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05/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a portrait of either spiraling madness or a haunting... it keeps the jump scares to a minimum and allows its formidable lead performance to be its best special effect." |
| 2. |
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05/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a giddy drug-trip of a movie... a hypnotic experiment that goes beyond genre pastiche or art-school wankery to seem formally daring." |
| 3. |
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05/10/12 |
Good |
 "...a film that should be appallingly twee, but more often than not is actually scruffy and sweet.... remains fairly light despite some serious developments..." |
| 4. |
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05/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "Greyhound-lean and adrenaline-dazed... keeps up a relentless pace... The film maneuvers its parties around like chess pieces, and makes full use of its setting..." |
| 5. |
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05/10/12 |
Fair |
 "...tries to use its teeming, chaotic backdrop of bands, booze, and camping concertgoers to give its wisp of a romance some extra voltage." |
| 6. |
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05/10/12 |
Fair |
 "...an overly bleak film ready to write off the world and go down in a blaze of gunfire, both middle fingers raised." |
| 7. |
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05/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "Hirokazu Koreeda allows his performers to guide the journey, both literally, to a town at the midpoint of the region, and emotionally, to a coming-of-age moment." |
| 8. |
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05/09/12 |
Moderate |
 "Like the hashish-laced pastries the ladies make to sedate the male population, the film feels like it has been dosed with sugar to mask its distressingly bitter taste." |
| 9. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...this is not a film about India, it's one about growing old in a terribly British fashion.... the pleasure is in watching the characters on screen realize the fact themselves, to their delight." |
| 10. |
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05/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "If you're in the mood for something new to keep you up at night worrying (and who isn't?), Jessica Yu's new documentary will neatly do the trick..." |
| 11. |
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05/03/12 |
Excellent |
 "There's plenty of physical and emotional pain... the film makes the most of not just the performances but also the backstage wrangling and waiting." |
| 12. |
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05/03/12 |
Moderate |
 "...loads the dice so heavily it can seem like a fable about religious decrees versus acceptance. The tone wavers between cartoonish and serious..." |
| 13. |
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04/26/12 |
Good |
 "...racy and often sexy, but underneath that simmers an old-school feminist anger.... it overcomes its schematic and outdated approach to female sexuality..." |
| 14. |
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04/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "Marling provides a grave, otherworldly center around which everything else orbits -- a wispy blonde apparently dying from her contact with our present..." |
| 15. |
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04/26/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's rare to see main characters as grounded and plausible as Tom and Violet are, and when they finally find their way back into each other's arms, it feels earned." |
| 16. |
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04/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's the visuals you're here to see, and they look great on the massive screen in three dimensions, especially in helicopter shots..." |
| 17. |
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04/20/12 |
Excellent |
 "...rowdy and funny and showcases an immensely likable ensemble cast it uses to delineate its war between the sexes." |
| 18. |
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04/19/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a Disneyland version of a traumatized veteran and an emotionally abused spouse... numbingly pleasant, a cinematic anesthetic." |
| 19. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a weightless bit of galactic debris that fills an hour and a half just fine -- you may not believe a man can parachute out of space, but wouldn't you like to see him try?" |
| 20. |
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04/12/12 |
Good |
 "...glib and overly cute in its ideas about coming to terms with one's age and changing status in the world.... a little too easy, but its cast makes it worth a look, even so." |
