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Tony McKibbin

Tony McKibbin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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4 (Chetyre) (2006) 75% 4/5 EDIT “In willingly sacrificing story to atmosphere and theme, the film packs a punch -- even if you can't quite say where the blow l comes from.” – The List Apr 26, 2019 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “The characters' motives are kept deliberately vague, but what thematically comes through is each character's sense of loss.” – The List Apr 25, 2019 Full Review The Boys from Baghdad High (2007) 4/5 EDIT “Interlaced with hard-hitting facts about the plight of black students in the U.S.” – The List Apr 25, 2019 Full Review Pickpocket (1959) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Bresson always tells his story obliquely, so he never lets narrative suspense build, or emotional intensity be foregrounded... In short, a masterpiece.” – The List Apr 25, 2019 Full Review Our Music (2004) 68% 4/5 EDIT “Godard carefully refuses to allow a story to develop... Godard instead offers a film in flux, so the viewer can enter into it on his or her own terms.” – The List Apr 24, 2019 Full Review Kings and Queen (2004) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Desplechin's brilliant new effort is not so much a film about mad people, but one, perhaps like [Lars von Trier's] The Idiots, with a madness running through it... A treat from start to finish.” – The List Apr 24, 2019 Full Review Exit (2014) 100% 4/5 EDIT “A lovely study of longing and abandonment, frayed connections and emancipatory possibilities, Exit manages to relay events from Ling's perspective while seldom relying on point-of-view shots.” – The List Apr 25, 2015 Full Review Au Revoir, les enfants (1987) 97% 4/5 EDIT “It was a story that, 'kept haunting me all these years,' Malle said, and it's likely to haunt the viewer a little also.” – The List Jan 26, 2015 Full Review Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013) 94% 5/5 EDIT “It is a work that appears to ask so little from its audience (not much more than patience and an alert eye), but gives a heck of a lot back.” – The List Jul 3, 2014 Full Review 'Til Madness Do Us Part (2013) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Wang Bing's arduous four hour documentary makes for challenging viewing.” – The List Jul 3, 2014 Full Review Stray Dogs (2013) 86% 4/5 EDIT “General Tsai admirers may prefer earlier films like Vive L'amour and The River, but this is still rigorous cinema at its most assured.” – The List Jun 24, 2014 Full Review Three Sisters (2012) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Resolute in detailing an appallingly quotidian family.” – The List Jul 16, 2013 Full Review Jiseul (2012) 3/5 EDIT “Its often compositional beauty and sensitivity fail to elevate it into a major work, and perhaps its general approach to character might leave it a minor one even in terms of audience reception.” – The List Jun 28, 2013 Full Review White Epilepsy (2013) 4/5 EDIT “A film by a modern master.” – The List Jun 24, 2013 Full Review Like Someone in Love (2012) 83% 4/5 EDIT “[A] beautiful, subtly tender and narratively slight film ...” – The List Jun 21, 2013 Full Review Post Tenebras Lux (2012) 53% 4/5 EDIT “Reygadas is, from a certain point of view, one of modern cinema's masters: a director who wants to work with productive frustration as he creates images using a distorting, bevelled lens to size up a world that is itself distorted.” – The List Mar 18, 2013 Full Review Beyond the Hills (2012) 91% 4/5 EDIT “This is very much post-Ceaușescu Romania (based on an actual case from 2005), but the regime's effects are still felt.” – The List Feb 12, 2013 Full Review Nostalgia for the Light (2010) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Patricio Guzman returns to the subject of his masterpiece.” – The List Jul 17, 2012 Full Review Life Just Is (2012) 31% 3/5 EDIT “Alex Barrett's feature debut gets caught between placing itself within the context of bigger questions of the meaning of life with the smaller demands of looking for a job after graduating.” – The List Jul 9, 2012 Full Review Demain? (2011) 4/5 EDIT “The film has a chilly feel with the passion contained - as if the film were about the ghosts of the characters as readily as their embodiment.” – The List Jul 9, 2012 Full Review Sleepless Night (2012) 4/5 EDIT “A minor but nuanced account of a couple moving forward in their lives.” – The List Jul 9, 2012 Full Review Autrement, la Molussie (Differently, Molussia) (2012) 4/5 EDIT “Utilising numerous landscape images that might bring to mind the work of the Straubs, Claude Lanzmann and Patrick Keiller, Rey uses a series of extracts from Anders' book that capture the paradoxical and the obscure.” – The List Jun 28, 2012 Full Review
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