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02/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "...[a] sweet, hip homage to Buenos Aires and love in the visual, virtual age.... an intelligent, ironic, well-acted romcom that's charmingly goofy rather than predictably goopy." |
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02/14/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a showcase for the exceptionally talented Matthias Schoenaerts... begins as a mafia movie, with midnight exchanges of illegal cargo and threatening tough guys pushing each other around, but soon becomes a search for emotional catharsis for its two main characters..." |
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02/11/11 |
Excellent |
 "A timeless comedy about aging, for all ages.... Di Gregorio again plays his own alter ego, and gives us another deceptively small, vaguely autobiographical story..." |
| 4. |
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11/30/10 |
Very Good |
 "...enough gentle pathos and sly humor to compensate for a less than original storyline.... a highly polished crowd-pleaser featuring great performances all around..." |
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11/01/10 |
Fair |
 "...a plodding script and muted staging strangely strip away the emotional punch of this true story on the forced immigration of English children to Australia in the mid 20th century." |
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10/15/10 |
Moderate |
 "...sets out as a character-driven film.... But as it progresses, the script's often stilted dialogue hammers home the issues too many times, to the detriment of the underlying family drama." |
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10/15/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Set in one room, with only three speaking parts, the film is a character study of loneliness... What director Michael Rowe leaves unsaid, to the film's detriment, newcomer Mónica del Carmen fills in with a display of great talent..." |
| 8. |
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10/15/10 |
Good |
 "...tackles its subject with the same kind of hip visual energy, snappy editing and tour-de-force acting that made Placido's 2005 'Romanzo Criminale.' " |
| 9. |
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10/15/10 |
Good |
 "...a visually sturdy (with its many slow pans and static shots) film-within-a-film that throws winks and nudges at the illusory nature of both art and reality as it shrouds them in mystery.... [but the] underlying thesis on the malleability of art and truth only scratches the surface of the concept." |
| 10. |
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10/15/10 |
Weak |
 "...the dissected minutiae of this adultery drama unfortunately doesn't add up to a very original or moving whole.... The actors are quite good but have little to do, which at times is just awkward.... sags from too many inconsequential scenes and rambling conversations." |
| 11. |
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10/15/10 |
Very Good |
 "...good fun, a popcorn movie of epic proportions for kung-fu fans.... director Andrew Lau's trademark visual pizazz is there, if not the gritty intensity of his other work." |
| 12. |
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10/15/10 |
Very Good |
 "The director simply turns on the camera and shows us the natural progression of time in a place where time seems to have stopped.... spends as much time on the goatherd as the herd... both are equally riveting." |
| 13. |
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10/14/10 |
Very Good |
 "...proves that good films can be made on near-zero budgets with the simplest of plots.... [a] sweet story that features a most impressive performance by a small child." |
| 14. |
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05/14/10 |
Excellent |
 "Elegantly minimalistic, superbly played and surprisingly feel-good, in the best sense of the word." |
| 15. |
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11/03/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a knockout debut. Affecting and entertaining... Filmmaker Andrew Lang used his unprecedented access to a Cuban state institution to paint an emotionally charged yet balanced portrait of sacrifice, social hardship and political indoctrination." |
| 16. |
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10/27/09 |
Good |
 "...loses some vitality and humor in the middle... Mihaileanu then deftly builds up to the film's emotional ending, a beautiful final sequence that evokes tears and laughter." |
| 17. |
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09/25/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a smart psychological thriller with the one fatal flaw... the cliched, brooding nature of Ksenia Rappoport's character weighs down the film's suspense..." |
| 18. |
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09/07/09 |
Good |
 "...a modern melodrama, both sweeping and constrained, that blooms slowly.... always absorbing to watch, even when it doesn't reach the heights for which it shoots." |
| 19. |
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09/04/09 |
Very Good |
 "...what is most interesting is hearing the directors speak of their work in general... As Lynch puts it, 'People want you to talk about a film as soon as you make it. But the film is the thing. It's the whole thing. It's there.' " |
| 20. |
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09/03/09 |
Fair |
 "The film starts promisingly. The animation technique is a highly stylized reworking of photographs... However, 'Metropia' is weighed down by a convoluted plot.... Characters' actions make little sense." |
