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Swedish Director Takes Us On a Guilt Trip Around the Worldnew
Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth employs a polyglot cast, a wide-ranging backdrop and assorted convergent storylines to ruminate on the sad state of interpersonal politics — in this case, modern parenthood and the worldwide socioeconomic factors that affect it both positively and negatively.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O’Leary |
01-26-2010 |
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'Rudo y Cursi': Fraternal Futbolnew
Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael Garcia Bernal) are half-brother plantation workers in a rural Mexican village where they play on a local soccer team. After talent scout Batuta (Guillermo Francella) catches a weekend scrimmage and offers them representation on rival teams, the two yokels head for Mexico City and sport stardom.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
08-26-2009 |
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'Rudo y Cursi': Just What the Name Saysnew
The reuniting of Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna isn't enough to make Rudo y Cursi work.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
07-16-2009 |
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King Pinnednew
The places and faces in this new father/son narrative are as real as it gets.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Dowler |
06-16-2006 |
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Mind Gameynew
A tricked-up mental exercise that may intrigue the most impressionable film school students and a philosophy major here and there, Dot the I is more a pretentious load of crap.
Phoenix New Times |
Bill Gallo |
08-22-2005 |
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MInd Gameynew
Dot the I wants to mess with your head. It's a mess all right.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
04-02-2005 |
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Misdirectednew
The Spanish director's latest is a movie about a movie, which Almodóvar addresses with his usual strengths -- zest, humor, and sharp visual beauty -- as well as his weaknesses, including the failure to acknowledge the gravity of his subject.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Melissa Levine |
11-30-2004 |
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Taking the Pulse of Latin Cinema in Chilly Torontonew
Two of the Toronto International Film Festival's hottest tickets were Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's latest psycho-sexual melodrama, Bad Education, and Brazilian director Walter Salles's biopic of a young Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries.
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
10-05-2004 |
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Che-Che-Che-Changesnew
This exercise in feel-good historical romanticism cannily exploits Che Guevara as icon by finding a quite legitimate context in which to ignore all the problematic aspects of his later life.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
09-29-2004 |
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