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100%
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Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) |
"
The documentary suggests the collaborations and creative ferment Jodorowsky fostered leave a legacy that lasts to this day."
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RogerEbert.com
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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b-
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78%
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Abus de faiblesse (Abuse of Weakness) () |
"
The movie is interesting to think about as another of the Anatomy Of Hell director's power-struggle portraits, even if its conceit-by design-leaves the question of how the filmmaker allowed a known operator to bilk her out of so much money unresolved. "
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b-
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93%
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The Double () |
"
There's not a whole lot to this version of The Double, but its visual comedy and offhand surrealism make it a mild pleasure."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b-
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100%
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Tim's Vermeer (2014) |
"
It's a cool hypothesis, catnip for art-history buffs, but it can't quite sustain feature length."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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a
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100%
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At Berkeley () |
"
Why do we learn, how do we learn, and what is learning worth? Complex, absorbing, and pointed, At Berkeley is an exhilarating examination of the "education machine.""
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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c+
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35%
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The Fifth Estate (2013) |
"
Slick and superficially entertaining, doesn't have much news to impart."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b
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69%
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The Unknown Known () |
"
Rumsfeld takes this to another level, giving contradictory answers at different points throughout the interview."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b-
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88%
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Rush (2013) |
"
Rush is basically a foursquare sports film, enlivened by whiplash-inducing, crisply edited racing sequences but otherwise pretty ordinary."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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a-
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88%
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Under the Skin () |
"
This is hardly the first film to observe an alien encountering strange customs, but it may be the first that seems conceived from that perspective formally as well as dramatically."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b-
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78%
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Night Moves () |
"
An atmospheric but surprisingly thin procedural from the director of Old Joy and Meek's Cutoff. "
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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c-
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67%
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Labor Day (2013) |
"
Suggests the experience of being pelted with a thousand supermarket paperbacks at once."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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b-
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97%
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Gravity (2013) |
"
Watching Gravity often feels like watching an especially long prep reel for Star Tours, without ever being allowed to board the ride."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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c
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40%
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Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (Real) () |
"
An unsatisfying, shamelessly derivative mix of elements from Inception, Flatliners, and Shutter Island."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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b-
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70%
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Fading Gigolo () |
"
If you can accept the ethnic roundelay, Fading Gigolo is, in its own Martian way, a pretty tender film about loneliness and the need for human connection. "
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AV Club
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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C
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34%
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Adore (2013) |
"
The setup promises more intrigue than the film ultimately delivers."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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B
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80%
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Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
The entire film unfolds in a recognizable register of ominous hesitation; the results are a bit schematic but nevertheless hit on something real."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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B-
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73%
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Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
Mostly, the movie is a straightforward soap opera-sentimental, reductive, and, in spite of itself, satisfying."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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3/4
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68%
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Elysium (2013) |
"
In a summer of antiseptic effects spectacles, Elysium stands out for its grime and intensity, as well as the bluntness of its class allegory."
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RogerEbert.com
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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C+
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54%
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Lovelace (2013) |
"
Actually playing up the story's tabloid splashiness, only to lay on the scold later, seems like a case of having one's cake and eating it, too-not to mention a bit cheap."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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C
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47%
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We're The Millers (2013) |
"
Loud and annoying? Occasionally. Funny? Sometimes. Likely to be noticed by filmgoers six months from now? Not really."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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3/5
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96%
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Ratatouille (2007) |
"
Ratatouille seems more charming in concept than in execution. Bogged down by too many climaxes, it's a little overcooked."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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90%
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District 9 (2009) |
"
If the basic idea is provocative, District 9 never lives up to the promise of its allegorical freight."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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5/5
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89%
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"
For all its originality, this hall of mirrors is the closest Tarantino has come to making a film with old-fashioned, movie-movie appeal."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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5/5
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91%
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Knocked Up (2007) |
"
The movie is a decisive breakthrough for Apatow, whose comic instincts go hand in hand with an unfashionable empathy."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Aug 3, 2013
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C+
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64%
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2 Guns (2013) |
"
On almost every level, 2 Guns is content to be as flavorless and forgettable as its title."
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AV Club
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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3/4
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84%
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Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) |
"
The most interesting aspect of "Smash and Grab" is that the thieves, while not exactly repentant, are depicted as fallible and human."
