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02/21/13 |
Excellent |
 "Spend some time among a gallery of noble busts depicting Roman senators, and familiar faces begin to emerge among the ancient marble..." |
| 2. |
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02/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "Pablo Larrain can seamlessly mesh staged material with vintage 1988 footage of actual police crackdowns and pro-democracy assemblies." |
| 3. |
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02/13/13 |
Very Good |
"...deftly appropriates mediated history for fiction... the film works within an aesthetic template of its own: the language of contemporary hand-held cinematic realism." |
| 4. |
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02/07/13 |
Weak |
 "...performance can do only so much to alleviate 'Charles Swan III's' inconsequentiality, which has much to do with Coppola's ginger depiction of hetero male fantasy life." |
| 5. |
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02/06/13 |
Excellent |
"...so solid is the conception, and so resonant the text in which questions of freedom and slavery are paramount, that the impact can hardly be diminished." |
| 6. |
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02/06/13 |
Weak |
"...cut-and-paste.... With neither the moral bite of satire or a voluptuary surrender that really basks in shallowness, this is a vague, unsatisfying work." |
| 7. |
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01/31/13 |
Weak |
 "...a sketch-comedy gang bang, slippery with bodily fluids, from a screenplay that might have been written over an all-night poker game bull session..." |
| 8. |
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01/31/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Hollywood hasn't butchered Parker -- which is to say that it has let him remain a butcher." |
| 9. |
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01/30/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...this Parker exhibits something of a moral code, but Statham, of the pure panther prowl and vigilant poise, more than makes up for this when placed into action..." |
| 10. |
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01/26/13 |
Weak |
"It's the kind of thing you feel you should laugh at through a phlegmy, hacking cough -- and it does get laughs, if inconsistently..." |
| 11. |
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01/24/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "John Lydon (a/k/a Rotten) comes up with the most eloquent absolution: 'I cannot question anyone with end results that perfect.' " |
| 12. |
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01/24/13 |
Poor |
 "...while the movie is assuredly a product of today's online world, it feels remarkably like the work of a sensibility frozen at about 1996." |
| 13. |
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01/24/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the rare movie you can get tongue-tied just trying to describe.... Better to stick with a simple 'wonderful.' " |
| 14. |
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01/23/13 |
Poor |
"...a product of a parallel universe where slacker flippancy never got old -- and, oh, it is terrible.... groans with the strain of attempting to heave a cult object into being." |
| 15. |
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01/16/13 |
Very Good |
 "Despite the efforts of many interviewees to seem broad-minded, Mona Nicoara has a knack for ferreting out moments that reveal actual Romanian attitudes..." |
| 16. |
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01/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "Composed of a series of long-shot setups interrupted by late-period Rossellini zooms, it's a triptych of stories set in a beachfront boarding house." |
| 17. |
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01/10/13 |
Weak |
 "...a crime against cinematic sensibility.... caroms from crime to retaliation, from tommy gun assassination to a power drill through the head to a pistol whipping..." |
| 18. |
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01/09/13 |
Weak |
"...it's only the pummeling violence that stirs director Ruben Fleischer's interest.... desecrates the symbols of the movies it alleges to homage." |
| 19. |
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12/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "Salesmen are typically depicted in screen drama as the quintessential American phonies.... Van Sant is in his deft director-for-hire mode." |
| 20. |
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12/26/12 |
Outstanding |
"...truly unique... wonderful... a work of sophisticated primitivism, which finds aching truth in the phrase 'The past is another country.' " |
