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LennoNYC (2011) |
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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9/10
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Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro (Body Snatcher from Hell)(Goke the Vampire) (1968) |
"
Iron-clad-nutso proof that a film can be simultaneously ridiculous and smart, and should not be confused for disposable camp. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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7/10
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47%
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Heaven's Gate (1980) |
"
I like Heaven's Gate just fine, but I don't love it. I wish I did. It's fun to participate in the redemption of a film maudit."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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7/10
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88%
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Head Games (2012) |
"
The film paints a dire picture that will strike fear into the hearts of many parents. How many concussions are too many? The documentary suggests the magic number might be one."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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10/10
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99%
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This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
I find myself returning again and again to Jafar Panahi's apartment in Tehran, the defining location for the year in cinema, one of the defining locations in all of cinema."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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9/10
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78%
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Lonesome (1928) |
"
A mostly-silent film that showcases all the vitality of the late silent era. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 29, 2012
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6/10
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100%
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Quadrophenia (1979) |
"
When you're an angry young man, there's no better way to prove you're an individual than to dress and act exactly like everybody else."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 29, 2012
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8/10
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95%
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Weekend (2011) |
"
Weekend works beautifully in the moment, and lingers long after an initial viewing. It's certainly an affair to remember."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 29, 2012
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7/10
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100%
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La Terra trema (1948) |
"
It's a rough slog... but La terra trema shows that Visconti, with just his second feature, was already a master of the medium."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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100%
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La Haine (Hate) (1996) |
"
The conveniently manufactured ending is a let-down, but the display of raw emotion and kinetic energy lingers with the viewer long after the film is over."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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9/10
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88%
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Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011) |
"
Abbas Kiarostami's Tuscan sun-dappled enigma is the cinematic gift that is going to keep on giving for decades."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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No More Excuses (1968) |
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It's irrelevant to call this movie or the people in it "weird" because, well, just look at the rest of the world. Also, the chimp is really cute."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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Chafed Elbows (2000) |
"
It's all good clean fun, of course. I can't believe Disney hasn't remade it yet."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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Babo 73 (1964) |
"
Mead only appears intermittently coherent which makes him a perfect match for the story"
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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8/10
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64%
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Putney Swope (1969) |
"
The commercials... are absolutely brilliant, and the sheer gonzo tenacity of the whole enterprise makes it all work, even the stuff that doesn't work."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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100%
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Sommarlek (Summerplay) (Illicit Interlude) (Summer Interlude) (1951) |
"
Bergman's trademarked brooding is tinged with a surprising hopefulness. Even if love can't last, there is still art, and that's not a bad consolation prize."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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3/10
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72%
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Shallow Grave (1995) |
"
I'm not surprised that in my youth I thought Shallow Grave was a pretty cool movie. What surprises me now is that the adults at the time gave this ridiculous movie a pass."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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6/10
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Give Me The Banjo () |
"
I learned a lot about some great musicians I didn't know before, and I was motivated to check out their work, and that's a fine accomplishment for any documentary."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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Something's Gonna Live (2010) |
"
Hollywood reserves several minutes out of every year to commemorate its past. Fortunately filmmakers like Daniel Raim are here to fill out the rest of the schedule."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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9/10
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98%
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The 39 Steps (1935) |
"
At its most breathtaking when both Hitchcock and his characters fully embrace the surreality of the story"
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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5/10
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40%
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Planeat (2011) |
"
A movie by true believers for true believers, and I am not one."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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5/10
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53%
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Gray's Anatomy (1997) |
"
Soderbergh does (Gray) no favors with a series of overwrought stylistic choices."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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8/10
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90%
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And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) |
"
It's all quite deeply moving, and if you remain untouched by the end credits, you have some self-examination of your own to do."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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9/10
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94%
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
The literal "once upon a time" of a series of disillusioned men who no longer think about the future because they obsess over the past. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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7/10
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88%
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Down by Law (1986) |
"
Perhaps it's not what you expect from a prison movie, but Jim Jarmusch has always adhered to his own personal vision."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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9/10
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95%
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La Promesse (The Promise) (1996) |
"
(The Dardennes') "first" film has attained a special place in the hearts of critics and other viewers. Its reputation has not been exaggerated in the least."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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9/10
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89%
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Rosetta (1999) |
"
Rosetta (is) a perpetual motion machine constantly racing away from a lens that will always catch up to her."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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8/10
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60%
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From the Other Side (De L'autre Cote) (2003) |
"
Akerman assumes the persona of a visitor who is probing the surface with the keen eye of a trained observer, but also with the humility of a stranger."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 15, 2012
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8/10
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93%
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Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
If you dig Thor or Cap or Hulk, please check out the original sources. Support your local comic book shop. You wouldn't have any of these movies without them."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 7, 2012
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9/10
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100%
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World on a Wire (2011) |
"
Pardon me if I get a little choked up, but this is Rainer Werner Fassbinder we're talking about. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 2, 2012
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8/10
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Letter Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) (1959) |
"
Elaborate, gliding tracking shots provide a sense of mastery over nature that the characters can't achieve"
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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7/10
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95%
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The War Room (1993) |
"
It's so intoxicating that sometimes it's easy forget we are, in effect, watching a couple of pitch men selling that year's newest brand of soap."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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8/10
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83%
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) |
"
Martin Scorsese's long-ripening adaptation ... provides a much-needed corrective, focusing its attention on a man who is constantly plagued by doubts. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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8/10
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100%
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A Night to Remember (1958) |
"
(We have) stood witness to a spectacular tragedy that took place on a perfectly unspectacular, dead calm night"
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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6/10
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90%
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The Woman With The 5 Elephants (2011) |
"
Literary Translators Gone Wild!"
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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7/10
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94%
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
I'll go to my grave believing that Elmo is a punk. Kevin Clash, however, is definitely not a punk, not one bit."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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7/10
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47%
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Chasing Madoff (2011) |
"
When the officials getting paid to do the job failed miserably in their duties, it was the crazy guy who stood as the public's last and only line of defense"
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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8/10
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Alambrista! (1977) |
"
Free of false sentiment and always clear of vision."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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7/10
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I Compagni (The Organizer) (The Strikers) (1963) |
"
The style often features broad comic performances against a background of despair and defeatism; these were not comedies with happy endings which seems to be a contradiction."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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7/10
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80%
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The Flaw (2011) |
"
(The film) makes a series of points rather than an argument... Think of it as a Festivus-style airing of grievances. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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10/10
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100%
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Late Spring (1949) |
"
Ozu trains his trademarked fixed camera on the deceptively simple story of a father and daughter and finds in it nothing short of the whole wide world."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
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Forgiveness: A Time To Love And A Time To Hate (2011) |
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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Making Of (Making of, le dernier film) (2008) |
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Mar 3, 2012
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8/10
|
100%
|
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
"
As courtroom thrillers go, it has few peers."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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9/10
|
95%
|
On the Bowery (1957) |
"
A portrait of the ravages of alcoholism so vivid that I cannot off-hand think of any equivalent."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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6/10
|
85%
|
Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2011) |
"
Strictly a soft sell, a breezy, fan's-eye appreciation of one of America's (and now much of the world's) most popular board games. "
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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8/10
|
100%
|
How To Die In Oregon (2012) |
"
A sensitive and deeply moving portrait that you won't find easy to shake."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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8/10
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Sanbiki no samurai (Three Outlaw Samurai) (1964) |
"
It's not that no good deed goes unpunished, just that good deeds, like bad ones, are most likely to go for naught."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
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7/10
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75%
|
Design for Living (1933) |
"
The dialogue is sharp without seeming too impeccably perfect to be real human speech."
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Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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