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GEORGE WU
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 61% of the time.

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" ... no one else out there makes movies like this, and it has enough highlights that Guy Maddin fans should still seek it out." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jun 9, 2008
 
My Winnipeg (2008)97%
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" ... writer-director Christophe Honoré ... fashions a 14-song musical about love and loss." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
Love Songs (2008)67%
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"Rivette tells the story at a length any other filmmaker would have halved." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 2, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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"Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 17, 2007
 
Romance of Astree and Celadon (2008)75%
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"This year’s Palme d’Or winner, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, makes it’s U.S. debut at the New York Film Festival" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 17, 2007
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)97%
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"Can a movie traumatize you in a good way?" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 17, 2007
 
Secret Sunshine ()92%
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"Devil possesses a dramatic power akin to watching a big train wreck, but it’s an elaborate Rube Goldberg device with no real heart at its center." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 15, 2007
 
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)88%
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"What one can say after the experience is that there is nothing else quite like it in all of cinema." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Aug 11, 2007
 
Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971)100%
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"While too fleeting in grace to be a great movie, Paris Je T'aime does however reward the hope offered with this prestigious cast and crew." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 23, 2007
 
Paris, Je T'aime (2007)84%
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"If the movie was meant to render sympathy to Brisseau, it only reinforces how monstrously repugnant he is. The audacity to suggest his complete innocence makes the whole thing seem like black comedy, only the core sentiment is not funny." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 12, 2007
 
Exterminating Angels (2007)47%
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"Agree or disagree, this is a work so bold and provocative and distinctive that it demands to be seen." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 12, 2007
 
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)57%
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"Every stone, every piece of fabric, every pushed-up bosom is fetishized to ludicrous extremes. Zhang apparently wants to dazzle the eyes with the visuals, but Curse is one of the gaudiest looking movies ever made." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 12, 2007
 
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)65%
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"Exiled is compromised by the feeling one gets that Johnnie To has been watching too many westerns." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 12, 2007
 
Exiled (2007)81%
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"Boon shows that he has the film grammar of a Spielberg in how well he conveys his story cinematically... Boon will go places that Spielberg won't though." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 12, 2007
 
The Host (2007)92%
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"It feels Lynchian to the point of self-parody." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 28, 2006
 
Inland Empire (2006)70%
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"Triad Election lacks the emotional punch or aesthetic dazzle to take it up a notch." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 16, 2006
 
Triad Election (2007)96%
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"It's a B-movie through and through and its indulgences come from loving the genre too much, not bracketing it with postmodern quotation marks." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jul 27, 2006
 
Azumi (2006)43%
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"'Russian Dolls' is not an intellectually cohesive movie, but it's so much exuberant fun, it doesn't matter" -- culturevulture.net
Posted May 9, 2006
 
Russian Dolls (2006)72%
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"Shot in black and white, '13' maintains a strong disconsolate tone, one in which the world feels barren and uncaring." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 10, 2006
 
13 Tzameti (2006)84%
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"Will one day make its mark in the film canon as the singular film experience it is" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 17, 2006
 
Battle in Heaven (2006)43%
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"Every scene in the new 'King Kong' strains to be the biggest, most pulverizing, in-your-face spectacle that you've ever experienced." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 18, 2005
 
King Kong (2005)84%
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"Hou captures that new couple exuberance in a way few films have, and the climatic moment here is as magical as they come." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 4, 2005
 
Three Times (2006)86%
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"[Von Trier] has imbued the material with enough dramatic power and relevance that despite its many flaws, it is still essential viewing." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 2, 2005
 
Manderlay (2006)50%
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"The flashiest, funniest, and most baroque of the “Vengeance Trilogy.” It is also the most simpleminded and, despite that, eventually the most muddled." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Sep 30, 2005
 
Lady Vengeance (2005)75%
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"Does not present any convincing evidence that Bruno is either so dense or so uncaring as to be remotely capable of selling his son on a whim" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Sep 23, 2005
 
L'Enfant (2006)86%
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"The movie’s violence is used to explore the ties of family, both by blood and by bonds of personal history." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jul 28, 2005
 
The Devil's Rejects (2005)55%
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"A great opening and...a visceral, heartbreaking ending" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
Memories of Murder (2003)88%
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"Pavlikovsky ends up falsifying everything his style was working so effectively to create, and only because he ultimately chose content over style." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jun 28, 2005
 
My Summer of Love (2005)92%
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"Chow's best all-around achievement, meshing a coherent story, character arcs..., and technical depth." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 16, 2005
 
Kung Fu Hustle (2005)89%
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"Berger straddles the cartoonish and the naturalistic with mixed results." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 15, 2005
 
Torremolinos 73 (2005)72%
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"Works best as a thrilling ride, a genre piece, not as a movie to gain insight into the human experience" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 24, 2005
 
Oldboy (2005)82%
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"The only reason to see it is for the action. In that arena, on a scale from 1 to 10, it’s a 20. " -- culturevulture.net
Posted Feb 17, 2005
 
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005)85%
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"It’s hard to take it as anything but unintended camp." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 2, 2004
 
House of Flying Daggers (2004)88%
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"An hour in, everything in the movie is upended in a way that is not so much difficult to swallow as simply out of left field." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 23, 2004
 
Bad Education (2004)88%
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"Provides all the wonder and excitement to be wrought from the superhero genre while making fun of itself in gut-busting ways. " -- culturevulture.net
Posted Nov 16, 2004
 
The Incredibles (2004)97%
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"Payne has an eye for making the mundane remarkable through specificity of details" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Oct 20, 2004
 
Sideways (2004)96%
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"The plot contrivances on display are so silly that the theme is hard to take seriously on any rational level." -- culturevulture.net
Posted May 30, 2004
 
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)45%
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"Despite the spectacle of war with which Warner Brothers hopes to entice audiences, Troy is essentially an anti-war film." -- culturevulture.net
Posted May 17, 2004
 
Troy (2004)55%
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"Has a student film quality in its conception and realization" -- culturevulture.net
Posted May 13, 2004
 
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)63%
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"Deadpan humor combines with inventive action and real character development" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Apr 4, 2004
 
Hellboy (2004)80%
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"Shows how propaganda works on both sides and how the truth is often somewhere in between. " -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 31, 2004
 
Control Room (2004)96%
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"An accomplished, contemplative work rooted in the philosophy of Buddhism. " -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2004)95%
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"Isn't so much about athletics as about ... discovering a pursuit in life that makes it worth living." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Mar 22, 2004
 
Strong Shoulders (2004)100%
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"Focuses more on the relentless hardships and suffering than on the characters experiencing them." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 30, 2004
 
Osama (2003)96%
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"The initial objective with which Brisseau aligns the audience is replaced with a stark ambivalence that tremendously complicates the movie." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 28, 2004
 
Secret Things (2003)48%
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"Jenkins’ writing lacks grace...takes a pointer to the chalkboard over the tragic fate of her victims." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Jan 10, 2004
 
Monster (2003)82%
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"Hou’s versatility with the camera has never been better utilized." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 30, 2003
 
Millennium Mambo (2003)80%
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"Yee shows inventive skill at telling the story visually." -- culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 21, 2003
 
Blue Gate Crossing (2003)83%
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"Deft, exhilarating comedy" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 19, 2003
 
The Spanish Apartment (2003)76%
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"Endlessly spectacular" -- culturevulture.net
Posted Dec 17, 2003
 
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)94%

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