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05/24/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The lead performances are excellent.... It's fascinating to observe the hidden inner family rituals in this particular culture..." |
| 2. |
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05/03/13 |
Weak |
 "...verbose... has the complicated plot and tight pacing of a cable TV drama... the actors never connect to each other or to the material." |
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05/03/13 |
Weak |
 "The movie was both lauded and reviled at the Cannes Film Festival (where it won Best Director).... you understand one-half of the response at Cannes." |
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04/26/13 |
Excellent |
 "Kate Lyn Sheil is beautiful, hilarious.... Kentucker Audley is a find.... Amy Seimetz's richly textured debut is assured in every choice, from first frame to last." |
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04/05/13 |
Poor |
 "The grisly horror film cannot decide whether to take itself seriously, which means it must destroy itself.... forced -- and stupid..." |
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03/30/13 |
Weak |
 "While failing almost completely as a comedy, Tyler Perry's 14th film is a fascinating slow-moving moralistic melodrama.... the mixed tones don't quite meld..." |
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03/29/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...breathtakingly lush... for all the beauty, director Gilles Bourdos goes no further than simply observing surfaces." |
| 8. |
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03/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...it's best when speculating on the origins of human nature.... When it gets past the Stone Age humor, this weird film manages to find some gentle revelations." |
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03/22/13 |
Excellent |
 "A slight idea flawlessly executed.... Tashiana Washington is lovely and natural, but it's charismatic Ty Hickson as Malcolm who emerges as the star." |
| 10. |
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03/15/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a surprisingly moving story, particularly in Snoop's reactions to the deaths of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur." |
| 11. |
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02/14/13 |
Weak |
 "The problem is that most of the pieces to the shoddy puzzle ultimately don't fit, making things less believable.... There's too much of a detour from the romance..." |
| 12. |
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02/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Levine sets up the idiotic premise in unusually clever ways, complete with the pop-music cues and sentimental energy of a John Hughes romance." |
| 13. |
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01/11/13 |
Poor |
 "...the accuracy of this crowd-sourced documentary -- funded by small donations on Kickstarter -- seems as reliable as a Wikipedia entry." |
| 14. |
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01/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a fascinating account of how a Facebook event became a revolution... This important, moving event gets put into a crucial context." |
| 15. |
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12/21/12 |
Weak |
 "Like 'Avatar' meets 'Alice in Unitardland'... follows the adventures of a slack-jawed pixie into new dimensions of space, time and flexibility." |
| 16. |
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12/07/12 |
Weak |
 "...except for a few scenes with flamboyant vaudeville pink flamingos (giddily voiced by Jane Lynch and Jason Alexander), the film is without wit... entirely forgettable." |
| 17. |
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10/27/12 |
Poor |
 "...this head-scratcher of a movie could be ripe to become a camp classic.... for now, the humorless approach to this inane mess is embarrassing rather than hilarious." |
| 18. |
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10/26/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Halloween.... the film captures the trashiness and confusion of being swarmed not just by by greedy kids on sugar highs but also hard-partying adults..." |
| 19. |
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10/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...autumnal and tragic, revealing that one of the hardest things about death is how it keeps coming -- relentlessly -- before one's own mortality arrives." |
| 20. |
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10/12/12 |
Weak |
 "...a grab bag of every popular horror trope of the last 30 years.... Ridiculous, and never scary, and with the worst ghost makeup in the history of the horror genre..." |
