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05/20/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Actor and role have merged.... It's Linklater's crowning achievement as a director. Throughout the series, he has daringly extended the cinema's capacity for duration." |
| 2. |
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05/20/13 |
Excellent |
 "...the story depends on repetition, and your interest is kept alive by outrage.... the movie sees things most of us manage to hide." |
| 3. |
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05/06/13 |
Moderate |
 "...filled with an indiscriminate swirling motion, a thrashing impress of 'style'.... Luhrmann often has trouble getting the simple things right." |
| 4. |
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04/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a square piece of work. But square can be powerful, and this film is bracingly detailed and shrewd about the tumultuous racial issues..." |
| 5. |
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04/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...honorable and absorbing.... this film, with its prickly characters and its complicated plot, rips along with tension and power." |
| 6. |
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04/08/13 |
Weak |
 "Malick falls into a kind of gorgeous emptiness.... beauty isn't enough.... Only a major filmmaker could have made this film, but nothing in it adds up." |
| 7. |
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04/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "The heart of this gentle work is a very convincing and detailed portrait of the artist as an old man.... Michel Bouquet gives a very powerful performance..." |
| 8. |
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03/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...a bullet-ridden hunk of paranoia.... a combination of the violent and the cheesy... may nevertheless push a few buttons.... Fuqua doesn't deliver on what he has set up." |
| 9. |
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03/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...earnest, broodingly ambitious.... a lot of the character details are fuzzy, or approximate, or just missing... leaves you grasping for the experience you haven't had." |
| 10. |
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03/11/13 |
Good |
 "...surprisingly sturdy... combines digital fantasia with something like the Hollywood medievalism of 'Ivanhoe'... has staunch heroes and a sniffy blackguard..." |
| 11. |
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03/11/13 |
Fair |
 "Franco's reflexive self-deprecation comes off as a gutless kind of cool, and it sinks this odd, fretful, uncertain movie like a boulder." |
| 12. |
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02/25/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...exquisitely made, elusive... has a lulling rhythm and a melancholy charm.... Kiarostami plays tricks on an audience he has caressed into unwariness." |
| 13. |
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02/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...the satirical energy dissipates after awhile.... LaGravenese winds up satisfying neither the young audience nor anyone merely looking for a good film." |
| 14. |
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02/04/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the movie holds you, even if you don't quite believe it.... This movie is intelligent, but it doesn't express much joy in filmmaking." |
| 15. |
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01/21/13 |
Moderate |
 "...an impressive cinematic realization of the tsunami... rather banal... Nothing much in the saga of the family matches the frightening splendor of the disaster." |
| 16. |
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01/21/13 |
Good |
 "...brings both relief and dismay.... The British class system has its protections at every level, but also - at least to American eyes - a built-in inertia." |
| 17. |
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01/07/13 |
Very Good |
 "...heartfelt and clear-minded... this is one of Damon's best regular-guy performances... The movie is smart about something that's usually treated sentimentally." |
| 18. |
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01/07/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has a slightly threadbare but eager pleasantness... it's always on the verge of imparting some great truth, but it never arrives..." |
| 19. |
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12/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...very funny.... We're back in Apatow country... Here is all the plenitude and warmth and the triviality and sadness of Los Angeles life." |
| 20. |
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12/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...masterly... An example of radical realism, this movie has its mysteries as well as its devastating certainties." |
