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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "Depp is going for a London art school bohemian sound and look this time... Our vampire apparently wants to join The Moody Blues." |
| 2. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "Brit Marling ('Another Earth') plays Maggie with melancholy, amusement and scorn. Compulsively watchable, she can change who we think she is by simply turning her face." |
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04/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "Sorry, no sale.... the marathon battle film is just another anti-war movie that wants to have its cake and blow it up real good, too." |
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04/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "A surprisingly tender look at San Diego Comic-Con... Morgan Spurlock's new documentary is crowded with all the usual freaks and geeks." |
| 5. |
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04/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an unabashedly moronic celebration of slap shtick." |
| 6. |
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04/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "The characters should have been silently observed going about their lives, not interviewed one on one, expressing their faith in the obviously dangerous religion of fighting." |
| 7. |
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04/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "Just when you're ready to drop out, the high-school remedial comedy comes alive. Halfway through, everyone starts drinking heavily and the film turns into agreeably sloppy fun." |
| 8. |
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02/24/12 |
Moderate |
 "...just another boys' after-pub flick... It's Canucks trading punches and quips in the corner of the rink; European players with Borat accents humping abandoned goalie masks in the dressing room. Only it's not particularly funny. Call it 'Unsuperbad.' " |
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02/24/12 |
Moderate |
 "...comes alive when Wilimena Deeds is onscreen, misbehaving. Because otherwise, there are too many characters walking around wearing goody two-shoes." |
| 10. |
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02/17/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a tangled web of heartstrings involving an ambitious would-be filmmaker, a beautiful movie star and her swain, a moonstruck waiter, along with a handsome businessman and a single mother." |
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02/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Director Brad Peyton has the potential to become a major comic director. If only he could make a movie from one of his own stories." |
| 12. |
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02/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Noir connoisseurs will receive Moverman's latest like a double bourbon from heaven.... the best crime-movie fix from Hollywood since 'Gone Baby Gone.' " |
| 13. |
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01/20/12 |
Moderate |
 "...one wishes director Dante Lam ('The Beast Stalker') could have at least had some giddy fun smashing all his toys around.... tediously overwrought and drably made..." |
| 14. |
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01/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a solid, workmanlike action flick. Although one could argue it would go down better at home on a DVD with your feet up on the coffee table." |
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12/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "Like many good documentary filmmakers, Tristan Patterson is a talented eavesdropper who lets characters articulate overriding themes.... a work of powerful, unsettling intimacy." |
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12/02/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Though often fascinating and beautiful to look at, 'Surviving Progress' falls into the adapting-a-book-into-a-movie trap. Trying to do too much too fast." |
| 17. |
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11/18/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a thoughtful, postcard-pretty treatise on the dangers of inter-species friendship. Too bad it occasionally drifts into pop-star goo." |
| 18. |
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11/11/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...an A-list movie with a $3.5-million budget." |
| 19. |
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11/11/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Twenty minutes in, your companion may throw up his or her arms and complain, 'This is like watching a painting dry.' " |
| 20. |
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10/07/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "An unapologetic B-movie that comes with lots of flashbacks, gunplay and shouting, it can easily be savoured and forgotten inside 90 minutes." |
