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"...Fresh-faced Pratt captivates..." Entertainment Weekly22.11803
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"...An unusual jewel..." USA Today13.46127
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"...Smith brings much care, commitment and considerable technical skill to his debut feature, DAVID SEARCHING..." Los Angeles Times12.76823
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"...Ruben has drawn exceptional performances from his cast..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "...[A] raw quality so often associated with 70s films....Particularly impressive is the opening montage..." Sight and Sound "...Psychological suspense that rarely lets up....Vaughn reveals new dimensions..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "...Cool, sober....Mr. Ruben has assembled a fine cast down to the secondary characters..." New York Times11.79415
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"[T]he discussion of universal women's issues is articulate and frank." Entertainment Weekly9.071195
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"...One of the few films that has the durability and emotional texture of a great 19th-Century novel. As a piece of romantic/dramatic cinema, its peers are few, its superiors quite simply nonexistent..." Los Angeles Times "...It's paradise to see the film's famed Boulevard of Crime -- 1840s Paris as street carnival -- rendered with revived sparkle after its negative's 57-year workout..." USA Today "...One of the glories of cinema....The film celebrates freedom of spirit with passion..." Total Film "...The film is both epic in scope and intimate in focus....The lead actors are superb..." Sight and Sound8.54269
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Like ANVIL, this is a crowd-pleasing triumph of the spirit, framed around a story so bizarre it sounds like an urban legend."Box Office "SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN possesses undeniable charm..."Hollywood Reporter 4 stars out of 5 -- "Songs such as the haunted 'Sugar Man' are lost classics, blessing Bendjelloul's four-star doc with a five-star soundtrack."Total Film "[A] hugely appealing documentary about fans, faith and an enigmatic Age of Aquarius musician who burned bright and hopeful before disappearing."New York Times "SUGAR MAN is most interesting when it touches on the conditions that combined to draw a cult hero out of some decent music and a generously enabled, imagination-firing mystique."Movieline 4 stars out of 4 -- "[A] documentary that enlists us in the process of its search....The information they eventually dislodge about Rodriguez suggests a secular saint, a deeply good man, whose music is the expression of a blessed inner being."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he movie presents Rodriguez as an enigmatic singer-songwriter with Dylan-esque sensibilities, discovered in the 1970s and then forgotten in America..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "[A] moving documentary about spookily talented Detroit singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, who released two albums of gorgeous, Bob Dylan-esque social commentary and moody, downbeat lyricism to deafening silence in the United States in the early 1970s." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club "Bendjelloul's film is a masterful piece of storytelling....Full of fascinating details..."Sight and Sound8.340733
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"...The pleasure the impressive, talented cast take in recreating Sumatra in Malaysia is palpable....Effective..."Entertainment Weekly8.076702
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] fascinating solo debut....He balances provocation with inspection."7.187119
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"[O]ne of the most authentic, and moving, journeys the movies has offered this year." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly "Maggie Gyllenhaal gives her best performance to date....[An] honest, beautifully observed character drama."Movieline's Hollywood Life Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[T]he story of a soul discovering itself."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Laurie Collyer's low-key drama has a forensic, observational quality that belies the writer-director's background in documentary....Maggie Gyllenhaal's fearless performance places her right at the top of any list of young Hollywood talent."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "SHERRYBABY's raw, gritty edges echo the searching indie movies of the 1970s....A fascinating, addictive film."Uncut "Collyer's ace in the hole is the skill of lead actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, whose extraordinarily vital performance powers the film, and is reason above all to see it."Sight and Sound6.66163
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"Mixing memoir, history, and childhood fantasy, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's PERSEPOLIS glides effortlessly from one realm to another."Film Comment "[A] tale that unfolds with such grace, intelligence and charm that you almost take the wondrous aspects of its execution for granted."New York Times "By turns lyrical, serious, funny and acerbic, PERSEPOLIS raises the bar for animation and illustrates the true power of storytelling in illuminating the world and its conflicts."Box Office "[I]t's a paean to the universality of human experience, a testament to the endurance of individuality during great political and fanatical upheaval..."Los Angeles Times "[T]he sassy, nonchalant juxtaposition of political and personal specificity in PERSEPOLIS is a marvel." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's a mind-blower. Using a few deft strokes of her black pen, Satrapi brings a whole world to life."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "This largely black-and-white, defiantly undetailed and sometimes stylised film could have been made at any point since the dawn of cinema, and yet it's a thoroughly modern affair."Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]martly wry, searching and truthful....The confidence of this self-portrait proves one thing: Satrapi sure found her creative vocation."Total Film "[A] movie made up of small, telling moments that gifts us with much larger truths."Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "PERSEPOLIS offers an excellent, child's-eye guide to recent Iranian history."Uncut6.65293
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"...[The] technical credits are strong, especially the sets in and around the capital, which give the film realism..." Variety "...All these actors are admirable....Working entirely without dialogue, Neeson's tragic, homeless vet becomes a fully fleshed-out and powerful character..." Los Angeles Times6.641564
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"...Exciting early Hitchcock, including one of his most memorable finales." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly6.641564
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"...A joyful though seriously rooted comedy....[The score] is a standout, conjuring romance, dramatic turmoil and magic in one swoop, and technical credits, including the storm's eerie special effects are top-drawer throughout..." Variety "[T]he screenplay is ingeniously structured, and Mazursky hits on a light, congenial tone, theatrical in the sense of larger than life, not stagey."Sight and Sound6.630388
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BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!6.266817
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BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!6.266817
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"...[Allen's] most personal, most self-searching film....A cast of superlative actors..." New York Times5.937994
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"...Something quite special....One of the most original, wonderfully oddball, independent American films..." New York Times Included in The New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1984" New York Times "...STRANGER THAN PARADISE is a bracingly original avant-garde black comedy..." Variety "...PARADISE's offbeat economy is inspiring; it's composed of only 67 single gorgeous black-and-white shots..." Entertainment Weekly "[A] Beckettesque anomie prevails....Beautifully shot in black and white..." Premiere 3 stars out of 4 -- "[T]his multiple award winner is droll, fabulously shot...and winningly captures an aimless lifestyle..."New York Times5.894505
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "This new film is the culmination of years of extraordinary persistence by the documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, whose work freed the three men."Chicago Sun-Times 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he PARADISE LOST films stand as an example of the activist impulse in documentary filmmaking at its best....[This is a] powerful summation and conclusion for those who have already been following the series and the case."Box Office5.884088
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"...Mohsen Ramezani is an enthusiastic, vivacious presence..." Sight and Sound "...Stunningly beautiful....A devastating movie and yet another gem to spring from one of the world's most vital national cinemas..." New York Times "...Fine performances and fierce honesty..." Box Office "...Majidi has a way with children, and his rapport with little Mohsen Ramezani is remarkable....THE COLOR OF PARADISE is a powerful experience..." Los Angeles Times "...Deliberately simple....It is made with delicacy and beauty. The soundtrack is alive with natural sounds..." Chicago Sun-Times5.867697
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"...Appealingly sentimental....A nostalgic valentine to Los Angeles..." New York Times "...[Chlumsky] is as sweetly disarming as ever..." USA Today "...[An] affecting, sunny, sequel..." -- Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly5.836284
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"...This is one of their better vehicles -- full of funny business with shaggy dogs, false beards and talking fish..." Sight and Sound5.836284
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