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05/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a mix of comic bombshells and conventional plot devices that add up to an entertaining goof.... a fine and riotous jab in the ribs." |
| 2. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the latest documentary fright-fest from Participant Media ('An Inconvenient Truth,' 'Food Inc.'), and in some ways, it's the scariest yet." |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "Joel Murray is brilliantly sympathetic. But in this 'Falling Down' of pop-cultural observation, Goldthwait forgets the thrill of the chase..." |
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05/04/12 |
Moderate |
 "Rachel Morrison's cinematography refrains from too much handheld jiggle, zeroing into close-ups with the spooky prepossession of Maggie and her acolytes." |
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05/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the mother of all big-budget comic adaptations... pops with a knowing, loving, Whedon-world jokiness that keeps everything barreling along." |
| 6. |
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04/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a bruising, beastly and wickedly economical action flick from writer-director Boaz Yakin that kills and kills and kills again. And when that's finished, kills some more." |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "Everything zips along with Aardman's signature hustle and kerfuffle, wasting no time in any one place or on any one non sequitur." |
| 8. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a coming-of-age portrait of a sweet, innocent, middle-aged Christian woman who bursts through the confines of a sexless marriage." |
| 9. |
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04/20/12 |
Poor |
 "It's all very pretty, and all very dull." |
| 10. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "Kat Coiro, who directed and co-wrote the film with Krysten Ritter, has a firm hold on snappish humor and bookish references, but the whole thing sags under a creaky narrative structure." |
| 11. |
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04/06/12 |
Poor |
 "...isn't a total wash. Its one saving grace is Eugene Levy as Jim's dad... he's still the cutest pair of eyebrows in the business." |
| 12. |
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03/30/12 |
Poor |
 "If you don't guess the big twist in the first 30 minutes, 'Intruders' is half of a good movie. If you do, it's about a third of a good movie. Either way, there's a whole lot of bad movie to contend with..." |
| 13. |
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03/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar imbues his tale of academic maneuvering, misunderstanding and mystery with the zest of passion and the zing of intrigue." |
| 14. |
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03/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "...solid if unexceptional.... It features a functioning creative imagination and lots of honest-to-goodness acting by its star, Jennifer Lawrence..." |
| 15. |
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03/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "84 minutes of maximum Ferrellian oddness.... you can always count on Ferrell to push each joke about 30 seconds past the point of normalcy. And you can always count on him to be weird." |
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03/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the main thing that leaks is the script: It's shot through with gaping plot holes. Still, 'Apart' is an attractive-looking piece of work, and I'll always admire any genre film that errs on the side of understatement." |
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03/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a gentle comic drama... makes use of pink-fleshed vertebrates as the inspiration for sweet romantic musings on love and life, faith and patience..." |
| 18. |
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03/02/12 |
Moderate |
 "The whole thing is harmless... sunny and funny and cute, from a trio of harmonizing fish to the spunky grandma voiced, inevitably, by Betty White.... It's perfectly sweet." |
| 19. |
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03/02/12 |
Moderate |
 "...an unapologetic and breathlessly amoral cinematic debauch..." |
| 20. |
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02/24/12 |
Moderate |
 "The grittiness of the movie, the thud of its bullets and the thrumming energy of its covert ops - these are its strong suits... but the film gets snagged by its own narrative convention." |
