Category: the classics
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‘Six Degrees of Separation’ Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Stockard Channing, though, is phenomenal.
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The Love Games of ‘César and Rosalie’
The movie is so likable and spiritedly acted that its flaws are only incidental in our overall enjoyment of it.
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There Are Scary Movies. Then There’s ‘Threads’
‘Threads’ reinforces the truth that no spectacle-driven horror movie is ever as scary as war.
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‘Innocents with Dirty Hands’ is Among Claude Chabrol’s Most Straightforwardly Entertaining Movies
In ‘Innocents with Dirty Hands,’ Chabrol’s uncharacteristically keyed-up thriller, few people say what they mean or are thinking what you think they are.
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Time is Having All the Fun in ‘The Hourglass Sanatorium’
It moves over there when you want it to go here; relentlessly zigging and zagging, it plays by rules so cryptic that after a while you have to settle into the fact that linearity is only bent and swirled around here.
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‘Cool World’ is Thoroughly Inept
I’m curious to see how Bakshi’s movie might have played out sans tampering.
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You Never Aren’t Feeling ‘Bringing Out the Dead”s Anguish
Even looking at ‘Bringing Out the Dead’ is unpleasant.
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Fake Smiles: Two by Frank Perry
On ‘Diary of a Mad Housewife’ and ‘Play It As It Lays.’
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‘Insiang’ is Not for the Faint of Heart
‘Insiang’ is a difficult watch, but a worthwhile one.
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‘What Happened Was…’ Puts the Cringe in Cringe Comedy
This movie that hurts in a good way is worth seeking out.
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‘Made in Hong Kong’: A Breakthrough for Fruit Chan
Made in Hong Kong’s absence of convincing emotional specificity makes it more admirable than truly affecting.
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