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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "I can't recommend the movie highly enough.... if 'Marley & Me' made you pull out a tissue, 'Quill' is going to require an entire box. Or two." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...takes a terrific character, and then wraps her up in a slightly silly and very predictable movie.... Too bad the entire movie hadn't simply concentrated on her..." |
| 3. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "The movie's supposed to be about the Navy's war on aliens. Instead, it feels like an attack on the audience, a blitzkrieg of schlock and ow.... big, dumb..." |
| 4. |
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05/18/12 |
Weak |
 "...thinks all it has to do is suddenly amp up the soundtrack, or cut quickly to black, to frighten us. Frankly, it doesn't have a ghost of a chance." |
| 5. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...isn't the way smart movies are supposed to work... It's not honest with its people, or its plot. And the only ones it really cheats are audience members." |
| 6. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a fairly standard, overstuffed rom-com with a bunch of disparate couples going through their own versions of the nine-month miracle." |
| 7. |
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05/16/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "How far is too far? Sacha Baron Cohen is still gleefully trying to figure that one out, film by film." |
| 8. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "Particularly good is the photography (also by Yam Laranas), which captures the melancholy poetry of lonely roads, wet woods, moldy houses." |
| 9. |
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05/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...you'd have to be the Dalai Lama himself not to have - at least once - fantasized about making certain people disappear.... plays to that fantasy beautifully." |
| 10. |
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05/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...while there are great faces in the cast - it's mostly made up of nonprofessionals - you wish they'd been given stronger, more defined characters to play." |
| 11. |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "...yes, some of it is very funny. Clearly, they made the movie they wanted to make. It's just not the movie this 'Dark Shadows' fan hoped to see." |
| 12. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...peels out at breakneck speed. And then it really picks up the pace." |
| 13. |
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05/11/12 |
Poor |
 "...a mess.... this kind of solipsism is awfully hard to take." |
| 14. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "Want a story about some pensioned-off, lonely retirees discovering they're not so useless - or loveless - as they think?" |
| 15. |
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05/03/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...the kind of rally fans have been dreaming about since Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury showed up, uncredited, in the first 'Iron Man,' to start putting this team together." |
| 16. |
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04/27/12 |
Weak |
 "...none of this really adds up to much beyond an hour-and-a-half or so of vague doubletalk, arbitrary decisions and increasingly annoying frustration." |
| 17. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "Richard Linklater has a real appreciation of his state's quirks, its color, its occasional chicken-fried weirdness. They're all served up in 'Bernie.' " |
| 18. |
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04/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a long way from perfect. But rented, in a few months, it'll go great with a six-pack and a hold-the-anchovies special." |
| 19. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "To the film's credit, it's open to the awkward, honest -- and not always flattering -- moments of real life." |
| 20. |
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04/27/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "There is a danger here of wandering into the steampunk, pop-junk territory of the recent 'Sherlock Holmes'... To its great credit, 'The Raven' avoids that." |
