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09/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a cyclical fable of daily drudgery that strips human life to its barest elements and banalities... If ever a film had a claim to being profound in its banality, this is it." |
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10/28/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...manages to put its seemingly endless supply of clever conceits in service of a rich and moving tale of friendship, love, and the crushing weight of too much history." |
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05/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Anderson generously leaves his characters with room to live, even if they will still have to struggle with the inevitable stresses and frustrations that come with being human." |
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12/03/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...impeccably crafted... Ultimately, the film is about narrative making, as the viewer is forced, along with Smiley, to process a lot of disparate intel..." |
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03/22/11 |
Outstanding |
 "A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials. concerned with nothing less than those hardy perennials: sex, death, and modernity." |
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09/24/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a stern rebuke to the small band of bigots that has allowed their opposition to the lower Manhattan Islamic cultural center to shade over into an ugly xenophobia." |
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03/23/09 |
Outstanding |
 "As potentially sensational as the film's subject matter may be, Llosa treats the material with an appropriate restraint... Fausta remains notably aloof..." |
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09/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...turns its characters loose to make their own life-altering choices.... satisfies wholly on the level of dramatic necessity." |
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09/26/12 |
Excellent |
"Thrilling... unfolds with what feels like serious moral purpose... favors the human scale over abstract philosophizing or meta-cinematic frippery." |
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05/03/12 |
Excellent |
 "...proves that smart direction and an innate feeling for one's material trumps potentially precious subject matter." |
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11/02/11 |
Excellent |
"Writer/director/star Patrick Wang evinces a keen awareness of the ways in which family members interact, grieve, and open their hearts to one another." |
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08/05/10 |
Excellent |
 "Sambath draws on decade-long relationships he forged with Cambodia's former second-in-command and average peasants who were enlisted in the killing fields..." |
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07/28/10 |
Excellent |
"...a little like watching a Cambodian 'Shoah,' but as if we had access to the director's methods and motivations instead of just the astonishing results.... extraordinary..." |
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03/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "Spinning a hypnotic, repetitive web of sound and images, Korine crafts a vision, not an argument, but a no less beguilingly weird (and occasionally repulsive) one at that." |
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01/23/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the filmmaker proves himself a shrewd, quick sketch artist... what proves most striking are the exactly rendered little moments..." |
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12/02/12 |
Very Good |
 "Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims's finely wrought visualizations lock down the subjects in camera setups that mirror their lack of opportunities in life." |
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10/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a powerful and jaundiced coming-of-age story from the decade's less trod corners. In Potter's vision, the '60s aren't about illumination, but fear." |
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10/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a tightly wound film, for all its seemingly relaxed pace, and one that shrewdly maps out the levels of social obligation that affect all of its characters." |
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09/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "Jarecki's movie serves not only as a valuable civics lesson that may or may not steer public debate in new directions, but as a powerful piece of anguished filmmaking..." |
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09/25/12 |
Very Good |
 "...treats the proceedings with adequate comic distance to enliven an otherwise cliché-ridden tale set against the exciting world of collegiate a cappella vocalizing." |
