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81%
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From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
Poppy Hill is more a short story than a feature, almost unbelievably optimistic, but it offers a surprising, innocent window on an era usually associated with nuclear anxieties, cultural neuroses, and juvenile delinquents."
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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64%
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Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
Cronenberg's cold, exacting precision and emotionally removed observation may not grab all viewers, but under those perfect surfaces is a raw horror trying to claw out of the denial."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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The Mad Magician (1954) |
"
Overly complicated and under-developed, this stock horror has its moments of invention..."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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The Brasher Doubloon (The High Window) (1947) |
"
... something of a B+ movie, a low-budget treatment of Raymond Chandler's "The High Window" made with ambition and style, at least in key scenes."
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GreenCine
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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The Locket (1946) |
"
... prime film noir from 1946, a dark romance that stirs darkness into melodrama with the story of a kleptomaniac (Laraine Day) on her wedding day..."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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Let Us Live () |
"
What Brahm brings to the film is a terror born of official indifference... and he turns the race to stop the execution into a battle with bureaucracy. "
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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88%
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (2003) |
"
Hitchcock's tone is odd, with clever set pieces and tightly-constructed and edited sequences interspersed with awkward scenes of emotional restraint ("Steady, old girl, steady") and disconnected characters."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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100%
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Wake in Fright (2012) |
"
The raw, sweaty 1971 film is not a pretty portrayal of life in the outback, where men are crude, hard-drinking mates with no ambition beyond rough-house fun..."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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89%
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White Zombie (1932) |
"
The divinely satanic-looking Bela Lugosi sinks his teeth into his best role since Dracula, a languorous hypnotist and voodoo master who dominates the film with his assured bearing and cruel control."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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Yoyo (Yo Yo) (1965) |
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Between inspired silent-movie sequences and a wry jab at television are an idyllic love story and a romantic portrait of the artist as a young clown."
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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95%
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5 Broken Cameras (2012) |
"
... a mix of citizen journalism and social memoir. "
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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94%
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924) |
"
... one of the grandest and most glorious spectacles of the silent era."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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96%
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Argo (2012) |
"
... a terrific piece of filmmaking."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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70%
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Bless Me, Ultima (2013) |
"
[Director Carl] Franklin is sensitive to the way boys interact, bump chests, bicker, and bond-just as he is to how adults justify their hypocrisy and excuse their failures."
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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Zombie Lake (1980) |
"
The make-up wouldn't pass muster at a pre-school Halloween party, the performances are embarrassingly amateur, and dubbing is so bad it's painful."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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L'Abîme des morts vivants (The Treasure of the Living Dead)(Oasis of the Zombies) (1981) |
"
... he distracted, sloppy camerawork, perfunctory scripting, flat dubbing, and ratty make-up make this one for the Franco-philes, and for those who find camp value in clumsy, shamelessly brazen exploitation."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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100%
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Sansho the Bailiff (1954) |
"
Mizoguchi is the poet laureate of Japanese cinema, gracefully exploring the battered but resilient souls in the cruel worlds of Japan's feudal past and present. "
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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90%
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Holy Motors (2012) |
"
From its enigmatic opening scenes, which sends the viewers into a mysterious voyage a la Alice through the looking glass that ends up in a movie theater, Holy Motors is a celebration of the magic, imagination, and primal power of the movies."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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88%
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Yossi (2013) |
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... an awfully familiar fantasy-for gays and straights alike-about an emotionally repressed older man saved by a young beauty who sees the kind soul and intelligence under the frumpy surface."
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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93%
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Lore (2013) |
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[Director Cate] Shortland directs with an almost hypnotic focus, favoring Lore's immediate experience over the big picture. "
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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98%
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Silent Souls (2011) |
"
... slow and introspective, paced in long, still shots that seem to drift in time rather than march forward. "
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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100%
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Ministry of Fear (1944) |
"
This is not Lang's best film of the era, or even his most interesting portrait of paranoia and malevolent forces, but it is a lively thriller with unexpected turns."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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99%
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This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
There's a tremendous power under the simple-looking surface."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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96%
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War Witch (2013) |
"
Nguyen's compassion and commitment to the issue is admirable, and at its best, War Witch is devastating."
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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93%
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Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
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The direction by Kathryn Bigelow, who won Oscars for Best Film and Best Director in her previous film "The Hurt Locker," is fierce and focused..."
