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06/11/07 |
Excellent |
 "A morosely comic symphony on the meaning (or is that meaninglessness?) of life... painfully amusing, frequently random and occasionally laugh-out-loud hilarious." |
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01/20/08 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "A smoothly turned-out entertainment centered around an Amazing Kreskin-style mentalist comes down with an unfortunate case of the warm-and-fuzzies..." |
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01/25/08 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga.... intrigues early on, but falls short on narrative and emotional drive." |
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02/04/08 |
Excellent |
 "Contrived excess is rarely as entertaining as it is in the ironically titled 'Just Another Love Story,' a furiously overheated romantic thriller..." |
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05/15/08 |
Good |
 "Like a nastier Eastern sibling to 'Paris, je t'aime'... reps a playfully ragged attempt to capture (and skewer) the multiple shifting identities of its eponymous city." |
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05/16/08 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Seeing, hearing and speaking no evil comes all too easily to the tortured trio in 'Three Monkeys,' a powerfully bleak family drama..." |
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05/17/08 |
Very Good |
 "...topped by Kim Yoon-suk's star-making performance... overlong but accomplished... Pulse-pounding third act expertly pushes the audience's buttons, to excruciatingly ironic and ultimately devastating effect." |
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05/19/08 |
Poor |
 "...drearily austere look at a disaffected teen coming to terms with tragedy at an East Coast prep school, unsettles without illuminating, marred by narcotic pacing and a blank lead performance." |
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05/19/08 |
Very Good |
 "...the Dardenne brothers make some slight adjustments to their formula but maintain their unblinking commitment to human nature and the possibility of grace..." |
| 10. |
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05/23/08 |
Fair |
 "...viewers who strap themselves in may glean some tremors of insight into the internal psychology and external machinery that spur young rebels to take up arms.... Whether that accomplishment deserves praise is more of an open question." |
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05/26/08 |
Very Good |
 "...a fascinating muddle... this ambitious think-piece ultimately smothers its good intentions in didactic revelations, earnest pleading and incessant violin music." |
| 12. |
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12/11/08 |
Moderate |
 "Despite abundant talent on both sides of the camera and a bevy of eye-catching supernatural beasties, it doesn't conjure much in the way of bigscreen magic." |
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01/15/09 |
Fair |
 "Maudlin sentiment, miserablist humor and scatological sight gags are affectionately but awkwardly molded together in the Australian claymation feature 'Mary and Max.' " |
| 14. |
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01/18/09 |
Moderate |
 "The feisty chemistry of Krause and Martin goes some way toward saving this... But the script is marred throughout by trite, on-the-nose situations and dialogue..." |
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01/18/09 |
Moderate |
 "A brave, affecting turn by Ashley Judd... [but] it can't overcome its own self-imposed limitations -- namely, catatonic pacing and a dramatically narrow outsider's view of mental illness." |
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01/19/09 |
Excellent |
 "...a love letter to a beloved species, an eye-opening primer on worldwide dolphin captivity, a playful paranoid thriller and a work of deep-seated moral outrage." |
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01/20/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Some juicier behind-the-scenes drama and a more revealing examination of the creative process might have bulked up 'The September Issue'..." |
| 18. |
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01/20/09 |
Moderate |
 "...marveling at its own wacky (if finally somewhat thin) conceit and making a couple jokes at Giamatti's expense, the pic never mines any deeper levels of comedy..." |
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01/21/09 |
Excellent |
 "...a raucous and rigorous inquiry into the subject of African-American hair... Chris Rock is in typically sharp but unusually sensitive form..." |
| 20. |
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01/21/09 |
Good |
 "...script is a raggedy affair, but its untidiness is in some ways a measure of its integrity... Rockwell anchors this ensemble comedy with a terrifically likable portrayal..." |
