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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jul 2014

Sachs doesn't subvert his tearjerker enterprise so much as soften and parcel out emotion, empathizing no more with the distraught couple than…

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Review of The Green Prince (2014)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jul 2014

goes a long way towards depicting the dance of loyalties that accompanies generational shifts in political position, and strikes an emotional…

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Review of Life Itself (2014)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jul 2014

While the film is too candid about Ebert's ego, petulance, and late-career critical softening to be called hagiography, that very frankness…

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Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jul 2014

An experience that's at once emotionally potent and visually delightful…

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Review of Scanners (1981)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Jul 2014

Scanners consolidates the ruling problematic of the Cronenberg project from the sex slugs of Shivers to the financial abstractions of Cosmopolis…

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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2014

[A]n atmospheric, elegant piece, a more delicate, intriguingly nervous piece of pulp noir…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2014

[T]here's a sometimes doggedly to-the-point quality to the film that you can't help admiring in contrast to the breathlessness of so much CGI cinema…

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Review of They Came Together (2014)

By Morgan Wilcock (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Jun 2014

It's a light-hearted film that is smarter than it seems-or as Wain once said, a deliberately terrible romantic comedy…

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Review of Snowpiercer (2013)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 25 Jun 2014

A genuinely spectacular project that has the imaginative and philosophical dimensions that most blockbusters would never dream of venturing into…

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Review of Norte, the End of History (2014)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 18 Jun 2014

Any thought of Diaz as a director who makes it all up as he goes along is comprehensively belied by a tightly structured narrative that, for…

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Review of Dormant Beauty (2012)

By Jared Eisenstat (8) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jun 2014

Despite the awkward narrative structure, the choppy film serves as a welcome showcase for ably understated performances from veteran Toni Servillo…

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Review of A Coffee in Berlin (2012)

By Morgan Wilcock (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jun 2014

It's yet another tribute to being young, confused, and alone in a big city--a cinematic elegy that feels formulaic but is still budding with…

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Review of Belle (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

Writer-director Amma Asante has created a complex tale of race, gender, and love that has very clear present-day resonance…

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Review of Sol LeWitt (2012)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

It's an informative film, rich in ideas because LeWitt's ideas are rich, but it didn't make me curious either to see more of his work or know…

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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Tony Rayns (36) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

Tsai may well be cinema's foremost connoisseur of defeat: the best chronicler we have of the temps mort between social reality and darkly comic…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By John Wildman (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

The good news is that Eastwood does his thing to perfection, Adams provides the spunky cuteness, and Timberlake couldn't scrub his eager charm…

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Review of Stray Dogs (2014)

By Tony Rayns (36) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

Tsai may well be cinema's foremost connoisseur of defeat: the best chronicler we have of the temps mort between social reality and darkly comic…

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Review of Quod erat demonstrandum (2014)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

[The] film carries the simmering charge of a story that for many years couldn't be told but feels just as urgent now…

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Review of Venus in Fur (2013)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

Polanski's Venus in Fur is neither profound nor erotic (at least not for this viewer) but it is wonderfully witty and a generous gift from…

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Review of Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 May 2014

[The] film carries the simmering charge of a story that for many years couldn't be told but feels just as urgent now…

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