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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Apr 2018

The film makes brilliant use of juxtaposition to underscore the class divide between the Windsors and the Blairs…

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Review of Moses and Aaron (1975)

By Allen Shawn (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Apr 2018

The film scrapes away the reverential patina surrounding religious subject matter to reveal contemporary urgency…

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Review of Aaltra (2004)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

Tati-esque pacing, crisp black-and-white photography, and marvelous non sequitur moments lead up to a killer punchline, delivered in typical…

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Review of Very Annie Mary (2001)

By Nicole Armour (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

This warm and funny film hits all the right notes, and nothing compares to the satisfaction that comes from watching Annie Mary triumphantly…

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Review of Grey Gardens (2009)

By Charles Michener (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

An extraordinarily crafty invasion into the lives of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie…

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Review of Pi (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

A tour-de-force of grainy, high-contrast black-and-white photography and inventive editing and sound design, π at times ventures to the limits…

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Review of Next Stop Wonderland (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

A beguilingly honest look at romantic longing…

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Review of Grey Gardens (1976)

By Charles Michener (6) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

An extraordinarily crafty invasion into the lives of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie…

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Review of Slam (2003)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

Suffused with an emphatic but completely vague sociopolitical anger, Slam can't get beyond reiterating familiar sentiments about genocidal…

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Review of Buffalo '66 (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

There is a air of intriguing atavism about the textures and contours of Buffalo '66's visual style and tone…

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Review of Smoke Signals (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

It's crammed with Deep Thoughts, fortune-cookie epiphanies, and laboring-to-be-offbeat comic observations about cultural heritage, sons coming…

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Review of Hard Eight (1997)

By Richard T. Jameson (72) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

Hard Eight wouldn't be the compelling story it is without Philip Baker Hall as its center of gravity and values…

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Review of Tropical Malady (2004)

By Kent Jones (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

Image for image, this hour-long stretch provided the Cannes competition with its most rarefied and ravishing experience…

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Review of Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)

By Kent Jones (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

The simple structure, unwinding over roughly 36 hours, unassumingly encompasses a lifetime of disappointment and inescapable male foolishness…

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Review of High Art (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

High Art is often compelling and uncannily accurate in its evocation of downtown demi-monde characters and druggy, entropic milieu-the art…

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Review of Godzilla (1998)

By Gregory Solman (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

The sole purpose of this product was to make more money than anything else before it, generate a reflexive response immune to critical and…

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Review of The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (2004)

By Kent Jones (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

Depardon's film is a fascinating study of clashing egos and dueling rhetorical styles…

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Review of Slam (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Apr 2018

Suffused with an emphatic but completely vague sociopolitical anger, Slam can't get beyond reiterating familiar sentiments about genocidal…

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Review of The Memory of Justice (1976)

By Elliott Stein (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

As hour succeeded hour and interview was intercut with interview, a numbing Chinese box effect took over…

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Review of Gangs of New York (1938)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

It's a punishing piece of work, this Gangs of New York. Spectacular, brilliant, but punishing-basically, one long brawl…

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