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Review of Syndromes and a Century (2006)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 02 Oct 2006

Apichatpong's patient, observant camera seems to be lying in wait for the moments in which these desires break through the surface, when the…

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Review of Caché (2005)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

Like the very best of Hitchcock, marries both high- and low-brows in the compulsively watchable format of the thriller…

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Review of Inside Man (2006)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

A hugely entertaining heist film, with a refreshingly straightforward plot, excellent characters, and just the right amount of Spike's snarky…

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Review of Krrish (2006)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

It's a minor joy to see a film so ingenuous as this, plainly wearing its corporate sponsorship on its sleeve…

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Review of Zabriskie Point (1970)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

Having seen this and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (the latter repeatedly) in the same week, it's hard not to see them as two sides of the…

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Review of Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

What is undeniable is that this, even more than Barney's previous work, is a film of outrageous, startling ingenuity and beauty…

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Review of Torn Curtain (1966)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

Hitchcock's fiftieth film retains Marnie's super-fake process shots and soundstage sets, but renders them in near-abstract minimalism, creating…

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Review of The Proposition (2005)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

This Aussie horse opera doesn't so much present an exotic, bizarro version of the Wild West as the apotheosis of it…

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Review of The Constant Gardener (2005)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

Admirably composed, even if it ultimately feels a bit of a shame that it all has to come down to good guys and bad guys…

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Review of Dead Man (1995)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 06 Aug 2006

Characteristically meandering and sardonic, with Robby Muller's floating, shimmering camerawork, a catalog of witty cameos, and one of the…

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Review of The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 05 Aug 2006

In Eastwood's hands, it seems, even divorce can be more romantic than orgasms under the right circumstances…

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Review of Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Reverse Shot (113) on 05 Aug 2006

Under Ray's dissecting eye, the suburban home itself becomes a battleground where parent and child must scream over each other to be heard…

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Review of Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Reverse Shot (113) on 24 Apr 2006

The film proposes Carrey as an Everyman for the 21st century…

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Review of Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Reverse Shot (113) on 24 Apr 2006

The film proposes Carrey as an Everyman for the 21st century…

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Review of Manderlay (2005)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 24 Mar 2006

The unusual von Trier film whose formalism is worn lightly, whose performances impress without wearing on the nerves, and whose ethical standpoint…

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Review of Rocky IV (1985)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 24 Mar 2006

The film's only major disappointment is a lack of screen-time for a pre-Foofy Foofy Brigitte Nielsen…

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Review of Who's Camus Anyway? (2005)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 24 Mar 2006

The Japanese propensity for faithful imitation is the focus of Yanagimachi's film, and, most of all, the imitation of life through the cinema…

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Review of Time Indefinite (1993)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 24 Mar 2006

If Sherman's March is McElwee's meditation on eros, then Time Indefinite is his thanatopsis…

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Review of The Savage Innocents (1960)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 14 Mar 2006

Ray's portrait of Inuit life in the atomic age, and as with all of his later work, a curious blend of melodrama and pseudo-documentary…

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Review of Citizen Kane (1941)

By Leo Goldsmith (118) for Not Coming to a Theater Near You (268) on 09 Mar 2006

This is the inherent paradox of Welles' film: that its ending should be so equivocal, providing a satisfying resolution that simultaneously…

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