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Review of Upstream Color (2013)

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

Ultimately, Carruth's tale expresses that, despite the complexity and mutability of human beings, their essence persists…

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Review of The Comedy (2012)

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

While this could have been the perfect portrait of a certain kind of idiot, the baroque cruelties and tonal monotony go too far…

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Review of 360 (2012)

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

Spending 111 minutes watching people at the mall would be a more illuminating study of human behavior-and undoubtedly more entertaining…

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Review of A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012)

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

The experience of A Liar's Autobiography is ultimately deflating instead of celebratory…

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Review of Middle of Nowhere (2012)

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

Though writer-director Ava DuVernay avoids any and all cliché right up until the closing titles, I have no qualms ending this review with…

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Review of Middle of Nowhere (2008)

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

Though writer-director Ava DuVernay avoids any and all cliché right up until the closing titles, I have no qualms ending this review with…

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Review of El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

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

Gianfranco Rosi's extraordinary one-man documentary stares long and hard at the practiced but no less terrifying monologues of a Mexican hit man…

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Review of Cedar Rapids (2011)

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

The risks Cedar Rapids takes may not always pay off, but as a general rule, I would advise spending 86 minutes of your life with the movie…

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Review of Up in the Air (2009)

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

By far Reitman's most accomplished film to date, both in terms of craft and its stealth avoidance of typical Hollywood flight patterns…

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Review of Cloud Atlas (2012)

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

Like a fitted coat worn by someone it wasn't tailored for, parts of Cloud Atlas bulge out, overstretched, begging for more material, while…

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Review of Maniac (2012)

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

Perhaps the mannequin metaphor is best: though it's dressed to the nines, Maniac is ultimately just a piece of plastic…

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Review of She Hate Me (2004)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

She Hate Me isn't subversive, it's insipid…

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Review of Super 8 (2011)

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 Sleepwalk with Me (2012)

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

However, there's something ultimately unsatisfying about the experience of listening to stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia tell the true story…

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Review of Soul Kitchen (2009)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Jun 2013

Like the aphrodisiac-spiked dessert that Shayn prepares one night, the movie's effects may not linger long, but they are feverishly fun and…

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Review of Corpo Celeste (2011)

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

Though at times heavy-handed in its imagery and slow-paced, Rohrwacher's debut feature is remarkably unadorned and touching, putting forth…

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Review of The Paperboy (2012)

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

I'll just get it out of the way now: The Paperboy is unbelievably awful…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

After two-and-a-half hours of world-threatening chaos and world-saving derring-do, you leave the theater satisfied, but without so much as…

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Review of Your Highness (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

Your Highness never sacrifices its cheerful, one-thing-after-another absurdity, or its inability to take itself even remotely seriously…

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Review of Buried (2010)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 19 Jun 2013

A nifty gimmick rarely translates into satisfying cinema, but Buried qualifies as an exception…

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