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Geoffrey O'Brien

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Caesar Must Die (2012) 92% EDIT “The determination-at times it seems close to anguish-with which they seize that opportunity reenacts what must have been the astonishing force and challenge launched by the actors who first played Julius Caesar.” – The New York Review of Books Mar 13, 2019 Full Review My Night at Maud's (1969) 96% EDIT “Rohmer's work will be around to contemplate for a long time-to contemplate with endless curiosity and pleasure-or so one would like to think.” – The New York Review of Books Mar 8, 2019 Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% EDIT “I left the theater, if not enchanted or swept away then at the very least diverted and perked up. I had been irrationally touched near the beginning by a shot of Stone standing alone on a hilly street in Los Angeles at night.” – The New York Review of Books Mar 7, 2019 Full Review Nebraska (2013) 90% EDIT “An authentic pathos is extracted with great skill from in between the constant jabbing notation of gesture and attitude and manners; which is to say that Payne seems a true comic artist of the oldest and most deadly serious kind.” – The New York Review of Books Mar 7, 2019 Full Review Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 93% EDIT “The filmmakers have not gone to children for the sake of their bewildered innocence but for their ferocious clarity of intention and their radiant intelligence not yet reined in or habituated to sullen conformity.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 20, 2018 Full Review The Phantom Carriage (1921) 100% EDIT “Whatever the suggestiveness of the fable, the film works on us with the bare palpability of its elements-even of its visual tricks.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Salt for Svanetia (1929) 100% EDIT “[A] sublime contemplation of Central Asian isolation and unforgiving folkways.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Hugo (2011) 93% EDIT “For Scorsese the door to the past is never closed. Hugo does not so much revisit the past as reveal that it is still alive, elaborately disguised as the present.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 12, 2018 Full Review The Artist (2011) 95% EDIT “The movie has the effect of a perfected and unrepeatable gesture.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Crazy Horse (2011) 85% EDIT “Crazy Horse manages to achieve a kind of constant double image. When we watch the numbers we see both the fantasy and the labor that goes into simulating it.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 6, 2018 Full Review The Tree of Life (2011) 86% EDIT “[Malick] does his thinking by means of cinema in its full range of possibilities, and that is at any time a rare spectacle.” – The New York Review of Books Nov 5, 2018 Full Review War of the Worlds (2005) 76% EDIT “On one hand the movie is a game, a conscious display... of Spielberg's technical mastery; on the other it reaches toward what might be prophecy, or passionate allegory, or exhortation to mindfulness of real human suffering.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 21, 2018 Full Review A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) 76% EDIT “The movie consistently goes against the grain of the emotional expectations that it invokes in Spielberg's expertly realized shorthand...” – The New York Review of Books Aug 17, 2018 Full Review Les Vampires (1915) 95% EDIT “Without buildup or the slightest hint of backstory, it unleashed a succession of perturbing images and inescapable situations, which neither had nor required any justification beyond their own intensity.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 17, 2018 Full Review Twelfth Night (1996) 75% EDIT “Nunn's film succeeds beautifully in its chosen course.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 16, 2018 Full Review Hamlet (1996) 95% EDIT “For all the sometimes athletic action, this Hamlet is strung on its language. The words are the play, unfolding in a space open enough to give scope to its unruly energies.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 16, 2018 Full Review Looking for Richard (1996) 85% EDIT “One of the best movies about the acting life.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 16, 2018 Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996) 74% EDIT “Little more than a stunt.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 16, 2018 Full Review Ed Wood (1994) 92% EDIT “Burton succeeds in creating a benign parallel world where the last are the first and the insulted and injured become the recipients of all-star tributes.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 15, 2018 Full Review Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) 69% EDIT “Dracula's deepest problem is that for all its playing with the history of the genre, it stirs little sense of dread, barely even a tingle of uncanniness.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 14, 2018 Full Review Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 98% EDIT “Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer represents the deformed endproduct of a thousand 1940s tough-guy movies, transformed by now into a leisure-oriented 1950s man more interested in his hi-fi and his sports car than in heroics.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Pickup on South Street (1953) 93% EDIT “It took a director with Samuel Fuller's oblique angle of approach to find a vein of poetic anarchism in the conformist heart of the 1950s police-procedural melodrama.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 13, 2018 Full Review The Narrow Margin (1952) 100% EDIT “Rapid, concise, and beautifully photographed, The Narrow Margin is an exercise in craft with few reverberations beyond the fascination of its technological exactness.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Human Desire (1954) 60% EDIT “The director manages to extract precisely the same numbed unease from a murder, an embrace, or a moment of dead time in which someone looks out the window.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Try and Get Me (1950) EDIT “Forceful, bitter, and evidently designed to be as unpalatable as possible.” – The New York Review of Books Aug 13, 2018 Full Review
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