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12/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...stands to become the dominant narrative about this important historical event.... It's a film about revenge and its immense costs..." |
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12/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...shattering... Haneke has a pitilessness that could not be more perfect for 'Amour,' which would collapse at any whiff of sentimentality." |
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10/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Loktev suffuses the film with the kind of intimate, microscopic detail and observation that's more common to literature than cinema." |
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09/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...stunning.... Anderson gives celluloid the victory lap it deserves. Seen in 70mm, it's a processing session on an epic scale, an amplification of wounded souls." |
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07/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...superb... Greenfield's refusal to pass judgment on the Siegels lends her subjects and their marriage unexpected complexity and depth..." |
| 6. |
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07/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...fiendishly clever... the genius of 'The Imposter' is that it's Bourdin who becomes the audience surrogate, rather than the family of the missing child." |
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05/24/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a charming fantasy.... dense in minute visual detail, hilarious deadpan jokes, and small moments that are rich in complexity." |
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03/22/12 |
Outstanding |
 "In Terence Rattigan's play, Davies has found a vehicle perfectly suited to his half-acrid/half-romantic sensibility." |
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02/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...has a burnished beauty that's awe-inspiring, like a clear window into a faraway world as it dangles, and then falls, off the precipice." |
| 10. |
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12/29/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Beyond the impeccable performances and direction, it's foremost an exceptional piece of screenwriting, so finely wrought that the drama seems guided by an invisible hand." |
| 11. |
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11/16/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...beautiful... Céline Sciamma gives 'Tomboy' the economy and exquisite proportion of a short story, but it's the performances that truly astonish." |
| 12. |
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09/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...little more than an exercise in style, but it's dazzling and mythic, a testament to the fundamental appeal of fast cars, dangerous men, and tension that squeezes..." |
| 13. |
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05/26/11 |
Outstanding |
 "The simplicity of 'The Tree Of Life' will be mistaken for naïveté.... a genuine attempt to grasp the transcendent, and the rare religious film that deserves to be called spiritual." |
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04/07/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...excruciating in the best possible sense, adopting a pace that's entirely appropriate to the endless expanse, but nonetheless suffused with suspicion and dread." |
| 15. |
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03/03/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Weerasethakul's most accessible work to date, a moving, gently reassuring tale that softens the boundaries between humanity and nature, life and the afterlife." |
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06/24/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...evolves into a tense, disturbing, often savagely funny struggle between chaos and control.... an exhilaratingly unpredictable experience, and not an easy one to shake." |
| 17. |
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03/07/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...has a rich understanding of the appeals and perils of religious values that provide structure and meaning to some while seeming cruel and irrational to outsiders." |
| 18. |
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01/31/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...riveting.... serves as a terrifying oracle, with Israel forevermore a powder keg waiting to go off. The last line is a killer." |
| 19. |
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11/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a prickly examination/example of disaffected Brooklyn hipsterdom... few films have better articulated the limits of irony as a force field against the world." |
| 20. |
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07/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...impresses most in the way it integrates the mythology of 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight' into a larger whole." |
