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05/18/12 |
Poor |
 "Common sense and basic logic are left at the door; there's a brief creature effect that is laughably, outlandishly awful." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Fair |
 "...doesn't wind up feeling like a con, exactly, but it has just enough promise to leave viewers feeling ripped off when it comes up short." |
| 3. |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "...aims to be a gentle comedy (there are even some songs approaching musical numbers) with serious undercurrents. It stumbles most when reaching for its bigger themes." |
| 4. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "...part road movie and part coming-of-age story but mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia looking for mileage.... This 'Hick' should be sent packing back to the sticks." |
| 5. |
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05/10/12 |
Good |
 "...has a rambunctious, playful sense of curiosity and exploration... Even while sometimes losing the way among its thicket of meta-textual levels, the film has enough rough charm to make it through..." |
| 6. |
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04/27/12 |
Fair |
 "...lacks bustle... In its portrait of a Restless City the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers." |
| 7. |
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04/27/12 |
Weak |
 "...overstuffed and overcooked... feels like a collegiate production of 'Crash,' thinking it's saying big things as it traffics in the obvious." |
| 8. |
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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "Binoche proves why she is such a world-renowned actress... As an essay on women's roles in society and cross-generational female desire, the film provides many questions with no easy answers." |
| 9. |
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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "Braden King creates a swoony sense of time and place... the film seems motivated by a tone of searching and yearning, not of finding a single way." |
| 10. |
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04/25/12 |
Excellent |
 "...in equal measure a look at two families, the ongoing legacy of America's recent past and an essay on one man's moment of transformative courage." |
| 11. |
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04/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Pleasant without being revelatory, underwhelming but not obnoxiously so... explores how we become who we are, whether by genetics or environment or some combination of the two." |
| 12. |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "Director and editor P. David Ebersol seems uncertain throughout of what tale he is telling... Often the film pushes Schemel to the edge of what is intended to be her story..." |
| 13. |
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04/14/12 |
Moderate |
 "...it's often difficult to tell what's bad on purpose or just badly handled. The cargo shorts and fanny pack? Purposely funny. The slack pacing? Probably not. The grasping at straws, stretch-it-out feel of the extended plot? Maybe?" |
| 14. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...in essence an earnestly competent, slightly overcooked B-movie potboiler, with ideas of faith occasionally added to frame the story as parable." |
| 15. |
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04/13/12 |
Fair |
 "Weiss stretches both credulity and her abilities in eventually trying to intertwine her workplace and romance plots through a corporate espionage twist; it doesn't quite hold..." |
| 16. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the film is really Dafoe's show, and he reminds once again why he is such a tremendous actor and also one so easy to underestimate and take for granted." |
| 17. |
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04/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the sense of intimacy created by Losier is remarkable.... the film takes the viewer not just into the world of Genesis and Lady Jaye, but somehow, as a true ballad should, into their hearts." |
| 18. |
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04/12/12 |
Moderate |
 "...an incomplete portrait of Tania Head, who went from being a high-profile spokesperson for fellow survivors to having her story entirely discredited... the movie seems like a teaser for something else..." |
| 19. |
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04/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a film created simply for the sake of regarding its own genre smarts is a hollow vessel. Without a human, emotional component, there actually isn't much to spoil." |
| 20. |
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03/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...may not be one for the ages, but it is one for right now.... Pang Ho-Cheung's nimble, incisive writing and direction and his winning leads give proof to the rom-com ideal that a film can be funny..." |
