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GreenCine writers review recently released DVDs (as well as some favorites from the back catalog), a diverse group of films from international sleepers, Criterion titles and anime to independent films, musicals, Westerns, TV series and much more.

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  • A Christmas Tale

    Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 13:35 in criterion collection

    Reviewer: Dylan de Thomas Rating (out of 5): **** Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale opens with the death of a child, but there's actually a reason for it beyond cheap audience manipulation. In fact, the child's death - which is depicted with ...

  • Paper Heart

    Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 13:42 in mock-docs

    Reviewer: James van Maanen Rating (out of 5): ***½How long can you play "adorable" before it curdles? I suspect each viewer will have his own limit.For me, Charlyne Yi, whose adorable quotient is somewhere off the charts, hasn't c...

  • Downhill Racer

    Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 19:24 in criterion collection

    Reviewer: Jonthan Poritsky Rating (out of 5): **** Even in an artform as ever-changing as cinema, films from what many consider one of Hollywood's strongest, richest periods -- the late 60s/early 70s -- still feel remarkably fresh. And it's not ...

  • Terminator: Salvation (T4)

    Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 13:21 in action

    Reviewer: Erin Donovan Rating (out of 5): **** Even if you don't enjoy large, garish action films, you have to have a certain respect for the Terminator franchise. Created in 1984, it was predicated on the notion that computers (which were utter...

  • Gomorrah

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 15:04 in criterion collection

    Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): **** Here's an epic Italian gangster film that seems unconcerned with paying homage to Coppola, Scorsese, Leone or Tarantino. Rather, it's more interested in looking forward and generating thought...

  • Paraiso Travel

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 17:43 in independent

    Reviewer: James van Maanen Rating (out of 5): *** A kind of Sin Nombre-lite -- very light, but still enjoyable -- Paraiso Travel tracks a group of Colombian immigrants before, during and after their landing in the USA, and finally into my own lit...

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