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PAUL SCHRODT
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• North by Northwestern
• Slant Magazine
• Stranger Song

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Total Reviews: 49

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2/4
 
"Under a new name and equally aggressive ethnic branding, Austin Powers is alive again." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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2.5/4
 
"Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Surfwise (2008)100%
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3/4
 
"Using title cards, interviews, and endless archival footage, Bialis is able to tie a very specific history to the course of 20th century upheaval." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Refusenik (2008)94%
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"Since Janus's barebones release of The Red Ballon comes with the 34-minute film and nothing more, highbrow parents might have to find other ways to entertain their kids for the day. Like, you know, Dora the Explorer." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
The Red Balloon (1955)100%
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3/4
 
"The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual "purity," but not enough is said about the movie's delightful manipulation." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
The Red Balloon (1955)100%
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2/4
 
"Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2008
 
Jellyfish (2008)86%
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2.5/4
 
"Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Fighting for Life (2008)88%
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2/4
 
"As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)60%
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.5/4
 
"Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness is a movie every bit as cumbersome and trying as its title." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2008
 
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007)60%
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2/4
 
"Unanswered questions about Derrick's kids and Spanish-speaking mother abound, and their all-too-infrequent interactions point to a hard-knuckled realism about post-9/11 New York that begs to be seen." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2008
 
Liberty Kid (2007)86%
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2/4
 
"The most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2007
 
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2007)86%
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1.5/4
 
"One look at Aaron Stanford's chain-smoking, long-haired musician in a Hanes t-shirt and you know Flakes wants so badly to be hip." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2007
 
Flakes (2007)25%
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1/4
 
"Naked Boys Singing! is the biggest waste of d**k since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Naked Boys Singing (2007)64%
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2/4
 
"True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures sees the world through its subject's childlike eyes." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2007
 
My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007)n/a
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1.5/4
 
"The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2007
 
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)65%
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1/4
 
"Myths are more popular in the movies than ever, but unlike the Christian extravaganza of The Chronicles of Narnia, Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint won't be showing up on your kid's Netflix list." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2007
 
Milarepa (2007)36%
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3/4
 
"Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Dans Paris (2007)60%
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2.5/4
 
"Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2007
 
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)93%
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3.5/4
 
"Gavras uses Anna's precocious reason to tackle a generation's idealism head-on." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
 
Blame it on Fidel (2006)93%
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1/4
 
"Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
 
Laura Smiles (2007)47%
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2/4
 
"Rescurrecting the Champ is a snooze." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2007
 
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)61%
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2/4
 
"The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
Tekkon Kinkreet (2007)72%
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3.5/4
 
"At its heart, Drama/Mex is a story of people struggling to fulfill their roles, and the camera's forceful gaze is their confessional box." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2007
 
Drama/Mex (2007)35%
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3.5/4
 
"Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Snake Eyes (1998)36%
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3.5/4
 
"De Palma's characterizations may not have the subtle tongue-in-cheek wit of Tom Wolfe, but his version of the story is both more comic and angrier for it." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2006
 
Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)26%
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"From Molly Ringwald's pretty-in-pink mouth to the political banter of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Jon Hughes's frustrated sarcasm branded a generation. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2006
 
Pretty in Pink (1986)79%
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3/4
 
"John Hughes was born in 1950 but connected deeply with the next generation's cultural brooding." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2006
 
Pretty in Pink (1986)79%
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"His name is Jack T. Colton. What's the "T" stand for? "Trustworthy."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2006
 
Romancing the Stone (1984)85%
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2/4
 
"The message is clear: Love and protection comes with a white face and a big, black gun. His name is Michael Douglas." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2006
 
Romancing the Stone (1984)85%
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4/4
 
"Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2006
 
Blow Out (1981)93%
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.5/4
 
"You might remember it from May when it starred Lindsay Lohan and was called Just My Luck." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2006
 
Material Girls (2006)4%
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2.5/4
 
"Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2006
 
Hamilton (2006)80%
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3/4
 
"Tough-as-nails and with a heavy British accent, director Paul Yule sometimes resembles a more famous BBC documentarian: Nick Broomfield." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2006
 
The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (2006)75%
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3/4
 
"Reiss takes advantage of the contemporary rift between '70s-born freewheeling gay lifestyle and modern gay domesticity." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2006
 
Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)n/a
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3/4
 
""If you're a sissy, or just a big prissy, don't get pissy, missy. It's Gay Day at Happy Land!"" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2006
 
Queer Duck: The Movie (2006)n/a
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1.5/4
 
"Munich this is not." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2006
 
The Color of Olives (2006)40%
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"With Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro shoot for a Terry Gilliam-esque grotesque beauty and only hit grime. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2006
 
Delicatessen (1991)86%
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2/4
 
"Delicatessen uses its aggressive stylization and capricious visual contraptions as a form of imprisonment." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2006
 
Delicatessen (1991)86%
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1/4
 
"The shallowness of female pop culture that Holofcener courageously tears down is just the thing Just My Luck successfully re-perpetuate." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 17, 2006
 
Just My Luck (2006)13%
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1/4
 
"God bless her soul, Mo'Nique even stays believable as the story requires her to finally fall apart and hit a new self-hating low." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2006
 
Phat Girlz (2006)24%
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2/4
 
"Shoddy screenwriting devices simply pass the time for Whitney to sling hillbilly-isms at admirers of his stand-up comedy." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2006
 
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)6%
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1.5/4
 
""Trapped in the closet" fittingly describes Tyler Perry's lurid melodrama, in which characters repeatedly stumble onto others' dark secrets during living room chats." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2006
 
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)27%
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1.5/4
 
"The whole thing unravels like a long night of Trivial Pursuit." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2006
 
Date Movie (2006)6%
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1.5/4
 
"Goossen misuses recognizable names for dubious cameos and pushes eccentric side characters to uncomfortable parody." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2006
 
Grandma's Boy (2006)16%
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1/4
 
"Do yourself a favor and rent a very campy Radio instead." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2005
 
The Ringer (2005)40%
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1.5/4
 
"Faris's parody of pop culture's vapid idols transcends the film's own brainless romantic plot." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 25, 2005
 
Just Friends (2005)43%
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"After The Skeleton Key, another lifeless Deep South horror movie charting the myriad frights of costumed black people performing defense rituals." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2005
 
Venom (2005)8%
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"Like the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Showtime and Taxi seemingly haunt every shot of Les Mayfield's shrill white cop/black cop buddy movie." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2005
 
The Man (2005)11%
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0.5/4
 
"Avis layers every sequence with pop singles and confuses poor camera focus and colored lighting for aesthetic flair." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2005
 
Undiscovered (2005)6%

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