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02/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...chilling for the way it shows how friends and family of the accused go along with the process, grimly resigned to the sense that punishment must always balance crime." |
| 2. |
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11/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...built around the concept that seeing is believing... a collection of spectacular, arresting images." |
| 3. |
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11/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...feels like old-fashioned fun.... Part of what makes it feel like a throwback is the way it invites its audience to hiss at the villain, to root for his demise." |
| 4. |
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10/26/12 |
Very Good |
 "...low-budget, realistic, well-acted, and shrewd... Ponsoldt makes sure than no one is excessively noble - in fact, he goes the other direction..." |
| 5. |
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10/19/12 |
Moderate |
 "...shockingly incompetent... massively confused about everything - what kind of mood it wants to sustain, what kind of character Cross is." |
| 6. |
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10/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...good-natured... James is in his element here... he gets a lot of help from a large ensemble, led by Bas Rutten, a former MMA star... The two have great chemistry..." |
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10/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...familiar but slick and effective... borrows shrewdly, expanding on the found-footage gimmick in a way that manages to invoke both 'Manhunter' and 'The Ring.' " |
| 8. |
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08/24/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...erratic... On the plus side, Clarke Peters is commanding... late-game revelations raise narrative questions that are left glaringly unanswered." |
| 9. |
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08/24/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...brainy, sometimes impenetrable. But often striking... a great deal of the limo-bound movie conversation went over my head... Still, trenchant observations peep through." |
| 10. |
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08/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...finds a way to make this night of the living dead play essentially as a comedy... but parents should know the movie gets fairly scary..." |
| 11. |
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06/15/12 |
Weak |
 "I get it. It's Transgressive. But in a culture as polluted as ours, transgressive isn't daring. It's become the opposite of that -- repetitive and lazy." |
| 12. |
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06/15/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...wins us over with inventive characters and storytelling that expose just how formulaic other comedies have become." |
| 13. |
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06/08/12 |
Moderate |
 "Rohit Colin Rao doesn't vary the pitch of the performances very much, so the movie itself starts to feel a little cramped.... it does have an inventive, effective musical score." |
| 14. |
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06/01/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a wantonly irresponsible comedy... Good clean fun, except it's not good... it's not clean... and after awhile, it's not even all that fun." |
| 15. |
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05/25/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The franchise needs new creative blood, like the Whedon-infused 'The Avengers,' or the Chris Nolan 'Batmans.' " |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a glib, drive-by look at the recent trends in male grooming... nothing here like the level of cultural resonance/instigation Chris Rock was able to achieve in 'Good Hair.' " |
| 17. |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's fast, efficient, and keenly aware of its popcorn-movie mission statement. And the movie has a strange sort of heart." |
| 18. |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...borrows liberally from every sports movie... But you know what? It mostly works.... has something many sports movies forget to include -- kids who can really play." |
| 19. |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "You can sympathize with Goldthwaite's outrage here, even laugh at some of his jokes, and still wonder whether he's decrying the decline of our culture, or contributing to it." |
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05/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...cannot be faulted for its scope or ambition.... a literary, sprawling, age-of-globalization story... doesn't have the resources of a Hollywood movie, that's obvious. But it is has one thing many Hollywood movies do not have -- an ending." |
