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03/27/13 |
Very Good |
 "...comes off as a fairy tale bordering on hallucination.... the film itself is so charming that you almost forget to ask whether these people truly deserve our empathy." |
| 2. |
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03/14/13 |
Very Good |
"It bears saying: Everyone here does horrible things. But each character's terribleness is like a footnote, accessory, or abstraction..." |
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03/07/13 |
Very Good |
 "Could there be music that stirs us so powerfully it might impregnate?... juggles heavy things, with humor and sobriety in their proper, Book-of-Ecclesiastes turn." |
| 4. |
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03/06/13 |
Very Good |
"...impresses not least with its delicate blendings... Rebecca Thomas has an aversion to the easy resolution -- she knows precisely which mysteries to keep dangling." |
| 5. |
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01/31/13 |
Poor |
 "The obligatory lesbian kiss is checked off like a box on a clipboard, but the B-horror standbys that might rescue the film from self-serious tedium are nowhere to be found." |
| 6. |
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01/30/13 |
Poor |
"...intensely laconic, with so little dialogue it could almost all fit the 140-character Twitter max... a derivative distillation of various horror motifs that fails to cohere..." |
| 7. |
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01/30/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Grohl for the most part marshals his material with discipline -- bringing some voluble big-name interviewees along for the ride." |
| 8. |
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10/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a meditation on sex, art, and money among a band not yet wearied of all three.... the performances are manic but tight... induces regular surprises..." |
| 9. |
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05/27/10 |
Moderate |
 "...neither provokes nor engages.... Bening is a high point in the film, matched in counterpoint by the slick, driven Naomi Watts... this is book-of-the-month club cinema." |
| 10. |
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05/20/10 |
Moderate |
 "...sports an excellent cast, decent dialogue, and all the formal goodies of a historical romance... forswears a provincial tale of derring-do in favor of a rather bland nationalist epic..." |
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04/16/10 |
Very Good |
 "Jack and Meg White fill a ton of musical space with the sparest possible approach. Watching them do it onscreen is pretty priceless, especially with the nice understatement of director Emmet Malloy..." |
| 12. |
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08/13/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...exceptional... The narrative really comes to life in the pulse of the music, fulfillment of Lloyd Price's prophecy that 'one day the beat would return to the roots.' " |
| 13. |
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05/28/09 |
Very Good |
 "...slowly generates an incongruous warmth, in which the question of blame cedes to the notion that tragedy doesn't obliterate as much as it seems to..." |
| 14. |
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05/21/09 |
Good |
 "...a delicately wrought family narrative, which chronicles without lament the passing of one generation and the forgetful rise of the next." |
| 15. |
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05/07/09 |
Fair |
 "If nothing is new under the sun, why does Jarmusch keep finding new ways to tell us about it?" |
| 16. |
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04/30/09 |
Poor |
 "...dense, choppy... abrupt without being vertiginous, static without being stark, off-putting without being alienating." |
