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D
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27%
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The Vow (2012) |
"
The two stars look dewy and glossy and unexceptional, bound together less by chemistry than by the ministrations of a hard-working costume designer."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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A-
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56%
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Edge of Darkness (2010) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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A-
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85%
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In Darkness (2012) |
"
A daringly murky-looking movie that demands viewers enter the void..."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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B+
|
51%
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Perfect Sense (2012) |
"
An intriguing apocalyptic romance with a multi-purpose title."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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B
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43%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
The movie flies by pleasantly, and is then instantly forgettable. Perhaps Jules Verne can explain the science of that."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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B-
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
An old-fashioned, tastefully constrained supernatural thriller..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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|
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100%
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Smashed () |
"
What's new about this affecting, unsensationalized portrait of addiction, recovery, codependence, setbacks, one-day-at-a-time progress, and their effects on relationships, is the low-keyed energy of the storytelling."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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A-
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82%
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Crazy Horse (2012) |
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 26, 2012
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B+
|
76%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
The filmmaker takes his unlucky couple of innkeepers seriously: He gives them living, breathing personalities, independent of their relationship with the house ghoul."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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C-
|
13%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
The movie is a folly, a desultory vanity project for its director and co-writer."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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B
|
88%
|
Declaration of War (2012) |
"
An unexpectedly upbeat autobiographical drama made with French New Wave pizzazz about a young boy with brain cancer and the parents who pull together to fight for him."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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C+
|
77%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
Winter-release slot + travel budget + Liam Neeson = slightly preposterous, routinely violent, apparently lucrative action movie..."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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B
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Jungle Book (2002) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 21, 2012
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B+
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——
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The Front Line (2007) |
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
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A
|
89%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
"
Mexico's 2012 submission for Best Foreign Language Film - rightfully so."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
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B+
|
55%
|
The Front Line (2012) |
"
This strong, assured Band of Brothers-style drama from director Jang Hun makes universal points about bonding, misery, loyalty, and the senselessness of war through a portfolio of soldiers."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
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B-
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
Carano projects an intriguing aura in her dramatic-acting debut - part smoky, dark-haired sexuality, part bruiser, with an uninflected alto voice that cuts through crap."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
|
B+
|
91%
|
Beauty and the Beast (In 3D) (2012) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
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B-
|
74%
|
Norwegian Wood (2012) |
"
This lush, eventually torpid adaptation of Haruki Murakami's more nuanced 1987 cult-favorite novel considers youthful love, loss, and eros..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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C
|
50%
|
Sleeping Beauty (2011) |
"
[An] arty exploitation pic passed off as a feminist parable..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
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B-
|
53%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
I don't know why [Close is] keen to play such a recessive wisp of a man, but I admire how committed she is to her bowler hat."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
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A
|
96%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
In her fearless, world-here-I-am! debut Pariah, writer-director Dee Rees demonstrates, with simplicity and verve, that there's no substitute for authenticity."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
A
|
95%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
So this is what 3-D is capable of when used for art rather than the commerce of hiking ticket prices and repurposing cartoons!"
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
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A-
|
95%
|
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011) |
"
The pace is quick, the violence is rough, and the visual style is documentary as Padilha hammers home his point: Someone is forever in the pocket of someone else as The System constantly adapts to protect itself."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
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B
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Streep is her own irresistible show as she assumes, with the precision that is her trademark, the character of the U.K.'s staunchly conservative prime minister in the 1980s."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 21, 2011
|
|
B-
|
45%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
Here's a tale that compacts the grief of an entire world, country, city, and thousands of loved ones left behind into the pain of one vulnerable, fictional boy."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
A-
|
76%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
The project is tailor-made for Saving Private Ryan Spielberg, the war-story specialist, as well as for E.T. Spielberg, the chronicler of boyhood desires and yearnings for family."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 17, 2011
|
|
C+
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
No one makes sense in Reza's world of glittering mockery."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 14, 2011
|
|
C
|
22%
|
The Sitter (2011) |
"
A needlessly frenzied, pseudo-raunch comedy that whips up a whole lot of R-rated antics only to arrive at crunchy PG-13 lessons in love and tolerance."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
A-
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Shakespeare on a trip wire."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
A-
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
The really pretty Theron captures that state of really ugly inner childishness (articulated so sharply by Cody) with such precision, it makes you want to hear stories of her own high school experience."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
C
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
The biggest surprise in Shame is how distanced, passionless, and merely skin-deep the director's attention is - how little he cares about the subject of his own movie."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 30, 2011
|
|
B-
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
Michelle Williams plays Monroe, and she's a wonder."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
A-
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
A haunting, piquant melodrama about childhood dreams and yearnings, enhanced with a pleasant survey course in early film history."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
B+
|
97%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
For kids, blessedly unironic by nature until wised up by nurture, the movie is just shiny, funny, and filled with songs..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 21, 2011
|
|
C-
|
25%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
Yes, I know, Twilight fans love The Twilight Saga. But they (you?) deserve something better to love."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
C
|
45%
|
Another Happy Day (2011) |
"
Ellen Barkin - playing the estranged mother of the groom - does a big heap of acting as one of the more histrionic members of the clan."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
A-
|
96%
|
Tomboy (2011) |
"
A beautiful, matter-of-fact French drama about a young girl who wants to be a boy - and for one singular summer around her 10th birthday passes as one..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
A-
|
44%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
Miller makes nice, subtle points about interdependence on earth. Meanwhile, the earthmates in Happy Feet Two continue to dance, sing, and, yes, charm."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
A-
|
——
|
Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 5, 2011
|
|
A
|
89%
|
Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires () |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 5, 2011
|
|
A-
|
88%
|
Dragonslayer (2011) |
"
With its propulsive punk-rock soundtrack and beautifully rough cinematography, Dragonslayer makes you care about this scrawny young man, skating to nowhere."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 2, 2011
|
|
C+
|
68%
|
Tower Heist (2011) |
"
Tower Heist is the cinematic version of a Trump property: overblinged, eye-catching, and essentially tacky."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 2, 2011
|
|
C+
|
52%
|
The Devil's Double (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 29, 2011
|
|
C+
|
17%
|
The Double (2011) |
"
The twist in The Double slack mystery-thriller is revealed with a shrug about a third of the way in. After that, it's all about Gere looking grim, and Grace looking stricken as he learns what we already know."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
B
|
100%
|
Urbanized (2011) |
"
A lively if schematic overview of city planning at its best and not so best."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
C-
|
47%
|
Anonymous (2011) |
"
Scholarly debate about the Shakespeare Authorship Question has little to do with this tale told by an idio...syncratic moviemaker up to little more than mischief."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
A-
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Like Crazy tells the truth, simply: Love is thrilling. And -- just because of the way life happens -- sometimes love hurts."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
|
98%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
This typically deadpan saga from the maker of The Match Factory Girl, Drifting Clouds and The Man Without a Past (among other Netflix finds) exemplifes France's commitment to liberté, égalité, fraternité with impish sincerity."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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