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05/24/13 |
Very Good |
 "...despite Gibney's best efforts to put a halo on Manning, the enormity of what the soldier did towers over what has been done to him." |
| 2. |
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05/24/13 |
Moderate |
 "...this seriocomic farce has its moments, but fails to live up to the promise of a starry cast... Greg Kinnear steals the movie by underplaying. Petty larceny." |
| 3. |
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05/24/13 |
Moderate |
 "...while the social milieu is nicely realized, other parts of the drama are not.... Poignant close-ups are no substitute for character development." |
| 4. |
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05/24/13 |
Very Good |
 "...harnesses the infectious energy of the players who do battle on the city's public courts.... a fun and worthwhile ode to one of New York's greatest summer pastimes." |
| 5. |
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05/24/13 |
Poor |
 "...a remarkably unattractive-looking movie. I don't know when people voted that the seasick look of an iPhone video is now a desirable style." |
| 6. |
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05/24/13 |
Very Good |
 "If you're willing to check your brains at the popcorn stand, I think you probably will enjoy yourself.... And you won't even have to wear those stupid 3-D glasses." |
| 7. |
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05/24/13 |
Weak |
 "I had the sensation of sitting through a fourth-grade school play that contained no children of my own: the very definition of a nightmare." |
| 8. |
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05/23/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...finding romance is easy. Staying together is hard. Making a movie this warm, funny, and rigorously truthful about lovers trying to remain partners is even harder." |
| 9. |
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05/23/13 |
Poor |
 "...like being a hundred feet from the punch bowl at your class reunion and trapped in the corner by the most insistently dull guy in your high school class..." |
| 10. |
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05/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the newest masterpiece of sex and brutality by South Korean wild man Kim Ki-duk.... one of Kim's most complex and mature efforts..." |
| 11. |
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05/17/13 |
Poor |
 "After the nonrevelation that Dad has a top-secret identity, the rest is gobbledygook, though it sprints along agreeably." |
| 12. |
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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "...spare, smartly written and shot through with moments of twig-snapping tension." |
| 13. |
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05/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...focuses on how Sivadier and his Violetta, the French soprano Natalie Dessay, fuse acting with the music. It's an incredible view of artists at work." |
| 14. |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The script, which gives Augustine no background and mostly shows her either being 'treated' or having an episode, doesn't help." |
| 15. |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "Pauline Chan's direction is unobtrusively vanilla, save for a couple of rear-projection shots on a motorcycle so retro-bad they seem imported from an Elvis movie." |
| 16. |
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05/17/13 |
Very Good |
 "...lightly enchanting... low-budget... the DIY ethos extends all the way to a script that eschews depth or meaning. To put it another way: This is 'Girls' minus the dark stuff." |
| 17. |
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05/17/13 |
Poor |
 "As dully earnest, disorganized and self-righteous as an editorial in a student newspaper.... At least there is a happy ending..." |
| 18. |
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05/17/13 |
Weak |
 "...less a documentary than a wholly uncritical celebration -- with scant personal details.... Much of the film consists of its subject repeatedly denying accusations..." |
| 19. |
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05/15/13 |
Weak |
 "The only darkness here -- besides the dingy-looking images dimmed by 3-D glasses -- is the murky plot, which is as silly as it is arbitrary." |
| 20. |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Square-jawed, jockish Jack Reynor gives a title-role performance of exceptional breadth and range." |
