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05/24/13 |
Weak |
 "...utterly formulaic... hangs on the notion that you find Ken Jeong's pansy-pottymouth schtick funny, and that's asking a lot." |
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05/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "I don't want to spoil the surprises, but I will say in retrospect that this film deserves some kind of prizes for cinematography and hairstyling." |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "It's a fascinating subject -- the beast that lurks inside the family man -- but the movie blows it.... Vromen just doesn't have the chops." |
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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "Darkly funny as it is, the movie has undercurrents of genuine and very British weirdness.... It doesn't add up to much, but it doesn't really need to." |
| 5. |
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05/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...presses forward with a high-spirited wit and sense of purpose that makes other action extravaganzas look backward." |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...clear-eyed.... The movie's alive to the all-encompassing seriousness of youth, but it stands just far enough back to marvel at the characters' naivete, too." |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "DiCaprio gives us the full Gatsby, assured yet insecure, and he's magnificent, but the movie ends up romanticizing what Fitzgerald spent the book de-romanticizing." |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Whether it's a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, this movie makes for queasy but fairly worthy viewing..." |
| 9. |
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05/03/13 |
Very Good |
 "...doesn't get much beneath the surface -- but, good God, what a surface." |
| 10. |
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05/03/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...suitable entertainment for 12-year-old kids of all ages, so ignore some of us if we wish for a deeper, weirder version of this story..." |
| 11. |
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05/02/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the weakest in the series... Yet whenever Downey is being Downey, it's still the most subversive Marvel franchise around." |
| 12. |
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04/26/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has a lot on its mind.... The most striking aspect of the movie is the air of myth and tall-tale telling that hovers lightly over the settings and characters." |
| 13. |
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04/26/13 |
Poor |
 "...jokey but flatly tone-deaf.... plays like 'Fargo' for idiots.... Bay is unable to establish a comic rhythm or a larger momentum..." |
| 14. |
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04/19/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a deadpan entertainment that asks us to laugh at other people's nonsense while inviting us to marvel at the certainty of their faith." |
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04/12/13 |
Moderate |
 "Malick's first real misfire, a meditation on love and lost paradise that starts with breathtaking assurance and slowly crumbles into self-parody." |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a film made very much in the post-'Crash' vein of worried social narratives.... It's just better at melodrama than drama." |
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04/12/13 |
Moderate |
 "...the film is mesmerizing nonsense, but it is, in the end, nonsense: a succession of fake-outs that leaves an audience feeling merely burned." |
| 18. |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "How far would you go for your beliefs? How far is too far? When does being apolitical become an act of cowardice? All issues worth raising..." |
| 19. |
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04/12/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...handsomely mounted and great to look at, and it gets the basics right.... [but] in the end, it lets us hear from everybody but the man himself." |
| 20. |
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04/05/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a footloose tour through the noise and sun of a summer metropolis and an unassumingly wise portrait of a friendship." |
