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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Like all of Anderson's efforts, "Phantom Thread" is beautiful and intriguing, but it's also a film that is not unlike its central character: easy to respect and admire, and nearly impossible to fully love.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  If Anderson's The Master was a swirling miasma, Phantom Thread is an unforgiving dress. It presents an ideal and even inspires wonder, but it does make breathing difficult, and heaven help you if all you want is to have a good time.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  I'd characterize Anderson's film as a romantic comedy with an unusually complicated and profoundly destabilizing happy ending. If that sounds like your thing, then here you are.

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text: Whoever thought that watching Daniel Day-Lewis make a dress could be so interesting?
created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" casts a remarkable spell; it wraps around you, like a delicately scented cashmere shawl woven from music and color and astonishing faces.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Day-Lewis has hinted that his role in Phantom Thread will be his last for the screen. I seriously doubt this, just as I am sure he will work once again with Paul Thomas Anderson.

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text: The dry ice in this film burns with a hothouse intensity.
created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Anderson's movies are never coherent enough to appeal to the mainstream, but this one is so ravishing and meticulous and exquisite that you have no difficulty ignoring its inherent lack of logic.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  The attention to detail, the use of certain colors, the lush and vibrant photography of the dresses Reynolds makes and the clothes he wears - they're honestly breathtaking.

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text: "Phantom Thread" is a thing of beauty with darkness at its center.
created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
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created_at: 2019-01-22 21:59:02
text:
  Moe Szyslak|Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Chief Clancy Wiggum|Professor Frink|Dr. Nick Riviera|Comic Book Guy|Lou|Carl Carlson|Snake|Kirk Van Houten|Superintendent Chalmers


created_at: 2019-01-22 21:59:02
text:
  Charles Montgomery Burns|Nedward "Ned" Flanders|Principal Seymour Skinner|Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Otto Mann|Waylon Smithers|Dr. Marvin Monroe


created_at: 2019-01-22 21:59:02
text:
  Marge Simpson|Patty Bouvier|Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure|Grandma Jacqueline Bouvier|Aunt Gladys Bouvier


created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  With an arsenal of cool f/x at their disposal, they've come up with a dizzyingly enjoyable junk movie that has just enough on its mind to keep the pleasure from being a guilty one.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  Keanu Reeves makes a lean, strikingly beautiful tabula rasa hero, twisting out of the way of bullets that elongate like silver beads of mercury, and he's partnered by the equally hard, blank, and androgynously gorgeous Carrie-Anne Moss.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  A technologically stunning movie that furthers the genre and features crowd-pleasing performances to go with the frequent scenes of gunplay and violence.

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text: Another slice of overlong, high concept hokum.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  There's not much humor to keep it all life-size, and by the final stretch it's become bloated, mechanical, and tiresome.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  Extremely violent, extremely preposterous, extremely entertaining, The Matrix succeeds at two extremely difficult tasks: as a vast, exciting virtual-reality movie and as a defibrillator for Keanu Reeves' big screen career.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  A wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination, The Matrix combines traditional science-fiction premises with spanking new visual technology in a way that almost defies description.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  A blast of Holly-Kong glitz that never approaches the stylistic cohesiveness of, say, John Woo's Face/Off or the charisma of that film's propulsive star John Travolta.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  The Wachowskis and cinematographer Bill Pope take advantage of currently available technical trickery to create visually distinct levels of reality while setting high-speed cameras in motion to make the action sequences particularly dynamic and fluid.

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text: The Matrix soars with its feet in the air -- the rest crash-lands.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  For those who have been waiting for movies to catch up with the graphic possibilities of comic books, wait no longer: The Matrix is among us.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:08
text:
  The Matrix did not bore me. It interested me so much, indeed, that I wanted to be challenged even more.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:12
text:
  The original Matrix was full of dizzying surprises. But it's turned out that the Wachowskis didn't have many more tricks up their sleeves.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:12
text:
  One of the most original concepts in recent fantasy movie history has devolved into something perfectly ordinary.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:12
text:
  Wallows in interminable, poorly lit, barely coherent sequences of people in machines fighting other machines.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:12
text:
  An unwieldy, two-plus-hours third act of a movie, guided by the principle (incubated by Reloaded and fully grown here) that too much is never too much.

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text: The Matrix Revolutions is not a bad movie. It's just a maddening one.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:12
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text: A sadder, wiser, more grown-up movie than its predecessor.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
text:
  I liked this movie and can recommend it with a clear critical conscience, but it never moved me even half as much as Steven Spielberg's A.I.

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text: A worthy sequel.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
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text: Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
text:
  An ugly, bloated, repetitive movie that builds to a punch line that should have come an hour earlier.

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text: Worryingly, the longer this movie goes on, the harder it is to care.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
text:
  While it is both naive and unfair to expect lightning to strike terrain this fertile twice, the most distressing thing about the reloading of The Matrix is just how much it feels like The Phantom Menace.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
text:
  The sequences go on getting bigger but they're almost wholly devoid of suspense. The Wachowskis seem to think that, if it's exciting when Morpheus nearly falls off that moving truck, it'll be even more exciting if it happens six times.

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text: If you're 14 or younger in age or sensibility, you may giggle at some of the bons mots.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
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text: Reloaded seems less tired than X2.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:43:22
text:
  Judged strictly by the story line, this one plays like what it is, a rather meandering second act that advances the plot only slightly and doesn't pretend to be a complete or self-sufficient film.

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text: A film about love and the cost of lying that's exquisite in its beauty, painful in its truths.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
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text: A sweeping, solemn, self-serious chronicle of their relationship over several decades.
created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
text:
  Lee has taken a story of gay love and placed it where it should be -- in the mainstream. He's delivered a beautifully crafted film to boot.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
text:
  Brokeback Mountain is in no rush. Its emotional impact builds slowly, its rhythms in tune with the countryside--the rugged grandeur of the mountains; the arid, bleak vistas of backwater Western towns.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
text:
  It stays with you after you've seen it, like a haunting strain of music; both love song and elegy for what might have been.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
text:
  With its measured pace and its sumptuous visuals, transforming a taboo into a romantic totem, this opening act is fascinating, like watching Red River with the subtext cranked way up.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
text:
  If love does indeed conquer all, it should win hearts across America. If not, then its focus on a tragic stigma will remain as valid as its story suggests.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 08:45:48
text:
  The reason to see Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, and see it you should, isn't its hot-button topicality or its cultural cachet but simply that it's a very good movie, with a staggeringly fine performance by Heath Ledger.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Penn and director Gus Van Sant play Milk's sexual orientation with candor that never dips into cartoonishness -- it's refreshing and true and manly

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Milk has one of the finest ensemble casts this year and a magnificent, career-topping performance by Sean Penn, who disappears into the title role.

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text: At the moment, it's my favorite movie of the year.
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  It's nice to see Penn play a character of Spicoli-like sweetness and openness, rather than the glowering lugs that have become his specialty.

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text: The story is sad, but the mood is jubilant and the energy relentless.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Penn may be the main attraction, but this is very much an ensemble piece. Emile Hirsch, as cheeky street kid turned activist Cleve Jones, Diego Luna as Milk's annoyingly needy, unstable second lover and James Franco's Scott, add to the communal spirit.

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text: Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Sean Penn gives a meticulously detailed performance as the cagey and charismatic pol, but credit should also go to Dustin Lance Black, whose script squarely locates Milk at the center of his community, his city, and his cause.

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text: Milk represents a thought provoking, cathartic, and mostly true tale of politics and courage.
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Penn's performance is a marvelous act of empathy in a movie that, for all its surprisingly conventional style, measures up to its stirring subject.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  The final result somehow undersells a man whose life and death were watershed moments in the gay rights movement.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  This film wants us to understand both how far we've come as a society and that it is still not far enough.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  The film understandably and movingly centres itself on Penn's portrayal of a hedonist-turned-activist who discovered that in order to change his world, he had to find his voice.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Milk is an agitprop fantasy about the selflessness of sainthood. If anybody but Penn was playing the saint, we'd probably feel as if we were being sold a bill of goods. Instead, he just about pulls it off. Such is the treachery of talent.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Perhaps it is simply an accident of timing that puts Milk in theaters at this moment. But fate or simple fortunate timing, Milk arrives as one of the best films of 2008.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:04
text:
  Penn is one of our great actors, and his greatness comes from small things. Close your eyes and listen to how he absolutely gets -- but doesn't caricature -- Milk's honking Long Island accent.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  The film serves as a timely reminder of the tastefully sybaritic terrain that our own mainstream moviemakers have largely ignored in the commercially driven thirst for blood and gore.

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text: Avenue Montaigne is a bon-bon for culture tourists.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  Avenue Montaigne, a delicately charming fable set in Paris, offers the kind of experience we secretly crave when we visit any great city: meaningful encounters with its people.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  It's formula stuff, to be sure, but full of feeling for the sweep of the past as well as for the unsettled, yearning present. Echoes of Juliette Gréco, Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour haunt the soundtrack.

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text: A fine cast and a realistic touch give the charming farce a sweetness and emotional intimacy.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
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text: Feather-light, Avenue Montaigne is lifted from mere pleasantness by its quirky character details.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  A film that seeks to amble it way towards resolution and which offers a few insights and smiles along the way.

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text: Thompson's crowd-pleaser makes up in refined schmaltz what it lacks in innovation or profundity.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  That the film succeeds as well as it does despite a series of coincidences that strain credibility is a credit to a fine cast and a joie de vivre that pervades even the most implausible moments.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  Brasseur's still got his scuffed charisma, and even Dupontel gets away with his hoary art-for-the-proles act. Et voilà! Charming if you're in the mood.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:22
text:
  Aside from pretty people behaving cutely, though, there's just not much here, and even devoted Francophiles may nod into their cafe crèmes.

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text: It moves and it heals, finding hints of redemption in the jagged face of life.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  Frozen River, a story of abject desperation, feels so real and immediate that it plays almost like a documentary.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  It's fair to say that Hunt's first full-length feature, though uneven at times, holds the promise of better things to come.

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text: An urgent and incomparably moving first feature from Courtney Hunt.
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text: All in all, Frozen River is gripping stuff.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  Occasionally marred by contrivance and a crude internal logic that doesn't bear close scrutiny, 'Frozen River' works best as a knuckle-gnawing, blue-collar genre thriller.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  This is a debut feature, though you'd never know it from the filmmaker's commandingly confident style, or from the heartbreaking beauty -- heartbreaking, then heartmending -- of Melissa Leo's performance.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  A low-budget triumph for director Courtney Hunt that won the grand jury prize at Sundance, Frozen River is a thriller set in upstate New York anchored by an unforgettable performance by veteran character actress Melissa Leo.

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text: Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  Frozen River is one of those rare independent films that knows precisely what it intends, and what the meaning of the story is.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  Courtney Hunt's Frozen River is the first great film of the fall. It has great actors playing vivid characters in a setting that makes for a clash of cultures.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  We quickly sense that the director of this film has unusual perception, and that whatever the story and performances turn out to be, she will make the most of them.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  Frozen River isn't just a good movie made by a woman; it's a good movie on anyone's terms, one of the year's best. To find hope beneath this ice, in this ugly terrain, is to dream big.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:07:31
text:
  Frozen River does what too many independent American movies only pretend to do: Takes you to an unnoticed corner of our country and shows what it's like to actually live there.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  Last Men In Aleppo has the upsetting urgency of breaking news: There are moments that could have come straight from a live stream, given the violence that's still rocking Syria, months after Fayyad's cameras stopped rolling.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  Even though Last Men in Aleppo is mostly a ground-level, you-are-there experience, the eyes of history, and maybe even of something greater, are never far.

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text: Hard to watch, but necessary.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  A cool, objective film critic could complain that Last Men in Aleppo becomes repetitious, but it's that repetition that eats into your mind and makes objectivity foolish.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  An unforgettable and essential documentary about something that demands to be seen, even if it can never hope to be understood.

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text: A documentary both urgent and mournful ...
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  [It] may not be the most comprehensively explanatory or analytical film yet made on the war, but it's the one that provides viewers with the most sensorily vivid and empathetic sense yet of how it feels to live (and die) through the carnage.

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text: A tightly focused, on-the-ground account of three men who serve in the White Helmets.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
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text: Last Men balances the visceral and the melancholy.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  While "Last Men in Aleppo" could stand a trim here and there, it mostly uses its length to good and heart-rending effect ...

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text: [It] give(s) chilling context to the weight of how long these conflicts have raged.
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:49:21
text:
  An unflinching depiction of life in a vulnerable city, a place where innocents are constantly under attack, and the few people doing their best to protect it.

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text: In the documentary realm there's nothing more pleasurable than top-drawer Werner Herzog.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  Even as "Into the Inferno" invites us to marvel at our insignificance in the face of Mother Nature's seething primordial firepit, Herzog, being Herzog, refuses to lose sight of the human element.

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text: This intersection of nature and culture is filled with insight.
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  It's an exhilarating trip, filled with strange stories, fascinating rituals and ethereally beautiful images of bubbling magma and flowing lava, some of which were captured using drones.

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text: A lazy, meandering mess that gives off no heat.
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  A series of portraits of obsessed people, each painted by one of the most likable obsessives in cinema.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  As fun as Herzog's highly imitable voice can be, this particular film arguably works best when he remains quiet and simply stares at the fiery void.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  Werner Herzog teams up with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer for a globe-trotting tour of sites that have inspired bizarre belief systems.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  Herzog has always shown a gift for immersing us in the startling extremes of the natural world, and his images here do not disappoint.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:50:37
text:
  Into the Inferno may be relatively minor Herzog -- it's sweet and rambling rather than laser-bolt intense like  Fitzcarraldo or  Grizzly Man . But it is enormously satisfying, filled with wisdom, insight and molten lava.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  "Lady Bird" is a deeply accomplished debut, as much a love letter to Gerwig's hometown as it is to awkward adolescence. It flies.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  Gerwig the actress skillfully pivots between the wacky and the poignant, so it's no surprise that Gerwig the auteur so delicately balances hilarity and heartbreak.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  "Lady Bird" is a triumph of style, sensibility and spirit. The girl at its center may not be a heavyweight, but her movie is epic.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  A heartfelt coming-of-age story that perfectly captures the bittersweet transition from adolescence to dawning adulthood...

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text: It's a great movie.
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  Saoirse Ronan plays Lady Bird as if she'd been following writer-director Greta Gerwig around all her life - mannerisms and liberated worldview fully internalized.

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text: Lots of movies are set to be popping up in multiplexes, but few as wonderful as "Lady Bird."
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  Gerwig finds a warmer part of herself when, unencumbered by any lab partner, she returns to her hometown with Lady Bird. One can only hope that, this time, she stays.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  Highlighted by an awards-worthy performance by Saoirse Ronan and structured around a light, witty script by Gerwig, the movie delivers a well-targeted snapshot of a year-in-the-life of an ordinary high school senior.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  A finely wrought, deeply felt mash note to Gerwig's hometown of Sacramento, and the rare film about teenage life that puts equal weight on the dark, sad and tough parts, as it does on the joyous, raucous, euphoric moments.

