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3/5
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29%
|
Private Romeo (2012) |
"
An earnest experiment in don't-ask-don't-tell drama as indebted to shirtlessness as to iambic pentameter."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
2.5/5
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43%
|
Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus (2012) |
"
Feels more like a free-market sales pitch than like a critical look at one weapon in the poverty-fighting arsenal that may or may not offer long-term hope."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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|
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76%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
So entertaining are the characters that you may leave the theater before realizing that the film's specters might emanate from somewhere much closer -- much, much closer -- than the haunted history of a Connecticut hotel."
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NPR
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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|
1.5/5
|
60%
|
Bad Fever (2012) |
"
As the camera skitters spastically around its troubled schlub, the film becomes a muddy, minimalist moan of desperation."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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3/5
|
73%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
The film's title may draw you in, but it's the texture that keeps you watching."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4/5
|
60%
|
Scalene (2012) |
"
While occasionally unpleasant, the film never crosses the line from bearably chilling to unbearably gruesome, keeping its characters credible and its events explicable."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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1/5
|
——
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16-love (2012) |
"
Pablum tarted up with tennis racquets, "16-Love" is, in a sense, the perfect movie for teenagers: you can text and tweet to your heart's content and never miss a thing."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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3/5
|
48%
|
Albatross (2012) |
"
Charmingly low-key, the British coming-of-age drama "Albatross" offsets slack plotting with creative casting and sensitive performances."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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3/5
|
——
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Toll Booth (2012) |
"
Though speckled here and there with uneasy comedy, "Toll Booth" is a psychological pressure cooker that could blow its lid at any moment."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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3/5
|
80%
|
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2012) |
"
Ed Wood would have been proud."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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|
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54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Maudlin and ham-fisted, The Iron Lady is cinematic scrap metal."
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NPR
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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4/5
|
——
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Le Père Noël est une Ordure (1982) |
"
This irreverent classic earns its cult status by brilliantly timed performances and a script as funny as it is observant."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 27, 2011
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|
3.5/5
|
91%
|
El sicario, Room 164 (2011) |
"
Finally less compelling for its random details of multiple brutalities than for its chilling portrait of a country irretrievably rotting from within."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
The Darkest Hour (2011) |
"
Really, how slovenly is it to use invisible aliens? If you're going to tease us with nothing but pinwheels of light for three-quarters of the film, you'd better have one heck of a reveal up your sleeve."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 26, 2011
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4/5
|
100%
|
Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta) (2003) |
"
Mr. Miyazaki smooshes fantasy and history into a pastel-pretty yarn as irresistible as his feminism."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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|
|
94%
|
Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) |
"
To fresh eyes, Corman's World may feel more like a meal; to the rest of us, it's merely a glance at the menu."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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|
2.5/5
|
38%
|
Cook County (2011) |
"
What we need is for the writer and director, David Pomes, to wallow less in aimless dialogue and lowlife sordidness. What we need is a point."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
82%
|
Addiction Incorporated (2011) |
"
Straight-shooting, hard-hitting and fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, "Addiction Incorporated" would be almost too exhausting to watch were it not for the folksy charm of its star witness."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Seducing Charlie Barker (2011) |
"
An intermittently interesting but fatally clichéd comedy of personal and professional suicide."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Red Hook Black (2011) |
"
"Red Hook Black" crawls forward by means of stilted conversations and vacuous exchanges."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Grandma, a Thousand Times (2011) |
"
Warmhearted and defiantly unsentimental, "Grandma, a Thousand Times" gains lightness from Teta's tart observations ... and the director's stylistic sprightliness."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 2, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Lads & Jockeys (2011) |
"
"Lads & Jockeys" conveys first-race terrors and last-place humiliation with indulgent thoroughness."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Under Control (2011) |
"
Somehow the happy screams of children whirling above a neutered reactor sound a lot less comforting than they should."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
An African Election (2011) |
"
As we join throngs of excited citizens at a public vote-counting, their uninhibited zeal for the process only highlights the jaded cynicism that threatens to overwhelm our own."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 29, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Silver Tongues () |
"
Swirling with unease, its scenes set us up for a payoff that never materializes and strand its actors in a bitter present."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
The Lie (2011) |
"
Comprising small, near-perfect scenes played out largely at dinner tables and on couches, "The Lie" wonders if it's possible to rewrite lives and remake choices."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
50%
|
Rid of Me (2011) |
"
Comes at you like a horror movie before settling down into something quieter but equally skin crawling."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
|
81%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
Propelled by male rage but softened by Considine's big-hearted understanding of his characters, this bruising slice of urban life rewards our patience."
