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06/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "...treats Superman not just with a purist's respect, but with old-school, Golden Age awe. There's no angst here, and little irony." |
| 2. |
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06/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "...very peculiar.... This is what it's like, it says, when your own mind is the monster. When you're the thing you fear. And that's scarier than any movie villain." |
| 3. |
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06/14/13 |
Very Good |
 "...these are people who love to perform, and get that love back a thousandfold from any audience, even if they're standing at the back of the stage." |
| 4. |
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06/14/13 |
Moderate |
 "...never really explores these characters... It's like being stuck in a really awful shop on Rodeo Drive, but with half-a-dozen people you never want to see again." |
| 5. |
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06/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...hilariously, a few good-sport celebrities turn their images inside out.... The best jokes feel like improvised riffs..." |
| 6. |
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06/07/13 |
Moderate |
 "It's a thin idea for a movie, and it's developed predictably... features obvious complications, and a lot of broad stereotyping..." |
| 7. |
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06/07/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a slight but smart, sweet but guiltless celebration. Kind of like what making it must have been for a director exhausted from months of wrangling a herd of superheroes." |
| 8. |
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06/07/13 |
Very Good |
 "Is it flattering? No. Would he object? Not if it got him a little more ink. Because baby, it's all show biz.... entertaining -- something Downey would have appreciated." |
| 9. |
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06/07/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a very odd black-comedy fairy tale... one part teen-movie, one part Quentin Tarantino, and one part 'The Killers'..." |
| 10. |
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06/07/13 |
Weak |
 "...there's nothing here you haven't seen in 'The Strangers,' or two versions of 'Funny Games,' or several takes on 'The Last House on the Left'..." |
| 11. |
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05/31/13 |
Weak |
 "...ends up being nothing more than some very clumsy cinema sleight-of-hand.... the movie may think it's pulling a rabbit out of a hat. But it's more like a turkey." |
| 12. |
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05/31/13 |
Poor |
 "...wouldn't be a bad story if you stripped away all the sci-fi flash and psychobabble.... Shyamalan burdens everything with unnecessary flashbacks, and awful CGI..." |
| 13. |
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05/31/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Batmanglij gets some genuinely odd and affecting moments out of the material.... But, in the end, the film has no real direction -- of any kind." |
| 14. |
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05/31/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the young actors -- Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso and Moses Arias -- are very good... refreshing..." |
| 15. |
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05/31/13 |
Moderate |
 "...has a documentarian's feel for gritty realism.... But it doesn't have a real dramatist's verve." |
| 16. |
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05/24/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's just not surprising enough. It's just not funny enough. And that leaves it just good enough." |
| 17. |
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05/24/13 |
Very Good |
 "Gibney, like the best documentarians, is also a great reporter, and he pulls off a terrific 'write-around.' " |
| 18. |
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05/24/13 |
Moderate |
 "...anyone over the age of 7 or so -- not to mention their accompanying adults -- isn't going to find too much here to truly engage them..." |
| 19. |
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05/24/13 |
Moderate |
 "...well, ok, whatever. Let's ride.... The whole thing becomes no different than a six-year-old knocking his toys together and making noise." |
| 20. |
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05/23/13 |
Weak |
 "...by the time the whole cast is back in Vegas -- again -- you can smell the desperation, like flopsweat." |