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text: Lady Bird is a coming-of-age story distinguished by a great script and a perfect cast.
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text: I love it. If a more enchanted movie comes along this year, I'll be surprised.
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text: This is simply beautiful work.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  As an actor, Gerwig has shown an enchantingly light touch; she brings that to her work as director, as "Lady Bird" skims along happily, showing us moments both crucial and trivial in a teenage girl's life.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  The delightful and insightful Lady Bird achieves flight in its own unique way, just like the aerodynamically unorthodox ladybug the title tips to.

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text: One of the best movies about adolescence to come along in years.
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text: It hit me unexpectedly-like a snowball between the eyes.
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text: It's unique and original and fresh and wonderful, and can you tell I loved it?
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  In Ronan's marvelous performance, tough and transparent at the same time, we can see the blurred outlines of the equally assured filmmaker behind her.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:51:33
text:
  Lady Bird understands late adolescence as the endless accumulations of tiny humiliations and a deep, unutterable yearning for escape.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:53:43
text:
  Mr. Redzepi is a restless soul, and Maurice Dekkers's engaging "Ants on a Shrimp" follows him on an adventure that seems almost recklessly impulsive.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 09:53:43
text:
  Like a well-executed fine-dining experience, this sleek documentary entertains, delights, and makes viewers comfortable without evident sweat.

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text: If the title "Ants on a Shrimp" evokes the worst picnic ever, guess again.
created_at: 2019-01-28 09:53:43
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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  This is a gorgeous, timely and possibly profound human comedy, and if there's no disentangling the medium from the message that's because both are powerful and ambiguous.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  As one character observes in "Tangerine," Los Angeles is "a beautifully wrapped lie." Baker has created a fitting homage to artifice and the often tawdry, tender realities that lie beneath.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  Rodriguez and Taylor are terrific. Their confidence is infectious, yet they never let us forget the challenges their lives offer.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  "Tangerine" has generated interest partly because it was made using iPhones augmented by other devices. But technology can only take a film so far - it's the story that really matters.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  Tangerine is a great Los Angeles movie and a great indie and a great reminder of the possibilities of creativity during a time when everything is a sequel or a reboot or a comic-book spectacle.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  A sneaky slice-of-life indie that comes on all casual and cinéma-verité in the early scenes, then slowly coalesces into a romantic comedy as intricately constructed as any door-slamming stage farce.

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text: A reinvigorating reminder of what indie filmmaking can -- and should -- do.
created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  This is sublime filmmaking, a textbook example of how indies can tell groundbreaking stories in a way that Hollywood simply can't match.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  A necessary portrait of a multiracial L.A. as a concrete-surfaced hard-knocks-a-thon... as well as a hilarious and high-spirited comedy with a dramatic, third-act curve ball that reminds us that there are aching hearts under the quips and weaves.

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text: [A] rollicking indie comedy.
created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  The film is clearly not for everyone; sometimes it wasn't for me. But it's steadfastly nonjudgmental and wonderfully tender toward two searchers for new versions of old-fashioned love.

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text: Smart, antic comedy that's eager to offend.
created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  Little is as it seems in "Tangerine," a fast, raucously funny comedy about love and other misadventures.

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text: Assured and immensely likable, truly independent in story and style.
created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  In effect, "Tangerine" offers a saccharine alternative to the uncut realism of the Safdie brothers' "Heaven Knows What."

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  Shot on an iPhone 5 for practically no money, Tangerine jumps off the screen and wows you like nobody's business.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  The chemistry of the leads and their authentic, crackling dialogue make it a pleasure to tag along for the day.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  Baker gets great, sly, unforced performances from his two leads, but it's not all a rollicking good time: There are moments of quietude, inquietude, moments when a sense of wariness and loneliness settles over the women.

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created_at: 2019-01-28 10:10:45
text:
  These people are the way they are, the movie says. This obscenely vibrant patch of L.A. is officially an enclave. But Baker makes it feel bigger and louder and crazier than that. He turns subculture into family.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  Navigating troubled culture-war waters with grace, humor and compassion, "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" is a movie that deserves a wide and diverse audience.

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text: A timid drama with a passive voice that doesn't align with the importance of its subject matter.
created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  The director has enough faith in her audience to risk making all of the characters complicated, multifaceted and true-to-life.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  It's loaded with terrific performances all around and, under the skilful stewardship of director Desiree Akhavan, it's a well-crafted story steeped in poignancy, melancholy and simple truths.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a modest-size film that performs a service opposite to that of Conversion therapy: It respects the vulnerability that accompanies the emergence of any young person's sexuality.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  This is essentially a movie about teenagers stuck in an overly strict summer camp, and watching youths quietly whiling away the hours in a detention center is not exactly scintillating conflict.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  This is a film about Cameron's core personhood, and how it stands up to concentrated efforts to transform it, and it's told with quiet steeliness and grace.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  It's hard to think of a more highly-charged topic than the brainwashing of vulnerable adolescents in the name of God, so it's certainly to Akhavan's credit that she uses such a determinedly understated style.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a sharply observed study - with a knife edge of satire, for sure - of the daily practice of soft tyranny by people not gifted with healthy self-doubt.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  Chloë Grace Moretz plays Cameron with such tasteful reserve, all blank stares and slightly agape mouth in the face of the most ardent down-is-up doctrine.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" offers a powerful rejoinder to anyone who'd shame people into denying their authentic selves. In its own modest way, it's one of the year's bravest films.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  Moretz' wry smile and weary eyes convey volumes of emotional turmoil. She is the soulful, courageous heart of a film that exalts the strength of human dignity.

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text: A handsomely retrofitted after-school movie.
created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  Akhavan keeps the camera locked on Moretz's face; every time you think she can't possibly go closer, she does. But it's the definition of a female gaze.

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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  A sweet indie film in the tradition of John Hughes. Calmly directed by Desiree Akhavan, the movie doesn't get tangled in the weeds of politics, but instead focuses intensely on its lovely characters.

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text: "Miseducation" more often opts for nuance than burlesque, and that is its strength.
created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  What a shame that this well-meaning and timely look at the absurdity of gay conversion camps - it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year - lacks the teeth to make its points stick.

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text: [Post] is anchored by a strong performance by Chloe Grace Moretz.
created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
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created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
text:
  The Miseducation of Cameron Post may not hit as hard as it should. But it at least suggests that the only real losers in life are those who presume to read God's mind.

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text: "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" is a scrapbook made by the people who were there.
created_at: 2019-01-29 22:34:37
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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  What they have done with West Side Story in knocking it down and moving it from stage to screen is to reconstruct its fine material into nothing short of a cinema masterpiece.

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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.

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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  Special mention, though, should go to Boris Leven's neo-expressionist production design and Daniel L Fapp's forceful cinematography: the crooked angles, pointed shadows and great swashes of red all heighten the mood of rabid fury.

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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  It still represents a brave and effective fusion of serious and fantasy elements, and offers two and one-half hours of solid entertainment.

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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  Natalie Wood, who was made a hit in the Kazan-Inge production of Splendor In the Grass and is the most promising young star of today, gives a fine dramatic performance.

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text: The marvel is that the film still works so well.
created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  Both Miss Wood and Miss Moreno are permitted to work up fine fervors in their acting, and they come through.

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text: It is a great movie ... in parts.
created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
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created_at: 2019-02-02 17:10:45
text:
  West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical which, in its stark approach to a raging social problem and realism of unfoldment, may set a pattern for future musical presentations.

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created_at: 2019-02-03 01:24:48
text:
  This is another solid work from Senez, even if the film never quite packs the same punch as his knockout debut did.

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created_at: 2019-02-03 01:24:48
text:
  Senez's unassuming but deeply humane film finds no sentimental solutions or homilies to guide its characters through - merely the assurance that even one bad day isn't quite like the next.

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text: It is witty, charming, and by the end surprisingly moving.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  Ellen Page, who played a pregnant teen in Juno, goes fantastically further in a new tale of accidental motherhood.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  What saves Tallulah from American indie sameness and its allegiance to neat resolution are its three lead actors and Heder's apparent skill in bringing out their best work.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  It stands out thanks to the graceful, thoughtful characterization of its three protagonists, despite their potential to be monstrous caricatures.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  Heder's purpose here is clearly worth exploring, and somewhere in all of this, there is a very powerful film. But moralizing can lead a director down the path of melodrama, and that's what keeps Tallulah from reaching its potential.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  Heder's script likely won't please those who prefer their indie dramas naturalistic and event-free. But the freewheeling storytelling enacted here has an excellent anchor in the grounded work of the ensemble cast.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  For sublime acting, this Netflix feature hits the mother lode. For a script that always holds water, not so much.

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text: Tallulah is an enchanting, sharp little gem
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  Even if the tale is a bit much to be believed at times, it's unlikely you'll see a film more refreshingly honest and incisive about motherhood than "Tallulah."

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  The main problem with the movie is that Tallulah, who is meant to be roguishly charming, is instead irritating - a lying, thieving, tiresome, unwashed hippie moocher ...

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  Page and Janney have a pleasant, relaxed rapport with each other and are likeable enough presences to hang out with, but a lot of the business around their characters feels like padding to keep the two highest profile actors busy.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  A maternal character study that loses its way as it tries, like several key characters, to be something it isn't.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  The story in "Tallulah" sometimes strains credulity, but it's beautifully told and acted - three women and a baby, everyone except the baby in need of clarity.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  In its greatest achievement, the writing and directing of Tallulah articulates the intangible sacrifice and stresses of motherhood.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  Yes, the story has the makings of a Lifetime movie; what grounds it are the terrific performances and Heder's rich direction and screenplay.

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text: Tallulah is such a funny, insightful, engrossing and slightly twisted dysfunctional family drama.
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text: Unwieldy but affecting ...
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:46:33
text:
  For most of its running time, the movie works as a sharp, generous human comedy about fear of family (among other things), with Page once again reminding us that she's one of the most deft and underutilized actors of her generation.

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text: The Children Act leaves you not only wanting more, but ready to binge it.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  If Emma Thompson can't make this drama about a family-court judge conflicted over her own decisions and the precarious state of her own family into something interesting and meaningful, then no one can. And she can't.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  "The Children Act" feels utterly of a piece with the original book: urbane, understated, handsomely realized and impeccably interpreted by a cast of superb actors.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  It's worth seeing precisely for the heat of the arguments that you can enjoy after the screening and, above all, for Emma Thompson.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  A beautifully internalized performance from Ms. Thompson and the various efforts to highlight the cinematic potential in Fiona's anguish... can't override the tidy ironies of Mr. McEwan's design.

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text: [Thompson] is so good that she overwhelms the story's shortcomings.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  Like so many of the movies that stem from McEwan's novels, "The Children Act" is a soulful and sophisticated adult drama that peers into the void between the beauty of ideals and the cost of living by them.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  Thompson and Whitehead shine, and director Richard Eyre has crafted a highly textured, respectable film about grown-up issues.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  Characters move through their posh habitats, explaining what they've done, are about to do, should have done years ago. Their confusion is fine; the fuzziness of the filmmaking less so.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  No one gives better pensive gaze here than Thompson; the drama lies in the fallibility of even the most competent and well-intentioned among us.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  It's always rewarding to watch Thompson bring her lucid wit and deep emotional reserves to bear on a meaty role.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  The pale, sharp-featured Whitehead brings an appropriately feverish intensity to Adam, who looks less like a typical 21st-century teenager than Lord Byron with a backpack.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  "The Children Act" isn't all that interesting a movie, despite the many talented people involved and the generally high level of work they do.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  [Emma] Thompson who carries the film, both literally - she's rarely off-screen - and emotionally; the burden of this particular case weighs down almost every line of dialogue, registers in almost every expression on her face.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  ... "The Children Act" is that rarest of things: an adult drama, written and interpreted with a sensitivity to mature human concerns...

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  This film adaptation never reaches the intimate heights of Ian McEwan's novel, but Emma Thompson's portrait of a family court judge who lets the world in at the cost of losing her own judgment is acting of the highest order.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  Equally comfortable on both stage and screen, Emma Thompson brings an added value to the mix that literally saves the film and keeps the viewer awake.

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text: The two central performances could hardly be better. Thompson works here with remarkable subtlety.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:48:29
text:
  As mature as movies get, the elegantly costumed and designed The Children Act is a welcome getaway from the now-fading summer's loud fare.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  In his debut feature, Lee has crafted a mature love story centered on an immature man facing the fear of even admitting that he needs love at all. It's a film to prize.

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text: Combining gritty realism with poignancy, the result is a film that is exceptionally moving.
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  Director/writer Francis Lee's electrifying feature debut is a working-class, fun-house mirror version of "Call Me By Your Name's" upper-class pretensions and is equally, if not more, rewarding because of it.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  It feels like the camera is gawking at them rather than joining them, and so all semblance of reality and of the necessary awkwardness of getting their clothes off vanishes. And so too does any real eroticism.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  It unfolds under grey, blustery spring skies; as lambs emerge blinking and unsteady into the world, so too does this young man's nervous, raw sexuality.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  This is not a movie about coming out and the collateral damage that ensues. It's a universal tale about giving yourself over to love, even when you seem hopelessly broken.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  A rigorously naturalistic drama that yields stirring performances from the collision between taciturn demeanors and roiling emotional undercurrents.

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text: A former actor himself, Lee directs his leads with subtle assurance.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
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text: This enigmatic little film says it all in razor-sharp closeups and minimal words
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
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text: A tricky movie, but not in a way that's dishonest.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  Skipping some of the more predictable narrative obstacles we've come to expect from the coming-out drama, this sexy, thoughtful, hopeful film instead advances a pro-immigration subtext that couldn't be more timely ...

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text: But O'Connor and Secareanu give such aching performances that their romance feels real.
created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  "God's Own Country" weaves a rough magic from Joshua James Richards's biting cinematography and the story's slow, unsteady arc from bitter to hopeful.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  There will be many people who see themselves in the furtive glances and mud-covered kisses from which "God's Own Country" weaves its harsh but hopeful narrative, and they will do so while witnessing a finely crafted piece of cinema.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  Toughness and tenderness duke it out to the bittersweet end of "God's Own Country," a transporting, wrenchingly acted love story set in the windswept wilds of northern England.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  The film by writer-director Francis Lee, who grew up on a Yorkshire farm before turning to acting - and, later, filmmaking - is sweet, even if Johnny is not.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 13:52:51
text:
  It is, in its way, a very British love story, bursting at the seams with unspoken emotions, unvoiced fears about the future, and a readiness to displace every emotion into hard physical work.

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text: A rich drama about parental ties, parental scars and getting on with life.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  It might call to mind Woody Allen or J.D. Salinger along the way, but in the end, this is pure Baumbach, from its compassionate analysis of broken families to its empathetic insistence that even the most broken can still find redemption.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  The story is familiar, but much like real-life minor artists, the subtle differences are what make it special. Chief among them are the inspired performances.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  Baumbach's ripest and wisest film to date, alert to the fact that so little in life, especially a screwy or a super-ambitious life, is open to resolution.

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text: The comedy is clever; the study of family dynamics is sharper still.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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text: Sandler lends Danny an open-heartedness that grounds the film.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  Smart, relatable, laughter-through-psychic pain entertainment that happens to be elevated by a handful of wonderful performances ...

