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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
LESLIE FELPERIN
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• Channel 4 Film
• Sight and Sound
• Variety

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Total Reviews: 143


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"If rubber-burning car chases and short shorts are your thing, this is the summer remake for you." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)14%
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"An engrossing if underwhelming period thriller." -- Variety
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
The Bank Job (2008)77%
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"Morose but impressive drama." -- Variety
Posted Feb 13, 2008
 
Everything Is Fine (2008)n/a
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"Would take the silver or bronze medal in any Quality Olympics." -- Variety
Posted Feb 5, 2008
 
Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)n/a
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"Although there's muted criticism here of military strategy, script endeavors to maintain a politically neutral stance, sticking to the ground soldiers' points of view, rendered convincingly here by cast and third-time helmer Joseph Cedar." -- Variety
Posted Oct 27, 2007
 
Beaufort (2008)87%
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"Even if this isn't Schrader's best, it's hardly his worst." -- Variety
Posted Aug 4, 2007
 
The Walker (2007)51%
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"The Hottest State takes a good deal of time to heat up and fails to generate much more than a lukewarm empathy for its petulant main characters." -- Variety
Posted Aug 1, 2007
 
The Hottest State (2006)35%
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"Great title, shame about the movie." -- Variety
Posted Jul 28, 2007
 
Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)43%
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"Too long by half." -- Variety
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
Noriko's Dinner Table (2007)60%
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"Perky turns from supporting thesps can't compensate for the sense that this plays like an attenuated TV episode." -- Variety
Posted May 22, 2007
 
Magicians (2007)29%
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"Like its gifted, but emotionally frigid, pianist hero, Allegro is filled with technical virtuosity but short on real feeling." -- Variety
Posted May 8, 2007
 
Allegro (2005)60%
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"Tonally all over the place, pic is built around a would-be humorous script, but jiggery lensing and gloomy lighting suggest helmer Sam Garbarski is under some delusion that he's making a slice of gritty realism with romantic undertones." -- Variety
Posted Mar 24, 2007
 
Irina Palm (2008)75%
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"[An] above-average Japanese anime sci-fi pic." -- Variety
Posted Feb 24, 2007
 
Paprika (2007)82%
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"Compelling viewing for any fan of Swedish master Ingmar Bergman." -- Variety
Posted Feb 16, 2007
 
Bergman Island (2006)88%
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"Handsome tribute is paid to the eponymous experimental filmmaker in Notes on Marie Menken." -- Variety
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
Notes on Marie Menken (2006)67%
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"Effervescent, if somewhat baggy in structure, dramedy Reprise reps an impressive debut for young Norwegian Joachim Trier." -- Variety
Posted Jan 27, 2007
 
Reprise (2008)95%
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"Pernille Rose Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists." -- Variety
Posted Jan 18, 2007
 
The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun (2006)78%
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"Competently assembled, if a little low on pizzazz." -- Variety
Posted Jan 17, 2007
 
On a Tightrope (2006)n/a
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"There's no doubt the filmmakers' sympathies lie with Joya and the women, and the pic is largely told from the young politician's point of view -- literally at one point, when the camera shows what the world looks like from behind a burqa." -- Variety
Posted Jan 16, 2007
 
Enemies of Happiness (2006)n/a
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"A bit like a cinematic catalog for a gallery retrospective, Matthew Barney: No Restraint serves to explain Barney's m.o. to a wider aud." -- Variety
Posted Dec 20, 2006
 
Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2006)55%
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"For all its slightness, pic is helmer's least pretentious and most sheerly enjoyable for years, despite its very limited commercial appeal." -- Variety
Posted Dec 12, 2006
 
The Boss of it All (2007)73%
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"Pic offers a tabula rasa in which some auds will see a horrifying indictment of the industry's cruelties, others a realistic depiction of mechanized farming, and some a soft-spoken tribute to manual labor." -- Variety
Posted Nov 23, 2006
 
Our Daily Bread (2006)94%
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"Like Jackass but without the charm." -- Variety
Posted Oct 13, 2006
 
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (2006)40%
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"Auds coming cold to this largely faithful adaptation of Alan Bennett's clever but contrived classroom comedy won't be so wowed, given pic's irrevocably stagy feel." -- Variety
Posted Oct 11, 2006
 
The History Boys (2006)63%
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"Given that underwhelming police thriller The Silence is technically a made-for-TV movie, it might not be counted against helmer Cate Shortland as yet another example of the dreaded disappointing sophomore follow-up." -- Variety
Posted Sep 25, 2006
 
