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05/15/12 |
Poor |
 "It's the inevitability and uniformity of the film's attitude -- as well as the desperately strained and unfunny way in which it puts it across -- that's bothersome." |
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05/08/12 |
Weak |
 "...we've been so wrapped up in the schematics of the film's reflections on technology and human interaction that we have little left to do but wonder at the emptiness of the underlying characters and narrative." |
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05/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "Lightly likable, if finally flimsy... suffers from both an odd, ineffective structure and a low-key tone that jars uncomfortably with the subject matter and makes the film's stakes seem unnecessarily low." |
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05/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...a film this poorly conceived and executed can't help but reveal its own status as dead on arrival, a fact that becomes clear far before Marley gets her own terminal diagnosis." |
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04/30/12 |
Moderate |
 "...plenty of good information is imparted about genuine crises and all the expected doom-laden notes are duly struck, but the need to entertain often works at cross-purposes..." |
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04/25/12 |
Moderate |
 "...poses a lot of questions but refuses to ask so many more... takes for granted the near unimpeachability of the original communities, giving only token mention of issues like gender inequality." |
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04/25/12 |
Very Good |
 "...lightly tweaks the genre's conventions, resulting in an offering that's both intelligent about the way relationships function over time and genuinely funny..." |
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04/16/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...features astonishing footage of apes in their natural environment... nearly undone by a narration track that plays to the audience's basest desires for gag-inducing cuteness." |
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04/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "There will be blood in the end, and there will be death, and fire to boot, but without the third element in Mr. Davies equation, this is one vampire film whose sexless, generic ending betrays..." |
| 10. |
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04/08/12 |
Moderate |
 "...feels like the film is doing too deliberate a job of withholding, while not giving us quite enough to connect to these characters and their situation." |
| 11. |
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04/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...these stories get at the heart of what it means to be multiethnic in this country and how armed conflicts tend to exacerbate these inner conflicts." |
| 12. |
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03/28/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...scenes of gently comic melancholy alternate with sequences of gently satirical buffoonery.... a very gentle satire indeed." |
| 13. |
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03/25/12 |
Very Good |
 "...refuses to simply sound alarmist bells, even when it makes evident the near impossibility of the task at hand, but it also refuses to take any triumph in the questionable agreement struck at Copenhagen..." |
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03/25/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Nothing here is wrong, but beyond pointing out that sexually charged teenage girls are likely to be misunderstood in an oppressive small town, there's nothing that's especially insightful here either." |
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03/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...slogs along with arbitrarily altering camera angles and weak suspense-building devices... posits its grizzled Secret Service protag as an unimpeachable patriot who won't give an inch to the terrorists." |
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03/14/12 |
Moderate |
 "...feels at once as loose as the Duplass brothers' trademark lurching faux-verité camerawork (which gets more tired with each film) and contrived-to-the-point-of-impossible-to-credit overdetermination." |
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03/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...awesomeness seems to be the chief quality prized by both the film and its characters... Being accepted by mindless peers is the only goal recognized..." |
| 18. |
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02/29/12 |
Moderate |
 "...one of those movies where a central character's rottenness is apparent to everyone except for another central character, and we're just marking time until that person figures it out." |
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02/23/12 |
Poor |
 "A movie whose cinematic ineptitude is matched only by its ideological rottenness..." |
| 20. |
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02/17/12 |
Moderate |
 "...unfolds as a parable about the follies of blood feuds.... the film has a largely static quality, only occasionally enlivened by larger glimpses of detail." |
