"...Inarritu cements his reputation as a boldly talented filmmaker with his first English-language project, 21 GRAMS..." Variety "...It's a startlingly crafted movie, with several extraordinary performances..." Entertainment Weekly "...The film is full of engagingly high-strung performances..." Film Comment "...There are few movie pleasures as satisfying as an actor soaring to meet the challenge of his or her gift. It's a pleasure that's delivered threefold in 21 GRAMS..." Los Angeles Times "...That Inarritu shapes something redemptive out of blasted lives is proof that he is a filmmaker of rare and startling grace..." Rolling Stone "...[A] complex, time-fractured narrative....The most shattering performance comes from Naomi Watts..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "This is cinematic art in its highest form."USA Today "[T]he film is a virtuoso accomplishment of construction and editing."Chicago Sun-Times "Inarritu remains primarily a poet of the visible world..." Sight and Sound "Watts and Del Toro - both Oscar-nominated for their roles - positively roar with restraint, while the lesser known Melissa Leo matches Benicio every step of the way..." Total Film52.07761
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"...Inarritu cements his reputation as a boldly talented filmmaker with his first English-language project, 21 GRAMS..." Variety "...It's a startlingly crafted movie, with several extraordinary performances..." Entertainment Weekly "...The film is full of engagingly high-strung performances..." Film Comment "...There are few movie pleasures as satisfying as an actor soaring to meet the challenge of his or her gift. It's a pleasure that's delivered threefold in 21 GRAMS..." Los Angeles Times "...That Inarritu shapes something redemptive out of blasted lives is proof that he is a filmmaker of rare and startling grace..." Rolling Stone "...[A] complex, time-fractured narrative....The most shattering performance comes from Naomi Watts..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "This is cinematic art in its highest form."USA Today "[T]he film is a virtuoso accomplishment of construction and editing."Chicago Sun-Times "Inarritu remains primarily a poet of the visible world..." Sight and Sound "Watts and Del Toro - both Oscar-nominated for their roles - positively roar with restraint, while the lesser known Melissa Leo matches Benicio every step of the way..." Total Film52.07761
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"...Inarritu cements his reputation as a boldly talented filmmaker with his first English-language project, 21 GRAMS..." Variety "...It's a startlingly crafted movie, with several extraordinary performances..." Entertainment Weekly "...The film is full of engagingly high-strung performances..." Film Comment "...There are few movie pleasures as satisfying as an actor soaring to meet the challenge of his or her gift. It's a pleasure that's delivered threefold in 21 GRAMS..." Los Angeles Times "...That Inarritu shapes something redemptive out of blasted lives is proof that he is a filmmaker of rare and startling grace..." Rolling Stone "...[A] complex, time-fractured narrative....The most shattering performance comes from Naomi Watts..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "This is cinematic art in its highest form."USA Today "[T]he film is a virtuoso accomplishment of construction and editing."Chicago Sun-Times "Inarritu remains primarily a poet of the visible world..." Sight and Sound "Watts and Del Toro - both Oscar-nominated for their roles - positively roar with restraint, while the lesser known Melissa Leo matches Benicio every step of the way..." Total Film52.07761
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"...Charged with macabre, original and dramatically riveting moments..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Irritu's deft eye crafts scenes of realism, depth, and empathy, all of them seething with raw emotional power..." Film Comment "...This film is satisfying....AMORES feels like the first classic of the new decade, with sequences that will probably make their way into history..." New York Times "...A grabber....Irritu keeps us involved..." USA Today "...Fierce, loving, and electric, this movie's got bite as well as bark..." Entertainment Weekly "...Like all the best movies, you leave AMORES PERROS seeing the world with new eyes..." Rolling Stone "...AMORES PERROS is urban hip-hop film-making from Mexico and it's definitely fly..." Sight and Sound "AMORES PERROS is in every way a major work....It is fully realized in all ways, ablaze with a raft of vital portrayals and rich in meaning and implication..."Los Angeles Times51.60753
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"[H]ypnotic....We come away from this film consumed with a sense of sorrow over innocence betrayed and reminded of the double standard of justice in our polarized world."Movieline's Hollywood Life "BABEL is certainly an experience....The sheer reckless ardor of Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu's filmmaking -- the voracious close-ups, the sweeping landscape shots, the swiveling, hurtling camera movements -- suggests a virtually limitless confidence in the power of the medium..."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a dizzying array of faces, languages and imagery that sears into your soul."Box Office "Inarritu and his superb cast use provocation and feeling to build something tentatively hopeful out of the rubble. This is a film to take to heart."Rolling Stone "BABEL looks beautiful, never more so than when BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto captures locals at ease among themselves." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 4 -- "In the year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film, Inarritu invites us to get past the babble of modern civilization and start listening to each other."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Each piece in the puzzle unfolds at a thrilling velocity, events spiralling out of control in a whirlwind of rash judgements, linguistic barriers and sheer bad luck."Total Film Ranked #5 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2006" -- "[A]s the film builds to a shattering climax, you'll be in an emotional grip that won't let go."Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 -- "The stories gradually gather urgency, heat and pain....In a soundbite century, it stares tragedy in the eye, scrapes away the mindless babble."Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's an intense experience, defined by a simmering sense of dread..."Ultimate DVD51.60753
