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Criterion Collection: Three Outlaw Samurai [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
February 21, 2012"Often compared to Sam Peckinpah, Gosha’s briskly paced katana operas are frequently drenched with sweat and...
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Adopt Films Find Soulmate in Jean-Marc Vallée’s ‘Café de Flore’
February 20, 2012After a shopping spree that consisted of Berlin Film Festival winners in Taviani Bros.’ Golden Bear...
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Review: Jess + Moss
February 19, 2012"Jeter is certainly expressive, as is this film, it’s just done in a strange way that...
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Review: Bullhead
February 19, 2012While an initial glance would suggest that Bullhead simply sets out to deliver what it says...
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Jess + Moss | Review
February 19, 2012Listen Without Prejudice: Experimental Film Has A+ Concept, but Better as Short Film
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Review: Criterion Collection: La Jetée and Sans Soleil [Blu-ray]
February 14, 2012"With the former film inspiring a plethora of homages (most notably, Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys) and the...
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Criterion Collection: La Jetee and Sans Soleil | Blu-ray Review
February 14, 2012Little defense is needed for these two works by Chris Marker. While neither the first nor...
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Review: Hell and Back Again [Blu-ray]
February 14, 2012"Like the late Tim Hetherington, Dennis is a brave man, somehow capturing absolutely gorgeous footage despite...
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Criterion Collection: La Jetée and Sans Soleil [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
February 14, 2012"With the former film inspiring a plethora of homages (most notably, Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys) and the...
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Hell and Back Again [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
February 14, 2012"Like the late Tim Hetherington, Dennis is a brave man, somehow capturing absolutely gorgeous footage despite...
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Review: Wrong
February 13, 2012"Encoded in the outlandish humor that pervades the film are bits of commentary on everyday life....
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Wrong | Review
February 13, 2012Why Is Everything So Wrong? No Reason, and That's Quite Alright.
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Interview with Olly Alexander & Alison Bagnall (The Dish & the Spoon)
February 10, 2012In Alison Bagnall’s The Dish & the Spoon, Rose (Greta Gerwig) and The Boy (Olly Alexander),...
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Review: China Heavyweight
February 8, 2012"Thanks to Chang's unique ancestry, he has been able to gain the trust of his foreign...
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Review: Love Free or Die
February 8, 2012"There’s nothing innately wrong with Alston’s documentary, other than that it seems to lack a cohesive...
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China Heavyweight | Review
February 8, 2012Pulling No Punches, Boxing Gives Hope For Poor Rural Youth
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Review: I Am Not a Hipster
February 7, 2012"The title I Am Not A Hipster suggests a focus on image and perception, which in...
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Review: LUV
February 7, 2012"By the film’s conclusion, there’s just no way a child of that age would be able...
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Review: Spellbound [Blu-ray]
February 7, 2012"From the crisp formality of its acting, to the famous Salvador Dali designed dream sequence, Spellbound...
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DVD Review: Project Nim
February 7, 2012"James Marsh once again uses his story telling brilliance to construct an emotional portrait of a...
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Spellbound [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
February 7, 2012"From the crisp formality of its acting, to the famous Salvador Dali designed dream sequence, Spellbound...
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Project Nim | DVD Review
February 7, 2012"James Marsh once again uses his story telling brilliance to construct an emotional portrait of a...
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Review: V/H/S
February 6, 2012"Overall, V/H/S is a slick and fun little romp of offerings from some newer voices in...
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Review: Red Hook Summer
February 6, 2012"Be patient—Lee is not simply giving us a sermon because we’re captive in the theater (an...
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Review: Chasing Ice
February 6, 2012"Featuring never before captured time lapse photography as the film's center piece, this documentary should make...
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Review: Price Check
February 6, 2012"Price Check, director Michael Walker’s sophomore feature, coming twelve years after his 2000 debut, Chasing Sleep...
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V/H/S | Review
February 6, 2012A Worthwhile Horror Anthology For the Found Footage Generation
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Chasing Ice | Review
February 6, 2012Warming Up to the Idea; Visually Recorded Hard Facts Closes the Climate Change Case for Good
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I Am Not A Hipster | Review
February 4, 2012Guitars and Ash At Odds With The World Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton follows up his award...
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Review: Kill List
February 3, 2012"As the film crosses over into frenetic violence and foreboding happenings, the excellent soundtrack heightens the...
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Review: The Words
February 3, 2012"For a film centered on the literary world using literary devices to unfold itself, The Words,...
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Review: Detropia
February 3, 2012"With a mindful eye and an evenhanded approach, stark photography and unmitigated confessions, Detropia gives an...
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Review: Shadow Dancer
February 2, 2012"Despite these auspiciously suspenseful peaks and the natural twisting, turning nature of the tail, Marsh's creation...
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First Look: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine
February 2, 2012We've been raving about this pair of filmmakers since we caught their candid, visual essay The...
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Review: Grabbers
February 2, 2012"Intentionally goofy, and drearily written, your reception of the film will all depend on how high...
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Joachim Trier’s Finds Shelter for ‘Louder than Bombs’
February 2, 2012Good news on the Scandi film front as Joachim Trier's Louder than Bombs (an English language...