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03/21/12 |
Fair |
 "A rather clichéd coming-of-ager... has heart to spare, but little new to say.... Storylines get dropped or fail to connect and minor characters drift in and out of the narrative..." |
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11/11/11 |
Weak |
 "Bland genre offering does nothing to put an ominous spin on an intriguing date.... tepid... uneventful... unremarkable..." |
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11/07/11 |
Good |
 "Panos Cosmatos underpins his ambiguous, bare-bones narrative with impressively atmospheric sound design and frequent barrages of hallucinogenic camera and visual effects." |
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09/14/11 |
Good |
 "Director/co-writer Jean Becker steers a gratifying course between empathy and outright sentimentality, with just enough comedy to avoid trite melodrama." |
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07/01/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The filmmakers are definitely onto something special about relationships between women of a certain pre-middle age... refreshing, but the execution dissipates most of the film's potential." |
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04/18/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a gritty, low-key hybrid of horror film and road movie... profitably focuses on establishing character and the film's overall haunted tone rather than simply conjuring gratuitous mayhem." |
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02/17/11 |
Moderate |
 "...offers a perceptive, if one-sided, perspective on Trungpa's impact on American spirituality and the arts, but is probably too rarified for the uninitiated.... the doc is overwhelmingly hagiographic..." |
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02/12/11 |
Fair |
 "...best suited to existing fans of Bizet's classic.... a two-plus hour running time may prove an obstacle for the uninitiated, not to mention the subtitled French songs and dialogue.... 3D doesn't add a great deal to enjoyment of the show." |
| 9. |
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02/05/11 |
Excellent |
 "A hilarious date movie for couples of all orientations.... deftly parodies the myriad tropes of low budget sci-fi with obvious glee, from the alien's monotonal speech to wobbly camera-handling and cheesy special effects. Performances are aces all around..." |
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02/01/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If it weren't so good-natured overall, Anne Sewitsky's feature debut 'Happy, Happy' might seem entirely implausible, even for a comedy.... captivates with amusing appeal.... a pleasant-enough film..." |
| 11. |
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01/30/11 |
Good |
 "A trenchant examination of radical environmentalism and the implications of domestic terrorism laws." |
| 12. |
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01/29/11 |
Weak |
 "...the writers cram too many characters and a surfeit of plotting into 85-minutes... the movie seems rushed, perhaps another reason for the underwhelming sense of attraction between Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd." |
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01/28/11 |
Weak |
 "...an offbeat slice of Americana that's neither fish nor fowl.... Weakly spoofing, or at least deliberately tweaking, Southern Gothic conventions, writer-director Tully can't fully get his arms around this messy genre mashup." |
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01/27/11 |
Excellent |
 "[Director Constance] Marks' doc is wonderfully enhanced by an incredible timeline of home video, archival footage and TV clips illustrating the arc of [puppeteer Kevin] Clash's career." |
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01/26/11 |
Moderate |
 "Although the film reaches a resolution of sorts, it's too anticlimactic to warrant the participants' absorption with their search or the doc's strained air of suspense..." |
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11/15/10 |
Moderate |
 "A sporadically absorbing romantic drama... performances are all fairly low-key, which suits the dramatic structure, but does little to animate the narrative." |
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11/15/10 |
Weak |
 "...isn't scary enough to qualify as horror and not nearly as amusing as a black comedy should be.... the repetition of exploding heads, horror movie references and tire jokes grows far too thin much too quickly." |
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11/10/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Polemical in tone, wide-ranging in scope and persuasive to a degree... Despite some interesting ideas... conventional camerawork and unexceptional editing don't contribute much additional value to a package that's unlikely to alter Lomborg's outsider status." |
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10/14/10 |
Good |
 "Eli Craig's feature directorial debut is an endearingly cheeky tribute to suspense and slasher classics.... an amusingly well-executed genre hybrid." |
| 20. |
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10/14/10 |
Moderate |
 "Director Nick Tomnay skillfully shifts the film's initial tone from suspense to dark comedy.... Tweaking horror conventions raises interest, but plot gaps in the script... erode the story's plausibility as curiosity diminishes." |
