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The Savages Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
The hands that rock the cradle sometimes tip it over. Watching "The Savages," Tamara Jenkins's beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls, you have to wonder if those hands didn't also knock that cradle clear across the nursery, s...
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The Band's Visit Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
Stranded in the Israeli desert, the eight Egyptian members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra look a bit like a joke in search of a punch line. If "The Band's Visit" were any other kind of film -- a little more pat, say, and rather less...
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There Will Be Blood Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
"There Will Be Blood," Paul Thomas Anderson's epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tells a st...
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There Will Be Blood Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
âThere Will Be Blood,â Paul Thomas Andersonâs epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to Hell. Set against the backdrop of the Southern California oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, it tell...
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4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
In "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film about a young woman who helps a friend secure an abortion, the camera doesn't follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself. This consciousness -...
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Surfwise Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
There are many different ways to drop off the grid, but few dropped off with such style and urgency as Dorian Paskowitz, the paterfamilias of what is lovingly and at times enviably described as the first family of surfing. It was an intensity in p...
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Boarding Gate Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
"Boarding Gate," a casually beautiful, preposterously plotted, elliptical thriller, earned little love last year when it played at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was shown out of competition. It didn't do much for Mr. Assayas's reputation, at ...
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The Duchess Of Langeais Review, by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times
If the words "simply" and "complication" seem at odds with each other, they are, which is very much to the point of a story characterized by seemingly oppositional terms like speech and action, love and hate, women and men. In brief outline, it co...
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Encounters at the End of the World Review, by Manohla Dargis The New York Times
Call it Planet Herzog. Though I'm certain that the men and the smattering of women in the documentary are far from ordinary. -their fantastic milieu and haunted eyes suggest as much- part of what makes them memorable is how Mr. Herzog weaves them ...
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