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09/09/09 |
Good |
 "Shane Acker keeps things moving briskly... pulls off the trickier feat of establishing distinct personalities for his monochromatic, look-alike characters..." |
| 2. |
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09/10/09 |
Good |
"...there is an obvious touch of Tim Burtonia, with nods in the direction of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and the late Polish painter/photographer Zdzislaw Beksinski as well." |
| 3. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
09/10/09 |
Good |
"The result is never as gripping in narrative terms -- a well-worn litany of dystopian-future chestnuts -- as it is visually..." |
| 4. |
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04/16/09 |
Poor |
 "Efron is, to put it mildly, the least of the movie's problems." |
| 5. |
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04/15/09 |
Poor |
"...if this is one small step for Zac Efron toward becoming a leading man, it is, for Hollywood movies, one more giant leap into infantilism." |
| 6. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
04/16/09 |
Poor |
"...the garishly lit, poorly framed images seem to have been enlarged against their will... Kent's incessantly antic, brassy score is the musical equivalent of a laugh track." |
| 7. |
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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..." |
| 8. |
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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." |
| 9. |
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12/10/09 |
Weak |
 "No more than 10 minutes in, the movie already has the feel of an exquisitely preserved corpse laid out for viewing..." |
| 10. |
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12/09/09 |
Weak |
"Firth's performance is an island of honesty and simplicity, swallowed up by a sea of excess." |
| 11. |
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05/06/09 |
Good |
 "...a movie considerably more absorbing to talk, write, and think about afterward than it is to actually watch." |
| 12. |
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05/07/09 |
Good |
"...has no lack of interesting things to say or interesting ways to say them..." |
| 13. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
05/07/09 |
Good |
"...a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the aftermath of tragedy." |
| 14. |
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04/02/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The constant in Mottola's work is his marvelous hand with actors, whom he inspires to invest the most minor or familiar of characters with a nuanced inner life..." |
| 15. |
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04/01/09 |
Outstanding |
"I've seen Greg Mottola's movie twice, and both times, it has inspired feelings of joy, sadness, and a profound yearning for the unrecoverable past." |
| 16. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
04/02/09 |
Outstanding |
"Mottola cuts so swiftly to the underlying truth of clichés that he leaves most other movies on the subject looking especially plastic and shallow." |
| 17. |
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06/25/09 |
Excellent |
 "...tells its story from the inside out, without want or need of a white protagonist to serve as the audience's surrogate, and with real, three-dimensional characters..." |
| 18. |
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10/08/09 |
Very Good |
 "Playing a character who is herself a rare bloom in a field of mediocrity, Mulligan has a quality they can't teach in acting school. A star is born." |
| 19. |
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10/07/09 |
Very Good |
"...a seemingly benign, classily directed year-I-became-a-woman nostalgia trip that conceals a surprisingly tart, morally ambiguous center." |
| 20. |
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12/17/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a nonstop wow.... Cameron remains committed to the discovering of new worlds at a moment when we seem so certain that everything worth discovering already has been." |
