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4.5/5
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97%
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Rapt (2011) |
"
For two rapt hours, I also felt extremely fortunate not to be a rich and powerful industrialist."
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Posted Jul 10, 2011
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4/5
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84%
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Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
All the ingredients are there in this captivating film."
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Posted Jun 10, 2011
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3/5
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84%
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The Princess Of Montpensier (2011) |
"
I was captivated by every costume change and new hair style of the young princess. "
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Posted Jun 10, 2011
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3.5/5
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75%
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Everything Must Go (2011) |
"
Everything Must Go is a fine film on it's own, though the resolution, a happy ending of sorts, is far too clean and tidy considering its inspiration."
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Posted Jun 10, 2011
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3.5/5
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96%
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One Lucky Elephant (2011) |
"
Flora is a gorgeous creature, truly gorgeous, and it is something to behold the affectionate relationship between the elephant and her keeper. "
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Posted Jun 10, 2011
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4/5
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83%
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Zero Bridge (2011) |
"
Almost effortlessly, the plot of Zero Bridge grabs you."
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Posted Feb 20, 2011
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3/5
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77%
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When We Leave (2011) |
"
Until the final scene, Feo Aladag's When We Leave is an effective melodrama."
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Posted Feb 6, 2011
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3/5
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84%
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A Somewhat Gentle Man (2011) |
"
A somewhat charming movie."
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Posted Jan 19, 2011
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4/5
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94%
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The Woodmans (2011) |
"
Though compelling, it is a complicated and difficult experience to watch The Woodmans. "
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Posted Jan 19, 2011
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4.5/5
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71%
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Somewhere (2010) |
"
Coppola continues to surprise and amaze with her singular view of the world."
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Posted Dec 23, 2010
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4/5
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90%
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The Fighter (2010) |
"
A classic story of a local boy who makes good is rendered electric by tremendous performances."
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Posted Dec 15, 2010
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4/5
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87%
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Black Swan (2010) |
"
Entertaining, enthralling, over-the-top, terrifically tense, sometimes funny, and just plain good."
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Posted Dec 15, 2010
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3.5/5
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
Watching White Material is in no way a passive experience. Denis has made a powerful, engrossing film. "
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Posted Nov 21, 2010
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4/5
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69%
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Heartbreaker (L'Arnacoeur) (2010) |
"
"Unapologetically silly.""
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Posted Nov 21, 2010
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3/5
|
71%
|
Never Let Me Go (2010) |
"
An impeccably told story that failed to break my heart"
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About.com
Posted Nov 21, 2010
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2.5/5
|
50%
|
Jolene (2010) |
"
Chastain has long red hair, wide eyes, and an even wider smile. She is Jolene, of course, and she is appealing."
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Posted Nov 21, 2010
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|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Broderskab (Brotherhood) (2010) |
"
The acts of violence and hatred they commit are so appalling, that by the film's inevitable tragic end, I was unable to muster the requisite sympathy."
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Posted Aug 20, 2010
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4/5
|
72%
|
Soul Kitchen (2010) |
"
Watch and laugh and groan. Laugh some more."
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Posted Aug 20, 2010
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|
2.5/5
|
43%
|
The Extra Man (2010) |
"
The delightful premise of the film somehow becomes preposterous. It's a phenomenon in indie films I describe as "quirk overload.""
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Posted Jul 30, 2010
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4/5
|
85%
|
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) |
"
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child does not romanticize or glamorize, but tells his story with love and respect."
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About.com
Posted Jul 23, 2010
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|
4.5/5
|
85%
|
Kisses (2010) |
"
Kisses is a short and beautiful movie. And I loved it. It made me cry."
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About.com
Posted Jul 16, 2010
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4/5
|
81%
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I Am Love (2010) |
"
Exhilarating."
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About.com
Posted Jun 19, 2010
|
|
2.5/6
|
64%
|
Two in the Wave (Deux de la Vague) (2010) |
"
The film, unfortunately, has the feel of a lesson from a school book."
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Posted May 9, 2010
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|
4/5
|
87%
|
Welcome (2010) |
"
Loiret's story is inherently affecting, made more so by veteran actor Vincent Lindon, who owns one of cinema's all-time great hangdog expressions."
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About.com
Posted May 9, 2010
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|
3/5
|
36%
|
Boogie Woogie (2010) |
"
The film cannot sustain the giddy, fast pace that sets it off. "
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Posted May 9, 2010
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|
4/5
|
90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
Katie Jarvis is achingly good. Fish Tank is unremittingly bleak, but somehow, allows room for hope."
