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'Quill: Bring Your Tissues
For a jaunty family film with a series of adorable dogs at its center, Quill creates surprising suspense.
Marisa Carroll
18 May 2012
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'Girls' is a Knockout
In Girls, Lena Dunham captures the messy textures and rhythms of everyday life. She also reminds us of her terrific ear for dialogue.
Marisa Carroll
14 Apr 2012
Television
'Bored to Death' Is a Remarkably Gentle Show
Bored to Death regularly strips Jonathan of his tough-guy illusions, and the two-part season premiere offers an especially economical and poignant example.
Marisa Carroll
17 Oct 2011
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Shady Skies, Shady Dealings in 'Boardwalk Empire'
Nucky's talent for assessing the angles more quickly than everyone else makes him an exceedingly clever man, but also an impatient one.
Marisa Carroll
25 Sep 2011
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'Love Etc.': But Separate Too
A feather-light, engaging documentary, Love Etc. charts the evolution of five romantic relationships in New York over the course of a year.
Marisa Carroll
30 Jun 2011
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'Puzzle' Will Transport You
Puzzle is about the pieces of ourselves that we choose to keep from others, even the people who love and know us best.
Marisa Carroll
26 May 2011
Film
'Bridesmaids' Has a Mature Streak
Once the wedding preparations begin, Annie finds herself in a kind of freefall, her loss of self-control at once agonizing, touching, and surprising.
Marisa Carroll
12 May 2011
Film
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul fashions a world that is at once outlandishly imaginative and down-to-earth, asking the viewer to make a leap of faith.
Marisa Carroll
07 Apr 2011
Film
Poetry (Shi)
Director Lee Chang-dong favors suggestion over explanation: his camera “sees” instead of tells, letting viewers draw their own conclusions.
Marisa Carroll
15 Feb 2011
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'Tiny Furniture': Permeable Boundaries
Tiny Furniture is a study of lost -- and at times willingly sacrificed -- momentum.
Marisa Carroll
11 Nov 2010
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'In Treatment' Season Three Premiere
As the third season of HBO’s In Treatment begins, Brooklyn-based psychoanalyst Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) appears more unhappy than any of his three new patients.
Marisa Carroll
24 Oct 2010
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'Machete': Ugly Beauty
Viewers know going in that as Machete escapes one ambush after another, there will be blood, lots of it, splattered on walls, people, animals, vegetables, hell, even minerals.
Marisa Carroll
02 Sep 2010
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'Knight and Day' Is All About Cameron Diaz
If Knight and Day is about anything -- and that will be up for debate -- it might just be the crystal-clear blueness of Cameron Diaz’s eyes.
Marisa Carroll
22 Jun 2010
Television
'Dancing With the Stars' Is So Sweaty and So Right
The best parts of Dancing with the Stars remain: the beads, the mesh, the spray tans -- not to mention flamboyant judge Bruno Tonioli and crackerjack host Tom Bergeron.
Marisa Carroll
26 May 2010
Television
'Modern Family': Maintaining the Fantasy
Modern Family regularly wraps up its major storylines on a warm-hearted note, but it tweaks the formula by ending with a barbed coda that undercuts the sentiment.
Marisa Carroll
23 May 2010
Film
Everyone Else (Alle Anderen)
Rather than making a statement about gender dynamics, the film shows with pinpoint accuracy the moment when intimates can become strangers to each other.
Marisa Carroll
29 Apr 2010
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Glee: Season One, Part Two
The first three episodes of Glee's return demonstrate that the show maintains its sense of humor and play, while characters grow deeper and more complicated.
Marisa Carroll
13 Apr 2010
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In Search of Memory (Auf der Suche nach dem Gedächtnis)
In Search of Memory isn’t just a depiction of an extraordinary life. It's a prescription for how to live.
Marisa Carroll
21 Jan 2010
Television
Big Love: Season Four Premiere
Even in the face of all the men's realm intrigue, the most compelling aspect of Big Love remains the women.
Marisa Carroll
09 Jan 2010
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Clumsy moments in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee are at least partially offset by some nuanced performances.
Marisa Carroll
18 Dec 2009
Television
Hoarders
Hoarders vividly illustrates the psychological effects of hoarding, the feelings of shame, worthlessness, and despair caused by living in an uncontrollable mess.
13 Sep 2009
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