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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
B	86%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" Most of Star Trek Into Darkness will have its audience cheering, the rest feels like a slap across the face. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 17, 2013
B-	67%	The Iceman (2013)	" It's not a feature that lingers after it concludes, but considering the cliches available to the production, it shows some taste when it comes to goombah happenings. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 16, 2013
A-	90%	Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013)	" Although the subject doesn't come through in high definition, his legacy is hypnotic, celebrated and studied here in a manner that's wholly satisfying and often eye-crossingly mesmerizing." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 15, 2013
D+	14%	Assault On Wall Street (2013)	" Because it wouldn't be Boll if there wasn't borderline irresponsible storytelling. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 15, 2013
B-	73%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" It's lesser Bier, spotlighting an intentional creative move to reach the wider audience she deserves. It's perfect for the rainy day rental, but any expectations beyond that are bound to be crushed." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 15, 2013
C	26%	Erased (2013)	" There's a distinct softball atmosphere to Erased that's keeps the effort forgettable, unless of course you're a student of the patent application process." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 15, 2013
C	44%	The English Teacher (2013)	" Someone, somewhere lost their nerve, pruning The English Teacher down to nondescript indie quirk with the occasional blip of enticing insanity." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 15, 2013
C	41%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" Teeming with personality and digestible flights of fancy, only to be crushed by the overall narrative responsibility, unable to juggle faces and places to satisfaction. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 15, 2013
D	38%	Aftershock (2013)	" You just might find yourself rooting for the earthquake to win out in the end. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 12, 2013
C	37%	Peeples (2013)	" Has promise and a few talented comedians in its cast to make the material ring bells of hilarity, yet it's burdened by a filmmaker who's not seasoned enough to ride waves of absurdity." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 10, 2013
D	8%	K-11 (2013)	" K-11 is far too messy and unfocused, growing more unbearable and baffling with every directorial and editorial mistake Stewart makes. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 9, 2013
C-	49%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" The helmer can't inject feeling into a cold-blooded creation. It's a gorgeous film; sadly, it's not a silent one. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 9, 2013
A-	82%	Sightseers (2013)	" Shocking in all the good ways, supported by two fantastic performances from Alice Lowe and Steve Oram...Sightseers is a legitimate doozy. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 8, 2013
B+	88%	In the House (2013)	" It's amusing and unexpected, capturing the compulsive spirit of writing with wit and attention to mischief that keeps it unpredictable to the very end." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 8, 2013
D-	52%	At Any Price (2013)	" The results are quite disastrous when it steps away from farming concerns, resulting in a movie that's unforgivably clunky, tone-deaf, and dreadfully acted. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 8, 2013
D+	9%	Java Heat (2013)	" It's violent enough to numb, but Allyn doesn't launch the effort to rousing heights of escapism. In the end, Java Heat works better as a travelogue than an international actioner." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 8, 2013
B	93%	What Richard Did (2013)	" Isn't shocking in obvious ways, preferring to stun the audience with an authentic atmosphere of guilt and indecision, investing in the frustration of delayed response over unapologetic manipulation." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 8, 2013
B-	50%	Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)	" Feels as though it's all Laumeister could squeeze out of artist before he tired of her company. Although erratic, the picture maintains a basic understanding of Stern's peculiarities and urges." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 3, 2013
C	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" One major sequence nearly saves the whole endeavor, but what Black has here is flat and overstuffed with contrived comic book business, feeling about as heavy and immobile as Stark's famous armor. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 2, 2013
B-	19%	Gambit ()	" It's a fair comedy that's inoffensive and evocative of a different era, filled with enough eccentricity and sharp delivery to embrace as pleasant nonsense from two screenwriters exceptionally skilled with such buffoonery." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 2, 2013
B-	88%	Upstream Color (2013)	" Those who require a beating pulse to set the tempo for jigsaw puzzle moviegoing are hereby warned, as Carruth isn't interested in making things easy. He wants to squeeze your mind, not hold your hand." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 2, 2013
B-	62%	Kiss Of The Damned (2013)	" More of a macabre snapshot than a cohesive picture, capturing a specific throb of sexuality that helps to ignore frustratingly slack storytelling." — Blu-ray.com Posted May 2, 2013
D	0%	Generation Um... (2013)	" It's a patience-tester, salvaged only a smidge by Reeves's uncanny ability to remain perfectly still while his co-stars strap on acting school rocket packs and pinball around the frame. " — Blu-ray.com Posted May 2, 2013
B+	94%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" Burns and Co. once again nail the complexity of history with traditionally eye-opening results, yet The Central Park Five isn't quite as comprehensive as hoped, capping such profound pain with a few nagging question marks. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 26, 2013
C	24%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" Ariola can't keep the proceedings moving forward, wallowing in the blue mood for far too long. It makes a decent movie with something to share about the exhaustion of defense mechanisms into a slog that leaves its actors high and dry." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 26, 2013
