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08/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The deft editing and overall technical polish -- as well as a generous travel budget -- go a long way toward making the pic an attention-grabber." |
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03/12/12 |
Good |
 "Jordan Roberts earns a good number of laughs, and even some extended guffaws, with his crass romance about sex, lies and digital video... farcical, freewheeling..." |
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04/02/09 |
Excellent |
 "Meticulously balances cinema-verite intimacy and dreamlike reverie... fashions a seductive, fascinating tapestry of small-town life..." |
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03/30/11 |
Good |
 "Despite the over-familiarity of its once-trendy time-tripping plot structure, the film maintains a brisk pace and generates a satisfying degree of suspense with its credibly contrived tale..." |
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06/06/11 |
Very Good |
 "First-time feature helmer Brian Crano maneuvers some tricky tonal shifts with impressive ease... a droll, quirky comedy with a pleasant amount of heart." |
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01/11/13 |
Weak |
 "...a frenetic and freewheeling satirical comedy that only sporadically scores a bull's-eye while aiming at easy targets... shameless..." |
| 7. |
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12/01/11 |
Weak |
 "...respectably crafted but thoroughly predictable... rarely deviates from the game plan... no one ever remarks on the irony of a Native American being named Duke Wayne..." |
| 8. |
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08/01/09 |
Fair |
 "...so thinly written that the characters are defined entirely by the actors playing them (or, in the case of the f/x-spawned aliens, voicing them)." |
| 9. |
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12/21/09 |
Good |
 "...undeniably funny... one thing leads to another in a manner sufficiently zippy to engage small fry with tiny attention spans. Older viewers should be mildly amused..." |
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03/31/10 |
Good |
 "...a sprawling but amusing CliffsNotes-like history of various disreputable subgenres -- everything from nudie cuties to sci-fi cheapies, blaxploitation melodramas to blood-soaked splatter pics -- that define exploitation cinema." |
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06/01/10 |
Very Good |
 "...hagiographic... might have impressed more of the unconverted had it included more performance footage of its subject.... a fascinating portrait of a born funnyman..." |
| 12. |
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09/18/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Admirably sincere but bluntly simplistic... combs through a nearly forgotten chapter of history for thought-provoking parallels to recent misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan." |
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09/02/11 |
Weak |
 "...little more than a modestly clever stunt.... the found-footage flourishes -- jump cuts, eruptions of static, swervy camera movements, etc. -- get in the way of narrative clarity." |
| 14. |
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09/19/12 |
Fair |
 "Passably pleasant but thoroughly predictable... a self-constructed star vehicle for scripter, producer and lead player Sarah Megan Thomas." |
| 15. |
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12/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...slickly produced and brazenly clever... a smartly seriocomic scenario that is both twisty and twisted.... generates a surprising amount of suspense..." |
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03/22/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's tempting, and not entirely inaccurate, to describe 'Barry Munday' as 'Knocked Up Lite'.... attempts to up the ante slightly by making the unplanned pregnancy the protagonist's last best chance for fatherhood." |
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06/07/12 |
Weak |
 "...thoroughly generic... suggests a contraption assembled from spare parts with the aid of a how-to manual.... littered with energetic yet repetitious production numbers..." |
| 18. |
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09/16/10 |
Very Good |
 "Shawn Ku achieves an impressive balance of formal control and emotional spontaneity in his debut feature... a rigorously understated drama..." |
| 19. |
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04/01/12 |
Very Good |
 "Winner of the docu jury award at SXSW... fascinating.... Baker is nothing if not forthcoming when discussing the exhilarating highs and dispiriting lows..." |
| 20. |
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02/18/11 |
Fair |
 "...kind of a drag when it resorts to frantic slapstick... but modestly engaging during stretches that suggest the project would have worked better as an exuberant musical." |
