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05/22/12 |
Good |
 "...lively if largely predictable... I enjoyed 'The Intouchables' quite a bit.... it's something like a mid-'80s Eddie Murphy comedy dressed up with classy Parisian settings..." |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...tries to tackle the enormous subject of contemporary male vanity as an assemblage of whimsical anecdotes.... It's kind of endearing and kind of asinine." |
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05/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a breakthrough movie after its own fashion, a mysterious existential thriller that's brilliantly acted and masterfully directed, without a second of wasted screen time." |
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05/16/12 |
Poor |
 "...baffling and incoherent and flat-out stupid... a movie that would make your inner 11-year-old stomp out of the theater in disgust..." |
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05/15/12 |
Excellent |
 "...veers from one hilarious, absurd and patently offensive setup to the next, mercilessly mocking the stupidity and paranoia of Americans, the venality of celebrities..." |
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05/11/12 |
Good |
 "...an 'Oh no, we took a wrong turn' movie... if it's patchy and derivative it also has a compelling, soapy undertow that kept me watching." |
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05/10/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a film whose emotional power and intelligence sneak up on you... this marvelous work of all-ages movie craftsmanship has magic aplenty." |
| 8. |
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05/09/12 |
Very Good |
 "...sure, it all comes unglued in the final 15 minutes... But it offers potent atmosphere and delirious '70s fashions and hilarious gags and some really terrific performances..." |
| 9. |
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05/08/12 |
Very Good |
 "Goldthwaite's most coherent and most consistently hilarious film... he wants us to acknowledge that the idiotic and insulting state of public discourse in our country has made us all a little crazy." |
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05/03/12 |
Poor |
 "...causes a pain all the medical marijuana in the world can't make a person forget... seems to have been created by people who've only had cancer described to them." |
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05/01/12 |
Fair |
 "...a diminished film despite its huge scale, and kind of a bore... the pretense of mythic grandeur can't stand up to the fundamental teenage-boy, men-in-tights silliness..." |
| 12. |
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04/27/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...daring, novelistic and unforgettable... a wrenching journalistic exploration of real life and something close to great cinema." |
| 13. |
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04/27/12 |
Excellent |
 "...proves how effectively you can set the mind-bending mood without any special effects, action sequences or spectral rabbits.... Marling is a fascinating new arrival..." |
| 14. |
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04/25/12 |
Excellent |
 "...both a slavish imitation of cinema gone by and a movie for our time.... wickedly entertaining and perversely refreshing in its total lack of contemporary piety." |
| 15. |
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04/20/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...offers a strange mixture of magic, mystery, rueful melodrama and dry comedy that's like absolutely nothing else.... a sweet-natured magical incantation..." |
| 16. |
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04/19/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...awkward but intermittently amusing... it's fun to see all these undervalued black actors cutting loose..." |
| 17. |
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04/19/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...so absorbing, from moment to moment, that I felt myself carried into Camille's world and at the same time carried back into my own memories.... a gorgeous, commanding work..." |
| 18. |
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04/17/12 |
Poor |
 "...completely uninteresting... a pallid, embarrassing canine comedy that squanders a cast of terrific actors on playing 1 percenters trapped in a Colorado resort community." |
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04/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...an entertaining diversion, mostly because Rossellini and Hurt are a pair of seasoned and graceful pros who know how to work every line and every gesture..." |
| 20. |
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04/12/12 |
Excellent |
 "Quite a bit of it is great, and most of it works, and the stuff that clicks is outrageously entertaining and funny, sometimes with surprising depth." |
