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Review of The School of Rock (2003)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 28 Jul 2015

When it comes to independent cinema, few directors have achieved the status of Richard Linklater, the man responsible of some of the most beloved…

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Review of The Ice Storm (1997)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 28 Jul 2015

Ang Lee's masterful film is almost too dark to take, but it is probably one of the most powerful examination of American culture at a very…

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Review of Weekend (2011)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 28 Jul 2015

The ideas and concerns of Queer Theory and Queer Film have changed as much in the past 15 years as have the civil rights of the LGBT Community…

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Review of Weekend (2011)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 28 Jul 2015

The ideas and concerns of Queer Theory and Queer Film have changed as much in the past 15 years as have the civil rights of the LGBT Community…

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Review of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 27 Jul 2015

For years of my life I had heard my Grandmother talk about her love of this movie. She had an old import soundtrack album…

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Review of The Cousins (1959)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 27 Jul 2015

Claude Chabrol's deceptively simple story of two very different cousins is not so powerful because of the plot -- which packs a feeling of…

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Review of Tiny Furniture (2010)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 27 Jul 2015

In the last 4 years Lena Dunham has ascended to some new kind unprecedented Post-Feminst Level of Celebrity/Artist/Spokesperson that is as…

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Review of Pale Flower (1964)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 27 Jul 2015

Masahiro Shinoda's odd re-working of Camus' 'The Stranger' within the 1960's Japanese Yakuza world of vice and gambling is more style than…

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Review of Lola (1961)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 27 Jul 2015

Jacques Demy's directorial debut fits exactly what I've always heard: This is a stylish musical without music…

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Review of L'Eclisse (1962)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 27 Jul 2015

Michelangelo Antonioni and his once muse, Monica Vitti, should never be under-estimated. This movie gets better every time I see it…

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Review of Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 26 Jul 2015

Katrin Gebbe's Tore Dances was re-ttitled Nothing Bad Can Happen for US/Canada/UK release…

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Review of Alleluia (2014)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 26 Jul 2015

The story seems borrowed from Leonard Kastle's effectve 1969 film, The Honeymoon Killers except this isn't at all a honeymoon Fabrice Du Welz…

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Review of Rob the Mob (2014)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 26 Jul 2015

This is an interesting, funny and entertaining movie…

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Review of The We and the I (2012)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 26 Jul 2015

Michel Gondry's film offers an interesting idea…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 26 Jul 2015

Superb, fantastic story. Sadly the ending lets it down. Despite this it is a must watch…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 25 Jul 2015

Exploring a normal mind turned into a warped one is a familiar plot for Allen, as is the film's philosophical theme…

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Review of All That Jazz (1979)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 25 Jul 2015

Bob Fosse's dazzling, marvelously surrealistic film which is loosely based on his own life…

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Review of In the Mood for Love (2000)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 24 Jul 2015

The most completely beautiful film ever make in absolutely every single aspect…

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Review of Looper (2012)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 24 Jul 2015

A bit rough around the edges, particularly in the confusing and exposition laden first half, but once Looper gets the ball rolling it's a remarkably…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Matthew S (2,399) on 23 Jul 2015

I find it kind of creepy that I first saw this film at the Toronto Film Festival a year before 9/11 would forever change our country…

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