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"As he comes to face consequences of this recklessness, Bad sees that his badness - his success and also the limits on it - are also shaped by the business he's in."
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"The film goes through frolicky motions"
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(2010) |
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"Don Argott's documentary tracks the Barnes Foundation's complicated history, from its inception by Albert C. Barnes to the ugly legal battle over its relocation from Merion, PA to Philadelphia."
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(2009) |
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"For all its powerful technologies, Avatar can't get out from under its essential cardboardness."
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"The Crazies has it both ways, uglifying the punishers and the punishees, all marauding brutes."
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(2010) |
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"As the ghostwriter makes his evaluation at the start of The Ghostwriter, you realize, unhappily, that this is the movie over-explaining itself."
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(2010) |
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"The past in Prodigal Sons is pervasive and formidable, to be sure, but it is hardly fixed."
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"In Brooklyn's Finest, the cycle is familiar: no one deserves what he or she gets, but they've all got it anyway."
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"The "line of character" considered by the film is less Klaus Barbie's than the ideology and politics that shape Western activities, both official and covert, postwar and after."
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(2010) |
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"The Wolfman reframes the werewolf legend -- so weighty with communal perversity and collective guilt -- so that it's all about a very bad dad."
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(2010) |
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"The Oscar nominee "Logorama" seems the sort of cleverness conjured by a room full of avid, if cynical consumers, fast and perverse, sorta dark and delightful."
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(2010) |
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"It looks like the characters of color in Percy Jackson have been paired off, a remarkable choice in a movie that is, in essence, about the glories of half-breeds."
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4/10 |
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(2010) |
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"Amid all the confusion, Shutter Island sort of invites you to see through Teddy's eyes: peering at uncooperative staff members, frustrated by the doctors' obfuscations and delays, his rising anger seems righteous."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Even without illustration or allusive images, the children’s own descriptions are harrowing."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"For all the desperation and tragedy, then, the film offers a kind of heroism, set against a frankly grim but also frequently poetic backdrop."
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(2009) |
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"Thisbad lieutenant's pain is less punishment than righteous realignment, a reflection of the nutty, debased, and utterly chaotic world around him. He's not deviant. He's the new normal."
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(2009) |
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"Broken Embraces remains fixed on the ways that men seek control of the not-so-elusive Lena."
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(2009) |
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"Glar and his friends are more or less all-purpose protestors, showing up on sidewalks with placards announcing, "We're really upset!" over nothing specific. And that makes them about as amiable and as bland as everyone else on Planet 51."
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(2009) |
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"All the bloody splatting and fast editing mean that it doesn't matter what's real or not real in Ninja Assassin."
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(2009) |
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"The pile-on of big emotional moments, accompanied by big music, is overwhelming. This is a movie demanding to be loved."
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(2009) |
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"As she ponders her future, Bella is less aware than you are that she has very similar effects on the monster boy rivals for her affection -- glowing eyes, rising tempers, pronounced teeth, ungodly strength, usually demonstrated on others of their ilk or f"
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(2009) |
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"Whether you understand Borut's patchy storytelling to be artful or actually bewildered, the film goes along for the ride."
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(2009) |
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"A former child soldier in Uganda, the boxer Kassim continues to wrestle with the effects of the violence he witnessed and committed."
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(2009) |
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"Frank's essential irony -- his inability to communicate on top of his presumption that he communicates well -- is italicized repeatedly in Everybody's Fine."
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(2009) |
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"All the men in Afghanistan -- native and invasive -- are struggling to survive, to make order of rocky chaos."
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(2009) |
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"As these lessons all come together, the film's floaty, cool affect starts to come down to earth, the points and plot turning more conventional."
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(2009) |
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"Not a thing in this movie is subtle, from its cheesy special effects to its by-the-numbers storyline to its cardboard cutout characters."
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(2009) |
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"What Whip It does make clear is that all girls are expected to perform, whether expectations are embodied by parents or audiences."
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(2009) |
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"Zombieland does well enough in its early minutes, then picks up a little unexpected speed when Columbus meets another "noncannibal survivor" (played by a perfect Woody Harrelson)."
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(2009) |
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"Coco Before Chanel cannot get out from under the romantic fabrications and excesses that ostensibly annoyed its subject."
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(2009) |
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"If the story of Jenny's inevitably hard lesson is standard, An Education comes up with a few moments that give pause."
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(2009) |
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"Amelia provides only a cursory look at Earhart's commercialization, more a way to delineate her marriage troubles than investigate her self-image or her treatment as a pop star."
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(2009) |
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"Feelings of loss and frustration, acted out so loudly, raucously, and repeatedly, are at the center of Where the Wild Things Are."
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(2009) |
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"Pirate Radio leaves out any mention of the usual historical and cultural background, say, sex as a potential means of mixing races and classes."
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(2009) |
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"Intergenerational dilemmas -- how to be foxes, to be individuals and also parts of communities -- form the complicated heart of Fantastic Mr. Fox."
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(2009) |
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"A treasure hunter who has travelled far and wide looking for long-lost fortunes, Lance Larson's questing serves as point of departure for the beguiling documentary, Loot."
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(2009) |
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"Full of tension, the first scene in The Maid (La Nana) sets up Raquel's grim and limited world."
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(2009) |
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"As much as This Is It recalls Jackson's genius, it perpetuates the exploitation that shaped his life."
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(2009) |
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"The titular and sometimes distressing activity in Paranormal Activity serves as a mostly banal metaphor for the couples relationship."
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(2009) |
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"Jamie Foxx's Nick mostly repeats the part played by Denzel Washington in Ricochet, the superior first incarnation of Law Abiding Citizen."
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(2009) |
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"It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle."
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(2009) |
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"Work is at the center of Frederick Wiseman's absorbing documentary, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet."
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(2009) |
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"Where is Fox Mulder when you need him?"
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(2009) |
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"Setting up easy targets, The Men Who Stare at Goats seems less clever than behind the times."
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(2009) |
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"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is concerned with lasting effects of poverty -- on individuals and especially, on communities."
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(2009) |
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"As the action becomes less fabulous and more repetitive over 2012's 150 minutes, the philosophical debate ratchets up."
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(2009) |
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"The familiar format helps to underscore what's extraordinary about these stories, the fear and indignity felt by the soldiers."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Even as the camera follows Lorna, it never quite keeps up, though it's unclear whether she's eluding your interpretation or her own."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Paper Heart is increasingly focused on the tension between Cera and Yi's supposedly real romance and the camera's imposition of structure and self-consciousness."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The home video sets up A Perfect Getaway's frank understanding of itself as formula."
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