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PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
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Review: Step Up Revolution
Abstractly beautiful
The ne plus ultra of “guilty pleasures,” the Step Up movies are willfully naive, awkward, and irresistible.
By:
PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
| July 26, 2012
Review: Farewell, My Queen
Adapted from Chantal Thomas’s novel
The gifted French director Benoît Jacquot specializes in movies about the emotions of young women.
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PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
| July 24, 2012
Review: Polisse
Maïwenn's third feature film
The third feature by French actress and filmmaker Maïwenn, about the inner-workings of Paris's Child Protection Unit (CPU), is certainly kinetic, though also mannered and hyperbolic.
By:
PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
| May 24, 2012
Review: Goodbye First Love
Self-destructive passion
The autobiographical third feature from French director Mia Hansen-Løve limns the ecstasy and tumult of youthful, sometimes self-destructive passion.
By:
PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
| May 08, 2012
Review: In Darkness
Agnieszka Holland's Oscar-nominated story
Polish director Agnieszka Holland's Oscar-nominated story about a wastrel named Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who hid the Jews of Lvov from the Nazis by concealing them in the sewers, has an anguished and feral intensity.
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PATRICK Z. McGAVIN
| March 01, 2012
Review: Miss Bala
Gerardo Naranjo's superb new feature
Gerardo Naranjo's superb new feature, Miss Bala , brilliantly draws on the conflicted personality of a young beauty pageant contestant as a tragically stark emblem of Mexico's all-enveloping drug wars.
By:
PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN
| January 24, 2012
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