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02/15/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...has rather simple, sentimental, melodramatic underpinnings, but the vantage changes everything. It opens up this world -- and the next. It's an enthralling journey." |
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02/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "In a scant hour and a quarter it enlarges your notion of what theater and cinema, what art itself, can do -- it dissolves every boundary it meets." |
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12/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Haneke -- as is his anti-psychological wont -- depersonalizes Trintignant and Riva, but he doesn't sneer at them.... Something sacred passes between the actors..." |
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12/03/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...mercilessly gripping.... a phenomenal piece of action filmmaking -- and an even better piece of nonaction filmmaking." |
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07/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...shockingly entertaining... We laugh because it's more proof that life can be a sick farce, sicker than Hollywood screenwriters can conceive on their blackest days." |
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06/08/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The discomfort you'll experience is nothing compared to the exhilaration of seeing the world through Solondz's angry, sad, mordant but never-ever cynical specs." |
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05/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a knockout... The movie eats into your mind -- slowly.... it's too penetrating to shrug off.... that rare downer that leaves you wide awake, with all synapses firing." |
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02/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...an extraordinary film, and one of the few in which boredom in the face of static camerawork and lack of narrative adds to the emotional wallop." |
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12/19/11 |
Outstanding |
 "At the end of two hours, my jaw ached from grinning.... Spielberg at his best is like Einstein, Rube Goldberg, and Orson Welles rolled into one." |
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11/11/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Herzog portrays not just a single injustice but a whole sick, tragic ecosystem of senseless crime and uncomprehending punishment. This is a remarkable film." |
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08/26/11 |
Outstanding |
 "One of the most thrilling directorial debuts of the year... an edge-of-your-seat thriller... a soap-operatic family melodrama... and an exploration of the power of the state..." |
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08/01/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable.... the proportion of period detail to people is just so. You can study it, like a painting, and then realize, with a gasp, that it has got hold of you like a fever." |
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03/16/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a pitch-perfect satire of marriage and morality, a perversely satisfying romance, an oddly empowering women's anthem, and, above all, the best sort of comedy..." |
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07/05/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...the self-satire is so knowing, so rich, so hilarious, so damn healthy that it blows all thoughts of degeneracy out of your head." |
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06/21/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a blockbuster with heart, as splendid as the previous two, and tinged with the same ache of nostalgia that drives summer memories." |
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06/07/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...harshly beautiful... As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and 'Winter's Bone' is the year's most stirring film." |
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05/17/10 |
Outstanding |
 "The most revelatory and essential documentary of 2010..." |
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03/22/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...burlesques Il Duce... a near-masterpiece, a monument to intoxication: of sexual conquest, of military conquest, and, most of all, of cinema." |
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12/28/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...dizzying, enveloping, vertiginous... I ran out of adjectives an hour into its 161 minutes.... James Cameron is king of a world he made from scratch." |
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11/30/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Sheridan's actors work with their intellects fully engaged -- and they engage us on levels we barely knew we had." |
