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80%
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Breaking the Sound Barrier (The Sound Barrier) (1952) |
"
Unfortunately, Terence Rattigan's script, while solidly structured, never probes beyond the basic conceit that an obsession which works towards the glory of mankind in general may wreak havoc on private lives."
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Time Out
Posted May 1, 2013
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4/5
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77%
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Aurora (2011) |
"
Puiu's special approach to the realist aesthetic ensures that 'Aurora' rings unusually true. Superb stuff."
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Time Out
Posted Nov 6, 2012
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4/5
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93%
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Elena (2012) |
"
Sturdy performances, fine photography from Mikhail Krichman, good use of music by Philip Glass and a pleasingly terse script make for incisive, gripping drama."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 16, 2012
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3/5
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100%
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro () |
"
The film succeeds as an ethical enquiry and as populist, politically intelligent drama."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2012
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1/5
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22%
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The Taste of Money (2013) |
"
As the sexual, financial and criminal shenanigans get ever more complicated, absurd and melodramatic, the film becomes increasingly tiresome; it's not even possible to enjoy its excesses in a 'so bad it's good' way."
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Time Out
Posted May 31, 2012
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98%
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Mud (2013) |
"
For the most part Nichols' follow-up to Take Shelter feels pleasingly fresh and for-real."
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Sight and Sound
Posted May 26, 2012
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4/5
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82%
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In the Fog () |
"
Loznitsa knows that war exists and won't go away; rather than indulging in patriotic or pacifistic platitudes, he tries to show what it might do to our souls. And, in this writer's opinion, he succeeds."
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Time Out
Posted May 25, 2012
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2/5
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51%
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Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Yet again, one senses that Reygadas - instead of simply getting on with the job of making a film - has opted instead to go for an opus magnum that reminds us of cinema's greats"
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Time Out
Posted May 24, 2012
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3/5
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Mineurs 27 () |
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Time Out
Posted May 24, 2012
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4/5
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79%
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013) |
"
Whether Resnais will complete another movie remains to be seen, but if this were by any chance to be his swansong, with its distant and resonant echoes of 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (made 63 years earlier), it would certainly be a lovely one."
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Time Out
Posted May 23, 2012
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Student (2013) |
"
It certainly doesn't outlast its welcome and fulfils its admittedly modest ambitions. "
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Sight and Sound
Posted May 22, 2012
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90%
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Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
While there's an almost tragic inexorability to the events depicted, the film frequently surprises by providing small but telling details and ambiguities."
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Sight and Sound
Posted May 22, 2012
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4/5
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82%
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Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
Kiarostami is once again taking an intriguingly oblique approach to his material. "
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Time Out
Posted May 22, 2012
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3/5
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79%
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Reality (2013) |
"
Garrone just about keeps things under control long enough to make the surprisingly quiet coda emotionally satisfying and resonant."
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Time Out
Posted May 20, 2012
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2/5
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Memory Lane () |
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Time Out
Posted Apr 16, 2012
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29%
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Max My Love (Max Mon Amour) (1996) |
"
Despite the potentially subversive material, the film frankly lacks bite."
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Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2012
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83%
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Ornette: Made in America (2012) |
"
For the sight and sound of the man in action (including some fine archive footage from the early '70s), it's essential viewing for any jazz aficionado."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2012
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100%
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The Ring (1927) |
"
Arguably the finest of Hitchcock's silent films."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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3/5
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80 Waves (2012) |
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Time Out
Posted Feb 11, 2012
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83%
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All This, and Heaven Too (1940) |
"
It's a pretty long, gloomy haul, though lavishly mounted (with photography by Ernest Haller) and sensitively acted."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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67%
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America, America (The Anatolian Smile) (1963) |
"
The entire movie benefits from its authenticity, geographical, historical and emotional, and may be seen as one of the peaks of Kazan's career."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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100%
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Hold Back the Dawn (1941) |
"
This romantic weepie is both moving and effectively stylish."
