3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A simmering lead performance by John Malkovich anchors Aussie director Steve Jacobs' surprisingly deft screen adaptation of South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's wildly-acclaimed 199 novel DISGRACE..."Box Office "[A] faithful compelling screen adaptation....DISGRACE is all the more devastating for being so coolly dispassionate."New York Times "Jacobs and Monticelli have approached their challenging source material with a clear and committed cinematic vision."Los Angeles Times "Its characters are uncompromisingly themselves, flawed, stubborn, vulnerable....This is one of the year's best films..."Chicago Sun-Times [D]emanding but ultimately rewarding....Nothing is simple in this film, which ramifies into parallel meditations on race, the transformation of racial politics and lessons to be learned from the lives of dogs.Wall Street Journal "Newcomer Jessica Haines is transparent and heartbreaking as the prof's unorthodox daughter, a victim of violence as the old ways crumble." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "John Malkovich's portrayal of an aging and sexually aggressive professor of poetry is enough to make the film worth anyone's while."Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Skillfully adapted from JM Coetzee's novel, DISGRACE is set in post-Apartheid South Africa....Powerful and clear-eyed."Total Film34.28999
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3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A simmering lead performance by John Malkovich anchors Aussie director Steve Jacobs' surprisingly deft screen adaptation of South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's wildly-acclaimed 199 novel DISGRACE..."Box Office "[A] faithful compelling screen adaptation....DISGRACE is all the more devastating for being so coolly dispassionate."New York Times "Jacobs and Monticelli have approached their challenging source material with a clear and committed cinematic vision."Los Angeles Times "Its characters are uncompromisingly themselves, flawed, stubborn, vulnerable....This is one of the year's best films..."Chicago Sun-Times [D]emanding but ultimately rewarding....Nothing is simple in this film, which ramifies into parallel meditations on race, the transformation of racial politics and lessons to be learned from the lives of dogs.Wall Street Journal "Newcomer Jessica Haines is transparent and heartbreaking as the prof's unorthodox daughter, a victim of violence as the old ways crumble." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "John Malkovich's portrayal of an aging and sexually aggressive professor of poetry is enough to make the film worth anyone's while."Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Skillfully adapted from JM Coetzee's novel, DISGRACE is set in post-Apartheid South Africa....Powerful and clear-eyed."Total Film34.28999
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3.5 stars out of 5 -- "A simmering lead performance by John Malkovich anchors Aussie director Steve Jacobs' surprisingly deft screen adaptation of South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's wildly-acclaimed 199 novel DISGRACE..."Box Office "[A] faithful compelling screen adaptation....DISGRACE is all the more devastating for being so coolly dispassionate."New York Times "Jacobs and Monticelli have approached their challenging source material with a clear and committed cinematic vision."Los Angeles Times "Its characters are uncompromisingly themselves, flawed, stubborn, vulnerable....This is one of the year's best films..."Chicago Sun-Times [D]emanding but ultimately rewarding....Nothing is simple in this film, which ramifies into parallel meditations on race, the transformation of racial politics and lessons to be learned from the lives of dogs.Wall Street Journal "Newcomer Jessica Haines is transparent and heartbreaking as the prof's unorthodox daughter, a victim of violence as the old ways crumble." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "John Malkovich's portrayal of an aging and sexually aggressive professor of poetry is enough to make the film worth anyone's while."Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Skillfully adapted from JM Coetzee's novel, DISGRACE is set in post-Apartheid South Africa....Powerful and clear-eyed."Total Film34.28999
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Rolling Stone (p.68) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Spektor shows off her gorgeous, fluttery voice, her burgeoning writer chops and her God-given quirks..."Rolling Stone (p.104) - Ranked #21 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "Her vocals are intense..."Spin (p.88) - 4 star out of 5 -- "Funnier than Fiona Apple and sexier than Nellie McKay, she gets freakier with her classical training than Alicia Keys."Q (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he 25-year-old remains comically kooky..."Q (p.116) - Ranked #82 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."Alternative Press (p.224) - 4 out of 5 -- "BEGIN TO HOPE finds Spektor still enjoying the ride, this time with better production, and flittering along with stream-of-consciousness tunes..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Spektor has finally embraced her pop roots and it's the knowing details that resonate..."0.1788202
