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Review of Road to Nowhere (2010)

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

Without succumbing to any romance about the magic of motion pictures, Hellman imbues Road to Nowhere with a haunted yet hallowed quality…

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Review of The Act of Killing (2012)

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

The Act of Killing and its backstory no doubt have more to reveal upon closer investigation, though what it's shown is already hard to forget…

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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 To the Sea (2010)

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

At its best, Alamar affirms that the patient, meditative film or the stylistic exercise is far less of a cinema pestilence than emotionally…

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Review of Into the Abyss (2011)

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

The star filmmaker, oft mocked for verging on self-parody, keeps his Teutonic explorer persona in check and allows his subjects' emotional…

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Review of Submarine (2011)

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

The movie's conception of the tender agonies and embarrassments of would-be teenage lovers is hobbled by punchline cuts and predictable musical…

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Review of The Gatekeepers (2012)

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

Moreh's interviewees span generations, from elder statesman Avraham Shalom (mastermind of the 1960 Adolf Eichmann grab) to most recent spook-in-chief…

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Review of Donoma (2011)

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

The entire 133-minute movie, in fact, is like a long story recounted with spontaneous digressions intact, all shot by someone who's been watching…

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Review of Sleeping Beauty (2011)

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

Even if the film's final chapter seems far too on point, if not glib, the filmmaker continues to mine complicated psychological terrain with…

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Review of Red Riding Hood (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

Beware the wolf,' warn Red Riding Hood's posters and television ads. Be even warier of this movie…

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Review of John Dies at the End (2013)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

The saving grace of John Dies at the End is undoubtedly its manic storytelling: the energy and pacing of scenes give the movie the impression…

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Review of The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

Like real teenagers, Watson and Miller convincingly move from glowing objects of desire to comic relief to deeply troubled human beings…

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Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

The movie hits the beats, but lacks depth…

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Review of Super 8 (1988)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

While it may not achieve the level of pop culture canonization as the Spielberg films it invokes, Super 8 should inspire many to use their…

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Review of Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

With a diegesis mapped along the mental contours of its protagonist, Martha Marcy May Marlene harkens back to Pasolini's notion of the cinema…

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Review of Gerhard Richter Painting (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

At times filling the screen with symmetrical compositions of paintings in progress in the studio, the film is akin to being in a museum that's…

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Review of This Must Be the Place (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

The conceit of showing a pop-culture figure's life out of the limelight is beyond hackneyed, but the film's incongruous visual splendor and…

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Review of China Heavyweight (2012)

By Meredith Slifkin (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

Chang works within the philosophical framework of the world of boxing to paint a poignant and often incisive portrait of the evolving Chinese…

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Review of Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

This is certainly not to suggest that White's work is worthless or unimpressive, but the way it is sold to us is predictable and unclever…

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Review of Ted (2012)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

It is a film that seems to have an endless middle…

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