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05/16/12 |
Excellent |
 "As much as expectations for women are limiting and exasperating, they pay off as much as they exact costs.... And the men go on about their business, carelessly and selfishly." |
| 2. |
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05/16/12 |
Poor |
 "...has lots of predictable business to launch... the movie's comedy is rambunctious or its politics obvious. But none of it is especially smart..." |
| 3. |
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05/14/12 |
Excellent |
 "...sometimes like a melodrama and other times like a crime story.... looking at wealthy people dressed up and posing for photos with the painting and each other, the resolution is less odd than foreseeable." |
| 4. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "You might be thinking about Tim Burton, how his fixations can lead to projects both wonderful and dull." |
| 5. |
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05/09/12 |
Excellent |
 "Grant Gee's odd, beautiful film becomes not just the story of the book... but also the story of reading, how individuals bring themselves to books... or films, or pubs, or cemeteries." |
| 6. |
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05/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...makes visible the debt system's many intersecting elements, those who are victimized and exploited, and those who benefit and claim superiority." |
| 7. |
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05/03/12 |
Moderate |
 "The Harry Dean Stanton scene shows why you've been thinking that Whedon is the best and only person to make 'The Avengers.' The rest of the movie is less convincing." |
| 8. |
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04/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...draws attention not only to the shrinking water supply, and human populations' careless waste, but also those populations' extraordinary efforts to accelerate the process." |
| 9. |
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04/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...something of a meta text, amusing on its own, but also referential and appreciative too." |
| 10. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "The point is pain, precisely performed, exactly edited. As Luke brings it, incessantly and intently, it doesn't matter why. It only matters how. And how often." |
| 11. |
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04/27/12 |
Weak |
 "...falls back on familiar tricks, not least being prurient spectacle and a series of unsurprising surprises..." |
| 12. |
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04/23/12 |
Poor |
 "...the movie can't seem to help itself, unable to let the story unfold on its own. Instead, it imposes all manner of dramatic structure and language and big music." |
| 13. |
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04/23/12 |
Poor |
 "In a man's world, apparently, the jokes are uniformly crass and silly, and have to do with sex or dick size. They're also unimaginative and unfunny." |
| 14. |
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04/20/12 |
Poor |
 "...the formula overwhelms all. And your life is unchanged." |
| 15. |
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04/16/12 |
Excellent |
 "...at once ostentatious and ridiculous. That the ambition might outstrip the art is one possibility. That the ambition might shape the art is another." |
| 16. |
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04/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "Slammed together with fast cuts that leave out explanations and action that might be helpful in another movie, it's propulsive and even respectful." |
| 17. |
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04/13/12 |
Poor |
 "...disappointing.... Throughout, the comedy is abjectly physical... If Moe's abuse of Larry and Curly is mean (though explained), most other individuals are rightly punished." |
| 18. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the film makes a point that's not new, but pleasurable. The kids 'choose' their fate, but they don't. The options are too limited and the outcomes too foregone." |
| 19. |
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04/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...concerns bodies and reports, the order that one might impose on the other.... it keeps focused on Mario's efforts to cope: loading bodies off vans and onto carts..." |
| 20. |
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04/09/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...makes a case for a 'moral' progress, one that will curtail the machines. It's one of those 'pretty to think so' arguments, but it's also pretty convincing." |
