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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "...credit Gondry, like Tocqueville before him, with at least re-examining tired clichés and scraping the rust off stereotypes." |
| 2. |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Part biopic, part musical, part dime-store Freud... the execution is as flawed as the design. The flashbacks lack either info or tension - they're just tepid and innocuous." |
| 3. |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...strange, frustrating, occasionally fascinating.... it's safe to conclude that much of this close analysis is itself over the moon..." |
| 4. |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a fun and entertaining and vital and brave reminder of what the book is and the movie, for all its many charms, is not - profoundly important." |
| 5. |
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05/03/13 |
Moderate |
 "...imagination is precisely what this picture lacks. Consequently, it's lofty without being uplifting, adventurous without being dramatic, brave without being dangerous." |
| 6. |
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04/26/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a throwback, trying awfully hard to be the sort of grown-up picture that exudes a humane intelligence. You can't help but applaud the effort, even as it falls short." |
| 7. |
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04/26/13 |
Moderate |
 "...formulaic schtick..." |
| 8. |
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04/19/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
0513998.jpg) "...quiet... devoid of sound and fury.... A functioning mediocrity, blessed with good looks and unassuming with good reason." |
| 9. |
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04/19/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a relatively fresh take on a suddenly stale genre.... Berger keeps the pace brisk, the cast has fun with their caricatures, and the occasional joke takes wing..." |
| 10. |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the whole is much less than the sum of its parts. So our patience is getting tried even as the story jumps to '15 Years Later'..." |
| 11. |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Great cast, stylish direction and a plot that's a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a what-the-hell's-going-on muddle." |
| 12. |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "I'm not suggesting that the script is willfully covering anything up, but to deny the man his simple mortal flaws is to make his struggle seem too easy." |
| 13. |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "...give Garbus her due. She's a good and persistent saleswoman hawking a product that, despite a half-century's worth of hucksterism, just refuses to grow old." |
| 14. |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "Kristi Jacobson and Lauri Silverbush crisscross the country to plumb the tragedy. And tragic it is, especially the plight of children." |
| 15. |
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03/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "...by far Sally Potter's most accessible film - beautifully observed as always, and with a quietly gripping performance from her young star..." |
| 16. |
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03/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "...both a tangerine dream and a cultural reality check, a pop artifact that simultaneously exploits and explores the shallowness of pop artifacts." |
| 17. |
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03/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "The script is adroit at embedding the details in casual conversation. And the details, of course, are crucial - that's where an indifferent God resides." |
| 18. |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...there's delight to be had in a romcom where romantic love is the least of things and the easiest to obtain.... it's filial love, fickle too..." |
| 19. |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...an early spring breeze of a film - too delicate to be substantial but definitely holding the promise of warmth." |
| 20. |
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03/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...like no documentary you've ever seen before.... Brilliantly rewarding yet taxing too, this is pure cinema verité pushed to a radical extreme." |
