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Review of Ender's Game (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 03 Nov 2013

Even if you don't necessarily agree with the politics of the film or its writer, it exemplifies the best of blockbuster filmmaking…

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Review of After Tiller (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Sep 2013

After Tiller's greatest failing is the way in which is fails to engage at length how entrenched the stalemate on abortion is…

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Review of La Maison de la Radio (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 07 Sep 2013

As we watch hosts and announcers talk away on the air, the movie begins to feel like a series of communications between the speakers-and unseen…

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Review of Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

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

It's an impossibly hopeless situation, yet Dumont's craft and Binoche's face somehow achieve transcendence…

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Review of Keep the Lights On (2012)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 21 Aug 2013

Keep the Lights On acknowledges (without belaboring) the performative nature of identity; how each of our claims to selfhood, be it sexual,…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

Precise in its aesthetics, it's an excellent late-period work that shows, without being over-bearing, how the ascent of the corporate ladder…

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Review of The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

Romanian-born ex-painter Negulesco aims for sophistication with Hitchcockian banter between rivals -- Lorre and perennially suspicious Sydney…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

Precise in its aesthetics, it's an excellent late-period work that shows, without being over-bearing, how the ascent of the corporate ladder…

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Review of The Hunt (2013)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

Mikkelsen, one of his country's finest actors, in collaboration with Thomas Vinterberg, one of its finest directors, delivers what may be his…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

The actual events already serve as a parable of race in America, but Coogler's dramatization does them justice…

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Review of You're Next (2013)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

A rare example of satisfying horror-comedy, a crowd-pleaser laced with some hilariously gruesome violence…

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Review of Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

They're a living artwork-a husband-and-wife team whose creative lives are so intertwined that you can't tell where one splattered mess ends…

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Review of Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 11 Jul 2013

The flight of a white gull, right to left across the water is as rapturous an image as ever committed to celluloid…

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Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

By Meredith Slifkin (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 Jul 2013

As befits any postmodern Western, Ain't Them Bodies Saints necessarily addresses the idea of the death of the Western, or the death of the…

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Review of Europa Report (2013)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Jul 2013

Science fiction, at its best, enters unknown realms. Europa Report probes deep, and then brilliantly, dramatically, twists the knife…

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Review of True Grit (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

With his leisurely growl, somewhere between trail-grizzled and post-nap, Bridges sounds as if he's talking through his collar, in a vocal performance…

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Review of No (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

No reminds us that wherever freedom must be sold to the public, a history of complacency, violence, and terror has to be overcome…

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Review of Our Children (2012)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

Suffice to say that pathos is intertwined with pathology in Lafosse's fifth feature, inspired by a true story-but Murielle's decline isn't…

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Review of Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

perhaps most impressively, Kosashvili gets the delicate falling ending of short fiction that is so hard to achieve on screen…

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Review of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 30 Jun 2013

After initially pondering the basic fact that creepy-crawlies are not always viewed with affection elsewhere, the film delves into Japanese…

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