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RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 31, 2013
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B+
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91%
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Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
There's something admirably perverse about a movie that casts Andrew Dice Clay as the most upstanding character on screen."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 25, 2013
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2/4
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72%
|
Grabbers (2013) |
"
The movie never aspires to be more than a cookie-cutter creature feature-the kind of film that can be washed back with a pint and then forgotten in the morning."
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RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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2.5/4
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62%
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Broken (2013) |
"
An absorbing coming-of-age drama that suddenly, pointlessly self-destructs with an onslaught of cheap ironies and overkill."
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RogerEbert.com
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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C-
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10%
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Killing Season (2013) |
"
To put it mildly, neither of the leads has the physique for such a Darwinian showdown, and one of the frustrations of Killing Season is the way Evan Daugherty's screenplay demands near-invincibility."
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AV Club
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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B-
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47%
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I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
After establishing a jaunty tone with its candy-colored, Saul Bass-style opening credits, the film racks up a high strain-to-laugh ratio; there's a sense Almodóvar can't quite keep track of all his gags."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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C+
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65%
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The Heat (2013) |
"
An unevenly matched buddy-cop comedy that amounts to a feature-length showcase for Melissa McCarthy riffing."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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B-
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59%
|
Pandora's Promise (2013) |
"
Perfunctorily assembled, Pandora's Promise is essentially a pamphlet in motion whose goal is to prompt a larger discussion. But it offers plenty to discuss, and that isn't bad."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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B+
|
59%
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The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
The Bling Ring isn't so much interested in provocation as sociology. Manufacturing this sort of fame is an exercise in mutual exploitation."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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B-
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82%
|
Dirty Wars (2013) |
"
As a polemic, Dirty Wars is provocative and productively depressing ..."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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C
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86%
|
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) |
"
Ironically for a movie about the ratings value of shock, Évocateur suffers from its own lack of red meat."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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C
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44%
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The English Teacher (2013) |
"
Even the sitcom stylings might not matter if the movie were funny, but in spite of the potential for Guffman-esque comedy, The English Teacher boasts few surprises ..."
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AV Club
Posted May 16, 2013
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A-
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93%
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Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Quietly, empathetically, and without ever apologizing for the lead's impulsive idiocy, Frances Ha charts the character's dawning independence and acceptance of adulthood."
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AV Club
Posted May 16, 2013
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C-
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85%
|
Sightseers (2013) |
"
The film proceeds with a lazy, sketch-like feel that makes more sense after considering that these characters began on stage; the material was reconceived as a movie after a TV pilot failed to ignite."
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AV Club
Posted May 9, 2013
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C+
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49%
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The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
A half-reverent, half-travestying adaptation that's campy but not a betrayal, offering a lively take on a familiar work while sacrificing such niceties as structure, character, and nuance."
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AV Club
Posted May 9, 2013
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C
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74%
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Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
As movies have taught us before (and no doubt will again), a little Mediterranean sunshine and a few plucks of soundtrack mandolin go a long way toward healing heartache."
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AV Club
Posted May 2, 2013
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C+
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67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
Alternating scenes of the psycho-as-family-man with an increasingly grisly and desperate series of hits, it makes for a surprisingly monotonous sit for a movie that also features a killer named Mr. Freezy."
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AV Club
Posted May 2, 2013
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3/5
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44%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Once the shock of seeing a Sonic Drive-In in a Malick film wears off, the movie leaves little to ponder beyond the sketchily drawn romance drama at its core."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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3/5
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
Niccol helps The Host survive as a sci-fi movie even as he's saddled with the Twilight author's source material."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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5/5
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66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Not just a step forward. It's a vision: a fever dream of sun-dappled debauchery that doubles as a thriller-satire on the allure of excess."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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4/5
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
Petzold renders Communist oppression in a provocatively muted manner."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
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1/5
|
71%
|
Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013) |
"
There's talent here, but the goal seems to be proving that everyone involved is too cool to make an actual movie."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 10, 2013
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5/5
|
94%
|
Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest) (1951) |
"
Diary is less a movie about the necessity of faith than what it means to be cut down in the midst of youthful idealism and intransigence, before life offers wisdom."
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Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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2/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Taking a healthy swig from Lord of the Rings' cup, this high-concept "Jack and the Beanstalk" dresses up traditionalism in expensive nothingness."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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