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09/10/09 |
Good |
 "...there is an obvious touch of Tim Burtonia, with nods in the direction of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and the late Polish painter/photographer Zdzislaw Beksinski as well." |
| 2. |
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06/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "The laudatory, though thankfully nostalgia-averse tone is best summed up by Harmony Hammond: 'It was excitement, it was empowering, it was a lot of fucking work.' " |
| 3. |
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12/11/08 |
Good |
 "With writer Etgar Keret you never know where laughter ends and heartbreak begins, and so it is with these lost souls..." |
| 4. |
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01/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "It's not easy being famous, as the famous love to remind us.... a docu-evisceration of the parasitic celebrity apparatus, appropriately titled..." |
| 5. |
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07/16/09 |
Fair |
 "What is unexpected is the sincerity beneath the modest conceit that, yup, love hurts." |
| 6. |
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10/22/09 |
Weak |
 "...tries to reignite who-gets-to-call-it-art debates that haven't been taken seriously for at least a decade..." |
| 7. |
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07/08/10 |
Weak |
 "...subtext and even text remain scant unless one counts the creeping misogyny of a script in which pure evil tends to be female..." |
| 8. |
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09/06/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...occasionally suspenseful, ultra-bloody (check out the bride's expert chain saw work!) attack-of-the-undead with some Catholic mumbo jumbo thrown in..." |
| 9. |
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09/13/12 |
Good |
 "...the film is admirably consistent in its nostalgia-averse exploration of the uncertainties that define one's late twenties." |
| 10. |
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03/05/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...the movement toward consensus raises the richly complicated question of how to decide not only what is right but what is best." |
| 11. |
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08/06/09 |
Poor |
 "...an endless series of medium shots of one garishly decorated white room after another, giving it the look of a '70s -era BBC architectural documentary... McKenzie's ugly setting reflects the banality of the people and the story within." |
| 12. |
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04/02/09 |
Weak |
 "The New Orleans location shooting lends a little atmosphere, but not as much as in 'Dejá Vu'..." |
| 13. |
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11/04/10 |
Very Good |
 "...an impressionistic picture of a young man so devoted to the pursuit of experience that he's left human connection behind." |
| 14. |
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10/27/11 |
Weak |
 "...lumbers, stumbles, and blows all its secrets at the outset." |
| 15. |
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11/04/10 |
Very Good |
 "...the entire second half of the movie is one long, kickass battle sequence, at once kinetically thrilling in the Kurosawa/Kobayashi tradition and as goofily absurdist..." |
| 16. |
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03/12/09 |
Fair |
 "...the first half of '13B' feel like watching the same belabored movie twice... In case you're wondering where the song and dance fits in, director Vikram Kumar and company serve a starvation ration of two lackluster beach numbers..." |
| 17. |
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12/13/12 |
Good |
 "It's all here, from the design contests to the farcical series of ribbon-cuttings, including a photo op cornerstone-laying, to the stupid Jeff Koons balloon that recurs..." |
| 18. |
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04/16/09 |
Poor |
 "Efron is, to put it mildly, the least of the movie's problems." |
| 19. |
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09/20/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...makes a big deal about having been inspired by a true story... So what does '17 Girls' add to the canon? A lot of style, but not much substance." |
| 20. |
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09/27/12 |
Poor |
 " 'Based on a True Story' by scriptwriter Monty Fisher, dramatizing his own life-and-death ordeal with the help of journeyman director Camilo Vila." |
