Paul Goscicki

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August, 2010
Tokyo! (2008) 3.5/5
2010-08-31 23:47

Overall so-so. Three disconnected stories. Only the last one was good. Others were merely bearable.
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No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) 4.5/5
2010-08-30 23:41

Excellent indie-making in a country, when singing by females is forbidden. Movie forbidden to make, banned in its own country, Iran. Definitely a must see.
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Ip Man 2 (2010) 4.5/5
2010-08-29 00:27

Cheesy first-half. Excellent second half right up until the end. All the right emotions were there.
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Paper Man (2009) 4.5/5
2010-08-24 23:34

Psychosis neurosis. Revisited. Again. Charming(ly). Definitely my type of movie. Time well spent.
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Rózyczka (2010) 4.5/5
2010-08-22 23:30

Excellent.
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Solitary Man (2009) 4.5/5
2010-08-21 23:52

My kind of man, my kind of movie. Excellent!
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Life During Wartime (2009) 3/5
2010-08-21 00:16

So-so. And more so than so.
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Cop Out (2010) 2.5/5
2010-08-20 00:13

Very so-so.
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Mistyfikacja (2010) 4/5
2010-08-19 00:10

Witkacy not dead. Decent.
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The Maid (2009) 3.5/5
2010-08-03 00:15

Psychosis totales.
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You Don't Know Jack (2010) (TV) 4/5
2010-08-01 00:52

Excellent performance. Good story.
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July, 2010
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and... 4.5/5
2010-07-31 00:05

Excellent. He was the one that made todays WikiLeaks possible.
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Lourdes (2009) 5/5
2010-07-26 01:14

Golden.
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Au revoir Taipei (2010) 3/5
2010-07-20 23:53

Just ok.
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Greenberg (2010) 4.5/5
2010-07-18 00:29

Garden State meets Reign Over Me. Excellent.
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Father of My Children (2009) 4.5/5
2010-07-14 00:42

Uneven. More like two movies inside one. Thought provoking. Excellent.
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The Crazies (2010) 3/5
2010-07-11 23:33

Seen it all before. Nothing new here. Move along.
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June, 2010
All That I Love (2009) 4.5/5
2010-06-25 23:30

Punk in the communism. Very good!
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Metropia (2009) 4.5/5
2010-06-23 23:50

Excellent. 1984/Metropolis/Matrix combined in a claustrophobic animated vision.
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Owl and the Sparrow (2007) 3/5
2010-06-18 00:48

OK, I suppose. Not that engaging, although the little girl was quite charismatic.
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Everybody's Fine (2009) 4.5/5
2010-06-17 00:43

Surprisingly good!
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A Wednesday (2008) 2.5/5
2010-06-16 00:57

So-so. I've seen it all before. And this time it's even quite poorly made.
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Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier (2010) 3/5
2010-06-15 00:39

Decent, although I could not symphatize with the main character because, well, he was quite, uhm, lets say, not too smart.
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Eastern Plays (2009) 4.5/5
2010-06-14 00:37

Touching the humanity. Maybe little disturbing, definitely thought provoking.
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I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) 4/5
2010-06-13 01:02

It was really hard to believe it was based on a true story. So absurd, so funny.
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Amintiri din epoca de aur (2009) 3.5/5
2010-06-12 01:01

Watchable.
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Tony Manero (2008) 3.5/5
2010-06-10 00:54

Decent, even despite draging on a few times.
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Lebanon (2009) 4/5
2010-06-09 00:46

Claustrophobic. Decent.
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Unthinkable (2010) 4.5/5
2010-06-07 10:55

Intense. Excellent performances. Thought provoking.
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City Island (2009) 4/5
2010-06-05 23:52

Quite funny comedy.
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A Single Man (2009) 4.5/5
2010-06-03 00:32

Artsy. Definitely. Good watch.
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May, 2010
The Messenger (2009/I) 4/5
2010-05-30 23:45

Very good!
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Un prophète (2009) 5/5
2010-05-30 21:07

The Godfather: Part IV. Brilliant.
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Bright Star (2009) 2/5
2010-05-26 00:29

Lil' bit boring.
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Tetro (2009) 3.5/5
2010-05-22 14:21

Decent overally, but I expected something better from the great master.
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Kynodontas (2009) 4.5/5
2010-05-18 00:05

Can't really say anything. One's need to watch it.
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Okuribito (2008) 5/5
2010-05-17 00:10