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"[H]ypnotic....We come away from this film consumed with a sense of sorrow over innocence betrayed and reminded of the double standard of justice in our polarized world."Movieline's Hollywood Life "BABEL is certainly an experience....The sheer reckless ardor of Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu's filmmaking -- the voracious close-ups, the sweeping landscape shots, the swiveling, hurtling camera movements -- suggests a virtually limitless confidence in the power of the medium..."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's a dizzying array of faces, languages and imagery that sears into your soul."Box Office "Inarritu and his superb cast use provocation and feeling to build something tentatively hopeful out of the rubble. This is a film to take to heart."Rolling Stone "BABEL looks beautiful, never more so than when BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto captures locals at ease among themselves." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 4 -- "In the year's richest, most complex and ultimately most heartbreaking film, Inarritu invites us to get past the babble of modern civilization and start listening to each other."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "Each piece in the puzzle unfolds at a thrilling velocity, events spiralling out of control in a whirlwind of rash judgements, linguistic barriers and sheer bad luck."Total Film Ranked #5 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2006" -- "[A]s the film builds to a shattering climax, you'll be in an emotional grip that won't let go."Rolling Stone 5 stars out of 5 -- "The stories gradually gather urgency, heat and pain....In a soundbite century, it stares tragedy in the eye, scrapes away the mindless babble."Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's an intense experience, defined by a simmering sense of dread..."Ultimate DVD51.60753
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"...[A] fascinating sampling of art challenged by life..." Entertainment Weekly "...[Inarritu's] film is so strong because it allows us to use our imaginations. It generates almost unbearable empathy..." Chicago Sun-Times "...It's no surprise that Imamura has directed the best film in September 11....A sliver of Imamura greatness, the film glides along..."Los Angeles Times26.1955
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ense and atmospheric....Charlize Theron's fabulous, dead-eyed performance as Sylvia, the Portland restaurant manager hell-bent on trashing her life with promiscuity, reels you in..."Total Film "Powerful, profound and beautifully rendered, THE BURNING PLAIN plays like a good novel that was superbly adapted for the screen..."Los Angeles Times0.7834609
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ense and atmospheric....Charlize Theron's fabulous, dead-eyed performance as Sylvia, the Portland restaurant manager hell-bent on trashing her life with promiscuity, reels you in..."Total Film "Powerful, profound and beautifully rendered, THE BURNING PLAIN plays like a good novel that was superbly adapted for the screen..."Los Angeles Times0.7834609
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ense and atmospheric....Charlize Theron's fabulous, dead-eyed performance as Sylvia, the Portland restaurant manager hell-bent on trashing her life with promiscuity, reels you in..."Total Film "Powerful, profound and beautifully rendered, THE BURNING PLAIN plays like a good novel that was superbly adapted for the screen..."Los Angeles Times0.7834609
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Down Beat (10/96, p.56) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...With no trace of artifice in this mirth-making set...they deliver the Latin-influenced jazz gospel truth with sparkling radiance and explosive rhythmic flash..."JazzTimes (11/96, p.86) - "...a strongly improvisatory excursion....Leader/trumpeter/conguero Gonzalez keeps the tempo in the slow to medium range and his trumpet style and arrangements are distinctly Milesian....[FIRE DANCE] is heady and extremely well played."Option (11-12/96, p.106) - "...numbers that might start out heavily Afro-Cuban, then shift into mid-'60s Blue Note territory...then back to the Caribbean. Or vice versa. In fact, all this might happen in one chorus of a tune. It all makes organic musical sense..."8.600484
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Down Beat (12/94, p.63) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...hard-bop credibility....hot Afro-Cuban percussion interludes....the music really comes together on idiomatically integrated tunes..."JazzTimes (11/94, p.76) - "...advanced and fiery solos that stretch the hard bop tradition. The rhythm section...keep the proceedings consistently near the boiling level....this stimulating group succeeds in both the idioms that it explores, never neglecting the jazz in favor of Latin rhythms or vice versa..."8.549572
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"...The brilliant photography and the simplicity of action are counterbalanced by the sense of ritual, in which every move, every object, carries a history of meaning..." Sight and Sound7.426245
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"...The brilliant photography and the simplicity of action are counterbalanced by the sense of ritual, in which every move, every object, carries a history of meaning..."Sight and Sound7.426245
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