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01/19/09 |
Good |
 "Jonathan Parker jabs and pokes at the New York contemporary art world with some satirical success... isn't sustained throughout, but there's more than enough here..." |
| 2. |
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01/23/12 |
Fair |
 "...a limp effort.... Once the scenario and characters are in place, the pic shows little interest in pushing matters to more provocative, thoughtful or unexpected levels." |
| 3. |
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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." |
| 4. |
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05/16/10 |
Excellent |
 "...tender but unsentimenta... Directed with great confidence and control, and filled with stretches of quiet contemplation, this is pure-grade art cinema..." |
| 5. |
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01/22/10 |
Moderate |
 "...a modest look at one act of goodness yielding another... most effective as a tool to drive liberal-minded viewers to crack open their checkbooks to help the poor.... very glossy, and most of the storytelling techniques deployed are bland and conventional..." |
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09/16/10 |
Very Good |
 "...delectable... What begins as a seemingly dry work directed purely at cinephiles evolves almost invisibly into a droll romantic comedy... a clear step forward for director Federico Veiroj." |
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04/03/12 |
Moderate |
 "...travels to 10 nations to capture nocturnal extremes, from border patrols to sex clubs, aerospace factories to raves.... too abstract by half." |
| 8. |
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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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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." |
| 10. |
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01/21/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...loose, moody and ultimately slight... hints at aspirations toward a style that blends American indie tropes with the lyrical realism of the best young Latin American and Asian cineastes." |
| 11. |
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01/22/01 |
Good |
 "...the mostly teen cast attacks the material with frightening gusto, and Tatsuya Fujiwara dutifully invokes the voice of inner moral conflict... handsome and vigorous..." |
| 12. |
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03/13/11 |
Very Good |
 "A case of solid journalism that happens to be cinematically interesting... traces the curlicues and conspiracies surrounding the trials of two protestors arrested during the 2008 Republican National Convention." |
| 13. |
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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..." |
| 14. |
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01/18/09 |
Excellent |
 "The harrowing, borderline insane adventure of 'ultra-marathon' swimmer Martin Strel traversing the entire Amazon river is captured in a comical and eerie style by John Maringouin." |
| 15. |
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07/15/12 |
Good |
 "...an interesting case of one of cinema's most distinctive filmmakers functioning in a commercial vein, and not shorting fans of his signature style and obsessions." |
| 16. |
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02/27/09 |
Fair |
 "...a movie struggling to get a grip on its toxic central character, ('Bob Funk')." |
| 17. |
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01/25/12 |
Excellent |
 "...exemplifies Stacy Peralta's knack for serving up stylish images and documenting wildly entertaining characters who could simply not be invented..." |
| 18. |
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05/14/11 |
Very Good |
 "...reflects on Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' to track a sweet but doomed love affair between literary -- and pleasurably randy -- college students." |
| 19. |
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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." |
| 20. |
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10/03/08 |
Weak |
 "...structurally rigorous and politically dubious... filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt observes the life and (mostly) death of several of the Golden State's company-owned towns with cool detachment and aesthetic miserabilism." |
