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05/24/13 |
Excellent |
 "The story lacks the specialness of a Pixar movie... but it's a perfectly appealing explosion of color for a lazy summer day." |
| 2. |
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05/24/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...happy, sad, bitter, tragic, and redemptive, but it is never predictable.... enchanting entertainment that's also the most honest and moving film about love in years." |
| 3. |
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05/24/13 |
Excellent |
 "The idealists-vs.-fat-cats theme gets ham-fisted.... But this is still a compelling portrait of what gets lost (and found) when a cause becomes an obsession." |
| 4. |
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05/24/13 |
Good |
 "As a Sin City romp, it's too tame.... That said, you should stick around for the end credits because there's a Helms sight gag that's absolutely priceless." |
| 5. |
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05/24/13 |
Excellent |
 "...a borderline ridiculous, over-the-top demolition derby that also happens to be a perfectly constructed low-IQ blast.... giddily entertaining..." |
| 6. |
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05/18/13 |
Good |
 "...ultimately frustrating.... a tantalizing teaser of a movie that only made me hungry to see a folk-music drama that could take the truly audacious risk of total sincerity." |
| 7. |
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05/17/13 |
Fair |
 "The idea of a female 'Deliverance' must have sounded promising... a twist-free exploitation thriller.... At least the movie is short-and over quickly." |
| 8. |
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05/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "...bittersweet... the film and its two leads, Greta Gerwig and Mickey Sumner, have plenty new to say about the complexity of female relationships." |
| 9. |
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05/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the characters pop out at us with a new dynamism.... a sleek, thrilling epic that's also a triumphantly witty popcorn morality play." |
| 10. |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...a mediocre rip-off of 'Taken' and 'Unknown'.... If your job is killing people, maybe take-hour-daughter-to-work day isn't such a brilliant idea." |
| 11. |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...stodgy... the clunking message is that the ambitious doctor needs his patient far more than she needs him." |
| 12. |
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05/16/13 |
Excellent |
 "...arresting.... The acting is so authentic that it takes a while to differentiate the girls, and that's part of the film's texture, too: its unsensational look at sensational crimes." |
| 13. |
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05/10/13 |
Good |
 "...when things head (metaphorically) south they do so with an escalating, apocalyptic ferocity which continues until the very last second." |
| 14. |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a poor man's 'Being There' with a didactic theme (TV is colonizing our brains!) that gets old fast." |
| 15. |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the rare full-access sports doc that doesn't feel like a white wash... Venus and Serena Williams never seemed so likable. . . or human." |
| 16. |
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05/10/13 |
Excellent |
 "...darkly hilarious... Alice Lowe and Steve Oram are convincing as the central psychos... Ben Wheatley depicts the U.K. countryside as both picturesque and lethal." |
| 17. |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "...much more stylish and erotically charged than a certain other big-screen vampire romance but, horror fans should note, equally light in the fright department." |
| 18. |
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05/10/13 |
Fair |
 "Reeves summons his usual pensive blankness to play a depressive wastrel who sulks through New York's East Village, then turns a camera on his party-girl paramours..." |
| 19. |
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05/10/13 |
Good |
 "Life on the frontier is haunted by death in Jared Moshe's sepia-hued Western about greed and family secrets.... It's slow going, but the ending lands like a sucker punch." |
| 20. |
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05/10/13 |
Good |
 "...manic.... Thankfully, Luhrmann does settle down after Gatsby and Daisy secretly meet and rekindle their romance." |
