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05/23/13 |
Weak |
 "At first it's fun to follow these giggly celebrity wanna-bes.... But their shallowness becomes a one-note gag..." |
| 2. |
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05/23/13 |
Excellent |
 "...painfully articulate.... Celine does most of the talking, but it's really Hawke's movie -- we see in his eyes how Celine's misery cuts him. Her anguish is his failure." |
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05/23/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Gibney marshals and organizes a raft of information as deftly as anyone could wish. But his conclusions are murkier than they might be." |
| 4. |
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05/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...an evenhanded survey of this thorny territory. But is a strong point of view really such a bad thing? The movie may leave you feeling lost and confused." |
| 5. |
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05/22/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...marvelous, surreptitiously soulful.... mordantly funny.... we can't turn away from Llewelyn... it's remarkable -- cockeyed humanism at its best." |
| 6. |
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05/22/13 |
Weak |
"This is the first of Coppola's pictures that I actively dislike -- I sense no mystery, no depth there.... She doesn't seem to have much affection for her characters." |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...reasonably compelling.... we don't need an explanation for Isabelle's behavior, but we don't know enough about what she thinks.... She's a cipher right to the end." |
| 8. |
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05/16/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Baumbach's found the sweet spot between being personal and taking everything personally.... the film shows a new lightness of touch." |
| 9. |
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05/16/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a riddle that keeps us guessing every minute, and what Polley ends up with is so oddly shaped that it could be categorized as an experimental film." |
| 10. |
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05/09/13 |
Good |
 "The movie is polished to a handsome sheen and possesses no class or taste beyond the kind you can buy. And those are the reasons to love it." |
| 11. |
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05/08/13 |
Outstanding |
"...wondrous, absorbing.... shows how a single narrative can quickly splinter into many different ones... it feels true..." |
| 12. |
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05/08/13 |
Good |
"Luhrmann has built a crazy art-deco Taj Mahal to the glory of the story. Like Gatsby, Luhrmann is a faker but not a phony." |
| 13. |
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05/03/13 |
Fair |
 "There's no real drama here, or if there is, Black gives us no time to let it sink in before moving on to the next cataclysmic signpost." |
| 14. |
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05/02/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...less like a standard movie shot than a memory that has dissolved over time only to reassemble itself more vivid and beautiful than ever." |
| 15. |
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05/01/13 |
Fair |
"Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone?... he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet he's absent, detached in a Zen-like way from the whole affair." |
| 16. |
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05/01/13 |
Outstanding |
"...gorgeous, freewheeling, semi-autobiographical... an ode to both youth's universal qualities and the specifics of Assayas's youth in particular." |
| 17. |
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04/11/13 |
Fair |
 "...irresolute... a sketchbook of a movie, one made by a human being rather than an august master.... Malick is a filmmaker who can't see the forest for the craftsmanship." |
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04/11/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a sleek, willfully elegant exercise, high on style even if it's conspicuously low on ideas.... Cronenberg's ideas aren't nearly as well-sculpted as his visuals are." |
| 19. |
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04/10/13 |
Fair |
"...ridiculous, pretentious.... But for all the absurdity, there's also something strangely touching about it, maybe because for once Malick has allowed himself to be unsure." |
| 20. |
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04/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "...well-intentioned but awkward... although Mosley tries to leaven the heavy-handed moralism with wry humor, it is neither as buoyant nor as sinister as it needs to be." |
