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08/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...infinitely more than a bummer, displaying an invigoratingly acute understanding of the psychology of insecurity, longing, defensiveness and inward-turning rage." |
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01/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "One of the great movies about movies.... this is film criticism by mouse click, lingering over the visual details of Kubrick's horror classic 'The Shining'..." |
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09/30/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...of the highest order.... Prostitution, murder, romance, war and spiritual malaise slot the pic firmly in the melodramatic tradition, in which it sparkles." |
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09/20/10 |
Outstanding |
 "An unflinching gaze into the heart of pure evil and a perverse genre entertainment par excellence... beautifully filmed, carefully structured and viscerally engaging." |
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08/13/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...not for the faint of heart... one of the most difficult -- and rewarding -- films of the year, and one of the best." |
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05/16/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...the film is a beautifully staged marvel that confidently reasserts director Takeshi Kitano's considerable cinematic gifts." |
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03/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "In the hands of the fiercely committed Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dalser goes from being the recipient of Il Duce's thrusts to a towering figure of sorts, tough as nails even when incarcerated." |
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03/17/10 |
Outstanding |
"...a stylistic knockout, a movie whose audacious editing fully captures the hot and heavy relationships between past and present, sex and politics, reality and, yes, cinema." |
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09/17/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...makes countless other political documentaries look like episodes of 'Teletubbies.' Unnervingly persuasive much of the time, and merely riveting when it's not..." |
| 10. |
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01/19/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Skillfully adapted from Tim Tharp's novel, evocatively lensed in the working-class neighborhoods of Athens and tenderly acted by Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley..." |
| 11. |
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01/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military.... smartly details the bureaucratic structures that allow the vast majority of perpetrators to escape justice." |
| 12. |
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07/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...exquisitely sad..." |
| 13. |
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07/06/11 |
Outstanding |
"...pulls human heartstrings as wrenchingly as any creature feature in the 45 years since 'Au hasard Balthazar'.... a deeply haunting portrait..." |
| 14. |
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09/14/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...sizable credit for the film's winning ways belongs to Ellen Page, whose performance -- complete with her own skating -- is one of grit, grace and speed." |
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09/12/08 |
Outstanding |
 "...violently funny... Despite a few minor missteps, the film is fully imagined in visual and aural terms..." |
| 16. |
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08/20/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a keenly observant and kosher Jewish-Mexican chagigah, wherein a middle-aged woman's suicide leaves a bountiful community in its wake." |
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01/26/13 |
Excellent |
 "...astonishingly hard-hitting.... This jaw-dropping, persuasively researched pic has the power to pry open government lockboxes." |
| 18. |
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02/10/12 |
Excellent |
 "Aurora Guerrero beautifully captures the fluctuating dynamics of friendship between 15-year-old girls... a low-budget, high-achieving drama.... impressive..." |
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02/05/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a thoroughly unpredictable horror-comedy -- and an immensely entertaining one, too.... a gonzo gorefest... Canine thesp Bark Lee is brilliant." |
| 20. |
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10/21/10 |
Excellent |
 "Damned if this relentlessly globalist epic, which winds up wasted in Sudan, isn't like a drug in that it keeps one's pulse quickened for an unnerving duration." |
