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05/23/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...you'll register how earned the pain seems in the actors' eyes. Delpy and Hawke have never been more persuasive. Nor has the series." |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...enormously engaging... Fellag, a comedian and himself an exile from Algeria, makes Lazhar both a sensitive and an amusing figure. And the kids are just terrific..." |
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12/29/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...when you consider how heavily censored filmmakers are in Iran, director Asghar Farhadi's accomplishment starts to seem downright astonishing." |
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11/11/11 |
Outstanding |
 "The first eight minutes of 'Melancholia' is so breathtaking, it's hard to imagine how the director can possibly follow it. Think of it as an overture..." |
| 5. |
NPR All Things Considered |
04/22/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Shattering. Cathartic.... a breathtaking film." |
| 6. |
NPR All Things Considered |
09/30/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...terrific entertainment -- an unlikely thriller that makes business ethics, class distinctions and intellectual-property arguments sexy..." |
| 7. |
NPR All Things Considered |
08/20/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a riveting detective story... ferocious filmmaking, but it wouldn't have half the force it does if the director didn't also get at the complicated man Pat Tillman was..." |
| 8. |
NPR All Things Considered |
12/11/09 |
Outstanding |
 "An exquisite, almost sensual grief suffuses every frame of 'A Single Man.' " |
| 9. |
NPR All Things Considered |
08/30/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The cast is knocking itself out... theater magnified, amplified, brought to a kind of life that doesn't usually happen with filmed performances." |
| 10. |
NPR All Things Considered |
07/23/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Imagine a mashup of 'Dr. Strangelove' and 'Wag the Dog,' and you've got the general idea... The performances are explosively funny..." |
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12/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the degree of complexity Bigelow and Boal bring to their story has to be counted a surprise in a major Hollywood film.... uncommonly freighted with the weight of history." |
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11/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Wait'll you see the vertigo-inducing fight in Shanghai, backlit with building-sized video displays. Spectacle, these guys can do." |
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10/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the real accomplishment here is how Affleck manages to segue from 'Ocean's 11'-style repartee to pulse-pounding tension and back again." |
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02/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The picture's real achievement is the warmth it brings to the music that animates the lives of these afro-Cuban characters." |
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11/25/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Silent black-and-white movies are not coming back, but this one is such a rewarding labor of love by all the artists involved that it just might make you wish they could." |
| 16. |
NPR All Things Considered |
05/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...epic -- and intimate at the same time.... grand, loopy, spiritual.... astonishing in some spots, almost incoherent in others." |
| 17. |
NPR All Things Considered |
03/04/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...spectacularly cinematic, possibly because the great cinematographer Roger Deakins consulted on visuals.... a real movie lover's movie..." |
| 18. |
NPR All Things Considered |
12/22/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...splendidly acted and takes full advantage of every breathtaking vista it comes across, a grand epic made quirky and intimate by the dialogue... terrific filmmaking." |
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NPR All Things Considered |
10/08/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...rip-roaring... pretty much any 30 seconds of interview footage in 'Inside Job' will make you want to throttle the nearest banker, broker or economic analyst." |
| 20. |
NPR All Things Considered |
11/06/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...the film's milieu and characters feel alarmingly real.... its story ends up packing an emotional wallop as substantial as its title character." |
