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JESSE PADDOCK
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"A weird, gorgeous and disorienting act of exploration"
Posted Dec 23, 2005
 
Tropical Malady (2005)78%
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"Brown weaves together audio footage and taped interviews that show a man whose proximity to death had calcified into a sharp blade of self-deprecating wit."
Posted Dec 17, 2005
 
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005)93%
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"So horribly misconceived and shoddily structured that its good intentions are worn out in the first twenty minutes"
Posted Dec 1, 2005
 
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)56%
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"Severely hampered by a screenplay that waters down much of the book’s power, but the blow isn’t lethal"
Posted Oct 25, 2005
 
Everything is Illuminated (2005)67%
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"Wickedly funny, there’s still a recognizable warmth, a sense of familiarity, in Baumbach’s writing."
Posted Oct 6, 2005
 
The Squid and the Whale (2005)94%
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"'Oliver Twist' proves what 'The Pianist' only hinted at—that Roman Polanski is the world’s most talented paint-by-numbers artist."
Posted Oct 1, 2005
 
Oliver Twist (2005)59%
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"Gets so much of the rhythms and feel of the Dirty South right, it can be forgiven for its occasional missteps."
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
Hustle & Flow (2005)82%
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"Wilson and Vaughn are generous comedians; they love more than anything injecting disarming affection into their comedy."
Posted Jul 14, 2005
 
Wedding Crashers (2005)75%
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"Spectacle filmmaking of the highest order."
Posted Jun 28, 2005
 
War of the Worlds (2005)73%
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"The plotting keeps getting away from Kim as the story progresses."
Posted Jun 22, 2005
 
Bad Guy (2001)43%
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"Never manages to portray its quotidian aspects as meaningfully as its director intends"
Posted Jun 18, 2005
 
Spiritual Voices (1995)n/a
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"Intriguing, poetic, minimal and occasionally dull"
Posted May 7, 2005
 
Confession ()n/a
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"Unfortunately for Dylanologists, Gilbert is more interested in his own story than the man whose photographs he seeks out."
Posted Apr 26, 2005
 
Bob Dylan World Tours 1966-1974 - Through the Camera of Barry Feinstein (1966-1974)n/a
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"Director Jessica Yu makes the case that it’s tough to know much about Darger with certainty."
Posted Mar 21, 2005
 
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)72%
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"If PC backlash makes such classics like Gunga Din difficult to revisit, so be it. At this point, there’s no getting around it."
Posted Mar 7, 2005
 
Gunga Din (1939)91%
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"The two actors generate a decent chemistry together and manage to give this cobbled-together stinker whatever tiny shred of credibility it possesses as a romance."
Posted Mar 3, 2005
 
The Jacket (2005)44%
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"Baker’s portrayal reveals a brilliant social critic and waggish storyteller."
Posted Feb 17, 2005
 
Lenny Bruce: Without Tears (1992)n/a
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"McElwee’s examination of tobacco culture shows concern but not condescension."
Posted Jan 14, 2005
 
Bright Leaves (2004)86%
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"Weitz continues to make smart, funny movies that parse out the neuroses of the male species."
Posted Dec 28, 2004
 
In Good Company (2004)83%
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"It’s sad to see the filmmaker himself sinking under the weight of his own ambition."
Posted Dec 14, 2004
 
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)51%
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"Centers on a small family of wealthy, prominent celebrities, whose indulgent infighting feels forced and predictable"
Posted Nov 14, 2004
 
La Petite Lili (2004)68%
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"One of the most powerful examples of film as self-healing, 'Tarnation' astonishes both as art and as testament."
Posted Nov 9, 2004
 
Tarnation (2004)92%
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"A piercing study...gritty, humane."
Posted Nov 8, 2004
 
Vera Drake (2004)92%
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"Careful, intelligent writing that is formally arresting, provocative and still wickedly funny."
Posted Oct 1, 2004
 
I Heart Huckabees (2004)61%
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"Itself something of a counterfeit, 'Criminal' loses coherence at each new plot twist, eventually becoming silly and contrived."
Posted Sep 25, 2004
 
Criminal (2004)68%
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"Joplin lets loose a version of 'Cry Baby' that should stand as one of the great performances in any concert film."
Posted Sep 23, 2004
 
Festival Express (2004)96%
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"A wild surrealism that brings to mind both the rigorous weirdness of David Lynch and the twisted dark comedy of Luis Bunuel"
Posted Sep 16, 2004
 
Gozu (2004)72%
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"While it runs out of steam near the end, it never runs out of charm, thanks to Jon Heder’s narcoleptic zeal as the title character."
Posted Sep 13, 2004
 
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)70%
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"An often riotous journey of self-discovery."
Posted Sep 5, 2004
 
Garden State (2004)87%

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