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2/5
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
there's plenty of jumps and stings, as well as much opening of doors, climbing of stairs and peering around corners, to a point of diminishing returns after, say, the third time Radcliffe creeps cautiously down the same hallway."
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Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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4/5
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57%
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Film socialisme (2011) |
"
With its rich, layered storytelling, "Film Socialisme" is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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1.5/5
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15%
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The Divide (2012) |
"
When a character swims through raw sewage to escape at the film's climax, it's hard not feel a certain solidarity."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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3/5
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82%
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Addiction Incorporated (2011) |
"
Evans mines enough fresh info from the story that it feels at times familiar but not redundant."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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1/5
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5%
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The Devil Inside (2012) |
"
People of the world: If you find some footage, leave it be. You will likely be doing the rest of us a huge favor."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 7, 2012
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1/5
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0%
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Beneath The Darkness (2012) |
"
At times it seems the simple ineptitude of "Beneath the Darkness" surely must mask some undercurrent of deeper sophistication and intention on behalf of the filmmakers. Alas, as it turns out, such things never surface."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
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2/5
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12%
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The Darkest Hour (2011) |
"
What's the point of going all the way to Moscow if the shots you come back with end up looking like cheap green-screen process work?"
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 27, 2011
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2/5
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——
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Don 2 (2011) |
"
Director Farhan Akhtar shoots and cuts the action awkwardly, not quite knowing where to place the camera, so the film never gets the slam-bang momentum it might want."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 26, 2011
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—
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——
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Winx Club 3d: Magic Adventure () |
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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2/5
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25%
|
Magic to Win (2011) |
"
Yip's earlier films "Ip Man" and "Ip Man 2" also might have been wildly uneven, but at least they satisfied a basic craving for good action. "Magic to Win" turns up as a real loser."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
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—
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78%
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Outrage (2009) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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3.5/5
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89%
|
The Yellow Sea (2011) |
"
A breakneck mix of bone-crunching freneticism and bloody close-quarters knife-fighting with a strand of romantic melancholy."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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4/5
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83%
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Outrage (2011) |
"
So low-key and offhanded in its mastery that it becomes something like a pulp sleight-of-hand trick."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
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2/5
|
63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
Cameron Crowe won't suffer another total commercial and critical flameout, but this is no return to form."
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Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2011
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2/5
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——
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Pete Smalls is Dead (2011) |
"
Many of the film's storytelling beats seems drawn perhaps a little too closely from "The Long Goodbye," Raymond Chandler's elegiac detective novel adapted into a classic by Robert Altman."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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2/5
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76%
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The Other F Word (2011) |
"
"The Other F Word" winds up feeling scattershot and unfocused."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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4/5
|
88%
|
Hipsters (2011) |
"
Raucous and vibrant."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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|
—
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75%
|
The Hammer (2007) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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2/5
|
——
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The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (Yip Man chinchyun) (2010) |
"
IMDB lists the title of the film as "Ip Man Zero," an obvious nod to its coming before parts one and two, but unfortunately, it's also an inadvertent comment on what this particular film has to offer."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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3/5
|
91%
|
Inni (2011) |
"
Sigur Rós fans are intensely devoted -- lore describes people passing out at shows in some sort of overwhelmed, ecstatic state -- and "Inni" finally gives some sense of why and how that might happen."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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2.5/5
|
——
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The Hammer (2011) |
"
"The Hammer" never quite brings the pain, in the parlance of pro wrestling, leaving the film feeling heartfelt but flat."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 26, 2011
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3/5
|
76%
|
Bombay Beach (2011) |
"
More lyrical tone poem than straightforward documentary."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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3.5/5
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
It seems telling just how many other musicians were willing to participate in the documentary to attest to the outfit's influence."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 21, 2011
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3.5/5
|
67%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
