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	"His conflation of reality and narrative filmmaking, unique as it may seem, that doesn't always work." Posted May 7, 2008	Battle for Haditha (2008)	63%
	"Far too many disparate themes are never woven together to explain the underlying purpose of the film's journey." Posted Apr 25, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2008)	95%
	"One only wonders whether distributor Magnolia Pictures and Perelman's cast and crew grasp the film's undisguised misogyny." Posted Apr 15, 2008	The Life Before Her Eyes (2008)	26%
	"A perverse male fantasy masquerading as an earnest story about a woman's life-altering experience." Posted Mar 21, 2008	Irina Palm (2008)	72%
	"The actors' Herculean effort to extract meaning from their characters provides a few moments of relief from this troublesome story." Posted Mar 10, 2008	Sleepwalking (2008)	19%
	"While it is absorbing to see girls in this environment, the psychological and sociological perspective which the filmmakers bring teaches us about their subjects rather than allowing us to get to know them." Posted Mar 7, 2008	Girls Rock! (2008)	74%
	"*Driven solely by the filmmaker's prosaic associations. Portabella does not discover the composer through* his music.*" Posted Feb 5, 2008*	Silence Before Bach, The (2008)	91%
	"Niles purposefully seeks out quirkiness rather than providing meaningful demonstrations of craft." Posted Nov 5, 2007	Note by Note: The Making of the Steinway L1037 (2007)	90%
	"Few will doubt the priest's claims given the Dominican Republic's appalling human-rights record; one only wishes they had been explored in an objective documentary format." Posted Sep 27, 2007	The Price of Sugar (2007)	72%
	"It's worse than male fantasy: It's Austen for Idiots." Posted Jul 27, 2007	Becoming Jane (2007)	57%
	"After 40 minutes of schoolgirl and schoolboy reminiscences, and the filmmaker's attempts to filter history through nostalgia, the documentary is about as appealing as a home movie." Posted Jul 24, 2007	The Sugar Curtain (2007)	89%
	"A film with no discernable point of view that's directed at no definable audience." Posted Jul 16, 2007	FairyTale: A True Story (1997)	53%
	"Sokurov has thought deeply about his subject, but he does not dwell in the emotional and spiritual lives of this mother and son." Posted Jul 13, 2007	Mother and Son (1997)	83%
	"Clever as the commentary may be, you simply don't care what happens to the protagonist." Posted Jul 10, 2007	A Self Made Hero (1997)	67%
	"U-Carmen is brash, often strident, yet in the end it is not cathartic." Posted Mar 30, 2007	U-Carmen (2007)	95%
	"It's a dissertation, not a story." Posted Mar 8, 2007	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007)	89%
	"*Like many "documentaries" that are essentially homages, Trudell* often lacks context.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Trudell (2006)	31%
	"**Manderlay is shorter but just as dull, pretentious and condescending as Dogville.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Manderlay (2006)	50%
	"Wheel of Time is flawed because Herzog attempts to illustrate faith through the exercise of faithfulness. He runs after the poetry of Buddhism and it eludes him." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Wheel of Time (2005)	94%
	"*An insipid script by Laws of Attraction* co-writer Aline Brosh McKenna packs a few droll one-liners, but mostly the film only aspires to its chick-lit roots.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)	76%
	"Will raise many more questions about totalitarianism, and about the foreign policies of Western countries with regard to North Korea, than it ever answers." Posted Mar 1, 2007	A State of Mind (2005)	93%
	"While the performances are flawless, Michael Seitzman's screenplay is embarrassingly sophomoric, so much so that the film's denouement completely obliterates its feminist message." Posted Mar 1, 2007	North Country (2005)	68%
	"*John Moore's The Omen* is not as frightening as Richard Donner's 1976 version--Moore resorts to scare tactics rather than impending horror.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	The Omen (2006)	26%
	"An aimless pastiche of archival footage and current interviews of former Vietnam vets court-martialed and jailed for their anti-war activities." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Sir! No Sir! (2006)	88%
	"An advertorial rather than a solid piece of investigative journalism." Posted Mar 1, 2007	After Innocence (2005)	91%
