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Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

The Act of Killing and its backstory no doubt have more to reveal upon closer investigation, though what it's shown is already hard to forget…

Review of Our Children (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

Suffice to say that pathos is intertwined with pathology in Lafosse's fifth feature, inspired by a true story-but Murielle's decline isn't…

Review of To the Sea (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

At its best, Alamar affirms that the patient, meditative film or the stylistic exercise is far less of a cinema pestilence than emotionally…

Review of Into the Abyss (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

The star filmmaker, oft mocked for verging on self-parody, keeps his Teutonic explorer persona in check and allows his subjects' emotional…

Review of Submarine (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

The movie's conception of the tender agonies and embarrassments of would-be teenage lovers is hobbled by punchline cuts and predictable musical…

Review of The Gatekeepers (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

Moreh's interviewees span generations, from elder statesman Avraham Shalom (mastermind of the 1960 Adolf Eichmann grab) to most recent spook-in-chief…

Review of Donoma (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

The entire 133-minute movie, in fact, is like a long story recounted with spontaneous digressions intact, all shot by someone who's been watching…

Review of Sleeping Beauty (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

Even if the film's final chapter seems far too on point, if not glib, the filmmaker continues to mine complicated psychological terrain with…

Review of Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

At times filling the screen with symmetrical compositions of paintings in progress in the studio, the film is akin to being in a museum that's…

Review of This Must Be the Place (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

The conceit of showing a pop-culture figure's life out of the limelight is beyond hackneyed, but the film's incongruous visual splendor and…

Review of A Band Called Death (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for New York Times (5,786) on 27 Jun 2013

A Band Called Death is more concerned with bringing out the personal connections behind their driven music than with insisting upon the group’s…

Review of The Comedy (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

While this could have been the perfect portrait of a certain kind of idiot, the baroque cruelties and tonal monotony go too far…

Review of El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

Gianfranco Rosi's extraordinary one-man documentary stares long and hard at the practiced but no less terrifying monologues of a Mexican hit man…

Review of How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for New York Times (5,786) on 24 Jun 2013

There’s a lot to learn from How to Make Money Selling Drugs, but sometimes there’s just a lot…

Review of Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 Jun 2013

On its own terms — setting aside the likelihood of knee-jerk political objections to its mission — it’s more convincing than many films…

Review of Maniac (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 Jun 2013

By not centering on the victims, Mr…

Review of Dirty Wars (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Scahill's voiceover has a grim relentlessness that ties everything together, while maintaining the pretense that the viewer is at his side…

Review of I'm So Excited! (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

The image of a plane in a holding pattern feels all too apt for the film's conceits and characters, which never quite land…

Review of The Color of the Chameleon (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Bulgarian cinema has, for many years, been close to nonexistent, but Christov and Todorov's fervid fictions might just start to fill the void…

Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Motivation is the weak link here, with characters major and minor making choices that don't compute and/or serve mainly to advance the narrative…

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