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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

9/18/2010

The Square (2010)

Well-acted and nicely-paced film about an adulterous couple planning to run away together by taking apparently stolen cash from her husband. But things get complicated, as things always do.

It was tense and almost quietly desperate, which was terrific, but just TOO many things went wrong. I don't think that an enterprise like this one should be easy -- but I also don't believe there's any way it would be this hard.

If it weren't for the fact that Murphy's Law seemed to be the force behind the narrative, this would be an A. As it stands, I can't go higher than...

B

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