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KENJI FUJISHIMA Movie Reviews

29 reviews, averaging 62.0% positive
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1. 04/29/13 Good (Not Great) "If you're willing to overlook the blatant outsider's perspective, it works as a gripping film about filmmaking with a globally topical hook."
2. 03/25/13 Good (Not Great) "...suggests a marriage between the archly whimsical style of a Wes Anderson film and the deadpan near-blankness of the acting in a Robert Bresson film."
3. 02/13/13 Weak "If you prefer your social commentary in the form of a glorified sitcom with broad humor and even broader caricatures, look no further.... suspend disbelief and swallow..."
4. 02/06/13 Moderate "...looks so glossy, plasticized, and unreal that all you end up thinking about is special effects. State of the art, in this case, is no substitute for soulful craft."
5. 01/29/13 Weak "...an especially egregious example of documentary-as-hagiography... eventually degenerates into an orgy of congratulation.... irritatingly insistent one-sidedness..."
6. 01/06/13 Moderate "...aims to be more than an anti-paparazzi tract; it also wants to elucidate the role these photographers play in a whole complex web of celebrity obsession in America..."
7. 12/10/12 Moderate "...as bracing as its message undoubtedly is, there's no escaping the feel this film exudes of being little more than an 87-minute back-patting session."
8. 11/26/12 Poor "Meaney and Morgan's chemistry is convincing... [but] 'Parked' is the kind of middling bore in which the notes are all laid out, but the music never floods through."
9. 10/29/12 Outstanding "...illustrates with a combination of street ballet, exultant music, and unflagging verve.... A more inspiring middle finger to cynicism is difficult to imagine."
10. 09/18/12 Very Good "...a courageous act of reportage... images and interviews are eye-opening enough to justify the dangerous effort.... impressionistic, inquisitive..."
11. 09/17/12 Moderate "...despite a handful of scenes offering a modicum of context to these characters' seemingly unfathomable decisions, '17 Girls' offers precious little genuine illumination."
12. 08/07/12 Moderate "...conventional to the point of dullness... has a lot of information, but its pose of academic detachment proves to be just a subtler way of selling its pro-Israel agenda."
13. 07/22/12 Very Good "...we begin to get a sense of how Young-chan experiences the world: forever full of discoveries to be made, sensations to be felt.... a 'triumph of the human spirit' film..."
14. 07/08/12 Very Good "...convincing... For all the footage in the world, the Polite Rapist remains as invisible to Lily and Nira as they both undoubtedly were to him about 20 years ago."
15. 06/09/12 Good (Not Great) "...as entertaining as the doc is, it never really measures up to the fascination and sheer force of personality of its subject. Maybe no film could, really..."
16. 05/06/12 Very Good "...suggests scintillating questions about how much of a responsibility artists have to reflect current political moments in their music..."
17. 05/06/12 Outstanding "...it's the formal and thematic adventurousness that not only makes it near-Sebaldian, but also thrilling, provocative, and fascinating in its own right."
18. 04/28/12 Very Good "...sidesteps most of the potential pitfalls of sentimentality inherent in its premise and ends up as a generally affecting and occasionally insightful drama about the ways people handle an awareness of mortality."
19. 04/22/12 Good (Not Great) "...amiably loose... warmly observant... beautifully acted... it's a shame the film eventually threatens to fall apart under the weight of an excess of plot twists and hedged bets."
20. 03/21/12 Good (Not Great) "...while the filmmaker's visible passion isn't quite enough to make the film a great work, there's still enough here that's worth taking seriously."

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