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05/13/13 |
Weak |
 "You wind up feeling doubly bullied -- first by the brutal enormity of the set pieces, and then by the emotional arm twisting of the downtimes.... It's a filmoid." |
| 2. |
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05/13/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...finds a dazzling and difficult poise, between obfuscation and epiphany.... Seldom has our modern taste for the confessional mode been so smartly explored..." |
| 3. |
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04/29/13 |
Excellent |
 "...these are clearly drawn portraits of people who are still in the process of sketching themselves into life." |
| 4. |
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04/22/13 |
Excellent |
 "It seems not just against the odds but against the laws of nature that a film as bookish, as suburban, and as self-consciously clever as this should also be such fun." |
| 5. |
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04/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
0513998.jpg) "...worth the trip.... Even if the film, baffling and glum, goes the way of its title, Andrea Riseborough as Victoria will lodge inside the hard drive of our memory, and stay there." |
| 6. |
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04/01/13 |
Fair |
 "...the effort to keep pace with it feels like jumping onto a merry-go-round with a migraine.... burns itself out without leaving a mark, let alone a scar, on our emotions." |
| 7. |
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04/01/13 |
Good |
 "...a feast for the film crazy.... Yet you sense that Berger is deploying a bevy of highlighting devices to insure a constant swell of melodrama." |
| 8. |
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03/18/13 |
Good |
 "...it should by rights deflate the heart and many scenes tend to loiter and drag. Yet there is juice and even joy in this spectacle..." |
| 9. |
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03/18/13 |
Fair |
 "What began as a blast, gleefully poised between salvation and satire, dwindles into a gaseous trip..." |
| 10. |
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03/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "At two and a half hours, this movie is hardly a quick-fire, but Mungiu has already mastered the long haul, and, within it, the long single take." |
| 11. |
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03/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "The eye of the beholder is relentlessly dazzled, but to what end?... a fine array of visual and auditory effects, their beauty adrift on a wave of preposterous narrative." |
| 12. |
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02/18/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...thoroughly deserves its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.... a meaty addition to Bernal's work in 'Amores Perros,' 'Y Tu Mamá También,' and 'Bad Education.' " |
| 13. |
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02/18/13 |
Poor |
 "All trace of character development has been stripped away... the film stalls in a mire of its own nonsense, leaving nothing but a strange, sticky residue of political nostalgia." |
| 14. |
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01/28/13 |
Good |
 "...full of a strange, aggressive nostalgia.... The speedy is interlaced with the stealthy, and action sequences carefully bide their time... disturbingly graceful..." |
| 15. |
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01/28/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...it is not easy to describe, and its impact is even harder to account for... it feels, like Shakespeare's play, at once ancient and dangerously new." |
| 16. |
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01/14/13 |
Good |
 "...a trim thriller with an enviable lack of grandeur... McQuarrie has an ace, in the shape of his supporting cast..." |
| 17. |
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01/14/13 |
Weak |
 "Penn's monstrous, unsmiling performance expands to fill the vacancy of the story.... Because we don't believe in him, we never really fear him." |
| 18. |
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12/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "It was a masterstroke to cast Emmanuelle Riva... There have been many invasions in Haneke's work, but nothing compares with the looming approach of mortality." |
| 19. |
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12/31/12 |
Moderate |
 "The first half of the tale is skillfully balanced... Tarantino is dangerously in love with the look of evil, and all he can counter it with is cool -- not strength of purpose..." |
| 20. |
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12/31/12 |
Weak |
 "...long and thunderous... Fans of the original production, no doubt, will eat the movie up, and good luck to them. I screamed a scream as time went by." |
