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06/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "Stephen Kessler seeks a moment of high emotion, a note of regret for kingdoms lost or whatever. Instead, Williams just stands up and walks away from the table..." |
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06/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "Abramovic is trying to access a shared humanity, to foster an unusual intimacy with viewers -- to strip herself, often literally, to a naked and undeniable truth." |
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06/14/12 |
Very Good |
"Ulay is among the first to sit at the table across from Abramovic, and the moment they share, informed by their history, is moving." |
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06/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "Allen's problematic portrayals of women have become more pronounced... goddammit, Woody Allen, you don't have to articulate every gross idea that goes through your head." |
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06/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a best-friends-forever collage of gentle comic scenes between reasonably well-conceived characters, but it has little ambition beyond that." |
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06/21/12 |
Moderate |
"...a 'Love Boat's' worth of stars -- Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Allen himself -- breeze through..." |
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06/21/12 |
Moderate |
"...the same way that self-deprecation is best worn by high-status, pretty people, grandiosity befits the small-statured, particularly if they're funny." |
| 8. |
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06/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...an inexcusably good reboot-thing... celebrates the heartwarming arachno-genetic bar mitzvah in which a boy becomes a spider, and a spider becomes a man..." |
| 9. |
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07/03/12 |
Very Good |
"...faithful to the smartassery of the Spider-Man of the comics, and Garfield's spindly physicality evokes the Marvel illustrations of the 1960s." |
| 10. |
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07/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "On one level, it's a dark, funny tragedy, but it's also first-time director Martin Donovan's thesis on his own craft." |
| 11. |
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07/25/12 |
Good |
 "...lingers on the combination of hunger and awkwardness that attends the best one-nighters, showing the unsexy details that most movies elide..." |
| 12. |
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07/26/12 |
Very Good |
"Donovan's screenplay forces these two different characters into an uncomfortable exploration of their own motivations." |
| 13. |
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08/01/12 |
Very Good |
 "Trump is the face of America here.... Hopefully this sharp rendering, or something very much like it, is the legacy for which he and his family will be remembered." |
| 14. |
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08/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...captures some un-pretty details, but the film is about two old ladies, still cackling despite the sadness that trailed in the wake of the lives into which they were forced." |
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08/08/12 |
Weak |
 "...why do all of the TV screens in the future go back to having visually discernible raster-scan lines? That is some dial-up-modem shit right there..." |
| 16. |
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08/09/12 |
Weak |
"Where Paul Verhoeven's original was testosterone-stupid and therefore fun, Wiseman's film is just boring-stupid." |
| 17. |
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08/09/12 |
Good |
"De Léan is particularly affecting in a climactic breakdown in which Clara reveals exactly what she needs and presumably never had, rendering loneliness into poetry." |
| 18. |
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08/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...occasionally too vivid... the evocation of passionate love is palpable... the honest undercurrent of melancholy keeps the whole thing from becoming unmoored." |
| 19. |
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08/16/12 |
Very Good |
"...a portrait of Trump rampaging in Scotland.... Donald Trump is the face of America here, representing all of us and demonstrating our values abroad." |
| 20. |
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08/22/12 |
Moderate |
 "...unexpectedly reactionary.... 'The Revenant' kind of aspires to be a horror-comedy in the vein of 'Shaun of the Dead' but keeps tripping on its own misanthropy." |
