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It all comes down to one scene: John Cusack, standing at dusk, boom box aloft, blaring Peter Gabriel's ''In Your Eyes'' outside Ione Skye's window. This, friends, is what rapturous, heartrending, soul-spinning love is all about. -
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You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them. -
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The movie draws us into the illusion that we're simply eavesdropping on the lives of three inner-city black and Hispanic girls. -
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It's a lovely, original, Australian take on a climactic moment usually thought of as all American. -
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Topsy-Turvy reminds us that, in any age, creative expression is at once the most personal and most communal of enterprises. -
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While never slow, the film feels quiet and spacious, like a prayer. -
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Rosetta is a character of raw pride in a film of lingering power. -
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Owen Gleiberman
For sheer dramatic wallop outpowers virtually every fiction feature I've seen this year. -
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Arenas' life zigzags before us in a manner as heady and unpredictable as it must have felt to the man who lived it. -
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Someone has finally done it -- made a sexually explicit feature that is also a genuine and harrowing work of erotic drama. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
With the pitiless, devastating Fat Girl, Catherine Breillat puts men and women, boys and girls on notice: When fantasy, hypocrisy, and manipulation mix in a wet, sandy place, you dive into sex at your own risk. -
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This stunning movie -- one of the very best of the year -- makes a much read American classic feel new and freshly devastating. -
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A great, searching, incendiary chronicle of the Sex Pistols, the razor-hearted visionaries of punk anarchy. -
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Remains the only rock & roll film that exerts the saturnine intensity of a thriller. -
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A small cubist masterpiece about crime and punishment set in that most split-level of environments, Los Angeles. -
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The lightness with which Buñuel was able to insert the little jokes and knife stabs of surrealism he loved so much is, in fact, divine. -
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Without ever dipping into indignity among wet, half-naked men, Shower sparkles with joy. -
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A delicate yet haunting movie, a meditation on friendship, on the roots of bohemianism, on the sad comedy of madness. -
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Fred Leuchter is just one deluded figure, but by the end of this great and chilling sick-joke documentary he stands as a living icon of the banality of evil. -
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Rohmer treasures the undervalued glories of discourse and the intimacy of conversation over the obviousness of action or sexual display. -
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Ulee's Gold is a story of redemption, and Nunez doesn't make redemption look any easier than it is. -
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Lean, elegant, and emotionally complex -- a marvel of backwoods classicism. -
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Circles the heart of noisy, modern Tehran with an informal, documentary-like freedom that is thrilling in its naturalism. -
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Achieves its exquisite tension--deepening beautifully from a "Death in Venice" setup to an imaginative meditation, on art and life, of uncommon sensitivity. -
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Affliction -- a beautiful bummer, a magnificent feel-bad movie -- is American filmmaking of a most rewarding order. -
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