Reviews Archive

January 4, 2007

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Surrealist fable one of the most visually compelling films in recent memory

By Eric Kohn

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Miss Potter

Life of children's lit legend gets the white-glove treatment in Noonan's return

By Michelle Orange

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December 29, 2006

Pan's Labyrinth

Six knock-out minutes redeem del Toro's mystical examination of the Spanish Civil War

By Vadim Rizov

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The Tiger and the Snow

Dreamy Benigni schticks it up -- in Iraq

By Vadim Rizov

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The Dead Girl

Joyless L.A. melodrama a host of dreary indie clichés

By Vadim Rizov

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December 27, 2006

Notes on a Scandal

Dench and Blanchett deliver the giddy rush of a first-class face-off

By Michelle Orange

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December 26, 2006

The Painted Veil

Norton and Watts battle cholera and each other in finely wrought Maugham adaptation

By Michelle Orange

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December 25, 2006

Children of Men

Alfonso Cuaron's surprisingly cogent fable the activist achievement of the year

By Eric Kohn

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December 22, 2006

The Good Shepherd

Untold story of the CIA a dry espionage drama of epic impassivity

By Aaron Hillis

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December 21, 2006

Curse of the Golden Flower

Clumsy, impersonal spectacle may be the worst movie Zhang Yimou has ever made

By Vadim Rizov

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