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Review of Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

By Meredith Slifkin (7) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 16 Nov 2012

Well done and compelling, and at its strongest when focusing on the bravery of these four deaf men who broke the silence…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 Aug 2012

Cosmopolis is Cronenberg's first movie since Videodrome to not only identify a particular zeitgeist but embody it in form and content…

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Review of Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

By Kristin M. Jones (11) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 15 May 2012

The film is almost unfailingly funny, but it also has a rapt quality, as if we are viewing the events through Suzy's binoculars or reading…

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Review of The Tree (2010)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 18 Mar 2012

[It] would be much easier to write off as silly and self-serious, if it weren't so involving…

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Review of Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Oct 2011

The film's visual style is at times so dense it simply overwhelms (ditto the plot)…

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Review of We Were Here (2011)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Oct 2011

The filmmakers have amassed an amazing archive of photos and videotapes, but it is the intimate, personal testimonies that make the film so…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Oct 2011

While you could lean back and nod along to Refn's posturing, the film plays more like an exercise in turn-of-the-Eighties nostalgia, a movie-length…

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Review of Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 08 Oct 2011

Even during this biopic's most absurd moments, Gerard Butler is terrific, conveying gentle and brutal equally well…

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Review of Miral (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 May 2011

Schnabel dedicates Miral to everyone on both sides who still believes peace is possible-a noble sentiment, to be sure, but will anyone on either…

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Review of Thor (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 May 2011

Thor is such a joyless affair that writing even this much about it is nearly as exhausting as sitting through the movie…

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Review of Sucker Punch (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 May 2011

It's close to what Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were after with their Grind House double-header, but shot through with Snyder's own…

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Review of Water for Elephants (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 May 2011

The movie may feel at times like a put-on, but it is in fact entirely sincere…

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Review of Something Borrowed (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 May 2011

If you met any of these people in real life, you'd head for the hills; here, we're trapped with them for the duration, and it feels like a…

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Review of Incendies (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 10 May 2011

This is the sort of movie, smart about geo-politics, but equally rich and complex in human emotions, that Costa-Gavras was making in his prime…

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Review of Fast Five (2011)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

The last 20 minutes or so of Fast Five are as immensely pleasurable as anything I've seen in a movie theater this year…

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Review of My Perestroika (2010)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

A refreshing alternative to many fictional representations of large nations weathering cataclysmic changes…

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Review of Hanna (2011)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

The Plausibility Alarm went off somewhere in the film's first scene, and then the thing rang so many times that it finally broke…

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Review of Blank City (2011)

By Chris Chang (35) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

Leave it to a French director -- a Sorbonne graduate, with a master's degree in law, no less -- to produce a terrific documentary about a 30-year-old…

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Review of The Double Hour (2009)

By Laura Kern (82) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

Showing special attention to sound design and, as the title suggests, the play of time, it's an expertly crafted work…

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Review of The Arbor (2010)

By Scott Foundas (913) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Apr 2011

From the sublimely ridiculous to the simply sublime, The Arbor exists at the intersection of life and art, reality and performance, documentary…

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