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| 21. |
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04/19/13 |
Very Good |
 "There is a cost for obsession and the filmmaker gets a little hasty at the end when everyone is required to pay up.... [but] you won't want the story to end." |
| 22. |
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04/12/13 |
Excellent |
 "...some kind of wonderful, flaws and all. This is one to be taken in like meditation. Clear the mind and let what is in front of you wash over you." |
| 23. |
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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...unexpectedly warm, hopeful and humorous.... At times the film is as rough around the edges as its central characters.... [but] it leaves a warm glow." |
| 24. |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an amoral tale.... This is a place so dark, and Simon is a creature so frightening, that eventually, it's hard to care whether he will get better." |
| 25. |
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04/05/13 |
Good |
 "...a shrewder, more satisfying piece of filmmaking than we've seen from Redford in a while, though not quite in the league with his best behind-the-camera work..." |
| 26. |
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03/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "...intimate in its telling, sweeping in its issues and stumbles only occasionally.... it does give us the sort of down-market lives we too rarely see..." |
| 27. |
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03/29/13 |
Weak |
 "...the story goes slack onscreen, so much so that the movie's two-plus hours will seem an eternity.... despite their talent, all three actors struggle mightily." |
| 28. |
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03/28/13 |
Weak |
 "...one hot mess.... It's massive, all the retaliation and the world saving stuff. And it's convoluted. Frankly no one should have to think that hard to keep up with the Joes." |
| 29. |
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03/22/13 |
Moderate |
 "...delivers some Crood amusement thanks to its cast -- no pun intended.... the movie is far too straight-laced when it desperately needs to loosen up." |
| 30. |
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03/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "Ultimately, the film leaves you with the sense that as much as Koch re-energized New York, the city also made the man. That was the love affair that mattered." |
| 31. |
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03/08/13 |
Excellent |
 "...excellent.... It's a testament to Crewdson's storytelling power that his still photographs resonate so deeply on-screen." |
| 32. |
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03/08/13 |
Fair |
 "...for any number of reasons, the movie does play ever so small, failing to command that larger-than-life screen on which it sits so uncomfortably." |
| 33. |
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03/08/13 |
Moderate |
 "...the movie feels like it's trying too hard. Some moments are cleverly constructed, and others seem as if the filmmakers have left themselves no plausible escape." |
| 34. |
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03/01/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a bizarrely perverse, beautifully rendered mystery that you may or may not care to solve.... It has fine performances..." |
| 35. |
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03/01/13 |
Very Good |
"...plays like the kind of eulogy Koch would have approved -- neither fawning nor eviscerating but always compelling.... Barsky takes a fair measure of the man..." |
| 36. |
|
02/22/13 |
Poor |
 "...disappointing.... Some mystery is fine. A morass is quite another matter... the movie is almost unfathomable, with so little interior logic..." |
| 37. |
|
02/22/13 |
Fair |
 "...the dialogue is preachy, the drama too earnest and the action kind of sluggish, though it's hard not to get a jolt when Johnson jumps behind the wheel." |
| 38. |
|
02/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a tight 94-minute journey to an icy never-never land.... it is impossible not to be drawn into this world." |
| 39. |
|
02/15/13 |
Very Good |
"...an intimate portrait of the vanishing breed of hunters and fishers still making a life in the isolated heart of Siberia... Herzog has become a master of the understatement..." |
| 40. |
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02/14/13 |
Weak |
 "...sloppy, sentimental... long on beauty shots, short on depth and seriously intent on tugging your heartstrings. Indeed, it demands you reach for those tissues. Sob." |
