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11/19/12 |
Fair |
"This new 'Anna Karenina' only looks weird. It's a cinematic Cliff's Notes, a tricked-up borrowing of Tolstoy's plot and characters..." |
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09/17/12 |
Excellent |
"...intricate... Lucidity and opacity, ordinary delights and exotic peculiarities blend breezily in an intimate jest of vast wonder." |
| 3. |
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09/05/12 |
Poor |
"...a work of propaganda that offers base innuendo in lieu of argument.... the kind of personal production that calls into question the very virtue of sincerity..." |
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07/06/12 |
Weak |
"...for all of its ostensible reflection of crises of the day, it feels utterly unnecessary; its fullness of action is strangely emptied out; it's a visually page-turning non-experience." |
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06/26/12 |
Outstanding |
"...terrific... The yearning for ordinariness and the yearning to escape from the ordinary are the opposing energies that give the movie its constant tension." |
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06/26/12 |
Moderate |
"The problem with the movie isn't that it's especially bad but that it's surprisingly mediocre, a disappointment." |