Simply beautiful.
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Il divo (2008) 4/5
2010-05-16 00:45

Visually stunning. Storyline could be perhaps more clear as I do not know too much about Italian history of politics, but I wasn't the target of this movie. Corruption, killing, mafia connections and lust for power. Yep. That's what this movie has shown.
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Chloe (2009) 3.5/5
2010-05-15 10:49

Lesser Egoyan's work. Totally unoriginal story, yet the performances were good enough to make it convincing.
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Madeo (2009) 4/5
2010-05-14 00:01

Difficult movie, hard to watch. Although quite rewarding.
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Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009) 3/5
2010-05-12 12:46

Funny, although not in the same league as previous Jean-Pierre Jeunet's works.
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Zero (2009/I) 4.5/5
2010-05-09 01:00

Polish Crash. And even though there were many movies before showing inter-connected paths of many characters over the course of one night, it is Crash that we all now compare such movies to. And so Zero is the same. And as such, it's Excellent. Oh, and the nightclub's bathroom scene is awesome!
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Celda 211 (2009) 4/5
2010-05-05 23:59

Decent.
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Galerianki (2009) 4/5
2010-05-03 00:54

Decent.
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April, 2010
Rewers (2009) 5/5
2010-04-30 01:01

Polish movie american style. Excellent would be not enough to say about it.
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Dom zly (2009) 5/5
2010-04-23 01:06

Gritty, brutal, bloody, vodka flavoured look at communist Poland. What a look. Disturbing. Very powerful.
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March, 2010
2012 (2009/I) 5/5
2010-03-27 18:10

Love big disaster movies. And they even don't have to be based on plausible scenarios to be decent enough.
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Zombieland (2009) 4/5
2010-03-26 20:55

Decent play on the classic zombie genre.
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The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) 1/5
2010-03-26 19:28

Piss poor. Nothing compared to the original.
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A Serious Man (2009) 4/5
2010-03-25 21:01

Weird, weird, weird. Just like quantum mechanics.
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Harry Brown (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-24 20:55

Retired. Still deadly. Very engaging.
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) 4/5
2010-03-23 20:34

Enjoyable. Even though it's a kids movie. A growned-up kids movie.
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Brothers (2009/I) 3.5/5
2010-03-23 19:00

OK. Original, Brødre, was 10x better, though.
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-22 18:46

Sherlock Holmes remixed. Very good!
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The Blind Side (2009) 5/5
2010-03-21 20:45

Movie about football that actually has not that much of a football at all. Great and inspiring story.
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Surrogates (2009) 3.5/5
2010-03-20 18:20

Decent, decent. Even though there were too many technological loopholes that made the whole surrogates design completely unusable in practice, so there was no chance for them to become so ubiquitous as presented. Bruce Wills, however, delivers. Us usually.
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-19 20:30

Very good, even despite that both main characters were neither 100% good nor 100% bad.
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The Girlfriend Experience (2009) 3/5
2010-03-18 23:50

The business of escorts (aka high class hookers). Watchable.
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Hachiko: A Dog's Story (2009) 3/5
2010-03-17 23:07

A little big too draging on. Just ok.
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) 3.5/5
2010-03-16 23:46

Watchable. As far as romantic flicks go.
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Feng sheng (2009) 3.5/5
2010-03-16 00:28

Lil' bit complicated and too unprobable. Although watchable.
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Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) 5/5
2010-03-15 00:47

Mindblowing experience. Chilling to the bones. Greviously scary. Asks very important questions about humanity.
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Los abrazos rotos (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-14 11:56

Very decent. I both loved and hated the unfinished character of this movie. And it felt like a badly edited one too. Intentionally, of course. Was he blind or was he not? Was he Mateo or was he Harry? Does she love or hate the rich Martel?
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An Education (2009) 3.5/5
2010-03-13 00:36

Okey, I s'ppose. Not really my kind of movie.
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Up in the Air (2009/I) 4/5
2010-03-10 22:17

Decent, decent.
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) 4/5
2010-03-08 23:53

Decent character study.
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Creation (2009/I) 4/5
2010-03-08 00:20

Good story about an extraordinary man.
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Balibo (2009) 3/5
2010-03-07 01:17

Yet another sad story written on the pages of human history. Fifth of the East Timor population killed. Too bad that the film was not good enough to capture my full attention. I found myself reading the wikipedia more than watching the movie.
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The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008) 4.5/5
2010-03-06 00:48

