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Review of Green Room (2016)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Apr 2016

Totally brilliant. Like an episode of The Walking Dead directed by Akira Kurosawa or Sam Peckinpah…

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Review of Born to Be Blue (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Mar 2016

An amiable enough movie although it has about as much to do with the real Chet Baker as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer has to do with our…

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Review of Censored Voices (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 14 Mar 2016

Despite being in the now popular Israeli hand-wringing genre, one that doesn't envision ending the Zionist system that makes IDF soldiers et…

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Review of Boom Bust Boom (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Mar 2016

Whoever could have dreamed that economics could be so much fun…

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Review of Here Come the Videofreex (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Mar 2016

Want to have a vicarious experience on how great it was to be a 60s rebel? This is the film to see…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Mar 2016

Suffers from a certain reductionism with respect to the jihadists but then again that is to be expected in an epoch when Islam is a dirty word…

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Review of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Feb 2016

Despite the title, not at all a fan tribute to a group that like so many others in the mad 1960s imploded through a combination of state repression…

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Review of Meru (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2016

A film about a climb more daredevilish than Philippe Petit's tightrope walk…

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Review of The Iron Ministry (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2016

A subtly political film about the hopes and frustrations of ordinary Chinese citizens that is as dramatic in its own odd way as a kung-fu costume…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2016

Fascinating in a voyeuristic way. A demonstration beyond doubt that celebrity is as life-threatening as the bite of a Black Mamba…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Feb 2016

Fascinating in a voyeuristic way. A demonstration beyond doubt that celebrity is as life-threatening as the bite of a Black Mamba…

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Review of The Revenant (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Jan 2016

Much more of a survival film than a revenge one--and a spectacular one at that…

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Review of The Hateful Eight (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Jan 2016

Like Key Largo, this is in effect a staged play with an ensemble cast taking refuge from a storm but Quentin Tarantino is no Maxwell Anderson…

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Review of Carol (1974)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Jan 2016

Todd Haynes is a director born to make Highsmith's novel about lesbian love ending happily…

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Review of Carol (1970)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Jan 2016

Todd Haynes is a director born to make Highsmith's novel about lesbian love ending happily…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Jan 2016

Todd Haynes is a director born to make Highsmith's novel about lesbian love ending happily…

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Review of Carol (1990)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Jan 2016

Todd Haynes is a director born to make Highsmith's novel about lesbian love ending happily…

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Review of Cartel Land (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 11 Jan 2016

Like most documentaries about the Mexican drug wars, this has nothing to say about the social and political context…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Jan 2016

A painterly historical drama that is emotionally sterile. Grab it if you are more interested in cinematic composition than story…

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Review of My Voice, My Life (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Jan 2016

With a number of flaws, especially any explanation of the backgrounds of the adults who produced the musical or what the musical was about,…

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