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04/25/13 |
Excellent |
 "None of this could work without a stellar performance from Arnold Reyes, who anchors the film with distress and panic, but also with basic humanity." |
| 2. |
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04/18/13 |
Good |
 "...at times bitterly hilarious.... It'd be easier to sympathize if it focused more on Kofman's art, and less on how he swears and sulks at the people interfering with it." |
| 3. |
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04/04/13 |
Very Good |
 "Narratively, the film is questionable, but Boyle and Hodges whisk past all the unlikely developments with enough verve and style to keep audiences from thinking too hard..." |
| 4. |
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03/28/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...romance here is entirely chaste and unsettlingly bossy.... The film is so hushed and bloodless that it tends to feel mechanical." |
| 5. |
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03/28/13 |
Good |
 "...strikingly pretty. It's easy for viewers to get caught up in its mild pleasures, if they can acknowledge, Dupieux-style, that they're doing it for no reason." |
| 6. |
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03/14/13 |
Poor |
 "...the most embarrassing, hilarious, obliviously stupid movie since M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening'... Exasperating idiocy abounds throughout..." |
| 7. |
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03/07/13 |
Fair |
 "For a film so dedicated to visions of grotesque, unexpected death, 'ABCs' often feels childish, like it's endlessly giggling at its own prurient naughtiness." |
| 8. |
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03/07/13 |
Good |
 "...choppy.... There's a lot to love about the film, but it can get buried under the attempts to tell everyone's story at once." |
| 9. |
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02/28/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a remarkably mature portrait that trusts its audience to have their own reactions to its material; it doesn't yank at the heartstrings so much as expertly strum them." |
| 10. |
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02/28/13 |
Fair |
 "...everyone -- human and giant alike -- just becomes a generic cipher during the long fights... feels like a paint-by-numbers story." |
| 11. |
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02/28/13 |
Excellent |
 "The strength is all in the execution, particularly Matthew Goode's steely-but-smiling performance and Mia Wasikowska's sullen, reluctantly captivated response." |
| 12. |
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02/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "It's marshmallow filmmaking: soft and sweet, but samey and without much substance.... There's nothing particularly offensive... nothing about it is exceptional..." |
| 13. |
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02/14/13 |
Weak |
 "...a morality play with no basic understanding of morality.... a film where good and evil are just empty words... banal..." |
| 14. |
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02/07/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...while the movie treats everything but the scenes between Bateman and McCarthy as negligible, the material it does value is reasonably satisfying." |
| 15. |
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01/31/13 |
Moderate |
 "...curiously tepid. In spite of its repeated, overwrought image of grey, dead zombie hearts flushing and throbbing with new life, it lacks a beating heart of its own." |
| 16. |
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01/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...the repetition gets dull. The grim heroes don't have a nuance or more than a hint of emotion between them, and the same goes for the film around them." |
| 17. |
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01/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "...builds a rich emotional tangle that makes all the startles much more meaningful... the movie makes sure viewers are emotionally committed..." |
| 18. |
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01/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...funny, fast-moving... packed with barbed one-liners and all the oversized exasperation of teen angst. But it's too acid, particularly where Colfer is concerned." |
| 19. |
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01/03/13 |
Very Good |
 "Individually, the films don't have much to offer new viewers... Collectively, though, they're a fascinating exercise in voyeurism that predates the voyeurism age..." |
| 20. |
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12/24/12 |
Good |
 "There's a great deal of grandeur and emotional sweep... Hooper's greatest failure in directing it is an intermittent unwillingness to trust the raw power of the material..." |
