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| 21. |
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08/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "If 'Ruby Sparks' doesn't warm you much or form a seamless whole, it's nevertheless got pieces that you can genuinely admire." |
| 22. |
|
08/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "...you don't know whether to laugh or cry.... offers the undeniable fun of seeing a rich fellow getting his top hat knocked off with a snowball." |
| 23. |
|
08/03/12 |
Good |
 "There are real laughs in the film, yes, and enough sex and scatology to make anyone in the Apatow-verse blush..." |
| 24. |
|
08/03/12 |
Fair |
 "By the time the film reaches its convoluted, bombastic and preposterous climax, any sense of real magic that it once conveyed has utterly vanished." |
| 25. |
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08/03/12 |
Excellent |
 "You come away with an appreciation of the abstraction, scale and daring of Ai's art and, even more, a sense of the living man in his courage, humor and restlessness." |
| 26. |
|
07/20/12 |
Good |
 "...almost not even a stand-alone but rather a piece of a triptych. And, as it happens, the creation was far more compelling in its origin than in this final act." |
| 27. |
|
07/20/12 |
Good |
 "There's often real beauty and poetry... but 'Waltz' requires you to be on board with it from the start and doesn't often enough rouse itself to magnetize you if you're not." |
| 28. |
|
07/19/12 |
Very Good |
 "...reasonably accomplished as a gigantic superhero movie; as a meditation on capital and its personal and social discontents, it's strictly from the funny pages." |
| 29. |
|
07/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...dreamlike and poetic and symphonic and magical... the world as seen and felt by a curious, apt, precocious, and intuitive young child." |
| 30. |
|
07/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...wan... Gerwig manages to infuse her role with dignity and heart, despite the goofy permutations of the script." |
| 31. |
|
07/06/12 |
Very Good |
 "...likeable.... the Duplasses know how to put a small film like this together with soothing ease, and they never tax the audience with contrivances or excess baggage." |
| 32. |
|
07/06/12 |
Good |
 "...a hodgepodge of jokes and stories which adds up to little more than a simple -- and intermittent -- pleasure.... seems content simply to pass like a gently rolling stream..." |
| 33. |
|
07/06/12 |
Very Good |
 "...briskly navigates the Elmore Leonard-style twists of the story... Stone transmits his hedonistic pleasure directly to the audience. It's nice to have that Oliver Stone back." |
| 34. |
|
07/03/12 |
Good |
 "Webb's pretty good with the human stuff, but little here is as vitally alive as the action that Raimi, a poet of kinetics, whipped up.... It's not a dud, but it is a headscratcher..." |
| 35. |
|
06/29/12 |
Excellent |
 "...sweet and shambling... a film that's both entertaining and illuminating, no matter your age." |
| 36. |
|
06/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...doesn't sizzle often enough as either cinema or beefcake... It's medium-strength Soderbergh, which is better than the full-strength stuff most filmmakers can manage..." |
| 37. |
|
06/29/12 |
Very Good |
 "...may not be profound or deft, but when it hits the sweet-sour spot, which it does regularly, it can win you over." |
| 38. |
|
06/22/12 |
Excellent |
 "...when Bekmambetov is in full stride and the gore, oaths and silver bullets are flying, it's a kick. The title may sound like a joke, but the movie is serious fun." |
| 39. |
|
06/22/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It simply never engages you with its grandiose posturing and desperate jokes and trite moralizing." |
| 40. |
|
06/22/12 |
Excellent |
 "In the very best sense, the film almost feels like it's being made up as it goes along: organic, fluent and true." |
