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05/17/13 |
Weak |
 "Aiming for lightness but landing with a thud... a well-meaning blunder.... grates on the nerves despite being easy on the eyes." |
| 2. |
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05/17/13 |
Poor |
 "...as dingy and dirty as the genre thrillers it appears to want to one-up.... Aselton, Bell and Bosworth, when stuck in disgusting scenarios, get mired in cliché." |
| 3. |
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05/17/13 |
Weak |
 "...undistinguished... Eckhart settles into full-on, no-nonsense mode, dispatching various villains with the sort of cool calculation that makes Liam Neeson look emotive." |
| 4. |
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05/17/13 |
Poor |
 "...sappy, atonal... not even Guy Pearce can save a movie that's too heavy for young viewers and too sentimental for sophisticated ones." |
| 5. |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...somber, intelligent... Stéphanie Sokolinski, a French pop singer better known at home as Soko, is fully in tune with Alice Winocour's sharp vision." |
| 6. |
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05/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "The rock-solid cast is up to the challenge, performing the tricky balancing act of recalling iconic pop-culture personas while adding their own stamp." |
| 7. |
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05/10/13 |
Excellent |
 "The film is a mystery uncovered like a detective story, wrapped in a love letter.... engrossing... Polley points out that truth is subjective." |
| 8. |
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05/10/13 |
Weak |
 "...unabashedly flashy... amid all the seductively gaudy excess, DiCaprio finds both the heart and hurt buried within one of literature's everlasting enigmas." |
| 9. |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "...there is something genuinely endearing about its earnest ineptitude.... There's not much that can kindly be said about either the goofy script or awkward direction." |
| 10. |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "...as entertaining as it is to watch Mickey Rourke adopt a strange accent and swan around in sarongs as an eccentric jewel thief, it's also a little depressing." |
| 11. |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The filmmakers remain admirably unbiased, a rarity in biographical documentaries. They neither worship nor vilify their subject, but allow her to define herself on her own..." |
| 12. |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "There's so much darkness here, it's hard to see anything -- literally. Forget the horror and mayhem. Someone needed to turn on the lights." |
| 13. |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "Disaster flick meets torture porn meets good ol' wilding-savages thriller -- the film wants to have it all.... A lot of it predictably involves screaming or shock cuts..." |
| 14. |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "Where's the beef? In an esthetically bland film like this, the brains better be Ford tough if the movie is going to reach out and touch someone." |
| 15. |
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05/10/13 |
Weak |
 "Tina Gordon Chism rejects any notions of subtlety, either in the comedy or the weirdly heavy-handed messages about masculinity." |
| 16. |
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05/10/13 |
Weak |
 "This shrill indie has a few scenes of inspired ego-smacking, as Halley Feiffer tries to skip some rungs on the stardom ladder while pitching a movie she wrote." |
| 17. |
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05/03/13 |
Weak |
 "Cathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill." |
| 18. |
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05/03/13 |
Poor |
 "...to the average moviegoer, it's a trudge... There is much coziness and a high-spirited finale, but high school music teachers can find better choices to inspire their students." |
| 19. |
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05/03/13 |
Weak |
 "...as empty as its mean streets are phony.... Reeves is the best thing here... the title ably represents the whole shaggy, dull project." |
| 20. |
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05/03/13 |
Excellent |
 "...set to a meticulously chosen soundtrack.... so sensitively observed that it simultaneously evokes a universal, and eternal, state of adolescence..." |
