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Review of Obsession (1943)

By Elliott Stein (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

The raw warm poetry of Ossessione has nothing to do with neo-realism; the film is unencumbered by ideology and political commitment…

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Review of American Splendor (2003)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

What makes the film special throughout is the way its form mirrors its subject matter. On every level, it's a film about unlikely marriages…

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Review of Dersu Uzala (1975)

By Elliott Stein (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

The film's finest passage occurs when the hunter and the captain are stranded on a frozen lake-a harrowing, spooky-gorgeous spectacle of supernatural…

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Review of The Station Agent (2003)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

The Station Agent is little more than a three-character, metaphorically burdened off-Broadway play, but Peter Dinklage's understated performance…

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Review of Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

There's no doubt that the film delivers the emotional equivalent of a kidney punch, but that's as much a result of the filmmaker's attitude-better…

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Review of Thirteen (1974)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

The script is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned…

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Review of Ladybird Ladybird (1994)

By Robert Horton (590) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

This excruciating story is absorbing for much of its running time, even if the sheer hideousness of the situation takes its toll…

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Review of Bus 174 (2002)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

Building an indictment of the media, the police, and the provincial governor for placing self-interest above saving lives, Bus 174 opens out…

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Review of The Thin Red Line (1998)

By Gavin Smith (15) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

There has truly never been a film about modern war quite like this one: a kind of lyric epic poem about the way men are transformed for good…

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Review of A Touch of Zen (1970)

By Elliott Stein (27) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

With the first shots of Zen we are plunged into a nature marked by eerie majesty…

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Review of Thirteen (2003)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

The script is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned…

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Review of Thirteen (1988)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

The script is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned…

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Review of Amélie (2001)

By Frédéric Bonnaud (2) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 09 Apr 2018

In a sense, Amélie depends on the maniacal cataloguing of signifiers of a caricature France: Jeunet nails every last one…

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Review of Gemini (2017)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Apr 2018

It starts suggestively and enigmatically, then straightens-and flattens-everything out, including the emotional and moral landscape of its characters…

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Review of Ready Player One (2018)

By Jonathan Romney (434) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Apr 2018

For all its ferocious energy, Ready Player One strikes me as the product of a cinema of exhaustion-it's a film about having come too far and…

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Review of Unsane (2018)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Mar 2018

With equal splashes of wit and gore, this cool, nasty little thriller fearlessly exploits up-to-date strains of social and sexual paranoia…

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Review of Tomb Raider (2018)

By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 28 Mar 2018

But there's little [Roar Uthaug] can do with Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons's script (derived largely from the third era of the video…

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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Mar 2018

Documenting the way we speak now, however, doesn't compensate for the film's own hollow rhetoric; TGE's tricked-out, fractured narrative merely…

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Review of The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

By Paul Arthur (1) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Mar 2018

Winterbottom sidesteps obligations associated with documentary filmmaking in favor of blazing agitprop…

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Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 27 Mar 2018

Documenting the way we speak now, however, doesn't compensate for the film's own hollow rhetoric; TGE's tricked-out, fractured narrative merely…

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