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04/29/11 |
Outstanding |
"...beautiful... Yun Jung-hee is wonderful in a deceptively powerful performance. She commands our attention like a well-timed whisper." |
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01/14/11 |
Outstanding |
"There's a beauty, a rhythm, and a subtle sense of discovery... a magical experience.... Gosling and Williams are over-the-edge excellent." |
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12/24/10 |
Outstanding |
"Rich characters fully drawn. Sterling performances. Superb writing, production design, no wasted scenes. Director Tom Hooper has made a breathtaking masterpiece." |
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10/15/10 |
Outstanding |
"...looks as if Taylor-Wood took a book of vintage Lennon photographs out for the night, got it drunk, sprinkled magic dust on its pages, and danced happily in the streets..." |
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10/01/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a good old-fashioned story of ambition, friendship and betrayal, wrapped around the modern creation of a website with 500 million members." |
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09/01/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a suspenseful ride that keeps getting better and better.... marvelously well directed by Anton Corbijn..." |
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08/06/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a smart, sharply made documentary. For the topic that we may try to block out of our minds it is suitably sobering, and completely horrifying." |
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07/16/10 |
Outstanding |
"Nolan knows how to tell stories that insert us right into the heat of the scenes. We're there sharing the experience... scared, excited, wide-eyed. It all seems so real." |
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07/16/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a compelling slice of America's dark side that for once is not awash in urban cliches. The paranoid people slowly get under our skin." |
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06/18/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a funny, touching and, dare I say, moving movie.... takes the themes of change and letting go and wraps them lovingly in a comedy-adventure." |
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06/11/10 |
Outstanding |
"Carnahan's plot mysteries are mere stepping stones to the antics and breezy interaction of the charismatic characters. And the bad guys are funny, too." |
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04/16/10 |
Outstanding |
"Hungarian Rezso Kasztner saved nearly 1,700 fellow Jews... But to pull it off, he had to negotiate with one of the most notorious Nazis of all: Adolf Eichmann." |
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02/26/10 |
Outstanding |
"...masterful... The look alone of 'The White Ribbon' will blow you away.... Haneke has said he wanted to explore the 'psychological preconditions' of fascism." |
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12/18/09 |
Outstanding |
"Richard Linklater has a great, collaborative touch with actors, and an excellent eye for what makes movies compelling.... fabulously fun..." |
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12/18/09 |
Outstanding |
"...it's how films are supposed to be made: sharp writing, crisp, clever direction, a perfectly cast ensemble. And, oh yeah, George Clooney..." |
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12/18/09 |
Outstanding |
"Anyone with an interest in films and filmmaking will appreciate what writer-director James Cameron has achieved." |
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12/18/09 |
Outstanding |
"The spare, beautiful writing comes to life in the desperate doings of father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee)." |
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11/25/09 |
Outstanding |
"Wes Anderson's best film, and the clever writer-director has already amused us with 'Bottle Rocket,' 'Rushmore,' 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and other quirky treats." |
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11/20/09 |
Outstanding |
"...a powerful, deeply moving film that drives an arrow straight through your heart.... 'Precious' comes down to two words: See it." |
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10/16/09 |
Outstanding |
"The Russian soldiers forced themselves on the women several times a day, and it didn't matter if they were old, young, married or terrified.... powerful..." |