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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..." |
| 2. |
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09/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "Most compelling is the way filmmaker Christian Petzold adeptly conducts his tides of Cold War paranoia.... the film creates a thick feeling of Soviet unrest..." |
| 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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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." |
| 5. |
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04/26/12 |
Good |
 "...hits its marks when it's exploding the character's larger-than-life status, aided in large part by Speedman's career-best turn. But the film feels overloaded." |
| 6. |
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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..." |
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07/12/12 |
Poor |
 "...pros like Malkvoich and Goodman don't so much elevate this off-off-off-Broadway material as much as they get mired in it, wading through the slop of the script..." |
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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." |
| 9. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...obsessed with ritual and detail... twists out its six narrative threads with measured compassion and even-handedness..." |
| 10. |
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09/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "...generalized pleasantness, the fuzzy sense that Baumbach and Gerwig are making their modern French New Wave movie for the fun of it, sustains 'Frances Ha'..." |
| 11. |
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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..." |
| 12. |
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08/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...occasionally affecting... The three principals give strong performances, especially given the complex emotional material and criss-crossing sexual allegiances." |
| 13. |
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03/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...unabashedly crass and violent, establishing a rare equilibrium between faithfully rendered splatter and jokes about skull-fucking." |
| 14. |
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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." |
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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." |
| 16. |
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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." |
| 17. |
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06/28/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Even when they feel like they're on autopilot, many of Soderbergh's films are entertaining enough, well made enough, and plain good enough." |
| 18. |
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05/23/12 |
Moderate |
 "...flashes of honest-to-goodness delight that distinguish the original are replaced by a gaudy cynicism, never more so than in the film's barely sly condescension..." |
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04/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "More than a class full of convincing child actors and a genuinely affecting performance by Fellag... as believably wrenching, and finally cathartic, as the grieving process itself." |
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07/22/12 |
Very Good |
 "...fits rather neatly into the cinema of Canadian coldness... it works -- quite successfully, in places -- as a warming tonic against this emotional nippiness." |
