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05/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...evokes the consciousness of female desire as something blinding and all-encompassing... conveys an emphatic mixture of audacity, naïveté, and sexual abandon." |
| 2. |
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03/01/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Holland draws on the restricted light and vertiginous space to achieve immersive, tactile imagery that is appalling and unforgettable." |
| 3. |
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01/26/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a knockout." |
| 4. |
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05/23/11 |
Very Good |
 "...a quiet, moody, contemplative story of mourning and recovery, set in the strange and evocative wilds of the Australian outback.... a whispery film that lies just beyond our grasp..." |
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03/15/11 |
Very Good |
 "Neil Burger is a very nimble and adept director... an entertainingly shrewd and often preposterously canny portrait of the here and now." |
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03/12/11 |
Moderate |
 "...fun and enjoyable, but it's also repetitive and inconsequential.... so steeped in pop references and movies... that for all the pleasures and fun to be had, 'Paul' has precious few original insights or observations of its own." |
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03/08/11 |
Very Good |
 "...very much a movie of the times, steeped in the dread and anxiousness of the great recession... McCarthy is at his best as a writer and handler of actors. The comedy is sharp and observational..." |
| 8. |
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02/21/11 |
Moderate |
 "...has some explosively funny material and visually outrageous sight gags... Down the stretch it turns toward the plainly unpleasant and quite frankly unacceptable." |
| 9. |
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02/06/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an alternately provocative, disturbing and frustratingly opaque work about male vanity, narcissism and the crisis of masculinity.... a guilty pleasure that is easy to surrender to though difficult to embrace." |
| 10. |
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02/06/11 |
Very Good |
 "A searing meditation on the nature of good and evil.... a good film about furious and unsettling people trying to make good in a world without much light. It is easier to appreciate than enjoy, but the power and force of the actors carry the moment." |
| 11. |
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02/05/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...colorful, eccentric and beautifully played... a work of small, private joys and painful recognition of shared experiences that feels authentically real and lived in." |
| 12. |
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01/31/11 |
Excellent |
 "...a fascinating science fiction-inflected fantasia.... haunting and atmospheric in the manner it gathers and takes hold in the imagination." |
| 13. |
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01/30/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a formally audacious and visually sophisticated debut from the gifted young filmmaker Sean Durkin.... a disquieting and frightening portrait of surrender and coercion." |
| 14. |
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01/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Vera Farmiga continues to astonish, both in front of and behind the camera... [a] beautifully textured, strikingly observed feature debut... contemplative, emotionally probing..." |
| 15. |
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01/26/11 |
Moderate |
 "...works strenuously hard and too often fails to find fresh angles to what is an extremely familiar material.... a well-made movie conventionally told." |
| 16. |
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01/24/11 |
Excellent |
 "...a French New Wave-inflected mood piece charting the jagged and unpredictable emotional currents of a young couple." |
| 17. |
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10/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "[A] disquieting, surreal and politically charged existential survival tale... As filmmaking, as a work of troubling and pure art, 'Essential Killing' is a very impressive and haunting achievement." |
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10/01/10 |
Moderate |
 "...an especially disappointing social conscious muckraking movie that yields a predictable litany of villains while seriously nullifying the dramatic interest.... The movie turns increasingly hysterical, strident and self-righteous." |
| 19. |
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09/27/10 |
Fair |
 "...a road movie that traffics in a surfeit of sleaze and easy putdowns. That's only the beginning of its problems." |
| 20. |
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09/27/10 |
Fair |
 "...patently ridiculous on almost every level and few films display such a strange blend of the amateurish and the cringe worthy.... it is also impossible to wholly dismiss a film shot by Christopher Doyle or one starring Mickey O'Rourke, Megan Fox and Bill Murray." |
