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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 as the precocious Luli." |
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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." |
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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "...weird, endearingly messy... feels poignant and real in a way few raunch comedies are." |
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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." |
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04/05/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Still funny, but now 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." |
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03/29/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a strange, uneven film -- not quite horror, not quite psychodrama, not quite 'Babel'-style globetrotter.... Yet it builds a spooky atmosphere by hinting at the real-world nightmares that fuel its beast." |
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03/15/12 |
Fair |
 "A parody of telenovelas that barely needs to exaggerate its source material... the film feels ultimately hollow, perhaps because mocking soap operas is the comic's equivalent of shooting fish tacos in a barrel." |
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03/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "The devil-may-care attitude is what makes it so 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." |
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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." |
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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.... It aims for the bottom and hits the bulls-eye." |
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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..." |
| 12. |
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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.... it's hard not to wonder what 'Man on a Ledge' could have been with just a little more restraint." |
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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." |
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12/08/11 |
Weak |
 "Hill's trademark verbal hyperactivity never truly breaks through a script that's way more complicated than it needs to be.... The film compensates for its comedy deficit by being overly saccharine." |
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11/22/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a marvel of spectacle, a sensory feast steeped in cinematic lore that proves pure joy is attainable in three dimensions." |
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10/14/11 |
Very Good |
 "Brewer retains about 90 percent of Dean Pitchford's original screenplay and yet somehow walks away with a film that's light years more nuanced and fun." |
