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05/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...belongs to the actual citizens of Carthage, Texas.... like a more lighthearted version of Werner Herzog's 'Little Dieter Wants To Fly.' " |
| 2. |
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04/12/12 |
Weak |
 "...muddled... in the end, the film is not about women being 'loosed' from the past, but tying those bonds a whole lot tighter." |
| 3. |
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03/22/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...with so many loose threads you could take it in for shatnez testing. Comic Bar Aba's one-dimensional stone face, tightly framed in the manner of deadpan Scandinavian comedies, grows monotonous..." |
| 4. |
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01/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a milestone in dance and 3D filmmaking." |
| 5. |
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11/24/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...unwittingly proves that old movies really were better." |
| 6. |
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11/24/11 |
Very Good |
 "...chooses meta over corn, giving us a 'Muppets' for our ironic age, with Jason Segel as another Apatowian manchild, lazy songs by Flight of the Conchord's Bret McKenzie, and the cameos one expects from a Muppet movie." |
| 7. |
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11/24/11 |
Poor |
 "...a movie so expurgated that some scenes will be inscrutable to those who haven't slogged through the novel." |
| 8. |
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11/10/11 |
Very Good |
 "...genially absurd, gently cathartic, and slightly stale..." |
| 9. |
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11/10/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Inventively directed by Emerson alum Todd Strauss-Schulson... funnier than 'Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay'... The 3D is mandatory; a little weed wouldn't hurt either." |
| 10. |
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10/27/11 |
Very Good |
 "Writer-director Bruce Robinson has rewritten Thompson's autobiographical novel in the inebriated-buddy image of his 'Withnail and I'; his dialogue is wickedly quotable, his moral outrage unabashed." |
| 11. |
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10/27/11 |
Moderate |
 "Aside from the fan-cam, '3' has little to offer: the camera is shakier and '2's' ludicrous backstory is continued." |
| 12. |
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10/20/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 " 'Black Adder' fans will appreciate Tim McInnerny as a Q who's blown off his limbs, and for the kids there's nothing funnier than a Chinese cleaning lady/assassin wielding a Hoover." |
| 13. |
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10/20/11 |
Moderate |
 "...fails to tell us anything we don't already know..." |
| 14. |
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10/06/11 |
Weak |
 "...set in a future without weight categories and, it would seem, common sense." |
| 15. |
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10/06/11 |
Weak |
 "Sheridan seems to have washed his hands of this mess, as have off-screen couple Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, whose undeniable chemistry at least offers tabloid thrills." |
| 16. |
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09/29/11 |
Moderate |
 "...one day you're sitting on a toilet shooting heroin; the next you're building an orphanage in war-torn southern Sudan.... plays like an R-rated Christian movie spliced with a CARE PSA." |
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09/15/11 |
Moderate |
 "Kate's hair may be messy and her blouse untucked, but a dashing colleague in New York (Pierce Brosnan) falls for her anyway." |
| 18. |
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09/08/11 |
Very Good |
 "...reveals what the girls might have been up to while the boys were in the streets -- a revolution that will only be televised on closed-circuit." |
