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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." |
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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." |
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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..." |
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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." |
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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." |
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12/20/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Germany's entry in the Oscar race for best foreign-language film, and it's so good that you can only hope it will win... works its magic slowly, and on multiple levels..." |
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11/22/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...an unapologetic melodrama rendered in what you might call semi-stylized neo-expressionistic realism, and it works like gangbusters." |
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10/16/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a love letter to movies... exhilarating, mournful and always stunning to look at... a movie where chaos and compassion exist in equal measures." |
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08/23/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a marvelous road-trip comedy.... it's easier to make a successful comedy than it is to make a romance. Miraculously, 'Hit and Run' works as both." |
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11/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a gold dust movie, a picture whose very boldness lies in its perceived lightness.... perhaps the most modern movie imaginable right now.... deeply enjoyable..." |
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12/08/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...the movie's intricacy, and the way it finds its way into the emotional lives of its characters via (and not in spite of) that intricacy, is what makes it extraordinary." |
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05/20/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...not only met my hopes; it charged way over the speed limit.... doesn't skimp on human interest at the expense of its considerable (and considerably violent) thrills." |
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05/18/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...isn't nearly as somber as its title would lead you to believe, and it's so beautiful to look at that it feels decadent, almost luxurious." |
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03/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...one man, just by being alive to what's around him, has created a vast, detailed anthropological record of how New Yorkers present, and feel, about themselves." |
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03/01/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...there is a story here, albeit one that takes shape from the mist the movie leaves in its wake.... the key is to let yourself go with the meandering current of its narrative." |
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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." |
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05/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a feat of hand-drawn animation that relies on spare but succinct character design and a dazzling sense of perspective... its charms have a noirish gleam." |
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02/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the kind of sophisticated storytelling you rarely get even in live-action movies these days, full of unexpected turns and unruly human complications." |
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01/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...it's not out to make a bold statement.... the picture is celebratory, in its own quiet way, as well as clear-eyed.... 'Crazy Horse' is a movie about process..." |
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12/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "There's vast grace and beauty here... Wenders has made a movie the way choreographers and dancers make a dance: With muscle and with heart." |
