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4/4
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97%
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Gravity (2013) |
"
Gravity, a weightless ballet and a cold-sweat nightmare, intimates mystery and profundity, with that mixture of beauty and terror that the Romantics called the sublime."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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4/4
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93%
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No (2013) |
"
A cunning and richly enjoyable combination of high-stakes drama and media satire from Chilean director Pablo Larrain."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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4/4
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92%
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O Som ao Redor (Neighbouring Sounds) (2012) |
"
Economically packed with social issues of wealth, property and class, and deft cinematic references, this is a movie built for the modern global high-rise condo market."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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4/4
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85%
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The Master (2012) |
"
[Phoenix and Hoffman] suggest duelling Brandos."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 21, 2012
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4/4
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86%
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
Beasts of the Southern Wild marks one of the most auspicious American directorial debuts in years."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 13, 2012
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4/4
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81%
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China Heavyweight (2012) |
"
Chang nurses a compelling drama from a multilayered cultural reality, at once intimate and unfathomably large in implications."
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 11, 2012
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4/4
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94%
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
A gorgeously shot crime story with emotionally layered characters and an indelible atmosphere of unease."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 2, 2012
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4/4
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78%
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A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
A Dangerous Method is a suave chamber piece: a series of glimpses of two 20th-century intellectual titans, in friendship and separation, and the story of a remarkable woman who history had swallowed up, brought into the light again."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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4/4
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94%
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Hugo (2011) |
"
Scorsese's film is a richly illustrated lesson in cinema history and the best argument for 3-D since James Cameron's Avatar."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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4/4
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98%
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The Artist (2011) |
"
The Artist is a rarity, an ingenious crowd-pleaser."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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4/4
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92%
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Take Shelter (2011) |
"
The story of a man afflicted with fearful visions, Take Shelter is a film that's hitting the right apocalyptic trumpet call at the right time."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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4/4
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31%
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All Good Things (2010) |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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4/4
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96%
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) |
"
This is a terrific, smartly designed adolescent adventure, visually rich, narratively satisfying, and bound to resonate for years to come."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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4/4
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93%
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Another Year (2010) |
"
Extracting big drama out of small events is Mike Leigh's forte, and with his latest little masterpiece, Another Year, the English director pushes himself to the extreme."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 14, 2011
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5/5
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94%
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Carlos (2010) |
"
A long and complex film (five and a half hours) that seems to go by in a series of vivid flashes. "
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 22, 2010
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4/4
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98%
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Marwencol (2010) |
"
A must-see."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 5, 2010
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4/4
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90%
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2011) |
"
Uncle Boonmee is a delightfully original, if not entirely explicable, story of a dying Buddhist man's journey into the jungle."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 22, 2010
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4/4
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94%
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The King's Speech (2010) |
"
Colin Firth excels as England's shy, repressed, stammering monarch, George VI (aka "Bertie"), in a performance that's deftly matched, syllable for syllable, by Geoffrey Rush."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 14, 2010
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4/4
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93%
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Of Gods and Men (2011) |
"
[A] moving, elegantly made spiritual docudrama."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 14, 2010
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4/4
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81%
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Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans) (2010) |
"
There are life-and-death dramas, moments of playfulness and tenderness, which create an ever-increasing sense of wonder."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 23, 2010
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4/4
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79%
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Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) |
"
A simultaneously realistic and absurdist examination of police work."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 15, 2010
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4/4
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94%
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An Education (2009) |
"
An Education is, as the title suggests, about Jenny exploring her own desires and shortfalls, and it's too smart a film for easy answers."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 23, 2009
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4/4
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85%
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The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
Haneke (Code Inconnu, Caché) once more probes hidden evil behind apparently well-ordered lives."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 11, 2009
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4/4
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95%
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Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"
What happens in Goodbye Solo meets the complex demands of good classic storytelling."
