Rolling Stone (p.120) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey have everything to do with Buzzcocks-style velocity and Strokes-style guitar hooks, without slowing down for a breath."Entertainment Weekly (p.95) - "[A] beguiling style, with rangy guitar lines, a bruising rhythms section, and a singer who sounds not unlike the Strokes' Julian Casablancas." -- Grade: A-Q (p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Tokyo Police Club meld skittish beats, jittery guitars and much cheery adolescent naivety as they blast through eight tracks..."Uncut (p.91) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Their rapid-fire debut suggests long winter nights spent analysing Pixies, Cure, Ride and U2."52.29273
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Rolling Stone (p.83) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he music is lean, clean and spacious: expertly constructed post-punk miniatures full of ringing guitar and keyboard counterpoint, melodic bass work, and drumming that tilts rock songs...gently toward the dance floor."Uncut (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[S]tructural sophistication and melodic savvy now figure alongside intensity and drive....[A] sharp effort."CMJ - "Not only does every track feel integral to the overall collection, but there isn't a spare note, drum fill or chorus to be wrung from any one song."Q (Magazine) (p.148) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] chiming lead guitar, melodic prominent bass, and every song rattles along merrily before stopping abruptly, as though the three-minute mark was an impassable forcefield."Blender (Magazine) (p.79) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Making good on the promise of two nervously explosive EPs, Tokyo Police Club indulge in plenty of echoey atmospherics but also add Foo Fighers-esque blasts of guitar, as if leaping into action and kicking over their chairs."Paste (magazine) (p.67) - "Tokyo Police Club tempers its tight jangle with lyrics on just the right side of sappy..."Clash (magazine) (p.110) - "Each track a potential single, these guys don't hang around, going straight for the jugular, blasting out soaring indie rock nuggets honed by endless touring."44.89034
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Spin - "[W]ith some clever reshuffling of precise drum pecks, TV-hum synths, Strokes-like guitar, and David Monks' reedy, wry vocals."Alternative Press (p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Tokyo Police Club retain their enthusiasm with CHAMP; they just want to show off the new tricks in their pony show."Paste (magazine) - "[CHAMP] opens promisingly with the lean, mean 'Favorite Food,' on which blown-out fuzz and shrilling organs snowball into an incandescent rock jitter..."Pitchfork (Website) - "[I]t does find TPC reaching out, growing more comfortable, and letting loose....The tempos are upticked slightly, the background vocals more freewheeling."Clash (magazine) - "TPC keep their trademark sound snug against their chests -- the sound that is at once warm, tight and breathtakingly exhilarating -- following right through to 'End Of A Spark'..."0.4444022
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"Propelled by geysers of blood and tidal waves of neuroses, TOKYO GORE POLICE plumbs wounds both cultural and physical to deliver splatterific social satire."New York Times21.91671
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4 stars out of 5 -- "The mania that surrounded them is writ large in this largely fascinating hand-held camera documentary capturing them at the height of their storm."Mojo14.12892
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"Propelled by geysers of blood and tidal waves of neuroses, TOKYO GORE POLICE plumbs wounds both cultural and physical to deliver splatterific social satire."New York Times13.29936
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"...The more of this director's work one sees, the more one appreciates....Depardieu, yet again, combines bruitshness, intelligence and profound emotion with a subtlety that has no equal." New York Times "...A personal film that deliberately works against conventional expectations....POLICE is one of Pialat's most assured and polished performances..."Variety "...Mesmerizing....Pialat builds slowly, through an accumulation of detail and atmosphere....His finely crafted, singular films catch you unawares, wind you tighter and tighter as you see them, and linger for months, even years after..."Los Angeles Times "[S]howcasing one of Gerard Depardieu's strongest performances..."Sight and Sound8.182072
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Q (p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "A band with a toehold not only in the excesses of early-'70s guitar rock but also the pop sensibilities of new wave and disco, they pulled off this gymnastic feat with their tongues planted firmly in their cheeks."Uncut (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] pummeling assault of stadium riffs and bonkers lyrics....If only all rock was this smart."Mojo (Publisher) (p.124) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "DREAM POLICE is hard rock at its smartest: witty, punchy, inventive, heavily Beatles-influenced and full of killer hooks."8.1783
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"[T]his atmospheric mood piece casts a dreamy, ambient vibe..."Sight and Sound8.13523
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"[T]he movie works best whenever Oreck's cameras turn on a child's wonderment over their beloved insect friends. They are truly joyous moments to behold."Los Angeles Times "[D]elightfully weird....[With] meditations on classical Japanese themes of simplicity and tininess..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "BEETLE QUEEN features some stunningly gorgeous and eerie scenes of bug-harvesting and cultivation..." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "Writer-director Jessica Oreck burrows into Japan's historic fascination with insects in BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO, and what's remarkable about this quietly spellbinding documentary is that it gets the viewer to share in that fascination, too."A.V. Club "[A] guided tour of a national predilection that introduces us to insect stores, insect fairs, insect video games, insect vending machines and insect viewing areas."New York Times "[T]he cinematography -- vividly capturing both the chaotic density of the cities and the pastoral beauty of the countryside -- is frequently stunning."Hollywood Reporter8.11094
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JazzTimes (p.116) - "[C]hallenging and engaging....The new CD makes a compelling, positive statement with its fusion of jazz, pop, rock and Far East elements."7.011024
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"Yasujiro Ozu created quiet epics that dealt purely and without stylistic fuss about what really matters....A masterpiece..."USA Today "[O]ne of the greatest films of all time."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he experience of watching Ozu's masterpieces reveals an artist whose allegiances are strikingly diverse." Sight and Sound6.998861
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "This set is the perfect round-up of this era of the band....Rough stuff, but still vital."6.993227
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"[T]he sub warfare is tightly handled, but the film is just as interested in the close interaction of the itchy crew, among them the great John Garfield." Uncut6.969496
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