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—
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92%
|
The Limey (1999) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
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—
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63%
|
Battle of Britain (1969) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
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—
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95%
|
Richard III (1995) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
|
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36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
It's antiquated kitsch reprocessed by the producer's nostalgia for the movies of his boyhood."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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|
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93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Riches of character are revealed, with copious visual invention."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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89%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
"
"Miss Bala" is a portrait of a young woman who is at once terribly vulnerable and improbably brave. It's equally a vision of a vulnerable society on the road to anarchy."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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|
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80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
There's no deeper meaning to Steven Soderbergh's thriller than what meets the eye, yet its lustrous surfaces offer great and guilt-free pleasure."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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—
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20%
|
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 14, 2012
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—
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34%
|
Bringing Down The House (2003) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 14, 2012
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—
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68%
|
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 14, 2012
|
|
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48%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
This is an uncommonly well-crafted action adventure, or an action misadventure, given how much goes wrong for the resourceful hero."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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|
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34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
Suspense plays second fiddle to the music, which is a good thing, since the music is pretty great, though also to the two leading ladies' store of folk wisdom."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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—
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90%
|
The Bridges of Madison County (1995) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 7, 2012
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|
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57%
|
It's About You (2012) |
"
"It's About You" is an odd and touching little film. I'm glad I stuck it out."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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Swastika () |
"
Paying close attention to the Hitler of these home movies gives one a deepened sense of who he was."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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|
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96%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
The originality lies in the details, and the dramatic energy that sustains almost every scene."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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|
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54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Takes a blandly nonpartisan approach to one of the most controversial, as well as influential, politicians in British history."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 30, 2011
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|
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76%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
A film that may stay in the mind's eye longer than it lingers in the heart."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 30, 2011
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—
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85%
|
Billy Elliot (2000) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 24, 2011
|
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—
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83%
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 24, 2011
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|
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63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
"We Bought a Zoo" is a movie you want to like, and a movie you can enjoy if you cut its slackness some slack."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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|
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45%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
The production's penchant for contrivance is insufferable -- not a single spontaneous moment from start to finish -- and the boy is so precocious you want to strangle him."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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|
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75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
The action grows wearisome as it grinds on, and the film becomes a succession of dazzling set pieces devoid of simple feelings."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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|
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87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
It's certainly worth seeing if you missed the original. If you saw it, however, there's no way of unseeing it, and nothing in the new one to top it."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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—
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61%
|
Mission Impossible (1996) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 17, 2011
|
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—
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84%
|
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 17, 2011
|
|
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
There's ... a desire for coherence and humanity in movies. This one doesn't feed it."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
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71%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
I was put off by the acting, or more properly by the spectacle of good actors dutifully following leaden direction, and equally by the writing, which is as thin as the veneer of civilization it purports to peel back."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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|
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93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
It's not the generic plot that's so memorable, even though its convolutions are clever enough, or the cast of mostly interesting characters, but the surreal swirl of form and color that frequently fills the enormous screen."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
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—
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72%
|
The Italian Job (2003) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 10, 2011
|
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—
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80%
|
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 10, 2011
|
|
—
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71%
|
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 10, 2011
|
|
—
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90%
|
Hunger (2009) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
—
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71%
|
Skammen (Shame) (1968) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
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84%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
This version of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" turns on the presence of Mr. Oldman, and he is an actor of great experience and accomplishment who has finally found a film that fully deserves him."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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|
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82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
What makes the movie marvelous is the same combination that the filmmaker and writer brought to "Juno" -- unerringly subtle yet precise direction plus a literate script with dramatic energy and a delicate tone."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
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83%
|
Outrage (2011) |
"
[Takeshi's] sense of style is very much in evidence here, and so is his sense of humor."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
Much of the film is banal or pretentious, or both -- vacuous vignettes about emptiness. Occasionally, though, those vignettes burst into life and burn with consuming fire."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Thematic potency and cinematic virtuosity -- the production was designed by Dante Ferretti and photographed by Robert Richardson -- can't conceal a deadly inertness at the film's core."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 28, 2011
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—
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98%
|
Some Like It Hot (1959) |
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 26, 2011
|
|
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
A dubious idea done in by Adrian Hodges's shallow script and Simon Curtis's clumsy direction."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 26, 2011
|
|
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78%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
It's about depression, but it isn't depressing at all. In the hands of Mr. von Trier, himself no stranger to emotional distress, bedazzlement is depression's surprising byproduct."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 10, 2011
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|
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44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
Mr. Eastwood's ponderous direction, a clumsy script by Dustin Lance Black and ghastly slatherings of old-age makeup all conspire to put the story at an emotional and historical distance. It's a partially animated waxworks."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
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—
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93%
|
Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 29, 2011
|
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—
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48%
|
Man From Nowhere (2010) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 29, 2011
|
|
—
|
95%
|
The Promise (La Promesse) (1996) |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
—
|
89%
|
Il etait une fois le Havre, son port, ses navires () |
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
|
37%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Andrew Niccol's "In Time" looks great, sounds stilted and plays like a clever videogame with too many rules."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
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83%
|
Puss in Boots (2011) |
"
Puss made his debut in "Shrek 2," then did time in the two decreasingly funny sequels. Now he's got a movie of his own, and not a moment too soon."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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