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05/08/12 |
Poor |
 "...too precious and contrived by half... it wants to reach into the grab bag of Silver Lake hipster culture for easy jokes, but it ultimately comes off too enamored with a neighborhood it only seems to know from a distance." |
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04/25/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a rich blend of historical footage and modern-day interviews... in stretching all that history over an information-packed 89 minutes, it spreads itself too thin." |
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04/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...exquisitely presents to us the possibility that humankind's achievements may cause its downfall." |
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03/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...wastes no time getting to the heart of its subject matter and convincing us that something has to change.... doesn't take in a wide enough sample of the population..." |
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03/22/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Populated with unlikely occurrences and oddball characters... plays out, to put it most complimentary, like a dull, slower moving 'After Hours'..." |
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03/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...more than anything, a document of the unsettling effects philosophy can have on one's mind and spirit.... Ultimately, the film doesn't feel like it ever left Haslett's head, leaving us a little cold." |
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03/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "There's a levity to the film that makes it feel like a feather in the wind compared to the rigid, fact-heavy way most documentaries might survey Ugandan society." |
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02/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a multi-layered film essay, one with no easy surface to ground your feet on, angled and rhythmically unsteady, shaking us off a recognizable path and creating meanings through the reverberation between disparate scenes, visual metaphors, and suggestive narration." |
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01/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...it's the suspense around the human blood that at one point pipes through the ancient city of Milos that's the most memorable detail in this rich tapestry..." |
| 10. |
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01/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...somewhere between self-congratulation for a life bursting at the seams with success, purpose, and involvement in historic moments and a call to action..." |
| 11. |
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01/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...ultimately a record of two amateurs, meaning well but under-skilled in the task of documenting a subject so crushingly larger and more appealing than themselves that their film serves no one... [It's] essentially a home movie..." |
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12/15/11 |
Moderate |
 "For those more familiar with Corman's impact on cinema, Stapleton manages to enhance the film's relatively boilerplate story with tinges of emotion from the interviews she coaxed from many of the now-famous who were given their start by Corman..." |
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12/03/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...free-floating, awkward tensions between boyhood and the learned mannerisms of manhood come to the fore and encapsulate this nostalgic film nicely." |
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11/28/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...all of the material presented here is readily available elsewhere... for Suzuki this is clearly just a victory lap, one in which he can proudly and cheerfully recount his achievements while the film pats him on the back." |
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11/08/11 |
Poor |
 "...might have been better served as a workout video.... surprisingly shallow in regard to its characters and superficial in terms of its chapter-structured façade." |
| 16. |
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11/01/11 |
Poor |
 "While all the actors bring considerable charm to their roles, '5 Star Day' can be too charming... the film reveals itself to be a contrived love story." |
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10/28/11 |
Poor |
 "Not only does 'The Double's' outdated theme feel out of left field, it's unexplained and without reason." |
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10/22/11 |
Poor |
 "...the plot, though it revolves around a kidnapping set in Mexico, seems blind to current events; tame as it is, the action in the film is completely forgettable in such a comparison." |
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10/17/11 |
Moderate |
 "...offers small rewards in a dreamy film that otherwise feels strangely distant from itself.... may work best simply as an homage to sound recording." |
| 20. |
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10/09/11 |
Very Good |
 "First-time writer-director Michael M. Bilandic's tongue-in-cheek, bare-knuckles approach to his ultra-low budget paean to a dying breed is a welcome piece of independent filmmaking..." |
