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Home (2008) 93% EDIT “Director Ursula Meier generally distinguishes her feature debut by not pushing elements to melodramatic or farcical extremes.” – Variety Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Without (2011) 90% EDIT “Smallish fests won't want to be without Without.” – Variety May 27, 2020 Full Review Moon Man (2012) 86% EDIT “This hand-drawn German-Irish-French co-production is a calm, kindhearted, visually inventive ode to friendship - and the ideal alternative to the latest batch of abrasive big-screen cartoons.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune May 1, 2020 Full Review Italianamerican / The Big Shave (1974) EDIT “Stories of real struggle.” – Village Voice Jan 28, 2019 Full Review We Live in Public (2009) 80% EDIT “We Live in Public is the rare documentary film whose tapping of the American zeitgeist feels downright supernatural.” – Utne Reader Mar 12, 2018 Full Review The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Alas, its ultra-conventional, this-then-that approach, peppered with the reminiscences of long-since mellowed talking heads, rarely feels suited to the messy politics and personal lives of Black Panther Party firebrands ...” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Apr 9, 2015 Full Review The Joy of Life (2005) 92% EDIT “The result is gently hypnotic.” – Village Voice Nov 7, 2014 Full Review Kill the Messenger (2014) 76% 3/4 EDIT “To his credit, Cuesta is interested not only in the darkest side of democracy, but in how Webb's fiery work impacts his personal life.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Oct 9, 2014 Full Review Hits (2014) 36% EDIT “In the end, the effort of sussing out this satire's attitude seems silly for the fact that its jokes just aren't funny enough.” – Variety Oct 5, 2014 Full Review Night Moves (2013) 86% EDIT “I'd say this is a movie about alienation that, in the spirit of the boldest activism, isn't afraid to be ostracized itself. You may beg to differ, and I'd say that's the point.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Oct 5, 2014 Full Review The Audacity of Louis Ortiz (2014) EDIT “If a key element of the Obama narrative has been the dream that anyone can thrive in America, Bronx Obama (nee The Audacity of Louis Ortiz) presents the reality as far more complicated.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Oct 5, 2014 Full Review Fed Up (2014) 80% EDIT “Fixating on the fat rolls of underprivileged kids without mentioning class, the film is a more polished version of the greasy tale Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me told from the inside out.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Oct 3, 2014 Full Review Galapagos: Nature's Wonderland (2014) 2/4 EDIT “The glaring problem with "Galapagos 3D" is that it's a movie about the wonders of evolution that never once mentions natural selection or even Charles Darwin, whose work was largely based on his study of the islands.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Oct 2, 2014 Full Review The Zero Theorem (2013) 49% 3/4 EDIT “Maybe "The Zero Theorem" doesn't add up to much on paper, but, particularly for Gilliam fans, it's infinitely watchable.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Sep 18, 2014 Full Review Tusk (2014) 45% 2/4 EDIT “Kevin Smith's "Tusk" is an odd animal indeed, a movie that morphs early from stoner comedy to stoner horror flick and then, as if stoned, declines to evolve any further.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Sep 18, 2014 Full Review Yves Saint Laurent (2014) 45% 1.5/4 EDIT “Its tendency to tell rather than show seems ill-suited to a portrait of the man who brought haute couture to the masses.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Jul 10, 2014 Full Review When Jews Were Funny (2013) 71% 3/4 EDIT “Zweig's movie is equal parts witty and provocative ...” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Mar 31, 2014 Full Review Metro Manila (2012) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “The movie works as a contemporary look at desperation in crime-riddled Manila, but it's also as deliciously old-fashioned as the late '40s-era film noir "Kiss of Death," and nearly as entertaining.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Mar 31, 2014 Full Review Flashback Memories (2012) 4/4 EDIT “The effects of this beautifully unique hybrid of music and cinema are exhilarating and unforgettable.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune Mar 31, 2014 Full Review Finding Vivian Maier (2013) 95% EDIT “An aptly obsessive study of obsession.” – Variety Mar 17, 2014 Full Review The Last of the Unjust (2013) 96% EDIT “Another demanding and deeply rewarding investigation into the Holocaust from documentarian Claude Lanzmann.” – Variety Feb 7, 2014 Full Review Killers (2014) 71% EDIT “"Killers" has plenty to offer genre fans - provided they don't bolt during its opening scene of a tied-up woman being beaten to death with a mallet ...” – Variety Feb 3, 2014 Full Review Memphis (2013) 74% EDIT “Willis Earl Beal gives a magnetic performance as a flailing musician in Tim Sutton's digressive, daringly experimental film.” – Variety Feb 3, 2014 Full Review R100 (2013) 72% EDIT “If a dominatrix is one who takes total control of her passive partner, then "R100" is the cinematic equivalent of a kinky femme fatale in black leather and stiletto heels, cracking a whip and a smile.” – Variety Feb 3, 2014 Full Review We Come as Friends (2014) 97% EDIT “Hubert Sauper observes the neocolonialist exploitation of South Sudan in this disturbing follow-up to 'Darwin's Nightmare.'” – Variety Feb 1, 2014 Full Review
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