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04/04/13 |
Good |
 "Desperate for peace, quiet, and inspiration, celebrated painter Lars Olafssen accepts an artist-in-residence post at a small, snowbound Canadian art school." |
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10/25/12 |
Poor |
 "Now a master of the smugly inept line reading, Ed Burns is the key to appreciating the film as an unintentional but thoroughgoing parody of itself." |
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10/24/12 |
Poor |
"...a strong candidate for dumbest film of the year... there's not a moment that doesn't function splendidly as comedy.... Tyler Perry must have felt right at home." |
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10/03/12 |
Good |
 "Outside of a final shot that's more poetically convenient than emotionally convincing, the film follows a progression that feels intimate even as it mimics things iconic." |
| 5. |
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06/28/12 |
Very Good |
 "The closest the film gets to a thesis is this shoulder-shrug torpedo: 'People do things like that without knowing why.' " |
| 6. |
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06/27/12 |
Very Good |
"...powered on pure momentum, gallows humor, and slyly ambiguous misanthropy... filleting and exalting its characters, cheating and rewarding its breathless audience." |
| 7. |
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06/20/12 |
Good |
 "Thanks to its understated elegance and surpassing central performance, this modest, too-eagerly schematic period drama is more engrossing than it has a right to be." |
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06/07/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...there's a torrent of jet packs, screaming lights, infinitely elasticized creatures, pyrotechnical bombast, and Katy Perry's 'Firework.' Big rush, empty calories." |
| 9. |
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06/07/12 |
Poor |
 "...anyone willing to pay a fortune in music-licensing fees and shamelessly ape everything from 'Goodfellas' to 'Boogie Nights' can turn his life's story into a Hollywood cliché." |
| 10. |
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06/07/12 |
Fair |
 "Tyler's titular rule that any woman can be gotten over in six months' time is duly challenged... the film capitulates to the rules of its chosen genre." |
| 11. |
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06/07/12 |
Fair |
 "What could be hotter than a bed-hopping bodice-ripper in which the movie hunk of the moment plows through three of the sexiest actresses of the 1990s? Most everything..." |
| 12. |
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06/06/12 |
Fair |
"...tepid... Not helping matters is the vacant Pattinson... it's the ladies who are worth tracking here, from Ricci's understated sensuality to Thomas's fragile angularity." |
| 13. |
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06/06/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
"Like a big-screen Big Gulp, this third installment of the billion-dollar animated franchise contains as much cinematic confection as an 85-minute movie can bear." |
| 14. |
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05/31/12 |
Moderate |
 "...evokes the workmanlike solemnity of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories.... the performers deftly undersell the script's corniest pretensions." |
| 15. |
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05/30/12 |
Fair |
"...serviceable... despite its low budget and even lower star-wattage it's quite analogous to big-studio product... it's a formula for irrelevancy pretty much as a rule." |
| 16. |
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05/30/12 |
Moderate |
"...the film stays afloat, if barely... Josh Lucas's quiet charisma -- and Newman-esque blues -- anchor the film in unutterable but unmistakable feeling." |
| 17. |
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05/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "Writer-director Kinji Fukasaku's genius is finding the overlap between teenage dreams and nightmares, between the intensity of first love and the terror of extinction." |
| 18. |
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05/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...ends with the beginning of a new life, whereas the movie leaves you hoping for a swift end to your own." |
| 19. |
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05/16/12 |
Poor |
"...insists that pleasure ends when parenting begins, yet also that the parenting life is the only one worth living. God forbid there could be something in between." |
| 20. |
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05/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "Barbara Romaner exhibits marvelous range, serving as the story's quietly percolating conscience as well as its wild, gregarious, rolling-under-the-piano life force." |
