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04/22/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Shattering. Cathartic.... a breathtaking film." |
| 2. |
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09/30/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...terrific entertainment -- an unlikely thriller that makes business ethics, class distinctions and intellectual-property arguments sexy..." |
| 3. |
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08/20/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...a riveting detective story... ferocious filmmaking, but it wouldn't have half the force it does if the director didn't also get at the complicated man Pat Tillman was..." |
| 4. |
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12/11/09 |
Outstanding |
 "An exquisite, almost sensual grief suffuses every frame of 'A Single Man.' " |
| 5. |
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08/30/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The cast is knocking itself out... theater magnified, amplified, brought to a kind of life that doesn't usually happen with filmed performances." |
| 6. |
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07/23/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Imagine a mashup of 'Dr. Strangelove' and 'Wag the Dog,' and you've got the general idea... The performances are explosively funny..." |
| 7. |
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05/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...epic -- and intimate at the same time.... grand, loopy, spiritual.... astonishing in some spots, almost incoherent in others." |
| 8. |
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03/04/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...spectacularly cinematic, possibly because the great cinematographer Roger Deakins consulted on visuals.... a real movie lover's movie..." |
| 9. |
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12/22/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...splendidly acted and takes full advantage of every breathtaking vista it comes across, a grand epic made quirky and intimate by the dialogue... terrific filmmaking." |
| 10. |
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10/08/10 |
Outstanding |
 "...rip-roaring... pretty much any 30 seconds of interview footage in 'Inside Job' will make you want to throttle the nearest banker, broker or economic analyst." |
| 11. |
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11/06/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...the film's milieu and characters feel alarmingly real.... its story ends up packing an emotional wallop as substantial as its title character." |
| 12. |
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07/11/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...ends up being about how unsettling it can be to look at yourself in the cold light of maturity, and realize you're not who you thought you'd grow up to be.... really funny." |
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05/07/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...the point of a reboot isn't really to tell a tale; it's to ensure that the underlying enterprise can go on. Abrams has done that, for sure..." |
| 14. |
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03/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...almost never feels workshopped or overly planned.... The images -- whether urgent and urban or sunset-strewn and caught from a moving train -- are haunting." |
| 15. |
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06/10/11 |
Excellent |
 "Not sure when I lost it and started laughing at absolutely everything they said, but by the time they were singing ABBA songs at the top of their lungs, I was gone." |
| 16. |
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11/29/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a high-toned, elegantly upholstered buddy flick.... smart, lush and a lot more amusing than you'd expect." |
| 17. |
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08/13/10 |
Excellent |
 "Welcome to the jungle, suburban style: white picket fences and beasts of prey.... its gangster conventions feel as if they're in the service of a modern-day Greek tragedy." |
| 18. |
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03/19/10 |
Excellent |
 "...the author is also a sharp social critic, so what his characters uncover isn't just crime, but a whole dark side to Swedish society." |
| 19. |
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02/25/10 |
Excellent |
 "...there's something kind of captivating about a film that's been painstakingly drawn to glorify the craft of illustration, and that's comfortable using retro techniques." |
| 20. |
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11/20/09 |
Excellent |
 "...what you might term a lushly tragic lark -- a heartfelt, if not quite heartbreaking, paean to romance and to the romance of cinema." |
