own terms."
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Salon.com
Posted May 13, 2010
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62%
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When You're Strange (2010) |
"
When You're Strange offers a mesmerizing, behind-the-music glimpse at a crucial and bizarre moment in rock history, and maybe in American cultural history, period."
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Salon.com
Posted Apr 8, 2010
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81%
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City Island (2010) |
"
All the family secrets must come crashing together, of course, in an implausible, if impeccably crafted, collision of botched confessions, mistaken identities, handcuffs and risqué outfits."
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Salon.com
Posted Mar 25, 2010
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63%
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) |
"
At its best the film is blissfully, anarchically funny, and director Steve Pink keeps the pace crackling."
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Salon.com
Posted Mar 25, 2010
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86%
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) |
"
Rapace, a brooding beauty who won a Swedish Oscar for this performance -- and also appears in two more forthcoming installments of this series -- invests Lisbeth with a powerful, wounded dignity; she's much more than a Lara Croft-style cartoon."
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Salon.com
Posted Mar 18, 2010
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95%
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Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
A slippery, marvelously crafted drama that suggests the psychological thrillers of Hitchcock or Henri-Georges Clouzot transposed to present-day Korea."
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Salon.com
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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97%
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A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010) |
"
A highly original film made in a familiar context, and an exciting moviegoing experience you shouldn't miss."
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Salon.com
Posted Feb 26, 2010
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100%
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I Can See You (2008) |
"
There's no way to explain that until you see the movie, which goes from comic-realistic mode into full-on psycho meltdown with more terrifying adroitness than any other movie of this decade."
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Salon.com
Posted Feb 24, 2010
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83%
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The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
A tight, taut, witty and highly theatrical entertainment, shot in shades of wintry gray, that will keep you guessing right through its final fadeout."
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Salon.com
Posted Feb 18, 2010
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72%
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Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010) |
"
If you have the stomach and the endurance, it represents a revolutionary break from ordinary movie storytelling."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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87%
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Please Give (2010) |
"
An edgy, somber, beautifully written Manhattan fable of guilt, shame, infidelity, death and real estate."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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74%
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Splice (2010) |
"
Splice went down smooth, with its sleek surfaces, terrific special effects and disturbing sexiness."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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80%
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Cyrus (2010) |
"
All the improvised dialogue, herky-jerk camerawork and social discomfort of previous Duplass films is here, along with name actors playing damaged but ultimately human characters."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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93%
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The Tillman Story (2010) |
"
In this funny, profane and profoundly sad film, Bar-Lev depicts Tillman and his similarly unconventional parents and brothers as Americans who hew to no ideological standard, and who actually think for themselves."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010) |
"
An absolute knockout."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) |
"
It's a rueful, comic exploration of what happens when artists like Banksy and his friend Shepard Fairey see their own weapons used against them."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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69%
|
The Runaways (2010) |
"
Sometimes mind-blowing power isn't available, and a rollercoaster ride of stardom and depravity will just have to do."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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93%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
It's so real, so sexy, so sad, so honest and so truly, heartbreakingly funny."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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81%
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Four Lions (2010) |
"
Gradually, the madcap farcical tone of "Four Lions" gives way to something darker, as it becomes clear that Morris intends to follow his characters' pathological aims and motivations right to the end of the road."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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79%
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Nowhere Boy (2010) |
"
Rather than a rock 'n' roll biopic, this is a classic British family melodrama, anchored by one of the subtlest, richest roles in Kristin Scott Thomas' impressive career."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 28, 2010
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90%
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Fish Tank (2010) |
"
I'm telling you here and now to seek out Fish Tank, either at a big-city theater or via VOD, because it's absolute dynamite."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 13, 2010
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100%
|
Flooding With Love for the Kid (2010) |
"
I feel like I understand what First Blood is really about much better after seeing this version."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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96%
|
Sweetgrass (2009) |
"
Memorably captures a dying way of American life, a marvelously untrammeled American landscape and at least two animals -- men and sheep -- that despite their millennia-long domestic relationship still have a spark of wildness in them."
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Salon.com
Posted Jan 5, 2010
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55%
|
The End Of Poverty (2008) |
"
Powerful and upsetting."
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Salon.com
Posted Dec 1, 2009
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67%
|
Act of God (2009) |
"
An undeniably provocative head-trip, laced with the most spectacular lightning-storm footage I've ever seen."
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Salon.com
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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48%
|
Antichrist (2009) |
"
It offers more proof, if we need any, that von Trier is one of the most accomplished cinema artists of our time, and also perhaps the most deeply trapped in his own head."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 21, 2009
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76%
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Afterschool (2008) |
"
It's both a supremely controlled exercise in form and tone and an intriguing exploration of the ways new technology intersects with age-old questions of dominance, control and individuality, particularly in the school setting."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 9, 2009
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94%
|
The Damned United (2009) |
"
Those who give it a whirl will discover a delightfully comic and sympathetic portrayal of British life in the hardscrabble, ciggies-and-lager '70s."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 8, 2009
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78%
|
Bronson (2009) |
"
Bronson is an explosive, theatrical, fourth-wall-busting project that will strike some viewers (like me) as prodigious and others as unbearably pretentious."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 8, 2009
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94%
|
An Education (2009) |
"
An Education captures the very limited possibilities for female liberation in early-'60s London -- with massive social change on the distant horizon, but not here yet -- in exquisite detail."
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Salon.com
Posted Oct 8, 2009
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78%
|
The Informant! (2009) |
"
I enjoyed it, in a momentary-diversion sort of way, without really being sure it was worth doing."
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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69%
|
American Casino (2009) |
"
This film stands as an intimate, terrifying document that renders an incomprehensible slice of recent history in human terms."
—
Salon.com
Posted Sep 18, 2009
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88%
|
At the Edge of the World (2009) |
"
The summer season's most surprising and thought-provoking documentary."
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Salon.com
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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21%
|
Spread (2009) |
"
Mackenzie is a consummate stylist, one of British cinema's emerging 21st-century talents, who has displayed a remarkable ability to make interesting movies that get in their own way and never reach wide audiences."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 13, 2009
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91%
|
District 9 (2009) |
"
It's a grimy, consistently surprising and fundamentally human-centric science-fiction yarn, reminiscent of the dystopian, semi-realistic 1970s tradition."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 13, 2009
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73%
|
Beeswax (2009) |
"
This warm, graceful and fundamentally optimistic movie snuck up on me, in the best possible way."
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Salon.com
Posted Aug 6, 2009
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81%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
Thirst is a brilliant and gruesome work of cinematic invention as well as a passionate and painful human love story."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 31, 2009
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94%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
The effectiveness of The Cove also comes from its explosive cinematic craft, its surprising good humor and its pure excitement."
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Salon.com
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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