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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "As sociology, it's skin-deep, but if you're a parent or preparing to be one, you might see yourself in a few of these folks and have a good time doing so." |
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05/18/12 |
Excellent |
 "...oddly titled but resonant... The best thing about the movie is that it keeps drawing conclusions in opposite directions." |
| 3. |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...can be rambling and glib, yet it's no mere crime drama. It captures a middle-class French society that looks more humane than ours, but is just as messed up." |
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05/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a strange drama... The story, while structured as a tragedy, masquerades in wisps of farce... It shows no curiosity about the hatred, so the characters seem less than whole." |
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05/11/12 |
Excellent |
 "Depp's performance is more than just funny -- it's ghoulishly endearing. He caresses each line with great care, as if it were a piece of candy he's unwrapping..." |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a burlesque that turns into a harangue that turns into a rampage.... like 'Falling Down' remade by MAD magazine." |
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05/04/12 |
Moderate |
 "Everything about Cusack's Edgar is tirelessly revved up and spelled out, and that's true of the film, too." |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "...has a winning cutthroat perversity.... for a while the movie is devious fun, but once a rival scoundrel cuts in, the tale grows increasingly over-the-top." |
| 9. |
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05/01/12 |
Excellent |
 "The four who've already fronted their own Marvel films look all the sharper as supporting studs jockeying for primacy." |
| 10. |
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04/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...doesn't follow through on everything it sets up, yet it has a hushed and revealing psycho-intensity. It also has an oh-wow 'Twilight Zone' ending..." |
| 11. |
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04/27/12 |
Good |
 "...it's a pensive and heartfelt movie, assuming that you let yourself get caught up in its moody-minimalist, more-visual-than-verbal style." |
| 12. |
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04/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has more action than intrigue (or logic), and it's boilerplate vicious. It may satisfy Statham's fans, but they -- like he -- would do well to enlarge their expectations." |
| 13. |
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04/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...has a shaggy, unpredictable structure that works for it.... a comedy about falling from love, and grasping your way back to happily ever after." |
| 14. |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "The trouble with the movie isn't that it's too girly-swoony; it's that it tries to achieve emotion through glowy sunsets and a paint-by-numbers script." |
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04/13/12 |
Good |
 "For a while, the cookie-cutter behavioral tics are funny in an overly broad way, even if the dialogue is basically stand-up patter turned into glib, fast conversation." |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...directed by the gifted Kevin Macdonald ('The Last King of Scotland'), who shows off his chops not by doing anything dazzling but by treating Marley as a man of depth and nuance..." |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "Will Beth, combing the mountains, find her new best friend and substitute hubby? Lawrence Kasdan's comedy strikes a note of rib-nudging blah coyness that feels very 1987." |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...an enchantingly well-done tribute that revives, and even refreshes, our affection for the Stooges, yet at its core it lacks the completely and totally unhinged shock of the new." |
| 19. |
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04/06/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the recipe has been updated, and what once seemed like fatally warmed-over 'Pie' tastes new again.... Then there's the great Eugene Levy." |
| 20. |
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04/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The first surprise is that it's the first Spurlock film Spurlock isn't in. The second surprise is that it's the most entertaining geek lovefest since 1997's 'Trekkies.' " |