—
NPR
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
——
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The Greater Good () |
"
This emotionally manipulative, heavily partial look at the purported link between autism and childhood immunization would much rather wallow in the distress of specific families than engage with the needs of the population at large."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
7%
|
The Greening Of Whitney Brown (2011) |
"
As she learns the value of public schools and pickup trucks, her erstwhile friends in Philadelphia seem happy to be rid of her. By movie's end, you'll feel exactly the same."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
Dog Sweat (2011) |
"
Undeniably courageous if frustratingly superficial."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Inni (2011) |
"
The best concert films achieve a marriage of sound and image that feels effortlessly harmonious, and in that regard "Inni," a musical portrait of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros, leaves most of its genre in the dust."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
78%
|
The Love We Make (2011) |
"
Captured mostly in gorgeous black and white, "The Love We Make" is alternately trite, touching, funny and fascinating."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 8, 2011
|
|
|
61%
|
Young Goethe In Love (2011) |
"
Charming in a way that American romantic comedies have all but forgotten, Young Goethe in Love is by turns cute, campy and endearingly cliched."
—
NPR
Posted Nov 4, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Dragonslayer (2011) |
"
Seamlessly dovetailing style and subject, "Dragonslayer," a poetic and affectionate portrait of the professional skateboarder Josh Sandoval, known as Skreech, vivifies a subculture of random hedonism and future myopia."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Killing Bono (2011) |
"
A shapeless rock-music caper that, like its deluded antihero, just doesn't know when to stop."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
76%
|
The Other F Word (2011) |
"
What begins as an amusing fluff piece ("Daddy's messed up," mumbles one woozy subject after dropping his gurgling infant) slowly emerges as a compelling and often touching peek at punk paternity."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 1, 2011
|
|
|
37%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Niccol, whose excellent 1997 film Gattaca revealed a similar obsession with human genetics, is an above-average filmmaker who may simply lack the daredevil recklessness a project like this requires."
—
NPR
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
86%
|
Silver Bullets (2011) |
"
"Silver Bullets" neither pleases the eye nor stimulates the mind."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
The Hammer (2011) |
"
Cleaving to the sports-as-salvation playbook with more fastidiousness than creativity, "The Hammer" offers a sincere but wearyingly formulaic portrait of triumph over adversity."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 26, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
Sidewalls (2011) |
"
Smart, wordy and sweetly sympathetic to lives lived online, "Sidewalls" coasts on Martín and Mariana's twin voice-overs, alternate musings on themselves and their city."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Klitschko (2011) |
"
For those who care about the winning and losing of championship belts, the film's slow-motion attention to pugilistic style and powerhouse punches is thrillingly instructive."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
67%
|
Cargo (2011) |
"
The film leans almost exclusively on the focused performances of its two leads, who create a credibly barbed chemistry that goes a long way toward distracting us from the film's low-budget deficiencies."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Swell Season (2011) |
"
What emerges is a poignant commentary on the uneasy commingling of love and fame."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Boy Wonder (2011) |
"
Though the story eventually develops some shading, Mr. Morrissey's enthusiasm for graphic novels is evident in every overstylized frame and underwritten conversation."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
|
70%
|
Oranges And Sunshine (2011) |
"
It's all very stiff-upper-lip, when what the subject cries out for is a rant."
—
NPR
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
The Thing (2011) |
"
Where the earlier film pulsed with precisely calibrated paranoia and distinctly drawn characters, this inarticulate replay unfolds as mechanistically as a video game."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
7%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
This crackpot thriller from the usually competent Jim Sheridan leaves only one mystery unsolved: what on earth was he thinking?"
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
The Road to Freedom () |
"
Drags us through miles of jungle and reams of stilted, soul-sucking dialogue."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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