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C
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8%
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Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Runner Runner is a run-of-the-mill rise-and-fall story, treating its hero to fabulous, exotic luxury before tugging the rug out from under him."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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A-
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80%
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I Used To Be Darker (2013) |
"
Drenched in the evening glow of its urban and suburban backdrops, Darker comes alive in the dark, when its characters are drowning their sorrows in song, the sauce, or conversation."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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A-
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84%
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A Touch of Sin (2013) |
"
The movie builds repeatedly to crescendo, pushing some desperate individual to the brink and then watching as he or she explodes into violence."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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C+
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53%
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A.C.O.D. (2013) |
"
It's too broad to qualify as incisive, too mild to rise above the level of amusing."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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B+
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98%
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Gravity (2013) |
"
If nothing else, Gravity makes the case for throwing immense resources at true visionaries; the blockbuster craftsman as adventurer, Cuarón expertly blends the epic with the intimate."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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B-
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90%
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Inequality For All (2013) |
"
As easy as it is to be intellectually seduced by the man's arguments, it's also hard to avoid wishing that his own cult of personality-his jokes and his history-didn't dominate so much of the running time."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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C+
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83%
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Don Jon (2013) |
"
On page and screen, Gordon-Levitt mostly fails to transform his bulky title protagonist into a multi-dimensional figure. He belongs in the final 15 minutes of an SNL episode, not at the center of a full-sized comedy."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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B-
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78%
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Metallica Through the Never (2013) |
"
Through The Never plays like The Black Album of concert films: It's enormous, slick, and occasionally rousing, but largely fails to capture the sheer intensity of Metallica's superior '80s work."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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C
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59%
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) |
"
Like too many sequels, this second helping of Meatballs confuses bigger for better, piling on the action but misplacing much of the original's charm."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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B-
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67%
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Haute Cuisine (2013) |
"
Narrowness of focus keeps the movie from becoming bloated with self-importance, but it also leaves it feeling a little inconsequential-more of a pleasing snack than a satisfying meal."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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A-
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71%
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C.O.G. (2013) |
"
There are some who have complained that C.O.G. ends too abruptly, but it has the bracing, devastating punctuation of a fine short story."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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C+
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50%
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Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Works much better as an act of earnest education than as, well, comedy or drama."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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b
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88%
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Life Of Crime () |
"
A repetitive but sometimes beguiling documentary."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 15, 2013
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c
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70%
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Tom à la ferme (Tom at the Farm) () |
"
Another misfire starring its director, Tom At The Farm is the first real folly from young French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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b
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89%
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013) |
"
There's still something undeniably moving about the film's trajectory, which allows McConaughey to blossom into an empathetic figure-one whose homophobia fades as his fighting spirit intensifies-without losing his rapscallion spirit. "
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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a-
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91%
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Stray Dogs () |
"
Tsai's latest is small and human and primal-a howl from the gutter, and a survival story about life on the fringe, in which a family of four ekes out an existence one day and scavenged meal at a time."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b+
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80%
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Prisoners (2013) |
"
In any case, the crowd I watched it with sat in awed, tense silence throughout-a mighty good sign that a thriller is doing its job."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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78%
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Night Moves () |
"
Another of the director's intimate portraits of people living on the fringes of society, it's at once her most plot-heavy and pedigreed production, and one of her most oblique."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b
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100%
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Manakamana () |
"
A repetitive but sometimes beguiling documentary produced by the directors of Leviathan,"
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b
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50%
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L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears) () |
"
Becomes a little numbing. Until then, however-and breaking points will vary-it feels like the most visually dazzling film of the fest"
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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B-
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96%
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Mother Of George (2013) |
"
The actors are both superb, conveying suppressed feeling through falters in their perpetual poker faces."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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c-
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58%
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The Sacrament () |
"
West essentially re-creates a real-life atrocity, beat for awful beat, for the sake of some second-rate thrills."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 11, 2013
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b
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95%
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Enough Said (2013) |
"
That's a fairly contrived sitcom scenario, but Holofcener bends it into a loose, lightly funny meditation on divorce, getting older, and impending empty-nest syndrome. Also, yes, Gandolfini is terrific."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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C+
