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98%	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)	" Moonrise Kingdom is a deeply romantic film, perhaps the sweetest and most compassionate Anderson has ever made." — Salon.com Posted May 23, 2012
73%	Intouchables (2012)	" I enjoyed "The Intouchables" quite a bit." — Salon.com Posted May 22, 2012
26%	Mansome (2012)	" It's more first-person journal and travelogue than it is cultural archaeology, and as such it's basically OK." — Salon.com Posted May 19, 2012
89%	Elena (2012)	" The truly terrible question asked by this quiet, haunting and magnificent film is: Dear God, isn't there some better way to live?" — Salon.com Posted May 17, 2012
92%	La demoiselle d'honneur (The Bridesmaid) (2004)	" A prickly, twisted, mean-spirited, borderline crazy and highly seductive picture." — Salon.com Posted May 17, 2012
35%	Battleship (2012)	" Berg has definitely spent his reported $200 million budget on stuff you can see. It's just all so profoundly stupid." — Salon.com Posted May 17, 2012
60%	The Dictator (2012)	" Although the character of Aladeen seems awfully predictable by Baron Cohen standards, the movie itself veers from one hilarious, absurd and patently offensive setup to the next..." — Salon.com Posted May 15, 2012
71%	The Road (2012)	" If it's patchy and derivative it also has a compelling, soapy undertow that kept me watching." — Salon.com Posted May 11, 2012
88%	I Wish (2012)	" "I Wish" is a wonderful adventure film that's no less thrilling for its modest scale, and a film whose emotional power and intelligence sneak up on you." — Salon.com Posted May 10, 2012
41%	Dark Shadows (2012)	" "Dark Shadows" offers potent atmosphere and delirious '70s fashions and hilarious gags and some really terrific performances, none better than Pfeiffer's triumphant return to the screen as a pitch-perfect family matriarch." — Salon.com Posted May 10, 2012
91%	The Connection (2007)	" A lean, mean saga of jazz, junk and rebellion." — Salon.com Posted May 4, 2012
93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" If you're not much of a Marvel Comics person but just want to get an early start on your mindless summer moviegoing, well, I guess this picture is no stupider than anything else." — Salon.com Posted May 2, 2012
83%	Whores' Glory (2012)	" A daring, novelistic and unforgettable account of the real lives of female prostitutes in three very different countries and social contexts." — Salon.com Posted Apr 28, 2012
75%	Sound of My Voice (2012)	" Proves how effectively you can set the mind-bending mood without any special effects, action sequences or spectral rabbits." — Salon.com Posted Apr 28, 2012
55%	Safe (2012)	" From its implacable hero and thoroughgoing cynicism to its electrified pace and fairytale conclusion, "Safe" is both a slavish imitation of cinema gone by and a movie for our time." — Salon.com Posted Apr 25, 2012
100%	The Day He Arrives (2012)	" Hong offers a strange mixture of magic, mystery, rueful melodrama and dry comedy that's like absolutely nothing else." — Salon.com Posted Apr 20, 2012
81%	Goodbye First Love (2012)	" This is a rigorously crafted film steeped in the French tradition, but it's meant to be a sensual and emotional experience, not a verbal or analytical one." — Salon.com Posted Apr 19, 2012
52%	Think Like a Man (2012)	" I'm not going to claim this is a good movie, in some Platonic-ideal way..." — Salon.com Posted Apr 19, 2012
——	California, 90420 (2012)	" I don't know whether Shull intends to debunk the stereotypes surrounding marijuana use or reinforce them, but he does a little of both." — Salon.com Posted Apr 18, 2012
22%	Darling Companion (2012)	" Kasdan was one of the hottest guys in the business for at least a decade. Today, although he's younger than Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese ... Kasdan looks like a flailing, irrelevant has-been." — Salon.com Posted Apr 18, 2012
50%	Late Bloomers (2012)	" I'm not sure the social prejudices Gavras tries to mine for laughs here quite exist anymore." — Salon.com Posted Apr 13, 2012
90%	The Cabin in the Woods (2012)	" Quite a bit of it is great, and most of it works, and the stuff that clicks is outrageously entertaining and funny, sometimes with surprising depth." — Salon.com Posted Apr 12, 2012
76%	Damsels in Distress (2012)	" [A] digressive, whimsical, silly and ridiculously fun movie..." — Salon.com Posted Apr 5, 2012
24%	October Baby (2012)	" The odds that this has happened in the real world approach those of being struck by lightning and eaten by a shark at the same time. With a winning lottery ticket tucked in your swimsuit." — Salon.com Posted Mar 23, 2012
83%	The Raid: Redemption (2012)	" Listen, just watch the doggone movie." — Salon.com Posted Mar 22, 2012
85%	The Hunger Games (2012)	" "The Hunger Games" never really holds together or makes any sense, except as an elementary fairy tale about a young girl's coming of age and an incipient romantic triangle (which is the focus of the film, far more than the book)." — Salon.com Posted Mar 20, 2012
