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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The art-filmmaking that's come out of Romania in the last decade has clearly made an impression on Nuri Bilge Ceylan." |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...seems like the outcome of a director flipping through his first 'Details' magazine and sensing apocalypse... Spurlock has no charisma as a filmmaker." |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "Perry is a filmmaker who should make us feel good about the altered state of American independent movies.... There aren't enough of these truly independent movies anymore." |
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05/16/12 |
Moderate |
 "...lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler... in striving for offensiveness, the jokes are just badly lazy... What's the point of this dictator?" |
| 5. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the stroke of brilliance is that psychological suspense is built into the structure of both what's on screen and our response to it." |
| 6. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "Love is blind, they say. The movie understands the hazard of that cliché: Some lovers are also blind spots." |
| 7. |
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05/03/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's the craftspeople you want to hug.... You don't need to be a 'comic-book person' to find the set pieces exhilarating.... I'll remember the rush. I don't need anything else." |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...this story has some shape, and, ultimately, the vulgarity is put to happy use. I can't think of another movie whose finale uses a reference to genitalia to warm your heart." |
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04/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The characters watch Francois Truffaut and study Evelyn Waugh, but the movie's true sisters are 'Heathers' and 'Clueless' and 'Mean Girls,' satires with sharper claws." |
| 10. |
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04/20/12 |
Weak |
 "Seeing Schilling and Efron fumble at each other is like watching a stick of butter and a bag of flour not turn into a cake." |
| 11. |
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04/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...you sometimes watch an actor and wonder why you don't see her as much as she deserves to be seen. Taraji P. Henson is that sort of actor." |
| 12. |
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04/16/12 |
Poor |
 "The canted angles, inappropriate flirtation, and movie-thriller strings in the musical score pile up, and you have to ask whether 'On the 7th Day' is for real." |
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04/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...all sugar and smirks and OMGs... It's too much... Yet, for a disarming stretch, whatever director/co-writer Joseph Kahn is trying to get out of his system really gets into ours." |
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04/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...alive with its directors' spirit and performed with the kind of abandon required for, say, water fights featuring urinating babies or having a rat nestled in your bosom." |
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04/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a movie struggling to shape itself (three editors are credited). It has so many stories to tell and so many avenues to tread that the filmmaking jumbles and wanders and skips." |
| 16. |
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04/06/12 |
Weak |
 "...a prematurely disinterred time capsule.... The directors don't know how to make this new plot funny or infectious." |
| 17. |
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04/06/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a manic hour and a half.... There is something here - the correlation between the lab and love... it could have built into a stranger, darker movie." |
| 18. |
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03/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...among the most ruminative of melodramas, a member of a family that includes David Lean's Brief Encounter,' Max Ophüls's 'Letter From an Unknown Woman,' and Douglas Sirk's 'All That Heaven Allows.' " |
| 19. |
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03/23/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the movie doesn't exactly argue anything. It's mostly a collection of scenes and footage, directed by Losier in plumes of abstraction and unified by Megson's voice-over." |
| 20. |
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03/23/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the nut of the movie is meat for a tragic farce. But you need a steady tone to pull that off, and it's elusive here." |
