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Natasha Senjanovic
28 reviews, averaging 68.4% positive

 

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1.
Sidewalls (Medianeras)
Hollywood Reporter
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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Bullhead (Rundskop)
Hollywood Reporter
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..."
3. 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. 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..."
5.
Oranges and Sunshine
Hollywood Reporter
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."
6.
Life, Above All
Hollywood Reporter
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."
7.
Leap Year (Ano bisiesto)
Hollywood Reporter
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.
Angel of Evil (Vallanzasca)
Hollywood Reporter
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.
Road to Nowhere (2011)
Hollywood Reporter
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. 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. 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. 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.
La Pivellina (Little Girl)
Hollywood Reporter
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. 05/14/10 Excellent "Elegantly minimalistic, superbly played and surprisingly feel-good, in the best sense of the word."
15. 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.
The Concert (2010)
Hollywood Reporter
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. 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.
I Am Love (Io sono l'amore)
Hollywood Reporter
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.
Great Directors
Hollywood Reporter
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.
Metropia
Hollywood Reporter
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."

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