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Scott Tobias
253 reviews, averaging 61.9% positive

 

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1. 05/17/12 Fair "With eyes closed, the movie uncannily resembles a giant baby playing with pots and pans."
2. 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. 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. 05/17/12 Fair "...there's something fundamentally synthetic about 'Virginia,' which lays bare its influences without doing much to reanimate them."
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Polisse
AV Club
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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."
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Fightville
AV Club
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."
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Chimpanzee
AV Club
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. 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. 04/19/12 Excellent "...subtle and perceptive... it is about emotions that linger and assert themselves against our better judgment."
16. 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. 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. 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. 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.
ATM (2012)
AV Club
04/05/12 Poor "Perfunctory killings outside, bickering ninnies inside: It's about as riveting as it sounds."

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