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04/05/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable, award-winning.... Kleber Mendonça Filho's mastery of pacing, theme and stylistic eccentricity throughout this movie is so assured as to be breathtaking." |
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11/25/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Quiet and naturalistic in the best way... stands out as an especially affecting delicacy about the thrills and pitfalls of exploring who one is." |
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10/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a remarkable feat... addresses a security-paranoid nation's covert sins with skeptical smarts and a respectful son's understandable compassion." |
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05/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...marked by uncommon grace... these days, a movie so invested in the highs and lows of caring for others can only be a remarkable, cherished thing." |
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10/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Artistic reach meets hypnotic intimacy... a full-circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command..." |
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08/05/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...frequently dazzling... If you care about the state of the homegrown indie, check out this gonzo effort." |
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10/29/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Jeff and Michael Zimbalist take a ravenous appetite to Pablo and Andres Escobar's biographical portraits... one of the best sports docs in recent memory." |
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09/24/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...spectacular... displays a dizzying virtuosity with the cinema of altered states.... Noé's well-established fearlessness is finally in the service of his formidable artistry..." |
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08/26/11 |
Excellent |
 "Think Michael Apted's acclaimed 'Up' series of seven-year-interval documentaries compressed into one film, and you get some of the idea of the unique structure..." |
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10/30/09 |
Excellent |
 "Ti West shrewdly uses our entire sense memory of horror movie experiences to bring his seen-it-all audience to a jittery state of unnerving, shoe-dropping anticipation." |
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07/24/09 |
Excellent |
 "...finds laughs out of what is rarely made explicit between buddies." |
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05/08/09 |
Excellent |
 "...pulses with life... a kind of travelogue of ambition and loserdom, from the rural clarity of a dirt pitch to the dangerous allure of the literal and figurative green." |
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04/10/09 |
Excellent |
 "...an unexpectedly welcome form of dramatic escape... the psychological and physical grittiness becomes a coalescing power." |
| 14. |
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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "...it's the explicitness about capitalism's emotional wreckage that gives this micro-budgeted drama a gut-punch heft.... won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival..." |
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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...intense, maddening (in the right way).... For Hetherington, the front line was not just a set of coordinates in a bloody battle, but a space where true artists operated..." |
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03/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "...sobering... never less than suspenseful... Griffiths lays bare a many-tentacled trafficking system sickening in its reach." |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...magically eccentric.... Garrone achieves something uniquely colorful, disturbing and trenchant about self-perception in an increasingly fishbowl-like society." |
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03/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a tale of tragic romance between gay army soldiers stationed in Lebanon... sweet, sad and short... Knoller makes every little crack in Yossi's defenses smile-worthy." |
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02/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "Though not without its mini-heartbreaks and melancholic turns, this movie explores emergent sexuality and first love with a refreshing optimism." |
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01/25/13 |
Very Good |
 "...offers up a strangely tense and humorous meta-narrative... Rare is the chiller that treats unknown phenomena as a gateway toward enlightened characterizations..." |
