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Andrew O'Hehir

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36%	LUV (2013)	" Both for good and for ill, "LUV" has a film-school feeling about it, and channels a legacy of fatalistic American crime cinema that includes "Mean Streets" and "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."" — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2013
59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" To call this a good movie is really a stretch; it's more like 38 percent of a good movie. But it probably has just enough dumb fun and pointless violence and car chases to seem like a highly viable option for large numbers of people this weekend." — Salon.com Posted Jan 17, 2013
100%	Birders: The Central Park Effect (2013)	" [A] revelatory little film ..." — Salon.com Posted Jan 15, 2013
79%	Quartet (2013)	" This is a lovely film directed with delicacy and taste, profoundly alive to the rhythms of its actors and characters, which gives its superlative British cast of stage and screen legends the time and space they deserve." — Salon.com Posted Jan 10, 2013
32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" A complete whitewashing of one of the most vicious and racist paramilitary organizations in American history: the Los Angeles Police Department." — Salon.com Posted Jan 10, 2013
19%	The Baytown Outlaws (2013)	" In all seriousness, I'm not sure whether to recommend "The Baytown Outlaws" as a guns 'n' glory time-waster or warn you off it as a piece of mendacious trash. So I'll do both." — Salon.com Posted Jan 9, 2013
92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalizing that discredited genre where so many others have failed, injecting it with the grit and emotion of realist drama rather than with amped-up whimsy or social satire or montages of people walking on the beach." — Salon.com Posted Jan 4, 2013
81%	The Impossible (2012)	" An intense and compelling family melodrama from Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona that sets a new standard for disaster cinema." — Salon.com Posted Jan 3, 2013
86%	Tabu (2012)	" If you have the patience to watch this film develop and unfold, like some bizarre night-blooming orchid, what you'll see is not just the last movie released in 2012, but possibly the most original of them all." — Salon.com Posted Dec 27, 2012
88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers." — Salon.com Posted Dec 26, 2012
93%	Amour (2012)	" This is an unforgettable love story set at the close of day, as tragic and beautiful in its way as "Tristan und Isolde," and a portrait of the impossible beauty and fragility of life that will yield new experiences to every viewer and every viewing." — Salon.com Posted Dec 20, 2012
93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" [Its] moral ambiguity will drive some viewers nuts, but in my view it is also the quality that makes "Zero Dark Thirty" something close to a masterpiece." — Salon.com Posted Dec 13, 2012
65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" I'm afraid that whoever it was in the New York Film Critics Circle who voted for "The Hobbit" as best animated film had a point. And so did the people who suspected that this whole thing was a bad idea." — Salon.com Posted Dec 13, 2012
64%	The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)	" Burns remains an agreeable presence throughout, and the emotions mostly ring true, even if the comic elements feel overly broad and individual episodes are hit-and-miss." — Salon.com Posted Dec 12, 2012
32%	Deadfall (2012)	" [An] atmospheric, suspenseful, snowbound crime thriller with a creepy, sexy undertow ..." — Salon.com Posted Dec 6, 2012
38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" I quite enjoyed "Hyde Park on Hudson" while I was watching it, but ultimately it feels like a minor picture on purpose, as if it had been deliberately designed to be everybody's second- or third-choice holiday film." — Salon.com Posted Dec 5, 2012
75%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" It has a weird, buzzing, intense quality that has burrowed its way deep into my brain like some invasive sci-fi organism." — Salon.com Posted Nov 29, 2012
63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" I genuinely can't figure out why "Hitchcock" was made or who its target audience might be, except that it gratifies our apparently universal appetite to believe that creative geniuses are hateful freaks." — Salon.com Posted Nov 25, 2012
82%	De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)	" You should just go see it, because it has a visual command and powerful narrative undertow all its own." — Salon.com Posted Nov 22, 2012
