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05/19/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...expressive, piercing.... Llewyn's journey is humbling, tragic, absurd, revelatory." |
| 2. |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...quietly moving, intelligent... its most admirable quality is the deep sense of personal ethics that frames Ms. Polley's choices... she knows that it is never all about her." |
| 3. |
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05/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "Nasty, brutish, mercifully short.... Mr. Wheatley continues in the same bludgeoning, amusingly if dubiously deadpan fashion for what soon feels like an overextended joke." |
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05/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...sweet, sentimental, almost inevitably touching if not especially persuasive.... Daniel Algrant's attempt to reunite father and son smacks of misplaced wishful thinking." |
| 5. |
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05/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...despite the needless addition of 3-D and negligible differences in quips, gadgets, villains and the type of stuff blown up, it plays out much like the first two movies." |
| 6. |
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05/01/13 |
Good |
 "...while Mr. Reygadas doesn't always make it easy to watch his work (occasionally the reverse), the Carlos Reygadas Experience is always a worthwhile trip." |
| 7. |
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04/26/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...stolidly old-fashioned and manly.... The men are handsome, the sea is pretty and if the sharks look as rubbery as last week's chicken, at least they add some drama..." |
| 8. |
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04/26/13 |
Fair |
 "...thuddingly crude.... Ms. Nair delivers a lesson in multiculturalism, turning a difficult, fairly acid story into an occasion for some finger-wagging." |
| 9. |
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04/19/13 |
Fair |
0513998.jpg) "...lackluster.... the problem is that it's been stitched together from bits and pieces that evoke numerous other, far better far-out tales and ideas..." |
| 10. |
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04/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "Mr. Jay proves a hugely entertaining guide, and as generous about his professional inspirations as he is reticent about his own life." |
| 11. |
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04/12/13 |
Poor |
 "...underbaked.... lurches from the improbably silly to the drearily so... the characters remain emotionally and psychologically divorced from life..." |
| 12. |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...doesn't have the original's wooden performances, puffy clothes and hairdos or its amusingly crude special effects, but it does share its blood lust." |
| 13. |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "...an old-fashioned story that Danny Boyle has retrofitted with his turbocharged style.... Mr. Boyle keeps all his whirring parts in dynamic motion." |
| 14. |
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04/05/13 |
Good |
 "...deeply sincere, elliptical.... a sometimes seductive, sometimes tiresome mélange of ideas that are by turns obvious, hermetic, touching and sweetly dopey." |
| 15. |
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03/29/13 |
Poor |
 "Dopey, derivative and dull... a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation." |
| 16. |
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03/29/13 |
Excellent |
 "...more of a personal essay than a traditional documentary.... fascinating to watch and think about... it shows how works of art become encrusted with their reception." |
| 17. |
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03/27/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...intently self-serious.... includes plenty of mano-a-mano action and a clutch of presumably unintended laughs. This isn't a warning. It's a recommendation." |
| 18. |
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03/20/13 |
Excellent |
 "...highly stylized, resolutely nonformulaic... the slow drip, drip of madness is ignited by rage and fueled by a sense of powerlessness..." |
| 19. |
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03/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "It's a circuitous journey, filled with boisterous comedy and characterized by escalating desperation... offers a glimpse not only of one man, but also of the soul of a people." |
| 20. |
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03/15/13 |
Good |
 "...clever.... it's fitting that Mr. Anderson uses old-fashioned filmmaking techniques to build tension, and old-school exploitation tricks to justify taking the story dark..." |
