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04/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a delightful, bittersweet documentary... In a world of iTunes, audio streaming and social media, it seems genuinely social and personal all at the same time." |
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03/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "It felt like a movie that was only just preparing to hit its stride and deliver the laughs we'd come for." |
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02/03/12 |
Weak |
 "...lacklustre... 'You mustn't go down to the basement'... 'We must leave this hotel; you are in grave danger'..." |
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01/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...a lousy film." |
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09/23/11 |
Moderate |
 "Action-film fans will find plenty to like... But the rest of us? Not so much." |
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04/08/11 |
Very Good |
 "Using a largely untried cast, it charms by insinuation, by playing itself out in the key of life." |
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03/18/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a steaming vat of Chinese celluloid overflowing with hallucinatory ingredients and phantasmagoric flavours... its go-for-broke/what-the-hellness is the film's strength." |
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03/18/11 |
Very Good |
 "...one of those grim, one-damn-thing-after-another melodramas you find yourself liking much against your better judgment." |
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02/11/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Right now he's the sound and face of Now, but tomorrow? Tomorrow never knows." |
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03/05/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...voters at the French version of the Academy Awards gave it nine awards, including best picture, best director, best actor (Rahim) and best supporting actor (Arestrup) honours." |
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02/26/10 |
Very Good |
 "...a celebration of sorts of the resilience, determination and stoicism of China's people.... an impressive feature debut from the thirtysomething Lixin Fan and a harbinger of more great documentary cinema." |
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02/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "...entertaining and informative documentary on how native people have been portrayed on-screen over the years and how these portrayals have shaped native self-perception and non-native prejudice.... plenty of wince-inducing, sometimes blackly humored archival moments." |
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02/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "...dares to be taken seriously and dares you to be moved in turn.... resonates as a journey into the mythic, a meditation on heroism, hubris, resourcefulness and redemption..." |
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02/12/10 |
Moderate |
 "...an ill-considered, utterly unnecessary remake of the 1941 pulp classic... isn't howlingly awful; it's just not terribly scary or even suspenseful." |
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08/07/09 |
Very Good |
 "...woos and wins as a thriller. The menace is palpable, and the stakes never feel less than a matter of life or death." |
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07/24/09 |
Very Good |
 "...provides great music - African-American and African as well as Afro-Hispanic - and interesting context, too." |
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07/24/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a lovely, quirky and not a little poignant film from Agnès Varda, at 81 the still spry grande dame of the Nouvelle Vague that revolutionized French and world cinema in the late 1950s and early 60s." |
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07/24/09 |
Poor |
 "At least it makes Saskatchewan look good." |
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KatynToronto Globe & Mail |
07/17/09 |
Outstanding |
 "There's no redemption here. Indeed, if anything is redemptive about 'Katyn,' it's the fact of the film itself." |
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BrünoToronto Globe & Mail |
07/10/09 |
Moderate |
 "Some of these rude 'n' crude set-pieces are brilliant, but they can't disguise the fact that 'Brüno's' well-springs derive more from TV's 'Candid Camera' than from the writing of Voltaire or Swift..." |