	"It's a credit to MacDonald that she provides a little-known view of Harlem's halcyon days, but what's missing is the pith and marrow: We feel that the women still elude us." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Been Rich All My Life (2006)	78%
	"*Although Sophie Scholl* is noteworthy for its performances, it will undoubtedly fail to capture the popular imagination here.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)	87%
	"The result is an infomercial rather than a film." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Stolen Childhoods (2005)	61%
	"A film that's so recondite, it's barely there." Posted Mar 1, 2007	The Intruder (2005)	84%
	"Mostly an exercise in hyperbole...flawed by a lack of perspective" Posted Mar 1, 2007	Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America (2005)	80%
	"*The problem with Keeping Mum* is that the slaughter is very real and, worse, the victims are often innocent or otherwise undeserving of their fate.*" Posted Mar 1, 2007*	Keeping Mum (2006)	55%
	"The director fails to overcome a script that ignores the backstory of the characters, and that agonizingly details minor subplots." Posted Mar 1, 2007	Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006)	79%
	"Unrelentingly pedantic, it's also utterly humorless." Posted Mar 1, 2007	The Syrian Bride (2005)	88%
	"It was Yu's mistaken belief that experts would detract from her intimate approach that gives the film its tenuity, the lingering sense that far too little has been explored." Posted Mar 1, 2007	In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)	72%
	"*The only thing to be said for The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca* is that it features some excellent performances by the most accomplished Latino actors working in film today.*" Posted Jan 16, 2007*	The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997)	33%
	"Grosbard...forgets the need for character motivation, point of view, or anything else that might make this compelling subject an interesting film." Posted Jan 12, 2007	The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)	40%
	"Predictable and dreadfully misconceived." Posted Jan 5, 2007	Character (1997)	92%
	"Nothing is as irritating as watching a film which is little more than an exercise of ego; worse is watching one that is about as discrete in its purpose as a missionary in Africa." Posted Dec 1, 2006	3 Needles (2006)	35%
	"Unfortunately, the sound-bite journalism of filmmakers Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern glosses over the larger unanswered questions in the documentary." Posted Oct 22, 2005	Emmanuel's Gift (2005)	81%
	"Sunset Story hardly qualifies as a documentary. It's a home movie, complete with spasmodic editing and silly panning shots, punctuated by mawkish piano music." Posted Apr 9, 2005	Sunset Story ()	93%
	"*Somewhere in Khamis' abstruse footage there's a documentary, but Arna's Children* only provides glimpses of it.*" Posted Oct 19, 2004*	Arna's Children (2004)	67%
	"At two hours, it tests the stamina of even the most ardent action movie fan." Posted Sep 11, 2004	Bang Rajan (2004)	69%
	"A stultifying, dreary 63 minutes on film despite its subject matter, the testimony of its subjects, and even the intercutting of particularly rebarbative clips of Attorney General John Ashcroft." Posted Aug 31, 2004	Persons of Interest (2004)	90%
	"*Carri's refusal to suffer, to confront her own emptiness, is what finally renders The Blonds* jejune, nihilistic and utterly unsatisfying.*" Posted Aug 8, 2004*	The Blonds (2004)	63%
	"Contrived and weighed down by testosterone." Posted Aug 8, 2004	The Five Obstructions (2004)	89%
	"Siegel's attempt to unveil psychotherapy's strange nostrums for female depression is labyrinthine and intellectually abstruse, more feminist polemic than good filmmaking." Posted Jan 24, 2004	Empathy (2004)	71%
	"Levin often doesn't hold scenes long enough for the audience to absorb Smith's characterizations." Posted Jan 13, 2004	Twilight: Los Angeles (2000)	n/a
	"Fails to resonate with anything more than the quotidian rhythms of a uniquely dysfunctional family." Posted Dec 6, 2003	My Flesh and Blood (2003)	90%
	"Won't sway anyone on the right, and for those on the left, in its narrow aim of tripping up General LeMoyne and his ilk, it is frustratingly naive." Posted Nov 15, 2003	Hidden in Plain Sight (2003)	78%
	"The script by Campion and Susanna Moore ... begins in implausibility and, along with Frannie's psyche, quickly unravels." Posted Oct 26, 2003	In the Cut (2003)	33%

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