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2/4
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90%
|
The Green Wave (2012) |
"
Unlike Waltz with Bashir, it only seems to be using animation in an effort to make blog diaries by twentysomethings appear cinematic."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2012
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Kink Crusaders () |
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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86%
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Khodorkovsky (2011) |
"
By the time the director delves into the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the doc's gone off the subject and off the rails."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 28, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
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67%
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Barbershop Punk (2011) |
"
An impotent exploration of the fight to take the Internet out of the hands of the Man."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2011
|
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2.5/4
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
Like their subjects, the directors themselves have attempted an all-over-the-place style--and surprisingly succeeded. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
Hell and Back Again (2011) |
"
Danfung Dennis's documentary isn't content to merely capture warriors in combat."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
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3/4
|
78%
|
The Mill and the Cross (2011) |
"
Lech Majewski succeeds so well in saturating his images with meaning that when the barebones dialogue is heard it seems frustratingly stale and superfluous."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
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2/4
|
81%
|
Where Soldiers Come From (2011) |
"
It's not Heather Courtney's fault that PBS dishes out comfort food for the liberal elite."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2011
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3.5/4
|
100%
|
The Interrupters (2011) |
"
A tour de force of editing that's similar in novelistic scale to Steve James's high school basketball epic Hoop Dreams."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2011
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—
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89%
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Familia (2005) |
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House Next Door
Posted Jun 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) |
"
The doc manages to drive home the notion that, however much one might disagree with ELF's tactics, their point of view holds a lot of truth."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2011
|
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—
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90%
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The Green Wave (2012) |
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House Next Door
Posted Jun 18, 2011
|
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——
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Sotalapset (War Children) (2003) |
"
Manages to shed light on the psychological consequences of being ripped from one's biological family while being denied the opportunity for closure."
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House Next Door
Posted Jun 7, 2011
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——
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Reindeerspotting - Escape from Santaland (2010) |
"
Smartly takes a subtle approach to a situation ripe for sensationalism."
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House Next Door
Posted Jun 7, 2011
|
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1.5/4
|
83%
|
!Women Art Revolution (2011) |
"
Lynn Hershman Leeson introduces us only superficially to her dozens of pioneering friends."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2011
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—
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——
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Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985) |
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
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—
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——
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The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court (2009) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
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—
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——
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Thieves by Law (Ganavim Ba Hok) (2010) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
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—
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——
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My Depraved Brothers (2010) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
—
|
94%
|
The Woodmans (2011) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
—
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76%
|
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
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—
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——
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Napoli, Napoli, Napoli () |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
—
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85%
|
Two Escobars (2010) |
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House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
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—
|
——
|
Moloch Tropical () |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
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83%
|
Klitschko (2011) |
"
Smartly, Dehnhardt's film eschews hype and goes far beyond mere talk."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2011
|
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3/4
|
100%
|
Cinema Komunisto () |
"
Mila Turajlic's Cinema Komunisto is a Serbian documentary that explores a fascinating piece of history little known outside Eastern Europe."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
91%
|
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) |
"
Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that such a tumultuous and thrilling time in American history can be so easily reduced to a staid classroom lecture."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
60%
|
The Gift to Stalin (2011) |
"
That rare small story set in a big time (not unlike Malick's Days of Heaven), poetic both in Khasanbek Kydyraliev's cinematography and in Pavel Finn's script."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
My Perestroika (2011) |
"
A Glasnost-worthy openness shines through every face in Robin Hessman's doc."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
Public Speaking (2011) |
"
We catch only glimpses below the surface of this whirlwind of wit as Scorsese steps out of the way and lets Lebowitz herself run the show."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 2, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Into Eternity (2011) |
"
Watching the film is akin to having a totally immersive, video game-like experience, a journey best described as Lord of the Rings meets 2001: A Space Odyssey."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
Freakonomics (2010) |
"
Blame producer Chad Troutwine for bringing together an array of talented documentary filmmakers to try to coax life into material certainly not suited to the medium of film."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 7, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
98%
|
Marwencol (2010) |
"
Malmberg's video imagery, captured by point-and-shoot camerawork, and livened up with big band music from time to time, can't hold a candle to outsider artist Mark Hogancamp's work."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Other City (2010) |
"
A fascinating and damning glimpse inside a parallel universe that exists right in the heart of our nation's capital."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
62%
|
Howl (2010) |
"
Like the counterculture icon that penned the poem that serves as the title to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film, Howl is one odd bird."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
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Biker Fox (2010) |
"
Bravely riding full speed ahead, Biker Fox nevertheless ends up in the very same place. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Neshoba (2010) |
"
Though the film gets carried away by its black-and-white-together-we-shall-overcome vibe, the raw facts are undeniably where the real emotion lies. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 18, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
41%
|
The Expendables (2010) |
"
In lieu of a flurry of left hooks and roundhouse kicks, we stay safely in Stallone's comfort zone of shoot 'em ups and s--- getting blown up."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 18, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
——
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Family Affair (2010) |
"
Hovering safely at the margins, the film's the director seems both fearful and detached."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 8, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
43%
|
The Extra Man (2010) |
"
Like Kevin Kline's ridiculously pretentious Harrison, the film fancies itself much more interesting than it is."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
71%
|
Valhalla Rising (2010) |
"
The Bruckheimer-style storyline is merely an excuse to film a Joseph Conrad-worthy existential journey to hell."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 11, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
Lisa Cholodenko is one of the more radical visionaries working in American indie cinema today."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
94%
|
45365 (2009) |
"
An exhaustively detailed, entrancing journey, crafted with love for everything from raindrops on a windshield to a cheesy Elvis impersonator."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 13, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
The Juche Idea (2011) |
"
Jim Finn has managed to spoof not just easy-target Kim, but also the very notion of artists in residence making ever more obscure, inaccessible, and pretentious work."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 25, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
After The Cup: Sons Of Sakhnin United (2010) |
"
Centuries-old rivalries die hard...and the very thing that unites can also divide."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 17, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) (2010) |
"
There is no dramatic leap to death, but rather only a tentative embrace of "a new form, a new way," much like Iran's short-lived experiment in democracy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
69%
|
Babies (2010) |
"
An aesthetic exercise that gets at no deeper truth than "babies are basically alike no matter the culture.""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
The British director's filmmaking style is precise and concise, as tight and lean as her teenage heroine."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
55%
|
The End Of Poverty (2008) |
"
Perhaps most surprising of all are the parallels Diaz accidentally draws between the "evil" First World and the "innocent" Third."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2009
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