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Caroline McKenzie

Caroline McKenzie's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Student (2012) 67% 2/4 EDIT “Kazakh cinema's stalwart auteur Darzhan Omirbaev adapts Crime and Punishment to modern-day Almaty, but with little to say beyond the obvious.” – Slant Magazine May 28, 2013 Full Review Old Dog (2011) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Minimalist in its aesthetics and soundtrack, quiet and deliberate in its plot, but nonetheless familiar--endearing and a vital addition to the small but growing Tibetan cinema” – Slant Magazine May 15, 2013 Full Review The Painting (2011) 81% 2/4 EDIT “The film's aesthetic employs expressionism, realism, and cubism, but the morality plays are layered on as thickly and haphazardly as a toddler's finger painting.” – Slant Magazine May 9, 2013 Full Review Love Is All You Need (2012) 75% 2/4 EDIT “At times it seems as if Susanne Bier set out to create some kind of absurdist comedy, but lost her nerve somewhere along the way.” – Slant Magazine May 2, 2013 Full Review Bert Stern: Original Mad Man (2011) 50% 1.5/4 EDIT “Rote, rushed, and utterly uninterested in the power of Stern as an innovator of image, making it effectively the opposite of the output of the artist it attempts to document.” – Slant Magazine Apr 1, 2013 Full Review From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) 87% 2/4 EDIT “The story arc is somewhat facile, and its lesson about preserving history instead of demolishing it to make way for new, shiny things is too obvious.” – Slant Magazine Mar 11, 2013 Full Review 11 Flowers (2011) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Because of its choice in subjectivity, and despite the film's historical context, 11 Flowers firmly elevates the experience of the personal over the political.” – Slant Magazine Feb 18, 2013 Full Review A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2011) 69% 2/4 EDIT “The film obviously can't resolve the conflict between Palestine and Israel, but the resolution to the story's arc feels nonetheless forced and misplaced.” – Slant Magazine Dec 31, 2012 Full Review North Sea Texas (2011) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film succeeds in creating a dense atmospheric feel and avoids generic tropes, but it does so somewhat at the neglect of its characters and narrative.” – Slant Magazine Oct 30, 2012 Full Review
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