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Journey (2003)
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Wesley Morris
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67%
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Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts ()
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"If you come to have your eyes opened to tales of human suffering and resilience, you stand to get more than your money's worth."
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Ty Burr
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82%
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Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (2012)
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"Peter McDonald's "Pentecost'' is the standout here..."
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Ty Burr
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88%
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Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts (2012)
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"There are strong years for short films at the Oscars and there are weaker years, and 2012 appears to be one of the latter."
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Ty Burr
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28%
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The Vow (2012)
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"It's quite watchable date-night cheese - the kind of movie you can simultaneously snort at and enjoy."
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Ty Burr
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52%
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Safe House (2012)
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"The ethical breaches and double-agent stuff have no sting. So many people are risking and giving their lives, and we barely care."
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Wesley Morris
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13%
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W.E. (2012)
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"[It] tries awfully hard. In the end it tries our patience."
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Ty Burr
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43%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
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"Even by the unambitious standards of some children's movies and many movies that star Caine, this one has a difficult time making a case for itself as anything other than an adventure in baby-sitting."
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Wesley Morris
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Alice: A Look into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2010)
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Ty Burr
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72%
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Big Miracle (2012)
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"It needs only to entertain. And that it does thoroughly, leaving us both charmed and enriched without feeling very preached at. Praise be."
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Janice Page
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81%
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The Look (2011)
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"Her chattiness here is unexpected and disarming, and if the film's overindulgent, it puts you in a forgiving mood. How often do we get to hear a lioness speak?"
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Ty Burr
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85%
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Chronicle (2012)
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""Chronicle'' will never be mistaken for an artistic breakthrough, but it has a solid gimmick and pieces of it are brilliant."
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Ty Burr
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012)
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"The director, James Watkins, appears to have studied other movies' bumps in the night and accepted the real estate and clammy skin loaned to him by the Hammer studios, which, not incidentally, receive a production credit."
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Wesley Morris
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76%
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The Innkeepers (2012)
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"For too long, this movie asks us to be interested in something that rarely in the history of the service industry has been sustainably entertaining: how dull certain jobs can be."
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Wesley Morris
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2%
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One for the Money (2012)
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"The movie has the by-the-numbers efficiency of a decent TV series, and about as much flavor."
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Mark Feeney
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32%
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Man on a Ledge (2012)
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"The movie doesn't give an audience anything that makes sense. How does Harris smoke a cigar that appears to weigh more than he does? And whence is Worthington's accent?"
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Wesley Morris
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89%
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Miss Bala (2012)
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"Naranjo offers a grim subject with neither flash nor sentiment. It is a sober film done with style."
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Loren King
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82%
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Crazy Horse (2012)
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"Wiseman's are the movies to show to the aliens when they arrive."
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Ty Burr
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53%
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Albert Nobbs (2012)
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"There's an ache of regret that sets "Albert Nobbs'' apart. Everyone here yearns for what they can't get."
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Ty Burr
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99%
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A Separation (2011)
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"This is a trenchant emotional thriller that you watch in dread, awe, and amazing aggravation."
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Wesley Morris
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77%
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The Grey (2012)
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"It's cheap the way "The Grey'' wants to be both a Liam Neeson "Quit Taking My Stuff'' movie and an existential thriller about survival."
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Wesley Morris
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29%
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Underworld Awakening (2012)
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"The most generic entry of the bunch."
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Tom Russo
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96%
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Silent Souls (2011)
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"It's lovely and slow and melancholic and short - 75 minutes, yet you feel you've been gone for an epoch or two."
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Ty Burr
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Sundance Film Festival Shorts ()
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"The hit-to-miss ratio is high and the films underscore what makes a great short work: a solid idea expanded into a brief, powerful vision of the world."
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Ty Burr
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45%
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)
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"The movie forgoes Foer's ambitious tweeness and presents Oskar's outbursts and moodiness - that precociousness - as a disorder."
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Wesley Morris
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80%
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Haywire (2012)
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"The pleasure of this small, eccentric movie is the natural way Carano hurts people - by, say, walking partway up a wall and climbing onto a man's back, by sprinting toward the camera and flying into the human target standing in the foreground."
