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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." |
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03/29/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...the purest, boldest re-imagining of silent cinema yet.... Classic cinema was always a kind of modern folklore; Berger makes that connection with splendid intelligence." |
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02/08/13 |
Outstanding |
 "The isolation and anger of prison bleeds into every moment.... Such is literature's power that the cast is more at ease portraying ancient Romans..." |
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01/25/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...hilarious, emotionally satisfying... sweet without being syrupy, it's commercial without being a sell-out, and its dialogue sparkles from beginning to end." |
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01/04/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...as good a point as any to get hooked on the magnificent half-century series of documentaries... you may get to know these people better than anyone you know." |
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12/21/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Petzold raises questions of honor and builds the romance with an absolutely rigorous lack of sentiment, moving 'Barbara' to a sweeping finish..." |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...riveting... Maya is a consummate professional who brilliantly performs her job in an often hostile work environment... one of the year's best..." |
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12/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "All great films have imagination; this one also has the sense of experience." |
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10/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "I fell in love with 'The Sessions'.... If you give this unusual, charming and surprisingly entertaining movie a chance, I'm sure you will, too." |
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10/12/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...allows Ben Affleck to offer some white-knuckle suspense for a grand show -- and a slam-bang ending that's guaranteed to have audiences cheering." |
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09/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a classical American tragedy.... The performances, the staging, the editing, the script are expert all across the board and it all builds to a solid dramatic payoff..." |
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08/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "The actors perform with thorough and chilling sincerity. To paraphrase Jean Renoir's most famous line, the workers have their reasons." |
| 13. |
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07/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...hugely entertaining... adroitly avoids clichés and gleefully subverts your expectations at every turn.... builds to a pulse-pounding, nail-biting climax." |
| 14. |
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06/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "It's like 'The Full Monty' except with guys you actually want to see take it all off, or 'Boogie Nights' minus the angst and the body count." |
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06/29/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...once in a great while, something as utterly distinctive and captivating as Benh Zeitlin's 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' comes along like a breath of fresh air." |
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02/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a sumptuous masterpiece by one of the greatest moviemakers of all time.... Life is hell, Bela Tarr is telling us, and who would dare disagree with him after seeing this..." |
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12/23/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a gorgeous, majestic fable about a boy who yearns to be reunited with his steed.... Those who say they don't make 'em like they used to must now fall silent." |
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11/16/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...you feel like you've come to know the characters' entire lives in the span of two hours.... a razor-sharp, pitch-perfect script..." |
| 19. |
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07/14/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a whip-smart, slam-bang piece of entertainment where we deeply care about the fate of the central characters (and many subsidiary ones who return for their last bows)." |
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07/08/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Brilliant, provocative, clear of eye and heavy of heart... about nature versus nurture, arrogance and, more broadly, the mythmaking that beclouds the progressive mindset." |
