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| 21. |
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03/18/13 |
Weak |
 "...among the perviest movies ever made... there's something overpoweringly creepy about the ways in which Korine goes about debasing his three leads..." |
| 22. |
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03/18/13 |
Weak |
 "It's depressing to watch performers who've carved out their own distinctive niches try to broaden their appeal by doing the same damn thing as everyone else." |
| 23. |
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03/08/13 |
Weak |
 "...peculiarly joyless... Franco is unconvincing.... He doesn't have the comebacks. He's playing a noncommittal character in a noncommittal way..." |
| 24. |
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02/25/13 |
Good |
 "...amiable... it's fast, rousing, and blessedly brief.... There's a touch of camp in the manly camaraderie but a lot of serious killing to balance it out." |
| 25. |
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02/25/13 |
Poor |
 "The problem with Park Chan-Wook is that there's no real drama in his worldview. The drive toward cruelty is absolute -- and in this case, absolutely boring." |
| 26. |
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02/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...has rather simple, sentimental, melodramatic underpinnings, but the vantage changes everything. It opens up this world -- and the next. It's an enthralling journey." |
| 27. |
|
02/15/13 |
Poor |
 "...has no good lines, no crackerjack fights, and only one mildly orgasmic revenge killing. It will satisfy no one... 'Die Hard' is finally in its death throes." |
| 28. |
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02/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...deliciously overripe... isn't pure camp -- there's some real emotion in there. But not enough to hit you on a primal level.... too cool for Sunday school?" |
| 29. |
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02/04/13 |
Excellent |
 "Soderbergh's on top of his material in a way he has rarely been in the last decade -- or, rather, in a way he has labored not to be.... a smooth, shapely suspense picture." |
| 30. |
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02/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "In a scant hour and a quarter it enlarges your notion of what theater and cinema, what art itself, can do -- it dissolves every boundary it meets." |
| 31. |
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02/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "...on its own degenerate terms, the movie works.... a shoot-'em-up with a lean palette and relatively streamlined carnage, wet but not sloppy.... almost 'classical.' " |
| 32. |
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01/28/13 |
Good |
 "...a canny balancing act... makes Koch's arrogance so plain that you quickly move past it and concede that he accomplished remarkable things..." |
| 33. |
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01/28/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...shockingly lucid.... The storytelling is strong, the images stark.... Ami Ayalon emerges as the most thoughtful, though the others make sense too." |
| 34. |
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01/25/13 |
Poor |
 "It's rare to see a piece of shit that actually looks and sounds like a piece of shit. It's kind of exciting! The stars are unprotected, vulnerable in a way you don't see..." |
| 35. |
|
01/18/13 |
Very Good |
 "The plotting isn't fresh, and the politics are a wee bit reactionary, but the movie is also shapely, rounded, satisfying -- a classical ghost story." |
| 36. |
|
01/11/13 |
Poor |
 "I'm sick of goddamned vigilantes... There are plenty of dumb movies that leave you more alive; this one puts a hit on your soul." |
| 37. |
|
12/21/12 |
Good |
 "...a mood piece... Chase jumps from year to year with no preamble, the syncopation leaving too many gaps. But I didn't care much.... He delivers on the movie's title." |
| 38. |
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12/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "For all its pleasures, the film feels too easy, too dead-center in Tarantino's comfort zone. He's not challenging himself in any way that matters." |
| 39. |
|
12/21/12 |
Poor |
 "...it's painful to see Lee Childs's six-foot-five-inch ex-military vigilante Jack Reacher embodied by the diminutive Tom Cruise... the whole movie is like an NRA wet dream..." |
| 40. |
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12/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Haneke -- as is his anti-psychological wont -- depersonalizes Trintignant and Riva, but he doesn't sneer at them.... Something sacred passes between the actors..." |
