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01/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years... a piece of beautiful cinema, rough-hewn and poetic, often musical in its rhythms..." |
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04/14/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...galvanizing, elegant and wildly entertaining... Part fiction, part nonfiction and thoroughly inventive... as gripping a suspense movie as one of Hitchcock's own, and shows remarkable breadth of vision." |
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05/19/08 |
Outstanding |
 "...supremely accomplished... marks personal artistic progress of director Lisandro Alonso and an impressive standard for others to match." |
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07/03/07 |
Outstanding |
 "...a stunning feature debut... features scene after scene of dialogue that recall Tom Stoppard in their precise, hilarious and mind-expanding use of language." |
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06/18/07 |
Outstanding |
 "...announces a genuinely original filmmaking talent who literally pulls no punches in his depiction of teen angst and racial warfare on the streets of 1997 St. Petersburg, Fla." |
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06/29/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...elegantly traces the brief heyday and longer dark years of Cuba's National Art Schools and the campus' unconventional architecture.... fine research..." |
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11/21/08 |
Outstanding |
 "The peripatetic life of filmmaker Michael Almereyda ('Happy Here and Now,' 'Hamlet') is captured in glorious fragments forming a breathtaking whole in his new video feature..." |
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07/07/08 |
Outstanding |
 "...an outrageously funny study of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il's theories on moviemaking. Fest auds, political buffs and cine-heads will be dazzled... rule-breaking, expectation-defying and guaranteed to generate discussion." |
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02/02/12 |
Excellent |
 "...uplifting.... Smartly engineered to engage sports fans and non-fans.... Plentiful talking-heads filming is standard, but the interviews are spirited." |
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01/25/12 |
Excellent |
 "...exemplifies Stacy Peralta's knack for serving up stylish images and documenting wildly entertaining characters who could simply not be invented..." |
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01/22/12 |
Excellent |
 "...deeply sad and touching... Paul Dano delivers a beautifully wrought performance... So Yong Kim keeps the pacing slow and steady..." |
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09/10/11 |
Excellent |
 "...incredible and incredibly violent... offers a continuous sequence of action with a clear and effective premise... The effect is exhilarating..." |
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07/31/11 |
Excellent |
 "...acutely conceived... An unusual example of what can be termed a 'gay Christian' film... among the best of a recent spate of dramas observing American Christian life. With a brilliant cast of young actors..." |
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07/31/11 |
Excellent |
 "...top-flight... Mikkel Norgaard serves up an edgy brew that skewers just about everything Danish in sight, including the Dogma style of cinema..." |
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05/30/11 |
Excellent |
 "A sustained dark night of the soul... plunges into the disturbed mind of a man haunted by his murder of a Tel Aviv pawnbroker.... engrossing, visually acute and intensely personal filmmaking." |
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04/21/11 |
Excellent |
 "...by most measures the best of the 'Fast and Furious' bunch, combining fresh casting choices, interesting Rio locales and literally smashing bookended action sequences." |
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03/10/11 |
Excellent |
 "...combines concise but thoroughgoing sociological-historical analysis and elegant cinematic resources in service of an uncommonly artful example of film journalism." |
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02/10/11 |
Excellent |
 "Cerebral and sensual... considers the history of the African diaspora to postwar Europe through a highly unusual prism of structuralist cinema, archival footage, spoken-word recordings and the nine muses birthed by the union of Zeus and Mnemone..." |
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08/01/10 |
Excellent |
 "...affecting and superbly paced... the rare good-hearted film that wears its political correctness on its sleeve yet exudes honesty throughout." |
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05/16/10 |
Excellent |
 "...tender but unsentimenta... Directed with great confidence and control, and filled with stretches of quiet contemplation, this is pure-grade art cinema..." |
