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05/18/12 |
Excellent |
 "...an unexpectedly sincere salute to the awesome responsibilities of today's U.S. Navy as well as to the heroic work of veterans who came before." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Fair |
 "...a failed insurrection... Baron Cohen's demonstrations of political 'outrageousness' feel all too canned, planned, and defanged." |
| 3. |
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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...whenever Rupert Everett appears as a rich fellow who distinctly does not fancy ladies, it's a hysterical history lesson of the hilarious variety." |
| 4. |
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05/11/12 |
Fair |
 "...has a humorless intensity... writer-director Dennis Lee scratches the skin of family bonds until it bleeds. This time, he uses whimsy as a salve." |
| 5. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "There's a particularly bum message about the lives of blue-collar women in the subplot involving Mama's affair with the husband of a woman whose house she cleans." |
| 6. |
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05/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...droll and satisfying... Writer-director Gérald Hustache-Mathieu sustains a fresh voice influenced by the Coen brothers and the infernal snow of 'Fargo.' " |
| 7. |
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05/04/12 |
Good |
 "...there's something comfortable -- and comforting -- about all this.... the movie is as reliable as a tea bag..... it achieves what it sets out to do..." |
| 8. |
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05/04/12 |
Poor |
 "Terminal colon cancer has never looked more fetching than in the critically ill romantic-disease comedy.... inane..." |
| 9. |
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05/04/12 |
Excellent |
 "Each of the six young subjects vying for the Youth America Grand Prix (and the priceless award of a full scholarship to a top ballet school) is a wonder of self-imposed discipline in service to art." |
| 10. |
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05/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...an acute drama of young romance and passionate sex, as well as what you learn when you lose both.... love is more complicated than a 15-year-old girl can know." |
| 11. |
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04/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Greg MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic-screen nature movies including 'The Living Sea,' is up to date in his use of 70mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story." |
| 12. |
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04/13/12 |
Good |
 "...this viewer is left to wonder: What does it take these days to really, seriously horrify?... the right blood splatters don't mean splat in a movie that feels like a game." |
| 13. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the gaily outlandish plot is matched by tin-eared dialogue, ripe tough-guy overacting from the very game Pearce... floats like space junk in the final frontier." |
| 14. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...torpid... Sarah Bolger plays a dull Everygirl trying to get through teen gloom. Inexpressive British model Lily Cole stares at a vampiric new classmate." |
| 15. |
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04/13/12 |
Excellent |
 "...suffers at times from handling too many sadnesses at once. But the movie's tonic lack of sentimentality binds the various griefs together into something moving." |
| 16. |
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04/06/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the contemporary young women and men at the leafy East Coast college called Seven Oaks carry on as if it's 1961.... a wan, self-consciously talky little drama..." |
| 17. |
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03/30/12 |
Good |
 "...handsome and atmospheric... director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (who made the cool '28 Weeks Later') plays with classic horror elements of rain, bony monster fingers, vertiginous camera angles..." |
| 18. |
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03/30/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a film that's all picture and no propulsion... But those pantaloons -- and every other costume in the movie -- are marvels of artistry..." |
| 19. |
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03/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...both for those who already know just how brutal the Games become and those who are new to the dystopian tale..." |
| 20. |
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03/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...exquisite, nuanced, memory-infused work from master British filmmaker Terence Davies... Weisz, in one of her finest performances, opens herself beautifully to vulnerability and folly." |
