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Jason Anderson
Tomatometer-approved critic
http://www.eye.net
Movies reviews only
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Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2022) |
Directors Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom... create something that attains the same grace and beauty heard in Sill’s music. - Uncut Magazine [UK]
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| Posted Oct 26, 2023
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Sisu (2022) |
For all the pleasure viewers may take in the sight of nameless Nazis being dispatched and dismembered, they may be surprised by the film’s solemnity, too. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Jun 08, 2023
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Aftersun (2022) |
The Situationists and the Sex Pistols may have had nothing good to say about cheap holidays in other people’s misery, but Wells finds a wealth of beauty and heartache in this one. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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The Decalogue (1989) |
The original series of 10 hour-long films has all of the qualities that mark Kieslowski's better-known work. - eye WEEKLY
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| Posted May 01, 2021
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The Hitcher (2007) |
Viewers looking for more than a few secondhand thrills should drive right past The Hitcher. - Globe and Mail
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| Posted Apr 27, 2020
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The Man From Mo'Wax (2016) |
While The Man from Mo' Wax follows a conventional doc structure as it charts its subject's rise, fall and last-act resurgence, Jones finds more inventive ways of framing Lavelle's saga. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Dec 28, 2018
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Her Smell (2018) |
Moss ultimately has the chance to dial it down and reveal unexpected layers to Becky, a woman who lives too fast because living any slower means feeling paralyzed by fear and need. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Sep 10, 2018
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Sweet Country (2017) |
Sweet Country's complexity and sophistication mark it as a landmark work of Indigenous cinema. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Mar 13, 2018
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Chop Shop (2007) |
- Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011) |
For devotees of science-fiction cinema at its most synapse-frying and voluptuously horrifying, the mother lode is exactly what [writer/director Panos] Cosmatos delivers. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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The End of Time (2012) |
At the end of these many and varied travels, we arrive at a film that is Mettler's most readily engaging since Picture of Light... - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Berberian Sound Studio (2012) |
- Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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The Oxbow Cure (2013) |
- Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Asphalt Watches (2013) |
Of course, it all goes on way, way too long, but no story that involves a cross-Canada trek could ever feel authentic without stretches of ass-numbing tedium. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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October November (2013) |
Alas, a similarly high calibre of acting skill proves to be the only real virtue of October November, a disappointingly drab and shapeless drama that has little of its predecessors' power. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Waste Land (2014) |
... Waste Land's ambitions far exceed what it can competently handle. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Fires on the Plain (2014) |
... it dives into the abyss at the earliest opportunity and just keeps falling and falling. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Ned Rifle (2015) |
- Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Cut Snake (2014) |
Nevertheless, lumpy, repetitive plotting keeps matters at a low simmer. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Merchants of Doubt (2014) |
- Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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The Creation of Meaning (2014) |
Under the rustic relics of the past and the calamities of the present, [writer/director Simone] Rapisarda Casanova uncovers a few traces of the infinite, as well as some fresh iterations of a decidedly cosmic sort of joke. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Sleeping Giant (2015) |
Sleeping Giant comes far closer than most teen-centric dramas to conveying the damage that young people can inflict on each other as they constantly jockey for power... - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 30, 2018
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Hugo (2011) |
Beyond its value as a technical marvel, Hugo's most rewarding aspect may be the spirit of kindness and community that fills the final act. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Jan 09, 2018
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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016) |
Viewers who come under the apprehension that this is any kind of sports film are bound to be thrown by the wryly funny, mild-mannered yet deeply felt movie they find here. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Dec 29, 2017
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Behind the Candelabra (2013) |
... a saga that somehow manages to synthesize a satisfyingly salacious showbiz tell-all, a decidedly toxic gay romance, and a cautionary parable about the possibilities and limitations of the flesh. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Oct 31, 2017
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) |
... the film falls prey to strategies that seem laborious rather than admirably labour-intensive. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Oct 30, 2017
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What We Do in the Shadows (2014) |
.. the team most succeeds is the abundance of exquisitely staged gags... - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Oct 17, 2017
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It Follows (2014) |
Yet even though It Follows fails to entirely convince whenever it most closely adheres to genre trappings, the underlying notes of tenderness and sadness are as acutely rendered as they were in [writer/director David Robert] Mitchell's first feature. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Oct 17, 2017
