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05/14/13 |
Poor |
 "...brutal -- not so much in its violence, though there's some of that too, as in its flabbergasting tedium -- and utterly artless." |
| 2. |
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05/09/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...exceptional.... The cineastes interviewed by director Rodney Ascher may be trapped by Kubrick's film like the ghosts haunting the Overlook Hotel." |
| 3. |
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04/18/13 |
Poor |
 "...the laziest sort of documentary, the kind that unearths a relatively unknown American artist of marginal interest and tries to dust off his or her secret legacy..." |
| 4. |
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04/04/13 |
Very Good |
 "...resurrects the original as it was: an inventive horror picture defined as much by its rickety backwoods chamber drama as its paroxysms of hyper-sticky arterial spray." |
| 5. |
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03/28/13 |
Excellent |
 "...delights in the dumbness of modern American youth culture.... The girls graduate from imitating unchecked sex and violence to actively engaging in it." |
| 6. |
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03/28/13 |
Poor |
 "...dreadful. The action is dominated by jittery cinematography, the jokes clunk, and the politics are abysmal.... This is screaming-eagle jingoism at its most meat-headed..." |
| 7. |
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03/24/13 |
Outstanding |
"...isn't really 'about' 'The Shining' so much as it is a mirror to it -- as subtle, seductive, and often wholly frustrating as Kubrick's film." |
| 8. |
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02/28/13 |
Weak |
 "...the film plays like an occasion for top Israeli intelligence brass to atone, and shed crocodile tears for the errors of their ways. It's a case of way too little way too late." |
| 9. |
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02/14/13 |
Excellent |
 "Stuffed with Satanism, child sacrifice, rat-eating and wonky, Escher-house physics... its canned postmodern gestures compound so ludicrously that they're hard not to like." |
| 10. |
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02/13/13 |
Poor |
 "...wholly generic... barely distinguished by the presence of Willis's banner hero. The plot is somehow vaporously thin and needlessly dense at the same time..." |
| 11. |
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01/24/13 |
Weak |
 "Jason Statham's no Lee Marvin, but his ample charms are squandered on a goofy script.... 'Parker's' action scenes are pretty thrilling." |
| 12. |
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01/19/13 |
Weak |
"Statham's superficial manipulability is put in service of corny capering... vacillates between flat comedy and spiked savagery, the product of a painfully slapdash script..." |
| 13. |
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01/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "Like von Trier, Bruno Dumont is a cine-theologian... the film retains the sometimes alienating, often enrapturing ambiguity that accounts for the filmmaker's divisiveness." |
| 14. |
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12/20/12 |
Poor |
 "It's hard to imagine anyone short of circus arts diehards or undiscriminating stoners being even intermittently impressed by this flashy string of high-tech set pieces." |
| 15. |
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12/20/12 |
Weak |
 "Clumsily directed by Anne Fletcher, most of the jokes fall flat, the comic bickering receding into shapelessness." |
| 16. |
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12/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...effectively declassifies the extent of SOP Bush-era prisoner abuse and, while doing so, questions its procedural and moral efficacy... forthright, above-board..." |
| 17. |
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12/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "While the rush toward a conventional climax is confusing and disappointing, there's an undeniable pleasure in seeing Tarantino juggle the dynamite of his ideas..." |
| 18. |
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12/06/12 |
Weak |
 "Beyond the upbeat lesson and the rousing hagiography glowing around its subject, Jason Becker himself remains a mystery." |
| 19. |
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11/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...too 'deep,' with Hyams's sundry aesthetic superfluities and thematic aspirations ponderously bogging down his substantial talents as an action filmmaker." |
| 20. |
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10/28/12 |
Weak |
 "...built on licensing.... warmed-over wink, nudge fare... an all-encompassing super video game mega-branded under the Disney banner. Save your quarters." |
