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12/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...immersive and artfully repulsive.... the rare animated feature whose subtext is as rich as its sensuality, even if the latter is so often fixated on the putrid." |
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05/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...authentically twentysomething circa the 2010s: part entrepreneurial, part self-loathing, and thoroughly bewildered.... contrapuntalism is Perry's way..." |
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11/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...undoubtedly appropriates the meta-narrative of choice for many American independent films of the last five years about post-graduate, pre-career adults..." |
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10/28/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The film believes in maturity, but only as a freely continual process of acceptance. 'Getting there' is not only all the fun; it's all there is to it." |
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10/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a father's scrapbook intertwining archival footage and reminiscence with more immediately dramatic, present-day concerns... humanizing..." |
| 6. |
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08/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...takes on one of the world's most infamous (and increasingly perilous) sex capitols, Amsterdam, through two illustrious lives that refuse symbolism and pathology..." |
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07/12/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...an uncommonly honest paean to millennial fecklessness.... 'Impolex's' blasé approach to its weird happenings melts from a dumb joke into an opaque comment on talentlessness.... ekes out stirring whispers of tender masculine grief." |
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12/19/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...less a study of a great ape than a quiet reminder of how zoos act as a reflective prism for our livelihood-oriented anxieties." |
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03/20/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...what remains after unpacking the film's dusty, raisined imagery is an unshakeable dreaminess, an uncertainty that the movie's non-events haven't simply been a hallucination..." |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the documentary's interspersing of gratingly 'domestic' content with heavier biographical material urges us to look beyond the face value of the stories..." |
| 11. |
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03/16/13 |
Very Good |
 "...enchanting... gradually simplifies into an elaborate seesaw between general, journalistic scoopery and unabashedly personal confrontation..." |
| 12. |
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02/26/13 |
Very Good |
 "...moves with confident boldness from the incestuous gauntlet its prologue impishly hurls down.... eloquently tests the limits of sororal intimacy and self-knowledge..." |
| 13. |
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01/23/13 |
Very Good |
 "The tension between what appears to be appropriated reportage and what might as well be hallucination becomes a Gordian knot, filling us with dread." |
| 14. |
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10/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "Though expediently and radiantly animated, the wishful thinking in this denouement turns the film's title into a desperate plea for affirmation." |
| 15. |
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10/01/12 |
Very Good |
 "Chopping through the story like a teenager bored with the novel's circumlocution, Andrea Arnold pares down everything in the name of corporeal directness..." |
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09/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "Michel Ocelot's visual style is perfectly suited to the arbitrary cosmic-ness of the myths it illustrates... might be at its best while at its most seemingly primitive." |
| 17. |
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09/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "We know that thousands of others are not as lucky or as optimistic as Carolyn Parker, but celebrating her resilience is one way of making it contagious." |
| 18. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...contains some of the most Lubitschian of filmic content in recent memory, even if it lacks the director's most prized stylistic paradox -- namely, his delicate frankness." |
| 19. |
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03/07/12 |
Very Good |
 "Rife with rhythmic, haunting meditations on violence and misogyny, the cinema of Nina Menkes has often been described as feminist, but it's more playfully situated in the tradition of fringe auteurs..." |
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01/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a portrait of unknowability.... Rather than observing pride amid declining fortunes, we're witnesses to a surprisingly monotone 80 minutes of thumping unease." |
