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| 21. |
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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." |
| 22. |
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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." |
| 23. |
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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..." |
| 24. |
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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." |
| 25. |
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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." |
| 26. |
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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." |
| 27. |
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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." |
| 28. |
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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." |
| 29. |
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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." |
| 30. |
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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." |
| 31. |
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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." |
| 32. |
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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." |
| 33. |
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04/04/13 |
Good |
 "...among all the swooshing camera moves and hairline cuts and hypersaturated pops of color, there are actual actors giving wonderfully watchable performances." |
| 34. |
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03/28/13 |
Good |
 "Huard's performance may be the key to its effectiveness.... the picture is so breezily warm, without being too insistently ingratiating, that its flaws don't matter much." |
| 35. |
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03/28/13 |
Weak |
 "...heads off in so many directions at once that it's hard to follow along -- and even harder to laugh with it.... It's a head case unto itself." |
| 36. |
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03/21/13 |
Fair |
 "Korine is tap-dancing so fast that it's never really clear exactly what he's up to, but none of it adds up to much in the end.... Franco is amusing until his shtick wears thin." |
| 37. |
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03/21/13 |
Moderate |
 "Great comic actresses -- like a Stanwyck or Streisand -- can have a direct line to feelings we'd rather not air. Fey is on that track..." |
| 38. |
|
03/20/13 |
Moderate |
"...it doesn't have the courage to suggest that a childless woman who's doing work she loves just may have it all.... Fey's Portia is both maddening and deeply sympathetic..." |
| 39. |
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03/14/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "As special-effects movies go, this is a relatively modest one, but Solanas knows that imagination can take audiences further than lavish budgets will." |
| 40. |
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03/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "There's nothing particularly dynamic about the film. For some 90 minutes, it's pretty much just one guy talking. But what a guy!" |
