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12/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Mr. Petzold refuses movie clichés as strongly as he does political orthodoxy.... a quietly beautiful movie... Petzold puts his pieces into play gradually." |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A masterpiece about life, death and everything in between... This is a film that will make you weep not only because life ends but also because it blooms." |
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12/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...soul-shaking... the most important American fiction movie about Sept. 11... Ms. Bigelow's direction here is unexpectedly stunning, at once bold and intimate..." |
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11/16/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...exuberant... does almost everything right... an outright comedy, but like Pat, it's a bipolar one that swings between passionate highs and intentionally painful lows." |
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11/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Mr. Mendes gets Bond just right... Whether he is deploying an explosion or a delectable detail, he retains a crucially human scale and intimacy..." |
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10/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "It's a gift for moviegoers to have this much freedom... you never know where Mr. Carax will take you and you never know what, exactly, you're to do once you're there." |
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06/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the collaboration between Mr. Soderbergh and the relatively untested Mr. Tatum is itself a gamble, one that has brought out the best in each... it works -- beautifully." |
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05/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...wondrous... breezes along with a beautifully coordinated admixture of droll humor, deadpan and slapstick... there's a deep, pervasive melancholia here too..." |
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03/16/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...quietly rapturous... the Dardennes ask the most urgent questions we can ask of ourselves -- including, what is it to be human..." |
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12/09/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...superb.... you watch on high alert... It brings you into the state of mind that can feel like a state of siege and goes by the name of British secret service, or just the Circus." |
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11/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing.... its most heartfelt passages are about Georges Méliès." |
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10/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...exhilarating.... Mr. Almodóvar's control remains virtuosic... a Pandora's box from which identity, gender, sex and desire spring." |
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09/09/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Ceausescu turns out to be as much the author of this brilliant documentary as the director... a cinematic tour de force that tracks the rise, reign and grim fall..." |
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08/05/11 |
Outstanding |
 "A masterly tale about lives and stories and the art of their telling... an elegiac meditation on love lost and rediscovered through misted memory." |
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07/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...grave and quietly moving... tells a tale of resilience without platitudes about the triumph of the human spirit or false promises about an unclouded future." |
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07/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...grave, deeply satisfying... as somber and unsettling as it should be... that Snape has become such a brilliant screen character is due to Mr. Rickman..." |
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12/03/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...what gives it a jolt is its giddy, sometimes sleazy exploitation-cinema savvy.... it is visceral and real even while it's one delirious, phantasmagoric freakout." |
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04/09/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a sun-kissed German film... it might not be perfect, but so much is right and true in this lovely, delicate work that it comes breathtakingly close." |
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02/26/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices... thrilling..." |
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01/06/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...astonishingly beautiful... a graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life, there is little here that is objective and much that is magnificent." |
