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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...uses sound to pound audience ears into submission.... Turn off your brain and enjoy. But don't forget to cover your ears." |
| 2. |
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05/18/12 |
Moderate |
 "...feels like five mediocre romantic comedies uncomfortably squished together. Don't expect much." |
| 3. |
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05/18/12 |
Very Good |
 "...lightweight but agreeable... filled with I-didn't-know-guys-did-that moments and punctuated with scenes of Jason Bateman and Will Arnett manfully visiting a posh spa." |
| 4. |
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05/18/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a darkly funny, irresistible film -- and one with a masterful performance at its center." |
| 5. |
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05/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...sharply satirical and consistently hilarious." |
| 6. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a rarity: a movie that sets out to quietly charm an older audience, and does so." |
| 7. |
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05/11/12 |
Moderate |
 "...a very decorous picture in which a sense of conflict is largely lacking.... No rough edges anywhere. 'The Cup' is too well-mannered for its own good." |
| 8. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a strange and agonizingly engrossing drama despite its repellent subject.... Markus Schleinzer, in his filmmaking debut, looks like a talent to watch." |
| 9. |
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05/11/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...surreal... You keep wishing that the movie was either scarier or funnier, but it's nonetheless impossible to look away." |
| 10. |
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05/11/12 |
Outstanding |
 "A visionary composition on a series of spoken reflections about a literary work.... Grant Gee lyrically and playfully explores possibilities in collages of images..." |
| 11. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "Writer/director Gérald Hustache-Mathieu gives it all a literary intelligence and a sense of breathless, playful noir..." |
| 12. |
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05/11/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a moving story of a woman's attempt to keep pace in a world that's moving too quickly for her." |
| 13. |
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05/04/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...a first-class production all around, from the acting to the 3-D special effects to the touches of wit throughout.... fun." |
| 14. |
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05/04/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...starts out nicely creepy and gradually becomes infuriatingly creepy; you just want something energetic to happen, and it doesn't until the film's effective final scene." |
| 15. |
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05/04/12 |
Very Good |
 "Climate-change documentaries are almost always disturbing, but 'The Island President' communicates a special urgency." |
| 16. |
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05/04/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Much of this film quickly vanishes from memory, but there's some gold here. That's pretty much the message about life itself in 'Death of a Superhero.' " |
| 17. |
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05/04/12 |
Weak |
 "...you may find yourself, as I did, silently rooting for Freeway to turn up -- just so the movie can be put out of its misery." |
| 18. |
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04/27/12 |
Moderate |
 "...an oddly retro tale of a group of college women determined to raise standards -- hygienically, musically, romantically -- at their school, mostly by singing and dancing." |
| 19. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...gains extraordinary access to the gritty rhythms of prostitution and the lives of women caught up in it." |
| 20. |
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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "It's suggested that things will improve if a new Mexican president is elected, but under present circumstances, any kind of optimism is highly unconvincing." |
