Christopher Long
Tomatometer-approved critic
Near Philly
Movies reviews only
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Homicide (1991) |
The doomy mood of the final scenes packs a wallop that's missing from Mamet's more contrived narratives. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Dec 13, 2017
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L'Avventura (1960) |
This is a world without design, where characters can no longer single-mindedly pursue goals and resolve problems. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2015
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La ciénaga (2001) |
Martel doesn't try to connect the dots with typical continuity editing either, opting instead to focus on textures and fleeting movements - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2015
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) |
You can understand why (Petra Von Kant) is viewed by many as one of Fassbinder's masterpieces. Not bad for ten days' work, anyway. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2015
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My Winnipeg (2007) |
A remembrance of things forgotten. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2015
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The Innocents (1961) |
This is a space with ample room for both the living and the dead. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Macbeth (1971) |
I don't know that there's a clear winner in the contest for Roman Polanski's bleakest depiction of human nature. But "Macbeth" is indisputably in the running. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002) |
Whatever delusions of grandeur (Calvi) may have had while climbing the corporate ladder are dispelled by the discovery that he is but a tiny fish among the sharks. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Burt's Buzz (2013) |
Burt's not your typical entrepreneur. He's not your typical anything. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Eraserhead (1977) |
Sculpted out of blocks of stark light amid pools of impenetrable darkness. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Ghost Bird (2009) |
Crocker crafts a surprisingly suspenseful tale as he follows the battle of experts on each side as well as the more fundamental tug of war between faith and empiricism. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia (2010) |
The question is whether there's a way to make that freely-available knowledge less... sh***y. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) |
The film's tone is so campy and off-kilter it's hard to take any of it seriously... it's equally hard to find any of it particularly funny. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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No No: A Dockumentary (2014) |
Ellis emerges from the movie as a complex and thoughtful character. He loved to say and do outrageous things, but seldom did so without a calculated purpose. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Sep 23, 2014
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A Touch of Sin (2013) |
It might be my least favorite of (Jia's) movies, but I still count it as one of the best films of 2013 which should tell you what I think of this extraordinary filmmaker. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Breaking the Waves (1996) |
Both a ferocious love story and a tale of the triumph of vital individual faith over ossified and corrupt organized religion. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013) |
It's hard to go wrong with footage of the charismatic and abrasive Ali who is not always depicted as a saint - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Like Someone in Love (2012) |
Kiarostami still possesses a remarkable knack for crafting vivid supporting characters from just a few details. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Red River (1948) |
Just when loyalty seems to be an entirely perverse and oppressive force in this world of might makes right, the film (shows) there are limits decent men won't cross. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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All That Heaven Allows (1955) |
Works as a straightforward melodrama, but is so meticulously crafted by a visual master that it provides endless material for those who wish to mine for deeper social commentary. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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The Eclipse (1962) |
(Vittoria) desires... something, and the inability to articulate her need only heightens the desperation to fulfill it. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Judex (1963) |
In shaving off 210 minutes or so, Franju eliminates all the backstory along with any concern for motivation or logic. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
Critic Andrew Sarris wasn't just playing the fanboy when he described this movie as 'The Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.' He just might have been selling it short. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Scanners (1981) |
Cronenberg is so great at juxtaposing the surreal with the mundane to generate both creeps and (nervous) laughter. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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La Chute des anges (2014) |
I think it's not just Demy's masterpiece, but one of the great French films of the sixties, which is pretty high praise. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Insomnia (1997) |
It becomes clear the title of the film could just as well be 'The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - Troms.' - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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Pickpocket (1959) |
This mysterious film composed of silence and emptiness accumulates extraordinary power, and unleashes it in a profoundly moving moment. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Aug 03, 2014
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George Washington (2000) |
An exceptionally beautiful movie with some winning performances from a young and unproven cast, - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 19, 2014
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A Brief History of Time (1992) |
Morris. Hawking. Two of my favorite artists together. It couldn't miss, and it didn't. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 19, 2014
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The Hidden Fortress (1958) |
An immaculately staged bit of escapist entertainment that should not get lost among Kurosawa's more celebrated works. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 19, 2014
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Camille Claudel, 1915 (2013) |
A deeply unsettling experience, a muffled cry from and for a woman cast aside by her family and by history. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 19, 2014
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Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones (2012) |
A moving testament to the life and work of a major American artist. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 19, 2014
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Come Back, Africa (1959) |
(The film)succeeds simultaneously as activism, as drama, and as a time capsule. It feels like the delicate spell would be broken if a single variable was altered. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 06, 2014
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Tess (1979) |
This is Kinski's show and she flat out steals it. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 06, 2014
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Breathless (1959) |
A unique hybrid, both the realization of years of critical writings by Godard and ... also a film made by an unabashed cinephile. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 06, 2014
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King of the Hill (1993) |
It all seemed like an oddly straightforward ... choice for Soderbergh at the time, but he has proven since then that his lateral range is almost immeasurable. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Mar 06, 2014
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Visitors (2013) |
Whatever Visitors lacks in philosophical heft it more than compensates for in sheer sensual, textual pleasure. It's good to have Mr. Reggio back. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Feb 27, 2014
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The Long Day Closes (1992) |
Davies keeps looking back until it hurts, and that's where his art begins. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2014
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Bohemian Life (1992) |
The kind of pocket universe you'd love to slip into for a summer or two, as long as you could stage a strategic exit before the food runs out. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2014
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Thief (1981) |
An ancient time... when master criminals were manly men with giant tools. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 29, 2014
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) |
(Resnais is) still so far ahead of the multiple generations that have tried to follow in his footsteps, sometimes you just start feeling embarrassed for everyone else. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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More Than Honey (2012) |
Imhoof's globetrotting odyssey is more concerned with contemplation than investigation. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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Caesar Must Die (2012) |
A double hybrid that occupies a space somewhere between documentary and fiction right along the border of cinema and theater. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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The Blue Angel (1930) |
Dietrich's clinical detachment only enhances the fetishistic quality of the scene. There is never a doubt about who's in charge. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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The Stranger (1991) |
Perhaps Ray's most memorable character since Apu. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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The Home and the World (1984) |
Satyajit Ray's characters must be the most subtly shaded and lovingly observed in all of cinema. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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Throne of Blood (1957) |
These most powerful of men are just puppets or, more aptly, fools embracing the illusion that they are masters of a world that views them as ... a punchline to the cosmic joke - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) |
There's a documentary-like pleasure in watching so many legends of comedy share the screen... along with the disappointment of watching so many very funny people fail to be funny at all. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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Nostalgia (1983) |
One of the moistest movies you've ever seen. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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The Comeback (1978) |
If, like me, you ever wanted to see a slasher film starring Jack Jones then this is your best option. - Movie Metropolis
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| Posted Jan 23, 2014
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