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2/5
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Bel Ami |
"
Bel Ami is a patchwork that on close inspection reveals clunky segues, odd characterisations, disjointed character motivations and curious narrative pacing in its craftsmanship.
"
Posted May 16, 2012 4:05 AM PDT
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Blake Howard
,
2UE That Movie Show
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C-
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine |
"
A lame-brained comedy that might fly with viewers who are drawn to low-brow humor like flies to manure.
"
Posted May 16, 2012 12:05 AM PDT
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Dennis Schwartz
,
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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C+
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The Dictator |
"
The Dictator having been stripped of the attention-grabbing reality-show dimension of its predecessors, we are left wondering just what it is that this gifted comic is trying to express.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 11:05 PM PDT
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Eugene Novikov
,
Film Blather
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B-
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I Wish |
"
If the Dardenne brothers were Japanese instead of French-Belgian, or perhaps set out to craft a homage to Yasujiro Ozu that was crossed with a whimsical yet melancholic version of The Parent Trap, it might well resemble this.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 10:05 PM PDT
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Brent Simon
,
Shockya.com
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The Dictator |
"
The Dictator is the sort of film the Farrelly brothers would be making - and certainly would like to make - if they were writing edgy shock-comedy scripts.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 10:05 PM PDT
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Luke Buckmaster
,
Crikey
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1.5/4
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Maximum Overdrive |
"
Stephen King has admitted himself that he was coked out of his mind during the making of this. Well... duh!
"
Posted May 15, 2012 10:05 PM PDT
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Austin Kennedy
,
Sin Magazine
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B-
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The Samaritan |
"
The Samaritan" is a juicy little crime thriller that does the job.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 9:05 PM PDT
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Cole Smithey
,
ColeSmithey.com
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3/4
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The Dictator |
"
Baron Cohen's simplistic caricature has a robust enough personality to carry him through ... the fish-out-of-water story.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 8:05 PM PDT
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Mark Dujsik
,
Mark Reviews Movies
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2/5
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Battleship |
"
In a summer movie season filled with highly anticipated blockbusters, Battleship just doesn't deliver on the spectacle it promises.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 8:05 PM PDT
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Heather Wixson
,
Dread Central
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2.5/4
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Battleship |
"
"Battleship" is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Christy Lemire
,
Associated Press
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|
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The Dictator |
"
Although the character of Aladeen seems awfully predictable by Baron Cohen standards, the movie itself veers from one hilarious, absurd and patently offensive setup to the next...
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Andrew O'Hehir
,
Salon.com
|
|
1.5/4
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The Dictator |
"
"The Dictator" has no clothes.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Duane Dudek
,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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C-
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The Dictator |
"
Baron Cohen's demonstrations of political ''outrageousness'' feel all too canned, planned, and defanged.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
,
Entertainment Weekly
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4/5
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Beyond The Black Rainbow |
"
A welcome attempt to bring back the days of El Topo and Eraserhead, when night owls embraced directors who wanted to screw with viewers' heads, not just the ones who screwed up their chances for auteristic posterity.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Matt Singer
,
Time Out New York
|
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4/5
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Elena |
"
Post-Soviet Russia in Andrei Zvyagintsev's somber, gripping film "Elena" is a moral vacuum where money rules, the haves are contemptuous of the have-nots, and class resentment simmers.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Stephen Holden
,
New York Times
|
|
4/5
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Elena |
"
Elena feels a touch repetitive right when it should be tightening the screws. But its fatalism is contagious.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Joshua Rothkopf
,
Time Out New York
|
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2/5
|
Battleship |
"
Battleship, a commercial for, alternately, the military or Michael Bay's back catalog, feels sunken from an overdose of charmless grunting and computer-generated ballast.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Joshua Rothkopf
,
Time Out New York
|
|
3/5
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Polisse |
"
If there's one thing this Cannes-feted drama portrays incisively, it's the porousness of the characters' existence: Work bleeds into life and life into work, wreaking havoc on their respective moral compasses.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Keith Uhlich
,
Time Out New York
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|
2/5
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Mansome |
"
A frustratingly frothy film that says nothing about its subject.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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David Fear
,
Time Out New York
|
|
2/5
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Virginia |
"
Black's overactive melodrama is more than a representation of schizophrenia; it's the embodiment of it.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Eric Hynes
,
Time Out New York
|
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2/5
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What to Expect When You're Expecting |
"
At least a slight step up from director Kirk Jones's last effort, 2009's claw-your-eyes-out-awful Robert De Niro vehicle Everybody's Fine.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Keith Uhlich
,
Time Out New York
|
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2/5
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Hysteria |
"
There's nothing strictly wrong with any of this, except for the fact that even a buttoned-down period piece like Topsy-Turvy feels sexier.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Joshua Rothkopf
,
Time Out New York
|
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3/5
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Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog |
"
The real star is Rafie, the golden pup that plays Quill; dogs can be taught to sit or lie down, but they can't fake the sort of connection he makes with the people around him.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Matt Singer
,
Time Out New York
|
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2/5
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Lovely Molly |
"
Sánchez is going for a fear that's closer to home than any mysterious bumps in the night. His Polanskian psychodrama, shrouded by our expectations, develops violently and, it must be said, with little sense of actual domestic tragedy.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
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Joshua Rothkopf
,
Time Out New York
|
|
1/5
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The Samaritan |
"
Despite its exploitation ambitions, this Samaritan is good only for a last-ditch swerve into schmaltz.
"
Posted May 15, 2012 7:05 PM PDT
|
Eric Hynes
,
Time Out New York
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