Film Reviews
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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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The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
Sluizer's original 1988 film is an engrossingly elusive psychological and philosophical thriller fused with an innately curious tale of obsession.
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Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
A selectively sluggish feature with a one-note narrow focus punctuated by still life chapter divisions, the film's techniques manage to permeate target audiences but regrettably emphasize absences as routinely as the intimacies.
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The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii)
Brimming with all varieties of life's microcosms far beyond the savvy and appreciation of an initial viewing, the film is a pleasantly tender and rather down-to-earth surprise from surrealist Katsuhito Ishii.
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
In a time of recession in America, McCoy's novel and Pollack's adapted film may resonate stronger with today's literati and philosophers than it ever has before.
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The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Kathryn Bigelows intense, economical Iraq war drama is her best since Near Dark.
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Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Tarantino's ridiculous WWII revenge fantasy is a thing of beauty.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Seeking a transcendental visual plane and elevating the mysteries of the universe, Kubrick effectively exercises his own timeless presence and secures the film as one for the ages.
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