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Aaron Cutler
Aaron Cutler's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Slant Magazine
Film Comment Magazine
Movies reviews only
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Tih Minh (1918) |
Feuillade is filming a rousing adventure story, but he's also questioning the future of the world. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Nov 09, 2021
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Wanda Sykes: I'ma Be Me (2009) |
[Wanda] Sykes's concert act both provokes and stimulates, but nonetheless leaves much to be desired. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Aug 02, 2019
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Academy of the Muses (2015) |
The film's staged explorations of literature's effect on the psyche are ultimately revealing of the force held on the psyche by cinema, a medium with the power to preserve people as we once knew and possibly treasured them. - Cineaste Magazine
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| Posted Aug 30, 2016
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Gebo and the Shadow (2012) |
Gebo and the Shadow is a film about concrete, hard, and material things, as well as one about illusions. Its dramatic elements are simple. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 27, 2014
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Cold Bloom (2012) |
Uses sensitive melodrama to convey the emotional weight of a nationwide rebuilding effort. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 13, 2014
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Othello (1955) |
Othello joins a gallery of ... Welles protagonists such as ... Kane and Macbeth, whose desire to believe themselves masters of their domains lead ... to solitary tragic fates. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted May 12, 2014
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The Delay (2012) |
Pl's film captures both people alone and apart at night in the city, each lost without the other. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 06, 2014
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Queen Margot (1994) |
Though Queen Margot's sound, sets, costumes, and camerawork collectively stun, Chreau prioritized his actors, and he gave his ensemble ample freedom to perform. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 06, 2014
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Ida (2013) |
Rendered compellingly in black-and-white. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 29, 2014
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Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013) |
Even at its most on-the-nose, Big Joy serves the greater good of introducing viewers to its subject, whose voice rings clear throughout. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 18, 2014
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Brothers Hypnotic (2013) |
We see Phil's sons honoring him while going their own ways in a years-long effort to find the right pitch. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 18, 2014
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The City Without Jews (1924) |
The friction between the fantasy [the film] presents and the reality of the fate of Vienna's Jewish citizens is what potentially gives the work its greatest interest today. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Feb 25, 2014
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I Love You, I Love You (1968) |
It is a tragedy of human existence to be helplessly aware of time's passing, and to lose time during the act of longing for it. Something in this is also funny. - Village Voice
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| Posted Feb 11, 2014
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Peter Brook: The Tightrope (2012) |
Brook offers himself as a teacher whose goal is to help his students discover brief, ephemeral moments of bliss. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 28, 2014
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The New Rijksmuseum, Part 2 (2013) |
The artworks appear in quick glimpses, mainly in storage, with many on the way toward their own restoration. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 17, 2013
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Night Across the Street (2012) |
Past, present, and future, and illusion and reality, dissolve as the film's scenes line up like marbles, all of equal weight and value. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Nov 05, 2013
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Antoine and Antoinette (1947) |
Becker valued what he called "dead time," the little moments in life when nothing seems to be happening and in which people reveal themselves most fully. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 24, 2013
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Price of Gold (2012) |
The still photos often catch in-process workers regarding the camera, their faces filled with haunting poetry, as though existing both within a specific moment and somehow outside of time. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 17, 2013
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The Lovely Month of May (1963) |
Documents on-the-street talks with a wide variety of Paris residents. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 10, 2013
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Russian Ark (2002) |
The movie's smooth voyage comes to seem like a dream play, suspended painlessly in time. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 03, 2013
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The Last Christeros (2011) |
A war film consumed with waiting. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 27, 2013
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El estudiante (The Student) (2013) |
The film's great force initially disguises how an electoral movement's cries for liberty are called to win followers. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 20, 2013
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Jajouka, quelque chose de bon vient vers toi (2012) |
The artists prove a motif rather than a resting point, with the film circling around them, then breaking away for further visions. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 07, 2013
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The Gardener (2013) |
Delicately works to see how beautiful the world can look when people embrace each other's differences. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 07, 2013
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The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (2012) |
