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" Perhaps no director since Hitchcock has been quite this obsessed with glimpses and gazes." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2008
 
Chouga (2007)n/a
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3/4
 
" A folk tale disguised as a documentary, Sergei Dvortsevoy's Tulpan appears something like actual reality, half-planned and half-found." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2008
 
Tulpan (2008)n/a
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1.5/4
 
" Something like a bad Oliveira forgery." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2008
 
The Northern Land (2008)n/a
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2/4
 
" At best, The Class is great reality TV." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2008
 
The Class (2008)100%
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" Contemplative cinema with nothing to contemplate." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 13, 2008
 
Wonderful Town (2008)91%
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3.5/4
 
" Momma's Man, completely unshakeable, is implicitly nostalgic, about a nostalgic man, but only because it has such an unsentimental commitment to the gap between past and present." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2008
 
Momma's Man (2008)96%
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2/4
 
" Eat stupidly elides Fleischer's rationalist approach to the most fervently unreasonable impulses." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2008
 
Eat, For This Is My Body (2008)n/a
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3.5/4
 
" Boarding Gate, B-movie heir to Phil Karlson and Ingmar Bergman, screws any pretence of naturalism for hallucinatory confrontations." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
Boarding Gate (2007)25%
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3/4
 
" Like Cristian Mungiu did in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Brillante Mendoza attempts to take the camera from the opening shot of Touch of Evil to quotidian life in the slums." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2008
 
Foster Child (2007)n/a
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2/4
 
" Twaddle pitched somewhere between a music appreciation class and a modernist experiment attesting to art's ability to ennoble the quotidian." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2008
 
The Silence Before Bach (2008)85%
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1/4
 
" At least Arranged understands that its message is directed at naïve children." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2007
 
Arranged (2007)67%
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" Once the premise is up, it’s never as uninteresting as it should be." -- Stylus Magazine
Posted Nov 5, 2007
 
Otoshiana (1962)n/a

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