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01/08/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...uniquely comic and compassionate... this is the rare movie one doesn't want to end." |
| 2. |
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09/21/12 |
Weak |
 "Rob Hedden seeks but fails to bring gloss to his silly, semi-anarchic feature.... never gets it to full boil. In fact, he bizarrely brings narrative momentum to a crawl..." |
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08/21/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The athletes stand out in relief from surrounding hoopla, and there are little thrills, such as the sensation of dirt being kicked up into one's face from a motorcycle tire." |
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09/04/09 |
Very Good |
 "A dark comedy that raises hard questions -- and largely eschews pat answers -- about the relativity of truth... swims in a sea of provocative ambiguity." |
| 5. |
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09/06/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Sci-fi verges on noir... a philosophical mystery thriller done with self-conscious camp and insouciant profundity." |
| 6. |
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03/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a mortal drama about a community upended by power grabs, betrayal and genuine suffering... redeemed by grass-roots organization and transcendent democracy." |
| 7. |
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11/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...an honest and emotionally complex documentary... an attempt by its makers to separate the legend from the father they knew." |
| 8. |
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07/23/10 |
Very Good |
 "...an engaging philosophical farce... embraces the intensity of subjective experience, the building of worlds around coincidence and passion." |
| 9. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...gains extraordinary access to the gritty rhythms of prostitution and the lives of women caught up in it." |
| 10. |
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12/23/11 |
Very Good |
 "...take 'Zoo' moment to moment, and its minor exterior yields to lovely rewards..." |
| 11. |
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02/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "...smart and surprisingly sweet.... There's plenty of desire and resignation in human and zombie camps alike in this movie, suggesting life is a relative experience." |
| 12. |
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10/26/12 |
Moderate |
 "...handsome but rudderless... it's played both for laughs and would-be minitragedy... When all is said and done, one wonders if there was ever a point..." |
| 13. |
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11/19/10 |
Moderate |
 "...given her overall, passion-free, too-deliberate storytelling, telling us nothing about something so dramatically rendered, at least in character terms, is frustrating." |
| 14. |
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07/17/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Baratz's access to every stage of the process -- from Zopa's selection of a candidate to the testing of that candidate to the blessing of the Dalai Lama -- is phenomenal..." |
| 15. |
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02/13/09 |
Outstanding |
 "There isn't a dull minute here, especially with Jim Carrey -- yes, Jim Carrey -- delivering a narration that somehow is both witty and soothing." |
| 16. |
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12/17/10 |
Weak |
 "...exhausting... a lot like being trapped in a room while someone plays a video game you barely understand." |
| 17. |
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06/24/09 |
Moderate |
 "The script is 'Fallen's' greatest failing, a spiritually empty exercise in nonstop violence and an outright silly movie in many ways." |
| 18. |
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10/21/11 |
Very Good |
 "...has three things deserving of adoration: spectacular lemon-meringue pies, the songs of Dusty Springfield and Helena Bonham Carter." |
| 19. |
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11/09/12 |
Weak |
 "...an ill-conceived dramedy with a shockingly annoying performance by Sean Penn... can't really figure out what kind of movie it's supposed to be." |
| 20. |
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04/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable... an almost unclassifiable act of subtle defiance against an oppressive authority, is, in fact, very much a film." |
