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By Blake Goble (229) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 02 May 2015

We know war is petty, we know it kills and divides, but Tangerines saddens us and makes us feel the pains of war, when it really counts…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 29 Apr 2015

The film works not because of any kind of historical specificity but because of its ability to simplify…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Apr 2015

Writer-director Zaza Urushadze turns this fragile premise into a superior chamber drama…

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By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 29 Apr 2015

Tangerines, the first Estonian picture nominated for the foreign-film Oscar, has a heart as ripe as the citrus fruit of its title, but its…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 29 Apr 2015

The acting is solid; Ulfsak is ideally cast as the easygoing, timeworn woodworker…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Apr 2015

Georgian writer-director Zaza Urushadze avoids histrionics or moralizing, relying on a strong cast that expresses the film’s central argument…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 27 Apr 2015

Simple, direct and achingly melancholy, Tangerines unfolds in a setting that feels timeless…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for TheWrap (3,203) on 23 Apr 2015

War is brutal and senseless and would be laughably absurd if it didn’t cause so much widespread, unnecessary destruction and suffering…

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By Tomas Hachard (101) for NPR (1,713) on 20 Apr 2015

Because the conflict between Abkhazians and Georgians is so sketchily drawn, the ultimate heartwarming tone of the film seems not so much unearned…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 16 Apr 2015

Tangerines becomes an object lesson in the resilience of ancient animosities, and the limits, sadly, of common sense…

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By Kyle Turner (65) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 15 Apr 2015

Tangerines ends up being serviceably bleak, but rarely compelling…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 15 Apr 2015

Every time the viewer feels OK to kick back they're whacked them over the head by crude message-mongering or unsubtle ironies…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 15 Apr 2015

The film, beautifully shot and cleanly edited, has the economy of a short story, unfolding in a mood of slightly sentimental masculine stoicism…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Time Out (7,510) on 14 Apr 2015

Urushadze’s excellent cast imbues their thinly drawn characters with a great deal of life, but the roles are so transparent that the film…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 Apr 2015

Ivo’s farmhouse looks leftover from another century, which gives a timeless feeling, as does the regal bearing of Ulfsak and the dry humor…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Apr 2015

As a writer-director, Urushadze has the vision to come up with lingering images-like Ivo's long, sensitive hands guiding pieces of wood to…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 14 Apr 2015

A simple tale, sharply drawn and smartly told, a portrait of a people, a place and a centuries-old conflict that this wise yet myopic citrus…

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By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Apr 2015

Interior scenes focus theater-like on the dining room table-as-vortex: Threats and insults whip about, but, finally, so do forays of friendship…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 17 Feb 2015

Accompanied by a melancholy but atmopsheric refrain from Niaz Diasamidz, which gives an excellent sense of place as well as adding to the elegiac…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 06 Feb 2015

In an age of incestuous ties between the Pentagon and Hollywood that produces films like American Sniper, thank god for the Estonians who remind…

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