88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" I felt like I'd been invited to a seven-course dinner, and all seven turned out to be cake - and then the host insisted on delivering a lecture about how cake would bring me closer to God." — Salon.com Posted Nov 19, 2012
98%	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012)	" Partly an inspiring saga of growing "deaf power" and human resilience, and partly a murky and fragmentary drama about an immense, closed-minded bureaucracy with paranoid and conspiratorial tendencies that finds itself unable to adjust to the modern world." — Salon.com Posted Nov 15, 2012
64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" A furiously ambitious literary adaptation, the best of Wright and Knightley's careers, that tries to make us feel the intense sexuality and terror and grief of a classic novel ..." — Salon.com Posted Nov 15, 2012
89%	Lincoln (2012)	" "Lincoln" looks like a big historical drama on an epic scale, but it's also a tightly focused study of character, principle and politics." — Salon.com Posted Nov 8, 2012
92%	Skyfall (2012)	" This is a smashing entertainment, but also one that feels over-engineered and constrained by its origins." — Salon.com Posted Nov 8, 2012
76%	The Bay (2012)	" It's schlock with honor, schlock with a conscience, schlock that speaks to the way we live now." — Salon.com Posted Nov 1, 2012
78%	Flight (2012)	" Slowly but surely, "Flight" degenerates from a tale of moral paradox and wounded romance into a mid-1990s after-school special about addiction and recovery." — Salon.com Posted Oct 31, 2012
67%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" It's funny, violent and prodigiously romantic; it has immense heart and more gorgeous cinematic moments than I can describe." — Salon.com Posted Oct 25, 2012
91%	The Revisionaries (2012)	" An alarming, hilarious documentary ..." — Salon.com Posted Oct 23, 2012
94%	The Sessions (2012)	" A sweet but minor fictional parable about the strange possibilities of love." — Salon.com Posted Oct 19, 2012
90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" It's the coolest and strangest movie of the year, and once it gets its druglike hooks in your brain, you'll never get them out again." — Salon.com Posted Oct 18, 2012
98%	Brooklyn Castle (2012)	" What may well be the most optimistic, inspiring and downright thrilling movie released all year ..." — Salon.com Posted Oct 17, 2012
96%	Argo (2012)	" With America's tormented relationship with Iran back on the global front burner, "Argo" is also a crafty, reflective mood piece that will leave you thinking about the resounding echoes of that tormented and not-so-distant era." — Salon.com Posted Oct 11, 2012
87%	Middle of Nowhere (2012)	" This is an elegant, powerfully emotional and courageous film, worth seeing entirely on its own artistic terms ..." — Salon.com Posted Oct 11, 2012
82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" Walken gives one of the most restrained, mysterious and thoroughly magnificent performances of his long career as the brokenhearted, cravat-wearing Hans." — Salon.com Posted Oct 10, 2012
86%	The Iran Job (2012)	" This is a complicated, accessible and heartfelt human drama, one that Obama, Romney and Americans of all political stripes should see ..." — Salon.com Posted Oct 9, 2012
21%	Taken 2 (2012)	" A meta-American movie, a Godardian spoof of the whole genre, an attempt to see how stupid and insulting a motion picture can be and still be a big hit." — Salon.com Posted Oct 7, 2012
68%	Wuthering Heights (2012)	" I love this movie, and love the way it burrows through an English-lit classic to deliver a sensory, kinetic experience that's true to the book but also entirely different." — Salon.com Posted Oct 4, 2012
100%	Wake in Fright (2012)	" A legendary and controversial Aussie classic, although it's long been available only in poor-quality video releases." — Salon.com Posted Oct 4, 2012
44%	The Paperboy (2012)	" Most of the acting in "The Paperboy" is actually pretty restrained, which helps you adjust to all the alligator guts, swamp water and naked flesh." — Salon.com Posted Oct 4, 2012
54%	V/H/S (2012)	" An ingenious hybrid: part Godardian art film, part abstract video experiment, part sleazy shocker, and all self-castigating interrogation of what film-theory types call the "male gaze."" — Salon.com Posted Oct 3, 2012
93%	Looper (2012)	" This is a genuinely tough-minded and unpredictable movie, one of the fall's most enjoyable entertainments ..." — Salon.com Posted Sep 27, 2012
100%	The Waiting Room (2012)	" Urgent and upsetting ..." — Salon.com Posted Sep 26, 2012
32%	Won't Back Down (2012)	" Inept and bizarre ... a set of right-wing anti-union talking points disguised (with very limited success) as a mainstream motion-picture-type product." — Salon.com Posted Sep 26, 2012
