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05/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's hard to be certain whether the film's placidity is an ironic gag, but the modesty at work turns out to be pretty likable, as strange as that sounds." |
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04/04/13 |
Weak |
 "...a Hollywood Elderhostel reunion with septuagenarian icons looking back on the righteousness and failures of the Nixon-'Nam era with rheumy retirees' eyeballs." |
| 3. |
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04/03/13 |
Weak |
"...all but blows a trumpet for how rad rad used to be.... Redford succeeds only in defanging the idea of resistance altogether.... the film surrenders in an arthritic faint." |
| 4. |
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03/28/13 |
Good |
 "Adam Leon's grungy résumé indie is a modest deal, with a sweet, mumblecore-style ending, but it glows with unmistakable star power." |
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03/21/13 |
Excellent |
 "...grows in your head afterward, making royal hash out of a cultural paradigm we'll be loathe to remember years from now -- if, by then, everything hasn't become 'reality.' " |
| 6. |
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03/20/13 |
Good |
"A big winner at SXSW... runs on nothing but biodiesel personality.... the movie banks not so much on street cred but on old-fashioned movie charisma." |
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03/14/13 |
Poor |
 "...tirelessly glib... tracks the cultural trajectory of the eponymous song, 'from Ukraine to YouTube,' and makes a big tzimmes along the way about 'being Jewish'..." |
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03/13/13 |
Excellent |
"Garrone is in complete control of his thematic plutonium... builds to as scalding a vision of televisual simulacra and its maddened victims as 'The King of Comedy.' " |
| 9. |
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02/28/13 |
Fair |
 "Mark Webber's definitely mourning something here: if not his son's mother, then perhaps his own unstoppable slide into adulthood." |
| 10. |
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02/27/13 |
Fair |
"...a handheld-realist autobio indie... the claustrophobic sense of young Industry workers collarbone-deep into their own navels is hard to shake.... Earnest as hell..." |
| 11. |
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02/27/13 |
Poor |
"...like the doc equivalent of a Yiddish-humor bathroom book.... Patronizing from toe to chin, the film opts continually for self-congratulation and cheesy aphorism..." |
| 12. |
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01/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the 'Up' films rise and fall just as lives do - at 56 menopausal struggles grind quietly on, and hereafter we can look forward only to autumnal days and death." |
| 13. |
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01/02/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"Apted's entire project is awesome in scale but subject to inevitable diminishing returns... '35 Up' was its acme.... Ever since, we've been lost in the wind-down..." |
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12/12/12 |
Weak |
 "A heavy-handed, 'Precious'-manqué teen-tribulation indie.... Little more than a résumé film for all involved, it certainly feels more Park City than Bushwick." |
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12/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "...hews close to the experience at hand, which sometimes feels a little too much like a normal leading-up-to-the-big-game 'Undefeated'-style sports doc." |
| 16. |
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12/06/12 |
Weak |
 "...rips off 'Raging Bull' in every way imaginable except for the curly coifs... Heleno is here mostly a two-dimensional playboy with disastrous impulse control." |
| 17. |
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12/05/12 |
Weak |
"...the proscribed rhythms and questionable ethics of the classic downfall biopic go a long way to keeping this low-grade and, even for soccer fans, inconsequential." |
| 18. |
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11/28/12 |
Moderate |
 "An earnest, unthinking, life-is-beautiful global indie... Tiresomely simple... you're either smitten by these guileless Zulu lads experiencing 'freedom' or you've checked out." |
| 19. |
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11/15/12 |
Moderate |
 "...the good intentions are patronizing... Rose Bosch has got a steady grip on the automatic tear-jerking..." |
| 20. |
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11/14/12 |
Moderate |
"Todd Kellstein's movie could have tackled an entire culture's disposable misogyny, but instead gives only a glimpse of girlhood as gladiatorship." |
