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65%
|
Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013) |
"
Badgley delivers a nuanced performance of such ferocity he almost singlehandedly makes a conventional film seem loose and improvisatory."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 3, 2013
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Many Hollywood films are founded on privilege, but few are as open and nasty about their racism, misogyny, and homophobia. It's a feel-good movie for people who only comfortable around people who look and act just like them."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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.5/4
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56%
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Oblivion (2013) |
"
Absent of any sense of self-awareness, Oblivion seems only self-serious, a ponderous mess both misguided and unaware."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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|
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86%
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Police Story 2 (Ging chaat goo si juk jaap) (Police Force II) (1988) |
"
As Shout! Factory's double-feature Blu-ray ably proves, the Police Story films confirm Jackie Chan's reputation as a master of pure physicality."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 16, 2013
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|
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83%
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Police Story (Ging chaat goo si) (Police Force) (1985) |
"
As Shout! Factory's double-feature Blu-ray ably proves, the Police Story films confirm Jackie Chan's reputation as a master of pure physicality."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 16, 2013
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|
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88%
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The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
[Its] fleeting slapstick tendency wins out, regrettably diminishing the film's social consciousness in the process."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
16%
|
Temptation (2013) |
"
When its third act erupts into full-blown theatrical maximalism, Tyler Perry's Temptation practically turns into Brian De Palma's Temptation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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|
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97%
|
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) |
"
Though long considered a minor late film, it's now clear that Monsieur Verdoux is Chaplin's masterpiece, a lark both charming and subtly complex."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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|
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95%
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) |
"
Among the finest films ever made, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is also one of Criterion's best Blu-rays to date."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
Upstream Color is lush, rhythmic, and deeply sensual, a film of exceptional beauty."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
80%
|
Tower () |
"
Intimate and deeply observational, Tower is one of the most effective character studies in recent memory."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
39%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
Brad Anderson's film is defined by an often frustrating combination of cleverness and stupidity."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
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98%
|
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) |
"
It may be a cartoon, but Who Framed Roger Rabbit's deep engagement with municipal history is very much real."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2013
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|
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——
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) |
"
Though it's long been eclipsed by the Luis Buñuel remake, Jean Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid endures as a bracing, deeply strange film."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2013
|
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1/4
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
The action merely meanders when it should be hurtling forward, running in circles when one expects it to head toward a conclusion or some sense of resolution."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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|
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63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
Personal, understated, and surprisingly strange, Scott Derrickson's Sinister is one of the most compelling horror films of the past decade."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
.5/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
An amorphous melange of ill-fitting reference points and misappropriated aesthetics, a lumbering family blockbuster both tiresome and wholly indistinct."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
96%
|
War Witch (2013) |
"
Though ostensibly a character study, it's nevertheless characterized by the vaguely moralizing tone of an issue film, one whose candor in face of brutality seems calculated for maximum liberal appeal."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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|
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——
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Motorway (Che sau) () |
"
Cheang Pou-soi, touted in many parts as the protégé of beloved auteur Johnny To (who produced the film), still has yet to find a notable voice of his own"
—
House Next Door
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to detect Dark Skies's thinly veiled conservatism, and it doesn't take an undue alarmist to be disturbed by the implications of this sort of fear-mongering."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
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1/4
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
Snitch is the latest in a long line of films whose sole purpose is to flatten a major social problem into a pulp ideal for self-serious spectacle."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
The Kid with a Bike, now deservedly inducted into the Criterion Collection, reconfirms Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's reputation as masters of the modern class drama."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2013
