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Chris Fujiwara

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The American (2010) 64% EDIT “A lethargic work that breaks out intermittently into action and suspense, an American movie for people who don't like American movies.” – n+1 Mar 13, 2018 Full Review Essential Killing (2010) 77% EDIT “Maybe the only failing of Essential Killing is that everything in it is seen so sufficiently that one doesn't feel the need to go back to watch it another time (unlike most great films, which improve on repeated viewings).” – n+1 Nov 14, 2017 Full Review Petition (2011) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Moments of communication sought or denied give poignancy to a film filled with helplessness and outrage.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 27, 2010 Full Review Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “Eastwood is a master of the extended look (this comes from the two directors he acknowledges as his own masters, Sergio Leone and Don Siegel), the look that stretches time and that is blinded by what it sees.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Rescue Dawn (2007) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “Bale's lack of ambiguity points to the biggest limitation of a film that makes the grade as an adventure yarn by ignoring the most disturbing implications of its story.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 Full Review Mutual Appreciation (2005) 86% EDIT “Mutual Appreciation shows life as contingent, conditional, enigmatic, never finally realized, as, in short, everything that the Harvey Mansfields of the world abhor, and it shows why to accept this kind of life is an act of strength.” – Boston Phoenix Oct 20, 2006 Full Review Masculine-Feminine (1966) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Watching the movie now, 39 years after it was made, I'm struck most by its sadness, its harshness, and its pessimism.” – Boston Phoenix Apr 2, 2005 Full Review Eyes Without a Face (1960) 97% EDIT “Les yeux sans visage [is] a balance between cruelty and tenderness that has rarely been attempted in cinema.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 5, 2005 Full Review A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Even at its most maddening and cute, the elaborate interplay between hallucination and reality rewards attention.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 26, 2005 Full Review Million Dollar Baby (2004) 90% EDIT “I'll say only that Eastwood has never been more moving, as a director or as an actor, than he is in the last 30 minutes of this film.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 15, 2005 Full Review Zatoichi (2003) 87% EDIT “Zatoichi himself is a remarkable creation. With his dry laugh and cocked head, Kitano makes him a kind of clown -- an ideal choice for a film so concerned with fun, games, and performing.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 14, 2004 Full Review Before Sunset (2004) 94% EDIT “The result is a complicated and thrilling game that, unlike some diversions we have had lately, does not debase the words "romantic" and "comedy."” – Boston Phoenix Jul 3, 2004 Full Review Dawn of the Dead (2004) 77% EDIT “The acting is better than necessary, the special effects are savage and persuasive, and the undercranked action scenes are enjoyably frenetic.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 26, 2004 Full Review Twisted (2004) 2% EDIT “You're not sure whether to take the film as a sophisticated parody, a surrealist prose poem, or an unusually dumb thriller.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 6, 2004 Full Review The Dreamers (2003) 59% EDIT “Perhaps following Gilbert Adair’s source novel, Bertolucci dances up to but tiptoes away from all that might have been interesting about the trio’s overfamiliar imbroglio.” – Boston Phoenix Feb 14, 2004 Full Review Mystic River (2003) 89% EDIT “Each of the three childhood friends who grow up to become the main characters of Mystic River brings the film a particular style of revelation.” – Boston Phoenix Oct 4, 2003 Full Review Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 79% EDIT “Before becoming a standard exercise in wearing out welcomes, Gore Verbinski's adventure comedy brings good spirits and narrative vigor to its chore of refurbishing the pirate genre.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 2, 2003 Full Review The Shape of Things (2003) 64% EDIT “It would seem we're expected to react with mounting discomfort and fascination, though boredom, laced with a sporting curiosity about what kind of unpleasantness impends, is just as appropriate a response...” – Boston Phoenix Jul 2, 2003 Full Review Alex & Emma (2003) 11% EDIT “[A] disaster.” – Boston Phoenix Jul 2, 2003 Full Review Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) 79% EDIT “In his promising directorial debut, Clooney gets away with most of the flourishes he allows himself.” – Boston Phoenix Jan 25, 2003 Full Review Evelyn (2002) 64% EDIT “There are many, many pub scenes, which Bruce Beresford (as complete a hack as any director who ever lived) milks for each ounce of quaintness.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 23, 2002 Full Review Solaris (2002) 66% EDIT “Why Steven Soderbergh and his producers (who include James Cameron) wanted to try their hands at it is a mystery. And viewing the hollow result doesn't shed any light on that mystery.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 16, 2002 Full Review Far From Heaven (2002) 87% EDIT “Haynes, in choosing the melodrama as his form, raises expectations that he doesn't fulfill: he actually does less than what melodramas can do, and did.” – Boston Phoenix Nov 23, 2002 Full Review Moonlight Mile (2002) 63% EDIT “You watch for a whole hour before Moonlight Mile collapses into bathos. But when it collapses, it collapses hard.” – Boston Phoenix Oct 5, 2002 Full Review Seven Samurai (1954) 100% EDIT “It's no wonder Spielberg and Lucas love Kurosawa so much: Seven Samurai and, at a much lower level, The Hidden Fortress are prototypes for the kind of filmmaking with which the two Americans reinvented popular cinema.” – Boston Phoenix Aug 31, 2002 Full Review
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