The New Girlfriend (2014)
80%
C
“The New Girlfriend is perhaps best experienced as variations on a theme, rather than an organically developed story; I just wish that were the experience Ozon had intended.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 5, 2018
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Miss Julie (2014)
53%
C-
“In this overly literal adaptation, we know invisible forces are at work only when characters directly address their presence.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 5, 2018
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Wild (2015)
50%
B
“The film's final evocation of a future never witnessed beautifully aligns with its playful fusion of past and present.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 5, 2018
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Still Alice (2014)
85%
B+
“The movie matches its subject with a beautifully appropriate intelligence, and is smartly structured, switching perspectives from Alice's self-preservation to her family members' dealings so imperceptibly that a decisive moment never arrives.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 5, 2018
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From What Is Before (2014)
89%
C+
“Given the film's detailed examination of a physical environment, the lackluster sound design is a bit surprising.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 5, 2018
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Snow Angels (2007)
68%
B+
“Green doesn't want the viewer dumbfounded as to how to react so much as to match every laugh with a shudder. It's a balance of humiliation and empathy that ultimately works.” –
Stylus Magazine
Nov 5, 2007
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Quiet City (2007)
80%
71/100
“Quiet City was the festival highlight, for me.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 27, 2007
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Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)
78%
60/100
“What happens when a skeptic tackles tranquility? He makes it look dangerous.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 27, 2007
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Zoo (2007)
60%
70/100
“Zoo is the formal antithesis of To Catch a Predator-like exposés in its presentation of outcasts.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Monkey Warfare (2006)
71%
64/100
“A self-professed student of Godard, [Reginald] Harkema more closely resembles another Godard acolyte, Tarantino, right down to the latter's love of weed, foxy chicks, and subtle deceptiveness.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Congorama (2006)
43%
61/100
“The film's catalogue of absurdity is so colorful that it needn't be mined for impact, and [Phillippe] Falardeau takes the matter-of-fact route, merely gawking at the wreckage.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Gretchen (2006)
83%
33/100
“As Steve Collins' Gretchen proves, not all Amerindies on the festival circuit are made by guys you'd expect to run into in a John Cassavetes festival.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
57%
53/100
“The result is a mesh of creative sensibilities that never quite congeals.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Dans Paris (2006)
60%
C
“[Romain] Duris is well and fine, and [Dans Paris] would do well to stick with him, but [Christophe] Honoré seems so wary of the pitfalls of the psychological drama that he has declined to make one at all.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Honour of the Knights (2006)
80%
B
“It is [worth seeing], but [Albert] Serra's watch-or-****-off contempt remains present throughout.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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The Spy in Black (1939)
100%
74/100
“It's a peculiar and rather wonderful mismatch of subject matter and tone that, if not a success at elucidating great moral complexities of war, asks us to take unusual and perhaps unflattering pleasure in old intrigues.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 25, 2007
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Match Point (2005)
77%
“A filmmaker out of touch with his own neuroses, making a final bid for recognition by exacerbating lives beyond his reach.” –
Stylus Magazine
Oct 30, 2006
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The New World (2005)
63%
C-
“Lazily reassuring, a dime-store haiku, and a master's nadir.” –
Stylus Magazine
Oct 30, 2006
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The Young Lieutenant (2005)
78%
B
“So, it can't quite be said that [Xavier Beauvois] is bereft of novel, impressively lurid ideas for murders, because he's expressly against them, if we're to take Antoine's lust for intrigue as our own.” –
Stylus Magazine
Sep 6, 2006
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
41%
B+
“[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things] has a deceptively desultory structure where no moral system or 'new daddy' seems to hold much water upon introduction, but each accumulates ideas which make an atavistic reappearance at the most inopportune of tim” –
Stylus Magazine
Sep 6, 2006
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Bubble (2005)
72%
B+
“The film is called Bubble, but it represents the first time in ages Steven Soderbergh has worked outside of his personal territory.” –
Stylus Magazine
Sep 6, 2006
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Mutual Appreciation (2005)
86%
A
“More than an effortlessly perceptive observer, Bujalski has honed deceptively stylized visuals to serve deceptively stylized drama. Isolated by their lonesome, compositions are so inert as to seem intentionally inexpressive, but altogether, a visual strat” –
Stylus Magazine
Sep 6, 2006
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The Hole Story (2005)
C
“For a tale of single-minded devotion, [The Hole Story] shines in those few occasions when Alex [Karpovsky]'s nerve is overtaken by booze, love or despair -- a lot like life.” –
Stylus Magazine
Jun 12, 2006
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