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  If you enjoy Baumbach's work, you know what you're getting into-but even by his impressive yardstick, The Meyerowitz Stories is an achievement.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  The Meyerowitz Stories is a happy reminder that, when graced with a fine script and director, an actor can be just as surprising as the character he plays.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  Baumbach sketches out the intra-family conflicts with aptitude, making sure there's enough lightness to avoid a spiral into the kind of grim and humorless affair the French are fond of, but there's an element of familiarity to the overall narrative arc.

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text: "Meyerowitz" is graced with Baumbach's acute observations of human behavior.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  All of the film's stars shine, it's beautifully shot, it's in turns hilarious and touching and the literary conceit pays off.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  All the performances are terrific, even when some of the scenes sputter or reiterate the grievances.

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text: One of the year's best movies.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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text: [Meyerowitz] is alternately wide-ranging and self-indulgent.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  Noah Baumbach makes family movies that feel lived in - the kind that banter, bristle and sometimes bleed. Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and a never-better Adam Sandler help make this dramedy one of the unalloyed pleasures of the fall movie season.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  We enjoy the Meyerowitz clan, even as we praise the heavens we're not like them and we don't live next door to any of 'em.

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text: More than most of Baumbach's creations, the Meyerowitzes are just too tedious for words.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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text: A solid and satisfying treat.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:03:41
text:
  The film's emotional undercurrent is both tender and insistent. We are as our fathers sculpted us, says "The Meyerowitz Stories," and we spend a lifetime learning to move and breathe on our own.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:12
text:
  They've disentangled the novel's dramatic and romantic complications to a fault; if it's possible to merely amble in place, that's what the storytelling in "Guernsey" does for protracted stretches of screen time.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:12
text:
  Buoyed by a reliably appealing star turn from James, this handsome tearjerker mostly sidesteps the tweeness of its title to become, somehow, both an old-fashioned romance and a detective story trumpeting gender equality.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:12
text:
  An old-school, old-fashioned entertainment, a romantic drama bursting with scenic vistas and earnest charm that contains just enough mystery to keep us involved.

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text: A movie... you don't so much watch as wear like a slanket.
created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:12
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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:12
text:
  The movie is comfort food through and through, as wholesome and predictable as a Sunday roast and as sickly sweet as sticky toffee pudding.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:12
text:
  Though the subject matter could've been developed into a more challenging and provocative yarn, this film's chief aim is escapism.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:31
text:
  Offers a fascinating snapshot of 20th-century history and how it impacted one family on a personal level, even if the film struggles to really fuse its macro and micro levels.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:31
text:
  "Plot 35" doesn't just explore a family tragedy - it explores the tragedy of family, the way that loving our parents is not the same as understanding them, just as for them, loving their children does not always mean telling them the truth.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:31
text:
  It is a sad, thoughtful, if slight piece of work, a 67-minute cine-memoir about ... family, personal myths and memories.

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created_at: 2019-02-05 14:04:31
text:
  The film's tone is one of deep compassion, building to an affirmation that every single human life is to be celebrated.

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text: Mario Van Peebles's drugland feature, a relentless, hold-on-to-your-hat experience, rarely lets up.
created_at: 2019-02-06 11:26:56
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created_at: 2019-02-06 11:26:56
text:
  It's a superior example of what used to be called blaxploitation, with Van Peebles piling on corruption and carnage for all he's worth.

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text: Van Peebles wanted to tell this story; his heart is in it, and it's got a killer beat.
created_at: 2019-02-06 11:26:56
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created_at: 2019-02-06 11:26:56
text:
  Though this often plays like a 70s cop show, it became a prototype for the bling-heavy gangsta melodramas of the 90s.

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created_at: 2019-02-06 11:26:56
text:
  The movie was advertised (no doubt wisely) as a slam-bang action adventure, but in fact it's a serious, smart film with an impact that lingers after the lights go up.

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created_at: 2019-02-06 11:26:56
text:
  Filmmakers pull off a provocative, pulsating update on gangster pics with this action-laden epic about the rise and fall of an inner city crack dealer.

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text: Ross delivers a warm, humorous, enlightening family drama marked by strong performances ...
created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  "Captain Fantastic" leaves viewers with the cheering, deeply affecting image of a dad whose superpowers lie in simply doing the best that he can.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Ross doesn't explicitly take sides. In fact, he strikes a little too neat a balance at the end, if anything. But that takes nothing away from the intriguing idea and Mortensen's terrific performance, both of which make the film more than worthwhile.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  The film's title, suggesting a comic-book flick, will likely cause box-office confusion. But in a way, it's appropriate. "Captain Fantastic" is a truly heroic effort.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  [It] shines as a sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy for a certain outdoors-oriented mind set, which almost makes up for its over-the-top moments and underwritten characters.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Ross is an exuberant filmmaker - he pulls you into this family's world. And the kids are wonderful, all of them: fierce redheads, but wide-eyed and watchful.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  The ending, in which the kids symbolically affirm their independence, is so aggressively tasteless it seems to have burst straight out of an underground cartoon.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Matt Ross' screenplay occasionally stumbles (especially late in the proceedings) and the ending opts for a too-facile resolution but the director/writer offers moments of genuine power and pathos that make it easy to forgive the missteps.

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text: The film suddenly backs down, and the resulting learning and growing feels like chickening out.
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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Almost startling in how profoundly life-affirming and affecting it is. That's due in large part to Mortensen's wry and tender performance as a man not only committed to his ideals, but the ideals of his wife.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  This is really a movie for upper-middle class hipsters who once fancied themselves firebrands and status quo-challengers in college, but now consider only buying organic food at Whole Foods and not vaccinating their kids to be radical acts.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Captain Fantastic is an engaging character study about compromise, humility, letting go and love of family. It's one of the best films you'll see all year.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  He bears the nickname of a comic book hero, the brains of a scholar, the soul of a rebel. And his story is a richly rewarding film experience.

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text: After a while, you begin to suspect that the smugness is the point.
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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Mortensen finds a role here that capitalizes on his contradictions, on his air of resolve and his inner life of doubt, on his hardness and his reasonableness. It becomes the showcase for one of his best performances.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Ross lets the story take its time, but "Captain Fantastic" never feels slow. This family, right down to the smallest child, are detailed and interesting, with individually crafted personalities.

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text: Viggo Mortensen is truly in his element in Captain Fantastic, in every conceivable way.
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text: A beautiful showcase for Mortensen.
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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  Despite a brave and edgy performance by Viggo Mortensen and some shining moments of sharp comedy and true emotion, writer-director Matt Ross' hippie fantasy Captain Fantastic suffers from terminal self-satisfaction.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:46:48
text:
  It's a rare movie that asks such big questions - about parenting, about family, about modern-day America - and comes up with answers that are moving and meaningful, that make you laugh and cry.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Our identification gives way to envy, and [Mitty] is another one of those enchanted people the rest of us can only dream of becoming.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Like Mitty, Stiller dreams big. The problem is that audiences don't let him. He's both famous and forgotten, the best comedy director of his generation hiding in plain sight.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  While stunning sequences show him skateboarding away from an erupting volcano and fighting off a great white shark, the character never becomes more than a fuzzy conceit.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Stiller's attempt to braid together introspection and humor kept me engaged and curious, even when I wasn't quite sure what he was setting out to do.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Painstakingly stylish, this is Stiller's most ambitious directorial work to date but also his most cloying.

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text: I hated, hated, hated this movie.
created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
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text: It's hard to pinpoint the cause of the problem, but Walter's story never engages.
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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Dreams not only come true in the wonderful "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," they're the stuff everyday life is made of.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  In our daydreams, an ambitious, world-embracing movie like "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" deserves to be a bigger hit than yet another "Night at the Museum" or "Madagascar" sequel. But your mileage may vary.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Stiller's sensibility creates a movie that's smarter than you think it will be. Kind of like Walter Mitty himself.

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text: The movie feels uncertain as to its own tones and intentions.
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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  It has little narrative interest and requires that the director latch onto a very specific airy tone of whimsy, lest the whole souffle collapse.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  In striving so earnestly for a redemptive and genuinely heroic happy ending, Stiller's movie jettisons the original's lightness.

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created_at: 2019-02-08 08:47:51
text:
  Mitty pays tribute to people who cherish the past and, in the face of extinction, are devoted to preserving it.

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text: This is one of the more disappointing efforts of the holiday movie season.
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text: This is a notably more upbeat attitude than the original short story had and Stiller sells it well.
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text: As one might expect, it's not [Moore's] most focused act of impassioned muckraking.
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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  Though it's at times scattershot, it all plays into the bigger picture, which is the heated state of our current political climate.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  The film will neither change minds nor soothe embittered hearts, I fear, and an opportunity has been missed.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  For all the love/hate, left/right noise surrounding every Moore release, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that he's a polished filmmaker with a seasoned crew.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  A disjointed, occasionally powerful, often grating grab bag of recent political events, a mess that's forgivable only because it does reflect the messy state of the world.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  Mr. Moore... is in a nearly unique position to shame the viewer with a frank perspective on how Mr. Trump used his extrovert side to make citizens complacent about the less savory aspects of his character.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  While there are a few moments in the movie that can be said to be Moore at his best, the production as a whole may be Moore at his worst.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  The genius of Moore's first film was its entry point: Moore began with an up-close look at his hometown of Flint, Michigan, and then expanded out to make Flint a microcosm for a broken nation. This one gets that backward, to its detriment.

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text: The punditry is trite. The snark is boring.
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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  But what makes Moore's latest so ferocious -- and pound for pound his most effective piece of journalism -- is the way it pivots to a meaty central subject that isn't Trump but has prescient echoes.

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text: The movie's a dynamic mess, and the dynamism makes the messiness feel that much messier.
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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  "Fahrenheit 11/9" painstakingly pivots, from a movie that seems to be working overtime to depress us to a movie that means to inspire us.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  Moore tells America to keep the faith, keep fighting the good fight. That message is just about discernible in the fog of pain.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  A movie that begins as a... lament about Trump ends with hope for the future - but only, Moore persuasively insists, if citizens everywhere pay attention and get involved.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  One of Michael l Moore's best and most incisively funny films, this unmissable doc comes out swinging at Trump and how we ever let him happen. Moore is mad as hell and doesn't want a single one of us to take it anymore.

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text: A short review of Moore's film could consist of three words: We knew that.
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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  It might not be Michael Moore's most cogent film, but Fahrenheit 11/9 is the inspired work of a true American purist, a cautionary warning about how to end a dictatorship and return America to the dream of patriotism.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  Moore hasn't lost his fire, or his touch for poking us in our collective consciousness (and consciences) to say, WAKE UP.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  What gives it its sear is its message of a ruptured country as eminently fixable, as long as wishing and hoping is replaced by organizing and doing.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:37:11
text:
  Less partisan viewers may find the film quite long, and not a lot more than a rehash of Moore's political obsessions. If you know his earlier work, you'll find no surprises here.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
text:
  On the surface it may seem as barren as its desert, but underneath is a beautiful and surreal meditation.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
text:
  If you can get lost along with it, Van Sant's Gerry is actually anything but empty: At times it's tonically liberating.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
text:
  The two stars...[Casey Affleck and Matt Damon]...both playing characters named Gerry, wander across the desert for some reason, and if you enjoy watching them on any pretext, you'll probably enjoy this; if you don't, you won't.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
text:
  Ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
text:
  The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity.

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text: Zzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Ulph. Umph. Ach. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.
created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
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text: An innovative and unusually artistic experiment.
created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:22
text:
  The best way to approach Gerry -- perhaps the only way -- is to treat it as a sanctuary, a film to be visited the way you would a Buddhist temple or a piece of ambient music.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  Mitchell is taking a big swing with his third feature, trying something not just new but also more unconventional, ambitious, and even potentially off-putting.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  Mitchell has interesting ideas, and his actors seem to be having fun, but that's not enough when the film itself lacks atmosphere, or tension, or emotional engagement.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  Despite a compelling lead in Andrew Garfield, the tension dissipates rather than mounts as this knotty neo-noir slides into a Lynchian swamp of outre weirdness.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  Pretty soon the commentary on how Hollywood uses women as decoration outweighs the fact that Mitchell's just repeating the cycle - albeit with better-than-average outfits.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  It's fascinating to watch Mitchell grasp for a bigger picture with the wild ambition of his scruffy protagonist.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  It's the kind of raggedy-ass thriller that only gets made when a young filmmaker, emboldened by success, moves past virtues of concision, hoping to summon the full, meandering spell of a paranoid dream. Don't hold it against him.

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created_at: 2019-02-15 14:52:31
text:
  Ambitious and fascinating. It's the first Mitchell film that truly held me, the first that feels like the work of a potentially major artist...

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  "Ralph Breaks the Internet" doesn't have anything new to say about our online behavior; it just wants us to log on and tune out.

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text: Ralph Breaks the Internet is less a film, more a commercial. Game over, everyone.
created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
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text: Ralph Breaks the Internet works because it doesn't pander, and it doesn't simplify.
created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Ralph Breaks the Internet is smart, charming and funny while also being pointed, effective and very timely.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Will he break the Internet or will it break him? It's painfully recognizable, this neediness, as is the rise and fall. Ralph, c'est moi.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Ralph Breaks the Internet is, without a doubt, the best film made about the lives of computer programs since the Wachowskis' Matrix sequels; I mean this as a glowing compliment.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  It would be better if it went further and wrestled more with the online world than used it as another bits and bytes background. Really, it doesn't quite live up to the title. Ralph could have done more damage.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Having Ralph show up may not solve all our problems, but at least it makes us forget about them for a while. "Ralph Breaks the Internet" breaks us up.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Technology can be tough to toss into kids' movies. The way "The Emoji Movie" did it was cynical and cold. The web of "Ralph," however, has smarts and soul.

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text: "Ralph Breaks the Internet" looks great. But it's the script that gives it its heart.
created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
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text: Best of all, the directors don't shy away from the ending their story demands.
created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  I am happy to say that the misogynists' worst fears were realized. This is very much a movie whose female characters are equal to their male counterparts...

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  "Ralph Breaks the Internet" concerns a long-established friendship on the verge of inevitable, painful change, and Reilly and Silverman work every part of that dynamic successfully.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Somewhere between Ready Player One and The Emoji Movie, summoning up a zero-gravity spectacle of dazzling colours and vertiginous perspectives, a featureless and inert mashup of memes, brands, avatars and jokes.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  The internet had it coming and this movie delivers serious silicon schadenfreude. Come for the breaking, stay for the hacking.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  It's not every animation that features an eBay-spoofing riff involving a corn chip shaped like Beyoncé.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  The opposing trajectories of Ralph and Vanellope's friendship, fueled by their mutual insecurities and hurt, gives Ralph Breaks the Internet the little bit of heart it needs to keep from becoming mere product.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  The best animated movies are those that feel timeless. "Ralph," with its right-now storyline, seems already dated, a product of thinking that's five minutes ago.

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created_at: 2019-02-18 18:16:09
text:
  Reilly does nice work playing his big lug's insecurity and struggle to let his friend go, but Silverman delivers a performance that's downright moving in its expression of yearning - on a couple of different levels, interpretation depending.

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created_at: 2019-02-20 23:30:37
text:
  A sluggish two hours that delivers only in a triumphant final act that's as improbable as it is inevitable.

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created_at: 2019-02-20 23:30:37
text:
  As harmless as it is silly, but dampened by idle gags, empty characterization and an inordinate two-hour runtime.

