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4/5
|
35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
it's Wilson who dominates the screen with a finely calibrated exploration of mental, physical, and moral decay"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 15, 2013
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|
4/5
|
34%
|
Adore (2013) |
"
a compelling, dangerous meditation on the stifling nature of convention, and the fluid nature of emotional bonding when societal norms are put aside"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
a delightful bit of wish-fulfillment by proxy as Riddick takes the better equipped and cocksure mercenaries down several pegs with a decisive finality"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Sep 8, 2013
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|
5/5
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
In a searing, provocative, and passionate performance, [Farahadi]performs a virtual monologue with such emotional precision that there is no need for the traditional call-and-response of dialogue driven films."
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Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 31, 2013
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|
4/5
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
as charming, as sophisticated, and as cunning as any comedy (or tragedy) of manners concocted by the divine Jane Austen herself"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
a great spool of carefully spun cotton candy designed to delight its target audience. And it will."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 31, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
stumbles, falls, and then goes splat"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
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1/5
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
The action sequences never quite attain the level of thrilling, though Jonathan Rhys-Meyers boldly vamps it up as the (very tightly) leather-clad villain of the piece"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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5/5
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
a story that is at once a sly commentary on relationships, a bittersweet contemplation on the fleeting nature of youth, and a devastating satire on cultural imperialism"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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3/5
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
not a perfect film, but it is a good and worthwhile one, distilling the essence of its eponymous subject and his times"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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2/5
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
a flabby congealed thing that is in no way helped by lackluster direction and a derivative script"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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2/5
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
a murky and muddled thing saved, such as it is, by Hugh Jackman's steadfast commitment "
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
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|
2/5
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
For all the imagination involved in breathing animated life into the anthropomorphized eponymous flying machines, and their truck and forklift pals, the story is painfully rote"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
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|
1/5
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
Instead of fun there is a labored desperation to obvious plot devices and cliché humor"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
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|
3/5
|
38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
What it had going for it, though,is that is has the Greek myths, which form the raw material of the story and have enthralled humankind for several thousand years."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
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|
4/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
The curious way that absolute power and absolute powerlessness lead to disconcertingly similar behavior is something that all will find suitably provocative"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 11, 2013
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|
2/5
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
a pale echo of its original, lacking the same deft, sometimes daft, buoyancy to be found in the fine art of one-upsmanship"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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|
0/5
|
8%
|
Grown Ups 2 (2013) |
"
one long, smug, self-satisfied smirk at the audience"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 13, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
47%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
The joy of sex, the terror of death, and the eccentricity of human relationships has never been celebrated more cerebrally, or more profanely, with such viscerally sensual delight."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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|
5/5
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
a perceptive, incisive film about people at different points in their lives struggling or drowning"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 5, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
There may be a way to mix the monumental tragedy of the Native American genocide with a screwball comedy about a well-meaning chucklehead and his mystically addled Comanche sidekick, but Gore Verbinski has not found it"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 4, 2013
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|
5/5
|
77%
|
Somm (2013) |
"
captures the tension, the drama, resilience of the human spirit with a fine, unfussy clarity and even a touch of whimsy"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
We do not turn to Emmerich for reality. We turn to him for unselfconsciously overblown action and for the interesting characters interacting with that action."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
a ribald frolic of a film that willfully, gleefully skewers both film conventions and the cult of celebrity"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
Adapted all too freely from Max Brooks' book of the same name, it attempts to coalesce the diverse oral histories that make up the novel into a simple narrative and fails. "
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
Fill the Void (2013) |
"
an exquisite, poetic film that is full of both the joy of life, even in grief, and in the fact that life inevitably goes on"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 8, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Joss Whedon has taken what in lesser hands is an emotional trifle and turned it into an emotional powederkeg"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 8, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
Google is a company for which innovation and original thinking are integral.The Internship, set at Google, is the exact opposite."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 8, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
a solemn, self-congratulatory flick showing all the symptoms of a vanity piece run amok"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Now You See Me (2013) |
"
begins with a giddy sense of mischief and ends with a contrivance that bespeaks the desperation of failing to plan for a proper ending."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
The only winner here, and I do use that term loosely, is Justin Bartha as Doug, who spends most of the film as the off-screen hostage."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted May 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
That The Iceman is a film eminently worth seeing is a tribute to Michael Shannon."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Like the Vulcan IDIC, it is infinite diversity in infinite combinations, allowing for surprise as tropes regroup and characters react in accordance with what we've come to expect from them, but with refreshing twists."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted May 18, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
50%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
a complex, intelligent film, poetic in its tragedy, and beautiful in its compassion."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted May 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
bounds with buoyant irreverence and serious suspense. The scale is large, the payoffs larger, and the sense of fun is never too far from the angst and anguish Stark endures between quips and feats of derring-do."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted May 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
a slow-moving behemoth of a film that has been art-directed into a coma"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
The usual Loachian elements are all in place, but there is a gentle spirit at work here as well, and not just the alcoholic spirits around which the plot revolves."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
While staying true to the spirit of low-budget horror, Alvarez also brings a visual elegance to even the most gruesome of sights, from a puss-engorged hand being possessed by a demon, to the minutiae of being buried alive"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 6, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
a thing of grotesquely fascinating beauty, an evolved noir designed to provoke and to disturb in equal measure as it toys with the audience's notions of absolute certainty"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 6, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
It's not the wages of sin we need to worry about, it's bored co-eds desperate to feel alive"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
The pace is leisurely, the coincidences just a little too pat, but the momentum Huard brings to this befuddled human being has too much heart to let that matter"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
38%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
Fey is flawless as a stickler for rules, order, and over-rehearsed patter whose desperation to maintain an even keel at all times results in puckishly inappropriate behavior when things start to fall apart"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
What is best, and riskiest, in this storytelling is the way that the sense of danger is palpable even when things are looking rosiest, and the impulse to hope is at its strongest when things look most dire"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
This story is one of a terrorist attack on the seat of government, but the only real danger presented is killing the audience's will to live by force feeding it a thin script so laden with clichés that it becomes a choking hazard"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Any sense of the ponderous in telling this tale with a definite moral is more than offset by the gentle silliness with which the story is told. "
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Franco is as uncommitted as he is idiosyncratic. The boyish charm and toothy grin are perfect for the con man with dreams of glory and a weakness for the fairer sex, but he never seems to be more than playacting, rather than taking the role seriously."
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Though rife with elements that will get it categorized as an action flick, this film aspires to be a psychological thriller as well, and it almost succeeds. "
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
should have been a frothy farce, but instead takes several different attitudes, including action, melodrama, and mean-spirited nihilism. None of those are particularly successful"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
a thumping good tale aimed squarely at the sense of wonder, not at a demographic"
—
Killer Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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