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DAVID WOOD
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• rec.arts.movies.reviews

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" Rewarding viewing, evocatively re-creating a narrative milieu and war-time Berlin rarely seen on screen." -- BBC
Posted Jul 3, 2001
 
Aimee & Jaguar (2000)89%
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" European cinema at its very best." -- BBC
Posted Jul 3, 2001
 
Code Unknown (2001)70%
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" Gripping and irrevocably gruesome fare played to perfection by a top notch cast." -- BBC
Posted Jun 13, 2001
 
Psycho (1960)97%
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" Wonderfully performed and imbued with a genuine sense of trepidation and unease." -- BBC
Posted Jun 13, 2001
 
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)100%
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4/5
 
" Emphatically entertaining, provocatively self-assured." -- BBC
Posted Jun 13, 2001
 
Band of Outsiders (1964)95%
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" An intelligent, multi-layered and profoundly humanist (not to mention gently political) meditation on the values of knowledge, education, and the affects of cultural and geographical displacement." -- BBC
Posted May 30, 2001
 
Blackboards (2002)74%
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" A gently captivating, deceptively austere work." -- BBC
Posted May 7, 2001
 
La Captive (2001)67%
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" With Sutherland and Christie in fine form it all adds up to one of Roeg's finest films and an undeniably key work in British cinema." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Don't Look Now (1974)95%
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4/5
 
" A witty, playful intelligent film as enjoyable as it is influential." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Diva (1981)95%
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" Barry Levinson's directorial debut from his own Oscar-nominated script remains his most perfectly realised and charming movie and is a fitting eulogy to his home town of Baltimore." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Diner (1982)96%
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" A potent metaphor for the betrayal of principles, the souring of the American Dream, and an intelligent mediation on the corrupting nature of power." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Citizen Kane (1941)100%
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" one of [Welles'] richest and most rewarding pictures" -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Touch of Evil (1958)94%
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" Grant, Stewart, and Hepburn deliver impeccable performances." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
The Philadelphia Story (1940)100%
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3/5
 
" Both Taylor and Rooney give without doubt the best performances of their pre-adult years but there's also much pleasure to be had from a stellar supporting cast." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
National Velvet (1944)100%
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" The film, to its credit, details both the initial acts of violation and the revenge that ensues as similarly de-humanising and reprehensible." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Last House on the Left (1972)68%
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" A film about what it means to be a man that manages to avoid the musk of machismo, High Noon is truly a film that improves with each and every viewing." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
High Noon (1952)95%
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4/5
 
" ...Egoyan looks at the essence of guilt and the complexity of human relationships in all their rich variety." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)100%
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" Intricately nuanced, lovingly crafted ... and decidedly wry in tone." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Yi Yi (2000)96%
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" An impassioned work of integrity and a human drama of observation, insight, and great import." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Bread & Roses (2001)65%
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" The mix of comedy and hard-hitting outrage sits uneasily, and two-dimensional characters and performances (Wayans and Rapaport spring to mind, though Pinkett delivers a rigorous integrity) are further impediments as the film increases in hysteria." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Bamboozled (2000)47%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Coming Soon (1999)40%
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Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Lost In Space (1998)25%
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" It rattles along well enough as a thriler of the political paranoia variety." -- BBC
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Osterman Weekend (1983)38%
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" A political conspiracy thriller par excellence and a candidate perhaps for Beatty's finest screen moment." -- BBC
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Parallax View (1974)91%

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