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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...we should welcome Cohen's decision to stop being the best at something few others dare try and instead to inhabit a more familiar comedy style... He pulls it off." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "It's not a film; it's a freaky 3-D movie -- the kind real people see and enjoy... a madcap sequel.... a true Cirque de Berserk." |
| 3. |
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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A movie not of propulsive story power but of atmospheric vignettes... navigates its narrative with a child's intense and wandering attention.... a perfect storm of a film..." |
| 4. |
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05/16/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a film noir love story daubed in the sunny tones of late summer on Narragansett.... cheers for a Cannes director who has infused his technical mastery with radiant life." |
| 5. |
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05/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "...less a revival of the old show than a hit-or-miss parody pageant. This could be the pricey video record of a masquerade weekend that a group of bored glamorati spent..." |
| 6. |
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05/10/12 |
Fair |
 "...largely improvised, fitfully ingratiating... At its best, this modern movie has the feel of a half-century-old rave-up. As for the plot, it must date back to the Iron Age." |
| 7. |
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04/27/12 |
Fair |
 "...a spectacle -- a coroner's dispassionate report on a troubled soul -- rather than the anguished confession that is the hallmark of true Poe fiction." |
| 8. |
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04/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a slam-bang convention of superheroes... doesn't aim for transcendence, only for the juggler's skill of keeping the balls smoothly airborne, and in 3-D too... it succeeds." |
| 9. |
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04/26/12 |
Good |
 "...audiences are less likely to bust a gut laughing than to find themselves smiling out loud.... for all its vagrant appeal, it isn't in that exalted category; it lacks urgency and coherence." |
| 10. |
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04/20/12 |
Weak |
 "...includes just enough glimpses of exposed flesh and violent death to earn the film an R rating, not enough to weave an entrancing spell.... a pallid shocker with little heart and no bite." |
| 11. |
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04/19/12 |
Good |
 "...like the person you meet at a bar who, on second glance, is surprisingly attractive. Call 'Think Like a Man' a perfectly satisfactory one-night stand at the movies." |
| 12. |
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04/13/12 |
Fair |
 "...an unworthy tribute.... broken into three 'episodes' of about 27 minute each.... A couple of decent set pieces are the most distant approximations of gags from early Stooge shorts." |
| 13. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "Moviegoers can be grateful for this extended snapshot of domestic angst, while wishing that Besson had tracked back more often, to reveal the big picture of the continuing war for independence..." |
| 14. |
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04/06/12 |
Fair |
 "...keeps bursting into comic situations whose implications it then tiptoes away from.... How many more times can the American posse be immature for our tentative pleasure?" |
| 15. |
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03/30/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a documentary as vivid as any horror film, as heartbreaking as any Oscar-worthy drama.... the children depicted in 'Bully' already live in a world rated R..." |
| 16. |
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03/30/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a slightly-better-than-OK mashing of one of history's great literary troves: the Greek myths.... It's kid stuff for bookworms, a Classics comic book brought to fitfully vigorous life." |
| 17. |
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03/30/12 |
Fair |
 "...fumbles nearly every opportunity to be funny: the dialogue is flat... the pace is torpid when it should be bustling. But, the couture, darling, is hilariously divine." |
| 18. |
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03/23/12 |
Moderate |
 "...long (2 hours and 22 minutes), pedestrian... better at grim than gaudy, but not masterly at either.... a dutiful spectacle..." |
| 19. |
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03/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The movie is a museum of emotions, brought to contemporary life through the director's artistry and his leading lady's fire." |
| 20. |
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03/16/12 |
Good |
 "...gets points for simultaneously inhabiting two over-familiar genres: the high-school film and the buddy-cop comedy.... earns my genial nod because of its limber, 120-IQ take on the whole notion of movie revivals." |
