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Mary Corliss

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Contributor to Film Comment and Time.com.

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The Blue Room (2014) 88% EDIT “Thank heaven for French movies like Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room, which compactly addresses the ecstasies and occasionally dangerous consequences of intimate contact.” – TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review The Captive (2014) 28% EDIT “The Captive recapitulates the arc of Egoyan's career: early promise, followed by arrant misfires.” – TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2014 Full Review Mommy (2014) 89% EDIT “A film of suffocating power and surprising warmth.” – TIME Magazine May 22, 2014 Full Review Mud (2013) 97% EDIT “Glorious vision of youth and truth, love and loss, your name is Mud.” – TIME Magazine Jan 1, 2014 Full Review Like Father, Like Son (2013) 86% EDIT “The children's performances are winning, but the director's dogmatic social scheme saps the dramatic tension in a film whose predictable message is: to be like a real father, you must connect with your son.” – TIME Magazine Sep 14, 2013 Full Review The Unknown Known (2013) 82% EDIT “But Morris's movie is a cat-and-mouse game, and Rumsfeld is the cat, virtually licking his chops as he toys with, and then devours, another rival.” – TIME Magazine Sep 13, 2013 Full Review Philomena (2013) 91% EDIT “Frears, in fine form at 72, has proved himself a modest master at juggling the serious and the silly in such actors' showcases as The Queen and Tamara Drewe; and the script by Coogan and Jeff Pope, brims with bright dialogue.” – TIME Magazine Sep 13, 2013 Full Review Tracks (2013) 83% EDIT “John Curran's film, starring Mia Wasikowska, captures the ravishing emptiness of the landscape and the elemental perils facing a strong young woman.” – TIME Magazine Sep 13, 2013 Full Review The Zero Theorem (2013) 49% EDIT “The Zero Theorem is a spectacle that demands to be cherished - as long as the society Gilliam portrays is a satire, not a prophesy.” – TIME Magazine Sep 8, 2013 Full Review All Is Lost (2013) 95% EDIT “A signal film achievement and the capstone to a great star's career. This is Ultimate Redford.” – TIME Magazine May 23, 2013 Full Review As I Lay Dying (2013) 37% EDIT “In many respects this is a faithful and intelligent synopsis of the book.” – TIME Magazine May 22, 2013 Full Review Young & Beautiful (2013) 73% EDIT “Vacth has a seductive, covert intelligence. She may not let viewers in on Isabelle's motives, but she does suggest that something is going on. Audiences should be pleased to go with her, not knowing the destination but happy to take the trip.” – TIME Magazine May 22, 2013 Full Review Amour (2012) 93% EDIT “In the history of movies about love, Amour shall last forever.” – TIME Magazine Dec 18, 2012 Full Review Wu Xia (2011) 84% EDIT “A martial-arts morality play as lithe as it is forceful.” – TIME Magazine Nov 29, 2012 Full Review Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 95% EDIT “This is a fantasy realm so fully and elegantly realized, it might be the adaptation of a classic novel. Yet the source is Del Toro's own capacious imagination.” – TIME Magazine Nov 26, 2012 Full Review Stories We Tell (2012) 94% EDIT “Tthe probing, emotionally devastating documentary that was, for this critic and many others, the revelation of the first week of the Venice Film Festival."” – TIME Magazine Sep 24, 2012 Full Review The Company You Keep (2012) 55% EDIT “With a welcome mixture of juice and grit, the movie dramatizes the lingering conundrums of young people in the time of the Vietnam morass.” – TIME Magazine Sep 6, 2012 Full Review The Paperboy (2012) 45% EDIT “All the actors rise or bend to the challenge, giving juicy performances and seemingly having a fine old time.” – TIME Magazine May 25, 2012 Full Review The Artist (2011) 95% EDIT “With supreme confidence and an informed, infectious fondness for his subject, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius manages to embrace contradictions and then resolve them with supreme comic grace.” – TIME Magazine Nov 22, 2011 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2011) 69% EDIT “Faithful and bold...” – TIME Magazine Sep 9, 2011 Full Review Café de Flore (2011) 63% EDIT “The film is generous to all its besotted creatures, and to the audience as well. Viewers who fall in love with Caf de Flore will find that it loves them back.” – TIME Magazine Sep 9, 2011 Full Review Life, Above All (2010) 82% EDIT “The director and his splendid cast assure that this tale about a strong little girl fighting to keep her family alive and together has both high art and a big heart, audience appeal and gut impact.” – TIME Magazine Jul 14, 2011 Full Review Waltz With Bashir (2008) 97% EDIT “The message of the futility of war has rarely been painted with such bold strokes.” – TIME Magazine Jul 6, 2010 Full Review The Banishment (2007) 65% EDIT “We will not reveal more of the plot in the hope that one day it will be playing in a theater near you . It is truly something to see; for among all the lives to be ruined it is a visual rhapsody.” – TIME Magazine May 24, 2007 Full Review 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) 96% EDIT “Suffice to say that what's done with plot elements is as surprising as the rest of this gripping, satisfying film.” – TIME Magazine May 24, 2007 Full Review
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