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05/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If anyone deserves a big-screen treatment, it's Bill Wilson... Sturdy, informed and reverent... with a few too many undercooked dramatic re-enactments." |
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05/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A triumph for Black and his director, Richard Linklater, both of whom straddle genres with competence, confidence and no shortage of charm." |
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05/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Half posthumous love letter, half historical re-enactment... revisits Israel's near-mythic 1976 hostage rescue at Entebbe through the eyes of those who survived it, and one who didn't..." |
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05/04/12 |
Weak |
 "Juliette Binoche is always intelligent and engaging, but the lazy parallels drawn between hookers and middle-class mothers seem, at best, a little offensive." |
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05/02/12 |
Good |
 "...one of Amos Kollek's more affecting films.... about confronting perceived failure and depression, being grateful for what one has, and getting a clue as to the degree of one's own unhappiness." |
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04/28/12 |
Very Good |
 "...isn't just about stolen art: It's about cultural skulduggery, political sleaze, institutional hypocrisy and the virtues of persistence.... helmer Andrew Shea finds a lot of ugly stuff..." |
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04/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable... Marc Dreier would be the most famous white-collar criminal in America, if it weren't for a guy named Bernie Madoff." |
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04/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "...never gets beyond a surface examination of Suu Kyi and her commitment to Burma, nor does it illuminate the issues in any meaningful way..." |
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04/25/12 |
Good |
 "...will undoubtedly win friends through its cockeyed-optimistic view of romance... That both Jenna Fischer and Chris Messina are so likable keeps the pic upright..." |
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04/20/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a triumphant comic return of director Whit Stillman to the realms of skewed perception, willful blindness and blissfully blinkered belief systems." |
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04/19/12 |
Fair |
 "Swings haplessly between poignancy and vulgarity... If a joke works once, it's done at least twice... The pic can't seem to integrate conflict with comedy..." |
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04/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "Elegantly constructed Holocaust documentary is part memoir, part symposium, with perhaps too much reliance on re-enactments, but much emotion." |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...though it's a bit too early to say that it's an unforgettable movie, one suspects it is. It's also about so many things it nearly defies explanation." |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...drily comedic, but only mildly provocative." |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...one of the Farrellys' better films and a movie in which excess -- the hallmark of everyone involved -- is decidedly a virtue.... blessed with a terrific supporting cast, notably Larry David and Sofia Vergara..." |
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04/11/12 |
Weak |
 "...a routine whodunit about a racially motivated murder... Black characters are either sober or indignant; white characters are played for low comedy. It doesn't add up -- not to much, anyway." |
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04/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "At its best when the men are telling their own stories... Junichi Suzuki's docu ratchets up the sentiment when a cooler touch would have sufficed." |
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04/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Elegant, precise... tries to capture the gemlike qualities of its subject's work, and largely succeeds." |
| 19. |
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03/31/12 |
Weak |
 "A soap opera with shark attacks... contains a few alarming sequences but loses its grip on its material -- and the viewer -- in a swirling vortex of visual confusion." |
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03/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Visually sumptuous re-rendering of Terence Rattigan's melancholic romance uses vintage to its advantage, and packs emotional punch." |
