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100
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
A concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.
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88
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Boston Globe
Astounding. It is also bizarre, challenging, and, at times, admirably overreaching. In short, it's the kind of ambitious little film that can leave critics in a swoon and American moviegoers scratching their heads.
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70
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Film Threat Merle Bertrand
Ultimately a rewarding -- if weird -- experience. It's just too bad that it takes so long to get there.
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67
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Has its own peculiar charm.
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63
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
It may take a half-hour to get one's bearings, but there's a payoff in the subsequent charm of this nearly wordless, surreal comedy set in a decrepit bathhouse in Bulgaria.
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63
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Chicago Tribune
It is filled with imposing and beautiful imagery, though it becomes increasingly monotonous.
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60
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Helmer's wildly whimsical debut film, Tuvalu, is the kind of movie that might one day find itself in the hall of fame of surreal movie weirdness alongside cult favorites like "Eraserhead," "Delicatessen" and the avant-garde frolics of Guy Maddin.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
This one-of-a kind charmer casts an immediate and delightful spell.
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60
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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The film's tone is a matter of taste -- the more you enjoy the melancholy silent comedies of Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, the more likely you are to embrace its sensibility -- but it's undeniably the product of a singular and beautifully realized vision.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A disappointment, a precious and grotesque exercise reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Delicatessen," only less amusing.
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