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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...only mildly entertaining. The one highlight is former child actress Lola Creton as one of the hero's girlfriends." |
| 2. |
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05/17/13 |
Poor |
 "...a vanity piece that goes out of its way to protect every single person it touches. It would have worked much better as a private home movie." |
| 3. |
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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "Kuklinski is a highly functional oddball, not a sociopath, not someone incapable of emotion, but someone with ice water in place of blood..." |
| 4. |
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05/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...presses collective emotional buttons people didn't even know they had.... the effect is like seeing life panoramically, past and future, simultaneous and magnificent." |
| 5. |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "Luhrmann genuinely tries to capture the Fitzgeraldian spirit, and for the most part, despite some vulgar lapses, he succeeds." |
| 6. |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "...this film about the creation of Bergdorf-Goodman and its importance in American fashion and commerce is a fascinating slice of life." |
| 7. |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a winning romantic comedy-drama, despite subject matter that can be grim." |
| 8. |
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05/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...raises interesting issues but it's smothered by plot problems, a dragging pace and predictability." |
| 9. |
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05/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...with story elements in contradiction, it is lifted up by the efforts of the actors, who try to put a human face on the blockbuster machinery and almost succeed." |
| 10. |
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05/03/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a fascinating study of farming as practiced today, a disturbing and important film of Shakespearean reverberations, with an extraordinary performance by Quaid." |
| 11. |
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04/26/13 |
Moderate |
 "...interesting in the beginning.... but the movie falls apart in the last half-hour. Still, Fabrice Luchini is always worth seeing." |
| 12. |
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04/26/13 |
Poor |
 "...joyless, sketchily plotted, and poorly observed.... Blunt and Firth, who play Americans, seem as Yankee as bangers and mash." |
| 13. |
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04/26/13 |
Moderate |
 "The presence of liked and familiar actors helps make it watchable, but there is no disguising that this is a weak, badly constructed comedy. At least it's short." |
| 14. |
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04/26/13 |
Very Good |
 "An interesting slice of life from director Jeff Nichols... features fine performances and terrific river atmosphere, though the film runs a little long." |
| 15. |
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04/19/13 |
Poor |
 "A 102-minute waste of time, with various people (off camera!) entertaining bizarre theories... Pointless." |
| 16. |
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04/19/13 |
Very Good |
0513998.jpg) "After a slow start, this is the rare film that gets better as it goes along.... The story deepens and builds an intense rooting interest.... this is intelligent science fiction..." |
| 17. |
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04/19/13 |
Poor |
 "Buch's film, aside from the opening moments, has no charm at all, and it lacks even the vaguest flicker of drama." |
| 18. |
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04/12/13 |
Moderate |
 "...impressively and aggressively filmed.... By the finish, half the audience won't quite be able to tell what is going on, and few will care." |
| 19. |
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04/12/13 |
Moderate |
 "...has moments of brilliance, but it descends into tedium and vagueness after the first half-hour. Strictly for Malick completists." |
| 20. |
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04/12/13 |
Outstanding |
 "One of the rare films that directly responds to and expresses modern anxieties.... A fascinating and riveting thriller." |