Far and away the sharpest, most wildly aware film in the series."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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3/5
|
92%
|
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011) |
"
With its hefty running time, the film builds an unexpected emotional resonance, though never exactly sympathy..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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1.5/5
|
31%
|
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) |
"
Six has in essence backed himself into a rhetorical corner, leaving as perhaps the only option for his next stunt something in which the filmmaker Tom Six winds up with his mouth surgically attached to his own anus."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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4/5
|
68%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
A fascinating, deeply felt film of wild, untamed emotions and probing insights."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
7%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
Sheridan can't ever quite get hold of the tone and falls back on a default dreaminess (the little girls play a shaky rendition of Beethoven's "Für Elise" more than once) that never quite convinces."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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2.5/5
|
44%
|
Beware the Gonzo (2011) |
"
"Beware the Gonzo" isn't bad, it's just that for a film aiming to celebrate media rebellion it feels timid and unadventurous."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
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4/5
|
59%
|
El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011) |
"
Offers a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes at the Spanish restaurant hailed as the most influential eatery in the world."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
66%
|
Shut Up Little Man! (2011) |
"
Goes from funny to not funny in about the length of time it takes for the lawyers to get involved."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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3/5
|
50%
|
Love in Space (2011) |
"
Though it doesn't exactly have pretensions toward the rhythms of real life, the film does nail the breezy movie feeling of a buffed-and-polished romantic comedy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
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1/5
|
——
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A Kiss and a Promise (2011) |
"
Why an actor would create a starring part for himself this thin and underdeveloped is beyond explanation."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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3/5
|
12%
|
Creature (2011) |
"
With dependably creepy character actor Sid Haig to goose things along as leader of the locals, "Creature" is delightfully dopey."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 8, 2011
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1/5
|
25%
|
Apollo 18 (2011) |
"
The film takes a startlingly long time to rev up, and even at less than 90 minutes feels thin and at moments like it is playing for time."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 3, 2011
|
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1/5
|
32%
|
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011) |
"
Unable to decide whether to pitch their story as chastely sweet or ridiculously raunchy, filmmakers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck end up with something that just lays there flacid."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
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3/5
|
83%
|
Circumstance (2011) |
"
A drama of depth, nuance and ambition."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
23%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
This fourth "Spy Kids" picture isn't so much bad as it is just boring, lacking the buzz and brio of even some of the earlier entries in the series."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 22, 2011
|
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3/5
|
22%
|
3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011) |
"
"3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" finds it is love, not sex, that rules the human heart, a sweet and conventional idea regardless of the technology of the film's projection."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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|
2.5/5
|
33%
|
Born and Bred (2011) |
"
As he tells the story of a pair of teenage brothers looking to qualify for the Olympic boxing team and an even younger fighter trying to overcome a troubled childhood, Frimmer in essence loses the forest for the trees."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 19, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
Magic Trip (2011) |
"
Gibney and Ellwood struggle to create context for or make much sense of the vibrant hodge-podge of material that they excavated from the archives of Kesey, who died in 2001."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
73%
|
The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
Too well-intentioned for its own good."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
|
79%
|
Cold Fish (2011) |
"
Cold Fish is wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff, and it makes a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 2, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Where The Road Meets The Sun (2011) |
"
"Where the Road Meets the Sun" is earnest but inorganic, trying hard but uninvolving, with little to actually say about the big, mixed-up intersection of crazy and unbelievable that is Los Angeles at its best."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 29, 2011
|
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4/5
|
90%
|
Attack the Block (2011) |
"
Pulsing with a rowdy energy, the film works as both a sci-fi horror flick and a teen adventure film."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
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2/5
|
——
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Good Day for It () |
"
Not agile enough to make the idea of a contemporary small-town western really work, Stagliano instead simply cranks out a rather bland programmer doomed for the anonymity of a video store shelf or VOD queue."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 21, 2011
|
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4/5
|
91%
|
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (2011) |
"
The film serves both as a welcome document and reminder of the group in its prime, while also creating a portrait of lives still in motion, grown men trying to move on from yet respect the work of their younger selves."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
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34%
|
Larry Crowne (2011) |
"
With its eager-to-please congeniality, it almost works, but with a pacing that is at once comfortably assured and frustratingly slack, like holding exactly to the speed limit on a stretch of open road, Larry Crowne never quite comes to life."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
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2/5
|
25%
|
The Beginning of a Great Revival (2011) |
"
"Great Revival" is in many ways the very definition of propaganda - it even ends with an image of a waving flag - but "Revival" is too harmlessly flabby to be taken quite that seriously."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 23, 2011
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