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05/20/13 |
Outstanding |
 "Actor and role have merged.... It's Linklater's crowning achievement as a director. Throughout the series, he has daringly extended the cinema's capacity for duration." |
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05/20/13 |
Excellent |
 "...the story depends on repetition, and your interest is kept alive by outrage.... the movie sees things most of us manage to hide." |
| 3. |
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05/13/13 |
Weak |
 "You wind up feeling doubly bullied -- first by the brutal enormity of the set pieces, and then by the emotional arm twisting of the downtimes.... It's a filmoid." |
| 4. |
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05/13/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...finds a dazzling and difficult poise, between obfuscation and epiphany.... Seldom has our modern taste for the confessional mode been so smartly explored..." |
| 5. |
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05/06/13 |
Moderate |
 "...filled with an indiscriminate swirling motion, a thrashing impress of 'style'.... Luhrmann often has trouble getting the simple things right." |
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04/29/13 |
Excellent |
 "...these are clearly drawn portraits of people who are still in the process of sketching themselves into life." |
| 7. |
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04/22/13 |
Excellent |
 "It seems not just against the odds but against the laws of nature that a film as bookish, as suburban, and as self-consciously clever as this should also be such fun." |
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04/22/13 |
Good (Not Great) |
0513998.jpg) "...worth the trip.... Even if the film, baffling and glum, goes the way of its title, Andrea Riseborough as Victoria will lodge inside the hard drive of our memory, and stay there." |
| 9. |
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04/15/13 |
Very Good |
 "...a square piece of work. But square can be powerful, and this film is bracingly detailed and shrewd about the tumultuous racial issues..." |
| 10. |
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04/08/13 |
Very Good |
 "...honorable and absorbing.... this film, with its prickly characters and its complicated plot, rips along with tension and power." |
| 11. |
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04/08/13 |
Weak |
 "Malick falls into a kind of gorgeous emptiness.... beauty isn't enough.... Only a major filmmaker could have made this film, but nothing in it adds up." |
| 12. |
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04/01/13 |
Very Good |
 "The heart of this gentle work is a very convincing and detailed portrait of the artist as an old man.... Michel Bouquet gives a very powerful performance..." |
| 13. |
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04/01/13 |
Fair |
 "...the effort to keep pace with it feels like jumping onto a merry-go-round with a migraine.... burns itself out without leaving a mark, let alone a scar, on our emotions." |
| 14. |
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04/01/13 |
Good |
 "...a feast for the film crazy.... Yet you sense that Berger is deploying a bevy of highlighting devices to insure a constant swell of melodrama." |
| 15. |
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03/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...a bullet-ridden hunk of paranoia.... a combination of the violent and the cheesy... may nevertheless push a few buttons.... Fuqua doesn't deliver on what he has set up." |
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03/25/13 |
Fair |
 "...earnest, broodingly ambitious.... a lot of the character details are fuzzy, or approximate, or just missing... leaves you grasping for the experience you haven't had." |
| 17. |
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03/18/13 |
Good |
 "...it should by rights deflate the heart and many scenes tend to loiter and drag. Yet there is juice and even joy in this spectacle..." |
| 18. |
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03/18/13 |
Fair |
 "What began as a blast, gleefully poised between salvation and satire, dwindles into a gaseous trip..." |
| 19. |
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03/11/13 |
Good |
 "...surprisingly sturdy... combines digital fantasia with something like the Hollywood medievalism of 'Ivanhoe'... has staunch heroes and a sniffy blackguard..." |
| 20. |
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03/11/13 |
Fair |
 "Franco's reflexive self-deprecation comes off as a gutless kind of cool, and it sinks this odd, fretful, uncertain movie like a boulder." |
