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05/16/13 |
Very Good |
 "Gerwig uses her beguilingly klutzy physicality to signal the awkwardness of a perennial square peg. Yet Frances is far from pathetic.... she's actually fairly likable..." |
| 2. |
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05/16/13 |
Very Good |
 "...engaging.... speaks for itself as an uplifting portrait of an exuberant subculture that doesn't just practice its faith -- it revels in it." |
| 3. |
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05/09/13 |
Good |
 "...lively if slightly worshipful... I wanted to know what these two remarkable young women will obsess about once the whole world has stopped watching..." |
| 4. |
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05/02/13 |
Moderate |
 "...bland... embraces little more than a fetish for orange suns tastefully rising and setting over the Amalfi Coast.... Stolidly directed..." |
| 5. |
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04/25/13 |
Moderate |
 "Nair adroitly manages the tension between talk and action.... [but] the movie collapses in a heap of wool-gathering humanism that fatally hedges its political bets." |
| 6. |
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04/23/13 |
Excellent |
 "All muscled up and blue of eye, Efron does a dandy sexy-sulky imitation of that other Dean.... this is about the slow, insidious corruption of a regular guy..." |
| 7. |
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04/18/13 |
Excellent |
 "...often mordantly funny.... A blizzard of multiple perspectives and tonal shifts is set off by Philippe Rombi's lovely score, by turns exuberant, ferocious and wistful." |
| 8. |
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04/11/13 |
Good |
 "...graphically observant about the ease with which young men starved of opportunities can turn their energies inward to destroying themselves and one another." |
| 9. |
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04/04/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...modestly scaled.... there's nothing new here, yet we are held by the way ordinary suffering has hardened into an emotional prison for three old friends." |
| 10. |
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04/04/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Like many neglected offspring, Gregory comes across as an eternal child himself, hooked on his capacity to enchant but rarely able to listen to anyone..." |
| 11. |
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03/28/13 |
Good |
 "...grotesquely beautiful... extravagantly overwrought melodrama... piles on the pathology that's the birthright of any fairy tale worth its salt." |
| 12. |
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03/21/13 |
Moderate |
 "...settles for skin deep.... I wish that Karen Croner hadn't felt obliged to build yet another Eve Arden mutant for whom the childless life feels like a glass half empty." |
| 13. |
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03/07/13 |
Very Good |
 "...has more on its mind than most crime thrillers.... If you come away as satisfied as I did, it won't be because the director is out to reassure you." |
| 14. |
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02/28/13 |
Good |
 "...infectiously high-spirited... Roberta Grossman finds lively, often passionate and funny interpreters to guide us through the song's many transformations." |
| 15. |
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02/21/13 |
Fair |
 "...feverish... this is Nadda's first foray into thriller territory... her inexperience shows in awkwardly mounted fight scenes and clumsy car chases..." |
| 16. |
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02/14/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Never mind the secondhand plot, or the familiar, kinetically shot lunar cityscape... it's nice to see the American migration narrative get out of the house for some fresh air." |
| 17. |
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02/07/13 |
Very Good |
 "Shortland's camera creates a world that's shockingly fractured.... We see what Lore sees, and begin to comprehend as she does when no further denial is possible." |
| 18. |
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01/24/13 |
Excellent |
 "Funny, exuberant and shamelessly seductive... an unabashedly populist entertainment with a spirit conciliatory enough to melt the heart of any naysayer." |
| 19. |
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01/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "Despite its knowing veneer, there's an old-school TV movie (capably directed by Brian Dannelly) lurking just beneath... Rebel Wilson waltzes away with the movie." |
| 20. |
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01/10/13 |
Fair |
 "...often feels like a parody of French farce... rushes from one shticky situation, one tired sight gag, one ethnic and sexual caricature to the next..." |
