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05/17/13 |
Good |
 "...blessed with a subject whose sincerity papers over a lot of cracks.... the filmmakers fashion a portrait of a conscience spurred to action by an unexpected opportunity." |
| 2. |
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05/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "Morally cunning and with a tone as black as pitch... a deeply unnerving revenge movie in which redemption is dangled like a cat toy before a cougar." |
| 3. |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Ms. Aselton shows a decent grasp of how to build tension. And though the premise is familiar, the movie doesn't always take the expected path." |
| 4. |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "Guy Pearce is eclipsed by an unknown young actress named Zhu Lin, whose charming performance gives this sweet if not very credible film its heart." |
| 5. |
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05/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "With its swift, jaunty rhythms and sharp, off-kilter jokes, the movie is frequently delightful.... less a satire or a cautionary tale than a bedtime story for young adults." |
| 6. |
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05/17/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The filmmakers might have done better to commit to a single portrait and been more fearless about avoiding familiar oratory, but small steps are progress too." |
| 7. |
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05/17/13 |
Good |
 "...intelligent, evenhanded.... This is certainly competent filmmaking, sort of like a long '60 Minutes' segment without the confrontational interview style." |
| 8. |
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05/17/13 |
Excellent |
 "...this engrossing examination of American perceptions of Arabs and the Arab world gets you thinking.... an invaluable entry in the national dialogue on the subject." |
| 9. |
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05/17/13 |
Fair |
 "...a bearable if unremarkable composite of the 'Taken' movies and 'Three Days of the Condor'.... In the credit column is Aaron Eckhart... dryly efficient, wearyingly familiar..." |
| 10. |
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05/17/13 |
Moderate |
 "...uneven.... can be pedestrian as filmmaking, though it remains interesting as long as it remains in Nigeria... Mr. Lieberman comically overreaches..." |
| 11. |
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05/17/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...vivid and feverish.... Ms. Winocour deftly evokes primal terrors of captivity and cruelty, and also the erotic fascination that lingers around such fears." |
| 12. |
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05/16/13 |
Moderate |
 "Mr. Abrams has sacrificed a lot of 'Star Trek's' idiosyncrasy and, worse, the large-spirited humanism that sustained it.... Hardly one to boldly go anywhere..." |
| 13. |
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05/15/13 |
Good |
 "...handsomely shot... may not be fully satisfying as a documentary. But it has what any good movie needs: a star -- the ever-game soprano Natalie Dessay." |
| 14. |
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05/14/13 |
Excellent |
 "Raw and resolute, this unsettling fable feels driven by an anger that remains largely unexpressed. Akku may say very little, but his resolve is clear..." |
| 15. |
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05/10/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...offers a vague, gratifying frisson of intimacy but no real insights or revelations.... a greatest-hits package, with some good stuff to show but nothing very new to say." |
| 16. |
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05/10/13 |
Weak |
 "...feeble, lazy... Mr. Greenwood brings a sly humor... the movie registers only when Adan's nonsensical slogans weirdly apply to the situation at hand." |
| 17. |
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05/10/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...quietly moving, intelligent... its most admirable quality is the deep sense of personal ethics that frames Ms. Polley's choices... she knows that it is never all about her." |
| 18. |
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05/10/13 |
Moderate |
 "Nasty, brutish, mercifully short.... Mr. Wheatley continues in the same bludgeoning, amusingly if dubiously deadpan fashion for what soon feels like an overextended joke." |
| 19. |
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05/10/13 |
Good |
 "...big and noisy... eminently enjoyable... less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration..." |
| 20. |
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05/10/13 |
Very Good |
 "Not for the faint of heart.... documents extreme poverty in rural China with a compassionate eye and inexhaustible patience..." |
