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12/17/12 |
Good |
 "...benefits from the closeness of this material to its creator as much as it suffers for it... feels like a recycled Erma Bombeck column with some added iPad etiquette..." |
| 2. |
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12/14/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a neat, lightweight little hipster romance... a convincingly contemporary depiction of relationships and dating when the goalposts have been moved..." |
| 3. |
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12/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...unflinching austerity... the clinical distance Haneke manages so well also makes the film feel like a beautifully crafted but calculated exercise..." |
| 4. |
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12/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an unfortunate example of a director disappearing so far into his own vision that he's lost interest in taking a step back and looking at it in its entirety." |
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12/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...even if this isn't a great screen adaptation of the musical, there's no resisting the ending, which pairs the film's two brightest stars and then has everyone join in..." |
| 6. |
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12/06/12 |
Good |
 "...thoroughly and effectively sappy... It wrings out tears with an industrious efficiency that leaves you feeling manhandled after the exhilarating, terrifying footage..." |
| 7. |
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12/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "Much of the film takes the form of a typical informative TV special... Fry is charming, knowledgeable, and fantastically excited about the things he gets to do..." |
| 8. |
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12/05/12 |
Poor |
 "A dismal misfire... a sort of high-stakes comedy of manners, but it's one in which the extremely mannered are placed in contrast with the merely very mannered." |
| 9. |
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11/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...an examination of how contemporary warfare has so much more to do with information than with sending troops out into battle.... stunningly well-realized..." |
| 10. |
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11/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...wants to be angry and scathing, but, to its credit, enjoys its characters and its mechanics too much to have a sharp edge." |
| 11. |
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11/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a broad indictment of the emptier side of self-documentation and a more nuanced one of the Internet as a source of affirmation." |
| 12. |
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11/29/12 |
Good |
 "...the fight scenes provide all the high points... plays off and engages with the history of kung-fu films, but it only really sings when it's content to be one itself." |
| 13. |
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11/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Lee's movie is a grand gesture of filmmaking pushed to its furthest technical edges, but hemmed in and confined by its fidelity to words on a page." |
| 14. |
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11/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "The tangible details of the town and its supporting characters are anything but saccharine... the film creates a sense of place you don't want to leave behind." |
| 15. |
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11/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...it sets aside the strange undercurrents of desire and danger that defined the series... Bella's an empowered badass, and that's why things feel off." |
| 16. |
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11/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "The interviewees know they aren't responsible for what their relatives did, but guilt has nevertheless shaped their lives." |
| 17. |
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11/15/12 |
Good |
 "...brisk, earnest... an ambitious study of glaciers using time-lapse cameras set up to take photos every half-hour of daylight..." |
| 18. |
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11/15/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a heady dose of outrage via a broad overview of systemic cover-ups tracing to the Vatican, as well as a specific and heartbreaking case in Wisconsin." |
| 19. |
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11/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a magnificently warts-and-all portrait and appreciation of democracy at work in all its bickering, lively messiness." |
| 20. |
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11/07/12 |
Excellent |
 "They've made him fun again.... Bond is literally reborn.... he gets fewer silly gadgets these days, but he does have his awesomely fly car and a customized gun." |
