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05/18/13 |
Good |
 "...ultimately frustrating.... a tantalizing teaser of a movie that only made me hungry to see a folk-music drama that could take the truly audacious risk of total sincerity." |
| 2. |
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05/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the characters pop out at us with a new dynamism.... a sleek, thrilling epic that's also a triumphantly witty popcorn morality play." |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...stodgy... the clunking message is that the ambitious doctor needs his patient far more than she needs him." |
| 4. |
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05/16/13 |
Excellent |
 "...arresting.... The acting is so authentic that it takes a while to differentiate the girls, and that's part of the film's texture, too: its unsensational look at sensational crimes." |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a poor man's 'Being There' with a didactic theme (TV is colonizing our brains!) that gets old fast." |
| 6. |
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05/10/13 |
Fair |
 "Reeves summons his usual pensive blankness to play a depressive wastrel who sulks through New York's East Village, then turns a camera on his party-girl paramours..." |
| 7. |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Polley deconstructs the story she's telling.... By the end, the rug gets pulled out from under us, showing that even the reality we think we see may be an illusion..." |
| 8. |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the actors are amiable, but the film often seems to want to turn these characters into benignly goofy role models." |
| 9. |
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05/03/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Penn Badgley does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail.... This is a melancholy wisp of a movie. Yet it lingers in the heart." |
| 10. |
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05/03/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...an ominously exciting, shoot-the-works comic-book spectacular.... features a climax that's a flat-out epic piece of action-fantasy engineering.... I was transported." |
| 11. |
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05/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...director Susanne Bier applies her heavy-handed touch.... The two actors click so smoothly that all that's really keeping them apart is the script." |
| 12. |
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05/03/13 |
Good |
 "The social critique is sharp, the characters less so." |
| 13. |
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04/26/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable... Riz Ahmed gives a smoldering performance that announces the arrival of a major actor.... The film meanders at times, but mostly it's bracing." |
| 14. |
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04/26/13 |
Good |
 "Firth embodies the character with a robot stare and a flat affect that expresses each thought as a kind of minimalist hologram of emotion.... How indie-ironic!" |
| 15. |
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04/12/13 |
Excellent |
 "...enjoyable in a square, uncomplicated, stirringly old-fashioned way.... makes the struggle look every bit as brutal and scary as it was.... a rousing tribute..." |
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04/12/13 |
Good |
 "...ethereal and incantatory, with a soundtrack woven out of whispers and classical music; if anything, it makes Malick's 'The Tree of Life' look like a Noël Coward play." |
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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a spiky neo-realist version of a feel-good fable.... it's the ultimate Scottish heist: stealing priceless whiskey out of a cask. It's all a bit facile, but hard to resist." |
| 18. |
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04/05/13 |
Weak |
 "...it turns into a fusion of 'Spellbound,' 'Inception' at its most convoluted, and the head-scratchingly half-baked identity games of 'Vanilla Sky.' " |
| 19. |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...accepts that these people went to extremes to stop a war.... it chews on issues of violence in a muffled way, but restraint is not the quality this story was calling for." |
| 20. |
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04/05/13 |
Good |
 "...weaves a vivid emotional texture out of handheld streetscapes and quasi-sci-fi images... an experience that's more unsettling visual poem than movie." |