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text: The film never sticks the Western in quotation marks, never condescends to the genre with a wink.
created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
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text: "The Sisters Brothers" often feels like a journey in search of a destination.
created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  It aerates what's already been well-trod, offering an alternately pitiless and tenderhearted lens on such hardy themes as character, filial loyalty and American progress at its most naive and voraciously destructive.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  A frequently aimless but ultimately rewarding take on brotherhood and bonding amid the itchy trigger fingers and lust for quick riches of the California gold rush.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  It's not certain what a Western purist would think of this revisionist approach, but we still can't help but revel in it.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  It has the painterly visuals of a classic film, but its lead characters are black-hatted villains whose road to redemption is mostly motivated by exhaustion rather than guilt.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  The Sisters Brothers retreats back from some interesting, adventurous territory to something all too familiar.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  A near-masterpiece-a simmering chase movie that gradually heats up to a searing family drama that wonders how to care for a loved one that's impossible to live with.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  Audiard plays to his past strengths as a poet of wounded masculinity; in its most touching moments, "The Sisters Brothers" is like a hangout movie on horseback.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  More than anything, "The Sisters Brothers" is an exploration of how far you can take an anti-Western before it snaps out of the genre's orbit entirely.

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text: The Sisters Brothers takes a bit of getting used to at the start, but the rewards are worth it.
created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  A great deal of the movie's enjoyment comes from its four principals, who work well when paired off but are particularly appealing in a group.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  For every revelation woven into the action, there's a bit of obvious philosophizing to remind you of the real point here. (It sure ain't the gunplay, though the way the six-guns spit sparks is fun to look at.)

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  Equal parts comedy, drama, love story and horror story, the saga simply refuses to be easily lassoed.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  The tonal shifts in The Sisters Brothers seem more like the result of indecision than design... The cast is strong, though, and demonstrates yet again how good acting can carry audiences through movies that otherwise would not be worth the trip.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  A knockout, one-of-a-kind western from French director Jacques Audiard in which odd-bird frontier hitmen are played by Joaquin Phoenix and a hot-damn he's great John C. Reilly. Saddle up.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  Of course it tries to be fresh and different, functioning more as a black-comedy character study than an action thriller. Mostly it's a misguided mess.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  For the first three-quarters of The Sisters Brothers, the offbeat adventures and the fine performances are more than enough to carry the day - but then the wheels come off.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  Audiard has made an atmospheric Western in which the four lead actors portray their characters with remarkable subtlety.

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created_at: 2019-02-24 15:10:18
text:
  The movie works, it well and truly works, because the four main characters come together in ways we could never have foreseen, and the actors themselves seem surprised at the twists the story takes and where their characters fall on the curve.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  The borrowings from other movies, going all the way back to the car chase in 1968's Bullitt, are heavy. But Bay has three leads to lend weight and dimension to characters who are hardly original and flatly written.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  Even for adults, the movie's a violence-intoxicated, far-fetched, morally corrupt drama that sinks like a... you know.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  You might need to take Dramamine before entering a Michael Bay movie. The one-time music-video director has an annoying habit of finding the tightest shots, editing the heck out of them and scoring the works to loud music.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  There isn't a shot, scene or sequence in The Rock that doesn't move furiously, typically with colored lights flashing into our faces or onto those of the actors.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson have a highly-successful resume that includes Top Gun and Crimson Tide. The Rock will add more luster to that reputation.

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text: If it's not the most awful thing I've ever seen, it's close enough to make me wince.
created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
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text: For action-adventure fans, it just doesn't get any better than The Rock.
created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  Slick and forceful, largely unconcerned with character, eager for any opportunity to pump up the volume both literally and metaphorically, The Rock is the kind of efficient entertainment that is hard to take pleasure in.

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text: Since the plot is ridiculous, The Rock works best when it's most light-hearted.
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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  As relentlessly dumb and implausible as the Die Hard movies but even more entertaining, this loud and violent action film profits greatly from the galvanizing presence of Connery.

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text: Cage steals the show, adding a touch of wimpiness to the high-decibel bravado.
created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
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text: A popcorn-movie deluxe.
created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
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created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
text:
  Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been.

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text: A first-rate, slam-bang action thriller with a lot of style and no little humor.
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text: Fake countdown and knowing reactionary tone, but the best SF car chase to date.
created_at: 2019-02-25 11:37:41
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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  Clint Eastwood's American Sniper is an often lazy and somewhat hazy propaganda film about American heroism and hell in the Iraq War.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  American Sniper has a perspective that's recognizable from the classic Westerns Eastwood has long been associated with, both as an actor and a director. It's an existential critique of violent machismo that doubles as a celebration of violence.

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text: Eastwood makes the moral stakes almost nonexistent.
created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  A movie that can't find a credible perspective on its subject, despite a winning performance from Bradley Cooper in the title role.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  Young volunteers have been at war for 14 futile years, and the next Chris Kyle deserves to be understood.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  American Sniper romanticizes Kyle, whose bestselling memoir, which put him on talk-show appearances, included boastful stories of dubious authenticity. What remains is distilled and dramatized, a story of loss, the story of the universal soldier.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  Director Clint Eastwood deftly shows the mental and physical toll of heroism in a way that will leave you gutted.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  Director Clint Eastwood continues his quiet critique of the moviegoer's deep delight in cinematic violence.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," Shakespeare wrote. But is that true when the coronet is no more than a backward ballcap balancing a pair of wraparound shades?

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  There's a difference between a film about a man reluctant to acknowledge the psychological toll of what he endured and a movie that basically doesn't want to talk about it or question it, or think about it, period.

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text: A shrewd and very well-made picture.
created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
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text: What a disappointment.
created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  The message of American Sniper? There really isn't one, apart from Eastwood's career-long fascination with taciturn men called upon to do a dirty but necessary job well.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  The movie reality created by Eastwood is powerful and intense, and "American Sniper" is arguably his best picture since "Unforgiven."

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text: If American Sniper fails at being a truly great film, it is no fault of its star.
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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  The fluidity and tension of the battle scenes is breathtaking, Eastwood at his cinematic best. But it's the ever-tightening knot inside of Kyle the director really wants to understand.

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created_at: 2019-02-25 18:40:26
text:
  The film is, simply, a tragedy in which American certainty comes to grief against the rocks of the real world, and it views its central figure as a decent man doing indecent things for what he keeps telling himself is a greater good.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  The result is a movie that, while no classic, can be credited with giving the audience something a bit more substantive than the usual disposable summer fare.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Whatever problems World War Z encountered in its making, the movie has made it to theaters not dead on arrival, but walking dead, running dead, and - when it's really working - swarming dead.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  As both thrilling spectacle and escapist summer entertainment, World War Z is enormously effective, with Brad Pitt at the center hopscotching the globe in search of the origin of a zombie apocalypse.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Given how efficiently World War Z has delivered jolts and screams over the course of its sleek 116-minute running time, it's easy to forgive [its] rushed and slightly muted finale.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Despite some conventional passages and a soft ending, Forster and Brad Pitt, who is a producer of the film as well as its star, pulled the picture together. They also managed to reawaken in a large-scale movie the experience of shock.

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text: Z has guts and energy. It starts its mayhem early and it never lets up.
created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Director Marc Forster can't do much with the stale human story, in which Pitt leaves his frightened wife and daughters on an aircraft carrier to await his return.

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text: A letdown with a strange mixture of epic apocalyptic material and generic zombie stuff.
created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  This enjoyable shambles of a sci-fi thriller, directed by Marc Forster in impressive 3-D, stands on its own as a powerful vision of planetary chaos.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Against considerable odds, the ability and professionalism of the cast and crew have carried the day.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  World War Z is a perfectly decent thriller, the smartest and most sober action film so far this summer and a grown-up addition to the zombie canon.

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text: If you need proof that sometimes more can be less, here you go.
created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  World War Z hits the blockbuster equivalent of a delicate balance: gargantuan spectacle with a human touch.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Once Hollywood gets its rabid fangs into a complex book, it often turns it into a shambling, snarling parody of itself.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  Pitt conducts himself manfully throughout the proceedings -- he is never less than believable while facing off against this pandemic -- but if I never see another zombie in the movies, I will not feel deprived.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
text:
  A relentless horror thriller that serves up a chilling vision of a planet in the throes of apocalypse ...

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text: [A] lousy, ugly-looking, intensely illogical movie.
created_at: 2019-02-26 22:52:11
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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  It's about seduction, and either you succumb to its inky entrapments or you resist. When its mojo was working, I was happy to be had.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  The movie's energy starts to drain like blood from a vampire's victim. You'll feel that ebb, sooner or later, as you begin to glance regularly at your watch.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  Director Neil Jordan has always had an affinity for underdogs, and he has created a film that can be viewed as empathetic to any oppressed group. Homosexuals may claim it as their emotional story

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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  The major problem lies with Rice's own script, which is dramatically repetitive and philosophically banal.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  When Interview with the Vampire works, it's as compelling and engrossing a piece of entertainment as is available on film today. When it falters, the weaknesses seem magnified.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  Why would Tom Cruise be playing Lestat, a gaunt, suave European vampire with a taste for young men? Because a big movie star can do whatever he wants.

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created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
text:
  Passionately anticipated and much ballyhooed, the film, alas, is little more than a foppish, fang de siecle costume drama. Its pulse barely registers.

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text: My complaint about the film is that not very much happens, in the plot sense.
created_at: 2019-02-26 23:56:14
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text: A sufficiently wild ride to withstand its excesses.
created_at: 2019-03-02 22:03:59
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created_at: 2019-03-02 22:03:59
text:
  Really, "The Trouble With You" is mostly a sparkling showcase for the consummately versatile Haenel...

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text: t's pronounced 'Shite-an', as in 'Shite an' then some'.
created_at: 2019-03-08 08:54:42
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text: A contrived and very self-conscious genre piece of hardcore black-comedy horror in a 1970s vein.
created_at: 2019-03-08 08:54:42
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
text:
  Propelled by a jazzy David Holmes score, Ocean's Eleven bounces along with finger-snapping high spirits. This time out the versatile Soderbergh has cast himself as a sleight-of-hand artist.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
text:
  This wholly enjoyable entertainment sees Soderbergh setting himself a new challenge - the hi-tech robbery procedural - and relishing the clichés even as he freshens them with a dab of polish, wit, pace and a light touch of irony.

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text: Pure Hollywood moonshine.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
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text: Buzzes along at a mildly entertaining pitch from start to finish.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
text:
  Despite dashes of droll dialogue from screenwriter Ted Griffin, the remake aims for cool but instead gets chilly.

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text: A ridiculously enjoyable caper...
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
text:
  To be sure, Soderbergh has proved his entertaining point, and done the Rat Pack one better, converting a paltry failure into a paltry success. But just how cool is that?

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text: It didn't shake me up and I wasn't much involved, but I liked it as a five-finger exercise.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
text:
  Soderbergh's crisp, funny heist flick makes out like a bandit. George Clooney and Elliott Gould steal the show.

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text: I think it's time for Soderbergh to be leaving Las Vegas.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:07:09
text:
  Admittedly, little of Ocean's Eleven is likely to hang around in your head past closing time. But that only gives you a good excuse to see it again.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:09:23
text:
  Tthere's still a sense that Gavras left a little meat on the bone -- that he could have done a bit more to flesh out everyone's fortunes. But The World Is Yours is such an intoxicating delight because it still manages to make you care.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:09:23
text:
  The young director Romain Gavras does not reinvent the comic caper in the French film "The World Is Yours," but he revitalizes that genre with pop verve, goofy humor and visual sophistication.

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text: A fresh riff on "Les Tontons flingueurs" by way of "Jackie Brown"...
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:09:23
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:09:23
text:
  All this comic-book carnage is well orchestrated by Gavras, albeit utterly preposterous even by the reality-warping standards of action thrillers.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
text:
  Hits a new low in condescending facetiousness, with no fewer than 15 performers of varying talents, tongues firmly in cheeks, undercutting all the genre's action conventions while camping up a storm on two continents.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
text:
  Ocean's Twelve is busier, messier and thinner than its predecessor, and while it looks like the cast is having a blast and a half, the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
text:
  In this sprawling oglefest, such things as 'narrative' and 'story' are remote little abstractions indeed.

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text: May be one of the most glamorous, goofy and heartfelt films about failure ever made.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
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text: Some of the bits are hysterical, but others fall flat.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
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text: The pleasures are entirely in the digressions, which are silly and often delightful.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
text:
  Much of the movie feels improvised, with laid-back actors tossing off one-liners that work far more often than they don't.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
text:
  In keeping with his general distaste for sequels -- this is his first, in fact -- Soderbergh has subverted all of the usual conventions, making the movie far more interesting than it has any right to be.

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text: Ocean's Twelve lacks the courage of its star-driven convictions.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
text:
  The whole thing is a piffle of fluff or a fluff of piffle. About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.

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text: Hey, these boys and girls just want to have fun. This time, though, it is at our expense.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:03
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
text:
  Why put so much sheen on a movie that warrants and provokes nothing more than mild diversion? It's like serving sloppy joes on fine china.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
text:
  Thematically, though, this is an improvement on its forebears, mainly due to the way it deals - much like Scorsese's best work - with the archaic nature of the criminal set.

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text: Hilarity-free.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
text:
  In Hollywood's version of Vegas, I'll have the surf, and the turf, and the vegetarian, and anything else Soderbergh wants to serve me.

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text: Fantastically smug, empty picture, which comes complete with a nasty-tasting dab of misogyny.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
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text: An exercise in stylish bravado that is as substantial as a catfight between supermodels.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
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text: An entertaining night out at the movies. Have some popcorn.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
text:
  Ocean's Thirteen is hack Hollywood garbage, the sort of film that thinks so little of its supposedly sure-thing audience that it never breaks a sweat. That's not cool; that's lazy.

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text: This might be the first piece of escapism to have a whiff of public service at its heart.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:12:51
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text: The promise of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been fulfilled.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:21:07
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:21:07
text:
  With Traffic, his most ambitious and complex film to date, Soderbergh again proves himself one of our most inventive filmmakers.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:21:07
text:
  It's wise about different kinds of addiction and concepts of family, about the folly, futility and hypocrisy of anti-drug 'wars', and about the awful human cost of it all. And it grips like a vice from start to end.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:21:07
text:
  I don't see this slightly better-than-average drug thriller, with slightly better-than-average direction by Steven Soderbergh, as anything more than a routine rubber-stamping of genre reflexes.

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text: A blistering, thought-provoking modern masterpiece.
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text: It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied.
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text: Director Steven Soderbergh is riding one of the hottest streaks in the movie world.
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text: The movie is powerful precisely because it doesn't preach.
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:21:07
text:
  Traffic sometimes has the impact of a tense war film or a grittily modernist, post- Godfather crime epic such as Heat or Goodfellas.

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text: The digressions and diversions eventually overwhelm the narrative.
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text: Kassovitz strips the David Fincher canon to the bone.
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text: Notably grisly, derivative and increasingly preposterous.
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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:29:07
text:
  The most American French movie ever, it's like a Hollywood blockbuster that accidentally got made by smart people. And it's excellent.

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created_at: 2019-03-08 09:29:07
text:
  Some actors are just automatically the moral locus of every scene they're in. They're the major movie stars, and Reno is one of those.

