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07/15/11 |
Good |
 "It's all very ho-hum, though James, who's like Jason Alexander with a touch of Jeremy Piven, is still a schmo you can't help rooting for." |
| 2. |
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12/07/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...meticulous and electrifying... a gripping salute to the desk warrior who spent not minutes but years going in for the kill." |
| 3. |
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06/19/09 |
Good |
 "...has a handful of chuckles, but it's also harmless and scattershot, without much primitive bite.... This is just silliness run mildly wild." |
| 4. |
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03/30/12 |
Good |
 "A lot of the digital effects are quite good, though that prompts me to ask: Why do the camerawork and editing have to be so jittery?" |
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08/28/09 |
Excellent |
 "Bobcat Goldthwait's garishly potty-mouthed and over-the-top black comedy, blows up every rule of taste, good cinema, and common sense, and somehow gets away with it." |
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01/15/10 |
Moderate |
 "It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns." |
| 7. |
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07/15/11 |
Good |
 "...a return not merely to drawn animation but to the playful simplicity of Disney's 1960s 'Winnie the Pooh' cartoons.... it is charming... and also a little monotonous." |
| 8. |
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03/18/11 |
Excellent |
 "...newcomer Alex Shaffer finds fresh colors in the old delinquent spectrum, and Giamatti, who's at his best, gives nervous scrambling an undertone of tenderness." |
| 9. |
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12/04/09 |
Excellent |
 "Kunstler became a radical and a celebrity... this vivid documentary captures how those two facets of his life worked together in morally urgent and contradictory ways." |
| 10. |
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08/13/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a scary, fascinating deep dive into the punk-rock abyss of former Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and his American groupie girlfriend... It plants resonant doubts." |
| 11. |
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05/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...strange... 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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04/09/10 |
Excellent |
 "...you're either a true believer or not.... for people like me, who can stumble onto the scrappiest Doors video on VH1 at 3 a.m. and sit there, mesmerized." |
| 13. |
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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." |
| 14. |
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01/11/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...casts a hypnotic spell... the film reframes the story's terrible darkness, even if it can't give us the closure we hunger for." |
| 15. |
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12/09/11 |
Good |
 "The movie is creepy, but it has no texture or depth. It's like 'The Omen' directed by Miranda July. Swinton, for all her skill, gives an overly chilly and cerebral performance." |
| 16. |
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12/02/11 |
Very Good |
 "...like 'Doctor Dolittle' remade as a therapeutic sudser. By the end, it got to me." |
| 17. |
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03/06/09 |
Good |
 "...so faithful to its comic-book source, it can't breathe.... Snyder crams the film with bits and pieces, trapping his actors like bugs wriggling in the frame." |
| 18. |
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09/02/11 |
Very Good |
 "...at times almost gravely self-important. The gifted director Gavin O'Connor ('Miracle') brings the film an affecting, ripped-from-the-guts spirit..." |
| 19. |
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03/26/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a fascinating, inside-Hollywood-baseball documentary about how Disney, against all odds, revived the art of feature-length drawn animation." |
| 20. |
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02/18/11 |
Poor |
 "...a zombie movie without the zombies.... Mostly, we're left staring blankly at a quartet of victimized ciphers." |
