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8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
For all its surface amiability, The Big Wedding might be one of the more frustrating films of the year."
—
Vulture
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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77%
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42 (2013) |
"
As Robinson, Boseman has both physical grace and sly charm."
—
Vulture
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
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92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber."
—
Vulture
Posted Apr 8, 2013
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28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
It's not stoopid anymore, but just plain stupid."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
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69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
The Croods isn't particularly smart, but it has just enough wit to keep us engaged and just enough speed to keep us from feeling restless."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
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38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
The true comeback story in this fictional comeback story doesn't belong to a character named Burt Wonderstone, but to an actor named Jim Carrey."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
More a dark fairy tale about vengeance than the action-packed crime thriller it purports to be, the film is at times exhilarating, bold, and beautiful -- when it's not busy being ludicrous, fragmented, and just plain stupid."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
In the end, 21 and Over is more exhausting - and exhausted - than funny or wild."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 4, 2013
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13%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
This matter-of-fact, brick-by-brick approach to building scares and tension probably won't work for audiences who just want to scream a lot, so Gass-Donnelly undercuts it all by haphazardly tossing in jump scares of the cheapest, most predictable kind."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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13%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
If you watch closely enough, you'll see that somewhere inside The Last Exorcism Part II is a very good thriller - a genuinely unnerving movie about possession - struggling to get out."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
In the end, this is a movie that lives or dies on Johnson's performance, and luckily, the actor is perfect ..."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 25, 2013
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13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
We genuinely like watching Hough and Duhamel circling around one another, and the movie has a nice sense of place. That all eventually vanishes with a doozy of a third act."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Identity Thief is funny enough, but it needed to be darker, raunchier, and crazier to live up to the promise of its casting."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 11, 2013
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16%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
As Charles Swan seems to become more aware of his loneliness, Charlie Sheen seems to become more protective of his Charlie Sheen-ness."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 11, 2013
|
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80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Warm Bodies doesn't even have the conviction to follow through on its lame ideas, let alone its good ones. It's a mostly terrible film that misses the opportunity to be a merely mediocre one."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
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14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
The good news is that the actors appear to be having fun. The bad news is that we're not."
—
Vulture
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
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87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
There are holes in the plot, to be sure, but somehow we don't mind, because for all the unbearable tension of Jarecki's script, the central attraction here is the man in the arena."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
Ayer and his cast appear to have so convincingly nailed the way these characters talk and act that you might not even notice the film slipping from workaday grit into out-and-out myth."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
As the brutality ramps up, and the story gains real consequence, for some reason, we actually laugh harder. Goon is a comedy, often a very funny one, but you might be hesitant to call it that once you've actually seen it."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
It's a cool game, to be sure, but watching someone else play it gets old after a while."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 7, 2013
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19%
|
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) |
"
Texas Chainsaw 3D isn't exactly good, but despite its many clichés and generic indulgences, you want to give it some points for trying."
—
Vulture
Posted Jan 7, 2013
|
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98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
The effect is often profoundly moving, but you can't help but feel at times like there are other stories here you're missing."
—
Vulture
Posted Jan 7, 2013
|
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81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
Although it's ostensibly based on true events, The Impossible is not so much an inspiring tale of survival as it is an action flick."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 4, 2013
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4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
These are actors due a break. Unfortunately, this comedy-drama about a kids' soccer coach boinking a bunch of desperate housewives doesn't appear to be it."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
This is a cool, collected, concise film - to its detriment."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
|
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48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
If anything, this series has gotten dumber and more inert as it has progressed, with this last one finally reaching over into an extended wallow in camp."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2012
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48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Breaking Dawn 2 can't do anything but go through the motions. These actors can't even lose their heads with conviction."
—
Vulture
Posted Nov 16, 2012
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26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
This is utterly disposable stuff, but it does have its moments."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2012
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33%
|
Chasing Mavericks (2012) |
"
It's a perfect fortune cookie of a movie, full of bland life lessons for everybody; would that there were some drama or style in it somewhere along the way."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2012
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25%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
We're still seeing things through handheld devices and built-in laptop cameras, even though nobody seems interested in looking at the footage the cameras were supposedly recording."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
It mixes attempts at realism and grit with transparently Hollywoodized good guys-vs.-bad guys social melodrama. That requires a deft directorial hand, but director Daniel Barnz doesn't seem to have it."
—
Vulture
Posted Oct 1, 2012
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43%
|
Hotel Transylvania (2012) |
"
It's all strictly one-note stuff. But it's a funny note, and the film has a grand old time giving us the same type of gag over and over again."
—
Vulture
Posted Oct 1, 2012
|
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90%
|
Keep the Lights On (2012) |
"
[A] haunting, melancholy relationship drama."
—
Vulture
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
It is one of the director's better movies of recent years, even if it is occasionally maddening."
—
Vulture
Posted Aug 17, 2012
|
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21%
|
Madea's Witness Protection (2012) |
"
He's still a young guy, but all throughout Witness Protection I imagined Perry sitting glumly at a dressing-room mirror, like the aging Chaplin in Limelight, forlornly rubbing makeup in his face -- a tired, old clown stuck in a tired, old routine."
—
Vulture
Posted Jul 2, 2012
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84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
The Raid, about as pure an action film as you're ever likely to see, wants to have its cake and eat it, too. It does."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 23, 2012
|
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79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
Even as it settles a bit more comfortably into its story of romantic disillusionment, The Deep Blue Sea is marked by a kind of profound stasis of choice."
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 23, 2012
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0%
|
A Thousand Words (2012) |
"
Does Eddie Murphy actually have any range, or is it just an illusion created by a few early edgy roles and, later, a lot of CGI makeup and fat suits?"
—
Vulture
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
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25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
One wonders how the movie might have played as pure, unceasing battle scenes, allowing the combat to define the characters; with real soldiers doing the onscreen fighting, something special may well have emerged."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
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17%
|
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) |
"
The bad news is that this sequel, which wants to wow us with its unrestrained, hyper-stylized, WTF-ness, is way too disposable for its own good."
—
Vulture
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
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96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
It may not entirely work as a movie, but The Muppets shines as a piece of touching pop nostalgia."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Jan 3, 2012
|
|
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
It may not entirely work as a movie, but The Muppets shines as a piece of touching pop nostalgia."
—
Vulture
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
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73%
|
The Slaughter Rule (2002) |
"
Having made his name as a ferocious, self-hating Jewish skinhead in The Believer, 22-year-old Ryan Gosling gives another memorable performance as a lonely, world-hating fatherless quarterback in The Slaughter Rule."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Feb 16, 2011
|
|
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86%
|
The Square (2010) |
"
Edgerton, a former stuntman, has genuine filmmaking chops. He can build tension up to almost comical levels, but he also has an eye for more offbeat moments."
—
IFC.com
Posted Apr 8, 2010
|
|
—
|
92%
|
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (2001) |
—
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posted Aug 19, 2009
|
|
|
94%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
An exhilarating experience."
—
Nerve.com
Posted Jul 29, 2009
|
|
—
|
89%
|
The District (Nyocker!) (2004) |
—
New York Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
D+
|
42%
|
BASEketball (1998) |
"
Their incessant, obscene banter is meant to be endearing; their total lack of presence makes it simply annoying."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Mar 25, 2008
|
|
|
79%
|
La Zona (2007) |
"
Some may sniff at director Rodrigo Plá's deliberately exaggerated style, but it makes no pretensions to authenticity. Indeed, it's just audacious enough to work -- like Crash reimagined by Rod Serling."
—
New York Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
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43%
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