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01/09/13 |
Moderate |
 "While it's not all condemnation here, as Kevin Mazur allows gossip-rag editors and paparazzi to tell their own side of the story, it's clear where the film's sympathies lie." |
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01/10/13 |
Moderate |
"It's not easy being famous, as the famous love to remind us.... a docu-evisceration of the parasitic celebrity apparatus, appropriately titled..." |
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09/05/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...run from the zombies, hide from the zombies, retreat to the next room when the zombies knock down the door, repeat... an enjoyable if ordinary fright flick..." |
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02/28/13 |
Poor |
 "...strikes the worst possible balance, soft-pedaling the antics while still managing to use women and minorities as punch lines.... a terribly shot movie." |
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09/11/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a smidgeon film. Take a smidgeon of scientific/ethical discussion, throw in a pinch of dance/poetry/dream sequences, tie the whole thing up with split-screen montages..." |
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05/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "Aside from its clumsy comic turns, the chief problem is the basic conception of the lead character.... he can scarcely qualify as any more interesting for the film's viewer." |
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05/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "Lightly likable, if flimsy... an odd, ineffective structure and low-key tone jars uncomfortably with the subject matter... makes the stakes seem unnecessarily low." |
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09/18/11 |
Weak |
 "...dreary... the endless will-they-or-won't-they-hook-up storyline (obviously they will) and the perfunctory stretches of its hero's searching into a parrot's past alternate with little sense of purpose or cohesion." |
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08/16/10 |
Very Good |
 "...a privileged look at not only a valuable archival document but at the ways in which the historical record can be manipulated as easily as a frame of film..." |
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01/08/13 |
Poor |
 "...speeds ahead with almost gleeful disinterest in dealing with the narrative challenges it sets up before resolving them in the most perfunctory ways imaginable." |
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05/17/13 |
Poor |
 "It's all a bit under-sketched, with the flashback sequences failing to provide any dramatic thrust or to adequately fill out the picture of the film's main character..." |
| 12. |
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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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06/18/11 |
Poor |
 "...foregrounds the potential ugliness of modern technology in order to comment on it. But that doesn't make the film's visuals any less hideous." |
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09/22/10 |
Weak |
 "...suffers from the attitude embodied by its self-congratulatory title, its true subject being the pleasure that Ericsdottir and other parents interviewed take in talking about their kids (and, by extension, themselves)..." |
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09/23/10 |
Weak |
"...reaches its unctuous nadir when film producer Jonathan Shestack indignantly scoffs that he 'can't believe' that a wealthy nation like ours hasn't done more to help autistic children. Because, of course, this country has always done such a good job of caring for its underprivileged." |
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11/03/12 |
Moderate |
 "...unfolds with bland inevitability, and what had distinguished the film from any number of other tasteful period exercises becomes irrevocably lost." |
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10/24/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...as a celebration of the power of charity, Jennifer Arnold's documentary is more concerned with -- and more compelling as -- an on-the-scene look at the challenges facing the Kenyan educational system." |
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02/23/12 |
Poor |
 "A movie whose cinematic ineptitude is matched only by its ideological rottenness..." |
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10/14/09 |
Very Good |
 "With its art-perfect snapshot of a community-in-flux, 'Adela' calls to mind Pedro Costa's similarly rigorous slum-life portrait 'Colossal Youth'.... [but] the film feels a little too removed..." |
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07/22/12 |
Very Good |
 "...while it's anything but formally radical, the director's clear-minded approach allows her subject's more challenging aesthetic-political mix to shine through..." |
