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05/23/13 |
Weak |
 "...a wobbly eco-adventure that lacks the depth to which it aspires.... mostly everybody just runs around shouting a lot." |
| 2. |
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05/23/13 |
Weak |
 "...extremely ambitious.... But four great pieces out of 26 is a pretty thin ratio, and you have to endure an awful lot of misfires to get to the good bits." |
| 3. |
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05/23/13 |
Weak |
 "...effectively recreates the banality of youthful politicking but like the supposedly revolutionary short films Gilles's friends make in Kabul, this movie is meandering..." |
| 4. |
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05/23/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the darkest of the series... Phillips is no longer trying to pretend that any of these characters are functional adults. He's allowing us to see them as they really are..." |
| 5. |
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05/16/13 |
Weak |
 "There's a haphazardness to the movie that grows more grating as it goes along... Algrant and his co-writers have nothing to say about either Buckley." |
| 6. |
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05/16/13 |
Weak |
 "Shannon's approach to Kuklinski as a total brick wall is a fascinating performance choice, but even that can't juice up this dull slog through Mob-movie clichés." |
| 7. |
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05/16/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...only really stumbles at its climax, when the director abandons texture and complexity for an action sequence that feels like a backslide to 'Shotgun Stories.' " |
| 8. |
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05/16/13 |
Excellent |
 "Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty nudge the story delicately and without much fuss, trusting the actors to provide the necessary emotional weight." |
| 9. |
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05/16/13 |
Excellent |
 "...goes exactly where I thought it would - and still feels completely satisfying.... manages to surprise and entertain on an epic IMAX 3D scale." |
| 10. |
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05/09/13 |
Weak |
 "Too often, the actors seem overwhelmed... DiCaprio looks the part of Gatsby, even if he's just reprising his performance as Howard Hughes in 'The Aviator'..." |
| 11. |
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05/02/13 |
Excellent |
 "Black not only keeps all his narrative balls in the air, but makes it look effortless... Stark Mark III is sharper, angrier, a little more scared. It looks good on him." |
| 12. |
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05/02/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "There's something pleasantly old-fashioned about the earnestness with which the film tells its story. It's like a 50s newsreel..." |
| 13. |
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04/26/13 |
Weak |
 "...like watching 'Casino' after sustaining a head injury that's removed your ability to understand human suffering." |
| 14. |
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04/25/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's all just an excuse for Stephen Fung to stage a bunch of elaborate, inventive martial arts sequences, and on that level the film pretty much satisfies." |
| 15. |
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04/25/13 |
Poor |
 "This is what happens when a director with a profoundly stupid idea isn't talked down, but rather enabled at every turn." |
| 16. |
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04/19/13 |
Weak |
0513998.jpg) "...the script trips over itself with quasi-meaningful dialogue.... It's rare that a movie so resolutely unclever tells you, straight out, how clever it's going to be." |
| 17. |
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04/18/13 |
Weak |
 "...defies any attempt to connect to the characters or the material. You can try to laugh at it or laugh with it, but it just squats there taking a dump in the road." |
| 18. |
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04/18/13 |
Weak |
 "It's one thing to make a movie about small-minded, petty characters, but when the movie is small-minded and petty, too, there's nothing to give us a rooting interest." |
| 19. |
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04/18/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The near absence of dialogue and the stream-of-consciousness structure guarantee this film will prove even more divisive than 'The Tree of Life'..." |
| 20. |
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04/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If it weren't for its final shot, this movie would be a minor but lovely little character study. But there it is, and it ruins everything." |
