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09/12/12 |
Good |
 "...it's not a slam dance of a show-and-tell food doc, nor is it investigative... it is mainly about a son looking for approval." |
| 2. |
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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." |
| 3. |
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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." |
| 4. |
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10/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...a Disney-like patina covers all, foretelling a plea to help (but how?) tacked on at the very end... noble intent is at odds with aesthetics." |
| 5. |
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10/11/12 |
Good |
"Paul Lacoste cleverly uses the enhanced sound of Michel slowly, deliberately chewing and crunching, in what is really the film's climax." |
| 6. |
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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." |
| 7. |
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10/17/12 |
Good |
 "...snazzily edited... Never titillating, the film examines how porn inspires real women to changes of identity..." |
| 8. |
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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." |
| 9. |
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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'..." |
| 10. |
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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.' " |
| 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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12/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...delivers, in spades, a panacea for the oxymoronic 'committee of creatives' method of many contemporary films.... [but] overlong..." |
| 14. |
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02/27/13 |
Moderate |
 "As it wraps up, the movie goes all surrealistic and slightly slaphappy, but even a spoofy mock doc requires a maybe/could-be mimetic moment drawing you in..." |
| 15. |
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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." |
| 16. |
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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." |
| 17. |
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03/21/13 |
Fair |
"An identity crisis is at the heart of the movie -- but it's the film's." |
| 18. |
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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..." |
| 19. |
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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." |
| 20. |
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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." |
