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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an intense, mysterious drama exploring revolution and loss.... Isabelle Huppert's is a naked, mesmerizing performance in perfect sync with director Claire Denis' prowling style." (Read the full review...) 68 words, 11/19/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a beautiful, puzzling film. The enigmatic quality of Huppert's performance draws us in." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 11/18/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...powerful, agonized... filled with images that sometimes reveal their full meaning only when their beauty curdles in the chain of signification... terror creeps through this film quietly..." (Read the full review...) 1,084 words, 11/19/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...stunning... exquisitely composed..." (Read the full review...) 153 words, 11/19/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...an altogether stunning work.... Isabelle Huppert in a bravura performance.... this is filmmaking that is at once exhilarating and chilling, powerful and powerfully disturbing." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 11/26/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...unites France's most precious actress, Isabelle Huppert, with one of that nation's leading directors, Claire Denis. The result is as impressive as one would expect." (Read the full review...) 215 words, 11/19/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...minor Denis is well worth seeing, here for reasons that start, and end, with the stoic magnificence of her chief camera subject, Isabelle Huppert." (Read the full review...) 415 words, 11/19/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a beautiful, puzzling film. The enigmatic quality of Huppert's performance draws us in." (Read the full review...) 768 words, 11/18/10 J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "Claire Denis's strongest movie in the decade since 'Beau Travail'... tense, convulsive... a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty." (Read the full review...) 644 words, 11/17/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "With the sparest of storytelling, French filmmaker Claire Denis devours her audience, swallowing us up in a yarn that is as enigmatic as it is engrossing." (Read the full review...) 401 words, 11/26/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...captures the stark beauty of the landscape, and the dreamlike horror of the violence at hand.... A mournful, frightening, powerful film." (Read the full review...) 258 words, 12/10/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "Enigmatic, elliptical but visually powerful..." (Read the full review...) 123 words, 12/17/10 Cary Darling, Dallas Morning News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a thoughtful, if sometimes frustrating, tale... Huppert shows slow-burn intensity that gives the film a solid center." (Read the full review...) 298 words, 01/14/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...isn't an easy watch, but no hard lesson should be." (Read the full review...) 590 words, 11/26/10 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Denis' shots of African landscapes are beautifully composed, and yet even they seem to contain a threat, suggesting something hiding within that beauty..." (Read the full review...) 379 words, 11/26/10 John Hartl, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...as gripping and gorgeous as 'Chocolat,' even though, as the title suggests, its view of colonialism is borderline-contemptuous." (Read the full review...) 408 words, 12/10/10 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...somewhat elliptical but also thoroughly engrossing and propulsive. Compared to Denis' earlier work, it's practically an action movie.... This is an uncommonly fine film." (Read the full review...) 253 words, 12/17/10 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...works both as an intriguing character study and as a portrait of paradise lost.... unhurried in its storytelling but unshakable in its impact." (Read the full review...) 326 words, 01/28/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: FAIR (cg) "Claire Denis is superb at telling details and tone... But she's not big on story logic... A few questions can be intriguing; too many questions can be distracting." (Read the full review...) 302 words, 12/17/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a poignant, haunting study of well-intentioned but doomed folly, embodied by a heroine whose bravery renders her blind to the world that is crumbling around her." (Read the full review...) 526 words, 01/07/11
J. Hoberman, Village Voice/LA Weekly: OUTSTANDING "Claire Denis's strongest movie in the decade since 'Beau Travail'... tense, convulsive... a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty." (Read the full review...) 644 words, 11/17/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Denis builds tension, pathos, and irony (it's more like a traditional horror story than her creepy 2001 vampire film, 'Trouble Every Day')..." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 11/25/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "The chief pleasure of Claire Denis' work is that it's incomplete, at least in the sense that the audience has to be engaged in completing it.... assembles the big picture from a series of tiny moments..." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 11/18/10 Fernando F. Croce, Slant: VERY GOOD (cg) "...ethereal, elliptical, sinewy filmmaking.... strikes the senses as much as the director's great films, but its lack of mystery ultimately keeps it from lingering like them." (Read the full review...) 425 words, 10/11/09
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...lean and shattering... a portrait, by turns chilling, thrilling, mysterious and terrifying, of a woman who refuses to be terrorized." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 11/26/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...powerful, agonized... filled with images that sometimes reveal their full meaning only when their beauty curdles in the chain of signification... terror creeps through this film quietly..." (Read the full review...) 1,084 words, 11/19/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...an altogether stunning work.... Isabelle Huppert in a bravura performance.... this is filmmaking that is at once exhilarating and chilling, powerful and powerfully disturbing." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 11/26/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...disorientingly beautiful... promises that human madness and human love will balance each other out, in the fullness of time. No director has ever gotten more out of Isabelle Huppert..." (Read the full review...) 1,088 words, 11/18/10
Jay Weissberg, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...very much a Denis film, not just in the complexity of the characters and their motivations but in the framework and editing." (Read the full review...) 744 words, 09/23/09 Sura Wood, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "...taut, unforgettable... Denis is helped immeasurably by an astringent, fully committed performance from her leading lady..." (Read the full review...) 629 words, 05/29/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...an altogether stunning work.... Isabelle Huppert in a bravura performance.... this is filmmaking that is at once exhilarating and chilling, powerful and powerfully disturbing." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 11/26/10 Jeff Farr, Cinema 24/7: OUTSTANDING (cg) "French director Claire Denis at the top of her game... a wily narrative and character study... an uncompromising political statement about Africa... ferocious filmmaking." (Read the full review...) 1,047 words, 07/22/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...powerful, agonized... filled with images that sometimes reveal their full meaning only when their beauty curdles in the chain of signification... terror creeps through this film quietly..." (Read the full review...) 1,084 words, 11/19/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: OUTSTANDING "...lean and shattering... a portrait, by turns chilling, thrilling, mysterious and terrifying, of a woman who refuses to be terrorized." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 11/26/10
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