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B+
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
(2018)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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[The movie] plays like a great artist's last rage against the dying of the light: a holy fool's last epic about holy fools. ... It moves me.
Posted Jul 24, 2019
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B-
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(2012)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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As fun as it is to watch, this isn't Tolkien's Hobbit. The story of a peaceable traveler who knew the virtue of restraint is lost to the vision of filmmakers who have none.
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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A-
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Moonrise Kingdom
(2012)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Moonrise Kingdom left me thunderstruck. ... Anderson contrasts a world in disorder with a well-pitched campsite, where everything is in its right place.
Posted Jul 05, 2012
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B-
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First Position
(2011)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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All of the dollars and expertise that produced this summer's blockbusters could never produce a spectacle as wondrous as 11-year-old Aran Bell dancing his heart out.
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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B+
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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
(2008)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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What could have been a filmmaker's self-serving attempt to publicly connect himself with a great artist has become instead an artful and admirable work of 'stalking.'
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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A
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Winter's Bone
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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In moments of confrontation [Jennifer Lawrence's Ree] is as fearsome as Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, taking on monsters to protect the small and the vulnerable.
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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A-
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The Social Network
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Director David Fincher seems drawn to these stories of misguided rebels who become monsters in their attempts to reorder the world.
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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C+
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Stone
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Stone is a flawed film, largely because Lucetta is a B-movie seductress preying on believable human beings with backgrounds and complicated hearts.
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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A-
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Waste Land
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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This conversion of garbage into humanitarian aid is just the beginning. Practical charity gives way to life-changing intimacy.
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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A
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Lourdes
(2009)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Hausner frequently composes pictures in which our view is cut off by a wall, a pillar, or a pilgrim ... but like God's silence, these obstructions remain impenetrable.
Posted Jun 12, 2012
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A
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Pina
(2011)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Bring someone who doubts that movies can surprise us anymore. ... Bring somebody who isn't yet excited about stereoscopic cinema. They'll change their minds.
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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A
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Lucky Life
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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It was a poem before it was a movie. Thus it makes sense that the film works more like poetry than prose. And there is fear, mystery, and majesty burning in every scene.
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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A-
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War Horse
(2011)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Many who dismiss this film have forgotten: [Its source is] a children's story. ... Would you tell a child that The Black Stallion is an artificial, sentimental fantasy?
Posted Dec 28, 2011
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B
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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These images of what the world was increase my sense of awe at what the world is.
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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B+
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Uncle Boonmee is about ... the moments when our worlds expand; when our outlines turn out to be more porous than we thought.
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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C+
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My Week With Marilyn
(2011)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Out of one side of the film's mouth, we hear, 'Isn't it a shame, what celebrity culture did to this girl?" and out of the other side, 'Good God, look at her! She's a goddess!'
Posted Nov 25, 2011
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A-
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The Five Obstructions
(2003)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Von Trier is rejuvenating his mentor's imagination. He's also reminding him that art can 'catch the conscience' of the audience and the artist.
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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A+
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Certified Copy
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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I could assess the performances (Juliette Binoche is better than ever). ... But I can't treat Certified Copy with a critic's typical detachment. I'm in love with it.
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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A
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The Gleaners and I
(2000)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Varda is, herself, a gleaner. Her eyes are her tools, and her camera is her basket. Insatiably curious, she seeks, finds, redeems. ... When we pay attention, attention pays.
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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A
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
(2011)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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Every society has its traps, the film suggests. ... But they're not equally corrupt. There's a clear sign hanging over the road less traveled, and it says 'Wrong Way.'
Posted Nov 23, 2011
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6.5/10
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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The series' most entertaining movie so far ... [But] either the screenwriters don't understand Lewis's story, or they're actively subverting ideas he illustrated beautifully.
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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6.5/10
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The Fighter
(2010)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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While the crowd cheered, I didn't want Micky to win the fight. I wanted somebody ... to come along and rescue him from his family's ignorance.
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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6/10
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The Adjustment Bureau
(2011)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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... in the long list of films translating and transforming the stories of the ubiquitous Philip K. Dick, this falls in the 'Watchable but Disappointing' category.
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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7/10
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Mine
(2007)
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Jeffrey Overstreet
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This movie may improve the lives of animals never touched by storms, and encourage us to be kinder to the vulnerable creatures around us -- canine, feline, and human.
Posted May 07, 2010
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