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11/03/11 |
Outstanding |
 "The Dunst/Von Trier collaboration is one for the ages..." |
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03/30/11 |
Outstanding |
 "An essay on storytelling and spectatorship... infused with the haunting aura and disillusionment of a post-'Easy Rider' road movie... some kind of miracle." |
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11/04/10 |
Outstanding |
"A masterpiece of absurdist horror aesthetically inspired in equal parts by 'When Inanimate Objects Attack' schlock and the epic desert impressionism of 'Zabriskie Point'..." |
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10/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a 'gritty' historical drama overwhelmed by its love of Hollywood as an inventor of imaginary narratives with real consequences..." |
| 5. |
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10/10/12 |
Outstanding |
"...the kind of quality adult film that really shouldn't be an endangered species, and a love letter from Affleck to the industry that made him..." |
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09/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The film's ambiguity could hardly be unintentional, but more interesting is Anderson's use of sumptuous technique to tell a story defined by withholding." |
| 7. |
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09/12/12 |
Outstanding |
"...a free-form work of expressionism... a film of breathtaking cinematic romanticism and near-complete denial of conventional catharsis." |
| 8. |
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05/24/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...takes the form of old-fashioned preteen literature... Its portrait of young love is both mature and defiantly utopian." |
| 9. |
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05/23/12 |
Outstanding |
"...emphasizes both the ephemerality of pre-teen feelings and the ways in which our inability to go back and relive a cherished moment fossilizes it in memory." |
| 10. |
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05/20/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...challenges the audience to bear witness to something they've never seen on screen before: a realistically slow death, and all the unpleasantness it entails..." |
| 11. |
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02/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...it's breathtakingly cinematic, a cannily crafted vérité crackling with immediacy.... most miraculously, a never-a-dull-moment entertainment." |
| 12. |
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11/03/11 |
Outstanding |
"It might be fair to describe the film as a blatant act of rebellion, but it also stands as a good-faith attempt to work within Jafar Panahi's politically imposed boundaries." |
| 13. |
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09/16/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...fueled by the Swiss-watch comic timing of dueling leads Chris Doubek and Alex Karpovsky... among the most unjustly underseen American indies of the year." |
| 14. |
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07/28/10 |
Outstanding |
 "A slow-building stunner of a character study... supporting players are expertly cast and all turn in solid performances, but this is Trieste Kelly Dunn's show..." |
| 15. |
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02/17/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...looks and often feels like the work of a modern-day Alfred Hitchcock. And yet this French film unfolds on a lofty, cerebral plane of mystery that's virtually anti-Hitch..." |
| 16. |
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10/11/12 |
Excellent |
 "...remarkably self-assured... it's rare that any American film allows a lead character to hold contradictory emotions." |
| 17. |
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10/10/12 |
Excellent |
"...a startling example of Ava DuVernay's ability to conjure drama that at once takes place in a character's head and in a recognizable real world. It's beautifully nuanced..." |
| 18. |
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10/04/12 |
Excellent |
 "...proceeds as a portrait of a place that time is in the process of forgetting, until the city's mayor, Dave Bing, hands the filmmakers a structuring news event." |
| 19. |
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09/05/12 |
Excellent |
"...evocative... a portrait of a place that time is in the process of forgetting... Detroit's story is a microcosm of America's -- just, for now, slightly more desperate." |
| 20. |
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07/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...oddly moving... The origami-like narrative is precariously hinged on a trope borrowed from midcentury soap opera, but its dismantling of otherness is graceful." |
