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Review of Ondine (2010)

By Andrew Chan (4) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

Things start to go awry when we realize that the film's emotional sensitivity doesn't go much deeper than its moody surfaces…

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Review of All Good Things (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

The Duel drops us into a pool of languid provincial life (…

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Review of Animal Kingdom (2010)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

Seldom is a debut feature handled with such assurance and intelligence…

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Review of A Film Unfinished (2010)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

A new and uniquely disturbing perspective on the Shoah…

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Review of Solitary Man (2009)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

The film begins and ends with scenes of acute existential reflection, a state actors rarely convey convincingly-least of all in a contemporary…

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Review of Cyrus (2010)

By David Zuckerman (5) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

A sweet, modest, unremarkable film, propped up by seasoned actors playing quirky and real…

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Review of The Secret of Kells (2009)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

Kells has a decidedly pleasing-to-the-eye, retro-cartoon vibe ( ... ) an intriguing and rare artistic subgenre…

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Review of Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

Mademoiselle Chambon may be a small film about inconsequential people, but the situations and emotions it stirs up are universally profound…

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Review of Mid-August Lunch (2008)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Nov 2013

Shot handheld and mostly confined to the apartment, the film is (despite some mild food tourism) a delightful feat…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Kristin M. Jones (11) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Ultimately, it is mainly the electrifying performances that Kechiche presumably elicited from Seydoux and Exarchopoulos that make Blue Is the…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Akin to a children's novel (the sort where the shadow of death fuzzily looms), About Time turns into a successfully sentimental family film…

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Review of Herø (2001)

By Sarah Mankoff (5) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Her is told from Theo's perspective, and all he can ever really know about Samantha is that she's infinite-and when it comes to another person,…

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Review of Her (2013)

By Sarah Mankoff (5) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Her is told from Theo's perspective, and all he can ever really know about Samantha is that she's infinite-and when it comes to another person,…

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Review of Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Perhaps the cinematic equivalent of tough love, Dallas Buyers Club may be more feel-bad than it would have been in the hands of the more…

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Review of These Birds Walk (2012)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Such callousness is refuted by Asad's battle-scarred empathy, old man Edhi's endurance, and the poetry of the film itself, which finds beauty…

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Review of Catfish (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

In a classic case of filmmakers prioritizing their own pitch over the actual goods, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost put Schulman's toothy-grinned…

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Review of The Great Beauty (2013)

By Marco Grosoli (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

In blatant reference to La dolce vita, The Great Beauty is an apt if lazily postmodern response to Fellini's question: how can we convert nihilism…

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Review of Palo Alto (2014)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

It'd be a mistake to be scared off by the subject matter, so often a vehicle for moralism: suburban teenagers hang out around town, go to parties,…

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Review of About Time (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 12 Nov 2013

Akin to a children's novel (the sort where the shadow of death fuzzily looms), About Time turns into a successfully sentimental family film…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Nov 2013

Hooper...has become something of a specialist in exhuming British history from the mothballs of Masterpiece Theatre…

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