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04/11/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...an impressionistic, emotionally loaded work of art, and one of the best movies I've seen this year." |
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03/14/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...an immersive, almost assaultive piece of subjective cinema designed to literally plunge us into the deep... powerful, unflinching and ultimately thrilling..." |
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01/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a movie that grabs you from the first frames, takes you to some extremely ugly places and asks you how you feel about what you're seeing." |
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01/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...unapologetically manipulative.... Haneke has always been good at torturing his audience, but this time there's a soul working its way out from under the misery." |
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10/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...it's thrilling to watch Sarah Polley use the documentary as an attempt to process the revelations that led her to make it in the first place.... it works on every level." |
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10/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a bizarre, utterly fascinating story of faith, hope and deception.... In Bart Layton's compelling, seductive presentation, we can see exactly how it all happened." |
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08/16/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a worthy successor to 'Coraline' in texture, animation and sheer emotional complexity.... A fantastic picture in every sense of the word." |
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05/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of the best American debuts in years.... aches with understated feeling and empathy... it's terrific." |
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02/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...there's no way to describe why the movie works so brilliantly without spoiling its greatest moments. It's thrilling to watch it evolve... Go see it. And marvel." |
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11/17/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Some people are going to hate it; I found it bracing, daring and entirely invigorating. A word of advice, though: when the credits start rolling, remain seated." |
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08/25/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...the finest, oddest buddy cop picture I've seen since 'Hot Fuzz,' but it plays out in a very different, very specifically Irish way.... one of the best movies I've seen this year." |
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07/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...an astonishing story, and one of the year's best documentaries." |
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07/07/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...director Rodman Flender crams in so much backstage detail, you'll be swept up in the whirlwind of manic action along with everyone else." |
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06/30/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...transcendent... the comedy of the year." |
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06/09/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a goddamned work of art." |
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05/12/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of the finest American films of the year, and one that's going to infuriate as many people as it enthralls. That doesn't matter, as long as they see it." |
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01/13/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...as evocative and ambiguous as Kubrick's masterwork, and as a cogent, coherently organized essay film, it puts Godard's facile polemic to shame.... invaluable..." |
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12/16/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of a handful of westerns that stands next to Eastwood's merciless 'Unforgiven' as a refutation of the myth that movies like the original 'True Grit' bought into." |
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09/30/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...an endlessly intriguing examination of Zuckerberg as a psychological mine field - socially inept, blindly arrogant and able to alienate a roomful of people..." |
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09/23/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...with an unfussy vérité aesthetic, Apichatpong crafts a delicate, enveloping spell, creating a world where the intrusion of the supernatural is almost commonplace." |
