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Review of Red Army (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 23 Oct 2014

Fascinating documentary about the Russian hockey team that reflected Communism at its best and worst…

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Review of The Last Sentence (2012)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 16 Oct 2014

A decidedly noncommercial film about the courage of a newspaperman who was a real contrast to the inside-the-beltway hacks of today, anxious…

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Review of Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Oct 2014

The reference to Dante might be obvious even if the USA is no paradise for the undocumented workers crossing the border…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 26 Sep 2014

A likable film more in the spirit of Footloose than agitprop…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 25 Sep 2014

The best work that the Dardennes have done, a study of the Hobson's Choices facing workers in a period of wanton ruling class greed…

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Review of Apocalypto (2006)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 17 Jul 2014

A quite exciting spectacle based on a racist version of indigenous history, one in which the genocidal conquistadors are the New World's liberators…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Jul 2014

An extraordinary summer blockbuster that reprises the fatal encounter of European colonizers with Native Americans and George Orwell's Animal Farm…

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Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 10 Jul 2014

Only for those addicted to video games and the Transformer series. The original was bright, funny and inventive. The sequel not so…

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Review of Evergreen: The Road to Legalization in Washington (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 12 Jun 2014

More than meets the eye…

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Review of Borgman (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 04 Jun 2014

A home invasion movie that is more Godard than grindhouse, and a brilliant one at that…

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Review of Night Moves (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 29 May 2014

An idiotic film about ecoterrorism without bothering to engage with ecology. Ms…

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Review of Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 29 May 2014

Silly critics expected Braveheart when it was more like Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring…

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Review of Godzilla (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 22 May 2014

Nothing can top the original. This one is geared to the teenaged audience brought up on video games…

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Review of Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 21 May 2014

A film that demonstrates that there is hope for independent filmmaking in the USA…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 Apr 2014

A typically witless comedy from Wes Anderson that has about as much to do with Stefan Zweig as it does with WWII and Nazism, the disasters…

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Review of A Promise (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 20 Apr 2014

Don't pay attention to the rotten reviews. This film is a real homage to Stefan Zweig, as opposed to Wes Anderson's witless Grand Budapest Hotel…

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Review of Watermark (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Apr 2014

A travelogue focused on various bodies of water (lakes, rivers, oceans, and underground aquifers) threatened by capitalist development…

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Review of Noah (2014)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Apr 2014

Cinematically and philosophically daring, this is a reworking of the flood story that speaks to 21st century realities and that will make you…

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Review of The Unknown Known (2013)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Apr 2014

Nauseating claptrap that allows a war criminal to waste 103 minutes of our time and over $10 of our hard-earned money in self-justification…

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Review of Noah (2015)

By Louis Proyect (533) for rec.arts.movies.reviews (2,454) on 03 Apr 2014

Cinematically and philosophically daring, this is a reworking of the flood story that speaks to 21st century realities and that will make you…

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