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04/10/12 |
Weak |
 "...loudly, proudly ridiculous... Overlong and underwritten... The attractive cast does no more than director Peter Berg and the script require, which is very little indeed." |
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09/03/12 |
Fair |
 "...well-meaning but dated and frequently risible.... the actors do their best to wring genuine feeling out of this superficially impassioned but coldly diagrammatic material." |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "...proficient but personality-free.... character detail in Eran Creevy's bland script doesn't extend far beyond 'good' or 'bad.' " |
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05/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "...droll, elegant but faintly trying study in emotional artifice.... offers its most complete pleasures as a quietly pristine showcase for Kiarostami's undiminished craft..." |
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09/05/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...frequently amusing... Just about every charge of social negligence leveled at it can be countered with an arch claim of intent, which makes it at once playful and wearying." |
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08/29/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a cheerfully grisly shark thriller.... likable trash... At least half the time, the pic functions as a prosaically effective suspense exercise..." |
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06/24/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...thoughtful but exceedingly modest... The arc is subtle, though the same doesn't always go for the writing... thesps are uniformly engaging..." |
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05/20/12 |
Good |
 "Soul music's alleged redemptive powers are fully at work in this jumbled, sketchily written but vastly appealing true-life musical comedy." |
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08/31/12 |
Very Good |
 "...exhaustive and entertaining... refreshingly uninterested in celebrity mythos, focusing principally on the practical and physical nuts and bolts of Jackson's talent..." |
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08/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...alternately playful and elegiac... rewarding.... it's another delicate, surprising reflection on intimate relationship politics from the young Canadian Sarah Polley." |
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02/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...generous, absorbing... Particularly compelling is the sub-narrative it presents of a social rebel nonetheless tormented by his own mixed-race heritage." |
| 12. |
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01/21/13 |
Excellent |
 "...a splendidly demented gumbo of Hitchcock thriller, American Gothic fairy tale and a contemporary kink all Park's own.... exquisitely designed and scored..." |
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06/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a tense, teasing triumph.... exquisitely crafted.... Icily disquieting rather than scary, the film is less an exercise in narrative than in tonal mastery." |
