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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." |
| 2. |
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04/18/12 |
Excellent |
 "By turns sweet and salty, quirky and dirty, idealized and bleak... there's nothing quite like it... it's a democratic and quietly devastating dissection of fidelity and its discontents." |
| 3. |
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04/11/12 |
Fair |
 "It's a fascinating fishbowl in concept, yet Marc Simon's storytelling is unevenly textured and oddly listless -- fatal for a film about a banal document-pushing felon clock-watching to a known outcome." |
| 4. |
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04/04/12 |
Good |
 "...self-contained, unstably buoyant, and ardently frivolous.... Whit Stillman's cinematic sensibility is both plain as day and hard to pin down." |
| 5. |
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03/21/12 |
Fair |
 "...plays things as safely and familiarly as possible, from its broadly drawn supporting cast (meet the punk, the crass marine, and the tart transvestite on wheels) to the false impediments delaying a weepy catharsis." |
| 6. |
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03/21/12 |
Good |
 "Even when circumstances and supporting turns slide into quirk and farce, Michael C. Hall never angles for an easy laugh. He's neither hopeless nor a hero, just another guy who should get his shit together." |
| 7. |
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03/14/12 |
Poor |
 "What happens when you put a rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a high-strung capitalist, and a lesbian humanitarian together in the same room? Not comedy, it turns out." |
| 8. |
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03/14/12 |
Poor |
 "The problem with paying such dogged homage to shitty movies is that integrity is best achieved by producing a shitty movie in turn. Mission accomplished, for whatever that's worth." |
| 9. |
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02/08/12 |
Very Good |
 "...marvelously exploits both Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander's gender dexterity.... for once, an American indie's muted modesty at least makes emotional sense, suiting a bittersweet romance that, by nature, has neither a name nor a future." |
| 10. |
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01/18/12 |
Fair |
 "Underneath all of the wild hyperbole and unproven hypotheses is an obvious unease with urbanism and the synthetic necessities of city life." |
| 11. |
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01/18/12 |
Poor |
 "...comes on like a bio but is really just a ghastly vanity affair for one Whitney Smith, the son of a socialite who, despite minimal credits to his name, feels entitled to make Halston's story his own." |
| 12. |
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01/04/12 |
Weak |
 "...an amateurish travelogue that feels like a botched assignment, halfheartedly self-regarding and resentfully remote from the object of our fascination." |
| 13. |
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11/30/11 |
Moderate |
 "...the transposition to present day is confusing and counterproductive... What saves the film is actor Fiennes's steadfastness to the character of Caius Martius Coriolanus..." |
| 14. |
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11/30/11 |
Poor |
 "Director Michael F. Sears might not know how to record or construct a scene, but he's savvy enough to make sure his PG movie gives props to Uncle Sam and Jesus..." |
| 15. |
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09/21/11 |
Moderate |
 "Cameron Crowe, the famed rock reporter-turned-filmmaker-turned-faded brand, refuses to complicate his hagiography with ideas." |
| 16. |
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09/21/11 |
Excellent |
 "Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental... the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true." |
| 17. |
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09/14/11 |
Fair |
 "Although its subject is never less than captivating, Jonathan Furmanski's film is frustratingly unfocused, a scattershot collection of candid footage and biographical information." |
| 18. |
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09/07/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Although the subject is inherently compelling, director Rashid Ghazi is much too ginger with it, swaddling extraordinary complexities in an ordinary underdog tale." |
| 19. |
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09/07/11 |
Good |
 "...the best kind of bait-and-switch, auguring cranium-crushing action but instead delivering a meandering, eccentric, downright adorable existential crime yarn." |
| 20. |
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08/31/11 |
Very Good |
 "...appropriately DIY, remarkably sincere... an uncommonly sensitive and layered portrait of outsider-dom..." |
