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Review of Play (2011)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Childhood pain is perhaps best left forgotten-but director Ruben Östlund prefers to rub your face in it…

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Review of Woman on the Beach (2006)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Hong has a deceptively simple director's touch, an organic breeziness that makes things feel spontaneous and improvised…

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Review of Summer Palace (2006)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

The supporting cast is uniformly fine and excels at creating an emotional spectrum appropriate to the wildly variegated tonalities of Summer…

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Review of Mozart's Sister (2010)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Romantic and engaging-with lush musical detail throughout-this most enjoyable film is, in the end, a thoroughly demoralizing tale of female…

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Review of Play (2011)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Childhood pain is perhaps best left forgotten-but director Ruben Östlund prefers to rub your face in it…

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Review of Leviathan (2013)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Alert the genre police: Leviathan is the best horror film of the year…

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Review of Day Night Day Night (2006)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Jun 2013

Viewers will find themselves asking Why? Why? Why? in a structural echo, perhaps, of the repetition in the film's title…

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Review of Love Is All You Need? (2011)

By Meredith Slifkin (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Buffeted by languorous Italian vistas and the emotional depth of the characters, the film falls more into the Nancy Meyers camp of rom com,…

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Review of I'm So Excited! (2013)

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

The image of a plane in a holding pattern feels all too apt for the film's conceits and characters, which never quite land…

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Review of The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

By Meredith Slifkin (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

The film's 149-minute running time might test the patience of even the most devout silent film fan, but the decadent costumes, elaborate sets,…

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Review of Fill the Void (2012)

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

Director Rama Burshtein's debut is nothing less than astonishing…

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Review of American Mary (2013)

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

Sexy and delightfully deadpan, Katharine Isabelle absolutely kills it as loner med student Mary, so passionate about perfecting her surgical…

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Review of Behind the Candelabra (2013)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

As fabulous as it should be and not a jot more or less…

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Review of The Color of the Chameleon (2013)

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

Bulgarian cinema has, for many years, been close to nonexistent, but Christov and Todorov's fervid fictions might just start to fill the void…

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Review of The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

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

Motivation is the weak link here, with characters major and minor making choices that don't compute and/or serve mainly to advance the narrative…

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Review of The Social Network (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

The Social Network is splendid entertainment from a master storyteller, packed with energetic incident and surprising performances…

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Review of The Magic Christian (1969)

By Violet Lucca (89) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Joseph McGrath's movie version remains an acerbic, late-Sixties dark comedy classic…

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Review of Love Is All You Need (2012)

By Meredith Slifkin (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Buffeted by languorous Italian vistas and the emotional depth of the characters, the film falls more into the Nancy Meyers camp of rom com,…

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Review of The East (2013)

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

The film, if you can temporarily suspend disbelief, is still the kind of rock-solid intelligent entertainment that has become all too rare…

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Review of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 13 Jun 2013

Chazelle is an exceptionally talented filmmaker. Let's hope the independent film world has enough life left in it to do him justice…

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