|
| 21. |
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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." |
| 22. |
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03/29/13 |
Good |
 "P.J. Hogan tries for the same wistful kookiness that made 'Muriel's Wedding' a hit.... To the rescue comes Toni Collette as Shaz, a nonconformist nanny..." |
| 23. |
|
03/29/13 |
Poor |
 "The movie is arid, inert, inept, dumbly preposterous, and endless. I was looking at my watch after 20 minutes.... a dramatic sinkhole." |
| 24. |
|
03/29/13 |
Good |
 "I don't want to make the movie sound good, exactly -- it's well-executed technocratic action fluff. But it did leave me buzzed rather than drained." |
| 25. |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...smart... crackles with the sound of very clever people trying to outtalk each other -- an all too rare and happy thing to encounter in a Hollywood movie." |
| 26. |
|
03/22/13 |
Excellent |
 "...street-smart... Ty Hickson, as the budding player Malcolm, is cool, clownish, sincere, and imposing... Tashiana Washington, as his partner in crime, has a vivid fury." |
| 27. |
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03/22/13 |
Moderate |
 "...so pulpy and standard that the film actually makes you grateful for the presence of Gerard Butler, gnashing his teeth in the Bruce Willis role." |
| 28. |
|
03/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Korine's first 'mainstream' movie is by far the best thing he's ever done... James Franco gives a hypnotic performance." |
| 29. |
|
03/15/13 |
Good |
 "...the movie has a real affection for the world of illusionists, a showbiz demimonde it treats with simultaneous snark and awe." |
| 30. |
|
03/15/13 |
Fair |
 "...a fancy piece of junk.... organized around a visual stunt so annoying that you can just tell how clever director Juan Solanas must have thought it was." |
| 31. |
|
03/15/13 |
Excellent |
 "...has some of that old, classic Fellini insanity in its overheated blood.... Director Matteo Garrone wants to cross over to a place more 'real' than reality itself." |
| 32. |
|
03/08/13 |
Good |
 "August 1945... Set amid the rubble of Tokyo, the film captures the moral paradox of that moment.... the delicate postwar dance of revenge, justice, and realpolitik..." |
| 33. |
|
03/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "...urgent... looks at how hunger in America has risen as a result of our industrialized food system.... celebrity chef Tom Collicchio makes an eloquent spokesman." |
| 34. |
|
03/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The giants are a kick to watch, but when they talk, they might as well be soccer hooligans at a pub. Any feeling of horrific wonder fades fast." |
| 35. |
|
03/01/13 |
Fair |
 "The central situation remains obvious beyond words. There is no mystery here, only 'style,' and a stultifying sense that the world's been rigged with evil." |
| 36. |
|
02/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...like a homicide thriller directed by Todd Solondz.... The movie is scattershot (intense at some moments, slack at others), but it earns its docu-style creepiness..." |
| 37. |
|
02/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a quasi-autobiographical road comedy in which Alex Karpovsky plays a lovelorn version of himself.... It's conventional stuff, only executed with a smart, improv-y verve." |
| 38. |
|
02/15/13 |
Excellent |
 "The professor is desperate to connect with this shallow escort as a human being. That's his tragedy, but the movie is playful and makes no easy moral judgments." |
| 39. |
|
02/15/13 |
Excellent |
 "...features dramatic reenactments of Dahmer buying his infamous equipment... Andrew Swant plays him with a dead-on creepy perfection." |
| 40. |
|
02/15/13 |
Good |
 "...lushly pictorial and not-too-badly acted. The best thing in the movie is Alice Englert, who has a fresh, unretouched, Jane Austen-gone-goth allure." |
