Film Reviews
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Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
A transcendent collaboration between revolutionary artists, the film is a stunning meditation on the essence and power of form and burgeoning sentimentalities of a transforming world of cinema.
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Big Fan (Robert D. Siegel)
Siegel's layered and tortuous script is often transfixing, but his directorial amateurism is highlighted through an anxious cutting slideshow.
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Avatar (James Cameron)
It may not silence James Cameron's fiercest critics, but 'Avatar' is an impressive and engrossing accomplishment.
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The Trial (Orson Welles)
While the film is aesthetically effective and faithful to Kafka's text, it is stricken by the notable flaw of a miscast Anthony Perkins as the confounded hero.
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Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
As the film demonstrates, the turbulence of a fifteenth century Russia aided the foundation of Rublev's artistic vision and perseverance.
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Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
A multidimensional take on the trials of youth and parenthood, the film is infused with bold philosophical ideas and incredibly moving performances from Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman.
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Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)
Wes Anderson takes on a giant task and well, wins...
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A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
The genius of the Coen Brothers' modern allegorical craft is extracting the fantastical and stirring from the monotony of daily routine and habitual faith.
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Lost Highway (David Lynch)
A stimulating if wholly confounding jumble, the film finds Lynch simultaneously racing and plodding through the night.
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Saw VI (Kevin Greutert)
The feel-good movie of year in which a Democratic stranglehold can't push through its own progressive agenda.
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