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| 21. |
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12/07/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a basically plotless, made-for-millennials rom-com... Everyone in the cast is talented enough to deserve a stronger storyline than this." |
| 22. |
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12/07/12 |
Fair |
 "Murray is approachable yet dignified... Olivia Williams plays the First Lady with the brusqueness of a harried food co-op manager. Poor Linney does what little she can..." |
| 23. |
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12/07/12 |
Excellent |
 "...handsome... impressionistic... Rodrigo Santoro is mighty matinee-idol charismatic, alternating between swaggering lady-killer and ravaged victim of self-destruction." |
| 24. |
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11/30/12 |
Poor |
 "...hapless, clueless, necrophiliac... the crappiness of this doc about a crappy parody of a crappy B movie suggests that David Giancola hasn't kicked the habit." |
| 25. |
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11/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "Robert Carlyle is reason enough to stick with this odd and interesting little sleeper... a lovely gravity and specificity to the story transcends instances of bumpy filmmaking." |
| 26. |
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11/30/12 |
Outstanding |
 "I salute the deftness and intelligence with which Arnon Goldfinger observes the reactions of the living to the revelations of the dead." |
| 27. |
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11/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...strikingly unsentimental... unfolds with a matter-of-fact integrity that accepts all personal quirks, weaknesses, and sorrows as human and worthy of love." |
| 28. |
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11/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "Plummer is marvelous... [but] director Érik Canuel jumps through hoops in an effort to make the stage piece (by William Luce) move like the movie piece it isn't." |
| 29. |
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11/23/12 |
Excellent |
 "...recounts the story of justice undone with extensive interviews, a thorough use of archival footage, and a less-than felicitous use of ominous-rumble music..." |
| 30. |
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11/23/12 |
Moderate |
 "Under the direction of longtime stunt coordinator Dan Bradley ('The Bourne Ultimatum'), the cast looks pretty while playing with guns -- but nothing more." |
| 31. |
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11/23/12 |
Excellent |
 "...beautiful... Lee's bigger theme isn't God or survival, but the awesome adventure of making the imaginary visible, the adventure of making movies." |
| 32. |
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11/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "The storytelling is traditional bordering on square. But the historical drama itself is kind of amazing." |
| 33. |
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11/16/12 |
Good |
 "Joe Wright falls passionately in love with his own fanciful artifices.... Tom Stoppard supplies an excellently clean, delicately balanced script." |
| 34. |
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11/16/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a crazy beaut of a comedy that brims with generosity and manages to circumvent predictability at every turn.... lit with a love that catches the viewer by surprise." |
| 35. |
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11/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a thrilling addition to the James Bond movie canon... stars the totally captivating cool cucumber Daniel Craig as Agent 007... both an elegy and a mission statement." |
| 36. |
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11/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...keenly felt, knuckle-biting... Fiercely alive yet never showy, Washington inhabits the uncomfortable skin of Whip Whitaker with a kind of angry majesty." |
| 37. |
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11/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...one hell of a creepy little eco-horror pic. One minute, folks are splashing around the Maryland shoreline; the next, they're ravaged by hideous parasitic isopods..." |
| 38. |
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11/02/12 |
Very Good |
 "Although the crises are too precious, the performances are treasures, led by Christopher Walken in a surprisingly gentle, soulful key as the group's senior member." |
| 39. |
|
11/02/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a provocatively acrid adult comedy... Tobey Maguire's characteristic placidity makes a fine mask for a man who is thoroughly awful." |
| 40. |
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11/02/12 |
Good |
 "...the two fall into an ardent, downtown-y, summertime passion... Love and sex are scary in Bradley Rust Gray's over-Freuded exercise in semi-horror/gender studies..." |
