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11/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for." |
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05/31/11 |
Outstanding |
 "The film understands its subject(s) as contradicting and broken, and its lovers not as complements for each other, but rough-surfaced supplements.... the real thing." |
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09/14/10 |
Outstanding |
 "It's the mesmerizing and unflinching face of 10-year-old actress Blanca Engström that makes it such an immersive experience in Swedish cinema's poetic, gut-wrenching coolness." |
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03/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a raw, sophisticated, and stomach-turning look at what it means to be a young woman in Serbia, what it means to be a woman tout court." |
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09/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a mesmerizing trip into the world of unrepentant relinquishing to luxury.... captures Vreeland's perhaps unwitting philosophical integrity..." |
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05/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...knows how entangled the will to know is with the will to make love.... to touch the lover's body, and listen to what it has to say." |
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04/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a beautiful tale of alienation, solitude, and existential anxiety, respecting very basic rules of European cinema of the best kind... unfolds with the unhurriedness of real time." |
| 8. |
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11/05/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Nascimento's trajectory is one of constantly trying to give up his guns and always ending up with one in his hands. Uncastratable, incorruptible, and immortal." |
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08/03/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a contemplation of the split, or non-split, between masculine and feminine, imprisonment and freedom, lover and lover." |
| 10. |
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11/30/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Steen's performance is so mesmerizingly nuanced, her face so overwhelmed, almost twitching with complexity..." |
| 11. |
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09/14/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a visually stunning critique of the exacerbation of difference that post-communist times have to offer.... takes turns wowing through its aesthetic..." |
| 12. |
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08/02/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Goran and Sven are a relief for gay couples everywhere who can finally see on screen the distinctive existential dimensions, at once matching and disjunctive..." |
| 13. |
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04/25/13 |
Very Good |
 "...manages to capture that delightful moment when a person who's normally just a function is finally acknowledged as a person with something to say." |
| 14. |
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01/24/13 |
Very Good |
 "The film is at its finest as a catalogue of Yossi's unspoken ache, less so when it begins to flirt with the clichés of the love story..." |
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12/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the film's most redeeming quality is that it isn't so quick to neuter its queer characters into a package-friendly 'gay couple' aesthetic a la 'Modern Family.' " |
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10/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "A smart comedy... a joy to watch mostly due to Isabelle Huppert's impeccable embodiment of the snobbish upper-class bitch." |
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10/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a sort of love polygon in which everyone's desires are thwarted in the name of the father -- a father who's always missing, or dead, or inadequate, or a fraud..." |
| 18. |
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05/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "Some of the acting can feel a bit hokey, which is helped by the student-film look of several scenes. But its critique is probably more multi-dimensional than it even realizes." |
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03/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "A series of slow-moving takes propelled by the gusty winds of its serene coastal landscapes... portrays the unlikely relationship between two very bored people.... has a consistent documentary-like hyper-realist style..." |
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03/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...remarkably well-edited and authentic... both exhilaratingly fun (think a less self-indulgent, and definitely less queer 'Kaboom') and socially conscious -- to a limit." |