100%	How to Survive a Plague (2012)	" One of the most important documentaries in years or decades ..." — Salon.com Posted Sep 22, 2012
85%	End of Watch (2012)	" It goes beyond gritty and realistic violence into a zone where Hieronymus Bosch collides with Dante ..." — Salon.com Posted Sep 20, 2012
85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" Fact is, much as you and I might want to protest that we were cooler than these kids, wherever and whenever we did our growing up, we probably weren't." — Salon.com Posted Sep 19, 2012
86%	The Master (2012)	" This is an almost apocalyptic tale of thwarted emotion - love cut short - set in a pitiless land of delusions." — Salon.com Posted Sep 14, 2012
93%	Knuckleball! (2012)	" Immediately leaps near the top of the list of greatest baseball documentaries." — Salon.com Posted Sep 13, 2012
39%	The Possession (2012)	" This is a lugubrious, lovingly crafted B movie, with more than a little 1970s flavor but no arch postmodern attitude." — Salon.com Posted Aug 30, 2012
26%	2016: Obama's America (2012)	" D'Souza's demented anti-Obama crusade feels personal more than political." — Salon.com Posted Aug 30, 2012
67%	Lawless (2012)	" "Lawless" offers a compelling, gruesome and instructive time-travel exercise." — Salon.com Posted Aug 29, 2012
78%	The Ambassador (2012)	" You'll be fascinated, frustrated and enraged by "The Ambassador," which is something like a bastard reworking of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" staged by Don DeLillo and Sacha Baron Cohen." — Salon.com Posted Aug 29, 2012
77%	Samsara (2012)	" A ridiculously ambitious cinematic experiment, a poetic and impressionistic visual essay shot entirely on 70mm film under exceptionally difficult conditions in dozens of locations scattered across five continents." — Salon.com Posted Aug 23, 2012
56%	The Revenant (2012)	" One of the funniest and most telling bromance comedies in the recent wave, one in which one-half of the dudely couple is a decomposing undead creature who's returned from the grave with yellowish eyeballs and a really bad smell." — Salon.com Posted Aug 22, 2012
87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" You don't realize how well it works until it's over." — Salon.com Posted Aug 16, 2012
65%	The Campaign (2012)	" Simply taken as a broad character comedy, "The Campaign" definitely has its moments." — Salon.com Posted Aug 13, 2012
74%	Hope Springs (2012)	" It's something like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage," as translated into the universe of the Lifetime Network." — Salon.com Posted Aug 9, 2012
56%	The Bourne Legacy (2012)	" "The Bourne Legacy" is a lean, clean killing machine that supplies some dark, late-summer thrills and chills and breathes new life into a seemingly extinct franchise." — Salon.com Posted Aug 9, 2012
80%	The Whisperer In Darkness ()	" "Whisperer in Darkness" has a chiller-diller conclusion and some moments of real terror." — Salon.com Posted Aug 2, 2012
31%	Total Recall (2012)	" "Total Recall" is a doggone good time, with a bunch of nifty technical and visual flourishes, competently managed plot twists and elegant, Wachowski-esque action choreography ..." — Salon.com Posted Aug 2, 2012
21%	360 (2012)	" A mistake from beginning to end." — Salon.com Posted Aug 2, 2012
97%	Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)	" Ai Weiwei is a crucial figure of East-West cultural communication and contemporary history, whose middle finger extended at the centers of power stands for a rising tide of global discontent." — Salon.com Posted Jul 26, 2012
77%	Killer Joe (2012)	" Friedkin's still got it - the "it" being his ability to infuse every frame of the film with powerful ambiguity and doubt, and also his ability to attract terrific actors and propel them in unexpected directions." — Salon.com Posted Jul 26, 2012
100%	Planet of Snail (2012)	" "Planet of Snail" offers a precious moment of clarity and simplicity amid a chaotic and poisonous summer, and tells an unforgettable love story to boot." — Salon.com Posted Jul 25, 2012
79%	Ruby Sparks (2012)	" It's mediocre and half-baked, with flashes of a potential good movie showing through here and there." — Salon.com Posted Jul 24, 2012
79%	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012)	" With this sober, mournful, gorgeously mounted and marvelously acted drama, Miike connects himself to the greatest traditions of Japanese film and to the period of historical self-examination that followed the debacle of World War II." — Salon.com Posted Jul 19, 2012
87%	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)	" Arguably the biggest, darkest, most thrilling and disturbing and utterly balls-out spectacle ever created for the screen." — Salon.com Posted Jul 18, 2012