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|
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96%
|
The Insider (1999) |
"
The Insider, one of the most accomplished American dramas of the 1990s, arrives on Blu-ray sporting a suitably exceptional A/V transfer."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
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0/4
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
Beautiful Creatures basically spits in the face of a legacy of literature founded on feelings of exclusion and social alienation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 10, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
Tommy Wirkola's film suggests A Knight's Tale as penned by Seth MacFarlane."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
85%
|
The Pirogue (2013) |
"
Moussa Touré's worldview, like Ousmane Sembene's, is characterized by the feeling that, at the end of the day, some degree of loss or defeat is inevitable."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 19, 2013
|
|
|
50%
|
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) |
"
Essentially Lost Highway for a post-UFC world, Universal Soldier: Days of Reckoning is an intriguing but ultimately rather empty experience."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
59%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
One of its most refreshing aspects is its acceptance of both western and action-film conventions on their own terms, refusing to regard itself as operating outside of or superior to the genre."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 15, 2013
|
|
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53%
|
Citadel (2012) |
"
You can't make a British horror film these days without straining to articulate class anxieties, and Ciaran Foy's Citadel is no exception."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
Whether by design or otherwise, Dredd seems better-suited to a 2D home video presentation than to the 3D silver screen. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 30, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
One would be hard-pressed to describe this, despite the wealth of beauty on display, as anything but an ugly film, shot and cut ineptly."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
33%
|
Off White Lies (2012) |
"
Elya Inbar is a surprisingly commanding screen presence, but she's contending with a screenplay plagued by contrivance--a battle few could win. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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|
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71%
|
eXistenZ (1999) |
"
eXistenZ, still one of Cronenberg's best films to date, deserves better HD treatment than what's provided by Echo Bridge's bargain-bin Blu-ray."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
The Dark Knight Rises, the year's silliest and most stubbornly self-serious blockbuster, arrives on Blu-ray with a flawed A/V transfer and a slew of largely inessential extras."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2012
|
|
|
95%
|
Weekend (Week End) (1967) |
"
A galvanizing tirade against consumer culture and a grand proclamation of the death of cinema, Jean-Luc Godard's still-revelatory Weekend returns to North American home video as one of the best Blu-rays of the year."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 23, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
The film's cynicism, like everything else, is nothing more than empty posturing, a fashionable pose adopted to ingratiate itself with a disenfranchised public."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 11, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
When one stops to consider how irksomely on the nose so much of this is, the qualities which intend to most readily ingratiate the film with us begin to appear perceptibly disingenuous and false."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 10, 2012
|
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2/4
|
67%
|
Dangerous Liaisons (2012) |
"
Shanghai in the 1930s seems an ideal context from which to offer social criticism, but Dangerous Liaisons forgoes engaging with the political dimension of its story altogether. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 7, 2012
|
|
|
89%
|
They Live (1988) |
"
BUY."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 6, 2012
|
|
|
88%
|
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) |
"
A smoldering love story unlike any other, Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love remains one of the very best films of the 2000s."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 5, 2012
|
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0/4
|
47%
|
A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) |
"
Graham Chapman's story, frankly, is better served by his Wikipedia page."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 28, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
6%
|
Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) |
"
Silent Hill: Revelation fundamentally misunderstands the appeal its source material."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 26, 2012
|
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1/4
|
25%
|
The Black Tulip (2012) |
"
It fails despite real stakes to distinguish itself in any way from the action-movie fantasies to which we're greatly accustomed."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
11%
|
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012) |
"
Henry Jaglom applies what must by now qualify as a tradition of pointless agitation to the disruption of theater. Unsurprisingly, the results are disastrous."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
Bestiaire (2012) |
"
Bestiaire argues persuasively without words, making a case without explicating one at all."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
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.5/4
|
26%
|
War of the Buttons (2012) |
"
Steeped in bromidic period detail and weepy strings, this is a quintessential Weinstein-brand prestige picture, an offense-free portrait of the final days of World War II as a locus of poignantly lost innocence."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
The Big Picture (2012) |
"
Like its protagonist, the film sells out for the security of convention and complacency."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
75%
|
Leviathan (2013) |
"
Leviathan is a titanic achievement, a visceral overload whose impact registers immediately and with great force."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2012
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44%
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