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What Zombies? Bruce McDonald's "Pontypool"
EDITOR'S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.
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Borrowing From Himself: Sam Raimi's "Drag Me To Hell"
EDITOR'S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 SXSW Film Festival.
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Cello and Goodbye: Yojiro Takita's "Departures"
A feel-good dramedy about death, Yojiro Takita's "Departures" would seem to be the first Japanese import in the U.S. in quite some time with a real chance for art-house success, rather than mere fanboy buzz. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, but "Departures" is a particularly si...
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Forward Thinking: Lee Isaac Chung's "Munyurangabo"
[Editor's Note: "Munyurangabo" opens this Friday at New York's Anthology Film Archives.]
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In Favor of Imagery: Tsai's "Visage" Paints a Puzzling, Pretty Picture
From the very first minutes of "Visage" ("Face"), director Tsai Ming-liang stakes out familiar territory. But familiarity in a Tsai Ming-liang movie is an elusive thing. Working in abstract mode, Tsai depicts strange and cryptic moods, regardless of his intentions. The immediate thematic parallel to...
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Low on Luster, Gilliam's "Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" Winds up a Sideshow
Marred by shoddy special effects and half-formed fantastical conceits, Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" has the feeling of a comic fantasia desperately seeking to find its rhythm. Nearly abandoned after the sudden death of leading man Heath Ledger prior to completing production ...
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Does It Take This Village? "White Ribbon" Ascends Art
Despair haunts every moment of Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon." The director's dour, Bergmanesque black-and-white portrait of enigmas and familial discord in a Protestant German village at the beginning of the twentieth century peddles in the art of downbeat expressionism....
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Tone Deaf: Stephan Elliott's "Easy Virtue"
In the face of the current world financial crisis, is an urbane adaptation of a mid-20s Noel Coward comedy of manners hopelessly out-of-step, or an appropriate cinematic tonic for troubled times? The collapse of economies is perhaps an unnecessary weight with which to burden a film like "Easy Virtue...
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Falling Short of Tarantino's Own High Bar, "Inglourious" Goes Bubblegum
Given what the world expects from Quentin Tarantino - the man, the myth, the pastiche-driven movie machine - his latest feature, "Inglourious Basterds," stands out for its seemingly low ambition. Talked about for years by the filmmaker as his epic "guys-on-a-mission" movie, the final product, unveil...
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