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04/19/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
0513998.jpg) "...a lot like its star: clean, cold, efficient, increasingly overblown, and not a little inexplicable.... sometimes it can be pretty oblivious." |
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04/19/13 |
Moderate |
 "The combination of beautiful look and repeated happy endings makes the film seem less like a call to arms than an occasion for self-congratulation." |
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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...nicely mixes vintage news footage and photographs, talking-head interviews with journalists and Koch associates, and lots (and lots) of Koch." |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has a nice easy rhythm. It feels neither hurried nor emphatic. There's no narration. Zola and Tiger do most of the talking. The film cuts back and forth between them." |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Icily articulate and still beautiful as she nears 70, Davis compels attention on screen. You can see why Shola Lynch would want to make this documentary about her..." |
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03/30/13 |
Weak |
 "Put a Kardashian in the cast. Make social media a plot device... that creaking sound you hear is plot machinery so contrived it would seem old-fashioned on a nickelodeon." |
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03/29/13 |
Weak |
 "...even the broadest shtick can't prevent a movie that features a Busby Berkeley-style group hug from becoming a male weepie. Or a testimonial to Planned Parenthood." |
| 8. |
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03/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...gives you four movies for the price of one. You get sci-fi.... you get a love story.... You get a dystopian fantasy.... Finally, you get political allegory." |
| 9. |
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03/08/13 |
Moderate |
 "...you never think it's Douglas MacArthur you're watching, even when Jones wears the aviator sunglasses and sticks a corncob pipe in his mouth." |
| 10. |
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03/01/13 |
Weak |
 "As morally engaged as the movie is, it's also argumentatively slack. Precisely because it's so easy to agree that hunger is bad, it's hard to agree what to do." |
| 11. |
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02/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "What may be best about the movie is its love of tradecraft. Trappers straddle a technological present and timeless tradition." |
| 12. |
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01/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a somewhat slack and talky film.... The moral weight of 'Hitler's Children' is unmistakable. So is that weight's inertness." |
| 13. |
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11/21/12 |
Weak |
 "...the story of Huberman and the founding of the Palestine Symphony could easily inspire a fictional feature or a documentary.... 'Orchestra of Exiles' would indicate not." |
| 14. |
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11/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...lively and affecting... 'In 318,' the school's principal proudly says, 'the geeks, they are the athletes.' " |
| 15. |
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11/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a smart and strange sort-of comedy... manages to be both compelling and unsatisfying... it doesn't work, but it doesn't work in such intriguing ways." |
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10/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...smart, lively... the most heart-warming hoop movie this side of 'Hoosiers'.... 'The medal in Seoul was gold,' says Arvydas Sabonis, 'but this bronze is our soul.' " |
| 17. |
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09/28/12 |
Poor |
 "...lacks the derring-do of Robert E. Howard's stories. It's all stylized grimness. Purefoy has a presence, but meteorology is the real star." |
| 18. |
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09/28/12 |
Weak |
 "The neatness of the plotting becomes almost comical after a while. Construction is one thing; contrivance is another.... Far worse is the absence of flavor or texture." |
| 19. |
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09/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "Do we need the several appearances by the articulate local Green Party councilor denouncing Trump? Yes. The art show of anti-Trump paintings? Probably not." |
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09/21/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...feels somewhere between loose (which is good) and aimless (which isn't)... Still, the filmmakers inject several notes of optimism into the final portion of the documentary." |
