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05/22/12 |
Very Good |
 "Much of the movie's comic buzz comes from Josh Brolin channeling Tommy Lee Jones as the younger (and inexplicably, at least at first, more emotionally accessible) K." |
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05/21/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...you can almost forgive 'The Intouchables' ' breezy racial stereotyping, cheap comedy and phony-baloney attitudes toward art, culture, class, and quadriplegia. Almost." |
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05/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...enchanting... a heartbreaking evocation not just of young love but of futile lifelong quests to recapture fleeting moments of magic we experience..." |
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05/16/12 |
Poor |
 "Once you've seen enough of these kinds of films, you accept the predictability and unrelenting ideological determinism... offers mostly rote sentimentality..." |
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05/15/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...doesn't merely rip off George Lucas, James Cameron, Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich, but has the audacity, in many cases, to improve upon their work.... explosively fun." |
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05/15/12 |
Weak |
 "What it winds up being is kind of mushy. Not actively unpleasant to sit through for the most part, but not particularly engaging or illuminating or charming." |
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05/15/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...casts a genuinely noir spell, and gives Samuel L. Jackson the chance to show how interesting an actor he can be when not straitjacketed into rote action roles." |
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05/10/12 |
Very Good |
 "...somewhat slight but commendably brisk... Baron Cohen balances the stupid, outrageous, over-the-top stuff with almost, ahem, radically provocative observations and pronouncements..." |
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05/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "Nothing much happens in this happy tribute to the gentle art of being human... It's an exuberant yet tender journey, never descending into saccharine cuteness or manufactured melodrama." |
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05/09/12 |
Excellent |
 "Depp is having a ball as usual, bringing a balletic grace that's both eerie and funny to his undead man out of time. And raising his eyebrows very amusingly." |
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05/08/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a film that looks at the truths and tales of so many different things with such honesty and directness is a welcome change, even if it's less than a total success." |
| 12. |
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05/07/12 |
Moderate |
 "I don't get the sense that the filmmaker appreciates that his own negatively-idealized teen character is every bit as much a construct as Diablo Cody's Adorable Pregnant Waif/Pixie was." |
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05/01/12 |
Weak |
 "...doling out dollops of the most conventional wisdom imaginable along carpe diem and live-and-let-live lines... utterly pat material... tolerable..." |
| 14. |
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05/01/12 |
Very Good |
 "...pulls off having both luster and gravitas, with a brisk 84-minute running time never outstaying its welcome but still giving us time to know even smaller characters..." |
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05/01/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a quote from a 20-somethingish guy: 'Without telling you anything, it was the single most enjoyable two-and-a-half-hours I've ever spent in a movie theater ever ever ever.' " |
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04/26/12 |
Excellent |
 "...a busy, buzzy bit of fun, loaded with sight gags and wordplay and silly surrealism in lovely 3-D." |
| 17. |
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04/25/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the smartest, most likable such film I've seen in years, even if you might think it does need to have its mouth washed out with soap." |
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04/25/12 |
Poor |
 "Fertile ground for perversity, murder and madness, if only director James McTeigue and company had been able to see further than a low-rent mash-up of 'Seven' and 'Saw.' " |
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04/23/12 |
Excellent |
 "...both striking and contradictory -- stuffed full of ideas and twists and turns, it also plays a little thin and fragile, more like a haiku than a novel." |
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04/23/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...oft-ludicrous but not unengaging... a partial throwback to old-school B-movies like 'Death Wish,' not to mention old-school art-house wanna-B's like Cassavetes' 'Gloria.' " |
