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05/09/13 |
Fair |
 "...a misanthropic streak serves Ben Wheatley poorly.... There's hardly a character who isn't pathetic or risible or some unsavory combination of the two.... off balance." |
| 2. |
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05/02/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Algrant has a good feel for the vagaries of musical collaboration.... What redeems the film are Jeff's poignant efforts to unburden himself of his father's oppressive legacy..." |
| 3. |
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04/25/13 |
Fair |
 "Bay blankets the film in a tone of smug self-awareness that obscures everything but its bald hypocrisy.... Wahlberg's excited monologues about America can be a gas." |
| 4. |
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04/18/13 |
Moderate |
0513998.jpg) "...occupies an awkward no-man's-land between escapist space adventure and heady science fiction, but it's neither thrilling enough nor intellectually stimulating enough..." |
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04/11/13 |
Good |
 "...droll.... it's clever and smartly proportioned, with gags about love, the curdling of long-term friendships and petty social mores popping off everywhere." |
| 6. |
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04/11/13 |
Excellent |
 "...there may be some significant distance between the experiences and actions of those onscreen and those in the audience, but Malick is reaching for essential truths..." |
| 7. |
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04/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's impossible not to be moved by Robinson's story... but the film feels like it's ducking out of the conversation it's purporting to start." |
| 8. |
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04/04/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...unsurprising.... Campos handles Simon's meltdown with exquisite restraint and control but it's an artful circling of an awfully familiar drain." |
| 9. |
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04/04/13 |
Excellent |
 "...the film becomes absurd and weirdly infectious, an exercise in seeing how far the audience will bend without breaking. Only the flexible need apply." |
| 10. |
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03/28/13 |
Excellent |
 "...tremendously entertaining.... the documentary itself stands as a thrilling testament to the fact that art is -- and should be -- open to interpretation." |
| 11. |
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03/28/13 |
Moderate |
 "Jon Chu improves on the action choreography -- but a better model of shit is still shit." |
| 12. |
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03/28/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...basically a one-man show for Neil Hopkins, a TV actor who acquits himself reasonably well in loopy chats with himself and heartfelt missives to iPhone video." |
| 13. |
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03/28/13 |
Moderate |
 "Ken Scott knows how to deliver the crowd-pleasing beats, but those beats are so agonizingly familiar that the film virtually writes itself in the second half." |
| 14. |
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03/21/13 |
Excellent |
 "...sweet, vibrant.... the 81-minute run time passes lickety-split, but it's all a smokescreen for a warm and wonderfully discursive slice-of-life story..." |
| 15. |
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03/21/13 |
Poor |
 "Nearly everything that happens in the film is ludicrous.... The one and only consolation for audiences is that the end of the world would never, ever happen this way." |
| 16. |
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03/21/13 |
Good |
 "...severs all connection to prehistory by inventing exotic creatures... makes up in barreling speed what it lacks in smarts." |
| 17. |
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03/21/13 |
Good |
 "Griffiths and her screenwriter, Rick Phillips Jr., manage the tricky business of evoking the specific horrors of sex slavery without languishing in the lurid and graphic." |
| 18. |
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03/14/13 |
Good |
 "...accessible.... Miyazaki renders the crises of Umi's life with great feeling but without melodrama, which honors her spirit of self-reliance and her mature disposition." |
| 19. |
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03/14/13 |
Moderate |
 "...sinks from a solid, meat-and-potatoes redemption thriller to a lurid, gratuitous, relentlessly silly revenge story.... morphs into a nasty exploitation movie..." |
| 20. |
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03/14/13 |
Excellent |
 "There's virtually no way to talk about Matteo Garrone's comic fable without giving a nod to 'The King of Comedy,' Martin Scorsese's masterful dark comedy..." |
