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Bad Education (2004)
"It's hard to make a good film noir if you're uncomfortable with your audience's corruptibility."
Alan Dale
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
"Whether the scenes add up to anything or not, however, Duris holds the screen like a natural."
Splat
Before Sunset (2004)
"[A]n experiment can be valuable without being successful."
Beyond the Sea (2004)
"You can't get much more Hollywood than a movie about a performer in which success is synonymous with quality."
Bloody Sunday (2002)
"Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique."
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
"It's theatrical genius: Cohen has devised a split-level act in which being hooked off the stage by his in-the-movie audience makes for success with his at-the-movie audience."
The Break-Up (2006)
"[I]t combines a naked desire to please the audience with a try-anything approach of the kind that made Wedding Crashers such a desperate stab at entertainment."
Bright Young Things (2004)
"All told, Bright Young Things is one of the most depressing obliterations of a literary source that comes to mind."
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
"[T]he movie plays like any soap opera about a love that cannot be--the weeper mechanism is entirely familiar from hetero movies.... Brokeback Mountain isn't a gay western, it's a gay Back Street."
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