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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...has a few good story turns up its sleeve, but prepare yourself for heavy melodrama in the third act. Guy Pearce alone makes up for the predictable ending." |
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05/03/13 |
Very Good |
 "Chang examines the historical and spiritual significance of fruit and environmental concerns that affect sustainable crops.... fascinating." |
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04/26/13 |
Very Good |
 "...powered by a top-caliber performance from Mortimer and artfully realized period details.... slow at times... emotionally and intellectually satisfying." |
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04/19/13 |
Excellent |
 "Child actress Zoé Héran turns in a heartbreaking performance.... Sciamma presents her story without editorializing, making for a potent depiction of identity crisis." |
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04/19/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has the Parisian bourgeois equivalent of what Americans call 'white liberal guilt'.... It's effective pap, if a bit too fizzy. Think 'The Help' with European accents." |
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04/12/13 |
Good |
 "Some arguments are a bit hamfisted, and Irons plays the serious journalist card a little too hard, but overall, this is thought-provoking and illuminating." |
| 7. |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "...combines traditional folklore with modern paranoia.... it packs a lot of character and atmosphere into a short running time, making for an entertaining closed-space thriller." |
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03/28/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a psychological pressure cooker set almost entirely inside a car buried in a mudslide.... writer/director William Dickerson fails to create a convincing sense of peril." |
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03/22/13 |
Weak |
 "...a muddled plot that's sometimes interesting but all too often cartoonish.... Don't expect to be all that invested in Mischa Webley's wayward script, either." |
| 10. |
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03/22/13 |
Excellent |
 "...really fascinating.... Though no new answers are presented, the questions should intrigue anyone fascinated by things going bump in the night." |
| 11. |
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03/15/13 |
Good |
 "Cobbling together dry facts with personal stories makes for a sobering picture that's more about practical change than empty grousing." |
| 12. |
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03/15/13 |
Good |
 "...deeply felt.... The story is slight, but the quiet sunrise of Yossi's character arc is pleasant enough." |
| 13. |
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03/08/13 |
Moderate |
 "...builds a strong, though familiar, case for action... the film tragically falters whenever director Craig Scott Rosebraugh inserts himself into the proceedings..." |
| 14. |
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03/08/13 |
Weak |
 "...brutality, excrement and viscera. Yes, some segments disturb and repel, and many try for dark humor, but the squirms they induce are far from pleasurable." |
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03/01/13 |
Good |
 "...fair-minded.... The film neither glorifies nor vilifies... it treats triumphs and tragedies with equal balance." |
| 16. |
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02/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...as raucous, crass and furiously delightful as its subject's stand-up comedy.... The stand-up material here is hilarious, and worth the price of a ticket on its own." |
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02/22/13 |
Fair |
 "...a well-meaning multicultural fable that gets lost in its own myopic point-of-view.... The low-level magical realism never gels with the coming-of-age drama." |
