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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." |
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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." |
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09/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...playful... its surrealism -- like its romance, its comedy, its historicism, its everything -- is retained with a light touch." |
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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." |
| 5. |
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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." |
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10/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a remarkable high water mark for the series: at once solemn and deeply funny, sexy and sad, self-conscious without all the rib-bruising elbowing." |
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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." |
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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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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." |
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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." |
| 11. |
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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..." |
| 12. |
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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..." |
| 13. |
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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'..." |
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08/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...feels like a juiced-up wish-fulfillment fantasy.... nothing if not a colossally silly indulgence... all the wink-nudge genre nostalgia seems entirely validated." |
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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." |
| 16. |
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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..." |
| 17. |
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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." |
| 18. |
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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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10/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The film's textures, jokes, and performances are uniformly wonderful, but this is a case of the whole feeling oddly deficient when balanced against the sum of its parts." |
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09/17/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...even when the so-called Gatekeepers offer up damning testimony against their organization, there's no real threat that they'll ever be held accountable for it." |
