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05/20/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...twisty, probing, altogether enthralling.... a documentary with the overflowing texture of fiction. It's The Hacker's Tragedy." |
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05/20/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the focus is on the internal struggle of wills.... the film counts on our previous investment to keep us riveted. We are." |
| 3. |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...for its first half, the film is pretty solid -- absorbing, suspenseful, even poignant.... Unfortunately, it's the action that's generic and it gradually takes over the story." |
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05/13/13 |
Good |
 "Baumbach has a hard time letting go of the notion that drama means building to humiliation. When he does, though, this movie is beautiful and surprising." |
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05/13/13 |
Good |
 "Is the movie good? It's hard to be objective. The plotting is clunky and nonsensical, but Abrams and crew bombarded me into happiness." |
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05/10/13 |
Poor |
 "The problem isn't unoriginality, but incompetence.... goes from being merely lousy to stupendously, lifeforce-suppressingly awful." |
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05/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "...pleasant, if inane... helped along by a likable cast that's clearly having fun.... the comic setpieces feel divorced from one another, and oddly manufactured." |
| 8. |
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05/10/13 |
Good |
 "You can find fault with virtually every scene... and yet in spite of all the wrong notes, Fitzgerald (and the excess he was writing about and living) comes through." |
| 9. |
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05/03/13 |
Good |
 "Black is good at giving his heroes a morbid, self-hating edge and even better at coming up with hateable villains." |
| 10. |
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05/03/13 |
Good |
 "There are so many good things in the film that one wonders why the movie as a whole doesn't quite work.... Shannon is incapable of being mundane, or anonymous..." |
| 11. |
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05/03/13 |
Very Good |
 "I found myself thinking not only of Maisie's pain but of the loss, over time, of her precious spirit, of the impact on her future bonds and eventually on her own children." |
| 12. |
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04/29/13 |
Very Good |
 "...nervous, whimsical.... a rare instance in which multiple perspectives dovetail neatly, in which there's almost no ambiguity whatsoever about what happened and why." |
| 13. |
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04/26/13 |
Very Good |
 "Bay hits new levels of both artistry and sleaziness.... I strongly recommend it if you don't overvalue taste, subtlety, and moral decency. I liked it." |
| 14. |
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04/26/13 |
Weak |
 "...a 'wasted opportunity' would be a good way to describe the entirety of this tepid, inoffensive trifle." |
| 15. |
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04/22/13 |
Poor |
0513998.jpg) "...like checking 'd' on the form that said, 'I want my space movies more (a) incoherent, (b) plodding, (c) migraine-inducing, or (d) all of the above.' " |
| 16. |
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04/22/13 |
Excellent |
 "Its storytelling is fluid... what a pleasure it is to see Witherspoon (like McConaughey) liberated from the minstrel show that is the studio rom-com..." |
| 17. |
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04/19/13 |
Fair |
 "...gloomy, lacks variety, and is not without its flat patches.... You'll know what's going to happen -- but not how it's going to look or sound." |
| 18. |
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04/12/13 |
Good |
 "...often exciting, and just as often shallow and ham-handed... the film works, because it practices what it preaches: If you're good at baseball, nothing else really matters." |
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04/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a caper that puts us on the edge of our seats and in dire need of a shot. The end is sweet but dry with a hint of bitter tannin. It should travel marvelously." |
| 20. |
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04/07/13 |
Weak |
 "...has no context other than Malick's other films. That might make him a doctrinaire auteurist's darling, but for the rest of us this feels like self-parody." |
