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06/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a middling comedy, its unrepentant vulgarity wrapped around the usual gooey emotional center.... The whole scenario feels a little cheap..." |
| 2. |
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05/07/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Wheatly remains serious in his fixations, again picking at the nasty scabs that speckle the human soul.... sardonic... his best film yet." |
| 3. |
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04/24/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...what the film lacks in technical ambition it usually makes up for in linguistic dexterity; this is still a resoundingly solid piece of craft, from a collaborative group..." |
| 4. |
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03/25/13 |
Moderate |
 "...fitfully amusing but ultimately frivolous... surrealism in its most basic form, avoiding genuine discomfort and revealing nothing beyond the painfully obvious." |
| 5. |
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03/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...wavers between feverishly inspired absurdity and flaccid buildup, striking an inconsistent balance between brilliance and tedium." |
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03/02/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...offers a rare ethnic cross-section of city kids who aren't in trouble or at risk, going through the same identity struggles that plague teenagers everywhere." |
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02/17/13 |
Weak |
 "...a tedious, inept thriller which pokes dolefully at the outlines of obsession.... a static loop of cause and effect where the volume keeps getting turned higher and higher..." |
| 8. |
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12/16/12 |
Weak |
 "Apatow's comedies haven't achieved a symbiotic balance between humor and drama; they're funny at the expense of their gravity... serious at the expense of laughs." |
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11/16/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...passes ostensible exploitation fodder (double amputee finds sexual reawaking in the arms of a rough-around-the-edges he-man) through a high-toned prestige filter." |
| 10. |
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11/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Through this kind of subtly intricate storytelling, Hong Sang-Soo reveals that he's doing more than telling the same old tale through a set of shuffled index cards." |
| 11. |
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10/14/12 |
Moderate |
 "...this film isn't up to the task of nudging its storylines out of intensely familiar ruts.... the biggest failure here is that we get so little sense of Martine..." |
| 12. |
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10/02/12 |
Very Good |
 "...despite its predictability and somewhat shopworn narrative, 'Sister' is sustained by a sturdy emotional engine and some intrepidly thoughtful characterization..." |
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10/01/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Abbas Kiarostami's general dexterity sustains it through frequent lulls: Whatever's going on here, there certainly aren't many other movies like it." |
| 14. |
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09/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "...while it serves as a valuable primer on an increasingly relevant subject, it never pushes beyond the deluge of facts into telling an effectively rendered story." |
| 15. |
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09/02/12 |
Moderate |
 "...seems to be looking for answers, but the ones it finds are too close to the surface to be satisfying... subsists on vague feelings of nostalgia and loss..." |
| 16. |
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08/26/12 |
Very Good |
 "...elevates pulp fare with the trappings of prestige, even as it dares itself to go as nasty as possible.... colorful, carefully paced, deliriously violent..." |
| 17. |
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08/14/12 |
Moderate |
 "...crammed at a frustrating juncture between period-piece froth (it at times seems to be channeling François Ozon's recent 'Potiche') and seriously conceived drama..." |
| 18. |
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08/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...fervently passionate and formally meticulous.... In Chantal Akerman's able hands, this becomes a story of old orders disrupted, tables turned, and dynamics flipped." |
| 19. |
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07/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Control is the operative element in Benoît Jacquot's work... The air of elegant sleaze and underhanded conflict at times recalls Fassbinder..." |
| 20. |
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07/05/12 |
Weak |
 "...hampered by the inconsistent tone: 'Savages' never feels rooted in reality, but it never departs far enough from it to accommodate its cartoonish raw materials." |