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text: Dull and unpleasant, which hardly beckons us to make an emotional investment.
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text: This is a French film desperate to please an American audience.
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text: A flawed but fascinating thriller.
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text: A breathtaking exercise in the macabre.
created_at: 2019-03-08 09:29:07
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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  It shifts a little nearer than its predecessor did to the spiky, peppery briskness of Travers's tales, and the whole enterprise exhales, as it should, an air of the politely mad.

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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  Mary Poppins Returns serves as a reminder that, for all its global scope and hegemonic ambition, Disney still has a little magic left up its sleeve.

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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  Mary Poppins Returns is an imperfect sequel but as a throw-away holiday film designed to provide a family viewing experience, it satisfies a need.

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text: "Mary Poppins Returns" is 50 percent sequel, 50 percent reboot and 100 percent charming.
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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  I found this sequel deeply slumping, not to mention unnecessary, unmagical and often unfunny. The misuse of talent is what slumped me the most.

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text: Blunt is charmingly crisp and superior. Her winning performance makes this new nanny a keeper.
created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
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text: Emily Blunt, so often the best thing in everything she touches, is a wonder in this role.
created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  What's odd here is how closely the new movie follows the original's arc without ever capturing its bliss or tapping into its touching delicacy of feeling.

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text: The real problem is the film's failure to do its own magic and give life to what's on screen.
created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
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text: I mean, homage is one thing, but this reeks less of nostalgia than sweat.
created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  "Mary Poppins Returns" might have had a chance had the movie not tried to compete with the original in terms of scale. With 20 minutes of song and dance numbers cut, the movie really could have been better - not great, but better.

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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  An odd knockoff that will work for some audiences and leave others craving a rewatch of an old favorite.

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text: There's more than a spoonful of sugar in this felicitous revisitation.
created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  It's well crafted, well acted, and features some terrific live-action/animation combos. But it never quite achieves liftoff, which is a big problem for a musical -- especially this musical... Still, I suppose momentary joy is better than no joy at all.

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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  An industrial-strength sugarplum with compensations from Emily Blunt and Lin-Manual Miranda, whose performing magic can leave you feeling deliriously happy.

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text: [Mary Poppins] is incandescent.
created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
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text: The movie is full of joyous, unexpected things to applaud...
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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  This seamless blend of old and new is typical of Marshall's approach. Using the original film as his template, he's honed it and updated it, taking care to strike plenty of nostalgic notes en route.

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created_at: 2019-03-09 17:29:41
text:
  I loved it-and while that doesn't mean I can ignore its problems, I left it feeling that a little something had been restored to me rather than taken away.

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  It's funny, violent and prodigiously romantic; it has immense heart and more gorgeous cinematic moments than I can describe.

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  "Cloud Atlas" deserves praise if only for not being the baggy, pretentious disaster it could have been in other hands.

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  he best thing about Cloud Atlas is that it could, and should, turn into a properly divisive film... but one has to ask: does it allow for immersion? Even as we applaud the dramatic machinery, are we being kept emotionally at bay?

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  An eminently peculiar mismatch of substance and form, like a Hallmark card written by David Foster Wallace.

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text: The cumulative effect is one of spectacle over substance.
created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  [An] earnest but misbegotten adaptation, which reduces a moving tour de force to a dull and homiletic house of frenetically shuffled cards.

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  Whatever your age, even if life is an ocean made up of many drops, you may resolve that life is too short for this errant nonsense.

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text: They key to successfully absorbing the movie may be in not trying to overthink what's on screen.
created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  It plays like a gargantuan trailer for a movie still to be made (one that, given the same ratio, would be 86 hours long).

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text: Felicitous moments can't break through the dark nebula of self-importance around Cloud Atlas ...
created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  Enormous in length and scope, a film whose purpose doesn't even begin to come into focus until two hours in.

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text: The result is maddening, exasperating, occasionally exhilarating -- and mostly boring.
created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
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text: For all the spectacular settings and visionary designs, Cloud Atlas left me feeling disconnected
created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  Sumptuous visuals and audacious acting, but the quasi-profound message of cosmic connectedness isn't worth all the trouble.

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text: It's a polarizing, ambitious, sometimes beautiful and occasionally maddening epic.
created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  A film which piles on the action, the romance, the philosophical inquiry and the silly accents until the viewer is left punch-drunk and reeling. Seriously, what's not to love?

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  Exciting, exhausting and energizing, a brazen film that leaves somber cinema seeming too passive for its own good. This is a movie as big as life itself.

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created_at: 2019-03-11 23:00:09
text:
  Unfortunately, these bold ambitions come to naught. They confuse the cosmos with the costume department and wind up lost in a world of wigs and bonnets.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Thomas gives it her all, uncorking every ounce of emotion she'd held in check, with Herculean restraint, over the better part of two hours.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  [The] final twist undoes the film to some degree, [but] it cannot undo Scott Thomas's performance, one of the marvels of this, or any, cinematic year.

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text: You may need to see I've Loved You So Long twice in order to see it once.
created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Philippe Claudel is a successful French novelist, so it's odd that his filmmaking debut suffers more from narrative than cinematic flaws.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  This is a thriller, though, in the sense that it is a thrill to watch Scott-Thomas give one of the finest performances of the year.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Like a good book, I've Loved You So Long unfolds in chapters. And when it ends, you close the cover with emotion and reluctance.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  [An] exquisitely rendered story of reconciliation and redemption, which has something of a thriller's structure but is really all about relationships.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Kristin Scott Thomas' performance in I've Loved You So Long is one of a small handful of highlights by which people will remember this year in movies.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  I've Loved You So Long isn't a perfect movie, thanks to the wrinkle at the end but it is so good for so long that it begs forgiveness.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  In a few moments the British actress, playing a haunted woman named Juliette, will begin speaking French, but in these moments her face reveals more than any dialogue.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Despite its flaws, the movie pulls you in with its squarely realistic setting and subdued performances. Best of all is Thomas.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Without Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long would be a watchable but hardly a memorable movie.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  In a profession that routinely casts aside leading ladies when they hit 40, it's a shame a great one had to take her act to France to remind us that actors, like wines, only improve with age.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Kristin Scott Thomas gives a performance that is so chilling, so braced in pain that it's almost impossible to bear. Almost impossible, because, in fact, it's impossible not to behold this riveting piece of role immersion.

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created_at: 2019-03-16 21:30:41
text:
  Thomas packs infinite amounts of nuance and agony into such moments, and after a while she outraces the movie itself.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  How to Train Your Dragon uses its whiz-bang technology to amplify feelings as well as dimension and scale. The big optical wow is only the half of it.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  What gives [this] story emotional heft has to do with a different kind of dimension: a depth of feeling surrounding the Black Stallion-style bonding of boy and beast.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  Smartly dispensing with the usual hubbub of pop references that dot many of these films, the movie offers touching, quiet moments and imaginative, high-flying beauty. It's fantastically entertaining.

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text: It's a Harry Potter-meets-Avatar adventure that should delight most children and adults.
created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  It's a thrilling action-adventure saga with exhilarating 3-D animation, a clever comedy with witty dialogue, a coming-of-age tale with surprising depth and a sweetly poignant tale of friendship between man and animal.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  Technically proficient and featuring a witty, intelligent, surprisingly insightful script, How to Train Your Dragon comes close to the level of Pixar's recent output while easily exceeding the juvenilia Dreamworks has released in the last nine years.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  The one interesting aspect of the movie, apart from the design, is that it puts so much effort into projecting a moral, such as it is.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  With its messages about acceptance, respect and tolerance, How To Train Your Dragon also brings some lessons of its own, including some valuable tools for doing battle with dragons, should the need arise.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  At a time when Hollywood seems to be releasing everything this side of Dead Sea Scrolls documentaries in 3-D, How to Train Your Dragon is a briskly paced computer-animated entertainment that uses the format to maximum effect, the way Avatar does.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  An enjoyable family movie, with some great flight sequences - and there's an interestingly realistic sense of the dangers involved in risking your neck for others.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  It's a foolproof scheme for picture making: take the plot elements of favorite movies, paint the concoction with bright colors so it looks like the zazziest customized car, set it running at NASCAR speed, and you have How to Train Your Dragon.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  Toothless has the one precious ingredient that's missing from so many of Hollywood's contemporary animated characters: an air of mystery.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  This dog can hunt. On the ground. Way-way up in the air. Swimming through clouds breathing fire. Imagine Old Yeller on a hundred pep pills.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  What we have here is an exhilarating epic that mixes comedic and touching moments with some of the best action sequences ever created with CGI animation.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  The visuals are striking, the script sharp and well paced and it all wraps up with a breathtaking aerial battle sequence.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 13:12:24
text:
  The 3-D throughout How to Train Your Dragon is perhaps the best match with animation yet -- exhilarating when it's supposed to be, yet integrated into the film rather than seemingly pasted on.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 19:14:18
text:
  This spiky, occasionally soapy but ultimately deeply moving film draws power from its raggedness, making us uncomfortable even beyond the disturbing events it recounts, because its truths refuse to be tidy.

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text: A sometimes clumsy, but finally fierce and winning take on a tough topic.
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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  While a lot of recent animated movies stuff the screen with bright colors, frantic action, and constant wisecracks, How to Train Your Dragon 2, like its prequel, has managed to focus on something more important - a sense of awe.

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text: It's a rip-roaring ride.
created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
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  Despite its expanded, ambitious battle sequences, Dragon 2 is at its best when it quiets down and dares to be intimate.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  Not only does this second movie match the charm, wit, animation skill and intelligent storytelling of the original, I think it even exceeds it.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  It's clear that [director Dean DeBlois] took inspiration from the first Star Wars trilogy - not a bad model for breathing new life, and yes, a bit of fire, into one of Hollywood's more nuanced animated franchises.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  The writer and director Dean DeBlois takes the comedy to a deeper, more satisfying place than he did in the original franchise-launching animated film.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  Hats off to Dreamworks for offering some bold surprises in a respectable sequel filled with moments of humour and emotion among its ample noise and movement.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  The most distinctive thing about the series is its strictly rational handling of fantasy themes. The dragons themselves can be fearsome or adorable - but since they don't speak, they're treated for the most part as pieces of hardware or beasts of burden.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  Although there are times when bits of the movie feel extraneous, the production as a whole comes across more like an organic extension of the original tale than something tacked on purely to score at the box office.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  More than just teaching kids what to think about the world they're coming into, it's a rare film that encourages them to think for themselves.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  An efficient and entertaining franchise sequel, but it restates how conventionally Americanised this property has become in comparison with the literary original ...

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text: Overlong and overly busy but more emotionally powerful than its predecessor.
created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  This may be the first and last time anyone says this, but if "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is this good, why stop at 3 and 4?

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  This was not a sequel that anybody needed, outside of the accountants. And there's another already planned.

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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  One of this year's true surprises, the superior animated sequel not only is infused with the same independent spirit and off-kilter aesthetic that enriched the original, it also deepens the first film's major themes.

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text: Nothing in this likable sequel flies quite so high as those aerial shots.
created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
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created_at: 2019-03-17 23:13:21
text:
  The entire film is a romance -- visually, parentally, ecologically. It's got the emotional, humorous, exciting sweep you want from a summer movie.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  I'm afraid that whoever it was in the New York Film Critics Circle who voted for "The Hobbit" as best animated film had a point. And so did the people who suspected that this whole thing was a bad idea.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" has finally arrived, not on wings of gossamer fancy but with a hairy-footed thud.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  Little about the storytelling suggests a beating heart beneath the visuals; once the journey has begun, the characters find themselves in life-threatening danger with stupefying regularity.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  Between its lighter tone and a decade's worth of improvements in digital film techniques, there should be enough of a novelty factor to delight most fans.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  I was impressed with how much of the story's good humor Jackson and Co. manage to weave into the spectacle. It's there in the close shave with a gang of hungry trolls, and it really lifts off once Andy Serkis' uncanny Gollum enters the picture.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  It frequently seems as though Jackson was less interested in making The Hobbit than in remaking his own fabulously successful Lord of the Rings series.

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text: An overlong adventure enlivened by wonders.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  At nearly three hours long, "An Unexpected Journey" has moments when the caravan seems both overstuffed and out of balance, but it's such a scenic trip that only a stubborn homebody could complain.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  The repeated iterations of fight, flight and respite here get wearing. Especially perhaps because, with Jackson's fetish for detail, they take more time to watch on screen than to read about.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  If you loved the earlier films, these are moments you will hold on to, but they're very few, and they're not enough.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  The film is worthy of both your attention and of the Tolkien legendarium in which Jackson, his actors and his Weta Workshop technical crew are so firmly situated.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  Part One of director Peter Jackson's planned film trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit forces audiences to run an obstacle course before the fun kicks in.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  There's no denying the majesty in Peter Jackson's visuals but he's taken a relatively slim children's book and stretched it beyond the limits.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  This is not about a reluctant hero drawing courage from some deep personal well. It's not about dread and danger. It's about visual effects.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
text:
  An Unexpected Journey is a major comedown, a muddle-headed and cumbersome piece of filmmaking that betrays Jackson's mercenary motives -- Tolkien's book, too.

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text: The last hour of this movie is pretty much nonstop, and it's a gas.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:15:57
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  Considered as contemporary CGI-driven action-adventure cinema, and as the template for a new generation of video games, they are rich and entertaining. Even in the decadent phase of his genius, Jackson remains an expert world-builder and image-maker.

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text: Five armies are too many.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  This third installment of The Hobbit trilogy is allegedly the shortest of all of Peter Jackson's Tolkien films, but my theater must have been orbiting a black hole because I could swear it swallowed up 20 years of my life.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  Fighting -- presented with Jackson's usual double helpings of visual splendor, emotional oomph and low-key comedy -- is what "Battle of the Five Armies" is all about.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  While more than enough praise has been poured on Jackson and his singular gift for CG spectacle, Martin Freeman deserves some credit for lending humor and humanity to what could have been a numbing orgy of pixelated mayhem.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  What is perhaps most depressing about Jackson's swollen Hobbit enterprise is the way it retrospectively diminishes his Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  Mindless CGI spectacle overpowers every aspect of Peter Jackson's concluding Tolkien adaptation; like the other installments of this lumbering trilogy, it's more tech-demo than movie.

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text: The magic, fleeting to start with, is mostly gone.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  This is comfortably straightforward hokum -- which is to say that Jackson, for all his delusions of grandeur, remains a bit of a hobbit at heart.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  The pleasure is intense, and mixed with awe. There is majesty here, and not just because we're in the presence of magnificently regal madness.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  It plays out as if someone chucked a whole bunch of carefully detailed Warhammer figurines into a centrifuge -- goblins, goats, dwarfs, wizards and wolves bouncing off one another in waves of alternating tedium and punishment.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  It's a big, bold, schizophrenic pageant that still manages to work on a surprising number of levels -- creative liberties and indulgences be damned.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  It may occasionally seem to be aware of its undiluted preposterousness, but that hardly eases the experience of sitting through its endless cartoonish action sequences and overwrought emotional payoffs.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  It's adequately visionary, it's routinely spectacular, it breathes fire and yet somehow feels room-temperature.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  Look, if you were as bloated as The Hobbit trilogy, you'd probably be showing signs of exhaustion toward the end of a nearly nine-hour runtime, too.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  [Freeman] could have made a great Bilbo. Instead he's the one thing that has made this trilogy bearable.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  What looked like indulgent folly at the outset now seems closer to epic justification, as Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy draws to a rousing close.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  Talk about beating a dead orc. In dutifully completing his prequel trilogy to his Lord of the Rings triumph, Peter Jackson has sadly saved the worst for last. The Battle of the Five Armies is 20 percent inspiration, 80 percent desperation.

