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07/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...tightly wound and vastly entertaining... Stone gets back to what he does best, mixing brash showmanship with gleeful provocation." |
| 2. |
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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..." |
| 3. |
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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." |
| 4. |
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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." |
| 5. |
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12/22/10 |
Poor |
 "...screenwriters John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey pile on the puerile sight gags and struggle to come up with new ways to humiliate a bunch of performers..." |
| 6. |
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11/24/10 |
Weak |
 "Zwick applies a Hollywood polish to recognizably human dilemmas. 'Love & Other Drugs' finds him at his worst: synthetic and bombastic." |
| 7. |
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11/05/10 |
Moderate |
 "Animation is great; the story not so hot." |
| 8. |
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10/29/10 |
Excellent |
 "Fox reminds us that you can't get something for nothing, and even if we can't see it happening, it still affects the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink." |
| 9. |
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10/08/10 |
Excellent |
 "This subject has never been tackled with such foursquare emotion and sincerity... comedy gives way to moments of shockingly immediate and honest emotion..." |
| 10. |
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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." |
| 11. |
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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." |
| 12. |
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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." |
| 13. |
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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." |
| 14. |
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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." |
| 15. |
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07/30/10 |
Poor |
 "...lurching, desperate and borderline incomprehensible - a movie whose characters act according to no known precept of recognizable human behavior." |
| 16. |
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07/30/10 |
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." |
| 17. |
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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." |
| 18. |
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07/01/10 |
Poor |
 "...a mind-bending mess." |
| 19. |
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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." |
| 20. |
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06/18/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...as good as documentary filmmaking gets, economical and deeply penetrating." |
