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05/21/12 |
Poor |
 "...disastrously condescending.... Omar Sy jumps all over the place, and he's blunt and grating... It's an admirable performance, but the movie is an embarrassment." |
| 2. |
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05/21/12 |
Moderate |
 "Baron Cohen, like Lenny Bruce, who was always willing to turn the tables on his hip, educated fans, is not a nice boy.... short (83 minutes), but it runs down fast..." |
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05/15/12 |
Poor |
 "...unrelenting and, in its perverse fashion, unmissable. You don't dare to look away in case you fail to spot a new piece of claptrap being riveted into place. The whole thing makes Michael Bay look like Ken Loach." |
| 4. |
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05/14/12 |
Good |
 "...not very funny. It also fails to scare.... Still, Burton's film has something rare to its credit: it is possessed by magic... Burton is an alchemist of childish fancies..." |
| 5. |
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05/14/12 |
Weak |
 "...hopelessly antiquated, greeting with very British giggles, and without a trace of honest curiosity, the needs of the women it seeks to honor." |
| 6. |
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05/07/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a gleeful exercise in overkill... but at its heart is a consummate depiction of a permanent type -- the proud and prickly male, thrown back on his desperate wits." |
| 7. |
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05/07/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If you are not a Marvel fan, then watching 'The Avengers' will feel like being mugged by a gang of rowdy sociopaths with high muscle tone." |
| 8. |
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04/30/12 |
Good |
 "...an odd movie -- mild in tone and circumspect, yet darkly funny... a smart movie, with a mordant satirical edge, but Linklater almost falls victim to his own sense of authenticity." |
| 9. |
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04/30/12 |
Poor |
 "...unwittingly funny... Movies this bad need to be revered in public places. Go see it in a mall, and try to sneak a beer or two in with you." |
| 10. |
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04/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...an emotional adventure guided by superb craftsmanship... the encounters with India are soulful and momentous..." |
| 11. |
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04/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...takes physical comedy to levels of intricacy not seen since silent movies. The bodies get pretzelled together, limbs and heads intertwined, the three men working as a unit." |
| 12. |
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04/30/12 |
Very Good |
 "...leisurely, episodic but pungent, densely populated, consistently funny, and in the Apatovian spirit, foulmouthed yet tenderhearted." |
| 13. |
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04/16/12 |
Weak |
 "...has Spurlock gone soft?... The answer, I fear, is yes. The best thing about the film is that it will save you from going to Comic-Con.... it feels desultory and uninquiring..." |
| 14. |
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04/16/12 |
Good |
 "...reminds us of the longing and the indignation from which reggae music leaped... does a grand job of turning the volume back up. I only wish it had found more time to stop and listen." |
| 15. |
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04/09/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable... The echoes of this intricately wrought movie go on forever... nothing has exploded on the screen in recent years as violently as that mad quarrel in a tiny room - a room that is Israel itself." |
| 16. |
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04/09/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...intelligent and sensitively made... [but] the movie is so discreet and respectful that, outside the classroom, within whose walls the glory of French literature and language triumph, it never quite comes to life." |
| 17. |
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04/02/12 |
Good |
 "...peculiarly weightless and capricious.... casts an unaccountable spell -- a cool, thin-blooded charm.... Whit Stillman is a lightly mocking modernist with growing distaste for the modern." |
| 18. |
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04/02/12 |
Very Good |
 "...in many respects, a beautiful film.... what really grips the movie, for all its amused glances at Swiss Guards and ceremonial pomp, is the prospect of a single soul in crisis." |
| 19. |
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03/26/12 |
Weak |
 "I certainly have no quarrel with the casting.... But the rest of 'The Hunger Games' is pretty much a disaster -- disjointed, muffled, and even, at times, boring.... an evasive, baffling, unexciting production..." |
| 20. |
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03/26/12 |
Very Good |
 "...moving... At times, the movie becomes a wistful idyll of rural American childhood under threat. Violence hangs in the air." |
