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Review of Solaris (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Mar 2004

Soderbergh, the writer and director, has slowed his metronome almost to a crawl, has repeated and delayed and protracted, in an attempt at…

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Review of Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 19 Sep 2003

It keeps the gag quotient lower than Reds but has a similar effect: more urgent in its desire to make us care about the events it depicts,…

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Review of Wings of Desire (1987)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 04 Sep 2003

Startlingly original at first, Wings of Desir' is in the end damagingly overloaded…

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Review of The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 02 Sep 2003

It has almost no story: its claim on our interest is in the texture of family life, which is what really fills the screen…

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Review of Seabiscuit (2003)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 26 Aug 2003

In the structure of his screenplay Ross has taken a risk, and he has not quite brought it off…

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Review of Saving Private Ryan (1998)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Jun 2003

Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven Spielberg has cut through the glory-tinged gauze that shrouds World War II to reveal…

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Review of Love the Hard Way (2003)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 24 Jun 2003

Brody creates exactly the taunting demi-monster who could inveigle Claire…

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Review of Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 17 Jun 2003

A prime candidate for a time capsule, to disclose a century hence the current state of some of our civilization's discontents, including the…

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Review of Blue Car (2003)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 27 May 2003

Moncrieff's insistence on her subject suggests conviction -- about her contribution and about her cast. Both beliefs are pretty much justified…

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Review of The Pianist (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Feb 2003

To name only one of its predecessors -- for me, the towering one -- doesn't Schindler's List do everything that Polanski achieves and more…

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Review of Twister (1996)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 13 Jan 2003

This film encompasses everything that is both grating and great about the blockbuster…

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Review of Menace II Society (1993)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 12 Jan 2003

It sets some sort of record for use of the expressions nigga and muthafucka…

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Review of Blackboards (2000)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 01 Jan 2003

Like many other Iranian films, Blackboards counters the generally broadcast ideas about this part of the world…

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Review of Russian Ark (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 11 Dec 2002

Substantively there is no content. Everything we see or hear engages us only as part of a directorial tour de force…

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Review of The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 02 Dec 2002

The director Carlos Carrera, who is acceptably talented, keeps the story on track -- on its various tracks…

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Review of 8 Mile (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 02 Dec 2002

Hanson's rendition is so engulfing that, for this middle-class white man at any rate, the moment after the film finished was like a return…

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Review of Tully (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 02 Dec 2002

The people in this picture live and work and eat like people I once knew…

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Review of How I Killed My Father (2001)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 07 Oct 2002

Fontaine's direction, especially her agreeably startling use of close-ups and her grace with a moving camera, creates sheerly cinematic appeal…

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Review of Happiness (1998)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 12 Aug 2002

It has taken only two films, Welcome to the Dollhouse and now Happiness, for Todd Solondz to establish his as one of the most lacerating, funny…

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Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 04 Jun 2002

In the first 30 seconds, this film gets off on the wrong foot and, although there are plenty of clever effects and some amusing spots, it never…

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