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11/04/10 |
Very Good |
 "...hypnotic... with two irritably virtuoso performances and gorgeous mise-en-scène elevated way above tourist porn." |
| 2. |
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11/04/10 |
Good |
 "...tempered by a gentle restraint that's hypnotic rather than cloyingly twee.... this is Weerasethakul's most linear, incident-filled work yet, making a perfect introduction for beginners." |
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09/16/10 |
Poor |
 "...crap auteur Paul W.S. Anderson returns behind the camera to put series hero (now his wife) Milla Jovovich through the 3-D paces." |
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09/15/10 |
Weak |
 "...a shameless mélange of plot elements from already plenty generic Disney knockoffs.... hey, they stole the bobsled from 'Cool Runnings!' Is nothing sacred?" |
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09/08/10 |
Good |
 "...takes an unflinching look at a small-town guy who thinks of himself as an inspirational speaker, but whose overwhelming rage and weirdness (used as an aggressive weapon) are deeply frightening." |
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08/29/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...cheerfully derivative... this is the best baseline-competent action movie to come out all summer." |
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07/20/10 |
Weak |
 "[Lucy] Walker runs the same old archival test footage we've seen before and interviews the big names -- Mikhail Gorbachev and Valerie Plame Wilson both make appearances -- to reiterate her already-obvious p.o.v.... This is another well-intentioned but preaching-to-the-choir doc, and boring as well." |
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07/14/10 |
Poor |
 "...maddeningly ponderous and self-important... Director Nicolas Winding Refn is inexplicably fixated on the conflict between virtuous pagans and hypocritical, self-respect-destroying Christians during the Viking era..." |
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06/01/10 |
Weak |
 "...something close to a sex scene, no musical numbers, and a final shoot-out in a warehouse; par for the Bollywood course this isn't, but it doesn't succeed on its own terms, either." |
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05/11/10 |
Fair |
 "Marc Forby's directorial debut doesn't try to avoid comparisons with Terrence Malick... But Forby is much schlockier... the film looks decent and moves fast." |
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05/04/10 |
Weak |
 "...the third film to receive the European Parliament's Lux Prize... Previous winners were the superior 'The Edge of Heaven' and 'Lorna's Silence'; unfortunately, Philippe Lioret's film... brings down the relatively high standard." |
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04/27/10 |
Poor |
 "...risible.... there's a Freudian subplot about the origins of Marcus's sleep disorder, with a repressed memory flashback that makes Hitchcock's 'Spellbound' look like a paragon of convincing psychology..." |
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02/10/10 |
Moderate |
 "...combines footage from the '80s with interviews and archival footage of Ernst Aebi's artist days, his first trip to the desert, and his return to Araouane years later... There's some mildly interesting ethnographic footage here, and Aebi is an engagingly blustery presence." |
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02/03/10 |
Good |
 "There are a few missteps... Mostly, though, it wins with excellent performances: Zohar Shtrauss never overplays his character's internal tension, nor does Ran Danker camp up his youthful virility." |
| 15. |
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01/26/10 |
Weak |
 "...traps good comic performers -- including Romany Malco and Peter Dinklage as John's boss -- in airless editing and an unproductive, unresolved, sludgy tone." |
| 16. |
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01/19/10 |
Weak |
 "...offers zero that enthusiasts didn't know already and nothing for the rest of us.... the film just shows up and asks for an audience without earning it.... you'd think someone would struggle to convey what Weir does differently, how he does it, and what it takes to achieve it." |
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01/06/10 |
Weak |
 "...has the vibe of one of those generic prize-winning novels about New England families falling apart in the dead of winter -- tastefully 'understated,' deflecting criticism with sheer modesty.... Understated doesn't necessarily equal insightful, and 'Winter' isn't even that understated." |
| 18. |
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11/12/09 |
Weak |
 "...funded by the NFTE [Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship] and its backers.... a glorified informercial, complete with enough blandly upbeat guitar-cues to power all 22 seasons of 'Real World' intros." |
| 19. |
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10/28/09 |
Poor |
 "...woefully incompetent and ugly, throwing out multiple threads without resolution, randomly interspersed with man-in-Union-Square documentary commentary of the Mars/Venus kind.... That half of these characters are simply dropped with no conclusion is inexplicable..." |
| 20. |
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10/28/09 |
Poor |
 "I'd call Glenn Silber's 'Labor Day' a well-intentioned but dull, video-ugly documentary if it weren't partly financed by its subject, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); that just makes it a crappy infomercial." |