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75%
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Populaire (2013) |
"
Only those unversed in frothy, Weinstein-approved confections will wonder where Populaire is headed."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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B
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91%
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Our Nixon (2013) |
"
The results are akin to seeing the Nixon presidency through the eyes of his top aides; it's as much a portrait of innocence lost as a behind-closed-doors exposé."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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B-
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64%
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One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
Here and there, the faintest glimmer of actual drama presents itself."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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B
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
Closed Circuit may be little more than a high-minded, shrewdly topical gloss on a shopworn genre, but its cynicism is bracing."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 28, 2013
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B-
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
More than anything Wong has ever made, the movie chokes on exposition, its more poetic concerns stifled by its surfeit of plot."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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B
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75%
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You're Next (2013) |
"
What the film lacks in originality it mostly makes for in personality-a quality fatally lacking from too many contemporary extreme-horror offerings."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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A-
|
89%
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The World's End (2013) |
"
Far from pining for their glory days, Wright and company are living them now. The World's End looks, despite its title, like just the beginning for all involved."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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C
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12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
On the page, all of these elements may cohere into something distinctive, perhaps through the help of colorful prose. Onscreen, not so much."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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C-
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4%
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Paranoia (2013) |
"
As a post-financial-crisis movie, Paranoia is muddled at best, wagging its finger at Hemsworth's ambitious bridge-and-tunnel type while fetishizing the life of luxury he cheats his way into."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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D
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31%
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Austenland (2013) |
"
It's a truly half-assed satire, one whose senseless sensibility seems less informed by the best of English literature than the worst of Saturday Night Live."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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C+
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
Lowery, it can't be denied, has Malick's moves down pat. It's the Malick touch that eludes him."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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C
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
A juvenile comedy of excess, in which skewering adolescent power fantasies looks an awful lot like indulging in them."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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B+
|
84%
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Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
Director David Gordon Green emerges from the billowy cloud of ganja smoke that's swallowed his career, breathing in the refreshing air of the Texas wilderness"
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AV Club
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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D+
|
27%
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Planes (2013) |
"
It's the cinematic equivalent of those Chinese knockoff luxury sedans."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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C+
|
38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
Characters don't so much have conversations as read Dungeons & Dragons manuals at each other. The whole thing feels like exposition in search of a story."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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C+
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Appealing though he usually is as an action hero, Damon doesn't have much to do here but scowl and look cool brandishing giant weapons."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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B-
|
78%
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Europa Report (2013) |
"
There's something adventurous about dicing a deep-space opus into home-video fragments. Call it one small step for found-footage, and leave it at that."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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B
|
91%
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The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
That these moments end up feeling more true than false, as if torn from a diary and not a screenwriting handbook, is thanks principally to the actors bringing them to life."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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B-
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
Liberated from her trademark snark, Plaza tackles the awkwardness of fledgling foreplay with screwball abandon."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 25, 2013
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B
|
69%
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The Wolverine (2013) |
"
It doesn't payoff prior installments or set up future ones, but seems to exist almost out of time, for the simple, quaint purpose of pitting its iconic mutant superhero against samurais, ninjas, and vicious yakuza thugs."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 24, 2013
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C
|
14%
|
R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
Nothing short of wiping their memories with a real-life neuralizer is going to convince moviegoers that the supernatural buddy-cop comedy R.I.P.D. is anything more than a thinly disguised Men In Black ripoff."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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C
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
The results are sometimes striking, in pure visual terms, but rarely engaging; even as a brutish saga of underworld retribution, the film fails to get the heart pounding."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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C-
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
Girl Most Likely builds to a climax of such monumental stupidity that it destroys whatever slim pretense of realism the film has heretofore established."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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B+
|
87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
As an exercise in classical scare tactics, delivered through an escalating series of primo setpieces, The Conjuring is often supremely effective."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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B-
|
65%
|
Turbo (2013) |
"
For all its chronic familiarity, the movie has its minor pleasures, many of them visual. Though at this point it's basically a given that a new studio-animated movie will look good, Turbo often looks downright exceptional."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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B
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
For all its expensive grandeur, almost too epic even for the vast canvases of IMAX, Pacific Rim is unmistakably a Del Toro creation."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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