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—
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72%
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Soul Kitchen (2010) |
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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——
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Huacho (2009) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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69%
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Hadewijch (2010) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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90%
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Lebanon (Levanon) (2010) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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79%
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Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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69%
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Life During Wartime (2010) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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81%
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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93%
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Lourdes (2010) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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89%
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A Serious Man (2009) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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—
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88%
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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B+
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80%
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The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011) |
"
Slightly clumsy but hugely endearing."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 20, 2011
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C+
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81%
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The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
If you took a Weekly World News cover story and tried to reverse-engineer a screenplay from the headline, it might look something like The Skin I Live In."
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AV Club
Posted May 20, 2011
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B+
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93%
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Drive (2011) |
"
At least half a dozen scenes are burned into my memory for life, including not one but two of the most jarring, heartbreaking juxtapositions of tenderness and violence this side of classic Kitano."
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AV Club
Posted May 20, 2011
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B
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68%
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This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
I'm not entirely sure how to articulate why I enjoyed it so much."
—
AV Club
Posted May 20, 2011
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C+
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79%
|
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) |
"
It doesn't help that Miike shot Hara-Kiri in 3-D, which as usual accomplishes nothing save for making the action look as if it's taking place during a partial eclipse of the sun."
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AV Club
Posted May 19, 2011
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D+
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——
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Pater () |
"
I didn't get it, and neither did any other American I spoke to, but the French were applauding madly throughout, apparently in response to policy statements."
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AV Club
Posted May 18, 2011
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C-
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77%
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Melancholia (2011) |
"
There's a disconnect here between concept and execution -- a sort of desultory, moment-to-moment clumsiness -- that makes Melancholia feel like therapy poorly disguised as drama."
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AV Club
Posted May 18, 2011
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B
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84%
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The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
The Tree of Life remains, for a time, thrillingly impressionistic, eschewing any semblance of conventional narrative in favor of a fragmentary approach in which glancing, allusive snippets of light, breath, and motion bum-rush the camera lens..."
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AV Club
Posted May 17, 2011
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B-
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93%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
What you think may depend on your tolerance for movies that openly flaunt their metaphorical ambition."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2011
|
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A-
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90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
Olsen gives a magnificently ambiguous performance that will instantly eclipse any snarky comments about her famous siblings, and Durkin knows precisely how much information to reveal and how much to leave frighteningly implicit."
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AV Club
Posted May 16, 2011
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B
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96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
I remain in awe of the Dardennes' willingness to commit wholeheartedly to dislikable protagonists - Cyril is a sullen, selfish, almost maniacal little runt, with a cuteness quotient of zero."
—
AV Club
Posted May 15, 2011
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47%
|
Spring Fever (Chun feng chen zui de ye wan) (2010) |
"
I think there's meant to be a tender love story buried somewhere in all this remote melodrama, but none of the five major characters makes the slightest impression."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
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|
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
The overall look of the film, with its breathtaking aerial views of South American landscapes and its symbolic interplay of squares and circles, puts every other animation studio to shame."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
|
81%
|
Bakjwi (Thirst) (2009) |
"
The movie as a whole-which runs nearly two-and-a-quarter hours-has no sense of rhythm or flow whatsoever."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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43%
|
Air Doll (Kûki ningyô) (2009) |
"
This follow-up, despite having been in the works for years, feels a tad rushed."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
|
90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
I'm just having trouble comprehending the fuss being made in other quarters, because this film is awfully familiar-basically just a contemporary gloss on the classic British kitchen sink/angry young (wo)man drama."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
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33%
|
Ne Te Retourne Pas (Don't Look Back) (2009) |
"
Don't Look Back leans hard on a conventionally atonal musical score and cheap shock cuts, as well as some dubious special effects."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
|
71%
|
Tetro (2009) |
"
Youth Without Youth may have been messier and more risible (though the climactic twist here is pretty damn dumb), but I'll take its dazzingly surreal middle third over this film's endless declamatory hooey."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
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53%
|
The Thorn in the Heart (2010) |
"
The title raises expectations of angst a-plenty, but the tone throughout is one of warm regard; you could make a documentary about some random octogenarian plucked off the street and have a good shot at stumbling onto a more eventful and interesting life."
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AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
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|
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48%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Demetri Martin makes little impression as Tiber, and the rest of the cast tends to indulge stale '60s stereotypes."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
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83%
|
Bright Star (2009) |
"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but a thing of plodding inevitability is just two hours of my time amiably wasted."
—
AV Club
Posted May 16, 2009
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Zodiac (2007) |
"
Scene by scene, Zodiac is the director's most visually restrained work to date, taking its cue from the mostly functional mise-en-scène of the police procedural..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Oct 15, 2007
|
|
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67%
|
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"
A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 14, 2007
|
|
|
78%
|
Shi gan (Time) (2007) |
"
I can't see how anybody, no matter how keen to preserve a positive self-image, could fail to identify with Time, [director] Kim's cheerfully lunatic allegory about two young lovers."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 10, 2007
|
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3/5
|
55%
|
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"
But in order to enjoy the movie, you have to accept the fact that it's a gauzy, pop-morose mood piece, not a character study or history lesson."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Oct 20, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
Hollywoodland (2006) |
"
The facts are banal, the inventions lackluster."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Sep 12, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
68%
|
World Trade Center (2006) |
"
Only the magnitude of the tragedy gives the film dramatic weight ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Aug 11, 2006
|
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3/5
|
39%
|
Scoop (2006) |
"
Scoop makes other late Allen comedies look even more feeble by comparison, but it's still only half of a great movie ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Aug 7, 2006
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
The Descent (2006) |
"
Part of the fun is the way that Marshall strives to make his outlandish scenario at least marginally plausible ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Aug 7, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
54%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"
We want comic adventure and Deppian eccentricity, and wind up with regrettably little of either."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Jul 7, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
76%
|
Superman Returns (2006) |
"
Trouble is, Singer can't decide whether he's making a sequel or a remake."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Jun 30, 2006
|
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2/5
|
32%
|
Poseidon (2006) |
"
Even with a less irritating protagonist, though, it's hard to imagine how Poseidon could have succeeded."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted May 12, 2006
|
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4/5
|
86%
|
L'Enfant (The Child) (2006) |
"
[Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's] achievement here is both formidable and intensely moving ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted May 5, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Friends With Money (2006) |
"
It's not clear to me whether Holofcener means to suggest that you can't have any degree of personal autonomy without a decent income, or the inverse ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Apr 21, 2006
|
|
3.5/5
|
86%
|
Inside Man (2006) |
"
Inside Man seems less interested in Case's ancient war crimes than in the contemporary spectacle of a Sikh hostage having his turban forcibly removed by the NYPD ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Apr 11, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
51%
|
Lucky Number Slevin (2006) |
"
Lucky Number Slevin can't boast of a single interesting or novel idea, but it did hold my attention throughout ..."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Apr 11, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
V for Vendetta (2006) |
"
... pay no attention to the sputtering of various critics and pundits to the effect that V for Vendetta glorifies terrorism."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Mar 17, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
Firewall (2006) |
"
Part of the problem is that first-time screenwriter Joe Forte-potentially ironic name!-keeps squandering terrific ideas."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Feb 14, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
The New World (2005) |
"
But in the quest for greater accessibility, I fear that some of The New World's eerie beauty may have been lost."
—
Las Vegas Weekly
Posted Jan 26, 2006
|
|
|
82%
|
Charlotte Sometimes (2003) |
"
The film's nervous reticence makes it both precious and a little unwieldy, like a matchstick palace built on a subway platform."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 31, 2003
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78%
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