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Apocalypse Now (1979) 90% “The message is too patent to affect us. Politically too, the film is empty, but then it doesn't have much political ambition. What it wants is to be a moral allegory, like its Conradian model, and there it fizzles completely.” – The New Republic Sep 22, 2024 Full Review The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1976) 87% “A flyweight picture which is considerable fun... It’s a nice album of Americana.” – The New Republic Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Chinatown (1974) 98% “If Chinatown were shorter and less consciously paradigmatic, it would be a good sinister thriller. But Towne and Polanski are insufficiently innocent.” – The New Republic Mar 8, 2024 Full Review Pulp Fiction (1994) 92% “The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.” – The New Republic Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% “The plot as such is quickly tedious, not only because it's a stale ritual but because it gets repeated several times... A three-minute set of clips from the picture would make a good spine-tingler. ” – The New Republic Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Little Big Man (1970) 91% “Penn has made a tangy and, I think, unique film with American verve, about some of the grisly things that American verve has done. ” – The New Republic Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 94% “Lingering somewhere at the bottom of GoodFellas is a hint of desperation on Scorsese's part... [He] seems to have scrabbled for this subject -- not fresh, even for him -- as if he needed a success; then, once he had decided, he started to justify it. ” – The New Republic Oct 18, 2023 Full Review Raging Bull (1980) 92% “Seeing Martin Scorsese's new film is like visiting a human zoo... The life we watch is stripped to elemental drives, with just enough décor of complexity to underscore how elemental it basically is. ” – The New Republic Oct 11, 2023 Full Review Taxi Driver (1976) 89% “Even if [the actors] were all better -- and part of the picture's trouble is that there is no way for them to be much better -- Taxi Driver would still be no more than the 1976 dark-mirror image of 1936 romance. ” – The New Republic Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% “Benicio Del Toro... has the film actor's state of grace: he charms while he acts, not by trying to charm.” – The New Republic Sep 8, 2023 Full Review The Deer Hunter (1978) 86% “So many of the elements are so good that it all adds up to a pity. Someone, or more than one -- writer or producers or director or editor or all -- fogged up about why this picture was being made and whether it was on the rails. ” – The New Republic Aug 30, 2022 Full Review A Raisin in the Sun (1961) 90% “A film transcription... generally commonplace, and occasionally ludicrous. ” – The New Republic Aug 23, 2022 Full Review The Apartment (1960) 93% “[Jack Lemmon] is a genuine actor, not in the same universe with most of his film contemporaries, who are mere behavers. This picture is not good enough for him. Still, his performance makes it worth a visit. ” – The New Republic Mar 16, 2022 Full Review The Brothers Karamazov (1958) 25% “In spite of all the virtues cited above, one leaves the film with a sense of disappointment. Part of this is due to the shortcomings of the script.” – The Reporter Dec 16, 2021 Full Review Gervaise (1956) 80% “The best compliment one can pay the new French film Gervaise is to say that it represents faithfully the Zola novel on which it is based.” – The Reporter Dec 16, 2021 Full Review The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 96% “Lean's direction is masterly, with that unhurried sureness which results in the best kind of pace.” – The Reporter Dec 16, 2021 Full Review West Side Story (1961) 92% “It is Robbins' vision -- of city life expressed in stylized movement that sometimes flowers into dance and song -- that lifts this picture high.” – The New Republic Dec 2, 2021 Full Review Black Orpheus (1959) 88% “The film is often beautiful, a swirl of color and music and movement almost from first to last.” – The New Republic Jul 27, 2021 Full Review Rembrandt's J'Accuse (2008) 100% “Though it certainly is a study, it is also - or primarily - a fascinating film.” – The New Republic Apr 20, 2021 Full Review Forrest Gump (1994) 75% “I can't see how people with low I.Q.s or those who love them are in any way comforted by all this hogwash. I can easily see how such people might be offended by its smug unreality.” – The New Republic Feb 21, 2019 Full Review Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits (1993) “Beyond fact and flavor, the film captures another element: a sense of the community of the so-called New Wave...” – The New Republic Feb 21, 2019 Full Review Ghetto (2002) 81% “All of this story is engrossing, especially because it unfolds something more than political data.” – The New Republic Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Volver (2006) 91% “Volver disappoints.” – The New Republic Feb 6, 2018 Full Review Iraq in Fragments (2006) 91% “Longley is a film-maker of intelligence and empathy.” – The New Republic Feb 5, 2018 Full Review Carrington (1995) 54% “We feel a tingle of anticipation that this picture is going to be handled intelligently. And it is.” – The New Republic Jan 9, 2018 Full Review
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