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03/29/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...finds Matteo Garrone in a playful mood.... The further back we stand from its concentric circles of reality, the more they appear to have been hand-drawn by Dante." |
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03/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...a moviemaker's farewell to movies -- the Hollywood corn Ruiz loved as a child and the serenely strange inventions he put on film." |
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03/01/13 |
Outstanding |
 "The film's message comes late... 'The tragedy of Israel's public security debate,' says one of the Gatekeepers, 'is that we win every battle but lose the war.' " |
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01/18/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...deceptively quiet, devastatingly profound... finds in its title the greatest mystery of human existence and the only saving grace before the lights go out." |
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01/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Bigelow leaves the meaning up to us. Is it relief Maya feels for the vengeance she has so righteously served? Or despair at how little has actually changed?" |
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10/05/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...simple yet immensely pleasurable... scary, but then it's funny, and, finally, it's moving... Burton has created a literal 'Young Frankenstein,' and . . . it's alive." |
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09/28/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...astonishing... The material has been shaped in an artful manner that devastates, rouses, and shames." |
| 8. |
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09/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...weighs more than any American film from this or last year. It's the sort of movie that young men aspiring to write the Great American Novel never actually write." |
| 9. |
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08/31/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...coolly observed yet boundlessly compassionate... breaks your heart many times over.... filled with a profound love and sadness for our daily banalities..." |
| 10. |
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08/03/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...engagingly powerful... Ai is great company to be around, funny and thoughtful and modest without selling out..." |
| 11. |
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07/06/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a miracle... I'm not sure how anything in this movie came to be... it is the first movie in a long time to feel like the first movie ever made." |
| 12. |
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06/01/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Anderson's seventh movie, and it's the first since 'Rushmore' that works from the opening shot to the final image." |
| 13. |
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05/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The entire movie is pitched at a scream. But the screaming is more Janis Joplin, Axl Rose, or Mary J. Blige than Jamie Lee Curtis. All the tears I shed were hard-earned." |
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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." |
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03/30/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The Dardennes achieve lyricism without seeming to try.... Thomas Doret's performance is solemn and focused all the way to the final image..." |
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01/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...you watch in dread, awe, and amazing aggravation.... The situation that unfolds approaches the absurdity of farce but denies the relief and release of humor." |
| 17. |
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12/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a small, exquisitely-cut jewel.... It's a story of renewal rather than destruction, and what it mostly renews is our faith in a story well and simply told." |
| 18. |
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11/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a testament to the possibilities of pictures moving on a wall... a grand farewell and a stunning reintroduction..." |
| 19. |
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10/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Sometimes you don't want to escape. You want to connect with a movie that's really about something... one of the truest, most beautiful movies ever made about two strangers." |
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10/07/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...funny, fearless, suspenseful... even in its romantic idealism, the movie proceeds according to recognizable rhythms of how some people live." |
