ROTTEN TOMATOES: Philip Kennicott

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	"Diva, as a lifestyle, a fantasy, a model for alienation and solipsism and eccentricity, has gone deep into all of us." Posted Jan 24, 2008	Diva (1981)	95%
	"Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), a documentary about corruption, crime and human adaptation during difficult circumstances, is a slick, sly and beautifully shot documentary." Posted Sep 27, 2007	Manda Bala (2007)	80%
	"It's easy to end a film with the idea that life goes on. It's extremely difficult to make the cliche the only possible, necessary and satisfying ending. Porumboiu's film does that." Posted Jul 19, 2007	12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)	95%
	"It is filled with neurotic people in greasepaint, some charming, most amusing, and by the time you've spent an hour and a half with them, you're more than invested in their lives and cares." Posted Jun 21, 2007	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)	88%
	"Olivier Dahan's film is both faithful to and freewheeling with the facts of Piaf's life. Much is left out, but the essentials are there." Posted Jun 14, 2007	La Vie En Rose (2007)	74%
	"Like the highway these men are building, Rulfo's film sails above the larger context that would actually bring emotional meaning to the lives he wants to celebrate." Posted Apr 23, 2007	In The Pit (2007)	71%
	"The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair, a documentary with a tiny cast of characters and a modest budget, is a microscopic view of a big and ugly war." Posted Mar 22, 2007	The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)	86%
	"The narrative is built one happy cliche at a time until the story of Katrina ceases to be about appalling environmental neglect, or the colossal failure of the federal government to manage a disaster." Posted Mar 22, 2007	Hurricane on the Bayou (2006)	85%
	"*For a film with this much argument in it, This Film* is remarkably entertaining.*" Posted Sep 15, 2006*	This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)	84%
	"Sumptuously filmed but rather distant." Posted Aug 17, 2006	Time to Leave (2006)	76%
	"A tour de force of cinema verite with astonishing performances by a huge cast of small players." Posted Jul 13, 2006	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)	93%
	"The parameters of Gehry's genius, as suggested by Pollack, are essentially the same as those captured in generations of cliched artist biopics." Posted Jun 2, 2006	Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)	81%
	"*Doesn't advance the Barney oeuvre an inch past where he left it with his massive, megalomaniacal opus known as the Cremaster* series.*" Posted May 25, 2006*	Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)	57%
	"Visually panoramic, a film that revels in making the expanse of a beautiful place palpable." Posted Mar 30, 2006	Duma (2005)	93%
	"Even the basic look of the film -- it was filmed on a stage with every shot set against a bleak, dark backdrop -- underscores the filmmaker's position as master manipulator, in a laboratory, looking down at his mice running through his maze." Posted Feb 16, 2006	Manderlay (2006)	49%
	"Among the dull passages there are moving stories, and a very loving sympathy for the people it profiles." Posted Feb 2, 2006	Music From the Inside Out (2004)	81%
	"Kim works with the barest of materials but returns the viewer's attention to the pure visual pleasure of filmmaking." Posted May 20, 2005	3-Iron (2005)	87%
	"For lovers of the play's language ... the losses will hurt. But as cinematic storytelling, it works." Posted Jan 28, 2005	William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004)	71%
	"A case study in cultural analysis that aims at too much and achieves too little." Posted Dec 31, 2004	Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004)	87%
	"The movie version of Lloyd Webber's smash hit does to the music what the music did to the words and story: It distracts the mind and cajoles the eyes to the point that one doesn't really care that everything the ears are hearing is pure nonsense." Posted Dec 22, 2004	Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)	33%
	"Goes far deeper into one man's opera-diva fetish than most people will want to follow." Posted Nov 29, 2004	Callas Forever (2004)	41%
	"There's really nothing more here than you can find watching dreadful political advertisements and dreadful political talk shows." Posted Oct 22, 2004	Celsius 41.11 (2004)	11%
	"The floating monastery strikes one, at first, as far too empty a stage for a movie of any length, but it becomes, in the end, a meditation on walls, rules and memory, on the keeping out and the keeping in of life." Posted May 7, 2004	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2004)	95%
	"*A grim twist on Some Like It Hot, with a few limp strands of Thelma & Louise* all stiffened up with a bit too much Hairspray.*" Posted Apr 16, 2004*	Connie and Carla (2004)	44%
	"A train wreck of a film lying inert where the tracks of the Feel Good Line cross the Path of Good Intentions." Posted Oct 24, 2003	Radio (2003)	33%
	"Captures an impressive performance from [Cate] Blanchett." Posted Oct 17, 2003	Veronica Guerin (2003)	52%
	"*If you can get past the Big Chill* setup, there is a fine piece of moviemaking here.*" Posted Sep 12, 2003*	The Same River Twice (2003)	68%
	"There is both spiritual and historical substance in the things said, and such obvious reverence for the subject, that the film ultimately has a charming charmlessness." Posted Jul 11, 2003	Bonhoeffer (2003)	72%
	"One can't help but feel thankful that the movie doesn't always go the expected route, that the characters have a little more depth to them than average, and that the complexity, which is the movie's basic weakness, is also its fundamental virtue." Posted Apr 18, 2003	Holes (2003)	77%
	"A movie that never finds a consistent tone." Posted Mar 7, 2003	The Safety of Objects (2003)	49%
	"*Viewers will leave Amandla!* moved by the music, impressed by the musicians and dubious about the possibility of political and social healing.*" Posted Mar 7, 2003*	Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003)	82%
	"It will take a strong stomach for the ordinary viewer to maintain an appetite for Pinochet apologetics after this litany of suffering." Posted Dec 13, 2002	The Pinochet Case (2002)	94%
2.5/5	"For all its sobriety, it adds very little new to the record, and it takes few speculative chances." Posted Jun 15, 2001	Bride of the Wind (2001)	10%

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