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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...wonderfully eccentric... The heightened sense of the ridiculous is not a flaw.... Delpy's unique and unforced style makes a well-worn genre feel invigoratingly fresh." |
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01/30/13 |
Outstanding |
 "My favorite film of the live-action lot is the French-Belgian 'Death of a Shadow'.... Every single one of the five beautiful short cartoons is all but silent..." |
| 3. |
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03/12/12 |
Very Good |
 "...fueled almost entirely by an appreciation of its own ridiculousness... one of the wisest movies about high school ever." |
| 4. |
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08/10/12 |
Excellent |
 "...subtle and striking... a provocative meditation on how the choices we make impact others in ways we never realize..." |
| 5. |
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02/21/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Sometimes the simplest ideas result in something touchingly profound. Sometimes the simplest films are the ones with the most complex impact." |
| 6. |
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12/06/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...an honest, hilarious, laugh-till-you-cry look at how very much it sucks to get very sick as a young person.... Don't miss this one." |
| 7. |
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04/06/12 |
Fair |
 "...an awkward blend of solemn and silly... will likely bore, confuse, or terrify small children, while adult fans of animation may find the shifts in tone jarring." |
| 8. |
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03/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "...there is despair here, but also a tiny bit of hope. Our priorities have been wrong and we need to rethink our civilization... the work is only just beginning." |
| 9. |
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02/14/13 |
Poor |
 "There's no wit here. Instead of the charming wiseass New Yorker McClane once was, now he's an ugly American abroad.... The Idiocracy has descended..." |
| 10. |
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04/05/13 |
Good |
 "...the performances all around are so effortless in their rumpled capture of messy real life that watching them is akin to breathing out a cinematic sigh of relief..." |
| 11. |
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02/10/11 |
Poor |
 "...after seeing this film, I want to find out how I can get ass cancer so I can meet a cute doctor who will love me forever and ever and pine after me after I die so prettily..." |
| 12. |
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11/16/12 |
Excellent |
 "Rich people challenging the status quo? Socialism as cool and radical? Is this a fantasy realm? No, it's 250 years ago." |
| 13. |
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12/09/11 |
Poor |
 "The only good thing I can say about this flick: I'm glad to see a successful, popular franchise featuring two nonwhite actors in (mostly) color-blind roles..." |
| 14. |
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09/20/11 |
Poor |
 "That's just the way it is when you're as awesome as Taylor Lautner, so you can be jealous if you want. But you'll never be as awesome as him." |
| 15. |
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06/19/12 |
Excellent |
 "Bekmambetov treats it sincerely, but cheerfully so: the film isn't without a subversively gentle sense of humor, yet it's never so earnest that it stumbles over into cheese." |
| 16. |
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05/08/12 |
Excellent |
 "...gorgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate.... We have never seen lions and cheetahs like this before..." |
| 17. |
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08/09/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...has a sense of the gloss to it... I wanted to get into much more depth than Alison Klayman takes us to." |
| 18. |
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09/16/10 |
Poor |
 "When it's not deeply unfunny, it's deeply creepy. It should have gone straight to DVD, where it could have been easily ignored." |
| 19. |
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12/15/11 |
Poor |
 "No. Just... no.... not so much a movie as a commercial for Carnival Cruise Lines..." |
| 20. |
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05/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...the same tedious sitcom blend of crude vulgarity and sappy sentiment." |
