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Review of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Nov 2013

By the end, Helandar's movie feels more like an elaborate punchline to an overwrought joke, a thematic gibe more appropriate for a short film…

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Review of Black Swan (2010)

By José Teodoro (48) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Nov 2013

For all his command of adrenalized, propulsive narrative and his dazzling technical facility, Aronofsky's study in female hysteria ultimately…

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Review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

By Chuck Stephens (11) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Nov 2013

A film about recurrent visions and round-trip journeys: a movie not just about previous incarnations but about the possibilities of multiple…

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Review of The Four Times (2010)

By Nicole Armour (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Nov 2013

The director emphasizes the fragile and invisible, the small specks of matter that make up the whole…

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Review of !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution (2010)

By Elisabeth Subrin (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Nov 2013

An intimate, insider portrait of the most influential art movement of the late 20th century…

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Review of Terri (2011)

By Dan Sullivan (9) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Whereas Jacobs père has been most concerned for the past four decades with using cinema as an instrument for exploring the mechanics and boundaries…

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Review of Like Crazy (2011)

By Matthew Connolly (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

I'll admit that my heart broke a little by film's end, as the camera rested on Yelchin and Jones's faraway looks and Stars' sublime Dead Hearts…

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Review of Sightseers (2012)

By Graham Fuller (154) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Devised by acting-writing comedy team Lowe and Oram and co-scripted by Amy Jump, director Ben Wheatley's professional and personal partner,…

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Review of Gimme the Loot (2012)

By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

When the next American new wave rolls around, it'll be thanks to moments like these, and movies like Gimme the Loot…

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Review of The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012)

By Dan Sullivan (9) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

But if Cyrus succeeded as a marriage of established (that is to say, bankable) Hollywood performers and the already codified mumblecore aesthetic,…

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Review of Tomboy (2011)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Since we are dealing with fresh-faced tweens, we are spared the gender histrionics to be found in the likes of The Crying Game or Boys Don't…

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Review of Post Tenebras Lux (2012)

By Dan Sullivan (9) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Post Tenebras Lux is a film rich with sheer material presence, making good on Reygadas's apparent intention to make the viewer truly feel the…

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Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Michael Koresky (14) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Ultimately the film's choppy, camera-goes-anywhere approach works well in translating a play that was never all that interested in the movement…

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Review of Augustine (2012)

By David Zuckerman (5) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Trading historical detail for atmospheric sensuality doesn't do this story justice…

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Review of The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

Taking its cue from Michael Haneke's deeper, crueler Funny Games, The Cabin in the Woods explores why we-sicko viewers-take pleasure in the…

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Review of Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

By Geoffrey O'brien (32) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

But it is the dark side of Much Ado-everything associated with the smearing of Hero's reputation and her lover Claudio's savage rejection of…

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Review of A Burning Hot Summer (2011)

By Kent Jones (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

I have never seen a Garrel film untouched by grace, and A Burning Hot Summer is no exception…

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Review of Lore (2012)

By Emma Myers (16) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

The bleak backdrop is rendered with great beauty-so much so that perhaps the sensory poetics of the visuals linger beyond their darker implications…

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Review of Red Tails (2012)

By Ina Diane Archer (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

One longs for more scenes between the ensemble on the ground, but the emphasis on aerial (and digital) technology leaves the characters without…

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Review of San Diego Surf (1968)

By Michael Chaiken (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 05 Nov 2013

The result is an important and welcome addition to the legacy of its co-directors and a fitting tribute to the comic talents of its two stars…

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