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05/16/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Isn't the whole point of going to a Sacha Baron Cohen movie to get away from humanist sentiment, to go to a place where darker regions can be accessed?" |
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05/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...just another overcooked late-Tim Burton style-fest, with enough good gags and strong performances to keep the audience from dwelling on the flaws." |
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05/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...an unabashedly inspirational portrait of what even very young people can accomplish with discipline and dedication.... irresistible..." |
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05/03/12 |
Good |
 "...does manage to feel a cut above the average superhero movie... reasonably entertaining and tonally coherent..." |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a perversely heartwarming folktale... a story of thwarted love, not between two people, but between a man and a whole town." |
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04/26/12 |
Moderate |
 "...like the square older cousin of the 2008 Nicholas Stoller/Jason Segel collaboration 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'.... has all the formlessness with half the fun." |
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04/19/12 |
Good |
 "...an exemplary music documentary in almost every way -- but the area in which it falls short is an important one... Marley's music tends to be heard in frustratingly brief bursts..." |
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04/13/12 |
Excellent |
 "Its surface may be still and quiet, with cool colors, wintry landscapes, and a delicate piano score, but the emotions beneath run tumultuous and deep." |
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04/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...rarely comes across as more than a cleverly constructed meta-cinematic puzzle. It's often funny and smart, but seldom deeply involving, and practically never scary." |
| 10. |
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04/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "...stubbornly peculiar.... always surprising.... the Stillman style has come unmoored from its reason for existence.... flits prettily by without ever finding anything to be about." |
| 11. |
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03/22/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it will more than satisfy existing fans of the trilogy and likely create many new ones.... Lawrence carries the whole film on her sturdy shoulders." |
| 12. |
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03/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "...deeply committed to its own weird conceit, diminishing returns and all.... an interesting but failed experiment..." |
| 13. |
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03/15/12 |
Very Good |
 "...if the first two-thirds is anything to go by, there may be a renaissance at hand for the dumb buddy-cop comedy. I'm just not sure, as the wags in 10th grade used to put it, if that's a threat or a promise." |
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03/09/12 |
Moderate |
 "...pleasant but overfamiliar... isn't an awful movie by any means: It's a polished, palatable yuppie rom-com in the Woody Allen-lite tradition..." |
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03/08/12 |
Good |
 "...a strange, at times misshapen, but somehow lovable thing... a niche movie for lovers of literary science fiction... overlong but sweet-spirited..." |
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03/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a miracle -- not only because it's such a terrific movie but because it exists for us to see at all.... the very existence of this movie is a gift. No wonder it came to us in a cake." |
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02/24/12 |
Good |
 "...provides at least one solid laugh per scene, with a few stretches of more extended hilarity (along with more than one riff that dies writhing before our eyes)." |
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02/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a powerful and fascinating movie about a subject I can almost guarantee you've never spent much time thinking about... I hope we'll be getting another chance to watch actor Matthias Schoenaerts' work in the near future..." |
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02/16/12 |
Excellent |
 "...modestly scaled but inspiring... a simple character portrait of Bill Courtney, the volunteer coach who squires the Tigers to something resembling victory over the course of that tumultuous season.... Loyalty and courage like that deserve a lot more than just an Oscar." |
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02/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "...someone has written a really good role for Linda Cardellini -- a big, prickly, demanding role that puts her onscreen in literally every scene -- and it's a thrill to watch her operating at full throttle." |
