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05/24/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a decade-spanning triptych of poetic meditations on youth, young adulthood, and middle age... I hope it's not the last we ever hear from these two..." |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has the earnest, wonky charm of a homemade valentine.... Baumbach's a director whose work could use an infusion of spontaneity and joy." |
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05/16/13 |
Good |
 "...the action scenes move along at a reasonable clip... Quinto and Pine's scenes together crackle with alternating currents of affection and resentment..." |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a formally fascinating work of art, a compassionate portrait of a complex, flawed, and ultimately unknowable woman... one of the best movies I've seen this year." |
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05/09/13 |
Good |
 "...a gargantuan hunk of over-art-directed kitsch, but it makes for a grandiose, colorful, pleasure-drenched night at the movies." |
| 6. |
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05/02/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a hard-to-watch, hard-to-look-away-from movie.... it's Michael Shannon who lifts it above the run of sociopath character portraits." |
| 7. |
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05/02/13 |
Good |
 "Is it a ticket worth buying? That depends on how you prefer your snappy dialogue/stuff exploding ratio... Stick around till the end of the credits..." |
| 8. |
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04/26/13 |
Fair |
 "Nair is so busy making sure we never lose sympathy for her handsome and charming protagonist that the film ultimately founders in a tangle of humanist platitudes." |
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04/25/13 |
Moderate |
 "...long, loud... a deeply cynical film -- and yet, at the same time, a weirdly playful one, with a manic, reckless energy and vulgar humor that it's hard not to respond to." |
| 10. |
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04/11/13 |
Poor |
 "...boring, unintentionally comical.... all the splendidly illuminated wheat-twirling in the world can't anchor this substanceless love story in a recognizable human reality..." |
| 11. |
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04/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...smoothly paced, handsome, easily digestible.... tiptoes so reverently around its subject it leaves no room for accidents at all." |
| 12. |
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04/05/13 |
Good |
 "...robustly carried out its mandate of turning my stomach... this polished, clever remake remains true to the spirit of the original..." |
| 13. |
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03/28/13 |
Good |
 "Cianfrance is capable of coaxing tremendous moments from actors... as this over-laden but never boring movie shows, he's willing to operate from a place of risk." |
| 14. |
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03/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "I found myself curiously willing to overlook the movie's weaknesses, or even to reinterpret them as strengths.... it's mildly snarky, but resolutely uncynical." |
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03/20/13 |
Weak |
 "...intentionally rough, imperfect... a formal strategy I might find interesting if I could make head or tail of what the movie that's using it is trying to say." |
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03/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the movie's broad satire bites deep, largely thanks to the work of Aniello Arena, the magnetic 44-year-old actor who plays the yearning, deluded Luciano." |
| 17. |
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03/15/13 |
Good |
 "...packs an impressive amount of personal and political history into a wispy 90 minutes of screen time.... creates a lingering mood of lyrical melancholy..." |
| 18. |
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03/14/13 |
Fair |
 "...under-ambitious... it would be impossible to call this a successful comedy. All the same, it did make me laugh -- sporadically, yes, but sometimes loudly..." |
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03/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the performances of both Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan -- who shared the Best Actress award at Cannes -- are impeccable..." |
| 20. |
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03/07/13 |
Weak |
 "A visually over-crammed, emotionally empty mega-spectacle... the character at its center never emerges into relief." |
