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09/07/12 |
Weak |
 "...this isn't a genre with a lot of life in it. But (rightfully) unconvinced of its own reason for being, '3' chomps down on it, and goes for laughs." |
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09/14/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a quickly paced, not so obviously plotted high-school-reunion comedy which manages to avoid gross-out gags and pat endings... a bittersweet story..." |
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04/29/11 |
Very Good |
 "The great thing, typically, about a Takashi Miike film is that there's no such thing as a typical Takashi Miike film." |
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08/10/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...pretty funny, particularly when it focuses on the comedy of missed connections. Where it goes wrong is when it tries to go deep..." |
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03/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the quietly excellent cast includes Brie Larson... Dave Franco... and a tirelessly profane Ice Cube as a blistering police officer." |
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08/12/11 |
Moderate |
 "...the film's running time and sudden ending suggest a desperate last-minute edit to cut anything that wasn't working." |
| 7. |
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04/12/13 |
Very Good |
 "...new but very old-fashioned.... a bit obvious, lunkily plotted and with starkly drawn characters.... But that's alright, because there's more than enough here..." |
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09/30/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...it all never quite comes together as well as it should... it may be that this film had not too few rewrites, but too many." |
| 9. |
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01/04/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a rather bittersweet chapter, as age begins to further narrow those possibilities already defined at birth. And it hints that '63 Up,' if we get there, may be sadder still." |
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06/24/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a little bit of 'The Bicycle Thief,' a little bit of a barrio melodrama, and little bit of the sort of do-good entertainment that used to be called 'a problem film.' " |
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11/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...feels only like a not-very-adventurous episode of 'Masterpiece Theatre.' " |
| 12. |
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11/05/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...built around an astonishing bit of found footage... There is only about an hour of it, but around it filmmaker Yael Hersonski has built a striking feature." |
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02/14/13 |
Moderate |
 "...makes 'Die Hard 2: Die Harder' look sophisticated. And John McTiernan's original 'Die Hard,' and 'Die Hard With a Vengeance'? Practically Altmanesque." |
| 14. |
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09/02/11 |
Poor |
 "...a movie that manages to waste the marvelous Lucy Punch is clearly clueless. Even the ugly photography sometimes seems to slip out of focus." |
| 15. |
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11/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...can't rise to the challenges it sets itself.... unless you're channeling the forgiving spirit of Pablo Casals, I'm afraid this one hits too many off notes..." |
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07/22/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...small comedy is fine. That it doesn't have a single big laugh is a little tiresome." |
| 17. |
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04/30/10 |
Moderate |
 "You need empathetic heroes, a strong situation, and a carefully built mood. And as far as those go, this 'Elm Street' is a dead end." |
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11/04/11 |
Moderate |
 "...feels a bit like a by-the-numbers basic-cable movie. And as for its supposedly lovestruck leads, you could find better chemistry in a high-school lab." |
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03/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "...the hard truth is that this country's government is only part of the problem. And in the long run, only part of the solution." |
| 20. |
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11/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "...interesting if not emotionally overwhelming... does a fine job of dramatizing the pure power of ideas and the attraction of like minds." |
