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05/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...makes efficient use of limited footage and fills in the gaps with interviews with those who knew the man intimately.... Despite its epic running time, the film never lags." |
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05/17/12 |
Weak |
 "...would rather resort to immature humour for kicks. Many of these gags are so forcibly contrived, the movie seems to be going through labour to deliver them." |
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04/26/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...even when 'Safe' is bad, it's good." |
| 4. |
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04/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...intelligent, thoroughly absorbing... a delight for both the avid gamer and those not so up to speed with Nintendo-speak.... If video games are our New Wave, this doc is its Cahiers du Cinéma." |
| 5. |
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04/26/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...some strong actors in the cast make the most of the thin material.... Besides, it's hard to hate on a movie where Chris Brown shows up to play up his own douchiness." |
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04/12/12 |
Weak |
 "...the film falls prey to clichés and predictability, since it follows the plot points laid out by so many westerns and fails to cover its tracks along the way." |
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03/15/12 |
Excellent |
 "The trick to enjoying this juvenile '21 Jump Street' reboot is not to take any of it seriously. That's pretty easy, since it never takes itself or its cheesy TV series source material very seriously either." |
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03/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...all this mockery seems pointless, since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have already affectionately mimicked these genres." |
| 9. |
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03/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Apart from the wintry conditions, there's nothing particularly new about this competent but inelegant prison drama, at least not to an audience familiar with Jules Dassin's 'Brute Force' or 'The Shawshank Redemption.' " |
| 10. |
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03/01/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...selective... You have to wonder if the tragic tales - the losers from Manassas - were left on the bench for the sake of a feel-good movie." |
| 11. |
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03/01/12 |
Weak |
 "Perry's betrayed those who expect him to be the well-meaning, politically incorrect entertainer he can be." |
| 12. |
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02/23/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a fittingly lowbrow and vulgar hockey comedy that will scare the shit out of anyone expecting the 'Mighty Ducks'... Liev Schreiber brings gravitas to a movie that could easily have been juvenile." |
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02/17/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...fascinating... Unfortunately, the director undermines the urgency of his material with poor choices including flashy visuals and a soundtrack featuring Radiohead that feels completely out of place." |
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02/16/12 |
Weak |
 "The film's narrative rhythm is as flat as the hand-drawn cartoons, and the voice actors don't liven up the proceedings. A little more genuine fun and humour and less of Cécile Corbel's irritatingly sentimental folk songs could have gone a long way." |
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02/02/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a critical mood piece that's both nightmarish and darkly comical, where the wide frames and long takes teem with seemingly infinite sleaze and violence." |
| 16. |
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01/26/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A witty screenplay, moving performances - particularly from the precocious child cast - and social observations free of a political agenda make this a high achiever." |
| 17. |
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01/20/12 |
Poor |
 "The characters and plot turns are so contrived, you're forced to swallow it all on blind faith. The music offers no salvation either, unless of course you're big on gospel." |
| 18. |
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12/15/11 |
Weak |
 "...finds whimsical solutions to the incredible challenges the Mee family faces, which makes it that much harder to believe it's based on a true story." |
| 19. |
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12/08/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...perceptive and comic... Unfortunately, the film's pace is as meandering as the forgetful character at its centre, and Schepisi often gets carried away with stagey visuals." |
| 20. |
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12/01/11 |
Weak |
 "...verges on being a meta-cinema case study: a documentary about the practical purposes a documentary can serve.... so scattershot and unfocused that it fails to do justice to these important people." |
