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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." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Weak |
 "If only there were more genuine rah-rah fun involved, instead of just endless, thudding, seen-it-all-before mayhem." |
| 3. |
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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." |
| 4. |
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05/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's far from a great movie -- an overwritten, underplotted vanity project... But it has Diane Keaton, and that's enough." |
| 5. |
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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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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...becomes increasingly unglued as it goes along... [but] Dafoe holds the frame on the strength of his weathered cheekbones alone." |
| 7. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "Some of this vigilante-fantasy misbehavior is wickedly funny... But other depravity goes too far." |
| 8. |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the writing is sharp and the performances bright, and if you've been through the forced gestational march known as pregnancy, there are knowing laughs to be had." |
| 9. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...expertly made (it's far from tedious) but intellectually muddled. It never really says what it means by progress." |
| 10. |
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05/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The movie's bright and endearing and surprisingly lacking in a point. I wish I liked it better... The film's brisk, lightweight fun that floats away on a Texas breeze." |
| 11. |
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05/18/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the story is unique and engaging enough to transcend the uplifting sports-underdog formula.... scores as a family film that delivers cultural history along with some terrific action sequences of a sport that finally gets its big screen due." |
| 12. |
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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?" |
| 13. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...doesn't pretend to be anything more than an entertainment, but it recaptures the experience of watching the Gothic daytime soap opera with rapturous comic bliss." |
| 14. |
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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." |
| 15. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "Technically speaking, the film's nothing special, but the subjects all seem powered by inner dynamos, and when they perform they leave youth far behind." |
| 16. |
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05/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The movie's lead actor is its strong suit: Hennie has a fox's ready smile and the insecurity of a short man in a nation of beanpoles." |
| 17. |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "Both provocative and muddled... a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties." |
| 18. |
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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." |
| 19. |
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05/04/12 |
Moderate |
 "...it's predictable fluff, sometimes pleasantly so, at others times irritatingly... plays like the 'Disoriented Express.' " |
| 20. |
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05/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of the most eloquent blows against a dictatorship ever filmed... it forces you to think about everything that can't be said and everything that's just off-screen." |
