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| 21. |
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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." |
| 22. |
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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..." |
| 23. |
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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." |
| 24. |
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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." |
| 25. |
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04/05/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Mungiu is a great filmmaker whose talent is disguised in ordinary moments.... We know what's going to happen to Alina and are powerless to stop it." |
| 26. |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...doubtless plays most strongly to Japanese audiences... its central conflict is gentle, unyielding, and universal.... a Hayao Miyazaki movie after all." |
| 27. |
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04/05/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...great to look at (Sean Bobbitt shot it), and the scenes with Gosling burn with a loss too powerful for words. Maybe that's the problem." |
| 28. |
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03/29/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...deals with a reality so horrific that the film's touches of magical realism are welcome.... the movie gives us a continent's tragedy in a young girl's face." |
| 29. |
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03/29/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a marked improvement over the 'Twilight' movies.... dramatic tapioca made surprisingly watchable by the performances -- nothing brilliant but professional..." |
| 30. |
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03/29/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...finds Matteo Garrone in a playful mood.... The further back we stand from its concentric circles of reality, the more they appear to have been hand-drawn by Dante." |
| 31. |
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03/29/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "There's very little in Wayne Blair's movie you haven't seen before, and with most of the same clichés, but you still feel an exuberant kick..." |
| 32. |
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03/22/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...shocking and stupid and exhilarating and tender... fuses our worst nightmares and most reckless dreams of freedom until the two become indistinguishable." |
| 33. |
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03/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The movie has an interestingly crusty surface and a center that's soft and formulaic... cheerful, skittish entertainment that never takes its subject seriously enough." |
| 34. |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...it's about adolescence as a state of absolute idealism and absolute self-absorption... Fanning easily convinces you of Ginger's emotional reality..." |
| 35. |
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03/22/13 |
Very Good |
 "...rather sane... it shares the reckless excitement of its young seekers while standing just far enough outside to see the damage they leave in their wake." |
| 36. |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "Because Carell is both a comedian and a dramatic actor, he gets his signals crossed. He makes Burt genuinely hateful at times, which is at least interesting..." |
| 37. |
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03/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...perplexing.... a quiet, contemplative film that nags at you after the lights come up and that deepens and darkens in the memory." |
| 38. |
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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." |
| 39. |
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03/15/13 |
Moderate |
 "90 minutes of effective, grueling, increasingly ugly, eventually ridiculous suspense... a genre exercise, which means the movie has to get dumber and dumber..." |
| 40. |
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03/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Berg, who took on pedophile priests in 'Deliver Us From Evil' (2006), stands back to take the measure of the whole story, letting its entire awful shape come into focus." |
