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04/03/12 |
Fair |
 "...messy, unconvincing... feels like a quickie knockoff between major projects, offering the writer-director's handsome son Mandela and other younger Van Peebles loads of screentime." |
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03/21/12 |
Good |
 "A peculiar variation on the paranoid thriller and a virtual one-man show for Stephen Dorff... the actor fully commits to the arduous demands of the part." |
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02/23/12 |
Fair |
 "A mechanically efficient yet soulless dramatization of the U.S. Navy SEALs in action... ultimately misses its target: The hearts and minds of American audiences." |
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01/30/12 |
Moderate |
 "...proceeds down a routine path as a crime drama, despite the best efforts of Samuel L. Jackson as an ex-con doing his damnedest to go straight." |
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12/06/11 |
Fair |
 "Ultimately makes even less sense than its title... Fascinating first impressions soon give way to repetitive, sluggish sequences..." |
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10/20/11 |
Fair |
 "Michael Brandt's direction misses many opportunities to provide visual texture and touches that could underline the movie's themes of deception and uncertainty, even as the script pushes more and more toward implausibility." |
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09/30/11 |
Weak |
 "...an initially teasing variation on the haunted-house movie that pivots in a radically different, uninspired direction.... the film flattens as it tries to explain Daniel Craig's character's psychological state." |
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09/29/11 |
Poor |
 "More boring than stomach-churning, the film nevertheless contains scattered scenes and sequences so far beyond the tolerance of the squeamish that it can't be overstated..." |
| 9. |
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09/11/11 |
Very Good |
 "...the lovable true story of Doug Smith, a hockey enforcer who achieved minor-league fame... balances the action on the ice with sharply drawn characters off the rink." |
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09/10/11 |
Very Good |
 "Albert Maysles' reliably relaxed and observant camera follows Paul McCartney around Gotham in the days leading up to and during the Concert for New York City in October 2001, benefiting survivors of 9/11's fallen firemen, police and first responders." |
| 11. |
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09/10/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...strains under the constant switches in time signature, which are sometimes dramatically effective and revealing of character, and other times overworked and fussy." |
| 12. |
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09/10/11 |
Excellent |
 "...incredible and incredibly violent... offers a continuous sequence of action with a clear and effective premise... The effect is exhilarating..." |
| 13. |
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08/28/11 |
Weak |
 "Despite its distinctive setting... a paltry romantic comedy undercut by a screenplay that barely raises a chuckle and undistinguished direction by William Dear ('Harry and the Hendersons'). We're a long way from Capra in this rickety tale..." |
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08/24/11 |
Good |
 "...an affectionate portrait of an all-American subculture.... Filmmaker Robert Greene films without comment and leaves it to the viewer to draw conclusions..." |
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08/17/11 |
Very Good |
 "Just when it seems that every other young Hollywood actor is donning vampire garb, along comes Colin Farrell to show 'em how it's done..." |
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07/31/11 |
Excellent |
 "...acutely conceived... An unusual example of what can be termed a 'gay Christian' film... among the best of a recent spate of dramas observing American Christian life. With a brilliant cast of young actors..." |
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06/19/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Attorney Marc Dreier, the mastermind behind one of the largest securities and money fraud schemes in U.S. history, is treated with kid gloves... a slick, carefully made docu..." |
| 18. |
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06/15/11 |
Fair |
 "Carrey shows too much strain to make the comedy viable." |
| 19. |
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06/07/11 |
Poor |
 "What could have been a crack thriller devolves into a pointless dramatic exercise... the culminating act of violence is most improper.... the action is a chain of ill-judged plot twists." |
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05/30/11 |
Excellent |
 "A sustained dark night of the soul... plunges into the disturbed mind of a man haunted by his murder of a Tel Aviv pawnbroker.... engrossing, visually acute and intensely personal filmmaking." |
