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04/26/13 |
Excellent |
 "...a most lovely and meticulously handmade hodgepodge of art and feeling.... it memorializes the sweet angst of a certain kind of romantic limbo." |
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06/13/12 |
Excellent |
 "A measured, expertly constructed chronicle of rape in the military... a humane exposé that does not cease to shock." |
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03/23/11 |
Excellent |
 "...consists of modulated quiet, tentative communion, ramshackle absurdity, and selective flashes of sadism.... Olivia Colman's performance comes as a revelation." |
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09/22/10 |
Excellent |
 "...exhilarating... An intelligently shot study in self-control and calculated release, it's equally surprising as an action film and character portrait." |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a vivid portrait.... Ms. Davis retains an elegantly barbed wit.... Although the film approaches hagiography, she supplies a certain spark simply with her presence." |
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03/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "Dan Sallitt lays down a customarily restrained mode of acting, but it's in the service of a rare lucidity about feeling." |
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10/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...haunting... also undeniably austere. Its final, shiver-inducing shot by fireside suggests a man disappearing into darkness itself." |
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10/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a vivid documentary with unusual access to the key players in the geopolitical dramas it recounts.... the stories quicken the conscience..." |
| 9. |
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08/31/12 |
Very Good |
 "...owes much to the balanced compositions, lucid imagery and judicious use of color... stands as a sure-handed look at an individual's slow journey toward realization." |
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08/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "...elliptical, involuted... 'Almayer's Folly' is not friendly terrain to traverse; like some sinister version of Proust, it is a prolonged fever dream that ultimately yields madness." |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...lays bare the passion behind the pixels, revealing the sweat, tears and sleep deprivation that go into trying to make the latest gaming sensation." |
| 12. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a moody, well-rounded film... a kind of excavation and investigation of Booker Wright's actions as a piece of civil rights history." |
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04/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...beguiling... both comedic and poignant... Mr. Hong has found yet another stimulating form for sincerity, not to mention irony and insight, and it's worth savoring." |
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11/02/11 |
Very Good |
 "...refreshingly down-to-earth... the compassionate inquiry satisfies, with Herzog directing his conspicuous fascination toward grounded rather than grandiose ends." |
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10/06/11 |
Very Good |
 "As desperation-inducing as it is to watch, one can only imagine the film's effect for someone who experienced the reality firsthand." |
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09/07/11 |
Very Good |
"We get long looks at archival footage all the way up to the regime's downfall, drawing from unedited rushes that routinely catch telling moments." |
| 17. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
06/11/09 |
Very Good |
 "...melodramatic groundswells have long made Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi a dismissed old-school counterpart to Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
05/28/09 |
Very Good |
 "Chung's handle on a super-fraught milieu is sure... Without proselytizing, what's left in this machetes-to-ploughshares tale is, unexpectedly, a powerfully Christian film." |
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05/27/09 |
Very Good |
"...serious-minded... it feels fully formed, re-energizing the idiom of pastoral drift, folklore, and elemental tension that is so popular in festival-circuit village narratives." |
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04/09/09 |
Very Good |
"...pleasingly meandering..." |
