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02/14/13 |
Outstanding |
"...the second half is a cinephile's payoff. 'People's lives are not like dreams,' says the elderly Aurora. But movies are, when they are as haunting as this one." |
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11/01/12 |
Weak |
"...as strident as late George Romero but a lot less fun.... at least Levinson hammers it home that his beloved Chesapeake Bay -- like this movie -- is 40 percent dead." |
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11/01/12 |
Outstanding |
"Julia Loktev and cinematographer Inti Briones have captured an otherworldly landscape with a paradoxical claustrophobia..." |
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10/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"A Russ Meyer roughie meets 'The Help'... Daniels works wonders with non-actors; Gray's scenes give the movie an emotional center this not-quite-camp-classic needs." |
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08/30/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...might be a Sacha Baron Cohen stunt, but Gandhi drowns his padded documentary with a voiceover that is all Morgan Spurlock, deaf to its self-aggrandizement." |
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06/28/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"MacFarlane's comic timing is unerring.... has more solid laughs than one would expect... But 'Ted' suffers the flaws of 'Family Guy' without sharing its strangeness." |