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| 21. |
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02/27/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...most successful as a character study of a stubborn, prickly girl whose intelligence far outweighs her immediate prospects... Deller's pacing remains uneven..." |
| 22. |
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02/23/13 |
Moderate |
 "...disparate groups of characters and lives never cohere into anything more than incongruent ideas hatched from an overworked and under-organized imagination." |
| 23. |
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01/27/13 |
Poor |
 "...sidesteps any real-world consequences to the on-screen action and hopelessly muddles the movie's meaning... leaves us with blood, guts, and dismemberment..." |
| 24. |
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01/23/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...more than passable... in its sharply etched sketches of personal and professional frissons, it belies the modesty of both its lo-fi setup and its self-effacing title." |
| 25. |
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01/23/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the filmmaker proves himself a shrewd, quick sketch artist... what proves most striking are the exactly rendered little moments..." |
| 26. |
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01/23/13 |
Moderate |
 "For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there's little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings. Im lets the business unfold matter of factly..." |
| 27. |
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01/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...while the film is far from unpleasant to watch, it ultimately feels both overly stuffed and empty... superficially complex... surface-level pretty..." |
| 28. |
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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..." |
| 29. |
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01/09/13 |
Good |
 "...whatever their orientation, both men are intrepid in pursuing the truth, the consequences of which are made clear in a series of terrifying late-film crackdowns." |
| 30. |
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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." |
| 31. |
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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." |
| 32. |
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01/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "...self-serious... might be considered 'Inglourious Basterds' ultra-lite, lacking that film's stubborn commitment both to shuffling the power plays of history and to edgy humor..." |
| 33. |
|
12/05/12 |
Moderate |
 "...an intermittently engaging tale of father-and-daughter bonding (and non-bonding)... the resolution feels too perfunctory and casually judgment free..." |
| 34. |
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12/02/12 |
Very Good |
 "Jason Tippet and Elizabeth Mims's finely wrought visualizations lock down the subjects in camera setups that mirror their lack of opportunities in life." |
| 35. |
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12/02/12 |
Weak |
 "...with the central figure almost never weighing in directly, the film's attempts to portray his story as an inspirational tale of triumph over adversity scarcely registers." |
| 36. |
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11/15/12 |
Poor |
 "None of this is very convincing... This is how it happened folks, the film says -- and if it didn't unfold quite like this in real life, isn't it nicer to imagine that it did?" |
| 37. |
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11/14/12 |
Weak |
 "Benjamin Dickinson's anti-dramatic methodology proves ill-suited to the task of generating narrative interest." |
| 38. |
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11/14/12 |
Good |
 "A deceptively modest, multifaceted look at performance and the performative nature of gender... an impressionistic glimpse..." |
| 39. |
|
11/11/12 |
Weak |
 "Plummer is certainly game... but there's always the sense that the campy lines are beneath an actor of his intelligence... he has little choice but to camp it up..." |
| 40. |
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11/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Joe Wright crafts an engrossing, literate film, treading water even under the weight of its director's misguided ambitions." |
