Splat
The Page Turner (2007)
"A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller."
Prairie Miller
Palindromes (2005)
"The director's latest trek into the lunatic void, of what can best be described as the cinematic version of clinical depression."
Tomato
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
"A woman's revolutionary fearlessness, with a touch of magic."
Pathfinder (2007)
"Celebrates a sense of identity and community more importantly defined by a shared set of convictions, than blood ties or DNA."
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Perfect Stranger (2007)
"Seductive predatory games heat up with sizzling antagonistic chemistry between Berry and Willis, her pathologically infatuated techie Guy Friday, deceptive identities, and mixed messages burning up the Internet wires."
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007)
"Avoiding the thornier issues around dabbling in a career choice as a kind of government sanctioned serial killer, hangman Pierrepoint instead boasts of his apparently unique talent for completing an execution in record seconds."
"Avoiding the thornier issues around dabbling in a career choice as a kind of government sanctioned serial killer, hangman Pierrepoint instead boasts of his apparently unique talent for completing an execution in record seconds.""
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)
"Ecological disaster meets greed and a desperate bid for human salvation, in this metaphorical meditation on the forecast apocalyptic doom of America."
The Pledge (2001)
" A surreal journey through a contorted, mundane American heartland. Del Toro shatters as a Native American victim of provincial racial profiling."
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)
"The banality and muted despair of this endured horror is laced with the all too chilling familiarity of racist US revenge culture, like police brutality, exported to an imperialist conquest war zone and spreading like a planetary social contagion."
Private Property (2006)
"The conflicts that unfold within this both familiar and eccentric family provide a portrait of such delicacy and dramatic illumination, that one can almost forgive Lafosse for yet another bad mommy blame game on screen when it comes to society's ills."
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
"Defiance, Where? Female Compliance Behind and Before The Camera"
The Promise (2005)
"Medieval Chinese legend, along with myths of the new market economy."
Provoked (2007)
"What is exemplary about Provoked, is how these women survive and prevail simply but unequivocably through the resilient emotional fortitude they impart to one another."
Psycho (1998)
"Vince Vaughn Interview"
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
"The American Dream as white, rich and all male."
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