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05/09/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...photos, footage, and recordings of Baker do little to suggest he was more than a gifted huckster with great hair." |
| 2. |
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05/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...a largely sympathetic history of the Baker-led phenomenon.... With some focus and critical perspective, the film might have documented more than a spectacle of its time." |
| 3. |
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04/18/13 |
Very Good |
 "How does change come to such odds? One answer emerges from the mission of Bengali community leader Amlan Ganguly: Start small." |
| 4. |
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04/04/13 |
Fair |
 "Set in the near future yet animated in the video-game style of the recent past.... a crude valentine to Ron Paul and his extended family." |
| 5. |
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04/04/13 |
Good |
 "...a film that marries classical gloss and omnibus scope with an invigorated, keenly sensory approach." |
| 6. |
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03/21/13 |
Very Good |
 "...grounded in home truth.... Gondry turns a single, if somewhat apocryphal, bus ride home into an arty after-school special, with charm gilding its frayed, earnest edges." |
| 7. |
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03/21/13 |
Very Good |
 "...wry, ambivalent... a sweet, stealthy film about creating meaning in your life (and your work) in a relentlessly mercenary world." |
| 8. |
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03/20/13 |
Fair |
"...the charms of what might charitably be called the movie's homemade look and feel are limited.... More awkward than unsettling..." |
| 9. |
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03/13/13 |
Very Good |
"...an engaging portrait of several children seeking to improve life in India's slums.... Change may be elusive, the film confirms, but the will to make it blazes." |
| 10. |
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03/07/13 |
Excellent |
 "Brooklyn native, Yale-educated Crewdson has an obsessive eye for physical detail, here creating image after image of postcapitalist desolation..." |
| 11. |
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03/06/13 |
Very Good |
"...shaggy.... At its finest and most affecting, it's a window onto youth's forever moments, those heavy gaps between school and home, senior year and summer..." |
| 12. |
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02/28/13 |
Fair |
 "Enough of Mumia's righteous intensity burns through the cult heroics to suggest that his American tragedy needs little adornment and remains to be told." |
| 13. |
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02/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "The documentary's defining tension lies in its implicit invitation to join the subjects in searching their own faces for some sign of the past, of previous generations, of evil." |
| 14. |
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02/06/13 |
Excellent |
 "Proof that Raúl Ruiz was still teeming with ideas... a characteristic work of surreal wit and circuitousness -- and the filmmaker's winking but mournful goodbye." |
| 15. |
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01/31/13 |
Outstanding |
 "You don't get the sense that it's any easier for these men to question Israel's leadership, or lack of leadership, from the safety of retirement." |
| 16. |
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01/30/13 |
Fair |
"...more passion than persuasion.... Oblique and thickly layered with rhetoric, this account does little to illuminate Mumia the man, but it sets Mumia the statue aglow." |
| 17. |
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01/30/13 |
Outstanding |
"...engrossing... compelling viewing, but the enigmatic cross-hatching of insights that emerges from those big interviews makes the movie something more essential." |
| 18. |
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01/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...stitches together voices of the activists and organizers at the center of the events that led to the end of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year reign..." |
| 19. |
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01/09/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...concise, accessible... takes a hard look, through the general tone of afterglow, at the American government's tacit and explicit support of the Mubarak regime." |
| 20. |
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12/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "Ra'anan Alexandrowicz seeks to expose the injustice that defines the Palestinian occupation through a careful examination of the ad hoc legal framework..." |
