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05/05/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "But wow! Does this cinematic jeu d'esprit ever gobsmack your eyes and nerve endings. And in such high-camp trash, what else signifies but kinesis and style?" |
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05/11/11 |
Very Good |
 "...deft, surprisingly sweet... recasts Gallic melancholia as all-American black comedy, despair expressed deadpan, Buster Keaton-style." |
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05/11/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...boasts a couple of performances that will renew your admiration for the art of acting. What this wild-hair indie lacks is a sure directorial hand." |
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05/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...packs lots of firepower: detailed, reach-out-and-touch creature design, lush settings, big 3-D action set pieces.... [Still,] it looks a little too much like training wheels for tots..." |
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05/31/11 |
Moderate |
 "Folks will either embrace the 'real' or recoil from the reek of indie twee.... A strung-together series of vignettes, montages and threadbare French New Wave tropes..." |
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06/14/11 |
Excellent |
 "...makes you wonder how long before pseudo news and dumbed-down 'information' stream in a perfect, endlessly entertaining circle, from Twitter to YouTube to Google..." |
| 7. |
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06/16/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...lightweight, mostly undirected fantasy goes down easy, gifting audiences with some laughs and uncomplicated fun." |
| 8. |
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07/12/11 |
Very Good |
 "...utterly riveting.... Errol Morris knows how wrong we are to think that 'the profound and ridiculous are incompatible.' " |
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07/27/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a largely impotent exercise. Despite Cooper's bravura performances, it never rises to the level of tragedy, and finally just peters out, dead-ending in cliché." |
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08/03/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a half-smart, deliciously transgressive mess of a movie.... good, guilty fun while sometimes casting a cool eye on what it means to be a man these days." |
| 11. |
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08/11/11 |
Weak |
 "Everybody knows going in that 'Final Destination 5' isn't really a movie any more than it is a meat grinder." |
| 12. |
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09/06/11 |
Very Good |
 "...the movie's narrative engine runs cool rather than hot... admirable as a highly controlled, verging-on-Kubrickian exercise in directorial vision and style." |
| 13. |
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09/13/11 |
Poor |
 "Toxic drool masquerading as a comedic paean to working moms... a cliché-ridden, misogynistic mess." |
| 14. |
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09/20/11 |
Excellent |
 "Miller does right by the highs and lows of baseball... he's a dab hand at framing the angst and emptiness that settles over dark, depopulated slopes of bleachers..." |
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09/27/11 |
Very Good |
 "...the prognosis is mostly positive, thanks to the genuine sweetness and pure joy... delivers some hard-core truths as well as therapeutic humor..." |
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09/27/11 |
Very Good |
 "...deft/daft mix of authentic feeling and sharp parody, belly laughs and visceral dread, makes 'Tucker & Dale vs. Evil' a keeper -- comedy-horror with heart." |
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10/05/11 |
Poor |
 "...you feel almost drugged by its noxious atmosphere, numbed by nausea and despair. Every illusion that humankind might be better than beasts is stripped away." |
| 18. |
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10/12/11 |
Moderate |
 "...supremely short on originality... relies on a CG-improved monster to up the terror ante. The malformed result is a subpar slasher movie..." |
| 19. |
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10/18/11 |
Excellent |
 "...pulses with cumulative dread, teasing our nerve endings with scrabbling spider-feet of unease... among the best films of 2011." |
| 20. |
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10/27/11 |
Weak |
 "...full of footraces and car chases but succumbs to narrative inertia... The acting runs from predictable to wooden to just plain silly." |
