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| 1. |
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05/18/12 |
Poor |
 "...don't expect much pleasure along the way." |
| 2. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the documentarians should be embracing the notion their film is an exposé and be giving us more information onscreen about some of the allegations it implies." |
| 3. |
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02/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "The film's success depends not on us wishing our liberalism onto the 19th-century, but at observing something universal in suffering caused by sexual inequity." |
| 4. |
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12/21/11 |
Moderate |
 "...misses much of Hergé's sometimes subtle wit.... there is a decided lack of clear lines in this erratic movie adaptation of his work." |
| 5. |
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10/21/11 |
Very Good |
 "...funny enough to make you laugh and plausible enough, in an exploding-umbrella type of way, to make you care. Not bad for the sequel to a jumped-up credit-card commercial." |
| 6. |
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05/13/11 |
Moderate |
 "...an almost laughable cliché of the European art film." |
| 7. |
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05/06/11 |
Poor |
 "On the two occasions when Rachel and Dex wind up in bed together, they have sheets up to their necks. Apparently, there are some things that nice girls still don't do." |
| 8. |
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04/22/11 |
Moderate |
 "...does what it needs to: Like any honest Holocaust movie must, it creates sympathetic, three-dimensional characters that an audience will grow to like - and then kills them." |
| 9. |
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04/08/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Occasionally the experience is heart-stopping, often it's joyous.... Bujalski establishes a thoroughly convincing naturalism..." |
| 10. |
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03/25/11 |
Moderate |
 "...the kind of feel-good foreign flick swiftly created when an unlikely new premise meets a predictable old formula..." |
| 11. |
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01/28/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The facts really get in the way of the portrait here... we are left hungry for more Spacey and more insight into a man with the hubris to wonder if he has disappointed God." |
| 12. |
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01/21/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "A lot of sharp lines from screenwriter Elizabeth Meriwether and a strong supporting cast... not half bad for a formulaic rom-com." |
| 13. |
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01/07/11 |
Moderate |
 "Writer/director Shana Feste struggles mightily to instill meaning and grandeur, but her initial efforts to sidestep cliché often result in confusion before she simply gives up and opts for melodrama." |
| 14. |
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11/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "If you forgive the showiness of filmmaker Gibney's style and the long windup, you will be amply rewarded..." |
| 15. |
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11/12/10 |
Very Good |
 "...part cinéma-vérité family drama, part blood-soaked crime caper.... The performers' naturalism is remarkable..." |
| 16. |
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11/10/10 |
Moderate |
 "...the winsome McAdams proves a worthy heir of the screwball-comedy queens. Plus the movie does show some welcome wit as it satirizes the idiocies of morning TV - until it starts repeating itself in the second half." |
| 17. |
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10/29/10 |
Very Good |
 "...rises above the usual rom-com. Its chief problem is a title character who is more plot device than personality." |
| 18. |
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10/29/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a small film with more to say than its creaky exposition and formulaic plot would suggest. Frustration is perhaps the more appropriate critical response." |
| 19. |
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08/07/09 |
Moderate |
 "...there is some delightful irony in watching Yi pursue her lovelorn documentarian routine while being courted by Hollywood's hottest nerd. But apparently the joke is on us..." |
| 20. |
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08/07/09 |
Very Good |
 "Child was a large personality, and Meryl Streep is a great actress - the combination does rather overshadow young Amy Adams in the role of Powell, the earnest disciple." |
