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01/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A grand narrative yarn spun from a number of smaller ones... demonstrates the truism that the more we know, the less we understand. Or is it vice versa?" |
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05/12/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Clio Barnard's pitch-perfect Dunbar biopic... revisits the foredoomed career and tragic afterlife of this slum-born, self-educated writer to electrifying effect..." |
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03/09/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema.... a movie of long takes and constant conversation.... Once it gets going, it's so fluid, it might easily be mistaken for facile." |
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03/02/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...at once sophisticated and artless, mysterious and matter-of-fact, cosmic and humble... The movie doesn't mean anything -- it simply is." |
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11/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...impressionistic yet tactile.... the movie's refusal to tether its action to a particular time or place gives it a disturbing, ahistorical universality." |
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11/17/10 |
Outstanding |
"Claire Denis's strongest movie in the decade since 'Beau Travail'... tense, convulsive... a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty." |
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11/04/10 |
Outstanding |
 "An artist who constructs his pieces from chunks of reality and lets reality speak for itself, Wiseman develops a point of view without a narrative." |
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10/20/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a crowning accomplishment.... effortlessly takes its place beside 'Requiem for a Heavyweight,' 'The Great White Hope,' 'Fat City,' 'Rocky' (sigh), 'Raging Bull'..." |
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08/12/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a movie about a particular condition, less a suspenseful narrative than an immersive experience. There is no space for anything but the present moment..." |
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08/04/10 |
Outstanding |
"...at once political allegory and existential combat movie -- Sartre's 'No Exit' as directed by Sam Fuller.... Blunt, clamorous, and harrowing... a formalist tour de force." |
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05/28/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...founded on a powerful sense of place -- and that place, namely, the vast nowhere void of southern Kazakhstan, could easily be another planet." |
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05/07/09 |
Outstanding |
"Dvortsevoy: 'The most difficult thing for the actors was to be as strong as the animals because all the animals in the film are fantastic, and the actors should not be worse.' " |
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04/02/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a compelling drama that's also a formalist triumph." |
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04/01/09 |
Outstanding |
"...winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes... In every respect, this unclassifiable movie is an amazing accomplishment." |
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03/26/09 |
Outstanding |
"I've seen 'Hunger' three times, and with each screening, the spectacle of violence, suffering and pain becomes more awful and more awe-inspiring." |
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03/18/09 |
Outstanding |
"...a superbly balanced piece of work, addressing the passion of Irish Republican martyr Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in Belfast's Maze prison in 1981." |
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11/03/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...at once self-conscious and breezy, clumsy and deft, diffident and sweet, annoying and ecstatic.... No movie I've seen this year has given me more joy." |
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07/08/10 |
Outstanding |
 "The movie is a complete, grueling immersion in Lenny's chaotic world -- a kid's-eye view of what it's like to live in a constant state of emergency." |
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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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05/12/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a funny, fantastic, genuinely alarming quasi-autobiographical cheapster by twentysomething New York brothers Josh and Benny Safdie." |
