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—
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42%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
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The Playlist
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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80%
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Wrong () |
"
More exciting in theory than it is in practice."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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86%
|
Beasts Of The Southern Wild () |
"
A beautiful fairy tale about survivor's guilt that's about as good as the festival hype would have you believe."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 28, 2012
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V/H/S (2012) |
"
It's telling that the most satisfying segment in V/H/S was directed by a group called Radio Silence."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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Shut Up and Play the Hits () |
"
He may sing, "All I want is your pity," in "All I Want," but that sentiment is not what LCD Soundsystem deserves to be remembered for."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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50%
|
John Dies at the End () |
"
In Coscarelli's reprehensibly lazy adaptation, much of which is copied note-for-note from Pargin's book, shit happens at a furious pace, and almost none of it is adequately explained. "
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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100%
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The Surrogate () |
"
If only there was more to The Surrogate than ephemeral beauty."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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—
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67%
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The Women on the 6th Floor (2011) |
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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|
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100%
|
Smashed () |
"
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul only serve to highlight everything that the rest of James Ponsoldt's film sorely lacks."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 23, 2012
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64%
|
Red Hook Summer () |
"
It's a rousing drama and certainly Spike Lee's most hopeful since 9/11."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 23, 2012
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100%
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Robot and Frank () |
"
Weirdly enough, Robot and Frank's biggest problems don't stem from our not being able to take Frank's robot seriously, but from the depictions of the man relating to his family."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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——
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Filly Brown () |
"
There's no essential truthfulness to Majo's emotional journey."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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40%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever () |
"
Celeste and Jesse Forever is a big missed opportunity. "
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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50%
|
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) |
"
Tim and Eric are vomiting their ids, replete with jokes about being covered in various different fluids (from rancid yogurt to semen), onto the screen. And that's sometimes pretty funny. But their kind comedy works better in short sketches."
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House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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64%
|
Another Earth (2011) |
"
Another Earth is a high-concept failure. "
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House Next Door
Posted Dec 6, 2011
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72%
|
Bellflower (2011) |
"
Time in writer-director Evan Glodell's Bellflower is a linear path to a pitilessly bleak emotional abyss. "
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House Next Door
Posted Nov 21, 2011
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10%
|
Trespass (2011) |
"
Trespass is a bad film. It's also stupid fun."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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—
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——
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If You Are the One 2 (Fei Cheng Wu Rao Ii) (2010) |
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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1/4
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77%
|
Ra. One (2011) |
"
It champions an incoherently hackneyed kind of morality where filial piety matters more than treating your fellow man well."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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76%
|
The Robber (2011) |
"
The Robber isn't all it could be, but there's a kernel of a great film in it."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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60%
|
The Shock Doctrine (2009) |
"
The Shock Doctrine does a poor job of preaching to the choir and winds up looking paranoid and more than a little ridiculous."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2011
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2/4
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44%
|
The Catechism Cataclysm (2011) |
"
While the ending to any shaggy-dog story is supposed to be irrelevant, The Catechism Cataclysm's capper is particularly enervating."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2011
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90%
|
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Saibogujiman kwenchana) (2006) |
"
It took five years for I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK to get an official U.S. release, and while its not for everyone, the film is one of director Park Chan-wook's best."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2011
|
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—
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78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
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House Next Door
Posted Oct 8, 2011
|
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71%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
The most striking thing about Carnage, Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yazmin Reza's stiff but satisfying stage play God of Carnage, is how much funnier it is than its source material. "
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House Next Door
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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92%
|
Incendies (2011) |
"
The apolitical nature of Incendies, a novelistic melodrama about the way terrorism effects people on a personal level, is strangely more irksome than the film's tempestuous and highly controversial final twist."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 27, 2011
|
|
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92%
|
Circo (2011) |
"
Circo is too all over the place to be more than just a missed opportunity."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 21, 2011
|
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2/4
|
14%
|
Shark Night 3D (2011) |
"
Shark Night 3D sets itself apart from Ellis's other films in its sincere attempt to humanize its heedless pretty young things. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
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3.5/4
|
90%
|
Love Exposure (2011) |
"
Love Exposure is, in a sense, Shion Sono's equivalent of the Great Russian novel. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 31, 2011
|
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79%
|
Road To Nowhere (2011) |
"
Road to Nowhere is a tribute to the artifice and the rawness of cinema and a fitting testament to director Monte Hellman's powers of cinematic sleight of hand. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 23, 2011
|
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——
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Tekken (2011) |
"
Neither Gon nor Doctor B make cameo appearances in Tekken the movie. You do not want to see Tekken the movie."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2011
|
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2.5/4
|
100%
|
World on a Wire (2011) |
"
Fassbinder, who also co-adapted the film's screenplay, usually makes a point of undermining the affectation of his melodramas with jarring intrusions of camp."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2011
|
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0/4
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
Zookeeper is essentially a surreally awful Happy Madison Productions version of Mad Libs."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2011
|
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2/4
|
91%
|
Delhi Belly (2011) |
"
The film is by and large too concerned with not offending its audience too much for it to ever even be that shocking."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2011
|
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——
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Women in Cages (1971) |
"
Pam Grier can do anything, even make cheesy skin flicks worth seeing. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2011
|
|
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100%
|
The Big Doll House (1971) |
"
Pam Grier can do anything, even make cheesy skin flicks worth seeing. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2011
|
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——
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The Big Bird Cage (Women's Penitentiary II) (1972) |
"
Pam Grier can do anything, even make cheesy skin flicks worth seeing. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2011
|
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1/4
|
48%
|
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) |
"
In spite of his adorable CG fish-eating accessories, Popper is just another lazy, family-friendly stock patriarch in a long line of clueless but basically well-meaning fathers that Carrey has played over the years. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2011
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|
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100%
|
Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters) (1983) |
"
Even if it's sorely lacking in supplementary materials, Criterion's DVD of The Makioka Sisters is still worth a look for the gloriously restored transfer of Ichikawa's wonderful melodrama. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2011
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—
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67%
|
Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978) |
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2011
|
|
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67%
|
Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978) |
"
Of the authorial trifecta that created Despair, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's voice is the most pronounced."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2011
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——
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Adua e le compagne (Adua and Company) (Adua and Her Friends) (Hungry for Love) (Love a la Carte) (2011) |
"
Worth a look for Simone Signoret's smile and Raro Video's immaculate restoration, but the film itself is pretty inessential."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 31, 2011
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63%
|
Le Mans (1971) |
"
Le Mans needs to be rediscovered so that it can be hopefully embraced as one of star Steve McQueen's finest hours."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 28, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
Thor continues the trend of weakly jumpstarting a franchise based on a Marvel comic with an instantly forgettable origin story."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2011
|
|
—
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7%
|
Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) (1998) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2011
|
|
—
|
75%
|
The Way Back (2011) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Let the Bullets Fly (2012) |
"
The world of difference in tone and content between actor-turned-director Jiang Wen's Let the Bullets Fly and his masterful Devils on the Doorstep can be seen in the former film's deceptively happy ending. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2011
|
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1/4
|
——
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Neon Flesh (2012) |
"
If Neon Flesh is any indication, writer-director Paco Cabezas is a deeply confused Guy Ritchie rip-off artist. "
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
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46%
|
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) |
"
Peter Fonda makes a better badass in Dirty Mary than he does a milquetoast in Race with the Devil."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2011
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