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09/07/12 |
Excellent |
 "This is an excellent story, and Ms. Draper tells it clearly and stylishly, teasing out the interesting angles and repercussions.... uses split screens to powerful effect..." |
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06/15/12 |
Excellent |
 "Mr. Bhargava's technique owes much to documentaries, not least the sense that the camera is capturing unguarded moments. Scenes feel loose and unstaged..." |
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03/14/12 |
Excellent |
 "Gerhard Richter may not fling paint at the canvas, Jackson Pollock-style, but as Corinna Belz shows in her documentary, he can be his own kind of action painter." |
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12/29/10 |
Excellent |
 "...excellent anime... There's a lovely, unhurried quality to Mr. Hosoda's storytelling, which nicely matches the clean, classically composed images of his outer story." |
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03/13/13 |
Very Good |
 "Mr. Dolan captures something specific about these two people and also something more universal about the rope-a-dope dance between sullen adolescent and parent." |
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08/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "By turns frustrating and moving... Yet for all its omissions and problems, 'The Green Wave' communicates certain basic truths effectively..." |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...its drama unfolds simply, without explosive moments but not without emotion. Director Ann Hui and her two excellent leads keep the film buoyant." |
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01/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "This history is too recent to seem dry... the film gets an added emotional punch from interviews with former tenants, whose memories mix fondness with anger and loss." |
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12/02/11 |
Very Good |
 "...well made... You want to hear these thoughtful, articulate and sometimes self-lacerating men and women describe their experiences and traumas." |
| 10. |
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11/18/11 |
Very Good |
 "Edmon Roch has a great story to tell, and he recounts it with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie... dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts." |
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06/01/11 |
Very Good |
 "...interviews form the backbone of '!W.A.R.,' and like the film, they're passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned." |
| 12. |
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05/06/11 |
Very Good |
 "...quietly assured... its focus on the boys, whose games and projects -- they keep trying to rescue the ball -- are treated with a sweetness that steers clear (mostly) of sentimentality." |
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09/17/10 |
Very Good |
 "Mr. Beesley's documentary is absorbing, and the rodeo provides the kind of action that the camera loves.... less a rah-rah sports film than a compassionate look at difficult lives in a difficult place." |
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07/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "...an impressive debut feature by Vikramaditya Motwane that covers familiar first-film ground with emotional conviction and freshness. A kind of Indian cousin to Truffaut's '400 Blows'... Mr. Motwane has an ability to present melodramatic material without the Bollywood-style melodrama." |
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06/18/10 |
Very Good |
 "...a richly atmospheric adaptation of the Indian epic 'The Ramayana'... features songs and dances... an eye-popping climactic battle... And that, folks, is entertainment." |
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10/09/09 |
Very Good |
 "...gives a joyful sense of what it was like to be a feminist in the 1970s... focuses on a group of feminists, including Ms. Braderman, who took matters into their own hands: they formed an art collective and put out a magazine, Heresies..." |
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05/15/13 |
Good |
 "...handsomely shot... may not be fully satisfying as a documentary. But it has what any good movie needs: a star -- the ever-game soprano Natalie Dessay." |
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03/01/13 |
Good |
 "...buoyant.... The interviews are mostly good and instructive, but the well-chosen historical footage is better." |
| 19. |
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11/30/12 |
Good |
 "The movie isn't a radical departure (or a radical anything). It's very much a Hindi film, but updated and delivered with conviction and style." |
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11/14/12 |
Good |
 "...sober and sobering... the film is fundamentally an inquiry into justice. It makes a forceful argument: Justice and the occupation are incompatible..." |
