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| 1. |
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05/17/12 |
Fair |
 "With eyes closed, the movie uncannily resembles a giant baby playing with pots and pans." |
| 2. |
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05/17/12 |
Moderate |
 "...every time the film touches on some simple, relatable truth about the trials of bringing a child into the world, there are five or six outrageous comic setpieces that diminish it." |
| 3. |
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05/17/12 |
Fair |
 "...absent of almost any dramatic tension and freighted instead with a sentimentality that an adorable, devoted Labrador can achieve without much help." |
| 4. |
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05/17/12 |
Fair |
 "...there's something fundamentally synthetic about 'Virginia,' which lays bare its influences without doing much to reanimate them." |
| 5. |
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05/17/12 |
Very Good |
 "The best moments of Maïwenn's 'Polisse' have a fly-on-the-wall docu-realism that feels eerily like the real thing. In other instances, the opposite is true..." |
| 6. |
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05/15/12 |
Excellent |
 "...both more conventional than 'Borat' and 'Brüno' and a more accommodating vehicle for different types of comedy. In reaching back to the past, Baron Cohen finds a viable way forward." |
| 7. |
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05/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Burton goes through the motions... as much as he feels at home among this family of misfits and beasts, 'Dark Shadows' doesn't have the conviction..." |
| 8. |
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05/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a merciless satire, holding our debased culture in front of a funhouse mirror. But it isn't a funhouse mirror; it's just a mirror." |
| 9. |
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05/10/12 |
Good |
 "...rests in the push-and-pull between sincerity and indie piffle.... Yet the film has an earnest quality that asserts itself more and more as it sputters along..." |
| 10. |
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04/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...breaks from the usual earnest, stat-filled exposé... takes a keen interest in the everyday nature of prostitution, particularly the point of sale between prostitute and client." |
| 11. |
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04/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "Though the lightness of it can get disconcerting at times, even cartoonish, Linklater approaches the story with a bemused curiosity that seems about right under the circumstances." |
| 12. |
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04/19/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the dramatic stakes are high, and Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker shine a little light on the margins of this marginalized sport." |
| 13. |
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04/19/12 |
Fair |
 "Fothergill, Linfield, and their crew worked hard to collect mesmerizing images but the enforced narrative is so Disneyfied, the animals might as well be stuffed with fluff." |
| 14. |
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04/19/12 |
Weak |
 "...deals with the intense emotions of girls in the blush of adolescence, but writer/director Mary Harron, perhaps wary of exploitation, pours cold water over them." |
| 15. |
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04/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "...subtle and perceptive... it is about emotions that linger and assert themselves against our better judgment." |
| 16. |
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04/13/12 |
Moderate |
 "...misshapen... the gossip and drug-fueled capers offered up by Courtney Love are simply more compelling than the tremulous course of Schemel's life." |
| 17. |
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04/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a quality knockoff.... Besson and his writer-director team, James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, are comfortable with the 'impossible' side of their mission impossible." |
| 18. |
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04/12/12 |
Weak |
 "...a case study in how bad movies can turn an ordinary, relatable situation into a grotesque distortion with only a passing resemblance to the way actual human beings live and interact with each other." |
| 19. |
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04/12/12 |
Good |
 "In spite of filmmaker Braden King's obvious gifts, his experimental flourishes tend to obscure, more than illuminate, his quick-burn romance. Sometimes it pays to be more direct." |
| 20. |
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04/05/12 |
Poor |
 "Perfunctory killings outside, bickering ninnies inside: It's about as riveting as it sounds." |
