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05/29/11 |
Weak |
 "Leeson simply lets her narcissistic subjects glossily lecture... it becomes difficult to sympathize with the feminist artists' plight no matter how right they may be." |
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01/06/13 |
Moderate |
 "...aims to be more than an anti-paparazzi tract; it also wants to elucidate the role these photographers play in a whole complex web of celebrity obsession in America..." |
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07/05/10 |
Very Good |
 "Obscured vantage points, sudden cuts to black, inhuman shadowy figures lurking just out of clear eyesight... all contribute to nerve-jangling immediacy." |
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08/30/12 |
Weak |
 "...that this is the first entry directed by Paco Plaza without Jaume Balagueró perhaps proves who the brains of this operation was from the start." |
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09/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "...lukewarm.... Despite its virtues, '10 Years' is desperately short on vitality, a foundational flaw of Jamie Linden's weak screenplay." |
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09/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "...follows a performance tour of 100 famed cantors through Poland's darkest corridors... pays tribute to the talent destroyed (approximately 1,300 cantors died in death camps) and excavates a portrait of Jewish music during the 1910s and '20s..." |
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03/16/13 |
Very Good |
 "...enchanting... gradually simplifies into an elaborate seesaw between general, journalistic scoopery and unabashedly personal confrontation..." |
| 8. |
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02/18/13 |
Outstanding |
 "...an intensely personal story from a political period that subjugated the personal... utterly universal... stunningly evokes the uniqueness of its own time and place." |
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10/29/10 |
Moderate |
 "...you may leave '127 Hours' feeling as if you know what makes a camera tick more than you do the man at the film's center." |
| 10. |
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10/26/11 |
Poor |
 "...boring... squanders its considerable acting talent in the name of limp drama and even limper social commentary..." |
| 11. |
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04/24/11 |
Very Good |
 "Miike goes classical... a 'Seven Samurai'-indebted swordfighting epic delivered with a blockbuster scope and sincerity free of his trademark gonzo insanity." |
| 12. |
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09/17/12 |
Moderate |
 "...despite a handful of scenes offering a modicum of context to these characters' seemingly unfathomable decisions, '17 Girls' offers precious little genuine illumination." |
| 13. |
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10/10/11 |
Weak |
 "...self-important... lumbers even when its rapid editing and dollying cameras would like to suggest a stampede." |
| 14. |
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04/27/13 |
Poor |
 "Banal and overly polished, the film brims with the sort of generic dialogue and general miscomprehension of human behavior found in your garden-variety rom-com..." |
| 15. |
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04/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...the role makes Julie Delpy, who also co-wrote the part she played in Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise and Before Sunset,' a 21st-century Annie Hall..." |
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02/28/13 |
Poor |
 "...strikes the worst possible balance, soft-pedaling the antics while still managing to use women and minorities as punch lines.... a terribly shot movie." |
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03/13/12 |
Very Good |
 "It's a little surprising that this remake/reboot of a Steven Bochco-era relic is liberally doused with f-bombs... for the most part, it's pretty terrific." |
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11/04/12 |
Weak |
 "...a grueling work of sensory deprivation. You're trapped with two people of a certain amount of privilege as they whine about what's essentially a frivolous issue." |
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09/11/11 |
Moderate |
 "...a smidgeon film. Take a smidgeon of scientific/ethical discussion, throw in a pinch of dance/poetry/dream sequences, tie the whole thing up with split-screen montages..." |
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03/16/10 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the specificity of some of the film's scenes can be arresting.... matched by the remarkable emotional honesty of Mendelsohn's actors..." |
