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02/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The flat, snowy landscape strips away all but the essentials from its tale: Two teens, best buddies from different families, have a bloody encounter on a hunting trip." |
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02/15/12 |
Outstanding |
"...a marvel of concentrated, classical storytelling.... call this ethnodocumentary noir... The film is like a meeting of 'River's Edge' and 'The Fast Runner.' " |
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03/14/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a surprisingly mutable, ultimately poignant day-in-the-life drama... It's not a major film, but an endearing adventure in hope nonetheless." |
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06/03/10 |
Very Good |
 "An exploded grandfather clock of a movie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's intricately antic 'Micmacs' hurls gears, gizmos, and other trash-heap objets d'art at the audience." |
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05/26/10 |
Very Good |
"...intricately antic... more fantasia than violent revenge tale. And its pleasing curlicues -- like a bouquet of spoons -- linger long after the predictable outcome." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
10/15/09 |
Very Good |
 "Thoroughly silly and enjoyable for film geeks who know the old '70s blaxploitation canon..." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
10/01/09 |
Very Good |
 "Consistently funny and brisk between its gags and gore scenes... owes its being to two writers from Spike TV's old 'Joe Schmo Show,' Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick." |
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02/11/10 |
Good |
 "...slow, realistic, and excruciating in its latter stages." |
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01/27/10 |
Good |
"Stölzl makes the movie a tad more political (i.e., anti-Nazi) than it needs to be, but Benno Fürmann's stoic performance reduces the story to its harsh, true fundamentals." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
09/24/09 |
Good |
 "...a very boosterish, company-sanctioned documentary. But what's wonderful about 'El Grupo' are the sourcing and archives..." |
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11/28/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...autobiographical, messy, and ultimately touching.... The candor can be excruciating, the intimacy embarrassing. It's like 'Crumb' without the genius..." |
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09/06/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...occasionally suspenseful, ultra-bloody (check out the bride's expert chain saw work!) attack-of-the-undead with some Catholic mumbo jumbo thrown in..." |
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05/17/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...well directed.... There is a bright line, likely determined by age, between those who game and those who don't, and the film makes no concessions to the latter camp." |
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05/16/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...insightful... well directed by first-timers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky.... [however,] it tells us nothing about the success-failure ratio of indie entrepreneurs..." |
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01/19/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Every pimply teen will know just how protagonist Edward feels." |
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01/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"It's silly and excessive, but 'Fullmetal Alchemist' occasionally strikes a note of adolescent truth..." |
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09/29/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's narrated by Vancouver's favorite son, Ryan Reynolds, and co-produced with Scarlett Johansson, who recently divorced him. Now that's sad." |
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09/29/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...if you drive a wood chipper into the forest where dumb co-eds are partying in the vicinity of suspicious hillbillies, that chipper must be used on human flesh." |
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09/28/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...piquantly tweaks every '80s ax-murderer flick you've ever seen, though it provides the same satisfaction of watching bratty undergrads perish one by one." |
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09/21/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
"If your children love animals, by all means, take them... If you appreciate gorgeous scenery, the movie doubles as a picture postcard for the region." |