The Silence (2006)n/a
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"Despite escalating lunacy, result still feels like an empty aesthetic exercise or filmmaking in-joke." -- Variety
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Offscreen (2006)n/a
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"Sporadically mesmerizing imagery and a miasma-like atmosphere but only fits and starts in the way of plot." -- Variety
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Syndromes and A Century (2007)87%
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"With its emblematic characters and sometimes baffling, mystical storyline, pic ultimately remains emotionally distant." -- Variety
Posted Sep 23, 2006
 
Khadak (2006)64%
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"Likable but slight." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Waiter (2006)n/a
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"By dint of strong perfs (especially from relative newcomer Hannah Herzsprung) and powerful use of music, the pic works in spite of itself." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Four Minutes (2007)76%
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"Palimpsest amounts to rather less than the sum of its parts." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Palimpsest (2006)n/a
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"If there are life lessons here, they're harsh ones -- although they're taught with a gentle, forgiving spirit." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Starter For 10 (2007)89%
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"The deceptively complex pic gradually grows sharp edges and snowballs into a compelling study in culture clash, with spectacular scenery to boot." -- Variety
Posted Sep 22, 2006
 
Blindsight (2008)100%
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"'Whatever' is likely to be auds' response to this occasionally engaging but often ineptly made exercise in postmodern irony." -- Variety
Posted Sep 20, 2006
 
Dead Man's Bounty (2007)42%
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"Handsomely filmed on silvery 35mm and high-definition by Kaye himself, the shrewdly edited pic balances a full spectrum of views from all sides of the abortion debate without obviously taking a position itself." -- Variety
Posted Sep 20, 2006
 
Lake of Fire (2007)94%
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"With its knockout lead perfs and taut if slightly familiar construction, this '80s-set dramedy about a skinhead gang reps Meadows' most fluently made film so far." -- Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2006
 
This Is England (2007)93%
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"Maybe Fassbinder himself could have made something of this script, although it seems on the face of it more suited to Ken Russell." -- Variety
Posted Sep 18, 2006
 
I Am the Other Woman (2006)n/a
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"Its fictional frame about a woman copyist helping the maestro complete the masterwork hits too many duff notes." -- Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
Copying Beethoven (2006)26%
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"A humanistic, charmingly off-kilter samurai story of sorts." -- Variety
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
HANA (2006)n/a
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"Uproariously funny." -- Variety
Posted Sep 13, 2006
 
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)91%
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"Glacially paced and structurally lumpy." -- Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2006
 
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)89%
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"This polished, cleanly made pic still packs a wrenching emotional punch and, if backed by critics and auds, could earn more for Herzog than his last 10 features put together." -- Variety
Posted Sep 12, 2006
 
Rescue Dawn (2007)90%
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"Pic's hippy trippy space odyssey-meets-contempo-weepy-meets-conquistador caper starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz suffers from a turgid script and bears all the signs of edit-suite triage to produce a still-incoherent 95 minutes." -- Variety
Posted Sep 5, 2006
 
The Fountain (2006)51%
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"A well-bred if docile creature." -- Variety
Posted Aug 28, 2006
 
Lassie (2006)92%
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"Wim Wenders' first fiction featurefeature since 2000's The Million Dollar Hotel, rocky but respectable Land of Plenty proves the helmer often does better with low budgets, fast schedules and young collaborators." -- Variety
Posted Aug 4, 2006
 
Land of Plenty (2005)63%
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"This seriously weird pic has a few flat stretches, but its bawdy comedy, bravura sound design and uncanny atmosphere will turn on auds with a taste for deeply oddball fare and baffle others." -- Variety
Posted Aug 4, 2006
 
4 (2006)81%
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"Vacationland remains marred by sluggish script and Verow's inability to either direct actors or cast ones whose thesping ability matches their good looks." -- Variety
Posted Jul 26, 2006
 
Vacationland (2006)0%
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"Although experienced helmer Marco Turco (A Familia) and company don't turn up any new evidence, film indicts the current Italian government's slack attitude toward organized crime." -- Variety
Posted Jul 10, 2006
 
Excellent Cadavers (2006)77%
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"Despite the monotony of the visuals, film maintains interest with Trentalance's warm vocal performance and from the mild intrigue over what happened to Ciccio's inamorata." -- Variety
Posted Jun 16, 2006
 
Uncut (2006)20%

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