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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." |
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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." |
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04/05/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...ambitious and successful... captures a mood.... its meaning is elusive but poetic... the film features strong performances by Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper." |
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02/01/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...well-written, extraordinarily well-cast and well-acted.... Pay attention to how even the small roles are detailed and defined..." |
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01/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...innovative... has a pulse to the camera work that creates the sense of seeing the world through the eyes of someone methodical, observant and tense." |
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12/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the most consistently entertaining movie of 2012... Tarantino has found that elusive spot that all artists strive for, complete spontaneity and absolute control." |
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11/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...has a light tone, but it's anything but light in purpose. It's committed and passionate, one of the most perceptive and morally persuasive movies of 2012." |
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11/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The experience of watching Daniel Day-Lewis in this role is nothing less than thrilling... breathtaking." |
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10/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a rare film that can change the way you think.... functions as an admonition that something must be done, by showing us an America with its pants down." |
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08/24/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a hard, funny and realistic movie about the future.... Langella's is a beautiful performance in a movie that happily seems at no point trying to be beautiful." |
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08/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...extremely funny, with a particularly winning style -- far-fetched, extreme and nonstop... Julie Delpy's greatest talent might really be as a comedy director..." |
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07/20/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a rare delight... At times sidesplitting, as funny as movies ever get. Yet it's also rather touching... something not just funny, but lovely." |
| 13. |
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07/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...here are the reasons not to see 'Farewell, My Queen': There are none, or at least no good ones." |
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06/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...exceptional... It feels so loose, so easy. Soderbergh just looks over their shoulders, and they tell their secrets." |
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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." |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Kirk Smalley, whose little boy shot himself because he was afraid to go to school, is an extraordinary man, and this is an extraordinary picture." |
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03/30/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...riveting from beginning to end.... Weisz's performance, from moment to moment - in merciless close-up and long takes - is innovative, truthful and revealing." |
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02/24/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...watching the Nazis march naked Polish women into the woods, toward their own mass grave, I just didn't want to go there again. But this is an extraordinary movie..." |
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12/20/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Sometimes a movie is no more important than it should be, and the satisfaction it gives is entirely a consequence of its being exceptionally well made..." |
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12/09/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...achieves a specific tone... The tone might be described as a combination of two perspectives, which throughout are viewing the action at a remove." |
