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09/21/12 |
Excellent |
 "...cool and puzzling... It's a film you admire, with two powerhouse performances, but it's aloof and self-involved and eccentric." |
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09/21/12 |
Very Good |
 "...sneaks up on you nauseatingly... Craig Zobel is less interested in the perverse motive behind the crime than the slow descent of the victims into its twisted logic." |
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09/21/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a soft and heartfelt little film built on the backs of two all-in performances... But the script's contrivances and the director's lax handling aren't enough to hold you." |
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09/14/12 |
Very Good |
 " 'Arbitrage' is a mirror on the audience, making us realize that we're complicit, if only vicariously, in some crimes which we ought to deplore." |
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09/07/12 |
Excellent |
 "...sumptuous... a thoughtful and profoundly gorgeous film... it's one of the most immersive things the screen has shown us in years." |
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09/07/12 |
Very Good |
 "Brugger is like a Graham Greene character or a sober(-ish) Hunter S. Thompson, diving into the darkness and taking an active role in it so as to shed light on it." |
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09/07/12 |
Poor |
 "Several words are suggested by 'The Words'... 'nitwit'... 'phony'... one more word comes to mind: 'kidding,' as in, 'you've got to be...' " |
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09/07/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Lee is, as ever, a gifted image-maker, but his storytelling has gotten so lax over time as to barely register. This isn't the 'Right Thing' in any sense." |
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08/31/12 |
Excellent |
 "In the hands of Letts, Friedkin and this cast, it feels, despairingly, terribly real... you can't blame artists for reporting what humans are actually like." |
| 10. |
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08/31/12 |
Excellent |
 "Frank Langella is splendid... there really is no better special effect in the movies than a fine actor given a wonderful part." |
| 11. |
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08/31/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a careful, painful and precise meditation on human desire and confusion... Without a note of sensationalism... Trier and Lie give us an emblem for the world." |
| 12. |
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08/24/12 |
Very Good |
 "Bart Layton's film takes us to such strange and emotionally charged places that we cannot believe that what we're seeing is real, even though it demonstrably is." |
| 13. |
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08/24/12 |
Good |
 "The journey on which he takes us may not satisfy in the ways we normally ask of movies, but if it did it wouldn't be a Cronenberg, would it?" |
| 14. |
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08/24/12 |
Very Good |
 "Slight but winning... It's a predictable sort of humor, but it's played with intelligence, wit, charm and, blissfully, very little pretense." |
| 15. |
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08/24/12 |
Good |
 "...rather routine... the film doesn't reach too high, and it keeps you involved so long as it keeps moving, which is most of the time." |
| 16. |
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08/22/12 |
Very Good |
 "Spirited and saucy... It's continually funny and surprisingly tenderhearted, so much so that even when it runs into dead ends and confusions you stay with it." |
| 17. |
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08/17/12 |
Excellent |
 "...fabulous entertainment... a brisk, funny and engaging movie that does genuinely exciting things with little bits of string and wire and such." |
| 18. |
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08/10/12 |
Excellent |
 "...absolute crackerjack entertainment: smart, taut, sleek, tense and unrelenting -- an ideal action movie and a truly exemplary sequel." |
| 19. |
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08/10/12 |
Good |
 "...fitfully funny... mixes its most damning barbs willy-nilly with frathouse humor and softens the whole thing with saccharine Hollywood storytelling." |
| 20. |
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08/10/12 |
Good |
 "Unlike previous Miike films, such as 'Audition' and, especially, '13 Assassins,' 'Hara-Kiri' is low on blood and shock, emphasizing performance and atmosphere." |