Brutal truth about the middle-age practices around the world when it comes to basic human rights. This time it's about Iran.
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Sin nombre (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-05 01:07

Many, many movies I've seen dealing with this subject. The story's always the same. Only the characters change. Still this one's quite unique. Very good watch.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) 2.5/5
2010-03-04 01:28

Quite poor, actually. Only momentarily funny.
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The Man from Earth (2007) 5/5
2010-03-03 01:26

Truly a mind blowing experience. What if there IS a man like this walking the earth?
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) 4.5/5
2010-03-02 01:25

...
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February, 2010
Forever Strong (2008) 4.5/5
2010-02-26 01:12

Very decent high-school ~~football~~ rugby movie. Just when I thought I was over those kind of movies...
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Nothing But the Truth (2008) 5/5
2010-02-25 01:25

Love, love, just LOVE political thrillers. 'specially ones like this one. It has even made me cry. LOVED IT.
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The Box (2009/I) 4.5/5
2010-02-24 01:12

Love the work of Richard Kelly. Each of his movies is a tough mind-bending experience. And so is this one.
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The Informant! (2009) 4.5/5
2010-02-22 01:14

Excellent!
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Nobel Son (2007) 4/5
2010-02-21 01:23

Excellent premises. First half is a very enjoyable joyride. Nice twits, action keeping you on your toes. Excellent dialogues. Exquisite music! All ruined by the closing act. Totally unnecessary twists, too complicated, just poor. Overally it was a good movie that could have been great.
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Black Dynamite (2009) 3/5
2010-02-17 01:11

Decent spoof of 70s black gangster movies. Few good laughs.
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Dorian Gray (2009) 3.5/5
2010-02-15 20:13

Decent, decent.
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Whip It (2009) 2.5/5
2010-02-14 23:38

So-so. It seems I'm really getting too old for those teenage movies.
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Assassination of a High School President (2008) 4/5
2010-02-02 01:20

Very good noir high school story. Defintely not like your usual high school movie.
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January, 2010
Restul e tacere (2007) 5/5
2010-01-31 23:58

Romanian masterpiece about another 1910s cinematic masterpiece.
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Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008) 3.5/5
2010-01-25 23:51

Funny enough, even despite the fact that lots of humour is based on local French accent.
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Keith (2008/I) 4/5
2010-01-24 22:12

Decent.
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Goodbye Solo (2008) 4.5/5
2010-01-24 10:27

Very engaging. Maybe a little bit unsatisfying at the end as we are not given any explanations.
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Sonbahar (2008) 4/5
2010-01-23 00:11

Sad. Very sad story.
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The Invention of Lying (2009) 3.5/5
2010-01-21 00:05

Funny enough. Not great, but good.
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Wojna polsko-ruska (2009) 3.5/5
2010-01-20 00:05

Polish urban low-life love story. More like an experiment in cinematography than a movie. Enjoyable mostlby because of Borys Szyc's role.
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Big Fan (2009) 3.5/5
2010-01-18 00:53

Quite funny. Not all the time, but often enough.
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Kader (2006) 4.5/5
2010-01-17 00:21

Love story more tragic than Romeo & Juliet.
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Yi ge dou bu neng shao (1999) 5/5
2010-01-14 00:50

Poignant. Powerful.
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Avatar (2009) 5/5
2010-01-12 14:31

In 1993 there was Jurrasic Park. In 2010 there is Avatar. Same mind-blowing experience.
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December, 2009
Nafaka (2006) 4.5/5
2009-12-27 00:45

Very good.
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2 Days in Paris (2007) 3.5/5
2009-12-26 01:10

Decent. Enjoyable dialogue. Tiring momentarily too.
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Un conte de Noël (2008) 4.5/5
2009-12-09 01:14

A very powerful piece of French drama. Very, very good.
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Extract (2009) 2/5
2009-12-07 00:36

Piss poor, unfortunately. Too bad the Mike Judge is a man of one movie (Office Space).
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) 4.5/5
2009-12-05 00:04

Inglourious indeed. Slowly getting to the right pace, but rewarding in the end. Oh, very rewarding.
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The Limits of Control (2009) 3/5
2009-12-03 23:27

Very, very, very slow (read: poetic) crime/drama. No dialogue, almost no story. Artsy.
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November, 2009
World's Greatest Dad (2009) 3/5
2009-11-30 23:49

Dark comedy. Not sure what to make of it. Enjoyable monetarily, but confusing a little bit.
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