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93%
|
Spider-Man 2 (2004) |
"
A lot of talent to lavish on a single movie, but the result is uncommonly smart for the genre, and not just smart but tremendously enjoyable."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 14, 2010
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81%
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Despicable Me (2010) |
"
It looks so stylish that thinking about its plot is strictly optional."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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69%
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
The shadowy connections between her various adversaries, or torturers, can be difficult to keep straight. Still, everything makes sense, apart from a few giddy leaps of logic, and the commanding figure of Ms. Rapace always fills center stage."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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93%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
The basic joke here, and it's a rich one, is that the dynamics of gay marriages differ little from those of straight marriages. But that joke also serves as a catalyst for some startlingly beautiful considerations..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 8, 2010
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49%
|
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
"
I can't pretend that the third episode instilled a fever in my blood, but it didn't leave me cold. For the first time in the series I felt I'd seen a real movie."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jul 1, 2010
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77%
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Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2010) |
"
Beautifully strange and affecting..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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96%
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Restrepo (2010) |
"
This movie will stir your heart and open your mind. It's a group portrait of practicing patriots."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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80%
|
Cyrus (2010) |
"
I've seldom seen a film in which three intelligent, articulate people make so many penetrating observations about themselves, and address their bizarre situation so directly, without providing, or indeed possessing, the slightest clue..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 17, 2010
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99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
I won't tell you what that ending is, but it took my breath away, and I'll bet it takes yours. Do see this lovely film sooner than later."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 17, 2010
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75%
|
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2010) |
"
Startlingly original, if occasionally overambitious. This is Tsotsi without the feel-good glow, a tale of entrepreneurship's perils and boundless pleasures."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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91%
|
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) |
"
Who would have guessed that Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work would turn out to be a stirring portrait of indomitability?"
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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66%
|
The Karate Kid (2010) |
"
Jaden is endearing in his own way, and the abstract notion of Jackie Chan in Pat Norita's role of the wise mentor almost obscures the reality of Mr. Chan's zonked performance, which simulates warm feelings toward the kid without risk of infectiousness."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010) |
"
Spectacular for its humanity, austere beauty and heart-stopping urgency."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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47%
|
The A-Team (2010) |
"
If you're a fan of causeless effects, consequence-free causes and digital Dada, let the silly times roll."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 10, 2010
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93%
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Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (2010) |
"
The camera is unsparing. Not only does it show graphic surgeries but it keeps rolling while doctors displace their anger at the world on one another."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 3, 2010
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91%
|
The Father of My Children (Le pere de mes enfants) (2010) |
"
Beautiful, profound and, given the gathering tensions of its story, phenomenally full of life."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 28, 2010
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84%
|
Looking for Eric (2010) |
"
At times it falls flat, or fails to rise. More often than not, though, it's a heartbreaker."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 20, 2010
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40%
|
Letters to Juliet (2010) |
"
Ms. Redgrave gives the film, which was directed by Gary Winick, a heart and a buoyant spirit. Seeing her in action is like sitting in on a master acting class."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 13, 2010
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87%
|
Please Give (2010) |
"
This gorgeous film, always tender and sometimes dark, is a deeply resonant comic drama that's concerned with nothing less than life, death, love, sex, guilt and the urban logic of mortality."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 30, 2010
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96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) |
"
Droll, aerosol-thin and ultrameta, a movie about a movie that supposedly was but actually wasn't being made about Banksy by his amiably bonkers Boswell, a compulsive French videographer named Thierry Guetta."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 15, 2010
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76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
Kick-Ass stands as an intriguing fantasy of social networking. To achieve superhero status, you simply put up your own Web site, announce it on MySpace and Facebook and you're on your mythic way."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 15, 2010
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91%
|
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) (2010) |
"
This beautiful film, directed with subtlety and grace by Juan José Campanella, really is about moving from fear to love."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 15, 2010
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67%
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Date Night (2010) |
"
The movie's stars, Steve Carell and Tina Fey, are exactly what they seem. They're perfect casting in a short, sweet comedy that makes the most of their genial gifts until it loses its sense of proportion."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 8, 2010
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91%
|
The Secret of Kells (2010) |
"
