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96%
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La Dolce Vita (1960) |
"
Fellini has set out to move us with the depravity of contemporary life and has chosen what seems to me a poor method: cataloging sins. Very soon we find ourselves thinking: Is that all?"
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The New Republic
Posted May 1, 2013
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79%
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Reality (2013) |
"
Garrone has a feeling for sweep and color, and he makes Luciano a pathetic victim of the unrealities with which TV can beset us."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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80%
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Eden (2013) |
"
A quite moving performance comes from Jamie Chung as Eden, repulsion sliding into fearful acceptance without the extinction of hope."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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87%
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The Silence (2013) |
"
The most rewarding element in the picture is the performance of the first girl's mother by Katrin Sass, who gives us quietly and darkly what it is like to live with the memory of your child's murder."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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81%
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Renoir (2013) |
"
What beguiles us is the chance to be with these people at that time, by means of a picture that is so sympathetically acted and so pleasant to look at."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 11, 2013
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57%
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Shanghai Calling (2013) |
"
Daniel Henney is personable as Sam, and Eliza Coupe is even more so as Amanda. Daniel Hsia wrote and directed with agility, and he makes sure that his story doesn't get in the way of his presentation of the city."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 11, 2013
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67%
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Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) |
"
This film is an engaging look at a contemporary pilgrim and his progress."
—
The New Republic
Posted Mar 11, 2013
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34%
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The Great Gatsby (1974) |
"
In sum this picture is a total failure of every requisite sensibility. A long, slow, sickening bore."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 6, 2013
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60%
|
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) |
"
Why did movie moguls think that this was the right moment for a tale of unflinching loyalty to the Soviet Union?"
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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84%
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Merci Pour le Chocolat (2000) |
"
We can rejoice that he carries on, breathes his profession as his native air, makes pictures of varying quality but persistently makes them."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
Like Someone in Love is directed imaginatively, is impressively acted, and is quite disappointing -- not even successful in its own way."
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The New Republic
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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92%
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Night Across the Street (2013) |
"
It all has a sense of regret and almost relief. It haunts."
—
The New Republic
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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87%
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Chicago (2002) |
"
The net effect of the incessant dazzle is depressing."
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The New Republic
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
The first thing to note is that Hoffman has apparently had a grand time working with these professionals, all of whom as residents of the home are splendid."
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The New Republic
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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92%
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Lore (2013) |
"
Saskia Rosendahl as Lore is the sturdiest in a good cast, making her way cautiously into a new, utterly changed universe."
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The New Republic
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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86%
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) |
"
Benton's direction must first be praised for his choice of actors and his collaboration with them."
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The New Republic
Posted Feb 6, 2013
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95%
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My Fair Lady (1964) |
"
Despite all reservations expressed, I must make clear that his fantastically successful show has been converted into a generally entertaining film."
—
The New Republic
Posted Feb 6, 2013
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95%
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Sister (2012) |
"
Léa Seydoux fulfills Louise, and Kacey Mottet Klein, as Simon, is one more to join the pantheon of film's excellent child actors."
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The New Republic
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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53%
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Simon and the Oaks (2012) |
"
The sheer sincerity of everyone concerned bolsters the whole enterprise so that Ohlin's historical novel-on-film holds us."
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The New Republic
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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59%
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La Rafle (2012) |
"
This is the second film by the writer-director Rose Bosch, and we very soon sense her surety, her confidence in her ingenuity, which gives virtually every shot the feeling that it has been made the best way possible."
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The New Republic
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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85%
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The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
As for Haneke's handling of the material, his directing is immaculate. Every moment is the product of a penetrating mind and a steady talent."
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The New Republic
Posted Sep 20, 2012
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88%
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Polisse (2012) |
"
[O]ne of the best based-on-facts police pictures."
—
The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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95%
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5 Broken Cameras (2012) |
"
[A] bit jagged, inevitably incomplete, and in no way news-breaking: it is simply moving."
—
The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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95%
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) |
"
Briskly edited and brightly shot."
—
The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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98%
|
Oslo, August 31st (2012) |
"
[Screenwriters] Trier and Vogt are neat and cunning."
—
The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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91%
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Gypsy (2012) |
"
The general texture of the film is constantly engaging-the way that these people, long accustomed to abuse and disadvantage, have made for themselves an accommodating and comfortable culture."
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The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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94%
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Farewell, My Queen (2012) |
"
The details of the plot are unimportant: that is the main point made by the skillful director, Benoît Jacquot. It is the slowness with which they realize what is happening that fascinates."
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The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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90%
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The Well Digger's Daughter (2012) |
"
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey as Patricia and Jean-Pierre Darroussin are almost enchanting, but it is Auteuil, entering a new career as mature actor-director, whom we want to cheer."
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The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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93%
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Last Ride (2012) |
"
The Australian outback, the setting for most of Last Ride, an extraordinary film for which the locale is a quiet, almost secret catalyst."
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The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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76%
|
Unforgivable (2012) |
"
[Unforgivable] sets out as an account of unusual lives, finishes as a portrait of a society -- one that lives between the conventional and the openly low."
—
The New Republic
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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94%
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I Wish (2012) |
"
Transforms the commonplace into the extraordinary."
—
The New Republic
Posted May 25, 2012
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93%
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Elena (2012) |
"
Naturalism lives. If Zola were a Russian in Russia today, he might have written Elena."
—
The New Republic
Posted May 25, 2012
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97%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
With a few folds, this story could have made a script for John Barrymore, like Topaze, or for Chaplin."
—
The New Republic
Posted May 11, 2012
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22%
|
Elles (2012) |
"
One of her (Binoche's) lesser choices."
—
The New Republic
Posted May 11, 2012
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80%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
Writer-director, Mia Hansen-Løve, whose third feature this is, has addressed her subject with complete emotional confidence."
—
The New Republic
Posted May 11, 2012
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62%
|
We Have a Pope (2012) |
"
Moretti's latest work looks at the church sympathetically, veristically, comically."
—
The New Republic
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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99%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
Gelb apparently understood that his subject was itself so taking that he wouldn't need filmic embellishments to keep his viewers alert."
—
The New Republic
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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92%
|
Gerhard Richter Painting (2012) |
"
A kind of residence with its subject rather than a report."
—
The New Republic
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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98%
|
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"
An appealing film this new one is, with some charm, some glee in the childrens' triumphs, some share in their friendship with E.T."
—
The New Republic
Posted Feb 15, 2011
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94%
|
La Nana (The Maid) (2009) |
"
How discomfiting it is to see a good film from a country that is low on any list of film-producing nations."
—
The New Republic
Posted Nov 12, 2009
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—
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100%
|
Rembrandt's J'accuse (2008) |
—
The New Republic
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
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—
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76%
|
Our City Dreams (2008) |
—
The New Republic
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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—
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44%
|
Tussenstand (Stages) (2007) |
—
The New Republic
Posted Sep 9, 2009
|
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—
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91%
|
Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008) |
—
The New Republic
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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—
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75%
|
Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos) (2009) |
—
The New Republic
Posted Sep 9, 2009
|
|
—
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48%
|
La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009) |
—
The New Republic
Posted Sep 9, 2009
|
|
|
89%
|
Séraphine (2009) |
"
Provost has made a picture that is almost biblical in its simplicity and its passion."
—
The New Republic
Posted Jun 24, 2009
|
|
—
|
87%
|
Lola Montès (The Fall of Lola Montes) (The Sins of Lola Montes) (1955) |
—
The New Republic
Posted May 27, 2009
|
|
—
|
14%
|
Showgirls (1995) |
—
The New Republic
Posted May 27, 2009
|
42%
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