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07/05/12 |
Poor |
 "...writer-director-star Martin Donovan can't connect the dots... a ponderous bore... it's as thin as the improv exercises the two men play to pass the time." |
| 2. |
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06/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "...an odd approach to a true-ish story about one of the most influential musicians of all time... Harry Thomason takes a bite-size rather than life-size approach..." |
| 3. |
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06/14/12 |
Weak |
 "Vigalondo doesn't seem to care whether his characters win us over... Their personalities are grating, their motives muddled, their love lives inherently uninteresting." |
| 4. |
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06/07/12 |
Fair |
 "...mostly comes across as chintzy and uninspired... Even the film's approach to explaining the '60s is stagnant and surface-level, a sort of 'Hippies For Dummies.' " |
| 5. |
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05/31/12 |
Very Good |
 "...an elegant still life, with all the poignancy and observation implied.... The film finds its language in the rhythms of routine and the slow burn of deep realizations." |
| 6. |
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05/24/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Clayman represents a group of people who are rarely offered any media exposure... He has something valuable to offer, even as we wish there were more like him on screen." |
| 7. |
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05/10/12 |
Weak |
 "...doesn't deserve to be remembered as much of anything. What is watchable here is made possible by the sheer will of the gifted Moretz, who's in every scene..." |
| 8. |
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05/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "...manages to turn the grimmest of grim subjects into something charming, raunchy and improbably uplifting.... the sweetness of the story proves to be kind of superhuman.... the kid turns out to be worthy of our sympathy." |
| 9. |
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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "...weird, endearingly messy... feels poignant and real in a way few raunch comedies are." |
| 10. |
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04/19/12 |
Fair |
 "...probes the ways in which adults label and use children... the dialogue is often broad and silly, and there's a frustrating incoherence to the whole thing." |
| 11. |
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04/05/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...with a much bleaker outlook.... the gang's-all-here spirit causes 'Reunion' to do a sort of reverse moonwalk, looking backward while moving forward." |
| 12. |
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03/29/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a strange, uneven film... it builds a spooky atmosphere by hinting at the real-world nightmares that fuel its beast." |
| 13. |
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03/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "...entertaining.... Is the film too long? Does it go for the easy laugh a few too many times? Whatever, man. If remakes must exist, they all should try to jump this high." |
| 14. |
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03/15/12 |
Fair |
 "...the film feels ultimately hollow, perhaps because mocking soap operas is the comic's equivalent of shooting fish tacos in a barrel." |
| 15. |
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03/08/12 |
Very Good |
 "The slow-burning dread of 'Silent House' is inescapable, even to those who attempt to rise above fear by pondering the movie's 'gotcha' alchemy." |
| 16. |
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03/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...strives to appall, and it would be similarly self-deluded to pretend this jumble of ecstasy and crotch shots is anything other than repulsive." |
| 17. |
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02/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the film does one thing very well. It creates, with every transmitter that shuts down, a heightened awareness of what it means to exist as a human..." |
| 18. |
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01/26/12 |
Fair |
 "...the film aims for Hitchcock and gets a bit turned around; we're The Audience That Knew Too Much." |
| 19. |
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12/15/11 |
Weak |
 "Holmes has become a Looney Tune, an exhausting, manic buffoon who keeps almost dying before bouncing, bright and chipper, back to life." |
| 20. |
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12/08/11 |
Weak |
 "Hill's trademark verbal hyperactivity never truly breaks through... The film compensates for its comedy deficit by being overly saccharine." |
