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07/17/09 |
Very Good |
 "...an 'Annie Hall' for the iPod generation: über-designed, pleasing to the touch, making up in generic sweetness what it lacks in bite." |
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03/13/09 |
Moderate |
 "The film's a haul but it's imaginative and rarely dull, especially once you realize how far it has strayed in principle from its source." |
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11/12/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...both grueling and transcendent... What begins as a story of survival becomes something infinitely more moving: a man's journey back toward the human race." |
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05/06/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Epic in scope, ambition, and execution... a classic swords-and-samurai film with postmodern blood and guts, and it's completely satisfying." |
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04/17/09 |
Moderate |
 "...loaded with high fructose corn syrup so the girls will like it (and they will) and as meaningful as an afternoon at the mall." |
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08/17/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an engagingly loopy comedy about the ways our families drive us nuts.... Chatty, neurotic, maddeningly messy, often very funny... spins in a lunatic orbit of its own." |
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02/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "The live-action category is highlighted by 'Miracle Fish'.... in the animated category, by far the most ingenious short is 'Logorama'..." |
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02/11/11 |
Very Good |
 "Of the five nominees for this year's statuette, four are about the sorrows of guys, comically or tragically presented, and two tell of schoolboys going off the deep end..." |
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11/13/09 |
Moderate |
 "It may look like a giant Jacuzzi to you, but you're not a scientist in a Hollywood movie.... It's one huge, overlong, cornball 'Armageddon' - a work of shlock and awe." |
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02/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "...accomplished works... Precious few, though, rearrange your head and demonstrate the sort of lightning-bolt inspiration of which the format is capable at its best." |
| 11. |
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02/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "...in a world in which great short films spill out from every corner of the Internet, these programs provide a window into what Academy members think are the best." |
| 12. |
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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." |
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09/30/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Too pat and contrived... most affecting when it shows callow young dudes struggling to come to terms with the ultimate party crasher." |
| 14. |
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02/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Whether Apted, now 72, continues the series or hands it off to other directors, the 'Up' films are unique in the history of both film and anthropology." |
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09/10/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...about the recent bitter struggle over illegal immigration in Virginia's Prince William County... could be studied in film classes as a model of advocacy journalism." |
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09/24/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...tackles issues of memory, history, intent -- the lies of propaganda as they bend the truth of what we see.... devastating..." |
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03/15/13 |
Weak |
 "Charlie Sheen gives a perfectly credible performance.... It's the rest of the film that tries your patience... Coppola's a Wes Anderson without the rigor or emotional depth." |
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02/14/13 |
Weak |
 "As always, the cars and choppers and buildings blow up real good. Yippie-ki-yay and all that. But with 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' this franchise dies with a whimper." |
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11/02/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "A smartly cast, discreetly contrived melodrama... unfolds in a very specific world that, spiritually speaking, is never more than a few steps from Lincoln Center." |
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01/25/13 |
Moderate |
 "Cleese and company have spoken of Chapman as fundamentally unknowable, and the cagey blithering of his 'autobiography' could stand as Exhibit A." |
