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| 21. |
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07/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...good-looking, tautly told, ultra-smart crime story imbeds big issues in riveting action... pulls all of the threads of super-twisted plots and counter-plots together..." |
| 22. |
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07/10/12 |
Poor |
 "...a discordant thing that shouldn't be there, or here, or anywhere. Stultifying from start to finish... supremely incoherent -- plot-, dialogue- and character-wise." |
| 23. |
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06/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...funny, exhilarating, down-and-dirty.... Spoofing his own studly rep while milking it for every last drop of sexual charisma, McConaughey owns the screen." |
| 24. |
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06/12/12 |
Excellent |
 "If Woody Allen had been a woman born and raised in the Great Damp of the Pacific Northwest, Lynn Shelton might have been his name." |
| 25. |
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06/05/12 |
Excellent |
 "...co-writer is Noah Baumbach... he's brought his off-kilter wit and smarts to an animated bestiary that keeps you laughing while eloquently re-defining where home is." |
| 26. |
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06/04/12 |
Weak |
 "Cocooned in so-hip-it-hurts smugness... perpetuates the sophomoric notion that deadpan quirk and snark are just cover for all that's really warm and cuddly..." |
| 27. |
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05/25/12 |
Poor |
 "...my friend hissed, 'I already want all of these people to die.' Unfortunately, we had an hour or so to wait before that wish was granted." |
| 28. |
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05/21/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...you can almost forgive 'The Intouchables' ' breezy racial stereotyping, cheap comedy and phony-baloney attitudes toward art, culture, class, and quadriplegia. Almost." |
| 29. |
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05/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...casts a genuinely noir spell, and gives Samuel L. Jackson the chance to show how interesting an actor he can be when not straitjacketed into rote action roles." |
| 30. |
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05/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a happy tribute to the gentle art of being human... It's an exuberant yet tender journey, never descending into saccharine cuteness or manufactured melodrama." |
| 31. |
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04/25/12 |
Poor |
 "Fertile ground for perversity, murder and madness, if only director James McTeigue and company had been able to see further than a low-rent mash-up of 'Seven' and 'Saw.' " |
| 32. |
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04/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...never really steams up the screen with any psychosexual hijinks, and it falls way short of successfully mining vampirism as fertile metaphor for Sapphic love..." |
| 33. |
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04/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "...may be largely a dramatic dud, but there are a couple compelling reasons to watch it.... Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis possess a peculiar, believable chemistry." |
| 34. |
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03/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Good for lowdown fun... invites us in to celebrate its idiosyncratic bunch of sweet-natured goons. Handicapped they may be, but not one could be said to lack game." |
| 35. |
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03/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...glossy entertainment sufficiently bland and sanitized that it will offend no one.... nothing lasts long enough to touch -- or wound -- us deeply." |
| 36. |
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03/15/12 |
Moderate |
 "...verging-on-sitcom silliness... The kind of arch indie comedy that likes looking at itself... wears thin, all surface and not that much heart." |
| 37. |
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03/06/12 |
Very Good |
 "...surpasses its source thanks to Elizabeth Olsen's powerful performance and Igor Martinovic's strikingly imaginative camerawork." |
| 38. |
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03/02/12 |
Moderate |
 "John Bunting and his acolytes are too repulsive to identify with, and director Justin Kurzel isn't assured enough to lasso us with a strong narrative through-line." |
| 39. |
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02/15/12 |
Moderate |
 "The third film by the Wisconsin-born Sprecher sisters -- director Jill and co-writer Karen... plays as mild, less-than-lethal noir." |
| 40. |
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02/15/12 |
Poor |
 "...a droopy love triangle seriously short on sexual chemistry, not to mention the kind of playful self-awareness that can spice up even the blandest romantic comedy." |