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Time Out
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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80%
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The Citadel (1936) |
"
Sweetened with a happy ending, it's still an effective piece of work, thanks to Donat's typically sturdy performance and Vidor's powerful direction."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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78%
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Il Momento della Verita (The Moment of Truth) (1965) |
"
It's a colourful, cruel world of senseless exploitation (of animals and humans alike) and tyrannical traditions, rendered with vivid brilliance by this uncommonly unsentimental director."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 23, 2012
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2/5
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69%
|
Hadewijch (2010) |
"
You either go with Dumont's arrogant series of conundrums and paradoxes or - as I do - you see them as mere meaningless 'effects' with little rhyme and no reason."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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3/5
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71%
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The Nine Muses (2011) |
"
A fragmented but highly engrossing cinepoem on the related subjects of migration and exile, isolation and memory."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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4/5
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86%
|
Carancho (2011) |
"
The desolate Edward Hopper nightscapes provide an effective context..."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 6, 2012
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—
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45%
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Fay Grim (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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—
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——
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Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe-soori) (2008) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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—
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51%
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30 Days of Night (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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4/5
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——
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Aita (Father) () |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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2/5
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——
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80 egunean (For 80 Days) (2010) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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3/5
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——
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Halt Auf Freier Strecke () |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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4/5
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67%
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Honeydripper (2007) |
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Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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99%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
Something to savour."
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Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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4/5
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
To anyone familiar with the Dardennes' relatively small but very substantial body of work, this might sound as if it's going over old ground - and maybe it is, but it's still producing fresh and extremely fruitful results."
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Time Out
Posted May 16, 2011
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4/5
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92%
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Ballast (2008) |
"
Although the film never fulfils the promise of its elliptical, mysterious opening - the drama occasionally lacks momentum as it proceeds towards some sort of resolution - there's no denying its intelligence, compassion and assurance."
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Time Out
Posted Mar 16, 2011
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3/5
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93%
|
Abel (2013) |
"
Engrossing, intelligent fare."
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Time Out
Posted Jan 5, 2011
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89%
|
Sisters of the Gion (Gion no shimai) (1936) |
"
Superbly acted, shot and scripted, this is searing stuff."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 7, 2010
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86%
|
The Emigrants (1971) |
"
It's very slow, subtly acted, and if you can last the course, quite moving"
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Time Out
Posted Jul 6, 2010
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4/5
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64%
|
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"
Naturalistic performances and stylish, semi-documentary-style cinematography and editing (both courtesy of the director) make for an engrossing, insightful study of internal and interpersonal conflict."
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Time Out
Posted Dec 4, 2009
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5/5
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66%
|
Che: Part One (The Argentine) (2009) |
"
It's not a Hollywood-style movie - it demands patience and proper attention - but it's a great movie, and rewards magnificently."
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Time Out Sydney
Posted Sep 29, 2009
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100%
|
Liverpool (2008) |
"
The imagery is meticulous, the pacing carefully measured, and the mood generally melancholy and enigmatic. Whether the film adds up to more than the some of its parts is moot; Alonso certainly seems keen not to give away any superflous information."
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Time Out
Posted Sep 3, 2009
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4/5
|
48%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
It does at least come across as a portrait of an era that's affectionate, authentic and pleasingly adult in its tone and concerns."
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Time Out Sydney
Posted Aug 26, 2009
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3/5
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73%
|
Rudo y Cursi (2009) |
"
He's helped by charismatic, pleasingly ambivalent performances by all involved, and while a later penalty sequence is needlessly prolonged, it doesn't diminish the film's cumulative effect. Serious fun."
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Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2009
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4/6
|
48%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Undoubtedly one of Ang Lee's lighter films, 'Taking Woodstock' is also one of his better ones, and a welcome return to form."
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Time Out
Posted May 18, 2009
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3/6
|
91%
|
Vengeance (Fuk sau) (2010) |
"
If indeed there is anything surprising about this cliché-packed genre fare, it's the degree to which To and his screenwriter Wai Ka-Fai are prepared to indulge their flair for the ludicrous."
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Time Out
Posted May 18, 2009
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2/6
|
47%
|
Spring Fever (Chun feng chen zui de ye wan) (2010) |
"
We're supposed to feel some kind of infinite sadness about our existential loneliness and vulnerability; but what I felt, despite a scattering of strong scenes, was a growing impatience both with the characters and the trite message."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2009
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4/6
|
96%
|
Tulpan (2009) |
"
A deliciously light touch characterises this dry, deadpan comedy set in the stark and sparsely inhabited steppes of Kazakhstan."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted Apr 24, 2009
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