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The Ground Truth (2006) Sarah Manvel It leaves you in no doubt of the psychological cost of war.
Posted Feb 11, 2019  Edit critic review
The Magic Flute (2006) Sarah Manvel The Magic Flute is an enjoyable entry into opera and will definitely be regularly shown in high schools once it comes out on DVD.
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The Edge of Heaven (2007) Sarah Manvel Akin has choreographed... a demonstration of how open borders close off other opportunities and, even in a surveillance culture, how easy it is to get lost.
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Under the Bombs (2007) Sarah Manvel Not many other films have had the hubris to ask for sympathy for an actress over and beyond the suffering of real people.
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My Brother Is an Only Child (2007) Sarah Manvel What could have been a complex examination of Italy's political divisions in the 1960s and '70s is reduced to two brothers' ceaseless one-upmanship.
Posted Feb 10, 2019  Edit critic review
Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth (2008) Sarah Manvel Instead of the clever retro sci-fi parody it desperately wants to be, the attempts to poke fun at the tiny budget only reveal a feeble lack of imagination.
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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) Sarah Manvel In this story, there's nothing so upsetting that a poem carved into a tree can't solve, and no hearts so broken that a spot of crossdressing can't cheer them up again.
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Let's Talk About the Rain (2007) Sarah Manvel This movie is like a family holiday that you can sum up to acquaintances in two or three sentences but spend hours agonizing about to your closest friends.
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Sakuran (2006) Sarah Manvel Sakuran's unique selling point are the jaw-dropping visuals. Director Mika Ninagawa is a garlanded fashion photographer, and she knows how to dress an image.
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The Fox and the Child (2007) Sarah Manvel Sure, it's important to teach children the difference between wild and tame animals, but is this a lesson that modern suburban children, who barely see a squirrel, should learn like this?
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Religulous (2008) Sarah Manvel It's hugely amusing to see an argument so cheerfully loaded, so barefacedly one-sided, and so frankly determined to bully the other side into silence.
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Incendiary (2008) Sarah Manvel Director Sharon Maguire, who also wrote the screenplay, has taken a story that could be set nowhere but London and made its people behave like anything but the English.
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Beautiful Losers (2008) Sarah Manvel The whole ethos portrayed in this film seems to be of a tightly knit group, referencing and re-referencing each other ad infinitum.
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Nights and Weekends (2008) Sarah Manvel The tight focus on these two people does cross the line from careful attention into claustrophobic narcissism.
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Hearts of the World (1918) Sarah Manvel Griffith makes a film of passion and conviction that refuses to romanticize the war.
Posted Aug 07, 2018  Edit critic review
Tower of Silence (Der Turm des Schweigens) (1925) Sarah Manvel A perfectly serviceable film, The Tower of Silence did not deserve its neglect.
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Forbidden (1932) Sarah Manvel Wrestling with how a working mother can find fulfillment without being forced to choose between her career and her children is still a relevant topic today - therefore so is Forbidden.
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Tell No One (2006) Sarah Manvel What is new in Tell No One is Canet's attitude towards violence involving women, a necessarily essential component to a thriller.
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Ghosts of Cité Soleil (2006) Sarah Manvel Action is mostly repetitive monologues about their power and dreams of rap stardom. Almost no one else speaks.
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Good Luck Chuck (2007) Sarah Manvel It's a poor rom-com which leaves you hoping the cute couple doesn't get it together. Despite valiant attempts to get the audience laughing again, the movie doesn't recover from turning so unexpectedly and completely sour.
Posted Aug 07, 2018  Edit critic review
The Counterfeiters (2007) Sarah Manvel Is this how we confront evil in 2007, not by documenting it faithfully or fighting it openly, but instead by blaming its victims for their victimhood?
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Four Women (2007) Sarah Manvel Four Women is a mirror which should make us all uncomfortable with its reflection.
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Saturn in Opposition (2007) Sarah Manvel Ozpetek's direction rejects that structure completely to emphasize togetherness and resistance to change. It's an unusual filmic perspective. But why tell the story without providing the hook to become emotionally attached to these people?
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Closing the Ring (2007) Sarah Manvel Has Plummer or Postlethwaite ever given a bad performance? Attenborough is no auteur, as he says himself, but his ability to enable his actors to shine makes Closing the Ring a film which really grows on you.
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The Trap (2007) Sarah Manvel The Trap is well-made enough to deserve a wider audience (especially when you consider how many eastern Europeans now live across the United Kingdom).
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The Champagne Spy (Meragel Ha-Shampaniya) (2007) Sarah Manvel This film has won [Gur-Arie] an Israeli Oscar; if he continues to handle his subjects with such sensitivity and cleverness, exercise videos' loss is cinema's gain.
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We Want Roses Too (2007) Sarah Manvel Splicing pieces of fragmented media into a comprehensive documentary without relying on a narrative presence is a remarkable achievement, and what Alina Marazzi has accomplished in We Want Roses Too.
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Mister Lonely (2007) Sarah Manvel Mister Lonely could have been a sparkling, carefree character piece. Instead, partially due to its flat and mainly joyless visual style, it deteriorates into a sour mess that feels a lot longer than its 112 minutes.
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Jetsam (2007) Sarah Manvel Keeping the factors of its making in mind, Welsford has done an astonishing job. He has amply proved that, with an original premise and more money than a blockbuster's weekly coffee budget, he could spread his wings and fly
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The Bridge (2006) Sarah Manvel The crowning achievement of this remarkable, respectful film is that it makes you wonder what you can do so that you never have to see it again.
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Shut Up and Sing (2006) Sarah Manvel As a documentary that magnificently demonstrates how actions have unintended consequences and how politics impact our personal choices.
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Fast Food Nation (2006) Sarah Manvel There are so many characters the film can't keep track of them and none of these supposedly interconnecting stories gel.
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Ghosts (2006) Sarah Manvel The fields and farmlands are in the prettiest countryside, cellphones provide a connection home, and the support and camaraderie the immigrants share makes it all bearable.
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WWW: What a Wonderful World (2006) Sarah Manvel WWW: What a Wonderful World fascinates on a scene-by-scene basis, and is one of the most visually inventive films in recent memory. But the separate parts never gel into a comprehensive whole.
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The Namesake (2006) Sarah Manvel Since Nair made such a stir with her fresh approach to William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the fact that she simply translated The Namesake from page to screen proves to be a bit of a letdown.
Posted Aug 07, 2018  Edit critic review
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