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| 1. |
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09/13/12 |
Excellent |
 "Startlingly intimate and direct... It's impossible not to care about these people... a deeply personal explication of resistance..." |
| 2. |
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08/17/11 |
Weak |
 "...shamelessly clichéd but not-quite dismissable.... Had it rejected the genre's romantic trappings and false heroics more consistently, it might've been worth the ride." |
| 3. |
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09/01/11 |
Weak |
"...shamelessly clichéd but not-quite dismissable... Harlin can't resist getting his 'Rambo' on even for so grave a subject..." |
| 4. |
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09/21/11 |
Weak |
 "A benign boilerplate indie character study in which quirky and cute stand in for thorny and troubled... first-time director Margaret Whitton fails to temper the sappiness with real human crustiness." |
| 5. |
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10/06/11 |
Weak |
"The cast detracts: Fiona, a flighty loner in the book, is a grating twit in Nichols's hands, and Hurst, while likeable, is flat and too hunky. The bird's got more charisma, which in a better movie would've been the point." |
| 6. |
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02/02/11 |
Good |
 "Nitpicky enough to please film-history nerds but lively in a way that should tickle the merely curious... deftly traces the lineage of cheapjack, self-distributed cinematic slop to the enduring indie boom." |
| 7. |
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04/13/11 |
Very Good |
 "...the unprecedented access of director Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree reveals the alternating waves of frontline tedium and terror with fresh immediacy." |
| 8. |
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07/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...near-perfectly balanced... Anchored in social realism yet determinedly goofy... puts more serious-minded indies to shame." |
| 9. |
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07/28/11 |
Outstanding |
"The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import this side of 'Trollhunter'..." |
| 10. |
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08/11/11 |
Fair |
 "...only sporadically a good sex comedy, in part because the flat affect favored by its young Chicago cast of hipsters looks an awful lot like, well, seriousness." |
| 11. |
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07/20/11 |
Fair |
"There are flashes of sexual insight amid the movie's lovely, deceptively complex compositions and smartly deployed songs, but overall it is as vaporous and vaguely dissatisfying as a negotiated quickie before work." |
| 12. |
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06/01/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...potent and even admirable... [but] it ultimately mistakes prim, emotional monotony for gravity." |
| 13. |
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06/02/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...has an intense insularity that is its biggest strength and most major weakness." |
| 14. |
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03/08/12 |
Good |
 "...shaggy, sophisticated, and more than a little sad... Reatard is candid and cogent about his future as an artist -- all the more tragic, then, that he OD'd in 2010." |
| 15. |
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02/29/12 |
Good |
"Even non-fans will appreciate what a tough act Reatard is to follow, and anybody with a shred of respect left for rock 'n' roll will feel loss and anger at his passing." |
| 16. |
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05/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...no more (or less) than a brilliantly executed lark, but it's not often that we're reminded with such potency that movies are most delightful as sensory experiences." |
| 17. |
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06/21/12 |
Very Good |
"...satisfies on practically every level -- provided you allow its narcotic pace, lysergic visuals, and throbbing soundtrack to tickle your cortex into a contained frenzy..." |
| 18. |
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03/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "...absorbing... slyly raises the question of whether Cunningham's self-deprivation and single-minded focus on surface aesthetics have taken an unacknowledged toll." |
| 19. |
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03/24/11 |
Very Good |
"...doggedly shadows the chipper octogenarian, foregrounding the modest lifestyle and quietly radical work ethic that have made him as much a hero as an anomaly." |
| 20. |
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03/09/11 |
Good |
 "...a fairly nuanced meditation on the subjectivity of blind faith and its attendant brutality... works as a worthy companion piece to last year's 'Valhalla Rising'..." |
