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01/11/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...not only serves as a gripping, top-notch piece of filmmaking, it raises questions about America's role in the world that the country has yet to reconcile." |
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05/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...unifies wildly diverse plot threads, acting styles, and action scenes better than anyone could have expected.... thrilling..." |
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03/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...thrilling adaptation... reconceives the tragedy of a Roman general for the era of the 24-hour news cycle." |
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12/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "One of 2011's best..." |
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03/31/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...powerful... sets a deliberate pace and contemplative tone... seems to stand outside fleeting cinematic trends to offer a tale that feels like one for the ages." |
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06/18/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...features all the laughs -- and more importantly, all the emotional complexity -- we expect from Pixar." |
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05/13/11 |
Excellent |
 "Ferrell delivers his subtlest, deepest performance yet.... an excellent example of a film that contains a comic actor's live-wire instincts to ingenious effect." |
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02/20/13 |
Excellent |
 "...compelling.... presents a highly powerful argument, with enough moral indignation and narrative drive to propel the story for nearly two and a half hours." |
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01/16/13 |
Excellent |
 "Cotillard and Schoenarts play proud, combative, and irresponsible lovers who seem as likely to hit each other as kiss each other... compelling, unpredictable..." |
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12/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "Though the film's final twists can strain credulity, overall it succeeds enormously well as an exploration of different moods..." |
| 11. |
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12/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "Drawing on everything from old Hollywood westerns to blaxploitation B movies to hip-hop music, this movie offers a veritable blood orgy that's brazenly cathartic." |
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11/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...fascinating... Mesmerizingly strange, the film uses cinema as a distorted mirror to offer an enigmatic yet wise perspective on life and human nature." |
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11/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "...original and visually enthralling.... provides a moving commentary on our need for stories to make sense out of the world." |
| 14. |
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11/07/12 |
Excellent |
 "Mendes raises the emotional stakes sky-high.... a perfectly satisfying slam-bang espionage thriller that emphatically renews James Bond's license to kill." |
| 15. |
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10/12/12 |
Excellent |
 "The film's more sensitive scenes ultimately serve as gravy, since it so entertainingly caters to the audience's more basic impulses." |
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09/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...thoughtful, thrilling... 'Looper's' concept of quantum physics may be debatable, but its insights into human nature are dead-on." |
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09/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "...unfolds in a wholly original, unpredictable way, but makes frustrating viewing if you expect obvious conflicts and neat resolutions." |
| 18. |
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08/29/12 |
Excellent |
 "...gripping... You half except to hear Frédéric Bourdin ask the famous question, 'What are you going to believe -- me, or your own two eyes?' " |
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07/25/12 |
Excellent |
 "The film's most deeply emotional elements involve the family tensions.... a cautionary tale about living large." |
| 20. |
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07/06/12 |
Excellent |
 "...reopens wounds left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.... walks a fine line between fetishizing poverty and celebrating a life free of modern constraints." |
