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92%
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Top of the Lake (2013) |
"
Top of the Lake doesn't divide itself neatly into episodes -- it feels more like one coherent six-hour whole -- but taken over several weeks or in a single gulp, it's surely one of the best things you'll see on TV this year."
—
indieWIRE
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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6.5/10
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93%
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
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83%
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Prince of Broadway (2010) |
"
It uses the immediacy and roughness of its look to its story's advantage, the documentary feel adding to the sense of authenticity, and finds glimpses of beauty."
—
IFC.com
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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6.5/10
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52%
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This is 40 (2012) |
"
Apatow's film comes across as overstuffed and understructured, a collection of elements that hasn't really been assembled into a story and could do with the backbone."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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7/10
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44%
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Save The Date (2012) |
"
Manages its modest pleasures because of its likable cast."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 14, 2012
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7/10
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
It is, more than any of Haneke's previous work, infused with compassion, but of a sort that cuts like a knife."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 12, 2012
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6/10
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88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
There's a good movie inside Django Unchained, maybe even a great one, but it hasn't been carved out of the lopsided excess."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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6/10
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70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
After Hathaway's early high point, it starts to feel numbing ..."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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6.5/10
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81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
The latter half of The Impossible is so disappointingly movie-ish, tying a bow on the events after portraying them too vividly to allow them to be wrapped so neatly."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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C
|
80%
|
Wagner & Me (2012) |
"
Wagner & Me spends a disappointing amount of time drifting away from the relationship promised in its title."
—
AV Club
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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|
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38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
A dismal misfire, Hyde Park on Hudson could have been a spoof of a period prestige film, had it a little more energy and humor."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 5, 2012
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9/10
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Teases your attention away from those known events, and brings it to the gritty, exhausting and sometimes ugly work being done on the ground and the type of people who engage in it."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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7/10
|
76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Dominik shows an open appreciation for his actors and for the way tough guys, aspiring and genuine, talk to each other - and Killing Them Softly is as much centered around talking as it is action."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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B-
|
84%
|
Dragon (2012) |
"
Yen's strengths have never been in his expressiveness, and Dragon plods when it centers on dramatic struggles, then leaps exhilaratingly to life whenever the fighting begins."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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B
|
75%
|
King Kelly (2012) |
"
King Kelly is a broad indictment of the emptier side of self-documentation and a more nuanced one of the Internet as a source of affirmation."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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6/10
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Lee's movie is a grand gesture of filmmaking pushed to its furthest technical edges, but hemmed in and confined by its fidelity to words on a page."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
6.5/10
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
It's an incredible thing to behold, at least at the start."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 18, 2012
|
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7/10
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
An unfussy, rambling crowd-pleaser that recalls elements of the filmmaker's past work ..."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
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6/10
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
It's not a terribly satisfactory capper to the Twilight franchise because it sets aside the strange undercurrents of desire and danger that defined the series and made it such a hair-tearing conundrum for feminists ..."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
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B
|
80%
|
Hitler's Children (2012) |
"
How these men and women have chosen to face this inherited burden directly or flee from it creates a fascinating spectrum the film explores via quietly intimate interviews."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
B-
|
95%
|
Chasing Ice (2012) |
"
Provides a memorable bookend to accompanying shots of storms, fires, and floods from the last few years, ones that resonate urgently with the recent Hurricane Sandy damage still in the news."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
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B+
|
98%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
Primed to deliver a heady dose of outrage via a broad overview of systemic cover-ups tracing to the Vatican, as well as a specific and heartbreaking case in Wisconsin."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
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9/10
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Lincoln feels like a work of legitimate importance, and not only because it shows that people did just as much snarky, politicized yelling back in 1865."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
8.5/10
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
[Mendes] and screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan have managed what feels like the best possible thing that could have happened to Bond: They've made him fun again."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 7, 2012
|
|
6.5/10
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
The film sheds much of the life and complexity it shows in the beginning, devolving from a morally ambiguous story to a story all about its moral."
