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100%
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The Earrings of Madame De... (Diamond Earrings) (1954)
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"Elegant."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Jubilee (1978)
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"One of the more bleak but imaginative nihilist films to come out of England in the 1970s."
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Dennis Schwartz
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67%
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Rhapsody in August (1991)
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"A touching heartfelt film by the octogenarian legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
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"Directed in a fine technical workmanlike way."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Magnificent Matador ()
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"Ole! A shrill bullfight story with a contrived soap opera romance between an aging celebrated Mexican bullfighter and a fawning wealthy American."
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Dennis Schwartz
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85%
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Chronicle (2012)
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"Another one of those cheaply made shaky hand-held camera found-footage flicks."
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Dennis Schwartz
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012)
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"Radcliffe's only acting challenge is to look always scared."
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Dennis Schwartz
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90%
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Man Hunt (1941)
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"This farfetched thriller offers some well-crafted noir-like breathtaking chase sequences that are tense and absorbing."
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Dennis Schwartz
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50%
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Parade (1974)
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"Like in all his films, Tati's good-nature comes through."
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Dennis Schwartz
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90%
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Show Me Love (Fucking Amal) (1999)
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"A charming teen comedy from Sweden."
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Dennis Schwartz
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89%
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Accident (1967)
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"Painstakingly underplayed."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Two in One (Dva v odnom) (2007)
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"Weird film."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Where the Spies Are (1965)
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"A mildly entertaining comical spy spoof hoping to cash in on the James Bond rage in the 1960s."
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Dennis Schwartz
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77%
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The Grey (2012)
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"A gritty survival thriller."
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Dennis Schwartz
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45%
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)
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"Daldry has one of the world's greatest actors, the 82-year-old Max von Sydow, play the part of a mute while the shrill obnoxious kid protagonist never stops talking."
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Dennis Schwartz
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The Knowledge of Healing (1997)
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"Educational film about an 11th-century Tibetan book of medicine."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Limbo (2004)
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"Many viewers will be disappointed that there is no payoff."
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Dennis Schwartz
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95%
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Being There (1979)
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"Peter Sellers gives a stellar performance."
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Dennis Schwartz
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100%
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Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1961)
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"Albert Finney's belligerent performance is simply smashing."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Tibetan Book of the Dead (2004)
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"An outstanding introduction into Tibetan Buddhism."
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Dennis Schwartz
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60%
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The Killer Elite (1975)
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"Solid action pic."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Don Giovanni (1979)
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"A nearly great adaptation of Mozart's greatest opera."
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Dennis Schwartz
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94%
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Short Cuts (1993)
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"We are never made to care much about the afflicted characters because Altman doesn't and thereby the stories carry very little weight."
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Dennis Schwartz
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76%
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War Horse (2011)
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"Unfortunately it has the director's usual heavy-handed and overstated ploys."
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Dennis Schwartz
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100%
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2008)
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"Tells us clearly something is rotten about the American judicial system."
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Dennis Schwartz
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67%
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Stir Crazy (1980)
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"Unfunny script."
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Dennis Schwartz
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The Go-Between (1970)
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"Sticks daggers into the polite but uptight English class system."
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Dennis Schwartz
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44%
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
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"Everything seems mechanical, forced and contrived."
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Dennis Schwartz
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90%
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Hausu (House) (1977)
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"Bizarre ghost story."
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Dennis Schwartz
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51%
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
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"Wobbles along as average entertainment garnered from a great book."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Clouds of May (1999)
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"Sensitive realistic portrait of the rural small town natives."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Kasaba (The Small Town) (1997)
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"Outstanding feature debut."
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Dennis Schwartz
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97%
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Animal Kingdom (2010)
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"A diverting conceptual fictional crime family pic."
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Dennis Schwartz
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79%
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How I Ended This Summer (2010)
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"Bleak and unfulfilling psychological thriller set at a Russian meteorological camp on a desolate island in the Arctic Circle."
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Dennis Schwartz
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81%
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Looking for Richard (1996)
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"An energetic but unsatisfying behind the scenes account of actors dress rehearsing or in street clothes rehearsing to do the Shakespeare play Richard III."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
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"Pierson wisely lets the mostly Native American cast tell the story the way they know it in their hearts and his unobtrusive direction works out very well."
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Dennis Schwartz
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Naturally Native ()
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"An uplifting feelgood drama."
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Dennis Schwartz
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——
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Chekhovian Motifs (2005)
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"This is a masterful absurd comedy of the highest order."
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Dennis Schwartz
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79%
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A Perfect World (1993)
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"Entertaining manhunt film."
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Dennis Schwartz
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55%
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Faraway, So Close! (In weiter Ferne, so nah!) (1993)
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"Disappointing sequel"
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Dennis Schwartz
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100%
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The Pied Piper (1942)
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"Sentimental wartime story that never fully recovers from its contrivances."
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Dennis Schwartz
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81%
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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
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"Too bad it's so forgettable."
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Dennis Schwartz
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87%
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Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011)
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"Absorbing documentary biopic on the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer."
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Dennis Schwartz
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——
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Dr. Who: Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
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"It's the rare occasion where Peter Cushing plays the good guy."
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Dennis Schwartz
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80%
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Aurora (2011)
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"It's not the most cheerful film, but it's not a dirge."
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Dennis Schwartz
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95%
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Pina (2011)
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"It's an enchanting film, one that makes you feel you are missing something dear if you don't dance or appreciate it as an art form."
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Dennis Schwartz
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88%
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Rango (2011)
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"Oddball existential western animation."
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Dennis Schwartz
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——
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Cover-Up (1949)
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"Pleasing old-fashioned crime drama."
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Dennis Schwartz
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43%
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The Perfect Host (2011)
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"Suffers for being too clever and convoluted despite being so witty."
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Dennis Schwartz
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——
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Christmas Evil (You Better Watch Out) (1980)
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"The film is noted for starting a sub-genre of the jolly St. Nick as a psycho slasher killer."
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Dennis Schwartz
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