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06/25/10 |
Outstanding |
 " 'If music be the food of love, play on' becomes achingly real in the exquisite 'Mademoiselle Chambon.' " |
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06/22/10 |
Poor |
 "I laughed just once... a noisy, over-produced shambles, slack and bloated and silly." |
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04/09/10 |
Outstanding |
 "Clocking in, like most 'classic' IMAX presentations, at a mere 43 minutes, it brings audiences microscopically close to the crew who repaired and updated the Hubble..." |
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11/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...cathartic and exhilarating.... tender, unflinching.... a work of guttural poetry, not a clinical case study." |
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11/20/09 |
Very Good |
 "...speaks of faith, hope and charity with the down-to-earth tones and rhythms of a high school percussion band in a Thanksgiving Day parade." |
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11/13/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a documentary about the subprime mortgage crisis, has the power of a haymaker that somehow sneaks up on you." |
| 7. |
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11/06/09 |
Very Good |
 "...mentally and physically nimble, even if it also plays fast and loose with reality.... an unsettling and often uproarious mix of the fictional and the factual." |
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10/23/09 |
Moderate |
 "...there are Jews everywhere, also a couple of Koreans and a smattering of Gentiles. They are nothing like each other. And there are no recognizable human beings." |
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10/16/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "As my 8-year-old self would have said, there's great stuff. There just isn't enough good stuff." |
| 10. |
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10/09/09 |
Very Good |
 "...a multicharacter tapestry of the City of Light. Director Cedric Klapisch deftly unfolds multiple story lines, framed by a knowing, loving look into the city's landscape." |
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10/09/09 |
Poor |
 "I began to dread even the funny bits, because I knew director Peter Billingsley would milk them to death." |
| 12. |
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10/02/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a surprisingly calm documentary... conveys the need not just to protect terra firma, but the sky above and the sea below." |
| 13. |
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10/02/09 |
Very Good |
 "Like many a small picture, 'Big Fan' makes you wish that the mainstream cinema had some equivalent to the short story or novella form." |
| 14. |
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10/02/09 |
Very Good |
 "...both pleasurable and frustrating. As the movie retreats into a happy-ever-after ending, even its outrageous lies seem more like little white ones." |
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10/02/09 |
Very Good |
 "...wildly uneven... Moore wants to be a revolutionary figure, but at best he's still an impassioned pop impresario trying to shake things up..." |
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10/02/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...like spending roughly two hours with a frisky group of girls in a female empowerment camp.... isn't fresh, but it sure is fun." |
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09/25/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...tracks the history of the German urban guerrillas also known as the Red Army Faction in the breathless, brainy docu-action form of classic political thrillers..." |
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09/25/09 |
Poor |
 "This film has premises -- the schoolrooms, stages and cafeteria of the Professional Performing Arts School in Hell's Kitchen, New York -- but no premise." |
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09/25/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...in their adamant refusal to wrap people and events in tidy little boxes, the Dardennes have produced a work of great understanding and hard-earned humanity." |
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09/25/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a prismatic depiction - tart, funny and piercing - of the romance between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne in the three years before he died, in 1821, at age 25." |
