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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "Ozon has some fun with this material... for all its pleasures, one only wishes this absorbing but melodramatic film could have found the perfect ending." |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...formulaic or not, it's funny.... Chism packs this one with amusing characters in awkward, if obvious, situations and makes the most of them." |
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05/10/13 |
Weak |
 "...has to give away its biggest, best secret far too early.... That robs the picture of suspense, though the odd moment of compassion kicks in..." |
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05/03/13 |
Very Good |
 "...an amusing little nothing of a movie built around the wit and wisdom of Woodey Allen." |
| 5. |
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04/26/13 |
Very Good |
 "...melancholy, wistful... Firth and Blunt handle their characters' many revelations with care and play with layers of hurt and disappointment with great sympathy and pathos." |
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04/19/13 |
Poor |
 "...the script is dreadful.... Every ritual involves a lot of ugly nudity, and a lot of the more grotesque nudity is augmented by body suits." |
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04/19/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...nothing much new here. But the performances and the milieu make this an entertaining, honorable installment in a story that is the American Dream incarnate..." |
| 8. |
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04/13/13 |
Poor |
 "...comes up short in every way imaginable.... It's only 80 minutes long.... a series of short sketches that don't end with a payoff... flailing, unfunny..." |
| 9. |
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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a blunt instrument of a movie, and often melodramatic. But it sometimes moves and often hits its target square on the nose.... there isn't a bad performance in it..." |
| 10. |
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04/12/13 |
Moderate |
 "...perfectly serviceable if utterly generic.... the novelty here is in the Britishness of it all. That's not really enough to make this one stand out." |
| 11. |
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03/30/13 |
Weak |
 "The timing of the comic moments is off, and the film drags and drags before reaching a conclusion that's visible from a mile off. The quartet of leads is blander than bland." |
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03/29/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If the movie doesn't quite come off, it's at least comforting for us and director P.J. Hogan to see that, to some degree, you can go home again." |
| 13. |
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03/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a trip from indifference to kindness, incompetence to responsibility -- a most rewarding reinvention of what 'family' can mean." |
| 14. |
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03/28/13 |
Moderate |
 "Acting? We'll have none of that.... Things go boom and bodies go down and the one hour and 50 minutes zip by like oh, two hours and ten." |
| 15. |
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03/22/13 |
Poor |
 "A collection of racially insensitive and sexually off-color gags that don't so much test comedy's boundaries as make you wonder how bad the gags they threw out were..." |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a gorgeous kids' cartoon with heart and wit.... the actors are, to a one, dazzling -- getting across emotions and delivering verbal zingers with great timing." |
| 17. |
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03/22/13 |
Moderate |
 "...another movie manifestation of a first-person shooter video game. We've become a head-shot nation, and our thrillers are the poorer for it." |
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03/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's every bit as much fun as you think it is. Until it isn't.... The story is easy to follow, harder to justify... motivations seem as murky as the plot..." |
| 19. |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a real edge-of-your-seat thriller.... It's only when the story needs to string out its finale that the film goes wrong..." |
| 20. |
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03/09/13 |
Weak |
 "Rapace is all over the place... needy, then self-assured, enraged, then in love. The always feral Farrell seems as dismayed by her as the rest of us." |
