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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...allows director Richard Linklater to explore his own roots while telling a remarkable real-life story, something too crazy for anyone to make up." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...has about half of a story stretched to feature length, and it manages to end just as a good story might have been kicking in." |
| 3. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a hit-and-miss effort... Elizabeth Banks, who is very funny, keeps the movie grounded in the grinding physical details." |
| 4. |
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05/18/12 |
Poor |
 "...a complete waste of 82 minutes... Spurlock has lazied his way through this documentary, making a dumb movie from a smart subject." |
| 5. |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a pack of all-too-plausible characters... These are people who might go 20 years without saying or doing a surprising thing or having a surprising emotion." |
| 6. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "At the most fundamental level, as a work of entertainment, it fails. Scenes meander pointlessly, beginning and ending without any change or story movement." |
| 7. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...when you consider all the pitfalls avoided, and all the laughs and pleasures it provides along the way, 'Dark Shadows' is a satisfying and skillful effort." |
| 8. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a rare reminder from movies that the grand emotions are not only for the young and the middle-aged. They're the sweetness and torment of life until the last light goes out." |
| 9. |
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05/04/12 |
Poor |
 "...this film is a travesty." |
| 10. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "Its appeal is in watching people who have devised their own original style of comic performance and have taken it to a rare level of refinement." |
| 11. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...shows us the world's most famous living painter at work with greater intimacy than any other film portrait of a contemporary artist provides." |
| 12. |
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04/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "This is one very somber movie that builds and builds until it becomes thoroughly depressing." |
| 13. |
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04/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "...has its moments, and yet there is something about this tale of a serial killer's patterning his crimes on Poe's most gruesome works that doesn't completely satisfy." |
| 14. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "The movie is a precision instrument with no parts jammed together, just everything smooth and functioning." |
| 15. |
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04/23/12 |
Very Good |
 "Jury Prize Winner at Cannes... With a documentary style similar to director Maïwenn Le Besco's two previous films, 'Polisse' has an extraordinary cast.... It's a real slice-of-life movie." |
| 16. |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...as a viewer you have three choices: Prepare for doom, deny the movie's conclusions or avoid this documentary." |
| 17. |
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04/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...covers four relationships with enough detail to do justice to all of them, without ever giving the sense of a movie going sideways to account for everybody." |
| 18. |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...like a big, doorstop biography that accumulates every known fact and serves each one up, in chronological order, unsorted and undigested." |
| 19. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...pleasant enough, not something to recommend to a friend, but enjoyable in the moment.... the action piles on and acquires a sameness." |
| 20. |
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04/13/12 |
Poor |
 "...everything we see is coming from nowhere inside the men onscreen. It's all secondhand and from two or three generations before. This is an experiment that failed." |
