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| 21. |
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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..." |
| 22. |
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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." |
| 23. |
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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." |
| 24. |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "In a live theatre, the rabbit pulled from the hat is a neat trick; on film, the dumb bunny is just camera trickery." |
| 25. |
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03/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...every one of the 'performances' is astonishingly vivid." |
| 26. |
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03/08/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...behaves altogether too much like the generation that got defined - yep, it starts out energetic and fresh only to age into tedious self-importance." |
| 27. |
|
03/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a frisky gangster flick cum elaborate thriller cum off-beat romance.... entertaining... engaging and just credible enough to leave you feeling surprised..." |
| 28. |
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03/01/13 |
Moderate |
 "It's gorgeous to gaze upon but otherwise dessicated - listless, juiceless and ultimately pointless.... there's no motion, or emotion, in the picture." |
| 29. |
|
03/01/13 |
Moderate |
 "The usual: 'Just one beer' escalates as a geometric progression into shots being downed, pants being dropped, leaks being taken, vomit getting hurled..." |
| 30. |
|
03/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "As a political testament, the result is revealing and important. Yet as a documentary, it wanders here, there and everywhere - long on intensity but short on focus." |
| 31. |
|
02/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...an honest exercise in workmanlike craft. This is to film what ceramic is to floors or Billy is to bookcase... hardly great but good and solid and functional." |
| 32. |
|
02/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "...ain't a pretty sight. It's awfully cluttered and rather pointless within that narcissistic cranium, not to mention within the frames of this ostensibly playful and surreal flick." |
| 33. |
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02/14/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Willis' look alone is sufficient to prompt this memo from the Department of Faint Praise... the film continues the franchise without undue embarrassment." |
| 34. |
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02/14/13 |
Weak |
 "There's also a letter. There's always a letter stuffed into these Hallmark cards. This one comes at the end, along with a complementary hankie and a red candy heart." |
| 35. |
|
02/08/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...ordinary... God, how this woman can act... how we long to see the rest of it." |
| 36. |
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02/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a study of a culture where the matriarchs are strong by necessity and trapped by circumstance - adrift in the middle of nowhere." |
| 37. |
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01/25/13 |
Poor |
 "...along comes Marlon Wayans to do in this film what he once did in 'Scary Movie.' And do it much, much worse." |
| 38. |
|
01/18/13 |
Very Good |
 "...an occasionally amusing, sometimes entertaining and surprisingly well-directed bit of of fluff." |
| 39. |
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01/18/13 |
Moderate |
 "Ironically, a novel that's a paean to unbridled freedom is a prisoner of its own medium and a slave to its intrinsic rhythms. Sorry, 'On the Road' just doesn't travel well." |
| 40. |
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01/11/13 |
Weak |
 "...plays like a TV movie back in the days when TV wasn't worth watching.... The plot groans, the exposition clanks and the characters speechify like pols on stumps..." |
