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03/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "At two and a half hours, this movie is hardly a quick-fire, but Mungiu has already mastered the long haul, and, within it, the long single take." |
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02/25/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...exquisitely made, elusive... has a lulling rhythm and a melancholy charm.... Kiarostami plays tricks on an audience he has caressed into unwariness." |
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02/18/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...thoroughly deserves its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.... a meaty addition to Bernal's work in 'Amores Perros,' 'Y Tu Mamá También,' and 'Bad Education.' " |
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12/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "It was a masterstroke to cast Emmanuelle Riva... There have been many invasions in Haneke's work, but nothing compares with the looming approach of mortality." |
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12/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...masterly... An example of radical realism, this movie has its mysteries as well as its devastating certainties." |
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12/03/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...perhaps the most devastating portrait of contemporary social inequality to appear in an American documentary... at first discomforting, then enraging, then illuminating." |
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11/26/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a documentary history of Israel told from the point of view of its internal security chiefs... both honest and saddening... a remarkable film..." |
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09/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...casts a spell as bewitching, but also as controlled, as anything that the writer and director, Paul Thomas Anderson, has wrought before.... gives us so much to revere..." |
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09/03/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a lyrical film about the destruction of a great American city... both an ardent love letter to a past vitality and a grateful salute to those who remain in place..." |
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08/14/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...brilliant.... Zobel and his actors and crew have discovered something cold and lewd in the human heart and have found an effortlessly expressive way of dramatizing it." |
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06/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the first classic of the Long Recession... it has an exciting palpability, an oxygen-sharp sense of the present tense. It's raucous and alive." |
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06/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...light and fast... gently but surely moves back and forth between romantic comedy and satirical farce... it is devoted to dreamers and seekers." |
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05/28/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...for every note of provable precision, a more fanciful detail flutters past.... Anderson's great gift is to catch the generations as they intersect..." |
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04/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The echoes of this intricately wrought movie go on forever... nothing has exploded on the screen in recent years as violently as that mad quarrel in a tiny room..." |
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03/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The real reason to see 'The Kid with a Bike' is that it offers something changelessly rare and difficult: a credible portrait of goodness." |
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12/12/11 |
Outstanding |
 "You can trawl through cinema and find few more beautiful, more unforced, or more fleeting representations of the bourn between the living and the dead." |
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11/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...an emotionally satisfying story for children and their movie-loving parents.... both a summing up of the cinematic past and a push forward into new 3-D technologies." |
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11/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a crowd-pleaser that makes you glad to be part of the crowd.... damnably clever... less like an arch conceit and more like the needle-sharp recollection of a dream." |
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10/10/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a poetic apprehension of some unfathomable oncoming disaster.... a frightening movie, but it's so sensitively made that it's a compliment to the audience..." |
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09/12/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...brilliant... so sure-handed and intelligent that it has an invigorating, even an enlightening, quality, as if a blurred picture had suddenly come into focus." |
