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Review of Rosewater (2014)

By Esther Breger (4) for The New Republic (897) on 21 Nov 2014

The main question Rosewater grapples with is whether Stewart can hack it as a filmmaker. The answer: sort of…

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Review of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

By David Thomson (77) for The New Republic (897) on 20 Nov 2014

This is a dream on your screen, absurd, languid (if not slow), and possessed by the calm of an inevitable beauty…

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Review of All the Real Girls (2003)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 15 Nov 2014

Green treats his people with affectionate knowledge, untinged with patronizing. And he sees them in ways that are free of cinematic cliché…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By David Thomson (77) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Nov 2014

It's understandable that Bennett Miller should have been fascinated by the du Pont-Schultz case and wanted to make a film from it…

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Review of The Aristocrats (2005)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 07 Nov 2014

What fascinates is, first, that these comics treat the joke the way jazz musicians might treat a theme that each of them plays differently;…

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Review of Low Down (2014)

By David Thomson (77) for The New Republic (897) on 22 Oct 2014

Low Down is a knockout, a candid picture of much of jazz, and one more step for a master actor…

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Review of Adaptation. (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 22 Oct 2014

Virtually everything that happens in Adaptation is almost juvenile showing off - daring to make a film that is in search of a script…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By David Thomson (77) for The New Republic (897) on 08 Oct 2014

This is a student film in rampant overdrive and it will attract attention and offers. So I just hope Mr…

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Review of Showgirls (1995)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 28 Sep 2014

As Nomi, Elizabeth Berkley has exactly two emotions -- hot and bothered -- but her party-doll blowsiness works for the picture…

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Review of Anatomy of Hell (2004)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 28 Aug 2014

The dialogue that is wrapped around the sexual activities only helps to make the film disgustingly ridiculous…

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Review of Awakenings (1990)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Aug 2014

Williams gives his best straight performance, shorn of all his marvelous manic vaudeville…

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Review of The Terminal (2004)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Aug 2014

Even at the low end of the Spielberg spectrum, there has always been some air of ingenuity, some sense of the maker's excitement. Not here…

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Review of Our Father (2004)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 04 Aug 2014

The story of the film is a quiet local tale; the directing is sophisticated…

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Review of Child of God (2014)

By William Giraldi (1) for The New Republic (897) on 29 Jul 2014

Franco is determined to humanize Ballard in a misguided quest to make him likable, as if likability were a conduit to credibility and not just…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By David Thomson (77) for The New Republic (897) on 28 Jul 2014

The puzzle-like premise of A Most Wanted Man is a fabrication, but you cannot escape the fascination of Hoffman waiting for despair to be confirmed…

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Review of Primary Colors (1998)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 23 Jul 2014

The result is glib, often funny, sometimes bumpy, and ultimately depressing…

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Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Chloe Schama (8) for The New Republic (897) on 09 Jul 2014

The film is lengthy -- almost three hours -- and without much plot, but I sat rapt for every minute…

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Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Chloe Schama (8) for The New Republic (897) on 09 Jul 2014

The film is lengthy -- almost three hours -- and without much plot, but I sat rapt for every minute…

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Review of Capote (2005)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Jun 2014

A slight conceptual nudge and Capote would have focused on (as the closing line tells us) its true subject: an American author's success story…

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Review of The New World (2005)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Jun 2014

Malick continues to float along the edge of the American film world as an unusually intelligent personage who occasionally delivers the fruit…

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