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06/17/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "There's nothing especially spiritual or Jewish about '$9.99,' but with its numerologically suggestive title, this curious movie does inspire Kabbalistic reveries." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
07/10/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...an episodic affair detailing the absurd or fantastic encounters between the inhabitants of a particular apartment building." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
07/30/09 |
Moderate |
 "...subversively old-fashioned hymn to industrial production is filled with offbeat, vaguely absurd details... interspersed with sentimental pop songs and melancholy poems." |
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06/03/09 |
Moderate |
"...it's not an easy movie to read.... what is one to make of the casually revealed information that the movie itself was partially financed by 24 City's developer?" |
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11/23/11 |
Excellent |
 "...viscerally cerebral... at once a lucid movie of ideas, a compelling narrative, and a splendidly acted love story..." |
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11/24/11 |
Excellent |
"...at once a lucid movie of ideas, a compelling narrative and a splendidly acted love story..." |
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12/28/11 |
Excellent |
 "...an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box.... writer/director Asghar Farhadi resists the notion of narrative closure." |
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12/16/09 |
Very Good |
 "...has more strident colors and less synopsizable action than a year's worth of comic-book adventures, embodies a sensibility that might be termed 'extreme quirk.' " |
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01/28/10 |
Very Good |
"...has the manic whimsy of the dollhouse scenes in Michel Gondry's 'Science of Sleep' and is even closer to child's play -- noisy, overexcited and very pragmatic." |
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09/30/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the almost frighteningly accomplished first feature made by Antonio Campos when he was 24, is high school as horror show.... cool, precise, and judgmental." |
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03/03/10 |
Fair |
 "...casually absurd, off-handed in its violence.... a straightforward allegory of female actualization.... seems a trailer for a Wonderland computer game -- and it is." |
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03/04/10 |
Fair |
"...soberly concerned with itself as a business model.... The final battle is clearly designed for gaming; so, too, the protagonist.... Walt's corporate heirs must be proud." |
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08/17/11 |
Very Good |
 "...aspires more to educate than entertain, but it's no less engrossing for that.... intelligently rip-roaring, a thoughtful action film, a teachable moment." |
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10/21/09 |
Fair |
 "Lars von Trier strains his enterprise past the breaking point... Still, 'Antichrist' is not without its qualities -- notably von Trier's boundless sarcasm and skill with actors." |
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10/22/09 |
Fair |
"Lars von Trier puts his made-in-hell spouses -- and his audience -- through the ringer." |
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06/17/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Faithfully adapted from the Chekhov novella by Mary Bing and crisply paced by Israeli director Dover Koshashvili..." |
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04/28/10 |
Outstanding |
"...intelligently staged and impeccably crafted.... The period atmosphere is sensuous; the postcard setting feels lived-in." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
07/16/09 |
Good |
 "...more chilling than funny." |
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05/06/09 |
Good |
"Gazowsky has completed only two shots (if only we could see them!) and is being sued by the city of San Francisco. Still, he perseveres: 'God doesn't change his mind.' " |
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06/29/11 |
Good |
 "...some might find it exhausting and others exhilarating. 'Aurora' is not a movie to make you glad that you exist; it's a movie that makes you aware that you do." |
