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05/24/13 |
Very Good |
 "...awesomely, ridiculously, goofily entertaining pop trash.... everyone takes the lunacy of the last movie and launches it into the stratosphere." |
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05/17/13 |
Good |
 "While the hit-man biopic can be accused of a certain drama-undermining remove from its subject, the actor playing that subject is still fascinating to watch." |
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04/19/13 |
Good |
0513998.jpg) "Moebius-comic gorgeous and it sounds great, especially the loud nerve-wracking honks the drones make when they're weighing whether or not to shoot you." |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "...feels compromised on many levels.... intermittently funny... suggests a half-finished draft full of half-used characters." |
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02/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "It's quietly brutal stuff, beautifully acted by Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks and a word-twisting Alessandro Nivola." |
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02/08/13 |
Poor |
 "...deadly dull... a tired road-trip comedy that gets lazier and stupider with each precious passing second.... dreck..." |
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02/08/13 |
Excellent |
 "...hugely entertaining... its real pleasures lie in its terrific '60s pop-soul soundtrack and especially in its frequently funny performances." |
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02/01/13 |
Good |
 "...surprisingly sweet and well acted... it's got a big heart and high spirits on a low budget and actors who refuse to phone it in." |
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01/18/13 |
Moderate |
 "...too complex and competently crafted to dismiss as junk, but it's also nowhere near sharp enough to work as the serious grown-up detective movie it clearly wants to be." |
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11/15/12 |
Good |
 "...funnier and a lot less padded-out than 'Part 1,' it's got a surprising amount of barmy action, it nicely juggles a huge cast, Michael Sheen is a riot..." |
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10/26/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The surfing scenes are gorgeous and overwhelming. But the rest of the film never quite manages to feel like more than a surface-scraping, by-the-numbers sports flick." |
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10/05/12 |
Moderate |
 "...mediocre... it seems a shame to have diluted the action-flick purity of the first 'Taken' with this cash grab." |
| 13. |
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10/05/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's affecting as near-operatic melodrama (particularly during one heartbreaking, late-film montage) and it's fascinating as an offbeat storytelling exercise." |
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09/28/12 |
Excellent |
 "...terrific... The movie's perfectly understated, warts-and-all sense of time and place will send any suburban Gen Xer in the audience flashing right back..." |
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08/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a brawly, bloody, self-conscious folk myth.... the filmmakers fill the screen with period grit, broadly sketched characters and eruptions of pain." |
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08/03/12 |
Good |
 "...fairly entertaining... Len Wiseman may lack a bold singular vision, but he tries to make up for it with sheer density, effort and expense." |
| 17. |
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07/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "I loved how Nacho Vigalondo applied all of the space-invader genre's editing tricks and tropes to trivial events." |
| 18. |
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07/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "...feels largely improvised, particularly by Vaughn and Hill... there's a fair bit of nonsense here. But mostly there's a great sense of waste." |
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06/29/12 |
Good |
 "Kurtzman takes his real experience of meeting his half-siblings late in life and adapts it into a comedy-drama that evokes Cameron Crowe right down to the soundtrack." |
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06/15/12 |
Moderate |
 "This movie asked me to accept a lot, and occasionally I did -- but even I drew the line at one of these 'American Idol' wannabes writing 'Don't Stop Believin.' " |
