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01/25/13 |
Outstanding |
"...hilarious, emotionally satisfying... sweet without being syrupy, it's commercial without being a sell-out, and its dialogue sparkles from beginning to end." |
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01/04/13 |
Outstanding |
"...as good a point as any to get hooked on the magnificent half-century series of documentaries... you may get to know these people better than anyone you know." |
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12/23/11 |
Outstanding |
"...a gorgeous, majestic fable about a boy who yearns to be reunited with his steed.... Those who say they don't make 'em like they used to must now fall silent." |
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07/08/11 |
Outstanding |
"Brilliant, provocative, clear of eye and heavy of heart... about nature versus nurture, arrogance and, more broadly, the mythmaking that beclouds the progressive mindset." |
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12/29/10 |
Outstanding |
"...few documentaries could hope to catch their subjects so off-guard, or to chance upon completely believable dialogue with such haunting echoes." |
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03/04/09 |
Outstanding |
"...as fresh and magnificent in sound and vision as '2001' must have seemed in 1968, yet in its eagerness to argue with itself, it resembles 'A Clockwork Orange.' " |
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01/20/13 |
Outstanding |
"...quiet, gentle but deeply felt.... If Drake Doremus is going to keep making lovely little movies about exquisite heartache, I'll happily keep watching." |
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04/26/13 |
Outstanding |
"...fast, smart, wicked, sort of ambitious and blazingly ironic.... Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus have turned in a crackling, pointed, dense screenplay..." |
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04/05/13 |
Outstanding |
"...a nonstop visual, aural and intellectual delight, steeped in movie conventions and yet fizzing with freshness. It's what happens when film noir goes out to a rave." |
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03/29/13 |
Outstanding |
"Cianfrance, like P.T. Anderson, makes the camera roam and soar... a film of a master craftsman, a director who can imbue the ordinary with poetry." |
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03/29/13 |
Outstanding |
"Without showing any war images, this is a quietly profound statement about the folly of WWI and France's place in it." |
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01/11/13 |
Outstanding |
"Phelim McAleer, who in 'FrackNation' gleefully shreds assertions made in the anti-fracking documentary 'Gasland,' should be content to have struck a blow for truth." |
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11/30/12 |
Outstanding |
"...fantastically entertaining.... If Ginger Baker was not the greatest drummer of all time he was -- is! -- a magnificent wreck. This, boys and girls, is rock." |
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09/28/12 |
Outstanding |
"...a movie that's made to be obsessed over, seen 50 times, quoted as devoutly as such sacred texts as 'Heathers' and 'Bring It On.' " |
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08/31/12 |
Outstanding |
"The seriousness, depth and degree of difficulty here are extraordinary, and yet Brügger is primarily a comedian with an eye for the ridiculous." |
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06/29/12 |
Outstanding |
"...it's got ideas spilling out of its seams. It's a smoothly designed rom-com, in addition to being a parody of same, and for a while it's even bizarrely effective as a thriller." |
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06/08/12 |
Outstanding |
"...intense and engulfing... ponders where evil comes from and how it conquers its makers.... wickedly entertaining, scary, sinister and thought-provoking." |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
"...beautifully restrained... the story works in its themes so quietly and artfully that a hug registers as a genuinely defiant gesture." |
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03/16/12 |
Outstanding |
"...the funniest movie I've seen in more than a year." |
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12/30/11 |
Outstanding |
"...stars an unsurpassable Meryl Streep, whose ability to empathize with her characters has never been more gloriously impassioned than it is in this titanic performance." |