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10/04/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a picture of intuitive, free-associational power that cuts far deeper emotionally than a dry recitation of dates and facts could ever hope to.... One of the most haunting and irresolvable films I've seen in years... might be some sort of masterpiece." |
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04/23/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...conjures an atmosphere of unpredictable live-wire dread throughout, which is an impressive accomplishment in these media-savvy days.... This film stings." |
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11/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a snapshot of a kind of hell... a ghastly and not entirely resolvable film... a sober-minded cry of anguish as well as a work of considerable, resolute empathy." |
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05/15/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...puts you in the mind of an unexpected killer with an immediacy that recalls 'A Simple Plan'... tough, haunting, and eventually even casually heartbreaking." |
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04/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...deserves to be one of the docs that breaks into the American pop consciousness this year." |
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04/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...doesn't present us with a sympathetic protagonist, and that's precisely why it's so fascinating.... we're rarely allowed to experience these stories from the inside-out." |
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04/30/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...poetic and striking... The last moment is so convincing, so evocative of the periodic solace we've all needed to take in the presence of our elders in times of pain, that it nearly stops the film cold." |
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03/31/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...deserves to be included among the handful of docs that audiences actually support... one of the most humane, not to mention pleasurable, docs that I've seen in years." |
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09/26/10 |
Outstanding |
 "These films explore the limitations and constrictions of a mass culture, no matter what the nature of said culture may be. The films are remarkably consistent in quality." |
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03/04/13 |
Very Good |
 "...has a hushed, pregnant urgency.... one of the most sensible and humane explorations of youthful curiosity and alienation I've seen in some time." |
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10/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "...packs a quietly chilling punch.... the Texas Board of Education has inadvertently become an agency promoting hardcore conservative right-wing beliefs..." |
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09/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...made with a hypnotic elegance worthy of its subjects. For the most part, writer-director Paul Lacoste refreshingly eschews typical documentary devices..." |
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08/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...enjoyable.... the film wears its references lightly; it's been made with a giddy sense of pleasure in craftsmanship that's irresistible." |
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07/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a sly, interesting achievement: It opens as an entertaining sports story and closes as a metaphor for government corruption." |
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07/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "For Olga, it's a literal case of 'my way or the highway.' Ivanova, doesn't judge Olga; she refuses to see her through the eyes of a presumably better-off first-world citizen." |
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03/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...has an exhilarating tossed-off quality that characterized many of the most entertaining works of the French New Wave.... intoxicatingly reckless... at its best, yummy pop bliss." |
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03/28/12 |
Very Good |
 "...strikingly principled... follows an aspiring hip-hop artist who calls himself Half-a-Mill as he and his various hangers-on attempt to generate interest in his recently completed album..." |
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03/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...has a shambling charm that actively disputes an unspoken notion that a documentary must be well-structured in order to effectively land its points." |
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03/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "At one point, 'Heist' identifies the United States as an oligarchy, not a democracy, and you'd have to be staggeringly naïve to offer much argument to the contrary." |
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01/01/12 |
Very Good |
 "Rafi Pitts is a budding filmmaker and actor of immense talent who should, barring the potential perversities of circumstance, make a film of considerable and uniting power." |
