George Wu
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
Waititi clearly put a lot of love into Thor: Ragnarok. That is missing from Thor: Love and Thunder, which feels more like slapdash product. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Eternals (2021) |
Despite being 2 hours 37 minutes long, Eternals feels rushed, like it's trying to squeeze a ten-episode series into one feature film. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 11, 2021
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Holy Motors (2012) |
Holy Motors evokes incredulousness in a good way and how many films can you say that about? - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Apr 29, 2020
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018) |
Avengers: Infinity War has trouble fitting in so many characters and giving them proper emotional moments as well as the fireworks in its 149 minute run time. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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Ismael's Ghosts (2017) |
It's Desplechin-Amalric again, and they've done just fine for 21 years. This movie makes one hope for more Desplechin-Amalric-Cotillard though. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 23, 2018
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After the Storm (2016) |
All of these build up to being more than the sum of its parts. For anyone, being compared to Ozu is daunting, but Kore-eda needn't be ashamed, not with efforts like "After the Storm." - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Dec 19, 2017
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) |
However well crafted "Deer" is, it's a small loathsome universe from Lanthimos. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) |
There have been many films about the confusion of adolescence and the difficulty of coming out...but he makes the material fresh by understating the subtext while concentrating on the immediate experiences of the characters. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Feb 17, 2014
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The Past (2013) |
Any short-term illusion of being in charge is at the cost of long-term trust and fidelity. The Past stands as a resonate warning to this vicious cycle. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Feb 17, 2014
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Visitors (2013) |
Godfrey has said he wants Visitors to be about texture, not text, but it actually feels like the most cerebral of his films and not in a good way, but rather in an overdetermined didactic way. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Feb 17, 2014
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The Descendants (2011) |
Even as Payne's weakest film, The Descendants is still worth seeing - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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The Tree of Life (2011) |
The Tree of Life is one of those few films that comes along once in a decade with artistic aspirations so enormous, it stands like a giant towering over the movies around it. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted May 30, 2011
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Thor (2011) |
Thor gets by on humor and on the performances of Hemsworth, Hiddleston, and Dennings ... - culturevulture.net
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| Posted May 18, 2011
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Enter the Void (2009) |
Noe's style is near-experimental, which is often not a good thing, but even worse, the content is simplistic and monotonous. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 01, 2010
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The Social Network (2010) |
... it's flashy as hell given its subject matter. It also doesn't hurt that it's pretty good. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 01, 2010
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Red Cliff (2008) |
The drama tends to be pitched over the top %u2026 Before, Woo could pull off such extremes because he did it in an operatic fashion of gonzo emotion, but here it often comes off as inadvertently hokey. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Nov 12, 2009
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Tokyo! (2008) |
Tokyo!, in lineage with (the yes, middling) New York Stories, however actually manages the exceedingly rare accomplishment of getting all three of its episodes right. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 11, 2009
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My Winnipeg (2007) |
... no one else out there makes movies like this, and it has enough highlights that Guy Maddin fans should still seek it out. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jun 09, 2008
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Love Songs (2007) |
... writer-director Christophe Honor ... fashions a 14-song musical about love and loss. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 27, 2008
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The Duchess of Langeais (2007) |
Rivette tells the story at a length any other filmmaker would have halved. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 02, 2008
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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) |
Les Amours d'Astre et de Cladon - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 17, 2007
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) |
This year's Palme d'Or winner, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, makes it's U.S. debut at the New York Film Festival - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 17, 2007
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Secret Sunshine (2007) |
Can a movie traumatize you in a good way? - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 17, 2007
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) |
Devil possesses a dramatic power akin to watching a big train wreck, but it's an elaborate Rube Goldberg device with no real heart at its center. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 15, 2007
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Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971) |
What one can say after the experience is that there is nothing else quite like it in all of cinema. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Aug 11, 2007
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Paris, je t'aime (2006) |
