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11/04/12 |
Weak |
 "...a grueling work of sensory deprivation. You're trapped with two people of a certain amount of privilege as they whine about what's essentially a frivolous issue." |
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10/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The film should be virtually insufferable, but it has a shaggy charm.... Jordan Roberts has a talent for loose, crude dialogue that catches you on the rebound..." |
| 3. |
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05/13/13 |
Poor |
 "...provokes little emotional or intellectual response other than active irritation with its dullness, which is so stifling it almost scans as an act of audience hostility." |
| 4. |
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04/01/13 |
Moderate |
 "...initially an eerie and elegant thriller... eventually devolves into a formulaic chase film that sends Cara scurrying from one obvious set to the next..." |
| 5. |
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05/19/11 |
Moderate |
 "...the film, initially at least, has a striking visual style that authentically conveys the woozy intoxication of unexpected love.... The surprise is how quickly it deflates." |
| 6. |
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02/22/11 |
Moderate |
 "...moving at times... feels incomplete, perhaps too tasteful.... has devastating moments, but its good intentions ultimately shortchange Chris and Rachel Rohrlach , diminishing, not to mention patronizing, them." |
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04/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the film has a bracingly casual sense of day-to-day working-class life that recalls the films of Jean Renoir or, more recently, Olivier Assayas." |
| 8. |
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03/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...has a shambling charm that actively disputes an unspoken notion that a documentary must be well-structured in order to effectively land its points." |
| 9. |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an ultra-violent parody of unearned self-entitlement... quite a bit of the first hour resorts to standard horror clichés.... But the third act is a small triumph..." |
| 10. |
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02/01/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a fine introduction for those unfamiliar with the genre mutations covered, but you begin to notice compelling thematic threads that are mostly ignored for the sake of either maintaining a cheery tone, a sleek narrative, or both." |
| 11. |
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04/07/13 |
Moderate |
 "...purposefully off-putting and nasty... it's just palpable enough to feel subversive in this age in which a celebrity's every passing whim is magnified for our delectation." |
| 12. |
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08/10/11 |
Moderate |
 "Once it gets its nominal plot and character development out of the way, 'Bad Posture' turns out to be pleasantly surprising... uneven and minor, but it's not without promise or appeal." |
| 13. |
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07/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a sly, interesting achievement: It opens as an entertaining sports story and closes as a metaphor for government corruption." |
| 14. |
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05/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...movies this smug and determined in their ability to shock aren't shocking, just dull... squanders its considerable potential almost immediately..." |
| 15. |
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03/01/11 |
Poor |
 "The film should be offensively crass and insensitive, but it's ultimately too pathetic and crushingly boring to get too worked up over.... avoid this nasty, ultimately pointless assembly of clichés altogether." |
| 16. |
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02/09/12 |
Moderate |
 "...feels unavoidably dull, as there isn't much thematic ambiguity to be found in the assertion that humans deserve life that's defined by more than indentured servitude." |
| 17. |
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08/18/11 |
Weak |
 "...bungles a promising subject with an overreliance on suspiciously on-the-nose, thesis-spouting talking heads... barely allows us to see the obvious draw of the subject matter..." |
| 18. |
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10/04/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...passionately, more-than-competently made, but it's a civics lesson that doesn't quite shake you to your core." |
| 19. |
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11/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a snapshot of a kind of hell... a ghastly and not entirely resolvable film... a sober-minded cry of anguish as well as a work of considerable, resolute empathy." |
| 20. |
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07/30/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...ambitious, and its willingness to show the ugly narcissistic side of grief is noteworthy.... Every scene expresses a different volatile emotional tempo..." |
