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"Rookie writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel's helming hand is both unsure and all over the place and she enervatingly spins this slight, could-have-been-charming conceit over two hours."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summers (2008)82%
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"In its compelling immediacy, recalls the great works of Italian Neo-Realist cinema."
Posted May 13, 2008
 
Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008)75%
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"A modest, grittily surfaced film that, while nothing earth-shaking, manages to hold your interest, despite its basic been-there/done-that premise."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Turn the River (2008)75%
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"Spoofy fun at first, but eventually wears quite thin, and I don't think all that much could have been lost in the subtitles."
Posted May 8, 2008
 
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies (2008)74%
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"There's little real wit here and, as far as teen-chick antics go, it's definitely no Heathers or Clueless, not even Cruel Intentions."
Posted May 8, 2008
 
The Babysitters (2008)28%
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"Myriad, amazingly culled interviews with actors, filmmakers and historians add rich texture to this bracingly entertaining, fast-moving survey."
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008)100%
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"Completely devoid of cinematic wit, sensuality or even simple technique."
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Viva (2008)63%
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"Yet another small, "sensitive" character study of unassuming "little" folk trying their best under trying circumstances, all amounting to the purest banality."
Posted May 2, 2008
 
The Favor (2008)11%
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"Under Puenzo's attentive yet strangely enervated direction, there's not much dramatic urgency here."
Posted May 2, 2008
 
XXY (2008)68%
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"There are the odd few tender moments, but they are only brief interludes between more sturm und drang."
Posted Apr 21, 2008
 
Four Minutes (2007)76%
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"Claude Lelouch has concocted an intriguing brew with Roman de Gare, which only grows in interest and emotional depth as it proceeds."
Posted Apr 15, 2008
 
Roman de Gare (2008)84%
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"Despite the undeniable sorrow you see expressed by all, your foot may start to tap and you may find yourself wishing you were on some beach yourself."
Posted Apr 14, 2008
 
Bra Boys (2008)77%
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"At once too short to truly delve into the themes it brings up, as well as too long."
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Stalags (2008)50%
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"The fact that you care about each and every one of these people is testament to the filmmakers' understanding and abiding humanity."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)82%
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"The comedy grows more and more gratingly cynical and unpleasant."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Sex and Death 101 (2008)26%
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"The cruelty of adolescence emerges razor-sharp and could send many in the audience back to the most painful days of puberty."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)84%
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"Definitely proves that, contrary to certain opinions, Los Angeles is not a cultural wasteland where fine art is concerned."
Posted Apr 1, 2008
 
Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008)93%
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"All the muted, oh-so-painful male bonding grows tiresome and predictable."
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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"Johnstone, a friend of the family, maintains too discreet a distance from her subject."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Hats Off (2008)38%
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"There is no denying that Andreas is really trying to say something about the difficulty of real intimacy in a society where easy sex lies in wait on every corner of Manhattan."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
A Four Letter Word (2008)63%
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"However much objectivity the filmmakers try to bring to it, there is an inescapable element of glorification of thoroughly reprehensible characters."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Chapter 27 (2008)21%
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"The characters behave manically--in some imbecilic notion of Anglo farcical style, spitting out their lines with blinding haste--as if speed will conceal their utter lack of wit."
Posted Mar 5, 2008
 
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)76%
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"Not enough happens in his film to really engage the viewer, and it begins to feel repetitive and overextended."
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Chop Shop (2007)94%
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"A highly absorbing rendition of an endlessly fascinating tale."
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)41%
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"Rivette's handling of this talky tale is static in the extreme."
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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"We've seen such coming-of-age tales many times before, and your liking of this movie will largely depend on how passionate you are about soccer."
Posted Feb 11, 2008
 
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)84%
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"Praying with Lior focuses on this precocious, lovable lad, while giving time as well to the special challenges he presents to others."
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Praying with Lior (2008)72%
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"The entire cast is wonderfully committed and seems to be having a helluva time."
Posted Jan 31, 2008
 
Trailer Park Boys - The Movie (2008)56%
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"The wealth of emotions and relationship tensions explored here are beautifully calibrated in the knowing hands of Téchiné, a true cinematic humanist."
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
The Witnesses (2008)85%
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"Fang Li should be applauded for his courageous efforts to address taboo subjects of sex and politics, even while one may question certain aspects of his films."
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
Lost in Beijing (2008)47%
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"Hollywood's latest, annoyingly ungrammatically titled offering in the seemingly endless line of hip-hop musicals, all possessing basically the same storyline and motivation."
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
How She Move (2008)68%
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"The film becomes less and less involving as it spins out its excessive 140-minute running time."
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
Summer Palace (2008)68%
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"Writer-director Hong Sang-soo, called the Asian Eric Rohmer by some, has crafted what may be his most accessible exploration of young adult relationships"
Posted Jan 9, 2008
 
Woman on the Beach (2008)86%
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"Things soon degenerate into forced whimsy and uninspired romantic formula."
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
P.S. I Love You (2007)21%
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"By far the best of a plethora of holiday family-reunion films, Maurice Jamal's warmly hilarious Dirty Laundry is particularly blessed with the presence of Loretta Devine"
Posted Dec 19, 2007
 
Dirty Laundry (2007)50%
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"Rifkin skillfully interweaves plotlines in a way that makes this currently much overused device seem perkily adroit rather than tiresome."
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
Look (2007)61%
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"What's shown is undeniably elegant, which unfortunately only points up Robinson's technical ineptitude."
Posted Dec 18, 2007
 
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)75%
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"Schroeder's heart is in the right place, but his cinematic taste is unfortunately elsewhere."
Posted Dec 10, 2007
 
Man in the Chair (2007)50%
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"Writer-director Don Cato's handling of what might have been an intriguingly subversive black comedy can politely be described as Grade D student filmmaking."
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
Be My Oswald (2007)n/a
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"The thoughtfully sweet slightness of Venditti's film happens also to be the source of its immense charm, and in Billy she has a golden subject,"
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
Billy the Kid (2007)88%
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"Nothing more than a white minstrel show and one is forced to wonder why this particular community is not out protesting it in force."
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
Tony N' Tina's Wedding (2007)20%
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"It's a particularly elegantly made film, with sharp lensing by cinematographers Russell Harper and Karl Hahn."
Posted Dec 4, 2007
 
Protagonist (2007)83%
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"There won't be a more powerful, horrific or inspiring film this year than Nanking."
Posted Dec 3, 2007
 
Nanking (2007)97%
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"When you see all of these octogenarians struggling through the snow and perilous ice to make it to their show, you really see what true courage and artistic commitment are all about."
Posted Nov 26, 2007
 
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (2007)87%
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"Some may enjoy This Christmas for its clan emotion and fitful moments of true liveliness."
Posted Nov 20, 2007
 
This Christmas (2007)53%
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"A grittily realistic picture of a very unpretty world."
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Holly (2007)62%
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"[Barron] has made Jorge so deeply withdrawn that you are unable to really feel anything for him other than a blind pity, which is decidedly not the stuff of compelling dramaturgy."
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
Choking Man (2007)38%
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"An abysmal little conceit wholly lacking in originality, wit or technical style."
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Fat Girls (2007)29%
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"Could almost be labeled a Gaelic minstrel show, so riddled is it with every conceivable cliché and stereotype ever associated with the sons of Eire."
Posted Oct 30, 2007
 
Black Irish (2007)25%
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"Apart from a few too many longueurs of Lagerfeld shooting pretty pictures of pretty models, [the film] is an entertaining bauble."
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Lagerfeld Confidential (2007)41%

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