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05/16/12 |
Fair |
 "There is nothing especially outrageous here... gestures halfheartedly toward topicality and, with equal lack of conviction, toward pure, anarchic silliness." |
| 2. |
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05/11/12 |
Good |
 "...the movie, by virtue of its self-conscious parody of the kind of movie it is, turns out to be an unusually smart and sensitive example of the genre." |
| 3. |
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05/11/12 |
Good |
 "...the look, the rhythm and the scruffy, on-the-fly ambience of the film make it feel unusually fresh and lively. It may be the same old song, but it's also a catchy remix." |
| 4. |
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05/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...combines a number of genres into a compact, digressive 82 minutes. It is a landscape film, an essay film, a celebrity biography full of testimony from friends and colleagues and also a hauntingly original piece of literary criticism." |
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05/04/12 |
Fair |
 "...not without its pleasures... [but] its failures are significant and dispiriting. The light, amusing bits cannot overcome the grinding, hectic emptiness..." |
| 6. |
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05/04/12 |
Good |
 "...wraps a lot of bad news into a slick, informative, fast-moving package... weaves local stories of drought and pollution together with larger-scale explanations of the worldwide water crisis." |
| 7. |
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04/27/12 |
Poor |
 "Mr. Cusack works himself into a lather trying to reconcile the contradictory parts of an incoherent character. In, I am sorry to say, an incoherent movie." |
| 8. |
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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "...dutifully hits the marks of its genre, but it is also about the unpredictability of life and the everyday challenges of love.... a pleasant surprise." |
| 9. |
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04/25/12 |
Moderate |
 "...often fascinating, and the stories are gripping.... But Ms. Baichwal sometimes seems to be so absorbed in the details of each case that the viewer is left groping after connections..." |
| 10. |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...part of the experience of a Nicholas Sparks movie is encountering revelations and reversals in the plot that challenge your sense of the preposterous." |
| 11. |
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04/20/12 |
Fair |
 "Though it is not very good, it is not actually unpleasant... soft when it wants to be gentle, smug when it aims for wisdom, and funniest when it is trying hardest not to be." |
| 12. |
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04/20/12 |
Excellent |
 "...examines, with compassion and clarity, a young woman's discovery of passion and also of the pain, disappointment and partial wisdom that follow." |
| 13. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...does not quite work. Which is not to say that it entirely fails... There is a scholarly, nerdy, completist sensibility that is impressive until it becomes exhausting." |
| 14. |
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04/11/12 |
Good |
 "...a grim, intense, mordantly comic little film... it is not a particularly nice place.... the achievement of 'Post Mortem' is to take rigorous and unsentimental measure of the unpleasantness." |
| 15. |
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04/11/12 |
Fair |
 "...paralyzes history and human drama with relentless hagiography.... it does not explore the struggle, discipline and internal friction that are essential to successful political resistance." |
| 16. |
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04/06/12 |
Fair |
 "Remember 'American Pie'? If you do, this movie is redundant and sad. If you don't, it's irrelevant." |
| 17. |
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04/06/12 |
Good |
 "...less personal and more accessible than some of Guy Maddin's other work... it may also be a perfect gateway into the bizarre and fertile world of a unique film artist." |
| 18. |
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04/06/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a movie populated by young people who do not mumble, swear, punctuate their utterances with 'like' or think that an incredulous 'really?' represents the apogee of wit." |
| 19. |
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03/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a moving and troubling documentary... The members of the ratings board perform a useful function, but this is not the first time they've politicianed us." |
| 20. |
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03/28/12 |
Good |
 "...the hope that infuses this movie makes it all the more upsetting to walk out of the theater and contemplate a looming disaster that the world's leaders seem unable to prevent." |
