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04/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...understated, affecting... nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar." |
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04/11/12 |
Outstanding |
"Sophie Nélisse, with her tough, Courtney Love puss, and Émilien Néron's portrayal of a boy's well-defended torment are extraordinary... a really great movie." |
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01/31/13 |
Outstanding |
 "You don't get the sense that it's any easier for these men to question Israel's leadership, or lack of leadership, from the safety of retirement." |
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01/30/13 |
Outstanding |
"...engrossing... compelling viewing, but the enigmatic cross-hatching of insights that emerges from those big interviews makes the movie something more essential." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/05/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008..." |
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03/05/09 |
Outstanding |
"...the movement toward consensus raises the richly complicated question of how to decide not only what is right but what is best." |
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03/04/09 |
Outstanding |
"Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008... masterful, engrossing..." |
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06/28/12 |
Excellent |
 "Zeitlin and cinematographer Ben Richardson create a sense of coherent near-chaos with constant, searching camerawork. They shoot from the hip, literally..." |
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01/05/12 |
Excellent |
 "Tectonic pacing builds to a series of imperceptible and yet earth-moving moments.... Silence and sound are deployed as artfully as Ceylan's sweeping master shots are." |
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11/22/11 |
Excellent |
 "The velocity of the visuals matches the almost vaudevillian pace of the script... the 3D offers mild, if somewhat superfluous, enhancement to an already engrossing trip." |
| 11. |
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07/28/11 |
Excellent |
 "...a provocative example of a filmmaker in complete control of her interests and her talents." |
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07/14/11 |
Excellent |
 "...recalls the beguiling lightness of the good old Disney, where clever visual and thematic feats are deftly interwoven and yet tossed off... favors playfulness above all." |
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07/07/11 |
Excellent |
 "...director James Marsh frames the key players as captive specimens." |
| 14. |
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04/14/11 |
Excellent |
 "...suave, elliptically drawn... To say too much about what actually happens would be to rob you of the film's risks and narrative ripostes.... a wholly memorable love story." |
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03/31/11 |
Excellent |
 "...densely interlaced and vividly portrayed... It's a feat of unexpected difficulty from David Schwimmer, and it earns the elusive commodity invoked by the title." |
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03/07/13 |
Excellent |
 "Brooklyn native, Yale-educated Crewdson has an obsessive eye for physical detail, here creating image after image of postcapitalist desolation..." |
| 17. |
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02/06/13 |
Excellent |
 "Proof that Raúl Ruiz was still teeming with ideas... a characteristic work of surreal wit and circuitousness -- and the filmmaker's winking but mournful goodbye." |
| 18. |
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12/05/12 |
Excellent |
 "Well-timed and well crafted... a thoughtful, terrifically intimate account of the case that dismantled this country's anti-miscegenation laws..." |
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10/24/12 |
Excellent |
"...finely sketched.... it's the on-set agonies -- to achieve the fleeting expression here, dark kiss of light there, and the peculiar relief they bring our maestro -- that fascinate." |
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10/18/12 |
Excellent |
 "...we witness an awakening within a nascent, online society with its own culture, language, value system and sense of identity..." |
