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05/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "...delivers the basic goods, if not much more, as formulaic, functional guys'-night-in entertainment, providing employment to many shirtless, no-necked actors.... plot points fall into place with efficiency if little surprise." |
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05/07/12 |
Moderate |
 "A comedy about acting your age, or not... The leads are likable enough, particularly the droll Todd Grinnell, but the material simply isn't strong enough to let them create full-blooded characters." |
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05/07/12 |
Good |
 "Maintaining an admirably straight face, this fist-flying flashback is good fun for fanboy types who take its myriad absurdities with the requisite grain of salt." |
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04/08/12 |
Moderate |
 "As a tool for consciousness-raising, 'People' is undeniably well-intentioned; analyzing it as art or entertainment is irrelevant." |
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03/22/12 |
Fair |
 "A rather queasy cross of conventional biodoc and first-person therapy cinema... alternates between straightforward talking-head/archival footage and navel-gazing subjectivity in a way that feels fundamentally awkward." |
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03/22/12 |
Poor |
 "...drearily formulaic... will look better, albeit still not good, as a latenight cable or streaming time-killer. Thesps do what they can..." |
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03/22/12 |
Moderate |
 "Aiming for the delightfully offbeat, pic instead feels rudderless and incomplete, kept watchable by performers nonetheless undermined by their material." |
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02/24/12 |
Fair |
 "...competently assembled but brings no special sensibility or panache to a script short on both; supporting turns and design contributions are likewise no more inspired than the material." |
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02/20/12 |
Excellent |
 "Tying together problems of overpopulation, pollution, consumption, global warming, industrial development and more... does a remarkable job weaving together these and many other big ideas in a crisp, coherent, easy-to-take fashion..." |
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02/16/12 |
Good |
 "Engaging docu charts an experiment conducted under the Grammys' auspices that matched leading producer-DJs in the electronica and hip-hop realms with talent in other musical genres to create collaborative tracks." |
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12/13/11 |
Very Good |
 "...finds an engrossing suspense angle in the involvement of Victor DeNoble, an idealistic scientist-turned-whistleblower whose suppressed corporate research became the bombshell catalyst..." |
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11/28/11 |
Good |
 "...somber drama is well crafted and watchable.... characters in crisis maintain interest over a fairly long but well-paced narrative haul." |
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11/13/11 |
Good |
 "...a gleefully tasteless quasi-grindhouse nasty that's funnier than most of the many such parodic cheesefests that have been created since, well, 'Grindhouse.' " |
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10/25/11 |
Weak |
 "...a stillborn thriller about a deadly game of chance.... applies a generic coat of Holly-wooden machismo that the testosterone-heavy thesps, most of them acting on glowering autopilot, only reinforce." |
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10/20/11 |
Very Good |
 "Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's sprightly documentary weighs its subjects' unique accomplishments and widespread influence while probing a relationship more complex than its sunny public face indicated." |
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10/04/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...chronicles 'carnival clubs,' or 'krewes,' which for many years represented the only public face of homosexuality in New Orleans and, to an extent, the South in general.... makes for a pleasant sit but doesn't really have the substance to deliver the aimed-for tenor of inspirational struggle." |
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10/03/11 |
Weak |
 "Narrow[s] its focus to the simplest inspirational gist, with zero insight into the man behind it... winds up seeming like an infomercial for a personal-growth program; one half expects a 1-800 number to be listed at the end." |
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09/25/11 |
Very Good |
 "Part straight appreciation, part plea for greater renumeration... inspiring portraits of hardworking subjects make a fine case for raising the bar by rewarding excellence rather than punishing failure.... engaging pic is nicely assembled in all departments." |
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09/20/11 |
Good |
 "A satisfying wartime espionage drama focused on little-noted intersections between Arabic emigres and the French Resistance.... effective if not quite pulse-pounding..." |
| 20. |
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09/20/11 |
Very Good |
 "Never showy in storytelling or technique... builds a credible child's-eye view of everyday events, making the remarkable ones seem equally uncontrived." |