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Putty Hill (2010) |
It's not triumph-of-the-human-spirit territory, but... For these kids in these circumstances, a little bit of grace is plenty. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Sep 28, 2017
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Heartbeats (2010) |
Though intermittently engaging, the contents seem both overcooked and undernourishing. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Sep 28, 2017
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Rubber (2010) |
In the hands of nearly any other filmmaker, the result probably wouldn't match the standards expected even by the least discerning Troma Studio devotee. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Sep 28, 2017
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Curling (2010) |
Haunting, humane, a bit mysterious, and often very funny, Curling succeeds as a story of two characters whose escape routes from despair are as idiosyncratic as they are. - Cinema Scope
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| Posted Sep 28, 2017
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It Comes at Night (2017) |
Shults's adoption of a more vicious mode sharpens his already discomfiting take on families in states of extreme duress in his debut feature Krisha. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Jul 19, 2017
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Southbound (2015) |
Southbound delivers more than its fair share of pulpy, grisly thrills with its quintet of creepy tales set on a suitably desolate stretch of highway. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Mar 07, 2016
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Creed (2015) |
Surprisingly thoughtful and stylish. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Jan 15, 2016
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Melancholia (2008) |
We feel less like observers than travelers on the same path. No wonder Melancholia evokes such a feeling of liberation during the occasional eruptions of noise. - Artforum
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| Posted Jun 01, 2015
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Hunger (2008) |
In such extreme circumstances, the human body may be the last desperate frontier of protest. Hunger makes this all too clear. - Artforum
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| Posted Jun 01, 2015
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Enemy (2013) |
Gyllenhaal faces the tricky task of conveying the subtle differences of two men whose identities are thrown into flux. The result is his most nuanced performance since playing another sleuth caught out of his depth in Zodiac. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Jan 09, 2015
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010) |
Simon hews closely to his source. That decision is likely to endear him to Dick fans. - Toronto Star
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| Posted Dec 04, 2014
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Life Itself (2014) |
With the man's passing, American film lost not just an inimitable figure but a voice that was as forceful and distinctive as it was ubiquitous. - Sight & Sound
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| Posted Nov 14, 2014
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Jeff (2012) |
Thompson's intention is not to explain the nature of evil but show how it contaminates the rest of us. - The Grid
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| Posted Jul 11, 2014
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Sátántangó (1994) |
It may sound absurd to say that a seven-hour movie has hardly a wasted moment -- as famously insisted by Susan Sontag -- but Tarr's minimalism has maximum impact, especially when the film's satiric nature becomes more prominent in the final hour. - Artforum
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| Posted May 21, 2014
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Three Night Stand (2013) |
Canadian efforts to replicate the blend of raunch, smarts, and heart of the Judd Apatow comedy factory have mostly missed the mark but this savvy rom-com succeeds where others have failed. - The Grid
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| Posted Feb 19, 2014
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Blood Brother (2013) |
In spite of his clear love and admiration for Braat, Hoover is also brave enough to consider the ethical questions that arise from any well-intentioned First Worlder's attempts to alleviate suffering on the other side of the planet. - The Grid
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| Posted Dec 13, 2013
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The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) |
A bold, big-hearted Belgian drama about love and loss, The Broken Circle Breakdown is as full of joy and sorrow as any of the bluegrass ballads performed by its central couple. - The Grid
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| Posted Nov 07, 2013
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Thor: The Dark World (2013) |
Pleasingly old-school, Thor: The Dark World has a greater kinship with the science-fiction movies of the 1950s or even the first Star Wars cycle than the more earthbound adventures of Tony Stark and the rest of Thor's fellow Avengers. - The Grid
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| Posted Nov 07, 2013
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Escape From Tomorrow (2013) |
Less provocative for its assault on the false ideals of corporate-controlled family fun than its clever repurposing of many of the same German expressionist and gothic horror tropes that are at the root of much Disney iconography. - The Grid
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| Posted Oct 25, 2013
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All Is Lost (2013) |
As a rugged yet wise exploration of manhood and mortality, All Is Lost gives great Hemingway. - The Grid
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| Posted Oct 25, 2013
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Captain Phillips (2013) |
What opens as an often perceptive study of ordinary men struggling to cope with forces beyond their grasp becomes a juiced-up action thriller, full of angry exchanges of bullets and bullet-point dialogue. - The Grid
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| Posted Oct 10, 2013
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The Dirties (2013) |
Very smart and very dark. - The Grid
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| Posted Oct 04, 2013
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