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Review of Gemma Bovery (2014)

By Sean Rogers (2) for Cinema Scope (405) on 29 Mar 2018

Still, the movie is so denuded of insight and incident it ends up more cartoonish than the comic book that spawned it…

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Review of Heaven Knows What (2015)

By Sean Rogers (2) for Cinema Scope (405) on 29 Mar 2018

Without romanticizing their often insufferable and alienating subjects, the Safdies extend them both a measure of compassion and moments of…

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Review of Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

By Jerry White (1) for Cinema Scope (405) on 29 Mar 2018

Some TV viewers may tune in expecting more penguins; what they get instead is a portrait of people in search of the sublime…

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Review of The Work (2017)

By Manuela Lazic (44) for Cinema Scope (405) on 21 Mar 2018

The daring approach of McLeary and Aldous' filmmaking, completely immersive without trying to be invisible or to influence the chain of events,…

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Review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

By Angelo Muredda (33) for Cinema Scope (405) on 21 Feb 2018

Whatever the rationale behind it, the flippancy of McDonagh's compulsive jokes frequently halts the momentum of a film that is about how flippancy…

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Review of Wajib (2017)

By Lorenzo Esposito (2) for Cinema Scope (405) on 29 Dec 2017

Wajib is a day-long road trip into a very diverse Palestinian community, which is sometimes treated with a subtle and slightly dark humour;…

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Review of Neon Bull (2016)

By Max Goldberg (2) for Cinema Scope (405) on 29 Nov 2017

The film's many internal frames bring bodies together-sex is in the air-but they also suggest people making do with the fences that are a fact…

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Review of Sparrows (2015)

By Max Goldberg (2) for Cinema Scope (405) on 29 Nov 2017

In spite of its artfully slow pace Sparrows is bustling with cliché…

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Review of Golden Exits (2018)

By Jay Kuehner (15) for Cinema Scope (405) on 28 Nov 2017

The film's measure of inertia among its characters is putatively more eloquent, loquacious even, which appears to be part of Perry's paradoxical…

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Review of A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

A Spell finds their styles melding in the most fascinating ways…

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Review of The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

Angelica is every bit as concerned with the problems of cinema as Oliveira's more theatrically inclined works, but explores them through more…

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Review of Littlerock (2010)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

Littlerock isn't a film weighed down by symbolism, and to misconstrue it as such would divert us from its small, idiosyncratic pleasures…

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Review of Man of Tai Chi (2013)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

Needless to say, The Keanu hasn't got a patch on either Fincher or Assayas stylistically, and while his casting of himself as the eeeevil villain…

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Review of A Separation (2011)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

A Separation is one of the year's most accomplished films, and like so many films we might characterize as accomplished, it hasn't garnered…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

TDKR is, like the Batman films that have preceded it, an ideological muddle, but none has been so completely devoid of intellectual clarity…

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Review of Robinson in Ruins (2010)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

As compared to the intensive wandering of the first two films, Ruins is characterized by a kind of stillness, emphasized by an almost musical…

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Review of A Screaming Man (2010)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

The director finds himself artistically stranded between the allegorical impulse and the will to historicize…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 27 Nov 2017

Sadly, Hazanavicius is so unskilled, so steeped in the empty signposting of parody and stereotype, that he's actually signaling to us throughout…

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Review of Concrete Night (2013)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 22 Nov 2017

This is the sort of film that you watch with a double consciousness, constantly distracted by the battle between visionary impulse and rank cliché…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Michael Sicinski (38) for Cinema Scope (405) on 22 Nov 2017

The Great Beauty is an alleged condemnation of the decadence of Rome and its high society, but inasmuch as it approaches coherence at all…

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