95%	The Imposter (2012)	" Rarely has the con game, and the human capacity to believe in improbable outcomes, been taken to such extremes as we see in "The Imposter"..." — Salon.com Posted Jul 17, 2012
67%	Trishna (2012)	" This is one of the best and bravest of recent adaptations of classic literature; if you're even a little bit intrigued, ignore what others say and don't let it pass you by." — Salon.com Posted Jul 12, 2012
87%	Easy Money (2012)	" "Easy Money" may well be the crime film of the year, or the decade." — Salon.com Posted Jul 12, 2012
29%	Red Lights (2012)	" This movie boasts a few lurid, gothic shocks and culminates in a startling outburst of violence, but it's got nothing to say (beyond the repeated insistence that it's got many dark and troubling things to say)." — Salon.com Posted Jul 11, 2012
88%	Ballplayer: Pelotero (2012)	" A gripping documentary that takes us inside the largely closed world of youth baseball training and recruitment in the Dominican Republic." — Salon.com Posted Jul 10, 2012
51%	Savages (2012)	" "Savages" is enjoyable in a way that's almost but not quite intentional camp; it's like eating a dinner made by a seven-year-old, with cake for every course, interspersed with Jell-O, Pepperidge Farm goldfish and chocolate sprinkles." — Salon.com Posted Jul 5, 2012
73%	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	" Pretty good summer flick!" — Salon.com Posted Jul 2, 2012
86%	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)	" Spielberg will love this film, if he doesn't already. Zeitlin's ability to create a believable world out of seemingly impossible ingredients is just that good." — Salon.com Posted Jun 29, 2012
69%	Ted (2012)	" In a universe of Hollywood comedies that seem determined to insult the audience and pander to the basest form of post-adolescent fantasy, "Ted" feels almost sophisticated." — Salon.com Posted Jun 28, 2012
80%	Magic Mike (2012)	" I think "Magic Mike" is a fascinating film, one of [Soderbergh's] best in recent years." — Salon.com Posted Jun 27, 2012
35%	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)	" Bekmambetov ... stages hilarious, imaginative, almost free-form action sequences like nobody in the business." — Salon.com Posted Jun 22, 2012
64%	Kumaré (2012)	" Almost a 21st-century illustration of the principles described in William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience."" — Salon.com Posted Jun 21, 2012
78%	Brave (2012)	" Moms and girls everywhere deserve this movie, absolutely, and I hope they have a great time. But they also deserve much more, and much better." — Salon.com Posted Jun 19, 2012
21%	That's My Boy (2012)	" It points you toward the irresistible conclusion that for all his success Sandler feels only contempt for his audience and tremendous insecurity about his own stature in the comedy universe." — Salon.com Posted Jun 17, 2012
68%	Extraterrestrial (2012)	" A bone-dry and nearly pitch-perfect combo of romantic comedy, absurdist farce and alien-invasion drama..." — Salon.com Posted Jun 15, 2012
41%	Rock of Ages (2012)	" "Rock of Ages" is an effulgent celebration of fakeness. It isn't trying to be real; it's trying to be faker than any fake thing has ever been before." — Salon.com Posted Jun 13, 2012
29%	Bel Ami (2012)	" An enjoyably soapy 19th-century costume drama with a crackling, female-centric cast that features Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas." — Salon.com Posted Jun 7, 2012
74%	Prometheus (2012)	" "Prometheus" damn near lives up to the unsustainable hype, at least at the level of cinematography, production design, special effects and pure wow factor." — Salon.com Posted Jun 6, 2012
48%	Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)	" I resisted this derivative mishmash of classic fairytale and modern epic fantasy for as long as I could, but ultimately it swept me up into its geeky but manly embrace and carried me away on a white charger." — Salon.com Posted May 30, 2012
98%	Oslo, August 31st (2012)	" It's a marvelously constructed personal journey, both wrenching and bittersweet, whose emotional ripple effects stay with you for days and weeks afterward." — Salon.com Posted May 24, 2012
94%	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
75%	The Intouchables (2012)	" I enjoyed "The Intouchables" quite a bit." — Salon.com Posted May 22, 2012
25%	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
93%	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
34%	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
58%	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
67%	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
94%	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
38%	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
92%	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

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