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04/27/13 |
Moderate |
 "...an admittedly bold cine-embodiment of hipsterism.... Trouble is that the film is itself nothing but a series of mostly dubious poses." |
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04/27/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Carlos Reygadas plays coy with his audience... an almost impossibly intellectual film... at its most awe-inspiring and humane when it's also at its most abstract." |
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04/02/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Throughout this movie, the new and old are incessantly twinned, blurred into a package that suggests an experimental dance piece." |
| 4. |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a tone poem about male identity and father-son relationships... crumbles fast and hard beneath the weight of its ridiculously relentless sense of self-importance." |
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03/02/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "27 directors assigned a different letter of the alphabet.... Most of the filmmakers are content riffing on familiar horror themes and cultural hang-ups..." |
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01/25/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...indulgently but justifiably coasts on the groggily antiseptic vibe of Soderbergh's aesthetic doodling.... the film gooses us with horror-thriller genre scares..." |
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01/16/13 |
Poor |
 "...isn't even worthy of executive producer Guillermo del Toro... the only craft behind the scares are their decibel levels." |
| 8. |
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01/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "...earnest but dull... suffers from the total lack of critical distance the filmmakers place between themselves and their subject matter." |
| 9. |
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01/02/13 |
Poor |
 "...inane... what's ultimately chilling about this is the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the 'Melrose Place'-grade human drama that plays out..." |
| 10. |
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12/08/12 |
Very Good |
 "Middle Earth is no longer a place that seems out of reach, but one that exists right outside our doors, practically a virtual reality. And yet, I'm still glad to be here." |
| 11. |
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12/05/12 |
Weak |
 "...tritely pays lip service to the knotty ideas of land rights, heritage, and tradition... a seemingly endless barrage of piled-upon, for-our-benefit-only hectoring." |
| 12. |
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11/22/12 |
Poor |
 "...there will never be an appropriate time for a film that so dubiously depicts the toll of one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.... a series of genre titillations." |
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11/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...beautiful-looking if scarcely revolutionary... mercifully free of the 'Shrek' franchise's rabid and smug deployment of in-jokes and pop-culture references..." |
| 14. |
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10/21/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Jaume Balagueró is a skillful craftsman of glossy Hollywood calling cards... an old-fashioned but spry game of cat and mouse..." |
| 15. |
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09/29/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "An anthology of found-footage horror shorts made by a bunch of dudes who, though they unmistakably love their genre of choice, are scarcely masters of it..." |
| 16. |
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09/19/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...sets up a funny, anarchic, and self-referential tone... to quote Jonathan Rosenbaum on Buñuel's 'The Milky Way,' 'dangerously close to being all notations and no text'..." |
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09/17/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's a confident vision, but its aversion to sentiment has the intended but unfortunate effect of making the characters' disconnects our own." |
| 18. |
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08/30/12 |
Weak |
 "...that this is the first entry directed by Paco Plaza without Jaume Balagueró perhaps proves who the brains of this operation was from the start." |
| 19. |
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08/19/12 |
Moderate |
 "...almost gets by on its yuks, as well as on D. Kerry Prior's capable direction and the delirious foregrounding of remarkable makeup and special-effects work..." |
| 20. |
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07/25/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Something of a greatest-hits combo... asks us to cheer a dance revolution that can't be bothered to channel the iconography and spirit of the immigrant struggle..." |
