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04/26/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...finds Matthew McConaughey at the top of his game.... steeped in a sense of place, and the people inhabiting it. Southern. Superstitious. Suspenseful. Sublime." |
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03/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Nina Hoss gives a performance that doesn't feel like a performance at all. Her Barbara is absolutely real, and absolutely trapped. The film is aching, and exquisite." |
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03/01/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a clear-eyed examination of a conflict that seems to have no end... the movie is powerful, provocative stuff." |
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02/22/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...will make you laugh and cry, shake your head in affirmation and dismay.... what ultimately is so compelling is the universality of the experiences." |
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01/25/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable and heartbreaking... fully realized, absolutely real.... a masterpiece." |
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01/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...slow-burning and brilliant... as a riveting portrait of a fiercely determined woman working in a male-dominated sphere, the film is a resounding success." |
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12/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Audiard, who made the uncompromising prison saga 'A Prophet,' is like a gritty, realist Douglas Sirk... a film thrillingly raw and essential, life-affirming, sublime." |
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11/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...quite wonderful - a life-affirming story about the goodness in people's hearts, the humor and compassion and love we are capable of." |
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10/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A head-spinning wonder of a movie... a transcendent endeavor, from its exhilaratingly smart screenplay to the unexpected and moving turns of its two leads." |
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08/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Beautiful and revelatory, 'Searching for Sugar Man' also incorporates huge chunks of Rodriguez's music. These songs are striking.... His spirit, happily, is thriving still." |
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07/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...transports us to places that are peculiar and dangerous and magical, and makes us feel weirdly at home." |
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06/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Anderson's worldview gets richer, and more revealing, even as the view from his lens gets smaller, closer, almost two-dimensional in its oddball tableaux." |
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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A wake-up call of epic significance, one of those documentaries that everybody should see... a remarkably cogent, albeit remarkably alarming, film." |
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03/30/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a film about the nature of truth, about sacrifice, hubris, hypocrisy. It's nothing short of brilliant." |
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01/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A dance movie that brings the audience to the performance in a way a traditional documentary could never do... not to be missed." |
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12/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...feels as bold and innovative a moviegoing experience as James Cameron's bells-and-whistles 'Avatar' did a couple of years ago. Retro becomes nuevo. Quaint becomes cool." |
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11/18/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...transcendent.... Clooney has never been better, subtler, more deeply rooted in a performance... And he's funny, too..." |
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10/28/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...moves from its protagonist's dream state to her memories to her waking present in imperceptible shifts - the effect is disorienting, at first, but ingenious." |
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10/21/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a movie for this moment in time, this moment in our lives." |
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10/07/11 |
Outstanding |
 "As a director, Clooney makes every moment count.... There isn't a false note in 'The Ides of March'..." |