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Rolling Stone (p.68) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Spektor shows off her gorgeous, fluttery voice, her burgeoning writer chops and her God-given quirks..."Rolling Stone (p.104) - Ranked #21 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "Her vocals are intense..."Spin (p.88) - 4 star out of 5 -- "Funnier than Fiona Apple and sexier than Nellie McKay, she gets freakier with her classical training than Alicia Keys."Q (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he 25-year-old remains comically kooky..."Q (p.116) - Ranked #82 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."Alternative Press (p.224) - 4 out of 5 -- "BEGIN TO HOPE finds Spektor still enjoying the ride, this time with better production, and flittering along with stream-of-consciousness tunes..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.88) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Spektor has finally embraced her pop roots and it's the knowing details that resonate..."0.1788202
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Rolling Stone (11/25/99, pp.97-8) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...richer, deeper and stronger than TIDAL [Apple's 1st record] in every way....Apple bears down on her voice and piano with enough rock command to produce some truly fine songs..."Spin (12/99, p.215) - 8 out of 10 - "...a breakthrough and even more fun....Finding a groove that rocks, swings, and occasionally hip-hops lets Fiona concentrate on emoting, which she does in full-on mock seriousness. The results are delicious..."Entertainment Weekly (11/12/99, pp.77-8) - "...consistent, rhythmic and forceful....[taking] chances that continually pay off....PAWN is the work of an original, albeit a developing one....genuinely inspiring..." - Rating: AQ (3/00, p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...a handsome record, well worth perservering with and a massive step forward....Part Jewel-with-tunes, part Tori-Amos-without-kookiness...fueled by Apple's own stomping piano, is unafriad of a soaring chorus to complememt the angular verses..."Uncut (3/00, p.82) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...WHEN THE PAWN is a bold, brave and bruised album of searing intensity and disarming honesty - part poetry, part therapy and wholly brilliant..."Alternative Press (12/99, p.86) - 3 out of 5 - "...a solid effort that expands beyond the angsty-woman-with-piano label....musically Apple proves to be wise beyond her years....a cohesive album rife with jazz sensibilities..."CMJ (11/29/99, p.3) - "...even more sure of her weighty insecurities. The arrangements...are equally rich....filled with confidence..."Vibe (12/99, p.257) - "...With her sturdy, two-fisted piano playing and a voice that belies her relative youth, Apple unfurls deceptively up-tempo tracks that make pain and guilt seem like perfect pop fodder..."Mojo (Publisher) (3/00, p.103) - "...a more muscular, richer affair that finds Ms Apple displaying a far broader emotional range....proving that Apple is following a compelling progression that so many of her compatriots have failed to chart..."0.1192134
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Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.104) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"Rolling Stone (6/20/02, pp.81-2) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A moody, murky album...and fascinating in its own right....A 57-minute pastiche of beats, sound effects, machine hums, found voices and mock-symphonic patterns of robot noise, shifting from texture to texture almost casually..."Spin (1/03, p.71) - Ranked #19 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...Indelibly shaped by hip-hop but lured astray by every other sound in the universe."Q (May 2002, p.107) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Much of [the album] evokes a dream-state between waking and sleeping....Davis is a man who takes himself incredibly seriously, with his intense demeanour and slavish devotion to hip hop..."Q (p.134) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Josh 'DJ Shadow' Davis is undeniably a master of his craft..."CMJ (6/02, p.5) - "...An astounding achievement that should easily catapult Shadow back into the spotlight...soul stirring beats, irrepressible DJ theatrics, personality and humor....Completely captivating and flawlessly imaginative..."Vibe (7/02, p.135) - 3 discs out of 5 - "...The vibe here is more overtly bumptious...Shadow is working angles his contemporaries haven't thought of yet..."Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.76) - Ranked #36 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002"Mojo (Publisher) (5/02, p.96) - "...An intense experience, precisely focused yet disarmingly ambiguous....You will hear few finer records this year."NME (Magazine) (5/18/02, p.35) - 6 out of 10 - "...This is the fetishasation of sound for its own sake...That's not to say there aren't great moments here..."18.16629
