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02/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...when some best picture nominees are clocking in at 150 minutes, you may be relieved and elated to learn some award contenders run as little as 2 to 16 minutes..." |
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01/25/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...despite its grueling nature, 'Amour' feels strangely optimistic.... Of her life, Anne says, 'It's beautiful.' So is this movie." |
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07/20/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...in a lyrical, gentle, transporting manner, 'Beasts Of The Southern Wild' argues that even in the most dire of circumstances, hope lives on." |
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07/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Nolan surprises by one-upping you. He gives you something even grander and more fantastic than you expected.... it's heavy, and the weight is welcome." |
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06/22/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...different, because it feels personal and earnest, its situations drawn from real life instead of art, its emotions honest, its affection genuine.... one from the heart." |
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06/22/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...takes a huge risk by priming you for a certain sort of narrative, then suddenly sending the plot into a radically different direction with one swift, astonishing scene." |
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03/02/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...astounding, superlative... a brutal, unapologetic comedy about the fantasy every high school kid carries around in his head about being popular and cool and beloved..." |
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02/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...masterful... uses the illusion of living, flexing proximity to immerse you in Bausch's dreamlike, emotionally vertiginous world." |
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01/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...succeeds so well that the end result is pulverizing. Sometimes, in an attempt to do the best we can for the people we love, we end up wreaking irreparable damage." |
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12/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a beautiful, generous, rousing movie... it feels like an instant classic." |
| 11. |
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11/18/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a tremendous, daring movie. Get ready to be rattled." |
| 12. |
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10/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...makes for a compelling film, though ultimately what really happened on that morning in 1991 may forever remain a mystery." |
| 13. |
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09/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...resplendent, rousing... by far the best I've seen this year... the kind that only comes along once every few years: It's a perfect movie that doesn't strike a single false note." |
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12/24/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a heartfelt study in the shadings of courage, a film about duty and friendship that's often warmly funny and sometimes painful to watch." |
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12/17/10 |
Outstanding |
 "The term 'epic' often gets bandied around to describe movies that don't really fit the description. But Olivier Assayas' 'Carlos' is the real deal..." |
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12/17/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...insanely rousing... has an electric, captivating power that has nothing to do with 'Rocky' clichés. The picture's secret weapon is Bale..." |
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10/01/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...extraordinary... delivers the heady, rib-tickling rush of an action picture, and it gradually builds to an emotional wallop that blindsides you.... rich, dense, dazzling..." |
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12/04/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a smashing, elegant entertainment that also happens to be a zeitgeist movie.... The prevailing mood is melancholy, and its ending surprises you..." |
| 19. |
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10/23/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...often recalls 'Barton Fink' without all the distancing stylistic fluorishes and ends on an astonishing final shot that ranks among the best in the Coens' canon." |
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08/21/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...provides the sheer, humongous pleasure of a great filmmaker firing on all cylinders, including a few new ones you didn't even know he had." |
