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"...Near-perfect in every way, The Hours is a compelling meditation on making the most of what we're given in..."
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Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Katakuris is something of a departure for Miike, seeing as how it's chock-full of robust romance and – we kid you not – musical numbers. While this is ultimately a crazy meditation on family values and the like, it's still mind-bogglingly goofy filmmaking, at once deeply moving and deeply annoying.
"...loving eye, and while this is ultimately a crazy meditation on family values and the like, it's still mind-bogglingly..."
Nov. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Little Otik
Brazenly bizarre animated feature by Czech filmmaker Svankmajer.
"...Otik himself. The result is a sublime, blacker-than-night comic meditation on the insistent demands of a youngster's love and..."
March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Birthday Girl
"...of cliché this might have been a smashingly black-comic meditation on loneliness and the redemptive powers of a little..."
Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Audition
The war of the sexes as a horror film
"...Audition, a horror film masquerading as a deeply disturbing meditation on the war between the sexes, is itself more..."
Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Man Who Wasn't There
The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.
"...black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself at times as ambiguous..."
Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Left Luggage
"...the Four Questions for an upcoming Seder. As a meditation on survivor guilt and the lingering shadows of the..."
April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Unbreakable
"...tentative suspension of disbelief, you'll find Unbreakable a rewarding meditation on the nature of heroes, both comic book and..."
Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Bounce
"...It's the opposite of The Opposite of Sex, a meditation on multiple truths, and the lies that sometimes lie..."
Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Remember the Titans
"...a pure football film than it is a ponderous meditation on early Sixties racial division cloaked within a high..."
Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Manhattan
"...Gordon Willis) and music score by Gershwin makes this meditation on love and life in New York one of..."
June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Winter Sleepers
"...vision, Winter Sleepers feels stylistically stillborn, a dreary, overlong meditation on the randomness of chance, the intractability of fate,..."
June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
8 1/2 Women
"...Ever the artful iconoclast, Greenaway's new film is a meditation on men and women, grief and loss, earthquakes and..."
June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Liberty Heights
"...is full of little awakenings like this. As a meditation on race, class, and religion, everybody involved gets a..."
Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Bicentennial Man
"...year for sheer pratfalls; Bicentennial Man is more a meditation on the nature of life itself than anything else,..."
Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Eyes Wide Shut
Kubrick's final work gets sexual
"...just say that Kubrick has created a final chilling meditation on skewed relationships and interior beasts. It's a fitting..."
July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Conceiving Ada
"...heart of Conceiving Ada, an intellectually dense, occasionally bewildering meditation on Victorian proto-feminist and mother of what is now..."
June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Playing by Heart
"...figuratively what director-screenwriter Carroll is going for here: a meditation on the futility of trying to rationalize how the..."
Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Eel
"...by Shohei Imamura (Black Rain) is the director's thoughtful meditation on love, death, and, well, eels. It's a film..."
Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Artemisia
"...Michel Serrault and Miki Manojlovic. Artemisia is an interesting meditation on the life of 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, one..."
Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Monument Ave.
"...a punchy and ultimately sorrowful (not to mention soulful) meditation on fractious brotherhood and bad decisions, tough stuff all..."
Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Twentyfourseven
"...fields of poor career decisions with this grittily likable meditation on dispossessed British youth chafing against the yoke of..."
May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The End of Violence
"...Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas) creates a dramatic meditation on the intersecting effects of violence on various people's..."
Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
For Ever Mozart
"...see Terminator 4 instead. Godard's film is an elegiac meditation about the inability of art to alter the course..."
Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Ulysses' Gaze
"...as it is to be impressed by this epic meditation on the past's endless reverberation with the present, it's..."
June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Experimental Films
"...Charles.) Rounding out the program is Abigail Child's 1987 meditation on sexuality, “Mayhem.”..."
May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
City Hall
"...up to be, City Hall is instead a thoughtful meditation on the workings of mayoral politics -- and business..."
Feb. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Mighty Aphrodite
"...years, this is minor-league Woody Allen, a half-baked comic meditation on hubris that's partially redeemed by Sorvino in a..."
Nov. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Burnt by the Sun
"...Oscar-winner for best foreign film is a brilliant, Chekhovian meditation on trust, love, and the intrusive horrors that period..."
June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Shelf Life
"...characters to the screen, the story is an extended meditation on the effects of lengthy isolation and physical containment..."