B-	90%	My Brother The Devil (2013)	" Ultimately feels a little flat, but there's promise that the director will carry on to stronger work, with several scenes here delivering exceptional grace and texture that all but guarantees a bright cinematic future." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 26, 2013
F	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" Unlikable, unthinkable, and unwatchable, The Big Wedding proves that bright stars and a reliable romantic event is no match for an ugly and tone-deaf screenplay, chased by amateur direction. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 26, 2013
D+	——	Birdemic 2: The Resurrection ()	" The screwball trainwreck magic is missing, replaced with a nagging comedic consciousness that suggests Nguyen understands his specialized malarkey a little more than he's been letting on." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 25, 2013
C-	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Intentionally ugly and mean-spirited, Pain & Gain somehow believes itself to be a coked-out, body-smashing good time at the movies. Instead, it's quite a chore to sit through. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 25, 2013
B+	98%	Mud (2013)	" Like paging through a terrific book containing a few dull chapters, with writer/director Jeff Nichols creating an evocative atmosphere of mystery and misfortune" — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 25, 2013
C	32%	The Numbers Station (2013)	" Strictly for fans of the stars and perhaps those with an insatiable curiosity about career low points, the feature is certainly digestible, but rarely memorable. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 25, 2013
B	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" Isn't as challenging as it imagines itself to be, yet its sophistication and interest in vulnerability is welcome in a genre that often avoids the subtle to go big with the boom." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 20, 2013
B-	55%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Even if it isn't as rounded a portrait as hoped for, the picture is dramatically sound, with pockets of tension and wonderful acting to keep it convincing for most of the journey." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 19, 2013
C-	51%	Welcome to the Punch (2013)	" Thankfully, a cast of solid U.K. actors pick up the slack, bringing intensity and behavioral nuance to an otherwise airy actioner that feels severely pared down from its original intent. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 19, 2013
B	47%	The Lords of Salem (2013)	" An original take on screen torment, and while Salem contains considerable flaws, its ambition is frequently hypnotizing, attempting to trigger a different kind of disquiet in a genre that could use the challenge." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 19, 2013
C	——	Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie (2013)	" Those most interested in the latest release from the iconic comedy duo will be most disappointed to learn that Animated Movie is nothing more than repetition, with a fresh emphasis on the disgusting instead of the uproarious." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 19, 2013
C-	67%	Disconnect (2013)	" Rubin overcooks his vulnerability, rendering the viewing experience frustratingly short-sheeted in the significance department, making online angst a perfect fit for a Lifetime Movie night." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 17, 2013
B+	86%	Manborg (2013)	" An acid-washed cornucopia of action and laughs. Short, silly, and superbly crafted with next to no money, Manborg is a delight." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 17, 2013
C	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" While artful and well-intentioned, the feature remains trapped in a glass box, scolding those who dare to reach out and try to rub their hands over the enticing emotional textures Malick provides." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 13, 2013
B+	100%	Dead Sushi (2013)	" For those in the mood for a midnight movie extravaganza that shows attention to the particulars of the palate and reverence for creature attack cinema, Dead Sushi is just cracked enough to work. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 12, 2013
F	4%	Scary Movie 5 (2013)	" A pitiful grab bag of awful with a torturous sense of humor, crash landing a formerly inoffensive franchise into hostile Friedberg/Seltzer territory." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 12, 2013
C	77%	42 (2013)	" It's an earnest endeavor, but for 2013, it's about time the true grit of Jackie Robinson is celebrated, not just the thick outline of his bravery." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 11, 2013
D+	68%	Trance (2013)	" Boyle gets too caught up in a blind sprint of disorientation, and Trance, as busy as it imagines itself to be, registers as lot of heavy breathing without any oxygen to spare." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 11, 2013
B+	65%	Antiviral (2013)	" It seems the poisoned apple doesn't fall far from the rotting tree. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 11, 2013
B	88%	The Angels' Share (2013)	" I'm not suggesting The Angels' Share is a chock full of bellylaughs, but it's the first Loach film in some time that lacks the sensation of having a plastic grocery bag pulled over one's face." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 11, 2013
B	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" It's predictable to lament the loss of Campbell and Raimi, yet Alvarez constructs a pleasing, moist reawakening, and one that could lead to a few groovy directions of its own if sequels ever come to fruition." — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 5, 2013
A	92%	Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013)	" A beast of a movie is gifted a superfluous-but-superb rouging of the cheeks, offering fanatics something new to study while newcomers will be ruined for any future television airings. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 5, 2013
C	27%	The Brass Teapot (2013)	" Missing numerous layers of sickness, fearful of pushing a plot of pain on its audience, forcing them to study the complexity of unsavory desires with unlikable characters. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 5, 2013
B	44%	Thale (2013)	" Solid work from writer/director Aleksander Nordaas, who shapes a beguiling monster movie without ever truly indulging the tropes that often accompany the chaos. " — Blu-ray.com Posted Apr 5, 2013

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