Film Reviews
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Screamers (Christian Duguay)
Abandoning Philip K. Dick's resource of potential in favor of Hollywood conventionalism in its final third, the film adaptation of "Second Variety" is merely two-thirds competent.
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Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
Exposing the unforeseen repercussions of a single action, the film is an ingenuous account of the intricate labyrinth of human relationships.
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Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
As one of the bleakest American films of the 1950s, it remains a bold meditation on the American Dream, detriments of extremes, and the endurance of pain through faith.
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Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
Enjoy the greatness on display, because nobody has ever made a good trilogy-closer to a superhero franchise.
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Four Lions (Chris Morris)
Chris Morris' feature length debut is out and is bound to ruffle a few feathers.
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Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
The film is an immensely successful genre experiment as a liberal political allegory that can also be enjoyed as a purely entertaining duel between the inexorable forces of good and evil.
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The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
The film promotes an insightful psychological examination of the universality of human nature but ultimately seems abridged despite its lengthy running time.
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Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Tarkovsky's uncanny ability to capture and manipulate landscape provides the film with a tremendous sense of naturalistic power.
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A Single Man (Tom Ford)
Boasting a memorable performance from Colin Firth, fashion director Tom Ford's directorial debut looks great, but just doesn't fit quite right
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A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
Greenaway's semi-surrealist black comedy is an impressive and instructive exercise in the cinematic and scientific arts.
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