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10/07/11 |
Moderate |
 "...lumbering, loud and colourful... roots for the oppressed and provides historical evidence that tyrants sometimes get the comeuppance they deserve." |
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07/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a brilliant, tender and compelling masterpiece.... The film works on every level because it's eminently believable..." |
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04/15/11 |
Very Good |
 "Blended with dozens of clips of the comedian at work, the novel graphic device creates the impression of a constant physical presence. It's clever and enlivening..." |
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03/09/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a startlingly raw documentary tribute to the late monologist... a meticulous, insightful and comprehensive reconstruction of Gray's personality and life story..." |
| 5. |
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04/08/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a dull story about dull thirtysomethings whose dull issues are conveyed in a prying, cinema verité style, implying drama and meaning in mundane details of their dull lives." |
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09/30/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...what keeps the first-time filmmaker's haunting, raunchy hybrid gutbucket of a movie alive is its heart: A love story that goes cataclysmically wrong." |
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01/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "Fiennes, the actor, gives the man a vivid, lurid presence. And his direction is assured, insightful, focused. As Shakespeare adaptations go, this one's a winner." |
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11/24/11 |
Very Good |
 "...there are times during this immensely enjoyable action picture when you'll find yourself questioning your impulses and responses to what's happening on screen." |
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07/22/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a kind of old-fashioned screwball romantic comedy reconfigured as a ribald contemporary tale... comes across as smart, funny and insightful." |
| 10. |
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09/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "What the film lacks in depth as an explorative study of a character who, even now, seems larger than life, it more than compensates for in the sheer exuberance..." |
| 11. |
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05/25/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a very political comedy about a very serious matter.... but while a great deal of fun is had at the expense of Victorian stuffiness, mores, law and behaviour..." |
| 12. |
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11/18/11 |
Moderate |
 "Hart is the comic equivalent of a journeyman musician with a lot of clever licks and one good trick. Once you've seen it, you have little appetite for more." |
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08/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "Vikram Gandhi rides a fine line between 'Borat'-style satire and heart-stopping suspense in the last third of the film.... surprisingly engaging..." |
| 14. |
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04/21/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a shocking story about human brutality, moral weakness and intolerance. It should shake our souls. Sadly, that's not the case." |
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03/02/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a ribald mess of a farce whose finer qualities will likely be lost on non-Chinese-speaking audiences and others not familiar with 1920s warlord lore." |
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04/08/11 |
Very Good |
 "Otherness, exclusion, states of belonging and not belonging are the stuff of 'Littlerock'... has the feel of accident but aspires to revelation..." |
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10/07/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...intensely personal and provocative art that may, in the end, be measured by the range of reactions it induces in its audience rather than by the quality of its making." |
| 18. |
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07/01/11 |
Moderate |
 "...defies logic and conventional storytelling methodology... [but] there's not one f-bomb in the entire script, no nudity, and not a single sex scene." |
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05/14/10 |
Outstanding |
 "That Garcia manages to spin three rich and complex yarns without ever losing hold of the main thread is evidence of a keen eye and an exceptionally curious mind." |
| 20. |
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10/09/10 |
Poor |
 "...blandness and lack of energy suggests the once-formidable storyteller and genuinely original frightmeister is in the grip of a grand ennui." |
