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11/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...cathartic and exhilarating.... tender, unflinching.... a work of guttural poetry, not a clinical case study." |
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09/11/09 |
Outstanding |
 "You'll never see a more tactile expression of the intimacy between artists and their instruments." |
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08/14/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Miyazaki works passion and zealotry into the fiber of this character, and intrigue into everything he does... Everything is simultaneously supernatural and sensible." |
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07/31/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The euphoria, lunacy and transformative intensity of art receive passionate, perhaps immortal treatment in 'Seraphine'... quietly magical and urgently moving..." |
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07/24/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Watching it, you feel you're in the presence of art completely of the moment and also aesthetically new. This film pioneers observational action moviemaking." |
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07/03/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...diagrams networks of manufacturing, finance and transportation that have run the old-fashioned American independent farm into the ground." |
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05/29/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The sight of the drifting house erases all sense of boundaries from the city's concrete canyons and becomes -- like the whole movie -- an undiluted delight." |
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05/22/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The tragicomedy of artistic striving has never been more grittily or more sweetly captured... exudes a boundless, generous humor." |
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05/15/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...staggering... Tyson empties his heart and mind to Toback. He still revels in his victories while trying to explain his self-destructive character." |
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05/01/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a stunning demonstration of how a master filmmaker can conjure a soaring lyricism from mingling archival footage and location shots with scraps of verse and music." |
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04/03/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a portrait of the artist as a working-class mother.... The film imbues its harried, haunted characters with a down-home majesty." |
| 12. |
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03/27/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The director, Matteo Garrone, achieves a journalistic drive on a scale so broad that it takes your breath away." |
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06/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 " 'If music be the food of love, play on' becomes achingly real in the exquisite 'Mademoiselle Chambon.' " |
| 14. |
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04/09/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Clocking in, like most 'classic' IMAX presentations, at a mere 43 minutes, it brings audiences microscopically close to the crew who repaired and updated the Hubble..." |
| 15. |
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11/13/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a documentary about the subprime mortgage crisis, has the power of a haymaker that somehow sneaks up on you." |
| 16. |
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09/25/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...tracks the history of the German urban guerrillas also known as the Red Army Faction in the breathless, brainy docu-action form of classic political thrillers..." |
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09/25/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a prismatic depiction - tart, funny and piercing - of the romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne in the three years before he died, in 1821, at age 25." |
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09/18/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a delirious surprise - an experimental film from Francis Ford Coppola that has the sizzle and vim of his great narrative work." |
| 19. |
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09/04/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Giamatti is perfect at the center of 'Cold Souls,' the kind of sardonic lark that triggers more silent laughter than belly laughs. Against all odds, it proves to be haunting, too." |
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07/31/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...mixes hilarity with upset.... Shelton's method in making this movie was to let the actors riff according to her structure and guidelines." |
