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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 07 Jun 2007

Chabrol film based on true life incident, the investigation of crooked executives at Elf Aquitaine, the French version of Enron…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 18 Apr 2007

Chabrol manages a brisk, light tone, even though the movie is mostly talk, and Huppert turns in a powerhouse performance…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (630) on 02 Mar 2007

explores how power is never really diminished - it just changes hands…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 01 Mar 2007

It's not often that you see the craft of cinema so perfectly executed--or a group of fancy scoundrels so ruthlessly caught and skewered…

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By Shawne ~ (45) on 17 Feb 2007

Thanks to the blitz of gross-out laugh-fests (well, one would hope you would laugh) that began way back when with [i]American Pie[/i], we've…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Feb 2007

By the sheer strength of [Isabelle Huppert's] performance alone, Comedy of Power is Chabrol's best film since 1995's La Cérémonie…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 31 Jan 2007

One cannot imagine a similarly sophisticated fictional treatment of the Enron case from the point of view of both the accusers and the accused;…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 17 Jan 2007

Chabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 13 Jan 2007

The movie is too parochial for a wide audience. The French judicial system is totally alien to Americans, for instance, plus the film is a talkathon…

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By Ken Fox (1,094) for TV Guide (1,527) on 05 Jan 2007

Title notwithstanding, there's nothing particularly funny about this political drama from the tireless Claude Chabrol…

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By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 05 Jan 2007

At age 76, Chabrol seems to be just going through the motions, but anyone who has helmed 70 films (Les Bonnes Femmes and La Ceremonie, for…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 05 Jan 2007

Draggy for long stretches, and never funny, Comedy of Power is a showcase - as if she needed another - for Huppert's chameleon qualities…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 04 Jan 2007

As ever, Mr. Chabrol’s style is delicate and precise…

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By Enrique Buchichio (359) for Uruguay Total (359) on 06 Nov 2006

Un irónico vistazo a los vericuetos del poder y la justicia, mucho menos interesante de lo que se esperaba…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 01 Jul 2006

[Huppert] gets at the comedy of the character by allowing her curt command to give way to the look of the cat who ate the canary…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 24 Apr 2006

[A] film that delivers quite a few chuckles but generally is very tame; all the characters never really leap off the screen and into your heart…

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