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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Simon and the Oaks (Simon och ekarna) New York Times	10/12/12	Excellent	"...has an exquisite ache... What's extraordinary is the absolute love these adults show for the children, even amid their searches for, and confrontations with, identity."
2.	Boy (2012) New York Times	03/02/12	Excellent	"...has a surprising rhythmic genius: joy juxtaposed with humiliation, silliness with sadness, fantasy with reality, and none of it formulaic."
3.	Benda Bilili! New York Times	09/30/11	Excellent	"...brutally real... shows not only the magic of transcendence -- which may be fleeting -- but also the transformation of aspiring to it, every struggling step of the way."
4.	Step Up to the Plate (Entre les Bras) New York Times	09/14/12	Very Good	"...calmly intelligent... 'Step Up to the Plate' asserts how family, in multifarious ways, can be the most deeply affecting of ensembles."
5.	Where Are You Taking Me? New York Times	03/01/12	Very Good	"Not quite a travelogue, not quite an art show... a cinematic trip to Uganda that explores both the viewed and the viewer.... Some scenes appear as artfully composed as a painting..."
6.	In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery New York Times	11/18/11	Very Good	"...there's history here... captures the aura of the Weissensee in its many layers. The sense of place may be expected, but it's also poetic and exquisite."
7.	Love, Marilyn New York Times	11/30/12	Good	"...you'll have sympathy for the hard-working woman whose self-improvement lists included exhortations of things she 'must' do and 'never' should do."
8.	The Iran Job New York Times	10/12/12	Good	"...observant documentary avoids pedagogy; it's not always artful, but it has a relaxed, light touch that never topples into pretension."
9.	Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance New York Times	04/27/12	Good	"...an important piece of not only the company's history but also of dance history, explained by interviews with former company members and others there at the time."
10.	Sound of Noise New York Times	03/09/12	Good	"...a character study mixed with outlandish crime procedural. Everyone's quite serious about the joke... a dry treat -- a solid, self-aware cult pleasure."
11.	All's Well, Ends Well 2012 (Baat seng bou hei) New York Times	01/27/12	Good	"...puts the happy in 'the happy idea'... No one is winning points for creativity here, but nice reflections on class and culture are in the mix, and the strong, playful acting knows this genre, even when flirting with broadness."
12.	Kinyarwanda New York Times	12/02/11	Good	"...dry but thoughtful... the imprimatur of place ensures an authenticity that the uneven acting doesn't always support.... Less compelling is the central plot..."
13.	Incendiary: The Willingham Case New York Times	10/07/11	Good	"...involving... isn't focused on sorting out the ethical rights and wrongs... It centers instead on whether we understand or respect evolving standards of scientific evidence."
14.	There Was Once... New York Times	09/23/11	Good	"...a bit of visual scholarship that delves into Kalocsa, Hungary, and the loss of its once-thriving Jewish population.... it has integrity, recording one specific town's slice of living history. Simple as that, it's a worthy document."
15.	Electoral Dysfunction New York Times	09/21/12	Good (Not Great)	"...lighthearted, colorful, nonpartisan... in its determined politeness, the film sometimes has the flavor of 'Schoolhouse Rock!' "
16.	Mahler on the Couch (Mahler auf der Couch) New York Times	05/18/12	Good (Not Great)	"For all its drama (and creative filmmaking), the crisis that Mahler describes plays out airy and rote... a core spontaneity seems missing... veers toward melodrama."
17.	Never Stand Still New York Times	05/18/12	Good (Not Great)	"...too often pedantic (pull out your notebooks)... The dances themselves are entertaining... has the everyday vibe of a bunch of friends putting together a summer camp video."
18.	To the Arctic 3D New York Times	04/20/12	Good (Not Great)	"...a little dry. The 3-D adds little of impact, and the environment as rendered here isn't as visually rich as it is in 'Everest' or 'The Living Sea.' "
19.	Don 2 New York Times	12/23/11	Good (Not Great)	"If 'Mission: Impossible' and 'Ocean's Eleven' had a bombastic, funny and slick cousin, it might be 'Don 2'.... The director, Farhan Akhtar, seems out to create a spectacular, international entertainment.... he is mostly successful..."
20.	You All Are Captains (Todos vos sodes capitans) New York Times	10/18/11	Good (Not Great)	"...audacious.... I can't say I enjoyed it, but I acknowledge that 'You All Are Captains' has something to express that can't be said except the way it's said, and that way there be art."

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