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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston New York Times	01/20/12	Poor	"Director Whitney Sudler-Smith demonstrates little interest in fashion and less insight into Halston, whose talent and far-reaching influence come as a surprise to him."
2.	Double Dhamaal New York Times	06/27/11	Poor	"...a mind-contracting Hindi comedy that seems to take its cues from the Three Stooges, the Keystone Kops and every Bollywood cliché it can chew up and spit back as farce.... sprawls to 2 hours and 18 minutes..."
3.	Do Knot Disturb New York Times	10/02/09	Poor	"Vulgar, noisy and excessive... a Bollywood sex farce with almost no sex, and comedy pitched so low you're more likely to groan than giggle.... Saddled with a witless script, the director, David Dhawan, mostly goes for loud."
4.	How Sweet It Is (2013) New York Times	05/10/13	Poor	"...becomes almost watchable, thanks mostly to Mr. Bergen and to the uncannily tenacious hold (for some viewers, at least) of a put-on-a-show plot."
5.	Leonie (2013) New York Times	03/22/13	Weak	"...plodding... doesn't stint on the biopic mush.... it telegraphs and draws lessons, the biggest being that Leonie's example and support made an artist of Isamu Noguchi."
6.	Race 2 New York Times	01/26/13	Weak	"...has little to offer besides its loving gaze at wealth and flesh.... has no fizz, no matter how many Champagne corks are popped."
7.	That's What She Said (2012) New York Times	10/19/12	Weak	"...unpleasant... aims to be a female twist on the bromance. Crude and knockabout, it nonetheless has -- like many a bromance -- a sloppy, sentimental heart."
8.	Hick (2012) New York Times	05/11/12	Weak	"...a botched coming-of-age story.... It feels fake.... Ms. Portes's script strains credulity, and it's not helped by Mr. Martini, who can't find the right tone."
9.	Dangerous Ishhq New York Times	05/11/12	Weak	"...feels out of time, beamed from a long-ago era of preposterous plotting and cheesy effects.... Ms. Kapoor and Mr. Duggall don't have much chemistry, and the film is too silly to have any emotional traction. In Hindi cinema, that's unforgivable."
10.	1911 New York Times	10/07/11	Weak	"...overly faithful to its commemorative purpose.... a kind of lavishly illustrated history lesson. Even the irrepressible Mr. Chan (this is his 100th film) seems subdued."
11.	Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja New York Times	04/15/11	Weak	"...mixes period footage with visually unappealing contemporary interviews. If you're expecting voluble, outsize personalities with colorful war stories, you'll be disappointed."
12.	Red Alert: The War Within New York Times	07/09/10	Weak	"...seems torn between two storytelling modes: episodic with a documentary flavor and action-driven pulp. It makes a hash of both.... Mr. Shetty gives an intense performance, but the script provides him with only the outlines of a character."
13.	Sikandar New York Times	08/21/09	Weak	"...an odd, unsuccessful movie, written and directed by Piyush Jha... too rigged to have any broader implications about the bloody standoff in Kashmir between militants and the Indian Army."
14.	Rubberneck New York Times	02/22/13	Fair	"Mr. Karpovsky makes Paul creepy enough... [but] the movie is too limp and lacking in texture to earn the title of thriller. It's dragged down by non-scene after non-scene..."
15.	War of the Buttons (La nouvelle guerre des boutons) New York Times	10/12/12	Fair	"...the slick filmmaking -- the movie has a glossy, Hollywood-ready feel that sometimes tips into the cutesy -- works against its themes."
16.	Bel Borba Aqui New York Times	10/03/12	Fair	"...shallow... Bel Borba emerges as a protean, inexhaustible artist, too busy to be plagued by self-doubt.... plenty to look at, but not much to think about."
17.	It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl New York Times	08/10/12	Fair	"...satisfies neither as a movie nor as a history lesson... barely touches on the hot-button issues of Zionism... The even tone might be refreshing if it didn't seem so clueless."
18.	An Encounter with Simone Weil New York Times	03/23/12	Fair	"...as much about filmmaker Julia Haslett as it is about Weil... though Weil remains fascinating, Ms. Haslett's film, even when it uses more traditional documentary techniques, mostly isn't."
19.	Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche New York Times	11/25/11	Fair	"...goes mushy when it should be critical, and leaves you with questions that it's not prepared to answer.... It would have helped to hear from people critical of Trungpa..."
20.	Archie's Final Project (My Suicide) New York Times	09/30/11	Fair	"Parts neatly capture teenage angst and parts have a sharp documentary flavor.... But how are we to believe that the playful auteur behind this cinematic onslaught is suicidal?"

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