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Parallax View
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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66%
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The We and the I (2013) |
"
The We and the I is less a film than a social-studies experiment, an after-school project by a bunch of high-school kids exploring that eternal teen tension between the individual and the group. "
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Seattle Weekly
Posted Mar 23, 2013
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72%
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The Future (2011) |
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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78%
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Twins of Evil () |
"
... earns its place in the Hammer canon of cult horrors."
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Parallax View
Posted Jul 11, 2012
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75%
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Norwegian Wood (2012) |
"
... suffused in melancholia, with imagery as delicate as the lives it presents and atmospheres so fragile they look like they'd shatter under too much emotional pressure. "
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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26%
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Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
... a blur of generic exposition, random plot twists, vaguely maternal instincts, sloppy CGI animation, and Stephen Rea looking like a waxwork ..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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64%
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The Front Line (2012) |
"
The themes and characters are right out of any number of classic war movies, but... the frontline culture, so at odds with military discipline and command, is fascinating."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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80%
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Haywire (2012) |
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... we just wait for her to click back into fight mode. Her body language tells us more about her character than any dialogue exchange."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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75%
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Walking Tall (1973) |
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... the film was a sensation, becoming a big hit and spawning a whole industry of southern-fried vigilante lawman action pictures."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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68%
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) |
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... is one of the funniest comedies of its time, a veritable live-action cartoon from Joe Dante at his most unrestrained. "
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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61%
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Mimic (1997) |
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It comes off smarter and creepier than I recall the original, less about scares than a sustained atmosphere of eerie unease and skittery threats."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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Cinema Verite (2012) |
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... an engaging and accomplished production and its coda offers yet another perspective on the show, the controversy, and the complexity of the characters ..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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50%
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Camelot (1967) |
"
... considered a classic by many and a disaster by others. I'm in that other camp."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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The Last of the Mohicans (1936) |
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... an exciting and involving screen version, with Scott as a strong-willed but civilized Hawkeye ..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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100%
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Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1999) |
"
... a work of pure, playful imagination, a picture-book fantasy brought to life with intricate, hand-painted sets and a whimsical portrait of science as wizardry by way of the industrial revolution ..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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91%
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Into The Abyss (2011) |
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It is also a devastating portrait of the culture of crime, drug and alcohol abuse, and broken families ..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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98%
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
"
... a Hollywood landmark, both for pushing the envelope of subject matter allowed on screen by the censors and for showcasing the more naturalistic "method" approach to performance ..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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The Corsican Brothers (1941) |
"
Fairbanks' athletic energy and flamboyant performance enlivens the film and excellent photographic effects create a seamless look to the scenes where the brothers interact..."
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Seanax.com
Posted May 19, 2012
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94%
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I Wish (2012) |
"
The kids are marvelous without becoming cloying or cute and for a film with so little conflict, it is completely involving, wonderfully warm and full of natural humor."
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House Next Door
Posted May 8, 2012
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Last Flight () |
"
Where most of the memorable artifacts of pre-code cinema liked to flaunt its defiance of social decorum, The Last Flight makes an effort to shake up and unsettle the viewer, and it succeesds."
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Parallax View
Posted May 4, 2012
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Young, Violent, Dangerous (Liberi armati pericolosi) (1983) |
"
These aren't angry rebels without a cause, they are thrill killers without motivation. "
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Posted May 4, 2012
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83%
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Come Blow Your Horn (1963) |
"
... like a cartoonish fantasy of the Mad Men sensibility of philandering men who treat the female sex as a buffet for their perusal. "
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Posted May 4, 2012
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91%
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Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) |
"
[I]f it doesn't offer anything new to our understanding of Corman, as filmmaker, producer, or person, it nicely encapsulates his legacy..."
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Parallax View
Posted May 4, 2012
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La Visita (The Visitor) (1966) |
"
... neither satire nor romantic comedy... [it] offers a much more layered and unexpected portrait in disappointment and resigned concession. "
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Posted May 4, 2012
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The Big Night (1951) |
"
Neither juvenile delinquent drama or a wild youth thriller, this is a portrait in rage and shame and disappointment in fathers and father figures."
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Parallax View
Posted May 4, 2012
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Screaming Mimi (1958) |
"
... a real cult item in the film noir filmography, weird and lurid and kitschy, but fascinating all the same."
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Parallax View
Posted May 4, 2012
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