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11/06/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Fighting, if not rage, is a culture, for boys and soldiers and entertaining warriors.... The film helps tell this story of the entertainment, helps you to understand your part in it." |
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11/08/11 |
Excellent |
 "With all the distractions and annoyances of the news cycles, it's almost refreshing to see a politician concerned with a meaningful crisis... this crisis is actually frightening..." |
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02/06/12 |
Excellent |
 "Through some frankly lovely observational footage and remarkably revealing interviews, the movie doesn't so much press its case as it lets it unfold." |
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02/07/12 |
Excellent |
 "...the essential notion of architecture in Cuba took on another shape, following the model of the nation's primary benefactor, the Soviet Union..." |
| 5. |
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02/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a remarkable mix of fantasy and history, pointing out how they're always a mix, how documentary can only be fantasy, in the mind's eyes of makers and viewers." |
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02/10/12 |
Weak |
 "...predictable... punctuated by explosions and crashes, and colored by a sort of smudgy, yellowish digital stock, pace Tony Scott." |
| 7. |
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02/10/12 |
Poor |
 "The crises survived lead to family bonds, however makeshift. They're apparently real enough, at least until the next installment." |
| 8. |
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02/10/12 |
Excellent |
 "What are the best, most effective, most flexible ways to help veterans return? Trained for one life, they must come back to another, wholly other one." |
| 9. |
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02/14/12 |
Excellent |
 "While the film includes recent interviews with relatives and the Lovings' lawyers, more often, it's evocative, helping you to imagine how the Lovings lived..." |
| 10. |
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02/15/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a movie about watching movies, a series of questions about how you're drawn into suspense, hope for worst as much as best, feel for multiple characters at once." |
| 11. |
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02/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...directed by McG with his signature indelicacy..." |
| 12. |
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02/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...features Studio Ghibli's impressively detailed, hand-drawn animation, a style that allows for lively action and subtle facial and figure reactions as well." |
| 13. |
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02/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...shows how this enterprise can be demanding and inspiring, a source of discipline and identity, as well as a game... a game premised on violence and passion..." |
| 14. |
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02/24/12 |
Poor |
 "...the movie doesn't veer from its track, the one grinding you into submission regarding that lesson to be learned." |
| 15. |
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02/24/12 |
Poor |
 "As a story, it's ludicrous... But as a self-admitted recruiting film, an effort to introduce young viewers to a mythology, it's a little disturbing." |
| 16. |
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02/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an unusually intimate look at belief and doubt, as Masha Drokova comes to rethink her commitment and even her sense of self... partly cautionary, partly frustrating." |
| 17. |
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02/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...film is not only a collaborative art, but also a process... the film poses the question of what matters, how space and time merge, why you watch films." |
| 18. |
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03/02/12 |
Poor |
 "Wes Studi is excellent, and you need to savor his moments on screen because they will be few." |
| 19. |
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03/02/12 |
Poor |
 "...less about sex than it is about boys fussing about sex." |
| 20. |
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03/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "How are filmmakers responsible as they transport and share such stories? And how are viewers responsible to what they see? Beautifully, achingly, this film asks these questions and more." |
