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01/07/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...bursts with clever ideas... But it settles into the lulling rhythms characters ponder what to do in darkened rooms instead of doing much of anything." |
| 2. |
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01/28/10 |
Moderate |
 "...gathers all the elements of a smart, politically resonant thriller, but leaves them only half-assembled." |
| 3. |
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01/28/10 |
Moderate |
 "It's a pleasure to see Buscemi take a rare lead role, even though he ends up working double-time to anchor material that wants to float away in several directions at once." |
| 4. |
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02/04/10 |
Excellent |
 "...the stuff of Noir 101, but the series owes more to the moral murk of James Ellroy's L.A. and the civic spiderweb of 'The Wire' than conventional thrillers." |
| 5. |
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02/11/10 |
Moderate |
 "...the story feels thinned-out, as if merely establishing the elements of a fur-covered family melodrama were enough.... this is a monster too polite for its own good." |
| 6. |
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02/25/10 |
Moderate |
 "...feels as familiar as it is insubstantial... It's nice to see a film unafraid to be quiet and sensitive, but one good gust of coastal breeze would blow this one away." |
| 7. |
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02/25/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Whatever contemporary resonance it might have had gets lost in a procession of competent -- and sometimes slightly better than competent -- shocks." |
| 8. |
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03/04/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...yet another outsized battle between good and evil... It's 'Alice' in name, but Alice's spirit remains somewhere else." |
| 9. |
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03/18/10 |
Very Good |
 "...shows up, settles in, and lets the cameras roll, because sometimes the music needs little more than an audience willing to go where it will take them." |
| 10. |
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03/18/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a time-waster with brains, but ultimately not enough brains, and one that wastes too much time." |
| 11. |
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03/25/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...for a good stretch, 'Chloe' neatly fixes Egoyan's career-long obsessions with identity and communication to the familiar framework of the erotic thriller." |
| 12. |
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03/25/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a visually rich, emotionally gripping, thoroughly irresistible adventure tale." |
| 13. |
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04/01/10 |
Moderate |
 "...modestly entertaining... As with 'Transporter 2' and 'The Incredible Hulk,' Leterrier aims no higher than competence and achieves just that..." |
| 14. |
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04/01/10 |
Very Good |
 "...a too-cute setup for a movie that doesn't have much interest in being too cute.... It's a trifle, but a trifle that sticks." |
| 15. |
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04/15/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...comes closest to inspired, unsettling lunacy... elsewhere, Vaughn struggles to put his own stamp on some familiar action beats..." |
| 16. |
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04/29/10 |
Poor |
 "Director Samuel Bayer, a veteran commercial and music video director brings a slick visual sense but not a hint of vision." |
| 17. |
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05/06/10 |
Very Good |
 "Garcia shoots with minimal flare, an approach that keeps the focus squarely on the cast, whose moving work helps pave over some of the narrative's lumpier patches." |
| 18. |
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05/13/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Scott is one of the few directors who could field-marshal this sort of spectacle... simply ending up with a fitfully engaging behemoth of a movie isn't accomplishment enough." |
| 19. |
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05/13/10 |
Fair |
 "...sounds like the greatest outrage ever put to screen, but ends up being fairly tedious... What's most shocking here is how quickly disgust can curdle into boredom." |
| 20. |
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05/13/10 |
Moderate |
 "...no amount of pretty scenery and grand-dame gravity can make up for the complete absence of chemistry between Seyfried and Egan." |
