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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.' " |
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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.' " |
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05/26/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Better than a masterpiece... an eruption of a movie, something to live with, to think and talk about afterward." |
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08/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "McConaughey again shows new depths in an auteur's film: 'His eyes hurt,' says Dottie of Joe, and indeed they do..." |
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07/25/12 |
Outstanding |
"...a hideously funny tabloid noir... the raving insistence on dragging the audience into a savage side of life gives the material a perennial by-the-collar directness..." |
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12/16/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Writer/director Scott Cooper knows exactly when a scene's over, fills his movie's margins with distinct bit players, and is a smart custodian to Bridges's Bad Blake." |
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12/10/09 |
Outstanding |
"...pragmatic but tender... It's merely a well-done, adult American movie -- that is to say, a rarity." |
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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..." |
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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." |
| 10. |
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11/01/12 |
Excellent |
 "Whitaker's crisis of conscience leads him, finally, to a Dostoevskian act of self-imposed exile which can be seen as his only available avenue for redemption..." |
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10/15/12 |
Excellent |
"Zemeckis hasn't lost his touch with actors, coaching Washington into one of those rare performances that suggests much more than it shows." |
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04/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...never indulges in flagrant, naughty posturing, nor does it offer the viewer a firm, comfortable point of view from which to sit back and bear witness." |
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04/25/12 |
Excellent |
"...the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film... Jack Black's performance is remarkable for its ability to be at once flamboyant and remote." |
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03/22/12 |
Excellent |
 "The presiding aesthetic is the monochrome austerity of Britain under-rationing, with a luxuriant sensuality bleeding through..." |
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03/21/12 |
Excellent |
"...rare... every side of the triangle is drawn with equal care and sympathy, where each party's hopes -- and their disappointments -- are eloquently understood." |
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09/29/11 |
Excellent |
 "Bruegel's transplanting of the crucifixion scene to his present day is explained as a sort of protest art -- and an altogether more philosophical idea of human suffering." |
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09/14/11 |
Excellent |
"An extraordinary example of both art-historical interpretation and CGI as passport to unknown lands... a moving-image tribute to the still image..." |
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08/11/11 |
Excellent |
 "Asif Kapadia's expertly orchestrated documentary-biography condenses the breakneck decade leading up to its subject's apotheosis on May 1, 1994..." |
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08/10/11 |
Excellent |
"Even nonbelievers in Senna's sport and church will find it difficult to visit Asif Kapadia's cinematic shrine without emotion." |
| 20. |
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04/13/11 |
Excellent |
 "The finest Western you'll see this year is set in aristocratic 16th-century France..." |
