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Reviews

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  Terrorizers 1986

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★★ 1

  The network narrative film too often makes a grand to-do of its domino narrative assembly, picking an obvious point to coalesce its threads into one overarchingly simplistic statement about the…

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  When the Tenth Month Comes 1984

  

  Thuy Hung Nguyen ★★★★½ 5

  The film might superficially look like a devotion, a tribute to the country's loss throughout the century - which is pretty in line with the party's ideology...But its condemnation of…

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  Sandhesam 1991

  

  abybaby ★★★½

  One of the best political satires I've seen. Unfortunately it also exists in 1991 Kerala. So the second half goes into normal Indian cinema tropes. Still the first half is…

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  I Am Not Madame Bovary 2016

  

  Gondo ★★★★

  Reminded me a bit of Shin Godzilla, another film about bureaucratic incompetence. Just that here we are not dealing with a nuclear turtle but with one of our own (not…

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  Nichijou: My Ordinary Life 2011

  

  Gondo ★★★★★ 2

  Just stay at home

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  Turumba 1981

  

  rischka ★★★★½

  a beautiful and deceptively simple quasi-documentary look at the effects of capitalism on a small village in the philippines in the 1970s. it centers on one family's preparations for the…

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  Petition 2009

  

  rischka ★★★★½ 2

  'petition' is a devastating piece. shot over the course of a dozen years, much of it with hidden camera, it investigates the travails of china's petitioners: people who come to…

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  Near Death 1989

  

  Steve Pulaski ★★★★★ 1

  I planned in late spring that I was going to devote part of the first week of September to watching Frederick Wiseman's Near Death, a six-hour documentary epic about family…