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12/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The profound sleight-of-hand of this movie is that while moving as if it is telling you things, it's in fact always asking questions." |
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11/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Spielberg stages his scenes with brio... The stellar cast never misses a trick... an inspiring piece of Americana in the finest sense of the term." |
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10/30/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...this movie is 'The Lost Weekend' with highly superior special effects.... its lead actor and director both won Academy Awards for their work that year. Just saying." |
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09/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...always maintains a sense of awful tension that seems as if it could spin itself into a frenzy at any second.... Quite possibly the movie of the year, or the decade." |
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08/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...examines irrationality with the unflinching precision of a diamond cutter, and the results are as hilarious as they are shocking..." |
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05/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...enchanting... a heartbreaking evocation not just of young love but of futile lifelong quests to recapture fleeting moments of magic we experience..." |
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03/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a cinematic miracle in which nothing happens and everything happens... the simple act of its being seems enough to constitute a kind of perfection." |
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12/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...undeniably strong stuff, in large part because Fincher knows exactly when to drop the detachment and give the viewer a strong slap upside the head." |
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12/07/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...director Lynne Ramsay keeps her parable raw and elemental.... Tilda Swinton is like a contained, walking, talking embodiment of Munch's 'The Scream.' " |
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11/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Aside from being one of Scorsese's most personal films, it's also one of the least cynical films of this or any other year." |
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11/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...the harder you look at it, the wilder, and more disturbing, and more moving, it becomes." |
| 12. |
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11/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...assured at every turn and so humane and engaged and absorbing... one just wants to settle in with, so seemingly effortlessly does it carry one along." |
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10/11/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Banderas steps back into Almodóvar World without seeming to have broken his stride in the least... one of the boldest and best performances he's essayed in years." |
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08/11/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...achieves perfection on its own particular terms. The title promises a concert movie, in 3-D, based on the show 'Glee,' and the film delivers precisely that..." |
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05/20/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...if you open yourself to the film, it will get inside of you, and work on you, and make you wonder... If that's not the sign of a masterpiece, I don't know what is." |
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05/16/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the most purely enjoyable and sweet-tempered movie the exceptionally talented Noah Baumbach has made in his nearly two decades as a director." |
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04/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...if you go into this with an open mind and can tune into its wavelength, it can take you places that ordinary movies don't even dream of.... powerful..." |
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04/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a tour-de-force of a science fiction/horror film, conceived and executed with rare sensitivity and intelligence.... glorious... beautifully calibrated and executed..." |
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02/14/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Now in his fifth decade of filmmaking, Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami remains one of the most vital and unpredictable artists working in any medium." |
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11/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...easily the best Craig Bond picture.... rendered with incredible cinematic sumptuousness by Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins." |