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 28, 2009
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4/4
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96%
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Tulpan (2009) |
"
Russian director Sergei Dvortsevoy's funny, fascinating, utterly unclassifiable film Tulpan is ethnographic filmmaking without the preaching."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 10, 2009
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4/4
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90%
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Hunger (2009) |
"
Hunger -- the disturbing, provocative, brilliant feature debut from British director Steve McQueen -- does for modern film what Caravaggio did to Renaissance painting."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 10, 2009
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4/4
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94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"
Slumdog Millionaire is skillful entertainment, with the simple message that the most intense life experiences yield the greatest education."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 14, 2008
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4/4
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93%
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"
As refreshing as it is to find a movie that leaves you smiling, it's something much rarer to discover a film that makes you think about what a commitment to happiness really means."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 17, 2008
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4/4
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96%
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WALL-E (2008) |
"
Mixing Chaplinesque delicacy with the architectural grandeur of a Stanley Kubrick film, director Andrew Stanton recycles film history and makes something fresh and accessible from it without pandering to a young audience."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 27, 2008
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4/4
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93%
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Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) (2007) |
"
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly isn't about feeling better about terrible things, but about cherishing imagination as the force that sustains life."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 26, 2007
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4/4
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98%
|
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"
A contemporary classic."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 4, 2007
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4/4
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78%
|
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"
This is the first important movie musical in decades about African-Americans and the first to deal with the revolution in civil rights and the mainstream success of black pop music."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 22, 2006
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4/4
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92%
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Saraband (2003) |
"
Reminds us again that Bergman, in his camera choices and blocking of characters, remains unrivalled in revealing the sea of emotions between two people face-to-face."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 22, 2005
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4/4
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78%
|
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"
Maddin speaks in an almost lost, elusive and poetic language of filmmaking."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 30, 2004
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4/4
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70%
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Dogville (2003) |
"
Who but von Trier could make such a film? Who else would dare?"
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 2, 2004
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4/4
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51%
|
In Praise Of Love (Éloge de l'amour) (2002) |
"
A haunting, intense work, intellectually exploratory yet too emotionally acute in its melancholy to be considered merely academic."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 14, 2003
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4/4
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98%
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All About My Mother (1999) |
"
This self-styled 'screwball melodrama,' a dance of grief, comedy, coincidence and resilience -- has a genuine emotional impact unlike anything Almodovar has done before."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 25, 2003
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4/4
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88%
|
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) |
"
Stylized, set-designed to the last hair wisp, the film is a mixture of bold devices with delicate understatement that leave a remarkable aftereffect."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 19, 2002
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4/4
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86%
|
Va Savoir (2001) |
"
A generally wonderful experience, though it should come with a warning posted outside the theatre: Not for the impatient."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 25, 2002
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|
4/4
|
89%
|
Kandahar (2001) |
"
Essential viewing."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 28, 2001
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|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
Tense car chases, action scenes handled with crisp panache and Canadian actor Ryan Gosling channelling Steve McQueen as an existential wheel man add up to make Drive one of the best arty-action films since Steven Soderbergh's The Limey."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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3.5/4
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96%
|
Waltz with Bashir (2008) |
"
Persepolis meets Full Metal Jacket in Ari Folman's powerful and original animated war film."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 14, 2010
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3.5/4
|
91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
Conjure up the maddest despot scene you can remember and you might get a sense of the seismic register of Day-Lewis's extravagant performance. Watch and marvel, though you may have to suspend your disbelief from the top of an oil derrick."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 4, 2008
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3.5/4
|
86%
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
"
Sondheim's original musical was already a mad synthesis of Jacobean shock, Brechtian irony and Dickensian pathos -- to which Burton's lush visuals add another layer of aesthetic distance. The overall effect is somewhere between melodrama and camp."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 21, 2007
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3.5/4
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94%
|
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"
This is a chase film, pushed to the fragmented limits of abstraction, that rattles and jolts and explodes like an intricately designed drum solo."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 3, 2007
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3.5/4
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96%
|
Ratatouille (2007) |
"
No sketchy backgrounds here -- Ratatouille's scenes feels like deep-focus camera shots. The textures, from the gleam of copper pans to the cobblestone streets, are almost palpable."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 29, 2007
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3.5/4
|
93%
|
Gwoemul (The Host) (2007) |
"
As ebullient and bizarre as a monster that can do back flips, leaving the viewer in a shock of delight."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 1, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Iraq in Fragments (2006) |
"
Stands up as a classic war documentary, in its unusual poetic form and by its extraordinary access to the lives of ordinary Iraqis."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 23, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
47%
|
Miami Vice (2006) |
"
Sensual and scary, the movie is so visually textured you feel as though you're brushing against the screen."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 28, 2006
|
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3.5/4
|
90%
|
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) |
"
This material is the most remote from the letter of Sterne's novel, but in its spirit of verbal play, digression and free-wheeling wit, it pays affectionate tribute to his bawdy jokester spirit."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 17, 2006
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