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04/26/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the picture never comes unmoored from reality or drifts off into lazy abstraction and cliché. Nichols' eye for detail, his feel for the characters and landscapes, is so vivid..." |
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03/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...first-rate.... What's exceptional about this movie is its style -- the kinds of textures and colors that create memorable moments..." |
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01/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...takes a refreshingly low-key, observational approach to storytelling that will remind audiences not only of Ken Loach, but of Francois Truffaut..." |
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08/26/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...an immersive war-movie experience like 'The Hurt Locker,' but turned inside out.... This is what it means to be in the belly of the beast." |
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07/29/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Carion has an eye for unusual, atmospheric touches -- the kinds of striking little things you notice in the world and think: 'Somebody should put that in a movie'..." |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "...suffused with its auteur's nostalgia for a galvanizing moment in his adolescence that connected with a tumultuous and transformative period in modern French history..." |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "By the end, the film becomes a remodeled 'Rear Window'.... it seems to run out of places to go, but for most of its running time, it's a wickedly clever divertissement." |
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04/19/13 |
Very Good |
 "...consistently funny, but you wince more often than you laugh out loud. It's like a Christopher Guest improvisational farce with the volume turned down to 5." |
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09/09/10 |
Very Good |
 "...the kind of movie you might make for, about and with your best friend, for no other reason than to have fun recapturing a period in your lives..." |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...isn't film criticism, it isn't coherent analysis, but listening to fanatics go on and on about their fixations can be kind of fun. For a while, at least." |
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08/26/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Roman soldiers drop f-bombs and s-bombs hither and yon, reminding us of the piquant Latin and Celtic origins of the English language as it is spoken to this very day." |
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08/12/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's often funny, but I didn't laugh much because the looniness is so blatant there's no room for the freshness of discovery." |
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09/16/10 |
Moderate |
 "...the most pictorially stunning blood-soaked burlesque comedy since Roman Polanski's 'The Fearless Vampire Killers,' or 'Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck.' " |
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09/09/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a feel-good Kleenex dispenser of a movie, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, but it's routine Hallmark Hall of Afterschool Special material." |
