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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...expertly made (it's far from tedious) but intellectually muddled. It never really says what it means by progress." |
| 2. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 " 'I've seen the look on people's faces when I've brought them there,' Whedon says of the convention. 'It's the look I had on my face. 'My tribe, my tribe, I've found my tribe.' " |
| 3. |
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04/13/12 |
Weak |
 "...looks and feels like a Lifetime movie waiting not to happen." |
| 4. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...wonderfully conveys the unassailable thingness of painting: paints as gooey-thick as pudding, the mess they make, the various tools Richter chooses to ply his trade..." |
| 5. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...kind of amazing, thanks to headlong enthusiasm and an endearing obliviousness to just how ghastly the whole thing keeps threatening to become." |
| 6. |
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04/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "...racism, suburbanization, inadequate funding for the project, the loss of urban manufacturing jobs -- make plain what a burden the project suffered under." |
| 7. |
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03/23/12 |
Moderate |
 "There are noble acts... But nobility with little pacing, imagination, or energy tends not to work too well on the screen." |
| 8. |
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03/07/12 |
Very Good |
 "Some of the drummers have great stories to tell. Hernandez, growing up in Havana, would cadge old X-rays from hospitals and use them to replace broken drumheads." |
| 9. |
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01/28/12 |
Moderate |
 "...isn't terrible. Terrible might have been more interesting.... the movie has the by-the-numbers efficiency of a decent TV series, and about as much flavor." |
| 10. |
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12/14/11 |
Moderate |
 "...ostensibly a documentary about an architect. Norman Foster is best known around these parts for the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts... It's a treatment of Foster so reverential it verges on camp." |
| 11. |
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12/07/11 |
Very Good |
 "Who wouldn't want to have been an Eames? Their studio in Venice, Calif., was a riot of activity from which streamed all sorts of designs of things: furniture and toys and short films and traveling exhibition and architecture." |
| 12. |
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11/18/11 |
Very Good |
 "Behind every great puppet is a great puppeteer. In the case of Elmo, on 'Sesame Street,' that puppeteer is Kevin Clash." |
| 13. |
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11/18/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Hard as it is to bring off a documentary about an elusive man, it's that much harder when elusiveness was what the man did for a living - and he was your father." |
| 14. |
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11/11/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "We hardly ever see any of these guys' wives... This is a serious omission. After all, you can't have that other 'f' word without a certain 'm' word first." |
| 15. |
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11/04/11 |
Weak |
 "Admirable as earnestness is in life, it's death to art. 'Oranges and Sunshine' is like a Mike Leigh movie drained of all its bodily fluids." |
| 16. |
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10/22/11 |
Moderate |
 "Orlando Bloom's skyscraper pompadour, as the Duke of Buckingham, is the worst. That hair has to be CGI, right?" |
| 17. |
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10/07/11 |
Weak |
 "A college football coach once said that a tie game is like kissing your sister. A Jackie Chan movie without martial arts is like kissing Jackie Chan? No, it's like kissing the football coach." |
| 18. |
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10/05/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...examines how light pollution harms our souls much as air and water pollution harm our bodies.... at its best when focused on the nighttime sky. 'What do we lose when we lose the night?' filmmaker Ian Cheney wonders. It's a haunting question." |
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09/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has a title worthy of a '30s matinee serial, with a sensibility to match. It's slambang in pacing, bald in exposition, and offers cast-of-hundreds spectacle." |
| 20. |
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09/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "...smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion." |