While too fleeting in grace to be a great movie, Paris Je T'aime does however reward the hope offered with this prestigious cast and crew. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Apr 23, 2007
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The Exterminating Angels (2006) |
If the movie was meant to render sympathy to Brisseau, it only reinforces how monstrously repugnant he is. The audacity to suggest his complete innocence makes the whole thing seem like black comedy, only the core sentiment is not funny. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 12, 2007
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
Agree or disagree, this is a work so bold and provocative and distinctive that it demands to be seen. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 12, 2007
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Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) |
Every stone, every piece of fabric, every pushed-up bosom is fetishized to ludicrous extremes. Zhang apparently wants to dazzle the eyes with the visuals, but Curse is one of the gaudiest looking movies ever made. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 12, 2007
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Exiled (2006) |
Exiled is compromised by the feeling one gets that Johnnie To has been watching too many westerns. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 12, 2007
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The Host (2006) |
Boon shows that he has the film grammar of a Spielberg in how well he conveys his story cinematically... Boon will go places that Spielberg won't though. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 12, 2007
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Inland Empire (2006) |
It feels Lynchian to the point of self-parody. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 28, 2006
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Triad Election (2006) |
Triad Election lacks the emotional punch or aesthetic dazzle to take it up a notch. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 16, 2006
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Azumi (2003) |
It's a B-movie through and through and its indulgences come from loving the genre too much, not bracketing it with postmodern quotation marks. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 27, 2006
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Russian Dolls (2005) |
'Russian Dolls' is not an intellectually cohesive movie, but it's so much exuberant fun, it doesn't matter - culturevulture.net
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| Posted May 09, 2006
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13 Tzameti (2005) |
Shot in black and white, '13' maintains a strong disconsolate tone, one in which the world feels barren and uncaring. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Apr 10, 2006
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Battle in Heaven (2005) |
Will one day make its mark in the film canon as the singular film experience it is - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Feb 17, 2006
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King Kong (2005) |
Every scene in the new 'King Kong' strains to be the biggest, most pulverizing, in-your-face spectacle that you've ever experienced. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Dec 18, 2005
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Three Times (2005) |
Hou captures that new couple exuberance in a way few films have, and the climatic moment here is as magical as they come. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 04, 2005
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Manderlay (2005) |
[Von Trier] has imbued the material with enough dramatic power and relevance that despite its many flaws, it is still essential viewing. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Oct 02, 2005
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Lady Vengeance (2005) |
The flashiest, funniest, and most baroque of the "Vengeance Trilogy." It is also the most simpleminded and, despite that, eventually the most muddled. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 30, 2005
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L'Enfant (2005) |
Does not present any convincing evidence that Bruno is either so dense or so uncaring as to be remotely capable of selling his son on a whim - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Sep 23, 2005
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The Devil's Rejects (2005) |
The movie's violence is used to explore the ties of family, both by blood and by bonds of personal history. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 28, 2005
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Memories of Murder (2003) |
A great opening and...a visceral, heartbreaking ending - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jul 21, 2005
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My Summer of Love (2004) |
Pavlikovsky ends up falsifying everything his style was working so effectively to create, and only because he ultimately chose content over style. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Jun 28, 2005
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Kung Fu Hustle (2004) |
Chow's best all-around achievement, meshing a coherent story, character arcs..., and technical depth. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Apr 16, 2005
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Torremolinos 73 (2003) |
Berger straddles the cartoonish and the naturalistic with mixed results. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Apr 15, 2005
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Oldboy (2003) |
Works best as a thrilling ride, a genre piece, not as a movie to gain insight into the human experience - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Mar 24, 2005
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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003) |
The only reason to see it is for the action. In that arena, on a scale from 1 to 10, it's a 20. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Feb 17, 2005
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House of Flying Daggers (2004) |
It's hard to take it as anything but unintended camp. - culturevulture.net
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| Posted Dec 02, 2004
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