In
the Land of Saints & Sinners
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It's a fine-enough thriller. It's also an
intrinsically disappointing one.
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Asphalt
City
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It's all just a bit too much, particularly
because Asphalt City is so convincing for a while as an examination of
people under extreme pressure.
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The
Beautiful Game
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The game means something here, beyond victory
or defeat, because we're more invested in the stakes for these characters than
the score.
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A
Cat's Life
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The tonal and thematic shifts of A Cat's Life are so
abrupt and drastic that they feel unfair.
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DogMan
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DogMan
is a mishmash of ideas and genres taken to such melodramatic heights that its
fall is inevitable.
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Lousy
Carter
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It's tough to sympathize with Lousy, but it's just as difficult to see any of
the characters surrounding him as anything other than jokes, too.
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Immaculate
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Immaculate just goes through the motions without much of a
justification for doing so.
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Sleeping
Dogs
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It loses both the plot and any reason to
care about why the puzzle needs to be solved.
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You'll
Never Find Me
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The filmmakers are wise to
revolve most of the action around close-ups. Every look here tells some
kind of story.
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Riddle
of Fire
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The joke wears thin, and once things turn a bit darker, it's tougher to accept as just an
entertaining lark.
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Femme
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This is a provocative film that asks us if there are and should be limits to
sympathy.
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Limbo
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Sen's movie winds up being more superficial than the depth of ideas it clearly
wants to examine.
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Do
Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
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It's not pleasant, but it is
funny in a dreadfully honest way.
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