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Monday, January 2, 2012

January 2012

January 2012

Psycho III (Perkins, 1986)|||||6.5
Excalibur (Boorman, 1981)|||||6
* Caché (Haneke, 2005)|||||7.5
To Sleep With Anger (Burnett, 1990)|||||7.5
Psycho II (Franklin, 1983)|||||5
Cold Fish (Sono, 2010)|||||6
Europa (Trier, 1991)|||||8
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, 1948)|||||7.5
Albert Nobbs (Garcia, 2011)
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War Horse (Spielberg, 2011)|||||5.5
The story is okay enough. Survey of war yadda yadda, which is fine and good, but always tilting towards retrograde in the hands of fuzzy, the-values-we-hold-dear, let's-keep-on-holding-them-dear Spielberg.
A Separation (Farhadi, 2011)|||||7.5
Blistering social observation, and an incredibly well-written dramatic tale of moral complexity.
Shame (McQueen, 2011)|||||5
Reverse Shot: "... that he’s gone further and weighed the already heavy film down with the most self-serious molasses-thick score in recent memory (even a habitual button-pusher like John Williams would cringe), is arrogance of the highest order."
Nanami: Inferno of First Love (Hani, 1968)|||||6
Exorcist II: The Heretic (Boorman, 1977)|||||6.5
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011)|||||5.5
* Zardoz (Boorman, 1974)|||||7
The Son (Dardennes, 2002)|||||7
That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel, 1977)|||||7.5
Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara, 1992)|||||7.5
S&Man (Petty, 2006)|||||5.5
Oh, Woe is Me (Godard, 1993)|||||6.5

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