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05/24/13 |
Excellent |
 "...addictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes -- and for its poetic limning of the closest camaraderie many men can ever know: with their cars." |
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05/19/13 |
Very Good |
 "...ornery, dramatically confounding, lovingly scored.... Its excellent cast gives at least as much humanity to the characters as the script allows..." |
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05/17/13 |
Good |
 "...provides bustling fun equal to its modest ambitions... has a severe case of arrested development.... At times, the viewer is almost prodded to mutter, 'Grow up!' " |
| 4. |
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05/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "...has many of 'A Separation's' strengths, but they have become familiar. They lack the revelatory wallop... By any other measure, the film meets high standards." |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the film is on the blah side.... Coppola's stately remove from her characters puts into question not only their motives but hers. Why'd she bother?" |
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05/09/13 |
Very Good |
 "DiCaprio is persuasive as the little boy lost impersonating a tough guy, and Mulligan finds ways to express Daisy's magnetism and weakness." |
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05/02/13 |
Excellent |
 "...a movie of nifty thrills and ruthless sauciness.... proves that there's still intelligent life on Planet Marvel.... you're likely to say, 'That is how it's done.' " |
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04/26/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Love it or loathe it, the movie's not boring.... it's instantly, intriguingly post-modern.... even Bay-haters may absorb the pain to enjoy the gain." |
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04/19/13 |
Moderate |
0513998.jpg) "Cruise nearly carries it off... [but] science-fiction entropy gives way to audience ennui. Six minutes or 60 years after seeing the movie, viewers are unlikely to remember it." |
| 10. |
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04/05/13 |
Excellent |
 "...sexy, twisty... A devious mind game, it's the most entertaining smart movie so far this year.... on its own terms -- which ought to be yours -- it's entrancing." |
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03/29/13 |
Good |
 "...enlists Dwayne Johnson, Hollywood's premier action enforcer... finds room for Bruce Willis, as the original G.I. Joe... blithe fun... a pretty cool ride." |
| 12. |
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03/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...lively if nothing-new... shares 'Madagascar's' saucy visual sense... It's 'Identity Thief' with flying piranhas, or 'Plains, Trains & Automobiles' on foot." |
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03/15/13 |
Fair |
 "...boasts a beguiling mirror-world premise.... Absent any emotional grounding, the film is a gorgeous, sterile construction, like a dream city unoccupied by humans." |
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03/06/13 |
Fair |
 "Sam Raimi can't infuse the story with much verve or joy.... The 3-D effects are plentiful, but the characters rarely lodge in the moviegoer's heart." |
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03/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "Lovely to look at.... It's not pure Park or pure Hitchcock but a muted, mildly mesmerizing blend of the two. You might want to take a careful stroll in this Hitchpark." |
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02/15/13 |
Poor |
 "...if you mistakenly think you're buying a ticket to a demolition derby instead of a night at the movies, you'll feel right at home.... Everyone shoots at everyone else..." |
| 17. |
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02/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...like a secret too cool to keep but too treacherous to share.... virtually demands a three-word review: Just see it." |
| 18. |
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01/25/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...there's enough visual ingenuity -- eye candy, if you will -- to make this 'Hansel & Gretel' an intermittently tasty temptation." |
| 19. |
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01/18/13 |
Weak |
 "...a grimy botch.... It's as if the film's editor had been given two versions of every scene, one sizzling and the other sloppy, and mistakenly chose all of the bad takes." |
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01/18/13 |
Fair |
 "...a fantasy of hyper-violence that plays like an NRA vision of America the Beautiful.... Slapdash in its character portraits, the movie is slambang in its action scenes..." |
