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2/4
|
46%
|
Parkland (2013) |
"
It's sober, responsible and rather humdrum."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
|
90%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
President Clinton's secretary of labor lectures on income inequality with a refreshing lack of jargon."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
"Gravity" is a stratospheric achievement. Not just a futuristic drama, it's also a universally human drama about the need for hope in desperate situations."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
57%
|
When Comedy Went to School (2013) |
"
The film is slight at 77 minutes, and not all that funny."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
An unqualified delight, a sharp, insightful comedy that subversively explores women's place in Islamic society."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
You Will Be My Son (2013) |
"
Mystery lovers will delight in the sophisticated murder scheme, oenophiles will love the Wine Expo atmosphere, and admirers of restrained menace will lose themselves in the icy pools of Arestrup's eyes."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
18%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
Benign but hopelessly dumb, "Baggage Claim" tries to spin the staples of romantic comedy into a mad tea party (its perfect suitor is named Mr. Wright), but lacks the energy and edge."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Don Jon (2013) |
"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's writing/directing/starring debut is like its diamond-in-the-rough title character. It shows a lot of unrealized potential, with enough charm to ease you past its shortcomings."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
|
78%
|
Metallica Through the Never (2013) |
"
If half an hour of bizarro side-narrative fever dream is the price of admission for a gorgeously lensed, best-seat-in-the-house hour of chugging rock brutality, I'll pay gladly."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini have made only a handful of films in recent years, and they're delightful together. They contribute lived-in, vanity-free portraits of fully realized individuals hoping against hope for a new chance at lifelong love."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) |
"
An innocuous time-waster, "Cloudy 2" will surely be a family smash."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
The on-track action is blistering, the filmmaking sure-footed (even as cars fishtail into catastrophic crashes), the characters bigger than life."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
The character arcs intersect so schematically that at times the film feels like a game of 12-step bingo."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
It's a potboiler premise, but in this uncompromisingly dark telling it veers from the procedural to something deeper and more tragic."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Space Junk () |
"
An eye-opening look at the growing problem of dangerous trash threatening commercial, military and civil satellites that routinely orbit Earth."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
Thérèse (2013) |
"
Exquisitely tasteful but suffocatingly dull ..."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
Heinzerling captures candid, touching moments that illustrate the awe-inspiring power of love and acceptance."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
56%
|
Inch'Allah (2013) |
"
Brochu is mesmerizing as the outsider struggling to make an uneasy peace with her circumstances and the people around her."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
It doesn't have a plot, really. It's more a first draft of an outline of a notion."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
There's an inspired silliness to "Austenland," an erratic, entertaining comedy with an inspired premise."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
A deliriously beautiful martial-arts saga, a mix of exuberant violence and restrained eroticism."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Rising From Ashes (2013) |
"
This is an inspiring tale of a nation, and a man, not wanting to be judged by past misdeeds."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
Drug War (2013) |
"
[To] gives a solid 90 minutes of edgy foreplay before delivering the goods."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
A taut, garish gut-wrencher about a family attacked by masked gate-crashers, it's presented with audacious mastery of its pulp material."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
It's outrageous satire, bruisingly funny slapstick and - while never too snooty to stoop for lowdown laughs - deliciously smart besides."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
With its spectacle, morbid sense of humor and hustling pace, "The Mortal Instruments" encourages you to shrug and just go with it."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
"Paranoia" is too sloppy and slack to inspire tension."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
2.5
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
Other than people who are mildly curious about the guy who put the smartphone in their pocket and the tablet computer in their knapsack, I'm not sure who "Jobs" was made for. "
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
The film is engrossing all the way through, the sweetest, saddest, most humane movie I've seen all year."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
You can almost see the plot points being shuffled around like index cards as the movie unreels."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
Bungles the original cult hit's stylized ultraviolence and blunts its wincingly sharp humor."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
Lovelace bids to whip up hot indignation about an outrage four decades old. Instead, it provokes dismay."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
A shambling, Altmanesque ensemble comedy."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
"Blackfish" makes a compelling case that the cruelty of life in captivity is the cause for a rash of fatal attacks by orcas on their trainers, aggressive behavior that no so-called killer whale ever has exhibited in the wild."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
Ryan Gosling and his "Drive" director, Nicolas Winding Refn, sail into the heart of darkness and emerge with a trinket of crackpot porno kitsch."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
What Oppenheimer is after is a parallel story, a glimpse into the minds of men who can recount mass killings and think "Those were the days.""
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
The movie is a little Mobius strip of laughter and pain."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
"Fruitvale Station" isn't just a story of one family's tragedy, but a wounding snapshot of a society struggling somewhere between melting pot and battlefield."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
The film is a misconceived misfire, over-solemn for its first two acts and overstuffed with BLAM! POW! TEDIUM! at the climax."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
Without recourse to the gruesome S&M excesses of his "Saw" franchise, Wan conjures the chill of a demon breathing down your neck."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
Groovy period soundtrack aside, "The Look of Love" has almost nothing to say of any interest, importance or humor. "
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013) |
"
Ungerer is a lively, articulate interview subject, acerbically funny about his run-ins with censors and anyone else who would hope to quash his colorful contradictions."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
Something is wrong when the wardrobe gets bigger laughs than the dialogue."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
It's utter drivel coasting by on slick proficiency (at 100 miles an hour)."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
Turbo (2013) |
"
"Turbo" isn't a perfect cartoon, but it's so likable that, like its humble hero, you have to root for it."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
"More Than Honey" may be the most visually beautiful documentary ever made."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
"The Way, Way Back" is a nifty blend of humor, heart and drama."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
While the concept isn't original enough to make this an evolutionary leap for the genre, it's a glorious tribute to B-movie fire and fury."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
For an adult, the predictability could turn you blasé. For kids, revisiting these jokes is a howl. Pinkie promise."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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