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MICHAEL UPCHURCH Movie Reviews

Michael Upchurch
14 reviews, averaging 82.4% positive

 

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1. 04/13/12 Outstanding "Occupied Paris, as evoked by Ismaël Ferroukhi, is an unsettling mix of life-as-usual and sudden moments of terror... The final key ingredient in this splendidly acted story is the music..."
2. 03/23/12 Very Good " 'Painting is another form of thinking,' Richter says, and as you watch him in action, you can actually glimpse his mind buzzing away."
3. 12/10/10 Very Good "It's hard to say whether the film will convert viewers who aren't already Merritt-ophiles.... for those who know his work, there's plenty to savor."
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Last Train Home
Seattle Times
10/22/10 Good (Not Great) "Lixin Fan, handling his own cinematography, shoots with such a painterly eye that he almost undermines the social critique he's making."
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Life During Wartime
Seattle Times
08/13/10 Outstanding "...follow-up to 1998's 'Happiness,' dials down the gross-out factor of the earlier movie. But it still maintains Solondz's knife-edge balance between psychodrama and satire..."
6. 08/13/10 Very Good "...a wildly imaginative if erratically executed urban fable. Toilet humor is one thing -- toilet hallucinations quite another."
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Ondine
Seattle Times
06/18/10 Very Good "...leans more toward moody mystery than fanciful whimsy in this unlikely tale, shot in misty blue-green colors that make its Irish coastal setting look both beautiful and desolate."
8. 10/09/09 Outstanding "...has some turbulent emotional currents at play beneath its quiet surface.... masterful family drama..."
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Afghan Star
Seattle Times
08/21/09 Very Good "...an informative documentary revealing how decades of war and years of Taliban repression have fallen to the wayside, however briefly, as Kabul's answer to 'American Idol' seduces a violence-weary Afghanistan."
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Seraphine
Seattle Times
08/14/09 Outstanding "...rises high above standard biopic..."
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The Country Teacher
Seattle Times
07/24/09 Outstanding "...a Czech rural idyll -- beautifully shot, superbly acted and with thorny complications."
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Moon
Seattle Times
07/03/09 Outstanding "...engages the eye as much as the mind. Here's a canny director who doesn't let technical prowess overwhelm his sure, resourceful sense of human drama and character."
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Food, Inc.
Seattle Times
06/19/09 Outstanding "...isn't just about food. It's about suppressed information.... exposes conflicts of interest between big-time U.S. producers of food and those who are supposed to regulate them (too often the same people, the filmmakers contend)."
14. 05/29/09 Outstanding "...a wry and measured portrait of family inheritance -- and the necessity, sometimes, of discarding the past... The final result couldn't be more thoughtfully calibrated or observed."

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