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06/02/11 |
Very Good |
 "...packs around a dozen origin stories into one crowded, world-spanning, two-hour-plus action film... maintains admirable coherence and propulsive pacing throughout." |
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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." |
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11/01/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a wildly exciting ride... But it's also a surprisingly ambitious, crafty gimcrack that piles subplot upon subplot, building a teetering tower of ideas..." |
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03/17/11 |
Very Good |
 "...refreshingly honest and unsentimental... Its unfussy realism makes every funny moment and painful setback seem well-earned and believable." |
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05/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...what the film lacks in specificity and interest in taking sides, it makes up for in style, authentic emotion, and terrific performances." |
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01/28/10 |
Poor |
 "It's a place where all the situations, characters, and dialogue are drawn so broadly, the script must have been written with a paint roller." |
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04/21/11 |
Moderate |
 "...wrapped in a hearty dose of sentimentality and uplift, it rarely tugs at the heartstrings hard enough to become cloying.... a film the whole family can stomach." |
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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." |
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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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03/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...isn't flawless... an unusual peek inside the Mouse House, one delivered by a director who seems to love the studio without letting that cloud his judgement." |
| 11. |
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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..." |
| 12. |
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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." |
| 13. |
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01/20/12 |
Poor |
 "...unvaried throughout. Watching the film is strangely like looking at the same three still frames of supernatural battles over and over for 90 minutes." |
| 14. |
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02/27/09 |
Very Good |
 "...a small, delicate concoction of moods and moments..." |
| 15. |
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06/29/11 |
Moderate |
 "Has Bay actually been listening to his detractors? As difficult as that is to believe, his third 'Transformers' movie suggests he's taken some of the backlash to heart." |
| 16. |
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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..." |
| 17. |
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06/17/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...this is what Pixar films do best: find a place of deep emotion and explore it without blunting it, overexplaining it, or passing it off with a laugh." |
| 18. |
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01/21/10 |
Fair |
 "...it's all over pretty quickly, so audiences are rarely given time to reflect on how utterly ridiculous and pointless all this is. That leaves the glass at least a quarter full." |
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08/05/10 |
Moderate |
 "...simplistic, intrusive music crashes or whimpers to dictate each new wave of overwrought sentiment. The film doesn't need any of these awkward trappings..." |
| 20. |
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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." |
