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06/26/09 |
Good |
 "...charming, poetic and at times surreal stop-motion animation co-written with Etgar Keret and based on the Israeli writer's short stories." |
| 2. |
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11/06/09 |
Very Good |
 "...reminds me of an old joke about how many artists it takes to screw in a light bulb. Answer: 100. One to actually screw it in, and 99 to say, 'I could have done that.' " |
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09/21/12 |
Very Good |
 "...an un-gimmicky, heartfelt and fresh take on the theme of growing up... Jamie Linden manages to sidestep most of the cliches inherent in the theme of romantic regret." |
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02/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "...the Academy Award-nominated mini-movies are, for the most part, overwhelmingly gloomy.... You'll have a lot more fun with the animated shorts..." |
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02/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the animated short films feel notably old-fashioned, quaint even... 'Fresh Guacamole' is my favorite... a visually original treat..." |
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08/25/12 |
Weak |
 "...a slick infomercial.... D'Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you're predisposed to believe that Obama hates America." |
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10/21/11 |
Moderate |
 "I love the concept that Tykwer's selling: The thing that destroys us is also the thing that keeps us alive. But when it comes to the people in the movie, I just ain't buying them." |
| 8. |
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04/08/11 |
Weak |
 "...a huge disappointment... the movie keeps promising a bang, but all '3 Backyards' ever delivers is a whimper." |
| 9. |
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04/06/12 |
Weak |
 "Director Charles Minn lays out - or, rather, hammers on - all the issues through a combination of grisly news footage, opinions by talking heads and an over-reliance on on-screen titles..." |
| 10. |
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06/29/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...slight but visually charming.... neither deep nor complex. Still, it's so good-looking, and without a drop of CGI or 3-D, that it hardly seems to matter." |
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09/24/10 |
Very Good |
 "...may not be the strangest making-of documentary you've ever seen. It may, however, be the most affecting.... poignant and disturbing." |
| 12. |
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03/01/13 |
Outstanding |
 "On the whole, the film has a tone of intelligent, if subdued, outrage. It deserves to be seen, along with 'Food, Inc.,' 'King Corn' and other muckraking food docs..." |
| 13. |
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02/12/10 |
Very Good |
 "...an utterly delightful excursion to a place where far too few films these days ever take us... That place is called the realm of the imagination." |
| 14. |
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11/04/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's silly, silly stuff, and the movie knows it. But if you can't laugh at yourself, how can you expect anyone else to?" |
| 15. |
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06/22/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a mixed bag... reasonably gripping thanks in large part to filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov's strong sense of action and visual style." |
| 16. |
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02/03/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...solid and watchable... a tale that's tangled by heavy reliance on scientific data, jargon and legal maneuvering.... there's a bit of a been-there-done-that air..." |
| 17. |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a movie with a good head on its shoulders and a sweet heart, but with an inconsistent report card.... a serious film about life, relationships and growing up..." |
| 18. |
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07/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "Alison Klayman's prismatic portrait of the artist is a useful primer, though it also focuses a bit more on the activism than on the art." |
| 19. |
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06/18/10 |
Weak |
 "Filled with joyless sex... a meandering philosophical treatise on the nature of existence, a smutty meditation on René Descartes -- I shag therefore I am..." |
| 20. |
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10/19/12 |
Moderate |
 "...some of the film's tone of strained seriousness is cut by moments of genuine humor, even if some of it is unintentional... it isn't meant to be analyzed too deeply." |
