[Inaugurating a new series devoted to highlighting critical appraisals so far over the top that they're a show all by themselves:]
Paul Cantor, author of Gilligan Unbound, argues that The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's study of life under surveillance in East Germany in the years leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union, "is the best feature film debut by a director since Orson Welles's Citizen Kane," leaving such mere also-rans as The 400 Blows, Breathless, Badlands, Eraserhead, and Being John Malkovich in the dust!
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