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text: Well, at least there won't be another one for a while.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:16:02
text:
  Untold manpower, pixels, and money culminate in the gangbusters final installment. It can't redeem the useless tedium of the first two, which exist for gargantuan profits and structural necessity.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  The chaotic action, amped-up sound effects, and needlessly intricate CGI landscapes (which are less convincing than traditional sets or even the hand-drawn backdrops of Disney classics) wore me out well before the movie was over.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  Peter Jackson's newest installment of the Tolkien trilogy is set afire by the scorching roar of a dragon.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  The tale has no emotional resonance, and the thinness of the plot (only five of the book's chapters are adapted here) and the colorless depictions of the leading characters do it no favors.

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text: Peter Jackson, take a fire-breathing bow.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  Be forewarned: Whether through ego, avarice, or unchecked enthusiasm, Jackson has wandered deep into the realm of fan fiction.

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text: It often feels like the movie's title character is marginalized in his own story.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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text: We were promised desolation, but "The Hobbit" just keeps dragon on.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  For many, Jackson's "Hobbit" will look like an overly long amusement-park attraction. But for fantasy fans who have dreamed all their lives of spending time inside Tolkien's dazzling alternative reality, it's a ride well worth taking.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  With the introductions and bag-packing out of the way from the first film, the new movie jumps straight into the action and doesn't relent until the cliffhanger ending almost three hours later.

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text: A relentless adventure tale, teaming with rowdy action, slavering enemies and Elven gymnastics.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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text: Tolkien is barely there, and Middle-earth lies in ruins.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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text: Jackson's direction is spiky and majestic ...
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  I'm not an aficionado of J.R.R. Tolkien's wonderworlds and I was bored with the first Hobbit movie. All this is by way of saying I quite liked its sequel and the second in the trilogy.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  Director Peter Jackson performs the same kind of miracles with the digital Smaug that he did with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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text: A wickedly entertaining, sometimes thrilling adventure.
created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  The thematic elements are in place, the emotional tension is highly strung, and the action unfolds in a wave like the fire erupting from the dragon's mouth, overtaking all in its path.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  The Desolation of Smaug is not only eight minutes shorter than its forebear, it's at least eight minutes better - less twee, less chatty, more action, more Elvish.

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created_at: 2019-03-21 22:17:44
text:
  Desolation of Smaug looks as dreary as the title would lead you to believe. The whole thing lingers in the memory as piles of sludge and ash.

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created_at: 2019-03-26 09:36:34
text:
  It tells a familiar story furrowed by quiet emotional conviction, much of it in Lacoste's unhurried, unaffected turn.

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text: [A] good-natured and well-intentioned film.
created_at: 2019-03-26 09:36:34
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created_at: 2019-03-26 09:36:34
text:
  A low-key family drama with a shattering tragedy at its heart, Amanda is a quietly moving celebration of human resilience from French writer-director Mikhael Hers.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  The director takes a fascinating true story of recovery through creative expression and drags it across a sticky-saccharine stretch of the uncanny valley.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  There is not much in this movie that feels authentic or fully realized, but its very strangeness makes it hard to forget or dismiss.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  But in a complex story of redemption and resilience with the blurring of real life and fantasy, it's one item on a list that contains a lot of other unchecked boxes.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  Like many true tales before it, the film simply falls victim to corporate Hollywood's insistence that there is only one way to tell a story about trauma.

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text: Welcome to Marwen is the ultimate Robert Zemeckis movie. This is not intended as a compliment.
created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  The female characters in Welcome to Marwen are all a little too yielding, a little too understanding... They expect so little of Hogancamp that it's all too easy for him to impress them, and all too easy for us to feel good about ourselves in the process.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  [It] is such an eccentric film that it wins a few points for sheer ambition, including its inventive visual scheme. The central story, however... never feels as transcendent or stirring as director/co-writer Robert Zemeckis clearly intends it to be

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text: Remarkably ham-fisted and tone deaf throughout.
created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  Carell fully taps into the needy outsider that has informed more than a few of his roles. A viewer's tolerance for such a sad sack might vary, but he's believably touching as a yearning and damaged soul.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  "Welcome to Marwen" does not work as a drama of addiction, and frankly it doesn't work as a celebration of Hogancamp's creations, which work best as stunning still-photo images.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  I left Welcome to Marwen feeling that Hogancamp had been cut off from agency from his own story, reduced to a cow-eyed dunderhead Candide only more voyeuristic.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  Mind-numbingly immense, joylessly violent and utterly lifeless... You've got to see it to believe it, though I wouldn't advise doing so.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  You may be repelled, in the moment, by its oil-and-water mix of tortured sentimentality and creepy puppet play. You might also find it damnably hard to shake.

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text: This is a complex man and artist worthy of a complex story, not a would-be-feel-good farce.
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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  Gooey dreck that attempts to be a quirky comedy, an earnest drama and a warm-hearted fantasy about the Nazis - and fails mightily at all the above.

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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  This true story from director Zemeckis, about a hate-crime victim trying to heal himself through puppet art, isn't hack work; there are ideas buried beneath its high-gloss surface and relentless uplift. But good luck trying to dig them out.

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text: An inventive use of cinematic effects and animation to bring a true story to life.
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text: A well-meaning, heartfelt, and vigorously engaged tribute to a remarkable person...
created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
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created_at: 2019-03-27 17:00:00
text:
  One of the many graceful touches in Welcome to Marwen is the total lack of pity or condescension in either world.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  The Hidden World doesn't really stop giving you lovely things to gawk at. But as an act of storytelling, it's curiously perfunctory, never rising to the level of effort and care put into creating its cornucopia of visual pleasures.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  The "How to Train Your Dragon" movies are respected - the first two garnered nominations for Best Animated Feature - but this third chapter doesn't garner more than a polite appreciation.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  Unusually for a sequel, this installment has the courage to feel conclusive. The series has earned affection for its characters and its disarming premise. Now it's time to let it go.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  A satisfying adventure story with allegorical manifest-destiny allusions, The Hidden World reminds us that if butterflies were the size of horses, humans would surely ride them. And wouldn't that be an awful thing?

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text: It's a satisfying resolution, without reaching the same heights that the original achieved.
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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  For some, it'll be a moving conclusion to an epic series. For others, it'll be one less kids' franchise to worry about.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  So much of The Hidden World is stuffed with filler material. But in certain wordless moments, this grand final entry really sings.

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text: Despite the strong animation, there's a sense that the story has run out of steam.
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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  The film feels like it's flying on empty... This is clearly the end of the franchise, one that gave great pleasure and stayed on too long.

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text: The movie could easily be called "How To End Your Trilogy."
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text: The elegiac ending is simplicity itself, a perfect close to a wondrously imperfect story.
created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
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text: The finale to the franchise will fly away with your heart.
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text: The plot is thin and holey and the characters are mostly just a single gag set on repeat.
created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  DeBlois struggles mightily to connect the resolution of one storyline to the resolution of the other, and it proves to be an overwhelming task. Still, it's a painless watch, with plenty of visual oohs and emotional aahs, and will surely leave fans happy.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  The final movie... is a tour de force, a visually magnificent and poignant story that serves as a fitting close to the series.

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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" still has the power to warm a cold heart, but the fire is less bright.

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text: What the movie lacks in narrative flow, it makes up for in action scenes and character appeal.
created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  Dazzling animation, light-on-its-feet humor and a ton of heart bring the 'Dragon' trilogy to a thrilling end.

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text: A cursory farewell to a franchise that deserved better.
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created_at: 2019-03-29 04:48:39
text:
  "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" has a visual sumptuousness and a fluid agility that make it worth experiencing even if you're not paying attention to the story.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Chin and Vasarhelyi have made a film that works both as a praiseworthy historical document rich in context and visual detail, and as a gripping emotional journey full of mythical resonance.

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text: You don't have to be a fan of rock climbing to love Free Solo.
created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  It's this profound, human tension that makes Free Solo such a gripping and rewarding documentary to watch.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Despite the gravity-defying cinematography and alpine setting, "Free Solo" transcends the climbing world and intimately examines something universal.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Honnold's incredible skill is part of what makes "Free Solo" great, but another part of the equation is Chin's daredevil photography.

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text: It's scary and exhilarating stuff.
created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  This plays out with as much (or more) suspense than any conventional thriller as the cameras capture every step of Alex's ascent.

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text: Free Solo...is a jaw-dropper, both in what is documented and its visual impact.
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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Free Solo is about getting dangerously close to the edge, where some people feel most alive. We get to experience that thrill secondhand, and that's enough.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Both intimate and expansive, Free Solo is a documentary beautifully calculated to literally take your breath away. And it does.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Do you have vertigo? Get dizzy easily? No? Good. Then you're in for an amazing, exhilarating climb to the top.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Is it strange when the wholehearted pursuit of a singular and spectacular achievement inspires pity and fear more than awe?

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text: The visuals are stunning, offering head-spinning views with the comfort of total safety.
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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  The tensions inherent in Honnold's singular life are many. "Free Solo" gives you just enough of that life on terra firma to make the heights truly dazzling.

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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  There is something epic and disturbing about Honnold's singularity, his desire to be the one person on the planet who can do something that no one else can.

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text: I spent most of this film with my jaw on the floor.
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text: Impressive... But the question for me remains: Why on earth would anybody do this?
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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  If mountain-climbing docs make you puke-dizzy, this one is is probably not a good idea. But as Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan solo and without a net, you feel every adrenaline-pumping moment.

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text: A visually dizzying but also thought-provoking film about one man's pinnacle of achievement.
created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
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created_at: 2019-04-03 23:07:21
text:
  Go figure that the year's most outrageously harrowing action movie turns out to be an arthouse doc from National Geographic.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
text:
  Montage understands Cobain as an icon, but also as the mixed-up kid who got too famous too fast, and it seems content revealing, rather than reconciling, his contradictions.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  A masterful and often deeply moving portrait of a volatile American genius, a portrait that goes far beyond one man, one family and one rain-sodden small town.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  An often brilliant, sometimes overheated but always humane documentary, one in which Nirvana's music and fame is just the scaffolding to Cobain's inner life.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  There's an important critical dictum when one reviews documentaries that we need to be careful to focus on the form of the filmmaking as much as the content. Filmmaking matters more than subject matter. In this case, both are brilliant.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  The rarity of [the] source materials alone makes this film a must-see for any hard-core Nirvana fan.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
text:
  Some Nirvana fans, who like their icons unblemished, may choose to look away. But it proves that Morgen isn't interested in hagiography. He wants to show us the real Kurt Cobain, warts and all.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  The genius of the Montage is that Morgen eschews not only predictability, but also the pretext of trying to give definitive answers when the more rewarding path to understanding Cobain's life and career is through questions.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  On the subject of the life and death of Kurt Cobain there is still some work to be done, but Montage of Heck may be as close as we'll get to moving on.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  Morgen draws no distinction between meaningful artistic creation and the expression of private pain. Then again, blurring that distinction was always part of Nirvana's achievement.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  Mr. Morgen is perhaps the leading revolutionary in American documentary filmmaking, a collagist/synthesist extraordinaire who has channeled Mr. Cobain's physical legacy ... into a work of art completely his own.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  For a mere 27 years, Cobain's life was unusually well documented, often by himself, and the film feels as vivid as The Devil and Daniel Johnston in delivering an artist's tortured interiority.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  [An] exhilarating, exhausting, two-hour-plus film, both an artful mosaic and a hammering barrage ...

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text: I couldn't keep myself from mouthing the words. I couldn't keep the sobs from rising in my throat.
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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  The result is a stunning audio-video hodgepodge that, in almost every case, captures some underlying essence of the Nirvana frontman.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  Morgen teases out aspects of Cobain's life that had been largely overlooked, in particular his intense ambition to succeed and his huge fear of humiliation if he didn't.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  As the credits roll, it's hard not to just root for the sensitive, progressive, fiercely creative Cobain and wish that he'd lived long enough to find a little peace of mind.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  We see-almost from the inside-the evolution of Cobain's sensitive brilliance and the art and destruction that it fed.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  Montage of Heck is a fascinating look at the man who created music that still matters to so many people.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  Cobain's life has been chronicled in scores of books and documentaries, but Montage of Heck feels fresh in the scope of material it includes, the way it's presented, and the things it emphasizes.

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created_at: 2019-04-04 12:55:06
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  Morgen and his editors have simply done a remarkable job -- also an artful one -- in piecing together this residuum.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  The best way to see the movie is as I did: expecting nothing and being pleasantly surprised, and strangely moved, by Mr. Bay's audacity in filming his lovers in end-of-the-world close-ups, however briefly.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
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  The effect of watching a Michael Bay film is indistinguishable from having a large, pointy lump of rock drop on your head. His new picture, Pearl Harbor, maintains the mood.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
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  There's no dismissing the film, if only because it offers another long, loud example of how Hollywood remains the hagiographic spinmeister of American war history.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  Pearl Harbor is a bomb, make no mistake. But the movie is such a noisy, persistent bomb that it is guaranteed to draw a crowd.

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text: The centerpiece is the attack. For 50 minutes, the filmmakers unleash nonstop eye candy.
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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  Three hours and three minutes of guff and goo about the nobility of killing and/or being killed for arbitrary reasons.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  Ships, planes and water combust and collide in Pearl Harbor, but nothing else does in one of the wimpiest wartime romances ever filmed.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  Leave it to Bay and Bruckheimer to reduce one of America's biggest military tragedies into a three-hour avalanche of Kodak moments, and one of America's defining crises into a facile exercise in fake uplift.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale give performances of such somnambulist awfulness that the three of them achieve an almost zen-like state of woodenness.

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created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
text:
  Brawny but brainless, Pearl Harbor is another bloated, irresponsible example of history according to Disney-a lame juggernaut that falsifies the facts, assaults the senses and leaves you blind, deaf and soulless.

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text: The net result of this mighty effort is perhaps predictable: near total inconsequence.
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text: For my money a much better heartbreaker, thrillmaker and tear-tweaker than Titanic.
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text: This bunk is history.
created_at: 2019-04-05 14:56:12
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created_at: 2019-04-06 00:21:15
text:
  This is a bad film, filled with awkward reenactments, poorly designed graphics, scripted interview segments, ominous music and enough jumping to conclusions that I'm surprised someone didn't throw out their back.

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created_at: 2019-04-06 00:21:15
text:
  The inclination to dismiss this as fanciful conspiracy theorizing is here countered by the testimonies of various experts, certain that the Seattle police really bungled their investigation.

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created_at: 2019-04-06 00:21:15
text:
  By the time Wecht declares that this is a death that simply has to be reinvestigated, even a viewer with no special attachment to Cobain's legacy is likely to agree.

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created_at: 2019-04-06 00:21:15
text:
  Whether he's way off base or not, Tom Grant is clearly a believer, and the ideas he presents via Soaked In Bleach-as unabashedly one-sided as they are-aren't easily dismissed.

