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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
FERNANDO F. CROCE
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• CinePassion
• Slant Magazine

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Slant Magazine movie critic.
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Total Reviews: 242


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Francesco, Giullare Di Dio
3.5/4 Totally F***ed Up
3/4 Paris Is Burning
2.5/4 Two Men in Town
2/4 The Truman Show
1.5/4 Sky High
1/4 Domino
.5/4 Wild Hogs
 
 
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4/4 The Earrings of Madame De...
4/4 Un Chant d'Amour
4/4 The Crowd
4/4 Hail Mary
4/4 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
4/4 3 Faust
4/4 The Tall Target
4/4 Distant Voices, Still Lives
4/4 The Second Circle
4/4 Marnie
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WORST REVIEWED
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.5/4 Wild Hogs
1/4 The Last Kiss
1/4 Domino
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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2/4
 
"Looking at Nick Broomfield's filmography and seeing three decades of documentaries, you'd think that by now he would be more aware of the fallacies of cinematic objectivity." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 6, 2008
 
Battle for Haditha (2008)57%
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2.5/4
 
"In The Aquarium, a fishbowl carved out of desert rock gives Yousry Nasrallah's film its title as well as its presiding image of urban malaise." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 3, 2008
 
Aquarium (2008)n/a
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"A lovely and troubling evocation of childhood fantasies." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
White Mane (1952)n/a
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3/4
 
"Beauty in Albert Lamorisse's brand of cinematic poetry stems from a childlike view of the world that sees bliss and sorrow as inseparably bound and equally enchanted." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
White Mane (1952)n/a
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"An academic but intriguing critique from a filmmaker who should be remembered for more than just being Javier Bardem's uncle." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
Death of a Cyclist (1955)n/a
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2.5/4
 
"Explicitly designed as a shock to the system, Death of a Cyclist too often settles for academic subversion." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2008
 
Death of a Cyclist (1955)n/a
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"The HBO series may have orgies on its side, but Mann's underappreciated epic goes deeper and darker into the fall of Rome." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)100%
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3.5/4
 
"Put bluntly, the difference between El Cid and Fall is the difference between faith in a concept of heroism that can transcend even death." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)100%
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"It's difficult to see the real brilliance of the Bay Area film scene through this self-congratulatory fog." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Fog City Mavericks (2007)n/a
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2/4
 
"When "maverick" is thrown around this cheaply, it's just a step for somebody to mount an auteurist case for Chris Columbus." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Fog City Mavericks (2007)n/a
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"Teshigahara lets Gaudí's works speak for themselves, and what strange music they make." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Antonio Gaudi (1984)100%
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3/4
 
"Had Lewis Carroll switched from jotting down his visions to carving them in stone, his works might have looked a lot like Antonio Gaudí's." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Antonio Gaudi (1984)100%
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1.5/4
 
"The first project of the here! gay television network's new movie initiative, Shelter regrettably plays closer to Lifetime fodder." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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3/4
 
"The historical and the personal converge in Moving Midway, Godfrey Cheshire's analytical and emotive portrait of ancestral roots and antebellum mystique." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Moving Midway (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
"Chow's comic fantasy is a sop to kiddie sentimentality that barely skirts rancid cutesiness by sheer virtue of its strange details." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)44%
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"If Siodmak was less a determinist than Lang, he was also less icy -- he views the fall-guy ordeal of piggy, pathetically lecherous officer Werner Peters with characteristic sympathy." -- CinePassion
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)83%
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"Jean-Pierre Melville's great, too little-remembered debut, and a classic example of circumstance leading to aesthetic advance." -- CinePassion
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
La Silence De La Mer (1947)100%
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"The tension is between heightened whimsy and its vérité settings, or, more specifically, between Jean Cocteau's writing (an adaptation of his 1929 novel) and Jean-Pierre Melville's direction." -- CinePassion
Posted Mar 3, 2008
 
Les Enfants Terribles (1950)75%
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"Unforgettable, whether you like it or not." -- CinePassion
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Santa Sangre (1990)74%
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"Very much a late '60s freakout, tricked out with car cemeteries and action painting in the nude, the movie is fake-profound but seldom dull." -- CinePassion
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Fando y Lis (1967)67%
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"The film is a canny blend of observation and creation." -- CinePassion
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Man of Aran (1934)93%
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"Flaherty catches it all by coming up with the needed stylistics as the occasions arise." -- CinePassion
Posted Feb 26, 2008
 
Moana (1926)n/a
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""I much prefer Daffy Duck to Donald Duck." Finally a pensée I can get behind." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
I Want to Go Home (1989)n/a
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2/4
 