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Wesley Morris
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95%
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Pina (2011)
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"What the filmmaker has created is an inspired simulacrum - a jewel-box that contains more of Bausch's kinetic soul than film has any right to."
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Ty Burr
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44%
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The Flowers of War (2011)
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"All Zhang's splendor does is foster cognitive dissonance in an audience."
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Wesley Morris
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86%
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2012)
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"Soporific exposition culminates in a visually chaotic final act that makes "Tintin'' look downright restrained."
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Tom Russo
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61%
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Young Goethe In Love (2011)
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"What was Sturm and Drang then veers close to camp and kitsch now."
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Ty Burr
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36%
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Red Tails (2012)
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""Red Tails'' has its moments. They've just gone too far in the other direction. The movie is so desperate to be palatable, to appeal to everybody that it doesn't taste like anything."
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Wesley Morris
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100%
|
Contraband (1940)
|
|
Wesley Morris
|
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71%
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Carnage (2011)
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"You may recognize the arrogance and anxieties, the class resentments and domestic bile, from your PTA's most recent talent night. More likely, they're as close as the nearest mirror."
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Ty Burr
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69%
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My Reincarnation (2011)
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"The story and settings hold interest throughout, but at times the very lack of emotional connection that Yeshi laments in his father seems to hinder the film."
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Tom Russo
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54%
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The Iron Lady (2012)
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"Everything Streep does here is a seismic act of theater. If she so much as tilts her head, the earth tilts with it. She doesn't simply overwhelm this thin historic biography - and the other actors around her - she detonates it."
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Wesley Morris
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34%
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Joyful Noise (2012)
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"A pew-pounding musical drama starring Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, and the skeletal remains of Dolly Parton."
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Ty Burr
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15%
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The Divide (2012)
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"It's doom that we're meant to feel here. And repulsion. I hate to say, but I shrugged."
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Wesley Morris
|
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48%
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Contraband (2012)
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"I don't know that a lot of "Contraband'' makes sense. But I'm not sure that it has to."
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Wesley Morris
|
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100%
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Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)
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"It's a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now."
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Wesley Morris
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5%
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The Devil Inside (2012)
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""The Devil Inside'' usefully reminds us how little it takes to make some people scream in a crowded movie theater."
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Wesley Morris
|
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100%
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Hell and Back Again (2011)
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"Dennis's film attempts something few documentaries have: to inhabit the psyche of its subject."
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Wesley Morris
|
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96%
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Pariah (2011)
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""Pariah'' really feels like something rare."
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Wesley Morris
|
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54%
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
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""Blood and Honey'' is both strong and headstrong, equally invested in grit and glamour with a hazy understanding of the line separating the two."
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Ty Burr
|
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94%
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Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011)
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"As documentaries go, it's an able introduction that doesn't make its subject nearly as relevant to our current discontents as it could."
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Ty Burr
|
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12%
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The Darkest Hour (2011)
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""Darkest Hour'' doesn't have even as much character as those Discover commercials."
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Joel Brown
|
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63%
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
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""We Bought a Zoo'' is a sweet-natured, terribly unthreatening drama about redemption and renewal, and it may matter more to the man who made it than the audiences who see it."
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Ty Burr
|
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76%
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War Horse (2011)
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"A work of full-throated Hollywood classicism that looks back to the craftsmanship and sentimentality of John Ford and other legends of the studio era."
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Ty Burr
|
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77%
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A Dangerous Method (2011)
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""A Dangerous Method'' begins where other films hope to culminate."
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Wesley Morris
|
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97%
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The Artist (2011)
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""The Artist'' is a small, exquisitely-cut jewel in a style everyone assumes is 80 years out of date."
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Ty Burr
|
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——
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Three Stars (Drei Sterne - Die Köche Und Die Sterne) ()
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"[It] endeavors to educate by covering a lot of ground in its 90-plus minutes, which is certainly commendable, it's just not that satisfying."
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Janice Page
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