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Writers/directors/actors Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon prove worthy heirs to the gangly genius of Jacques Tati in this surreal comic gem about two primary school teachers with a passion for rumba."Total Film "They're essentially silent comedians with no need of a movie with soundtrack, and RUMBA has a bare minimum of dialogue....They're skilled."Chicago Sun-Times17.2079
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Rolling Stone (No. 984, p.148) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Against all odds, EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE lives up to its title as a testimony to its creator's resilience and flexibility...."Spin (p.96) - "EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE lives up to its name most when Elizondo echoes Apple's cartoon spookiness on 'Tymps,' which sounds like a '60s Disney soundtrack left out in the sun." - Grade: BSpin (p.64) - Ranked #9 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005"Entertainment Weekly (p.140) - Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's 'Top Ten Records of the Year' -- "For all its melodrama, EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE never sounds like the work of a defeated spirit; it's the most paradoxically uplifting music of the year."Entertainment Weekly (No. 843, p.72) - "...[T]he album places Apple's dusky voice and firm, almost defiant way with piano chords at its center...." - Grade: AQ (p.118) - Ranked #66 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."Mojo (Publisher) (p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Apple is a savvy and focused cookie with a playful, malleable contralto....A fine, off-beat listen."15.42403
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"[B]reezy and bold....Its simultaneously silly and grave tone finds humor in the characters' delusions and obsessions while celebrating their uniqueness."New York Times13.5642
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Rolling Stone (p.77) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[F]or all the sloganeering, PRESS THE SPACEBAR never forgets that it's a dance album."12.99786
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Entertainment Weekly (p.80) - "[H]e's more nimble and lyrically substantive than usual....PRESS PLAY has something for most everyone: street raps, club jams, glossy R&B." -- Grade: B12.99786
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Entertainment Weekly (p.80) - "[H]e's more nimble and lyrically substantive than usual....PRESS PLAY has something for most everyone: street raps, club jams, glossy R&B." -- Grade: B12.99786
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Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.104) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"Rolling Stone (6/20/02, pp.81-2) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A moody, murky album...and fascinating in its own right....A 57-minute pastiche of beats, sound effects, machine hums, found voices and mock-symphonic patterns of robot noise, shifting from texture to texture almost casually..."Spin (1/03, p.71) - Ranked #19 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...Indelibly shaped by hip-hop but lured astray by every other sound in the universe."Q (May 2002, p.107) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Much of [the album] evokes a dream-state between waking and sleeping....Davis is a man who takes himself incredibly seriously, with his intense demeanour and slavish devotion to hip hop..."Q (p.134) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Josh 'DJ Shadow' Davis is undeniably a master of his craft..."CMJ (6/02, p.5) - "...An astounding achievement that should easily catapult Shadow back into the spotlight...soul stirring beats, irrepressible DJ theatrics, personality and humor....Completely captivating and flawlessly imaginative..."Vibe (7/02, p.135) - 3 discs out of 5 - "...The vibe here is more overtly bumptious...Shadow is working angles his contemporaries haven't thought of yet..."Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.76) - Ranked #36 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002"Mojo (Publisher) (5/02, p.96) - "...An intense experience, precisely focused yet disarmingly ambiguous....You will hear few finer records this year."NME (Magazine) (5/18/02, p.35) - 6 out of 10 - "...This is the fetishasation of sound for its own sake...That's not to say there aren't great moments here..."12.94327
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Dirty Linen (p.63) - "[She] delivers 13 gutsy performances on LUCKY 13 that further prove she is one of the blues' most talented and diverse new artists."12.33922
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