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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...feels transgressive, as if it's breaking fresh taboos when they were still fresh.... Cassavetes goes a long way to make vampirism feel like something bad again." |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...looks, sounds and feels like a carbon copy of -- or better yet, a black version of -- 'Meet the Parents,' which in my opinion is an issue." |
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05/03/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...delivers enough laughter and excitement to make up for its flaws... Downey remains terrific, as always." |
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04/26/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Nichols shows an eye for telling detail, deliberate pace and careful narrative structure comparable to John Sayles, but also a tendency to belabor his points." |
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04/19/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
0513998.jpg) "...an interesting film -- Kosinki keeps piquing the audience interest in where it's going... [but] the more you unpack it, the less it stands up to scrutiny." |
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04/11/13 |
Weak |
 "The lead actors gamely commit... but the roles ultimately feel ill-served by the film's fake-outs... most of the thrills are cheap ones." |
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03/29/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the film doesn't seem to understand its adult supporting characters any better than most young people understand adults." |
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03/22/13 |
Weak |
 "...resembles a love letter composed by a teletype machine, which enumerates the facts but never puts the passion on paper." |
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03/14/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The film never achieves the wild catharsis of Park's best Korean work, but for a while fosters in the audience a healthy mistrust of reality." |
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03/13/13 |
Excellent |
 "...a film much more comprehensive in scope than advertised.... Instead of disowning his past, Snoop owns up to it." |
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03/08/13 |
Weak |
 "Amid the visual spectacle this movie reveals that it has a heart, but its head contains not enough brain and too much straw." |
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02/28/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...deserves a midnight-movie following... an authentic oddity with enough inventive set pieces and dorm-room philosophy to compensate for its low budget." |
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02/20/13 |
Excellent |
 "...compelling.... presents a highly powerful argument, with enough moral indignation and narrative drive to propel the story for nearly two and a half hours." |
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02/14/13 |
Weak |
 "Forget quality -- at 97 minutes, it doesn't even deliver the expected quantity of big dumb action scenes.... Willis never makes much of an effort..." |
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02/13/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Instead of a pitiless account of a doomed populace, Werner Herzog brings surprising warmth to his toiling, fur-clad protagonists -- or at least some of them." |
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02/08/13 |
Weak |
 "...the sinister atmosphere gives way to contrived, wearying plot mechanics that feel increasingly sleazy. It ends up a different film than the one you signed up for." |
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02/01/13 |
Weak |
 "...a mindless, derivative action film that puts more emphasis on the action than substance." |
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02/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...gripping.... At times, it's like a nightmarish, real-life version of 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'.... features extensive, largely dialogue-free re-creations of the family's struggle to survive." |
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02/01/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...unusual... the filmmakers deserve credit for maintaining moral urgency in the face of knotty subject matter." |
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01/23/13 |
Weak |
 "...takes too many pains to offer a softened, kid-gloves take on a charismatic, bare-knuckled character.... the film tries too hard to keep him from seeming too unlikable." |
