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05/22/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...may be the greatest film ever made about impermanence.... In a cinematic series and career notable for their variable natures, Hawke is an actor transformed." |
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04/14/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...via alternately grim and surreal panoramas of malice and insanity, and without resorting to cheap squirm-inducing gore, Zombie wants to furiously disturb..." |
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09/28/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...mesmerizing... makes clear that hell is such high-seas toil.... a masterfully grim and gruesome portrait unlikely to stoke one's appetite for seafood." |
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07/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a climax of truly epic proportions..." |
| 5. |
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07/13/11 |
Outstanding |
"...a climax of truly epic proportions, not only for its narrative import but for the fact that it heralds the end of a beloved decade-long Warner Bros. franchise..." |
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09/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...austere... ultimately, it's Mungiu's staging and compositional skill that lends the material its true sense of dawning dread..." |
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09/29/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...superb.... Farhadi exudes sincere empathy for his tale's competing POVs, taking time to understand and acknowledge the root motivations of his various players..." |
| 8. |
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07/31/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Crazy and careening, bold and blistering... a work that doesn't need to fake being badass." |
| 9. |
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04/24/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Scored with a mesmerizing mélange of strings, chanting, and otherworldly noises... a spiritual awe that's in tune with the cave painters' own primitive faith..." |
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03/25/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...doesn't pass judgment or manipulate emotionally, instead choosing simply to consider the arduousness of survival in a land wracked by slaughter." |
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10/06/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a western that reverses the genre's traditional forms and dynamics to create something new and startling, yet still familiar." |
| 12. |
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09/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Fincher can direct the holy hell out of a movie... he refuses to indulge in vertiginous tracking shots and look-at-me CG tomfoolery..." |
| 13. |
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09/24/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...the singular attention with which it carries out its aims -- and the rigorous success it ultimately attains -- is unsparing, and bracing." |
| 14. |
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08/01/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...pounding drums, feedbacky guitar, and skuzzy vocals. Which in the end makes perfect sense, given that, at heart, 'Scott Pilgrim' rocks." |
| 15. |
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09/28/12 |
Excellent |
 "...irresistibly loopy.... a tribute to both Kubrick's masterpiece and the crazy thrill of losing one's self in a critical maze of themes, subtexts and signifiers." |
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09/06/12 |
Excellent |
 "Exhibiting great specificity about gay sexual mores while also rooting its story in tumultuous universal emotions... boasts a riveting attention to troubled characters..." |
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05/23/13 |
Very Good |
 "The joys of hustling, scuffling, and trash-talking on the basketball court are celebrated with boisterous (if skin-deep) enthusiasm..." |
| 18. |
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03/16/13 |
Very Good |
 "...expertly crafts a sense of dawning madness.... proves tough and smart -- and, in its climactic irony, not without a jet-black sense of humor as well." |
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02/25/13 |
Very Good |
 "...its exhaustive dissection of Walter's story proves a riveting snapshot of the destructive individual consequences of government-big business collusion." |
| 20. |
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02/06/13 |
Very Good |
 "...gripping... Gibney celebrates hockey's fisticuff traditions while also recognizing how such brutality ultimately takes its greatest toll on those who perpetrate it." |
