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07/12/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a pell-mell, edge-of-your-seat, theme-park ride through hell... I am your friend, horror fans! I know what you need, and this is it." |
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11/04/10 |
Good |
 "What I admire about '127 Hours' -- and at the same time, what makes me mistrust it -- is that it's a full-on thrill ride..." |
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04/27/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Visually spectacular... the total spectacle of '13 Assassins' is worth it.... pretty nearly the samurai classic it sets out to become." |
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02/01/13 |
Excellent |
 "All three programs are worth seeing, but I recommend the documentaries first and foremost... all five are rewarding and downright terrific examples of the form..." |
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08/30/12 |
Poor |
 "...more a work of tormented autobiography than biography... D'Souza's demented anti-Obama crusade feels personal more than political." |
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08/10/11 |
Fair |
 "...features about half of a decent idea... Listen, there are some fine moments here, and by that I mean 'OK if you're sufficiently baked.' " |
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08/01/12 |
Poor |
 "...a mistake from beginning to end... We're all connected, you see, as long as what you mean by 'we' is good-looking people who hang out in hotel bars." |
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09/30/11 |
Excellent |
 "...poignant, funny... self-aware enough to crack a 'Terms of Endearment' joke, to compare its chemo-bald leading man to both Lord Voldemort and Michael Stipe..." |
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09/09/11 |
Excellent |
 "...a handsome and stimulating film, noteworthy more for its terrific acting and provocative ideas than for any kind of dark Cronenbergundian genius." |
| 10. |
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08/18/10 |
Excellent |
 "...a somber, brooding reconstruction of one of the murkiest and darkest productions in cinema history, a Nazi propaganda film..." |
| 11. |
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02/05/13 |
Poor |
 "...one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory.... falls somewhere between funny-peculiar and slow-motion car-accident horror..." |
| 12. |
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02/14/13 |
Poor |
 "...bewildering and idiotic... pretty much three well-staged action sequences strung together with the dumbest imaginable connective tissue." |
| 13. |
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09/01/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...these immature, fairly pitiable protagonists go about their absurd project in all the wrong ways. But you just keep rooting for them." |
| 14. |
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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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12/29/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...remarkable... something close to a contemporary masterwork.... a profoundly humane work with the emotional payoff and far-sighted tragic vision of a great novel." |
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01/13/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...one of the funniest movies I've seen in years.... contains several of the most hilarious sex scenes ever committed to film..." |
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11/04/11 |
Excellent |
 "I'm pretty sure the co-writers and director are all Jewish, but hell -- nobody's ever crafted Christmas entertainment like the people of the Torah." |
| 18. |
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09/03/10 |
Good |
 "Alternately comic and terrifying... there's no use getting all worked up over the bleakness of its destination -- we're all heading that way anyway." |
| 19. |
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09/23/11 |
Poor |
 "...a fourth-rate Hollywood thriller... entirely bereft of suspense or excitement and features a leading man who absolutely, positively cannot act." |
| 20. |
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06/22/12 |
Excellent |
 "In its own idiotic and limited way, it's a work of genius... culminating in a vampires-on-a-train climax that would dazzle Sam Peckinpah... meant as camp from beginning to end..." |