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created_at: 2019-04-06 00:21:15
text:
  The problem is, when facing down Love's and Cobain's outsize, junked-up personalities, Grant seems a total naïf.

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text: Intelligently observed and backed by a strong cast...
created_at: 2019-04-07 14:54:48
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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  "A Star is Born" isn't perfect, but what Cooper and Gaga are able to do with the tale make it a delicate love story and triumphant tribute to the artistic spirit.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  This movie has everything: a swept-off-your-feet romantic fantasy, an underdog-makes-good journey, a wrenching substance abuse drama, and an industry cautionary tale combined.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  For Cooper, it's a polished directorial debut. For Gaga, it's as comfortable a bridge from pop stardom into the movie world as one could imagine. As duets go, that's the sort of combined star power that's difficult to beat.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  It feels somehow compact despite its sprawling two-hour-and-15-minute size, with nary a scene or frame wasted as it builds to its inexorable yet heart-shattering finale.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  The problem is whenever Cooper turns the film away from his best asset (Gaga) and into a vanity production.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  It's the love story for our time. It's an instant cult classic. It's everything a tasteful move should not be, and yet it's an undeniable success.

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text: Melodrama gets a bad rap sometimes.
created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  Like its finest antecedents, it wrings tears from its romance and thrills from a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema. That it's also a perverse fantasy about men, women, love and sacrifice makes it all the better.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  Cooper has managed to do the impossible. He's put together an instant movie classic that will have audiences falling in love with his brand new creation.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  If 2011's The Artist was an homage, this is more of a burlesque, a hot mess of a movie that takes its dramatic cues from the camp excesses of the drag queens among whom our hammered hero finds the lucky Lady.

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text: In A Star Is Born, love hurts. But it's labor that breaks your heart.
created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  It's Cooper's first time as director and Gaga's first major movie role, but you'd never guess it from the skill and passion they bring to the project.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  There's real vitality in Cooper's direction in the early passages, and, in the performances of the costars, an understanding of the ravages of romance that justifies putting ourselves through the paces of this sad story yet again.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  Somehow, though, the bloat is almost appropriate in a story about excesses, and the devastating pitfalls of fame. "A Star is Born" portrays both poignantly, movingly, well.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  The high-voltage ghost of Judy Garland haunts every frame and illuminates every shadow in the film, and Lady Gaga seems to know it.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  What Cooper persuasively depicts is the fear factor of stardom-the sense of vulnerability, of a position that's both powerful and fragile.

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text: This is the best Star Is Born yet, and one of the best movies of the year.
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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  Co-written by Cooper, who also helped write some of the film's music, the script doesn't exactly bubble with wit but it doesn't have to. What matters is that it gives both leads the chance to charm one another - and us.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  The role of Ally is so meta as to cast doubt on whether Lady Gaga can play other kinds of parts; the performance is so galvanizing that you don't remotely care.

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created_at: 2019-04-15 13:07:59
text:
  What really works about this version is the fact that Bradley Cooper co-wrote it, he produced it and stars in it, and put it together but he incorporates little elements of Lady Gaga's Story.

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text: "High Life" is a bust, a bleak, droll experiment in shock cinema for the high art crowd.
created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  High Life is strange and wondrous, less a traditional sci-fi film than it is a seductive journey into the long, black night of death.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  Denis delves into the group psychology of a beleaguered crew, housed in an interplanetary rust bucket. Her devotees will claim, correctly, that her movie blooms with provocative ideas...

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text: ...exciting, beguiling, and sometimes quite moving.
created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  No matter where she goes - to the furthest reaches of the known universe, or the fringe boundaries of semi-reputable genres - a Claire Denis film is a Claire Denis film. Accept no substitutes.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  Many head-scratching things occur, but Denis' calm approach indicates that what interests her is not outer space but how living in it might affect behavior.

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text: High Life is, at turns, gorgeous, ridiculous, and confounding.
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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  Denis sidesteps the genre's blood-curdling tensions (Alien) and atmospheric grandeur (2001: A Space Odyssey), instead focusing on beautifully hypnotic sequences that owe a clear debt to Andrei Tarkovsky's dreamlike Solaris.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  Denis' direction prioritizes atmosphere over explicit explanations, transforming drab, spaceship hardware into a living yet crumbling environment, one that mirrors the physical and spiritual decay taking place among its dwindling number of inhabitants.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  For all its body horrors and apocalyptic conclusions, High Life is one of Denis's most loving and tender creations.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  I'm still not entirely sure what it all adds up to, but it is provocative, difficult and bleak and leaves you with a very precise feeling of despair and aloneness - just like the best of the space independents do.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  Too often the ideas here, visual and otherwise, feel haphazard - outer and inner space, Pattinson's head, sexual taboo, apocalypse now or maybe then - more like material for a vision board than a fully realized vision.

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text: [The] most amazing moments are never amazing enough to jar it out of its static orbit.
created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
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text: Another milestone in the career of its director/co-writer.
created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  A movie that is always vaguely interesting but that, here and there, finds ways to be brilliant in a wonderfully twisted way...

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  While it's all quite confounding, it's also singular and moving, especially once you disavow yourself of the idea that films are meant to clarify themselves as they near their conclusion.

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text: It ends like most lives, poised before inevitable death, buoyed by love and irrational hope.
created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  It's as if the events of the film are excerpts from a master script emphasizing the most apparent and foregrounded...fraught with a slowed-down pace of action, to render simple actions portentous.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  [I]n "High Life," it feels like the challenge is beyond comprehension to invest in the non-linear plot or the annoying characters.

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created_at: 2019-04-18 20:26:06
text:
  High Life is a chilly, ruminative film, brilliant if not exactly likable. But Pattinson, the movie's thumping heart, is superb...

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text: A story whose ethical quandaries are presented with equal parts compassion and toughness.
created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Kore-eda marshals his considerable talents to tell what initially appears to be another story of family love and perseverance in the margins of society.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Kore-eda is at his best when he's suppressing his sentimentality, not when he's indulging it, but like his characters, fans of this inspired filmmaker must learn to take the good with the bad.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Kore-eda eases us into this loving arrangement on the margins of society and then slowly, subtly undoes every assumption we might have made about these people.

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text: Shoplifters is littered with wry humor and is refreshingly free of judgment.
created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  This kind of subtle richness is not new for Kore-Eda, though it's as satisfying here as it's ever been.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Shoplifters achieves that ultimate goal of art as expressed by the artist Robert Filliou: It's art that makes life more interesting than art.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  The movie uses a domestic drama to illustrate larger and more compelling concerns about society in general.

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text: This wise and insightful film is delicate, poignant and unexpectedly powerful.
created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  It's all beautifully done, if seemingly aimless; for most of its two-hour runtime, the joy of the movie lies mostly in watching these fine actors build their beautifully flawed and lived-in characters.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Shoplifters, overall is a slow but captivating burn that may leave you questioning your own hard-set ideas of right, wrong and family.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Kore-eda has the sensitive, calibrated touch of a master safecracker, and he's a virtuoso of emotional and narrative buildup.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  There are numerous tender, affecting moments en route to the finale's tearjerker overdrive, many of them productively tangential to the overarching idea of choosing one's own family.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Every one of master Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda's movies breaks your heart in a different way.

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text: A moving meditation on what truly constitutes the meaning of family.
created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  In a great film, Kore-eda's thesis would be the starting point, not its culmination... But in the end, Kore-eda, for all the cooked-up moments in Shoplifters, knows where the heart of his story is.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  This soft-spoken, cinematic treasure about a family of thieves highlights the quietly devastating artistry of Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda. It's impossible to experience the deep-seated compassion of this film and not be moved to tears.

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created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
text:
  Writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda fills the film with grace notes, humor and fine observations, circling and filling out each character while leaning more on innocence than corruption.

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text: It's in theory the worst family movie of 2018 - and in practice one of the year's best films.
created_at: 2019-04-19 16:40:59
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created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
text:
  The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous.

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text: Every audience sniffle and tear has been taken into account.
created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
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text: Call me a drongo, but this really is quite watchable (yes, I've seen it more than once).
created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
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text: It's totally schmaltzy and highly effective.
created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
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text: By any reasonable critical analysis, The Sound of Music is a terrible movie.
created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
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created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
text:
  It is compounded of taste, excitement, heart and mind, and more than any other individual, the one who put it there and kept it there was Robert Wise.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
text:
  Appealing to the whole family and giving Julie Andrews a chance to sing and perform charmingly, it presents Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp, a role that is sure to enhance the popularity of this fine actor.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
text:
  The movie has almost everything: music, romance, kids, spectacular scenery, religion, sentiment, comedy high and low, and, at the end, intrigue and adventure.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
text:
  The location work in Salzburg has an ineffable charm and it's all performed with such zinging, joyous energy.

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text: In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.
created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
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text: A warmly pulsating, captivating drama.
created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
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created_at: 2019-04-26 19:29:31
text:
  Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  Few contemporary filmmakers can touch Assayas as a storyteller - even his most enigmatic moments here will inspire lively post-screening conversations - or as a director of actors.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  One of the film's delights-it is more than a mere in-joke-arises from seeing Kristen Stewart inspecting her own predicament, as it were, from the outside.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  Brilliant performances aside, "Clouds of Sils Maria" is overlong and much too self-indulgently an "art film." It might have benefited from being just a bit more grounded.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  Clouds of Sils Maria is fiendishly wise to the ways of show business, particularly the boxes in which it places women. But the film offers more than that.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  An enigmatic chamber drama in the tradition of Ingmar Bergman, centred on two women who could be mirror images or aspects of a single self.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  In the end, there's a sense that director Olivier Assayas is more concerned about making a point than telling a story.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  It's winding, and it sure takes time and patience, and it's not all that clearly marked. But by the end, you're left with quite a view.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  Astounding performances by Binoche and Stewart, in a film that keeps the viewer constantly off-balance.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  As Valentine and Marie argue over their interpretations of the play, it sparks an ongoing discussion about youth, aging, memory, superstition and fame.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  The real star turns out to be the play itself: the early masterpiece of a now-deceased writer, a work of such mirrorlike perfection that it reveals entirely different things to different people.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  The film glides and snakes along its path, a path we have trod before in so many other films and plays. But often it's not where you go but how you go that matters.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  Stewart's relaxation in front of the camera is something to marvel at. She is always present in the moment and seems unable to fake a scene.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  Binoche, on whom the camera affectionately lingers, makes herself achingly vulnerable. Though the film feels at times a bit cloudy and enigmatic, it's often fascinating in its juxtapositions.

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text: Stewart is surprisingly good.
created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  In addition to the tremendous acting, Assayas's direction has a novel feel, with clever fade-outs reminiscent of theater, which happen just when some bit of action is about to take place. But there are also some curious decisions.

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text: It's mature, complex and talky - Bergmanesque.
created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
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text: Hugely affecting - and reflective and witty ...
created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  It meditates long and hard on questions of age, sincerity, celebrity and love, piling irony on irony. And it features a remarkably natural performance by Kristen Stewart that's so unastounding it's astounding.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 22:24:27
text:
  A meditation on fame, acting, aging, and acceptance, "Clouds" is a multilayered rapture on the subject of woman, performing. Not only does the film demand repeat viewings, it rewards them.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  An exciting, intelligent mix of romance, Nordic noir, social realism, and supernatural horror that defies and subverts genre conventions.

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text: Don't read another word about it: just go.
created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  While the film does take some twists and turns - some fairly contrived - it mostly drills down and explores her emotional conundrum without drawing symbolic conclusions about the world we live in.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  [It] builds out such an unusual premise that it risks devolving into quirky inanity, but Abbasi grounds the narrative in an emotional foundation even as it flies off the rails.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  This supernatural romantic thriller constantly shifts genres, but its slow burn approach keeps things intriguing. Abbasi establishes and maintains an unusual, internal logic that will satisfy viewers who go along with every strange twist.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  One of the biggest risks Border takes is in the deliberateness with with it slow-walks Tina's journey to self-realization.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  As cold as possible is a good way to see it. This is a movie that aims to startle in overt and subtextual ways; the less known before viewing, the better.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  "Border" may not be everyone's idea of a fun night out, but it takes you to places you won't forget, and that's nothing to sniff at.

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text: Just when you think you've seen it all, along comes Border.
created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  "Border" brings to horror-fantasy the same Swedish sensibility that "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" brought to crime thrillers. Welcome to the land of eternal night.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  Director and co-writer Ali Abbasi's film is a murky, unsettling watch - but however unsettling, it remains gripping and affecting, its viscerality covering for its occasional elisions.

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text: The strangeness in this film writhes like bacteria.
created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  It... gnaws at the brain for its subliminal messages about how we treat the people in our midst who don't fit whatever definition of "normal" we're carrying around with us.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  Writer-director Ali Abbasi has crafted something eerie and rather wonderful with this pungent allegory of outsiderdom.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  The refreshingly offbeat, sturdily handled "Border" is not just unlikely to resemble any of its subtitled competition but also anything else you'll see this year.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  Even the most open-minded viewers may have difficulty relating to the two lead protagonists in Border, a cynical Swedish romantic-fantasy.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  Border succeeds as gripping drama, mostly on the strength of its two lead performances, both doing sterling work under heavy silicon masks that required four hours of make-up to apply.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  It's creepy and disturbing and freaky, with enough room to find whatever subtext you're looking for.

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created_at: 2019-04-26 23:51:31
text:
  Maybe best to think of it as a chilly Scandinavian bedtime tale, the type to unsettle bothersome children and leave them identifying with the ogre.

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text: Handsomely accoutered ...
created_at: 2019-04-27 08:57:29
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created_at: 2019-04-27 08:57:29
text:
  Performances are generically earnest, which is the most that can be expected with such an anodyne script where broadly-drawn characters like Kessler are over-the-top in their brutish behavior.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  The screenwriters (Rudd among them) frequently mock their own sci-fi jargon, their snarkiness the strong suit in a movie offering little else except souped-up car chases.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  In a cinematic world crowded with comic-book flicks, "Ant-Man and the Wasp" stands out. And that's no small accomplishment.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  Thankfully, Paul Rudd as Ant-Man is as engaging as ever. He almost single-handedly saves this sequel, which is genial enough but not nearly as much fun as the original.

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text: A light and sunny entry in the ongoing Marvel canon that gets by on the cast's easygoing chemistry.
created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
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text: A joy to watch on the big screen.
created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  This "Ant-Man" entry stakes out its own corner of the Marvel Universe sandbox as a throwback to '80s-style childlike adventure.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  This a film that's difficult to actively dislike - Rudd and his equally charming co-stars take care of that - and fun in the moment, but there's precious little that lingers after the credits roll.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  Unlike the unaccountably dull "Ant-Man" feature that came and went three years ago, this one tangles us up cheerfully, almost instantly, in its high-tech bedazzlements and witty beguilements, never loosening its grip.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  Ant-Man and the Wasp is an eager puppy of a $100 million superhero tentpole, and it knows precisely where on your face to lick you.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  There's a fresh sense of looseness, lots of play and pockets of weird humor... That's the stuff that makes the movie really sing - not sting.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  After 19 Marvel movies so far, and a growing sense of global self-importance (commercially and culturally), a throwaway superhero film is, in fact, just what we need.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  But for the most part, the two hours you'll spend running around with Marvel's Ant pals is fun and doesn't have the same emotional investment Infinity War or even Black Panther did earlier this year. And, for once in the MCU, that's kind of refreshing.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  Would be okay and maybe even fun were it not for the frequent presence of a gruesome ghost haunting the proceedings: a woman in constant physical and emotional agony who is trying desperately not to die. A weirdly disturbing fly in the amiable ointment.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  Its intent is limited to amusing and diverting for a couple of hours of high-summer fun. That it does.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  Aside from a few flourishes of aesthetic inventiveness and a single moment of genuine wonder, "Ant-Man and The Wasp" doesn't do very much with its premise.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  If the previous film was a bubbly champagne cocktail of a superhero movie, its sequel is something flatter and more concussive-akin to a series of vodka shots. Bottom line though, as long Paul Rudd is invited, it's still a party.