44%	Casa de mi padre (2012)	" Is "Casa de Mi Padre" brilliant or pointless? Indubitably it's both, as Ron Burgundy might put it." — Salon.com Posted Mar 15, 2012
91%	Footnote (2012)	" Both actors are tremendous: Bar Aba has the air of a near-boiling teakettle or an unexploded bomb, while Ashkenazi's Uriel looks on with a mixture of bafflement, exhaustion and reluctant affection." — Salon.com Posted Mar 10, 2012
97%	Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945)	" If you give this movie time to work on you, the elements that seem overly artificial or impossibly distant from our own time fade into insignificance, and you're left with a complicated and wonderful romantic drama that's full of surprises." — Salon.com Posted Mar 8, 2012
52%	John Carter (2012)	" You can feel Stanton struggling to bring the confidence, wit and style of "Wall-E" and "Finding Nemo" to bear upon this leviathan, but he can't quite pull it off." — Salon.com Posted Mar 7, 2012
64%	Friends With Kids (2012)	" Let's give Westfeldt her due for making this completely hidebound, moralistic and sentimental yarn feel somewhat fresh and contemporary." — Salon.com Posted Mar 6, 2012
85%	The Snowtown Murders (2012)	" An impressive but exceptionally disturbing feature debut from Australian director Justin Kurzel that pushes the new wave of Aussie crime films up a notch." — Salon.com Posted Mar 1, 2012
100%	This Is Not a Film (2012)	" Any way you slice it, it's a brave and brilliant act of defiance." — Salon.com Posted Feb 29, 2012
100%	The Fairy (2012)	" It's wonderful to be reminded that the film universe is more diverse than the Oscars normally suggest - and also that movies can be lightweight entertainments and also deeply strange." — Salon.com Posted Feb 23, 2012
95%	Undefeated (2012)	" A "Hoop Dreams"-style story about sports and society that inspired me and made me mad in about equal portions." — Salon.com Posted Feb 16, 2012
86%	Chico & Rita (2012)	" A dazzling and delightful work of modernist animation, a classic movie romance and a hip-swinging, finger-popping tale of musical revolution..." — Salon.com Posted Feb 9, 2012
76%	Rampart (2012)	" This movie's too small and too dark to have gotten Harrelson into the overcrowded best-actor race, but it's without question one of the year's great performances." — Salon.com Posted Feb 9, 2012
88%	The Turin Horse (2012)	" Watching them is something like visiting the world's most fantastic art museum and taking an ice-cold shower, both at the same time." — Salon.com Posted Feb 3, 2012
74%	Kill List (2012)	" This movie is yet another testament to the thriving creativity of the British indie-film scene." — Salon.com Posted Feb 2, 2012
72%	Windfall (2012)	" It's a microcosmic version of the political divisions - between left and right, environmentalists and free-marketers, corporations and citizens - that have virtually paralyzed our republic." — Salon.com Posted Feb 2, 2012
80%	Keep the Lights On ()	" Not only does this film gloriously fulfill the potential that Ira Sachs has tantalized movie-lovers with for years, it also help explains what took him so long." — Salon.com Posted Jan 28, 2012
85%	Declaration of War (2012)	" "Declaration of War" still is a profoundly affecting family drama, no matter how much artifice Donzelli piles on top of it." — Salon.com Posted Jan 26, 2012
60%	Bachelorette (2012)	" This is a rapier-sharp, fast-paced comedy of manners, less concerned with delivering big laughs than with exploring its characters and their complicated interactions." — Salon.com Posted Jan 25, 2012
50%	Lay the Favorite ()	" Those of us who still venerate Frears as a pioneer of British indie cinema in the '80s pine for him to have higher goals than a ditzy true-crime romp, but maybe that's our problem rather than his." — Salon.com Posted Jan 23, 2012
57%	Simon Killer ()	" A brilliantly orchestrated work of cinema in a grimy, 1970s vein." — Salon.com Posted Jan 22, 2012
33%	Hello I Must Be Going (2012)	" If it's too subtle (and too similar to several other low-key indie romcoms) to make a big splash, it's got lovely performances and really builds strength as it goes along." — Salon.com Posted Jan 21, 2012
78%	The Queen of Versailles (2012)	" Like a Theodore Dreiser novel for our time, infused with the vivid, vulgar spirit of reality TV. It often had the sold-out Eccles Center howling, but also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory." — Salon.com Posted Jan 20, 2012
80%	Haywire (2012)	" "Haywire" is a lean, clean production, shot and edited by Soderbergh himself and utterly free of the incoherent action sequences and overcooked special effects that plague similarly scaled Hollywood pictures." — Salon.com Posted Jan 19, 2012
87%	Miss Bala (2012)	" In the vision of this ruthless and abundantly talented young director, life in Tijuana isn't merely as bad as you think. It's worse." — Salon.com Posted Jan 19, 2012

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