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05/06/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...pleasant but insubstantial... there's something to be said for a movie that attempts to reckon with class and cultural differences among contemporary African-Americans..." |
| 2. |
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04/29/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Just about everything that happens in this movie feels organic. That's partly a credit to the terrific cast.... it might just be the most morally serious soap opera ever made." |
| 3. |
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01/07/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...the best film of 2010... it invites you to get completely lost in a vast, complex universe, populated with colorful characters and shocking twists." |
| 4. |
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12/22/10 |
Poor |
 "...a state of desperation..." |
| 5. |
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11/24/10 |
Weak |
 "The sexual relationship here feels like a stunt, and a not especially sexy one at that.... Zwick applies a Hollywood polish to recognizably human dilemmas. 'Love & Other Drugs' finds him at his worst: synthetic and bombastic." |
| 6. |
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11/05/10 |
Moderate |
 "Animation is great; the story not so hot." |
| 7. |
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10/29/10 |
Excellent |
 "...an exhaustive and eye-opening look at natural-gas drilling and its potential dangers..." |
| 8. |
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10/08/10 |
Excellent |
 "...suffused with a tremendous empathy for its characters.... walks an uncommonly fine line: Playful comedy gives way to moments of shockingly immediate and honest emotion..." |
| 9. |
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10/08/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a reasonably honest consideration of what it might mean to have to honor the dead by raising their living, breathing, pooping, screaming progeny.... the screenplay relies a little too much on smelly-diaper and misplaced-baby jokes." |
| 10. |
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09/24/10 |
Excellent |
 "Subtlety has never been Stone's strong suit, but few filmmakers pick at our rawest societal scabs with quite as much brio and determination." |
| 11. |
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09/03/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...deserves to be seen and argued about, though it seems better suited to cable television than a big screen." |
| 12. |
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08/20/10 |
Excellent |
 "...takes one odd turn after another... a movie that truly captures the many weird ramifications of our modern Internet culture." |
| 13. |
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08/06/10 |
Excellent |
 "More than being just the best crime thriller so far this year... makes you nostalgic for a better age of moviegoing." |
| 14. |
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07/30/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...well-intentioned, if unevenly executed... Writer-director Ryan Piers Williams, 29, (a Texas native) and his solid cast have their hearts in the right place." |
| 15. |
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07/30/10 |
Poor |
 "...more than just sour and mean-spirited; it's lurching, desperate and borderline incomprehensible - a movie whose characters act according to no known precept of recognizable human behavior." |
| 16. |
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07/09/10 |
Weak |
 "...mostly just suggests a bunch of grown-up men playing with toys and not bothering to invite the rest of us into their circle." |
| 17. |
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07/01/10 |
Poor |
 "...a mind-bending mess." |
| 18. |
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06/25/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a romp through comic cinema history in which everything zips by so fast that you're too distracted to notice that it's all completely meaningless." |
| 19. |
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06/18/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...as good as documentary filmmaking gets, economical and deeply penetrating." |
| 20. |
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06/11/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...slightly undercooked but wholly engrossing melodrama..." |