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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  The two great enemies of picnic now get co-billing in this hilarious, delightful and somehow downright lovable entertainment from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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text: Even when things get ultra-corny, Ant-Man and the Wasp keeps merrily buzzing along.
created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
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created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
text:
  [Ant-Man] gets by on his propensity for knockabout humour, his child-like enthusiasms and the company he keeps. He's likeable, his films are kid-friendly, and that's about it.

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text: This feels like the movie Oceans 8 should've been.
created_at: 2019-05-05 14:25:19
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text: Above all it's just plain fun, and the songs are catchy, too.
created_at: 2019-05-10 19:28:39
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created_at: 2019-05-10 19:28:39
text:
  'A Monster in Paris' borrows some of its tics from silent cinema, but it also reaches out to films such as 'Frankenstein', 'Phantom of the Opera', 'The Fly' and 'King Kong' for inspiration.

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created_at: 2019-05-10 19:28:39
text:
  The film has something of Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame, and indeed King Kong, but has an eccentric style of its own: a decent children's film.

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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  [Iñárritu] remains as entranced as ever by fate, loss and the interconnectedness of humankind, and I admire him for it. But Babel isn't the last or best word on that subject. It's just a lot of talk.

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text: If misery is your pornography, Babel is your holy grail.
created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  Babel is supposed to be a cry of humanist anguish that echoes -- in four languages -- around the world. Why does it feel as much like an elaborate game of middlebrow post-millennial Clue?

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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  The filmmakers don't seem to understand or care much about many of these people, but they use them to unload ideas about violence, communication, and tribal misunderstandings -- trading on suffering as they aim for cosmic wisdom.

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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest sprawling, dispersed art-film blockbuster prompts a question: Does he just not know how to tell a story?

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text: Babel is the masterful third installment in this trilogy of truth and consequence.
created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  In the end, a film of profound ambition is unmasked as one without real purpose, a misguided attempt to make a serious, important statement despite having nothing, really, to say.

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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  Well acted and handsomely photographed, but still extraordinarily overpraised and overblown, a middlebrow piece of near-nonsense: the kind of self-conscious arthouse cinema that is custom-tailored and machine-tooled for the dinner-party demographic.

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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  Babel can be unnecessarily convoluted, ultimately though it's the stark simplicity of the dilemmas faced by each character that hits home, wherever that may be.

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text: Something of a one-note film, albeit a beautifully played note.
created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
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created_at: 2019-05-19 21:33:58
text:
  For a movie that insists on the truth of humanity's mutual dependency, Babel feels disconnected from anything but its own artistic determinism.

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text: More than a love story, Button is a eulogy for the 20th Century
created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  Benjamin Button is a film of mood, not motion. At its best, it is evocative and affecting; at its worst, an exercise in sentimental portraiture.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an anodyne Hollywood film that offers a safe and sanitised view of life and death. It's Forrest Gump goes backwards.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  Fincher's magic can't transform him from the coldly dispassionate misanthropist of Se7en, Fight Club, and Zodiac into a sentimental humanist, and it can't turn Brad Pitt into the kind of actor who can carry a movie like this.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  It is a tedious marathon of smoke and mirrors. In terms of the basic requirements of three-reel drama the film lacks substance, credibility, a decent script and characters you might actually care for.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  The film quickly outgrows any sense of gimmickry and matures into a one-of-a-kind meditation on mortality, time's inexorable passage and the fleeting sweetness of love.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leaves you colder than it should, and it shouldn't leave you cold at all.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  The lesson here is never to aim to make a great movie before locking in the framework for a good one.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  Remove "curious" from the title and replace it with "twee and pointless", and you're close to it. What a incredible shaggy-puppy of a movie, a cobweb-construction patched together with CGI, prosthetics, gibberish and warm tears.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  With a running time of almost three slow-going hours, the movie definitely makes you feel as though you're aging forward.

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text: It's a speculative and enthralling fantasy about what it would be like to age in reverse.
created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  Mostly, the film is an orgy of excess, in which Fincher indulges his passion for luxuriant image-making, with little regard for whether the story merits (or can withstand) such grandiose treatment.

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created_at: 2019-05-20 22:08:43
text:
  An epic, melancholic romance that employs a multi-generational cast and groundbreaking visual effects. It's a testament to Fincher's skill as a storyteller that the film actually works, albeit sporadically.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  In the grand scheme of the Marvel Universe, however, "Captain Marvel" feels like a supporting player, not a featured attraction.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Superhero cinema has lectured us, ad infinitum, on the responsibility that is conferred by extraordinary gifts. Praise be to Larson, for reminding us that they can be bringers of fun.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Bizarrely, Captain Marvel is less interested in fleshing out its own hero than it is in filling in the blanks of the MCU.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  The film looks great on an IMAX screen, Larson is sublime and the fantastical plot is buoyed throughout with lots of good-natured humour - reason enough to wish a return engagement for Captain Marvel.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Captain Marvel may be good enough to satisfy the series' built-in audience, but might disappoint anyone expecting more.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Captain Marvel is such a welcome and appealing addition to the Marvel universe that I wish she could be added, retroactively, to all of the extant "Avengers" movies.

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text: The girl power (and grrl power) ring out loud and clear, if a bit hollow.
created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  At full strength... Captain Marvel is a goddess emitting her own light - an astral version of Liberty at the battlements, sublime and terrifying.

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text: This plays like the kind of generic comic book movie that was in vogue 15 years ago.
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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  This woman is a candidate for genuine heroism. Yet there's a fundamental dissonance between the depth of her plight and the shallow disorganization of the script...

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Larson can turn a moment as slight as walking into frame and blowing a strand of hair out of her face into an uproarious, powerful visual beat.

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text: Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, is a formidable force and a welcome addition to the MCU.
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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Does it work? The short answer is: yes. There's enough to keep both diehard Marvel fans and newcomers engaged.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  The film may be about women breaking their shackles, but the lead actress feels kept in check for much of the picture. Humor winds up being provided by Samuel Jackson's Nick Fury, heart by Lashana Lynch's Maria Rambeau, and pathos by...well, it ain't Larson

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text: For Marvel there's a new boss in town.
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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  The breakout character of "Captain Marvel" may wind up being an adorable cat named Goose, whose cuteness seems destined to launch thousands of social media posts.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  While it may be a Marvel movie, it shares a deeper spiritual DNA with movies like Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, than it does, say, Ant-Man.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Lacking the wit and graphic oomph that sometimes rescues the Marvel franchise from terminal fatigue, "Captain Marvel" is yet another origin story for yet another superhero.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  The problem is with the corporate anticulture that controls these productions-and the fandom-targeted demagogy that they're made to fulfill-which responsible casting can't overcome alone.

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created_at: 2019-05-28 12:09:48
text:
  Without making a fuss, it's a movie about regaining oneself and one's values in a universe where the boys are busy fighting.

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text: An engrossing if familiar triumph-over-adversity story.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:42
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  A fascinating and sometimes frustrating hybrid, a film that tries both to transcend and to exploit its genre.

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text: Steve McQueen's "Widows" is a heist movie with a pulse.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
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text: From its first moments, "Widows" signals that audiences aren't in for just another heist movie.
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  This is the most fun McQueen has ever been - not a high bar to clear, given his particular brand of misery porn - but that fun still comes with a bullet.

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text: It offers everything adults used to love about cinema.
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  [Widows] feel like a throwback -- an old-fashioned, intricately plotted crime thriller that's more about characters than explosions. Much like the heist scheme, though, the movie looks better on paper, ultimately, then it does in the execution.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  "Widows" comes from writer Gillian Flynn ("Gone Girl") and director Steve McQueen ("12 Years a Slave") and a big part of the caper's fun is the tension between her pulpy, twisty sensibility and his slower-burning instincts.

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text: McQueen has created a tense and satisfying action drama with a decidedly feminist bent.
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  Widows is methodical in its imagery and gracefully written; it's also a suspenseful blast, best seen with the biggest, most animated audience possible.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  McQueen achieves his aim of using a genre framework to advance serious themes. That ambition, rather than the ordinariness of the central criminal enterprise, is what makes Widows an uncommonly good thriller.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  Simultaneously an affecting drama of self-discovery and hard-won female power, a vision of limitless civic corruption, and an incendiary, sometimes violent variation on the theme of carrying a torch.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  It's the dashing camerawork and broad historical awareness of Widows that makes it a truly sophisticated action film, and by far the best crime movie of 2018 so far.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  It's not clear exactly what kind of movie(s) Widows wants to be: feminist heist thriller? Sprawling political saga? Bare-knuckled gangster noir?

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  Some movies are phonier than others. "Widows" is one of those. The always thin line between a twisty plot and a silly one gets crossed about an hour in.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  McQueen's artful slow-take style, in films like 12 Years a Slave and Hunger, would seem to make him an odd choice for the ticking-clock pace of a caper pic, but don't be fooled.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  Other reviewers talk about the film's style and originality, but I found no evidence of either (unless you consider endless shots of reflections in mirrors and glass store windows "style").

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  The movie tosses back at viewers a variety of casual exasperations-inchoate, flip, and manipulable-that flatten and simplify the very ills and grievances that it dramatizes.

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text: A gritty romp that makes the cliché-prone heist genre feel fresh again.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
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text: Enough quality action and surprises to keep it interesting.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:47:56
text:
  A thriller for modern women who identify more with the messiness of human lives than with flattened slogans about how great women, as a monolithic group, are.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  If there's any surprise in Live by Night, it's how good it feels to watch a gangster battle the KKK in the year 2017.

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text: A footnote in the history of cinematic mob stories.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
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text: Live by Night is a solid, interesting but sprawling and often overwrought gangster picture.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  You probably won't turn it off when it comes on cable. But the material needs to be bigger, more momentous, as well as more intimate.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  As an actor, Affleck is a strong, reassuring presence; his performance is an anchor holding things in place and allowing for a flotilla of strong supporting portrayals.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  It's a chapter of Prohibition that hasn't been told in many films, and Lehane's story is rich in details, so much so that I wish he had developed it in to a cable miniseries a la Boardwalk Empire.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  "Live by Night" may look first-rate (though Affleck's direction, whether it's action or simply two people, seething, is routine) but it feels second-hand.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  Affleck falls prey to the occupational hazard of wanting to create his own myth, as he produces, directs, writes and stars in a flaccid screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane's Prohibition-era crime novel.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:51:23
text:
  Misgivings aside, I was enjoying Live by Night as a guilty pleasure of sorts and was on the verge of giving it a qualified recommendation until the last 10 minutes, which are equal parts predictable and way, way over the top.

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text: "Creed II" goes the distance, but it lacks the knockout punch of its 2015 and 1985 predecessors.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  "Creed II" is a respectable if not revelatory sequel to the sequel, even if it lacks its predecessor's grace and narrative texture.

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text: The whole thing just ... works.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  It is a solid movie that further cements Jordan as a star, and that's mostly because of how he portrays Donnie's personal development.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone again provide a potent one-two combo, in a movie filled with nostalgic callbacks that make the most of the franchise's durable formula.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  Rocky movies are a genre within a genre, and their audiences expect or even demand they be 95 percent predictable. So when they're even ten percent surprising - a generous estimate of Creed II's novelty quotient - it feels like a win.

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text: Creed II fits the mold of every Rocky sequel-competent, entertaining, and a little passionless
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  If this year's soft reboot of "Halloween" bridged old and new fans to an iconic horror franchise, "Creed II" does the same for devotees of the "Rocky" series.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  If the results aren't as artful as those by Creed director Ryan Coogler (Steven Caple Jr. steps in), they still feel earned.

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text: Doesn't punch nearly as hard without Coogler in its corner.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  The film simmers before it explodes, and it often, it maintains the slow burn for a moment too long in the quieter moments between family members. But when Caple really lets "Creed II" run wild, it's breathtaking.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  As the eighth instalment in an ancient boxing franchise, Creed II should not be this good. Yet at times it is flat-out thrilling.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  Ryan Coogler, having gone on to bigger and bigger things, steps aside and lets relative newcomer Steven Caple, Jr. do the job of mixing the beats of Rocky III and Rocky IV into a smooth groove for the son of Apollo Creed (Michael B. Jordan).

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text: Creed II is almost a match for its predecessor in most respects, and in one its superior.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  There was a great movie in "Creed II," one that peeked out every now and then beneath the suffocating blanket of clichés.

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text: It's always fun to decry a formulaic movie - except when the formula actually works.
created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  Audiences have now invested decades in this ringside soap opera and they want to see where it goes, despite everything else. And, when all is said and done, the fight scenes are actually quite good.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  Even though we've seen this movie before (and more than once), there's a strong beating heart to this franchise.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  Creed II is a perfectly OK sequel. There's some comfort to be found in the predictability of its beats. But only at the end does it muster any real vitality.

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created_at: 2019-05-30 21:52:50
text:
  At its best moments, "Creed II" manages a feat nearly as striking as anything that Michael B. Jordan's Rocky Balboa protégé pulls off in the boxing ring: It doesn't play all that much like a sequel.

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created_at: 2019-06-02 00:15:42
text:
  Generally, Michalik manages to advance the various story strands persuasively, and with a lot of energy.

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created_at: 2019-06-29 14:27:56
text:
  Lost in all of this is Dumbo himself, a CGI creation with big ocean blue eyes and those lovably floppy ears... But the spirit and heart of the original "Dumbo" is still locked away in the Disney vault.

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created_at: 2019-06-29 14:27:56
text:
  I was psyched for the reteaming of Keaton and Burton, who together cooked up "Beetlejuice" and two of the better Batman films, but the chemistry, sad to say, produces no magical brew.

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created_at: 2019-06-29 14:27:56
text:
  Dumbo achieves a minor miracle, taking a challenging animated classic and completely refashioning it into an effective, often-charming live-action movie.

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text: "Dumbo" expands on the original with enough new ideas to justify itself.
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created_at: 2019-06-29 14:27:56
text:
  That the plot involves having DeVito's modest family-run circus being swallowed up by a mogul with his own theme park is almost too obvious a metaphor for the back half of Burton's 35-year career.

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created_at: 2019-06-29 14:27:56
text:
  Dumbo feels like one of the big-eared baby elephant's early flights: It's adorable and earnest but it causes a lot of commotion, and it only sporadically, haltingly soars.

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created_at: 2019-06-29 14:27:56
text:
  The film is just different enough to stick out amid the studio's backwards-looking slate, and Burton, for the first time in years, shows he hasn't lost his love for the idiosyncratic.

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