The soul of the film lies in its ravishing colors, and in exuberantly stylized images that pay homage to Celtic culture and design, together with techniques and motifs that evoke Matisse, Miyazaki and the minimalist cartoons of UPA."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 2, 2010
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20%
|
The Last Song (2010) |
"
The movie moves Ms. Cyrus from where she was to more or less where she and her handlers wanted to be, and Mr. Kinnear's musician father, Steve, adds a generous measure of grace."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 2, 2010
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76%
|
The Eclipse (2010) |
"
A leisurely and quite lovely drama that honors the conventions of gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 26, 2010
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86%
|
Hubble 3D (2010) |
"
I've been to two launches, Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, and Hubble 3D is the first film I've seen -- and felt -- that does more than hint at the skeleton-rattling power of those stupendous rockets."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 26, 2010
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85%
|
The Art Of The Steal (2010) |
"
I found it fascinating for a number of reasons, balanced reporting not among them."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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86%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) |
"
A stylish thriller with real complexity, people with interesting faces, a sensational actress cast as an ambisexual Goth hacker heroine -- the news about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is nothing but good."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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74%
|
Greenberg (2010) |
"
Greenberg scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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95%
|
Mother (Madeo) (2010) |
"
This is filmmaking of a high order."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 12, 2010
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90%
|
Fish Tank (2010) |
"
Fish Tank is a coming-of-age story for Mia, who will at least have a shot at happiness, and a coming-into-mastery story for the writer-director, Ms. Arnold, whose prospects seem limitless."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 22, 2010
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70%
|
The Last Station (2010) |
"
A lovely quicksilver version of literary history, with the accent on young love that emerges unbidden, and old love that endures."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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85%
|
The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009) |
"
A severe and eerily beautiful German-language drama by Michael Haneke..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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66%
|
Youth in Revolt (2010) |
"
Youth in Revolt is basically an absurdist ramble, but a terrifically likable ramble with several stretches of lively farce..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 7, 2010
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70%
|
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
The movie as a whole is clever, and conspicuously overwrought. But Mr. Downey's performance is elegantly wrought; he's as quick-witted as his legendary character."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 23, 2009
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79%
|
Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009) |
"
The movie comes on like a put-on -- next to nothing happens for an excruciatingly long time -- and ends as a fascinating dialectic between following one's conscience or following the law."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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37%
|
Nine (2009) |
"
Loud, brash, brassy, sexy and sometimes tacky or silly, but always entertaining."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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83%
|
Avatar (2009) |
"
Mr. Cameron's singular vision has upped the ante for filmed entertainment, and given us a travelogue unlike any other. I wouldn't want to live on Pandora, mainly because of the bad air, but I'm glad to have paid it a visit."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 18, 2009
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76%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
A win-win situation in which a mainstream feature works equally well as stirring entertainment and a history lesson about a remarkable convergence of sports and statesmanship."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 11, 2009
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91%
|
Up in the Air (2009) |
"
How often can you fault a wonderful comedy for an excess of humanity or plausibility?"
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 3, 2009
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75%
|
The Road (2009) |
"
You hang on to yourself for dear life, resisting belief as best you can in the face of powerful acting, persuasive filmmaking and the perversely compelling certainty that nothing will turn out all right."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 29, 2009
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50%
|
Mammoth (Mammut) (2009) |
"
Mammoth manages to be as affecting as it is heartfelt."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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89%
|
Red Cliff (Chi Bi) (2009) |
"
Red Cliff is a legendary filmmaker's visual symphony."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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88%
|
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) |
"
If the new film commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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81%
|
Broken Embraces (2009) |
"
Mr. Almodóvar's love of movies informs every frame of this beautiful film. When Harry's fingers explore the dotted landscape of a Braille script, they bespeak the writer's unbroken embrace of language and drama."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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93%
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"
Life is full of surprises. The best one I've had in a good while is Fantastic Mr. Fox."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
Richard Curtis's comedy is anchored only in exuberance, but that's more than you can say for most movies these days; it keeps you beaming with pleasure."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 13, 2009
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91%
|
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) |
"
This is a fine movie, and a deep one. It's about unearthing buried treasure."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 5, 2009
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81%
|
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"
It's an expertly packaged -- brilliantly packaged, considering how quickly the job was done -- phantasmagoria that emphasizes, quite convincingly, the energy that Michael could still draw from whatever was fueling his wraith-thin body."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 30, 2009
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