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Movie Reviews by Maria Garcia - Page 7 of 10

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Review of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 19 Dec 2004

Despite the film's lack of cohesiveness, Briski and Kauffman exhibit a keen eye for images that immediately communicate the dismal existence…

Review of Moolaadé (2004)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 08 Dec 2004

Sembene's narrative film isn't art as much as it is a cry, the distant ululation of the ancestors, a plea for a return to African-ness and…

Review of Arna's Children (2004)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Oct 2004

Somewhere in Khamis' abstruse footage there's a documentary, but Arna's Children only provides glimpses of it…

Review of Firedancer (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Oct 2004

A passionate, if imperfect, glimpse at a culture still thriving in exile…

Review of Bang Rajan (2000)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 10 Sep 2004

At two hours, it tests the stamina of even the most ardent action movie fan…

Review of Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Aug 2004

An example of film editing at its finest: Ellis and Mueller combine archival footage, contemporary interviews, voice-over narration (by Matt…

Review of Orwell Rolls in His Grave (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Aug 2004

Professors, pundits, journalists and one elected official, Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT), rigorously examine the issue of maintaining…

Review of The Five Obstructions (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Aug 2004

Contrived and weighed down by testosterone…

Review of The Agronomist (2004)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 16 Mar 2004

Jean and Michèle illustrate, far more eloquently than any concatenation of events, the longstanding travails of Haitians in their impassioned…

Review of Lost Boys of Sudan (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Feb 2004

A subtle but scathing consideration of American values…

Review of Twilight: Los Angeles (2000)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Jan 2004

Levin often doesn't hold scenes long enough for the audience to absorb Smith's characterizations…

Review of Children of Love (1953)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 27 Dec 2003

An unforgettable testament to children whom the adults ostensibly despair of but are incapable of seeing…

Review of Crimson Gold (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Dec 2003

Not an overtly political filmmaker, Panahi's intense and intimate portrayals of people trapped, like Hussein, behind visible and invisible…

Review of My Flesh and Blood (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 06 Dec 2003

Fails to resonate with anything more than the quotidian rhythms of a uniquely dysfunctional family…

Review of Hidden in Plain Sight (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 15 Nov 2003

Won't sway anyone on the right, and for those on the left, in its narrow aim of tripping up General LeMoyne and his ilk, it is frustratingly naive…

Review of In the Cut (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Oct 2003

The script by Campion and Susanna Moore ... begins in implausibility and, along with Frannie's psyche, quickly unravels…

Review of Morning Sun (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Oct 2003

A documentary that explores, on many levels, the roots of modern China, and that puts into perspective all of the sublime Chinese narrative…

Review of Saudade do Futuro (2000)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 13 Aug 2003

As much a cinematic treasure as it is a celebration of Brazil's musical traditions…

Review of Bonhoeffer (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 02 Jul 2003

It's hard to point to anything Bonhoeffer did or said that would merit the lionization he receives in Bonhoeffer…

Review of Whale Rider (2003)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 16 May 2003

A joyful film, an affirmation of inner wisdom, and an acknowledgment of the enlightened telos Pai so gently manifests…

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