A film less regional than universal in its presentation of the human urge to reshape oneself with others' help. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 07, 2013
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Intolerance (1916) |
Intolerance looks both backward and forward. The strong exploit the weak, it cries, and all governments throughout history are evil. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 30, 2013
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The Shine Of Day (2012) |
Overflows with communion between friends and family members, of both sexes and all ages, ranging from comfortable to joyful. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jul 10, 2013
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Student (2012) |
Darezhan Omirbaev's sixth feature-whose unnamed, largely quiet protagonist lives in a poor area of Almaty, Kazakhstan-is a pedagogical film. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 28, 2013
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Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man (2012) |
Though they capture the past, these preserved images exist to please whoever receives them in the present. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 23, 2013
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I Am Not a Hipster (2012) |
The title accurately reflects Brook's constant self-involved, self-protective pose, but both he and the film tightly focused on him would have so much more fun if they just pulled back a little, looked around, and reached out. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 09, 2013
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Found Memories (2011) |
Jlia Murat's debut feature unfolds in a small fictional town in the Brazilian forest region of Paraiba, and uses the wide screen to show as much nature as possible. - House Next Door
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| Posted Nov 01, 2011
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The Leopard (1963) |
The past is being borne ceaselessly into the future in this movie. - House Next Door
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| Posted Nov 01, 2011
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Tales of the Night (2011) |
You sense that the film could stop and start at any point, but though the repeated act of storytelling grows tiresome, the film's images never bore. - House Next Door
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| Posted Nov 01, 2011
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Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (2011) |
You can probably guess that Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is schematic, but it's also stunning. - House Next Door
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| Posted Oct 29, 2011
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V subbotu (Innocent Saturday) (2011) |
A mainly outdoors movie whose calm, pleasant color tones helps one to focus on the characters. - House Next Door
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| Posted Oct 29, 2011
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This Is Not a Film (2003) |
Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's meta-documentary calls attention to its making from its very beginning. - House Next Door
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| Posted Oct 29, 2011
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Hanezu no tsuki (2011) |
My initial impression of Hanezu was of a glimpse of the life of a region, in which humans appear and disappear over time while the rest of nature moves on. - House Next Door
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| Posted Oct 29, 2011
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The Kid with a Bike (2011) |
Throughout the whirlwind of motion that adds up to a young boy's journey, each detail and gesture still resonates. - House Next Door
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| Posted Oct 25, 2011
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The Day He Arrives (2011) |
Hong shows people at their loneliest; they're pathetic, but also sweet. - House Next Door
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| Posted Oct 25, 2011
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The Robber (2010) |
The Robber's race to mediocrity ends with a dying phone call, which among other things is the death of inspiration. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted May 09, 2011
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Land of Madness (2009) |
Essai's gags unfold without a semblance of structure, but they're also inventive, and really funny. Land of Madness's, while pleasant enough (a strange thing to write about a comedy of murders), aren't. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Five Dedicated to Ozu + Roads of Kiarostami (2003) |
The lone words on the soundtrack are the director's occasionally asking why roads fascinate him, and answering that they may remind him of his childhood. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Over the Edge (1979) |
Simultaneously gut-churning, heart-wrenching, and head-thunking, a smorgasbord of alienation and detonation. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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The Victors (1963) |
The movie's script thuds and clunks (Schiaffino: "You love wife. You love me. I love husband. I love you."), and so does its cast. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Soul Kitchen (2009) |
The women exist to support the men; the movie doesn't have much to say politically, and what it does say isn't interesting. But Soul Kitchen is still a lot of fun. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Oki's Movie (2010) |
It's surprising what a pleasure the entire film is. Oki's Movie is a story about juvenile people that never once feels juvenile. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Orion (2009) |
The plight of Iranian women has been shown on film before, and better, but it also can't be shown enough. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Visionaries (2010) |
A disgusting lovefest and a piece of amorphous fluff. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Mummy (1969) |
It's appropriate to discuss The Mummy's production and restoration circumstances, since the movie's great theme is Egypt's struggle to reclaim itself. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Tuesday, After Christmas (2010) |
Director Radu Muntean, like Bergman, keeps the camera close, and follows them. - House Next Door
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| Posted Apr 22, 2011
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