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12/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...works beautifully, less as a film standing on its own two legs than as yet another summit reached by Michael Apted, his interviewees, and his archivists." |
| 2. |
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04/11/13 |
Weak |
 "Despite the intensity of its scope and research, this is a decidedly soft-hitting display of an overweening good faith that, frankly, just can't jibe with the times." |
| 3. |
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05/08/13 |
Weak |
 "Uwe Boll's insistence on plugging genre tropes into his imagined idea of populism returns us to the same cynical place as 'Postal,' except with none of the sizzle." |
| 4. |
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10/30/12 |
Poor |
 "...excruciating... It's a pretty tired proposition to complain about movies being manipulative, but this sets the bar especially low." |
| 5. |
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04/04/13 |
Moderate |
 "...does a fair-to-middling job articulating the stresses of Angela Davis's months on the run from the law back in 1970-'71, drawing incisively on archival materials..." |
| 6. |
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12/06/12 |
Poor |
 "...the film becomes nigh-classist: Hollywood celebrities romping around in a candy-colored Alexa-shot criminal underworld, pretty much as a means of passing time." |
| 7. |
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04/23/13 |
Very Good |
 "...succeeds thanks to small details, from its deep-fried lingo and the swampy texture of its location photography to its uniformly expert cast." |
| 8. |
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03/21/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Sally El Hosaini's film works.... it has a confidence in its details that gives it more core honesty than its (ultimately silly) plotline deserves." |
| 9. |
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01/16/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...spends vastly more time chronicling bigoted remarks from Romanians about gypsy life than actual gypsy life, so a minor crisis of perspective hangs over the film." |
| 10. |
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03/14/13 |
Poor |
 "...essentially a 90-minute promo video carefully orchestrated by the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg and his handlers." |
| 11. |
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03/29/13 |
Weak |
 "The experience is one of breathlessly anticipated dramatic conflict that never really arises, but can't help but feel untrue to life in its overarching blandness." |
| 12. |
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09/27/12 |
Weak |
 "...these shorts do little to advance their own arguments.... hard to tell if they are intended as dress rehearsals for features, or 'slices of life'..." |
| 13. |
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10/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...toggles between syrupy melodrama and crunchy violence pretty comfortably... The film seems to exist beyond history, factual or cinematic." |
| 14. |
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02/28/13 |
Weak |
 "...methodically bland, intellectually sluggish.... the director betrays his own lack of thoroughness in painfully obvious ways, sabotaging himself early and often." |
| 15. |
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11/14/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...riveting... The strength of feeling Zionism carries within the culture that produced the documentary is obvious, the probable reason for the interviewees' participation." |
| 16. |
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11/01/12 |
Moderate |
 "...takes itself just seriously enough to get from one ludicrous set piece to another... the film serves up spectacle in bulk quantity. Make that stoner-friendly bulk quantity." |
| 17. |
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10/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...never wavers from Hollywood caper logic: If the viewers are generous to the characters, then the payoff will be generous to the viewers." |
| 18. |
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02/07/13 |
Poor |
 "...shrill Indiewood torture porn that, despite promised shocks and revulsions, doesn't even have the conviction to hold its camera on the story's most appalling twists." |
