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04/25/13 |
Moderate |
 "...you'll understand why Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) is eager to ditch his and fake a new identity." |
| 2. |
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04/24/13 |
Moderate |
"Fun for a bit, things soon turn silly, so it's a relief when the film cuts to Wallace's girlfriend back home, a surprisingly muted, sweet Anne Heche." |
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09/26/12 |
Weak |
 "...moralizing melodrama... the script, by first-time director Famke Janssen, condescends to the heartland, and minor roles collapse to stereotype." |
| 4. |
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09/27/12 |
Weak |
"Olive was more fun as a crook, though it can't hurt to show the crummy work available for the disenfranchised." |
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11/07/12 |
Very Good |
 "...cleverly pommels the bruises of anyone raised in a starstruck environment or by a parent using rent money for clothes to 'look the part and get out of this dump.' " |
| 6. |
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12/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...delivers, in spades, a panacea for the oxymoronic 'committee of creatives' method of many contemporary films.... [but] overlong..." |
| 7. |
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04/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"A rare animated feature for adults.... A dystopian T.S. Eliot once said, 'Humankind cannot bear too much reality,' maybe even in a cartoon." |
| 8. |
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03/20/13 |
Fair |
 "Even Mortensen's movingly enigmatic performance can't help Ana Piterbarg decide whether she is making an existential tone poem or a brutish thriller." |
| 9. |
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03/21/13 |
Fair |
"An identity crisis is at the heart of the movie -- but it's the film's." |
| 10. |
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03/13/13 |
Very Good |
 "Using whip-smart wordplay from writer-director Joan Carr-Wiggin ('A Previous Engagement'), Marcia Gay Harden does a star turn in versatility." |
| 11. |
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11/14/12 |
Very Good |
 "...even nonbelievers will get angry.... Gibney climbs the ladder of blame right to the top... The film is one-sided, of course -- church officials ignored interview requests..." |
| 12. |
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11/15/12 |
Very Good |
"Silence might be the most perfect expression of scorn, as the saying goes, but like Edvard Munch's The Scream, you don't have to hear it to get the horror." |
| 13. |
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04/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...skewers the easy-on and -off labels of psychiatry, but some sequences, particularly one of 'bad dreams,' are sophomoric." |
| 14. |
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03/27/13 |
Good |
 "...a languorous look at the last days of the storied painter.... Wisely, Gilles Bourdos keeps the pace slow, what with all the tensions beneath the surface..." |
| 15. |
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03/28/13 |
Good |
"...shows the artist working on a canvas, with Lee's camera gliding to models in soft focus, a kind of live action impressionism and a new take on the familiar Bathers." |
| 16. |
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10/17/12 |
Good |
 "With its positive gay images, and even a perfectly executed two-step line dance, this is a feel-good movie for girls of both sexes." |
| 17. |
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10/18/12 |
Good |
"Thanks to a cinematic intervention by Haley Joel Osment as Chip, the film gets rescued from the category of yet one more inconsequential coming-of-age tale." |
| 18. |
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05/01/13 |
Good |
 "...the long-term employees fascinate more than the clothes: They are beautiful gargoyles, true freaks of fashion.... the doc is fun and frothy, a fan's mash note." |
| 19. |
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05/09/13 |
Good |
"At last! A documentary about that underexposed group: the 1 percenters in their lair.... A one-size-fits-all documentary format includes a mini-history..." |
| 20. |
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10/18/12 |
Good |
 "There might be something new to say about sex after all, and it's said in 'Sexy Baby'..." |
