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2/5 |
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Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
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"Without any change to its essential cosiness, it could surely have been more surprising in its emotional scenes and funnier in its comic ones." | |
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3/5 |
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Bamako (2006) |
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"while the film may be impaired as an oral treatise, Sissako’s use of the trial is still vindicated. It provides rich symbolism in what is, on the whole, a stimulating work." | |
Edward Porter | |
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1/5 |
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Because I Said So (2007) |
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"As well as providing lifestyle porn, the many scenes set in stylish kitchens mean there is usually a cake on hand for somebody to be splattered with. That’s the level of the bland attempts at comedy." | |
Edward Porter | |
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3/5 |
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Blood Diamond (2006) |
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"The best thing about it is the convincing acting by DiCaprio and Hounsou." | |
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2/5 |
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Bobby (2006) |
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"If Estevez’s drama had been as strong as [RFK's] speech, Bobby would have been a far better film." | |
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3/5 |
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The Bridge (2006) |
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"There are harrowing moments: who could not be moved by a parent talking about a son’s suicide? But you do not leave the cinema with a better understanding of suicide." | |
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Casino Royale (2006) |
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"This is a prototype Bond we have never seen before. It seems we have underestimated you, Mr Craig." | |
Stuart Wavell | |
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2/5 |
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The Fountain (2006) |
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"I’ve sat through lots of navel-gazing movies that would have been vastly improved by the addition of some 16th-century conquistador action; Aronofsky’s film is still a bore, Its ideas and images too airy-fairy to have emotional force." | |
Edward Porter | |
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2/5 |
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The Good Shepherd (2006) |
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"Never manages to create a gripping strand to hold our attention." | |
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The Insider (1999) |
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Click here to see the review. | |
Cosmo Landesman | |
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4/5 |
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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) |
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"Eastwood has managed to humanise these enemy soldiers in a way no Hollywood war film has done before." | |
Edward Porter | |
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2/5 |
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Lives of the Saints (2006) |
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"Not every turn in the story is well judged, but what’s more damaging is that the film’s general aura is not sufficiently powerful." | |
Edward Porter | |
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5/5 |
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Los Olvidados (1950) |
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"In [Bunuel's] vigorous storytelling, he not only finds forceful images in the drama’s reality, but adds a dream sequence — a miniature masterpiece that, by itself, is reason enough to see the film." | |
Edward Porter | |
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1/5 |
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The Number 23 (2007) |
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"Spookily, it must have been in about the 23rd minute that my spirits began to sink and I thought: “There’d better be an awfully clever pay-off at the end of this.” Well, there isn’t." | |
Edward Porter | |
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4/5 |
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Old Joy (2006) |
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"A surprising denouement provides poignancy, repaying the goodwill the film inspires through its mellow combinations of music and imagery." | |
Edward Porter | |
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1/5 |
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School for Scoundrels (2006) |
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"Only toward the end of the film do the hostilities reach a level of recklessness with any potential to be funny. If things had started at that pitch and been ramped up from there, Phillips might have had a movie worth making." | |
Edward Porter | |
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3/5 |
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The Science of Sleep (2006) |
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"Another comic love story that takes us inside a character’s psyche, but Kaufman’s rock-solid jokes are replaced by whimsy." | |
Edward Porter | |
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2/5 |
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Sheitan (2006) |
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"If only Cassel had saved his performance for a collaboration with the League of Gentlemen." | |
Edward Porter | |
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3/5 |
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The 9th Company (2005) |
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"The characters are given life by the script and actors, while the mountainous terrain (provided by Crimea) adds novelty to the combat scenes." | |
Edward Porter | |
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2/5 |
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Them (2007) |
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"The nature of the couple’s tormentors makes the action scarier than it would have been with, say, a supernatural monster, but it also represents a cheap and nasty move by Moreau and Palud." | |
Edward Porter | |
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Three Kings (1999) |
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Cosmo Landesman | |
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1/5 |
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The Truth About Love (2004) |
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"The film is silly when it should be sexy, witless when trying to be funny. Everyone involved is probably deeply embarrassed to be associated with it." | |
Cosmo Landesman | |
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4/5 |
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Venus (2006) |
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"Like a variation on Death in Venice, only this could be Death in Kentish Town." | |
Cosmo Landesman | |
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