"I Want to Go Home has a splenetic oddball quality at odds with the evanescent tendencies of Alain Resnais' later films." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
I Want to Go Home (1989)n/a
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"Perennial modernist Alain Resnais enters "old man cinema" territory with grace and style." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
Melo (1986)n/a
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3/4
 
"s he grew older, Alain Resnais revealed the wistful sentimentalist behind the formalist pathfinder of Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2008
 
Melo (1986)n/a
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"Conrad Veidt is the original innocent with dirty hands in this memorable bit of Germanic arcana." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2008
 
The Hands of Orlac (1924)n/a
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"Like his more famous The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac is ponderous but indelible." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2008
 
The Hands of Orlac (1924)n/a
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3.5/4
 
"The film is a piercing pas de deux that excoriates romance even as its doomed characters are consumed by it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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"Lindberg executes the vengeance audiences came to cheer, and spiritually dissolves." -- CinePassion
Posted Jan 30, 2008
 
Thriller - A Cruel Picture (1974)40%
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"A deluxe DVD package to match the grandeur of Mann's admirable epic." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
El Cid (1961)92%
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3/4
 
"To say that El Cid is the most intelligent of the elephantine epics of the early '60s is to damn it with faint praise." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
El Cid (1961)92%
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"A robust overview of Frankenheimer's most vital years, despite the recycled extras." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2008
 
The John Frankenheimer Collection (1961-1998)n/a
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"An Affair to Remember and a movie to treasure." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 20, 2008
 
An Affair to Remember (1957)64%
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3.5/4
 
"Often regarded (or dreaded) as the ultimate chick flick, due in no small amount to its fetish-object role in Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember deserves better than to be the receptor of Meg Ryan's crocodile tears." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 20, 2008
 
An Affair to Remember (1957)64%
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2/4
 
"Last year's unwanted-pregnancy sweepstake continues with Lost in Beijing, Li Yu's soap-operatic drama set in China's bustling capital." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 20, 2008
 
Lost in Beijing (2008)47%
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"Cornel Wilde's directorial career is ripe for rediscovery. This pure, relentless yarn is a great place to start." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2008
 
The Naked Prey (1965)80%
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3/4
 
"offers a vision of survival at its starkest, boiled down to physical endurance, reflexes, and the desperate need to keep ahead of the foe snapping at your heels." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2008
 
The Naked Prey (1965)80%
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"As the clothes evaporate, Meyer wisely sits back and appreciates the show." -- CinePassion
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)80%
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3.5/4
 
"Jia Zhangke has an uncanny knack for grounding his portraits of Chinese alienation in settings that are at once schematically allegorical and tangibly lived-in." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 11, 2008
 
Still Life (2008)93%
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3/4
 
"A slight but striking mood piece." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Times and Winds (2006)72%
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2/4
 
"Araki's latest is surprisingly mellow in its examination of ganja-fueled apathy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2007
 
Smiley Face (2007)67%
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3/4
 
"Balancing earthy humor and scarring tragedy, Bahman Ghobadi's portraits of Kurdish wanderers are particularly expressive of Iranian cinema's sense of hope within instability." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 11, 2007
 
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007)100%
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3/4
 
"As far as battlefield-as-life parables go, humanity gets a fairer shake in Francisco Vargas's The Violin than in Bruno Dumont's Flanders." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2007
 
The Violin (2007)94%
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3/4
 
"Just when one is about to write off Diablo Cody's much-praised screenplay as less than the sum of its ornate quips, a scene will be flipped in an unexpected direction and a hidden vein of emotion suddenly struck." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2007
 
Juno (2007)93%
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"Country, heal thyself: Kurosawa's feverish early gem is worth catching." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2007
 
Drunken Angel (1948)100%
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3/4
 
"Kurosawa's early stylistic experimentations turn a nightclub stopover into a monstrous parody of an American jitterbug dance-off, and when blood gets finally spilled, it's in a slip-and-slide Yakuza frenzy choreographed amid splattered paint." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2007
 
Drunken Angel (1948)100%
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"An intriguing curio that would have played better as a condensed sketch in Buñuel's Phantom of Liberty." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2007
 
Max Mon Amour (1986)n/a
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2.5/4
 
"Max Mon Amour's theme is one that the great surrealist would have enjoyed--and pushed further." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2007
 
Max Mon Amour (1986)n/a
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"The tears of a clown sting twice as much when shot by Ingmar Bergman." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2007
 
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)100%

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