Asteroid City (2023)
76%
“For a film doused in declarations of suffering and loss, Asteroid City delivers only a muffled emotional impact....long on lugubrious mournfulness but short on comic piquancy. ” –
4Columns
Jun 16, 2023
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Chameleon Street (1989)
100%
“To have another chance to recognize the ingenuity and anger of Harris's Chameleon Street can never be an unhappy occasion, but oh, that there were more Harris films to see...” –
Artforum
Oct 28, 2021
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Rapture (1979)
100%
“Filmed in the middle of a nationwide spree, Arrebato is a blighted, frightened piece of work. You may want to back away from it sometimes, but its weird, nodding, incantatory pull keeps you hanging around for another fix.” –
4Columns
Oct 1, 2021
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Lucky (2011)
15%
“Drama cannot live on wobbly metaphors alone, and the untenable roles are played without charisma.” –
Village Voice
Aug 9, 2021
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Demonlover (2002)
52%
“The movie carries you along with a queasy momentum and a corybantic, flitting multitasker's eye for offhand detail.” –
4Columns
Feb 12, 2021
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Metropolitan (1990)
93%
“Though the ensemble, on the whole, seem a scotch older than the characters they're playing, there's a fidelity in their Awkward Age emotional peculiarities that makes them absolutely convincing.” –
Reverse Shot
Jun 15, 2020
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Tommaso (2019)
81%
“While an uncharitable viewer might fault all of this as so much filler-the random debris of daily life piled up until it achieves feature length-it in fact amounts to a reminder of the cinematic potential of every lived moment.” –
Artforum
Jun 11, 2020
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Luis Bunuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954)
100%
“Observing the figure of Crusoe in the round, Buñuel finds the prismatic reflections of all manner of hermits, cranks, and holy fools.” –
4Columns
May 8, 2020
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
42%
“This new House tries to sustain a grave, heavy sense of threat. It fails, through its villainy.” –
L.A. Weekly
Apr 24, 2020
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Vitalina Varela (2019)
95%
“Evident here are several signature elements of Costa's style. He doesn't repeat set-ups. His framings-often lingered in longer than the fairly brisk clip of this sequence suggests-have a staunch and definitive quality...” –
Artforum
Feb 21, 2020
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Cane River (1982)
100%
“What Jenkins is after in his 1982 film is a granular, micro regionalism, one that's measured in acres, surnames, and property lines...the film is filled with the pleasures of specificity.” –
4Columns
Feb 7, 2020
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Richard Jewell (2019)
77%
“Jewell is an exasperated innocent, and Hauser plays him as one part Sancho Panza, one part Baby Huey. He is very funny, at times disarmingly sweet, and extremely moving in his slow-awakening self-respect.” –
Sight & Sound
Jan 29, 2020
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1917 (2019)
88%
5/10
“Technical brio, however, cannot redeem all that is callow and crass in Mendes's movie: the dialogue is pure placeholder stuffing, the approach a clumsy collision of the Assassin's Creed video games and Elem Klimov's Come and See...” –
Film Comment Magazine
Jan 13, 2020
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Uncut Gems (2019)
91%
“If anything, Ratner appears as a perfect product of assimilation, a pure animal of commerce, monomaniacally focused on winning and living for the Art of the Deal.” –
Artforum
Dec 12, 2019
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Atlantics (2019)
96%
“The haunting of Dakar in Atlantics extends beyond the film's supernatural storyline, encompassing something more comprehensive and more unsettling in the strangeness of the 21st-century cityscape...” –
Reverse Shot
Nov 15, 2019
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
93%
“While Talbot and Fails avoid turning their homespun homesick story into an unwieldy and self-important metaphor for Black American Experience in total, creeping bloat makes itself felt elsewhere.” –
Sight & Sound
Oct 25, 2019
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The Lighthouse (2019)
90%
“An immaculately curated film, but that's not quite the same thing as the inexact science of direction, and the result is a movie too overwrought and worried-over to convey the sense of either loneliness or claustrophobia that it strains toward.” –
Artforum
Oct 19, 2019
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Joker (2019)
68%
“A film that takes on the nigh-impossible task of smuggling transgressive underground danger into a contemporary, risk-averse multiplex tentpole package.” –
4Columns
Oct 11, 2019
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What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018)
88%
“...expressly concerned with the relationship between boldness and fear, between self-display and concealment, between the sally and the retreat.” –
Artforum
Aug 19, 2019
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Men in Black: International (2019)
23%
“It's garbage, of course, the aesthetically undistinguished result of pure avarice and laziness, with nothing in it to command the attention of an adult with a functioning visual cortex.” –
Sight & Sound
Jul 9, 2019
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Pasolini (2014)
79%
“In showing Pasolini's last hours, Ferrara places an unusual emphasis on the quiet, placid environment in which his subject worked, the bedrock of domesticity which anchored him though ultimately could not protect him.” –
Reverse Shot
May 13, 2019
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Non-Fiction (2018)
86%
“Assayas is interested in seeing how these characters paddle along with (or against) the currents of the oceanic, macro-scale culture market-but also how their micro-scale market of sex and sentiment creates its own little ripples within that ocean.” –
4Columns
May 3, 2019
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)
99%
“One of [Jia Zhangke's] most endearing traits as a director is his wholly uncondescending approach to pop kitsch, and his respect for the emotional outlet it can provide.” –
Artforum
Mar 16, 2019
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Climax (2018)
69%
“It combines a virtuoso technical complexity with a view of human behavior that is paleolithic in its simplicity.” –
Artforum
Mar 1, 2019
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Green Book (2018)
77%
4
“While Green Book is one of the lesser films to bear the Farrelly imprimatur, it can be appreciated for its role in revealing so nakedly the rules of the prestige picture sweepstakes.” –
Sight & Sound
Feb 25, 2019
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