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04/27/11 |
Fair |
 "Perhaps something important was spirited away with the 20 minutes of footage shorn for this U.S. release, but the combatants are scarcely distinguishable here..." |
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11/14/12 |
Good |
 "Richard Hankin's film finally makes the indigenous variety of deadlock particular to New York politicos seem as quaintly comforting as a buttered bialy." |
| 3. |
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12/13/12 |
Good |
"It's all here, from the design contests to the farcical series of ribbon-cuttings, including a photo op cornerstone-laying, to the stupid Jeff Koons balloon that recurs..." |
| 4. |
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09/27/12 |
Poor |
 " 'Based on a True Story' by scriptwriter Monty Fisher, dramatizing his own life-and-death ordeal with the help of journeyman director Camilo Vila." |
| 5. |
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09/19/12 |
Poor |
"...on every level this production -- from John Robinson's callow performance to Camilo Vila's hackneyed handheld camerawork -- remains firmly on the level of the obvious." |
| 6. |
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10/05/11 |
Poor |
 "...interminable.... characterization, audience identification, and scene-making are entirely absent here." |
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10/06/11 |
Poor |
"...commemorates the centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, which ended 'two thousand years of feudalism.' By the time the credits roll, you feel you have endured just as much." |
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08/08/12 |
Moderate |
 "Delpy's guiding principle seems to be that people, especially her heroine, are imperfect... slapdash construction can't elevate the personal to the universal..." |
| 9. |
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08/16/12 |
Moderate |
"Delpy's project of stripping the makeup from her charismatic screen persona extends, unfortunately, to a general slovenliness of technique." |
| 10. |
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07/19/12 |
Poor |
 "...boasts a distinctly mid-90s funky, sex-positive vibe... structured around a roundelay of sexual liaisons." |
| 11. |
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07/18/12 |
Poor |
"...absolutely terrible... a series of unfunny skits centered on inconsequential sex, starring Paz de la Huerta, Jennifer Tilly, and dozens of others..." |
| 12. |
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08/01/12 |
Poor |
 "Is there something intrinsic to these wide-net, 'We're all connected' ensemble movies that makes their authors think they need to address every human conundrum?..." |
| 13. |
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08/02/12 |
Poor |
"There are fleeting moments, like a fine end-of-the-affair scene from Rachel Weisz, but Morgan's narrative promiscuity leaves '360' feeling only spread out and empty." |
| 14. |
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06/16/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a poetic documentary of quiet American surfaces... What makes it special is its eye for the infinite diversity within a superficially monotonous pattern." |
| 15. |
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12/30/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Mark Doherty and Dylan Moran have some good banter -- as when they belatedly discover Mark's cuckolding through text messages -- but monotony sets in as nothing comes up to elevate 'A Film' above passably distracting corpse-disposal comedy." |
| 16. |
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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." |
| 17. |
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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." |
| 18. |
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05/03/12 |
Weak |
 "A beatifically smiling Whoopi Goldberg shows up briefly in the role of God, which should be a blazing red flag..." |
| 19. |
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05/02/12 |
Weak |
"Essentially a rom-com deathwatch... demands miracles of its cast to keep the proceedings from becoming grindingly mawkish and does not get them..." |
| 20. |
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06/23/11 |
Poor |
 "...the movies are only a pretext to serve personal needs. Given how little the murky finished product offers to an outside audience, this comes across all too convincingly." |
