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05/18/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a boldly original, highly emotional journey through Greenwich Village nightclubs, a bleak New York winter, and one man's fraught efforts to reconcile his life and his art." |
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05/16/13 |
Excellent |
 "...lively and fascinating.... remains poker-faced throughout, sustaining a tone pitched somewhere between satire and grudging admiration, rarely tipping its hand..." |
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05/13/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a superior piece of classical action craftsmanship... Lin and veteran screenwriter Chris Morgan have labored to add depth, dimensionality and inner conflict..." |
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05/13/13 |
Moderate |
 "...benefits from a brisk pace, witty banter and engaging performances, yet still fades from memory faster than a final exam on the first day of summer vacation." |
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05/05/13 |
Moderate |
 "...exudes an undeniable fascination -- at least for a while.... Periodically, as if by accident, something like real emotion pokes up through its well-manicured surface..." |
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05/02/13 |
Excellent |
 "...in every respect equal or even superior to its splendid 2009 predecessor... a well-crafted, immensely pleasurable ride..." |
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04/24/13 |
Good |
 "...more perfunctory and workmanlike than its two predecessors, but this solid production still delivers more than enough of what fans expect..." |
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04/22/13 |
Moderate |
 "...unapologetically vulgar, sometimes quite funny, often stomach-churning... nothing if not an orgy of swooshing, swooping movements, super slo-mo, blazing pastels..." |
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04/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...spirited.... a rather ingenious fabrication, with reams of uncanny period re-creations and at least one fully fictional character masquerading as fact." |
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04/09/13 |
Weak |
 "...relentlessly formulaic.... Thick with canned inspirationalism and heroic platitudes, but only occasionally pushing past the iconic to grapple with the real human drama..." |
| 11. |
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04/07/13 |
Poor |
 "...schlock... Moore struggles to convince us there's something important at stake here -- this, alas, lies beyond even her formidable actorly gifts." |
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03/29/13 |
Poor |
 "...ludicrous... sluggish, relentlessly downbeat... takes a sharp right turn toward the smugly moralistic.... Kim Kardashian is the single most believable thing on screen?" |
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03/28/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Sure to inspire indifference and cultish admiration in nearly equal measure, this extravagant mess may someday be reevaluated as a misunderstood masterpiece." |
| 14. |
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03/28/13 |
Fair |
 "Jeff Lipsky is clearly reaching for something grand and cosmic here, but the results are mostly just confounding." |
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03/28/13 |
Moderate |
 "...extravagantly silly but undeniably entertaining.... It all might have seemed even more ridiculous than it sounds were it not for the deeply resourceful Ronan..." |
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03/27/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...has a go-for-broke, everything-I-ever-wanted-to-put-into-a-movie quality to it... while the acting is excellent, the metaphors are heavy, the plotting thin and repetitive." |
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03/21/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Directed at a jingoistic fever pitch by 'Training Day's' Antoine Fuqua... there are many parts of the country where this will play as less than total farce." |
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03/21/13 |
Poor |
 "The lurid premise is clearly predicated on one potential outcome -- seeing some grown-up go apeshit on these prepubescent psychos..." |
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03/20/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
" 'America! Fuck yeah!'... an all-you-can-eat buffet of shlock... pretty ridiculously entertaining -- or at least entertainingly ridiculous..." |
| 20. |
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03/20/13 |
Poor |
"Even by the standards of the genre, the characters behave with astonishing stupidity, while Makinov tries repeatedly to mine suspense by slowly creeping up on his actors..." |