—
Movieline
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
C
|
9%
|
Jack and Diane (2012) |
"
A trudgingly self-serious affair that doesn't manage to be transporting on either its literal or conceptual levels."
—
AV Club
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
Cloud Atlas walks a crooked line between the glorious and the ridiculous, its reach unencumbered by sensible decisions or restraint."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 26, 2012
|
|
D+
|
26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
Justice is a pretty, personality-free screen presence, while the more interesting cast members, like Levy and Handler, are stuck in shrill, unsympathetic roles."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
9.5/10
|
70%
|
The Loneliest Planet (2012) |
"
The Loneliest Planet was made with an intoxicating and precise faith in the ability of images to convey feelings that words would be too clumsy and blunt to appropriately delineate."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 24, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
Alex Cross is a misfire, but it's sometimes an entertaining one - enough to make you curious about who else Perry could go up against in another installment, and just how much overacting would take place."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
25%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
While the film breaks no new ground, it does manage the giggly shocks that make this franchise so much fun to see with a rowdy midnight movie crowd."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
C
|
53%
|
Simon and the Oaks (2012) |
"
With beautiful period trappings and picturesque backdrops, the film doesn't skimp on visual details, though the resulting product is inert."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
B-
|
98%
|
Brooklyn Castle (2012) |
"
There's an irresistible cinematic appeal to watching kids dedicate themselves to fundamentally non-kid-like practices like competitive ballroom dancing or studying etymology to ease their way in spelling bees."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
7.5/10
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Argo is a subdued thriller about a small triumph in a troubled moment in time, but it's not without its sting."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Seven Psychopaths presents a clever if largely surface-level argument about cinema as art versus cinema as a delivery system for more immediate gratification."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
C
|
41%
|
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012) |
"
The image of [Perlman] in makeup and a wig, painting his toenails, is a terribly easy joke, but it's the best one this otherwise abrasive comedy can manage."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
C-
|
26%
|
War of the Buttons (2012) |
"
Though this version transplants the tale to World War II, it doesn't try for any nuanced commentary on the conflict."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3/10
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
Taken 2 grabs everything that was surprisingly enjoyable about the original film and batters it into the ground like... Liam Neeson beating up an Albanian human trafficking ring."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
4/10
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
The Paperboy provides a lurid spectacle, but it's one that leaves you wanting to scrub yourself clean in the shower afterward."
—
Movieline
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
D+
|
9%
|
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012) |
"
It might actually make audiences understand the urge to bully."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
4/10
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
The film is all for teaching as a calling. What it doesn't do is offer it the dignity of also being a job."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
C-
|
17%
|
Bringing Up Bobby (2012) |
"
Bringing Up Bobby centers around a mugging performance by Jovovich, who can't ground the film's attempts to tie together sentiments from Paper Moon and Miss Saigon."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
C
|
64%
|
Headshot (2012) |
"
Headshot is, unfortunately, far better with ideas than with narrative."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
A clever, clever contraption about trading in your future to feed your present, and the lost boys and regretful men who willingly embrace such a bargain already believe they have nothing to live for or look forward to."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
Adams quietly steals the movie out from under her co-star, and she does it while steering clear of the stereotypical ruts that could have mired her performance in mediocrity."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
7.5/10
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
Ayer manages to give a startling sense of a changing of the LAPD guard as well as the forces they're up against."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
C+
|
11%
|
About Cherry (2012) |
"
It has a didactic undercurrent, making its main character into a beautiful blank, ready to blossom under the bright camera lights and to be unabashed in the face of the unenlightened."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
An earnest, big-hearted ode to friends as support and salvation, and to the talismanic quality a favorite song, treasured hang-out, or shared tradition can take on for a teenager."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
30%
|
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) |
"
The film's extravagant action scenes have not a whiff of consequence to them, and other than Alice, the foremost quality of all of the characters is their disposability."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
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