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C-
|
66%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
Baron Cohen's demonstrations of political ''outrageousness'' feel all too canned, planned, and defanged."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 15, 2012
|
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A-
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91%
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Nobody Else But You (2012) |
"
Writer-director Gérald Hustache-Mathieu sustains a fresh voice influenced by the Coen brothers and the infernal snow of Fargo."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 9, 2012
|
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C-
|
27%
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Jesus Henry Christ (2012) |
"
Lee scratches the skin of family bonds until it bleeds."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 9, 2012
|
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D
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29%
|
Girl In Progress (2012) |
"
This inauthentic teen tale, with its cosmetically softened edges, serves neither the young people nor the Mendes fans for whom it might be intended."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 9, 2012
|
|
A-
|
81%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
[A] acute drama of young romance and passionate sex, as well as what you learn when you lose both."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 2, 2012
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B+
|
95%
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First Position (2012) |
"
Each of [the] six young subjects vying for the Youth America Grand Prix (and the priceless award of a full scholarship to a top ballet school) is a wonder of self-imposed discipline in service to art."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 2, 2012
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D-
|
4%
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A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
As embodied with clueless good humor by Kate Hudson, fatal sickness looks more like a lifestyle and wardrobe choice than a tragedy."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 2, 2012
|
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B-
|
75%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
[A] lulling, happy-face story of retirement-age self-renewal, set in a shimmering, weltering, jewel-colored India."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
C
|
——
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Tierra Cali - En Vivo Desde La Plaza De Toros "Monumental De Morelia" (2008) |
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 21, 2012
|
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C+
|
64%
|
To the Arctic (2012) |
"
MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic-screen nature movies including The Living Sea, is up to date in his use of 70mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 18, 2012
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|
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63%
|
Shampoo (1975) |
"
There's a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
The movie's tonic lack of sentimentality binds the various griefs together into something moving."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
|
C
|
15%
|
The Moth Diaries (2012) |
"
Defeats Harron's talent for exploring darkness on the edge of kinkiness."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
|
C
|
36%
|
Lockout (2012) |
"
Too serious to be a parody and too stupid to be a viable action pic, Lockout floats like space junk in the final frontier."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
B-
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
Even when all hell breaks loose, that hell is cushioned by air quotes, with the audience buckled up for benign, heady fun."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 11, 2012
|
|
C+
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
Whatever imaginary era writer-director Whit Stillman has in mind, the customs he explores in this wan, self-consciously talky little drama intrigue him more than they do his audience."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
C+
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
Mirror Mirror is a film that's all picture and no propulsion, each scene static in a basic set-decoration color scheme of teabag and banana."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 31, 2012
|
|
B-
|
33%
|
Intruders (2012) |
"
Plays with classic horror elements of rain, bony monster fingers, vertiginous camera angles, and assorted shout-outs to Pan's Labyrinth."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 28, 2012
|
|
A
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
Passion defies reason in The Deep Blue Sea."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 21, 2012
|
|
C
|
50%
|
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) |
"
Ferrara's thin idea for a movie - life goes on, even when it's about to stop - would have been a lot better had he given his characters more to do."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 21, 2012
|
|
A-
|
84%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
This Hunger Games is a muscular, honorable, unflinching translation of Collins' vision. It's brutal where it needs to be, particularly when children fight and bleed."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
C
|
58%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
"
The two stars appear to be as bewildered by the turn of events as we are."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
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A
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
No one charts the wilds of childhood more precisely than the Dardennes."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
B
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
A goofy, sweet comedy about estranged siblings who work their way back to brotherly love in the course of a daylong, very shaggy caper of coincidences."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
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A-
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
It's part homage and part wink at the past. It jokes about high school but is also a sensitive sociological study of those crucial years. It bridges slapstick and action. It's quick-witted with its pop references."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 14, 2012
|
|
B+
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
A denouement more textbook than thrilling stalls some of the movie's power. But the early chills are potent, intense."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
A
|
91%
|
Footnote (2012) |
"
Footnote is itself a perfect little piece of Talmud, full of text, commentary, and colorful argument."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
B+
|
63%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
The observations about parenthood, pro and con, are quick and smart, and Scott effortlessly steals the show, softening Westfeldt's brittle cuteness."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 7, 2012
|
|
B+
|
87%
|
Boy (2012) |
"
Boy could have been a twee mush of cuteness and bathos but it's not, in large part because of the outstanding cast of unself-conscious Maori kids."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 7, 2012
|
|
B+
|
80%
|
Return (2012) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 3, 2012
|
|
A
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2003) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
B+
|
86%
|
The Forgiveness of Blood (2012) |
"
Joshua Marston once again distinguishes himself as a filmmaker serious about understanding lives a world away from his own."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 22, 2012
|
|
A
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
Ignore the title This Is Not a Film - this is a great film, and a triumph of creativity and courage over repression."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 22, 2012
|
|
A-
|
60%
|
Wanderlust (2012) |
"
Every actor who gets the joke shines, even when the story occasionally bumbles and bobbles its momentum."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 22, 2012
|
|
B+
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
B+
|
81%
|
The Skin I Live In (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
C
|
20%
|
Fireflies in the Garden (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
D+
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
B
|
25%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
This Means War may have been hammered together by brute Hollywood force, but there's this going for it: It's game to throw in anything that'll keep the motor running."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 15, 2012
|
|
B+
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
The result is a dreamy, soft-edged hybrid, equally interested in observing raindrops and the worries of a race of minuscule beings."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 15, 2012
|
|
D
|
29%
|
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."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
A-
|
58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
A-
|
90%
|
In Darkness (2012) |
"
A daringly murky-looking movie that demands viewers enter the void..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
|
|
B+
|
51%
|
Perfect Sense (2012) |
"
An intriguing apocalyptic romance with a multi-purpose title."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
|
|
B
|
42%
|
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."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
|
|
B-
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
An old-fashioned, tastefully constrained supernatural thriller..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
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."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
A-
|
84%
|
Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
Wiseman freely, unobtrusively prowls the joint to create a movie that respects the serious work involved in simulating the sensations of pleasure."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
B+
|
77%
|
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."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
85%
78%
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