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05/22/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...may be the greatest film ever made about impermanence.... In a cinematic series and career notable for their variable natures, Hawke is an actor transformed." |
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05/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...wondrous, absorbing.... shows how a single narrative can quickly splinter into many different ones... it feels true..." |
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05/01/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...gorgeous, freewheeling, semi-autobiographical... an ode to both youth's universal qualities and the specifics of Assayas's youth in particular." |
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04/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...exquisite, honest, and beautifully detailed.... This is one of the most fully rounded, unsentimental portraits of an artist you'll ever see on film." |
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02/27/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...perverse, funny, and ultimately profound.... It's tricky subject matter that Dan Sallitt navigates every bit as skillfully as Louis Malle did in 'Murmur of the Heart.' " |
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01/23/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...enormously powerful... a richly observed portrait of working-class African-American life and of one man's flawed but sincere efforts to make things better..." |
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01/16/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...utterly unclassifiable... the movie keeps you in something like suspended animation, waiting to exhale.... You've never seen anything like it." |
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12/26/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...truly unique... wonderful... a work of sophisticated primitivism, which finds aching truth in the phrase 'The past is another country.' " |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "This is a movie that can stun you.... the most rare of films: one that indisputably matters.... What is more terrifying: killers or accusers?" |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "People on both sides might find the interrogation scenes difficult to watch, which is as it should be.... the movie reconfirms Bigelow as a master of high-tech action..." |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...fiercely intelligent... like all of the best pop art, it is both seriously entertaining and seriously thoughtful, rattling the cage of race in America on-screen and off..." |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A transfixing Cold War thriller... superb... Christian Petzold uses familiar templates to offer fresh perspectives on historical rifts and wounds." |
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10/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Unclassifiable, expansive, and breathtaking... if it is partly an elegy for cinema, it is also perhaps a melancholic glance back that draws from more personal anguish." |
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10/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...superb... raises questions about truth and memory so provocative that moviegoers are likely to stand in the lobby debating them." |
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09/28/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...mesmerizing... makes clear that hell is such high-seas toil.... a masterfully grim and gruesome portrait unlikely to stoke one's appetite for seafood." |
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05/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...mines emotional chaos without tipping into mawkishness... as this elegiac movie reminds us, even a shattered life matters, leaving behind an indelible, intricate imprint." |
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04/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a beautifully aching love story.... cutting to the bone with the gentlest of knives, withholding judgment even at its grimmest displays of human frailty.... a stunner..." |
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04/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Sophie Nélisse, with her tough, Courtney Love puss, and Émilien Néron's portrayal of a boy's well-defended torment are extraordinary... a really great movie." |
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03/14/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...magnificent and evocative observances of Richter laboring in his studio come as close as cinema gets to tracking the impulses and paradoxes of a gifted imagination." |
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02/15/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a marvel of concentrated, classical storytelling.... call this ethnodocumentary noir... The film is like a meeting of 'River's Edge' and 'The Fast Runner.' " |