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About.com
Posted Jan 18, 2010
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|
4/5
|
66%
|
Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
As the precocious and nubile Sheeni Saunders, newcomer Portia Doubleday is the first major discovery of 2010."
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About.com
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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|
4.5/5
|
60%
|
Ricky (2009) |
"
Ozon's Ricky contains moments of real grit, but also contains a dose of otherworldly magic that only movies can provide."
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Posted Dec 18, 2009
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"
Cinema-candy for grown-ups. I left the screening room thinking, I want to see this movie again."
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Posted Nov 11, 2009
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
Le Chant des Mariées (The Wedding Song) (2008) |
"
Many, many movies have been made about World War II; but Albou's film provides a fresh perspective. It also doesn't hurt that her two lead actresses are terrifically beautiful."
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About.com
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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|
3/5
|
58%
|
Trucker (2009) |
"
Monaghan's good, despite being too pretty, and the film, with a melodramatic storyline that seems perfect for a Hallmark TV movie, is good, too."
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About.com
Posted Oct 21, 2009
|
|
3.5/5
|
66%
|
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) |
"
Resnais's film keeps you guessing even beyond the audacious ending."
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About.com
Posted Oct 6, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"
Gory rather than scary, mean-spirited rather than funny, Jennifer's Body is a nasty piece of work."
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About.com
Posted Sep 15, 2009
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|
4/5
|
48%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Taking Woodstock is enormous fun."
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About.com
Posted Aug 29, 2009
|
|
3/5
|
30%
|
The Answer Man (Arlen Faber) (2009) |
"
Answer Man is a pleasant and enjoyable film, easy to go down, and often wrong about details: perfect for network TV."
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About.com
Posted Jul 26, 2009
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|
4/5
|
87%
|
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel light up the screen in Marc Webb's directorial debut (500) Days of Summer. That might sound corny, but they do."
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About.com
Posted Jul 20, 2009
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|
4/5
|
96%
|
Somers Town (2009) |
"
Somers Town, shot in glimmering black and white, reveals a working class England that brims with possibility."
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About.com
Posted Jul 14, 2009
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|
3/5
|
50%
|
Whatever Works (2009) |
"
"Whatever Works" is Boris Yellnikoff's personal motto. It works for him, for his rag-tag friends, and best of all, for the audience, too."
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About.com
Posted Jun 11, 2009
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|
2/5
|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009) |
"
Time and time again, Burt and Verona strike an artful pose while a guitar strums plaintive chords and mournful singer Alexi Murdoch tells the audience just how to feel."
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About.com
Posted Jun 4, 2009
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|
2.5/5
|
81%
|
Okuribito (Departures) (2009) |
"
The sweeping music and bucolic landscape serve to heap on the emotion to Takita's already heavy-handed manipulation."
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About.com
Posted May 26, 2009
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|
2/5
|
52%
|
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"
A painfully unfunny flop."
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About.com
Posted May 22, 2009
|
|
4.5/5
|
74%
|
Julia (2009) |
"
Zonca's Julia is a difficult movie to stomach, but entirely worth the emotional unrest it puts through you."
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Posted May 11, 2009
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|
2/5
|
73%
|
Rudo y Cursi (2009) |
"
To put it plainly, both actors play unlikeable dimwits. [...] It's a shame that Bernal and Luna could not have had a better project for their reunion."
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Posted May 8, 2009
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2/5
|
44%
|
The Limits of Control (2009) |
"
The Lone Man remains inscrutably cool from beginning to end. He is is nothing more a hit man for hire who likes his coffee just so."
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About.com
Posted May 1, 2009
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4/5
|
84%
|
Tyson (2009) |
"
Tyson offers no point of view other that that of Mike Tyson himself. He's impossible not to like and the gentle quality of his voice is entirely disarming."
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About.com
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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|
4/5
|
74%
|
American Violet (2009) |
"
American Violet is a fine film. Dee Roberts is not an abstract symbol of injustice. To watch a mother be wrenched away from her children is heartrending."
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About.com
Posted Apr 20, 2009
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|
2.5/5
|
62%
|
Lymelife (2008) |
"
Something about the flatness of Culkin's eternally dull expression makes him a difficult character to care about -- a fundamental problem since Scott is meant to be the heart and soul of Martini's sedentary film."
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About.com
Posted Apr 10, 2009
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
The Cake Eaters (2007) |
"
Kristen Stewart is lovely, as is Masterson's beautifully crafted first film."
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Posted Mar 13, 2009
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|
4/5
|
94%
|
Les Plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnes) (2008) |
"
Varda's luminous depiction of a life lived well is entertaining, informative, and finally, inspirational."
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Posted Mar 1, 2009
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74%
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