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By Marc Mohan (821) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 07 Feb 2013

The black-and-white cinematography and silent-film feel are haunting and nostalgic, and Aurora's story encapsulates a broader, bittersweet…

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By Christien T (21) on 31 Jan 2013

This movie starts out cute, moves quickly into a questionable notmuchness, before bounding into ridiculous obsolescence and finally petering…

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By Fr. Chris Carpenter (308) for Movie Dearest (271) on 27 Jan 2013

For a decades-spanning, country-hopping romance on a low budget, Tabu looks great...it intentionally evokes in aesthetics, settings and/or…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 24 Jan 2013

The influences of Murnau's 1931 black-and-white Tabu are more thematic than stylistic in this uncategorizable new film…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Jan 2013

At first Tabu is intriguing…

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By Ann Lewinson (45) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 15 Jan 2013

If in the first half Gomes dares the audience to be bored, the second half is a cinephile's payoff…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 14 Jan 2013

A dreadfully slow screenplay in the second half undercuts the interesting handling of black and white exposition…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 14 Jan 2013

Patient viewers will find some rewards with a quirky and charming film that develops a wealth of emotional depth…

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By Tibor B (317) on 06 Jan 2013

Tabu starts with Pilar(Teresa Madruga), a middle aged woman, watching a period piece about a tropical explorer who kills himself after being…

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By Steve A (538) on 02 Jan 2013

Not for everyone as this is a slow paced film, but not a boring one I'd say…

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By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Jan 2013

Tabu manages to be both classical and modern, ironic and heartbreaking…

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By Nina L (120) on 30 Dec 2012

Such an odd movie but so excellent…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 28 Dec 2012

The story is ornate but easy to follow. It's the dreamy look and sound of Tabu - half old, half modern - that give the film its haunting strangeness…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 27 Dec 2012

If you have the patience to watch this film develop and unfold, like some bizarre night-blooming orchid, what you'll see is not just the last…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 27 Dec 2012

In Tabu, Portuguese writer-director Miguel Gomes spins a two-part tale examining love, loneliness and the power of memory…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Dec 2012

Like other great pastiche artists, Gomes has created a time machine to a cinematic era that never quite existed, so it feels simultaneously…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 27 Dec 2012

The whole second half suggests a new way of storytelling-like one of those Wes Anderson montages done by an obsessive fan of Hatari…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 26 Dec 2012

After a point, you start to forget what actual boundary-pushing cinema looks like. Well, it looks like this…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 26 Dec 2012

It is, of course, art rather than history - an elegant composition of dreams, memories and suggestive images - but its artfulness seems like…

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By Alfin N (428) on 25 Dec 2012

Staring at the camera, waving at the camera, few wooden acting and also some wooden English…

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