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04/14/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...via alternately grim and surreal panoramas of malice and insanity, and without resorting to cheap squirm-inducing gore, Zombie wants to furiously disturb..." |
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03/24/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...isn't really 'about' 'The Shining' so much as it is a mirror to it -- as subtle, seductive, and often wholly frustrating as Kubrick's film." |
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12/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...immersive and artfully repulsive.... the rare animated feature whose subtext is as rich as its sensuality, even if the latter is so often fixated on the putrid." |
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10/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...radical and crucially modern... cinema on the edge. It shows us a world, ours but unrecognizable, as we've never seen it before." |
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09/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...playful... its surrealism -- like its romance, its comedy, its historicism, its everything -- is retained with a light touch." |
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08/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...fervently passionate and formally meticulous.... In Chantal Akerman's able hands, this becomes a story of old orders disrupted, tables turned, and dynamics flipped." |
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05/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...authentically twentysomething circa the 2010s: part entrepreneurial, part self-loathing, and thoroughly bewildered.... contrapuntalism is Perry's way..." |
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11/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...as intimate and affecting as it is sprawling and untamed.... delivers a fault-proof human rights debate without once being aggressively or even obviously argumentative." |
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11/22/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Not many films have ever approached the possibilities afforded by the slippery subjectivity of cinematic time so directly, or with such intelligence." |
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11/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of those little big films whose simplicity and concision suggest the excess of meaning that language (cinematic or otherwise) could never account for." |
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10/04/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a picture of intuitive, free-associational power that cuts far deeper emotionally than a dry recitation of dates and facts could ever hope to.... One of the most haunting and irresolvable films I've seen in years... might be some sort of masterpiece." |
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09/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a cyclical fable of daily drudgery that strips human life to its barest elements and banalities... If ever a film had a claim to being profound in its banality, this is it." |
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05/31/11 |
Outstanding |
 "The film understands its subject(s) as contradicting and broken, and its lovers not as complements for each other, but rough-surfaced supplements.... the real thing." |
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09/22/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...resplendently heady yet nimble... Kiarostami's latest is very much a work of art, but its enlightening emotional feeling proves that it's also a certified copy of real life." |
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09/14/10 |
Outstanding |
 "It's the mesmerizing and unflinching face of 10-year-old actress Blanca Engström that makes it such an immersive experience in Swedish cinema's poetic, gut-wrenching coolness." |
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09/12/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...an accomplished film whose generous spirit is harbored by an insistent aesthetic austerity.... makes paying attention an indisputable component of the pleasure it gives, and the feeling it imparts." |
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05/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...minimalist in its aesthetics and soundtrack, quiet and deliberate in its plot... endearing... a vital addition to the small but growing Tibetan cinema." |
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05/12/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...sets a tense, physical tone.... Winocour powerfully portrays the sexual politics of the time as a torment of the body as much as of the mind." |
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05/07/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Wheatly remains serious in his fixations, again picking at the nasty scabs that speckle the human soul.... sardonic... his best film yet." |
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04/30/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...unexpectedly galvanic... a madly creative, darkly comical, and fiendishly self-aware actioner with muscle to spare... thrilling..." |
