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7/10
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86%
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Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) |
"
The film argues that Downey's story is at once banal and outrageous, predictable and (sometimes) surprising."
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PopMatters
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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8/10
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65%
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Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2013) |
"
Rather than a faux psychological analysis, the film offers instead a general commentary on how class, race, and nationality-as well as gender, even more generally-shape Arnel's experience."
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PopMatters
Posted Sep 30, 2013
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8/10
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100%
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Best Kept Secret (2013) |
"
[Janet] Mino's efforts to find rewarding situations for her graduates seem heroic in the film, and you're invited to share in her frustrations, as caretakers and children are left with non-choices. "
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PopMatters
Posted Sep 6, 2013
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6/10
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80%
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Glickman () |
"
The documentary hews to a conventional structure, its own story chronological and in some instances, perfunctory, using archival voiceover from Glickman (who died in 2001) as well as bits of his announcing."
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PopMatters
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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10/10
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46%
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Off Label (2013) |
"
Off Label brilliantly exposes how the many routes from faith and trust to desperation and despair are varied and sometimes hard to trace."
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PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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8/10
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——
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The Diplomat () |
"
[Katarina Witt's] context is clear from the moment the film begins with elegant, beautifully crafted long shots of Karl Marx Stadt, the skating rink where Witt trained as a child and young champion with the legendary Jutta Müller. "
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PopMatters
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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7/10
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88%
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Casting By () |
"
The movie business is becoming more corporate and less personal... Recognizing and appreciating the work of casting directors may be one way to stem that tide, however briefly. "
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PopMatters
Posted Aug 5, 2013
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8/10
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100%
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The Crash Reel () |
"
The questions are compelling."
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PopMatters
Posted Jul 25, 2013
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8/10
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——
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Let Them Wear Towels () |
"
For all the inroads and advances since these olden days, it's important to assess accurately where we are."
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PopMatters
Posted Jul 16, 2013
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8/10
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59%
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The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
[A] weirdly fascinating, beautifully composed film."
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PopMatters
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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7/10
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38%
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The Purge (2013) |
"
The Bloody Stranger represents one thing to the clueless folks in his world and something else entirely to you, who know better."
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PopMatters
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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8/10
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98%
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Before Midnight (2013) |
"
Implacable and illusory, contingent on bodies and beliefs, time moves for the characters in Before Midnight, and maybe more importantly it moves for you, too."
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PopMatters
Posted Jun 5, 2013
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11%
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After Earth (2013) |
"
Alas, M. Night Shyamalan's 'After Earth' is obvious and unoriginal, a science fictional meditation on excess by way of exceptionalism, loss by way of triumph."
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PopMatters
Posted Jun 5, 2013
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|
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50%
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Now You See Me (2013) |
"
To be fair, Now You See Me is only nominally about super slick magic. It's really a super slick caper movie."
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PopMatters
Posted Jun 5, 2013
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8/10
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88%
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What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Gazing on Maisie, you want to know what she knows. That you can't is at once your dilemma and your opportunity, what adults must engage in order to be adults. "
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PopMatters
Posted Jun 3, 2013
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7/10
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——
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Never Forget To Lie () |
"
If the condominiums in Warsaw serve as one means of forgetting, a collective moving on, Never Forget to Lie absorbs that movement and also remembers the truths, the sacrifices and the losses, that made it possible. "
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PopMatters
Posted May 15, 2013
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7/10
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——
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Seeking Asian Female () |
"
It's something of a roller coaster ride by film's end. "
—
PopMatters
Posted May 6, 2013
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7/10
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——
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Undocumented (2011) |
"
Marco Williams' remarkable film The Undocumented... considers these many burdens in a series of contexts."
—
PopMatters
Posted May 3, 2013
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92%
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Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
History and media. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
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81%
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Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
My zombie boyfriend. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Magic-less. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
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82%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Fathers, sons, and motorbikes. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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38%
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Admission (2013) |
"
On entering adulthood. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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44%
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The Call (2013) |
"
Put it this way: now educated and abused, good girl Casey no longer has a problem with bad language."
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
Resistance is futile. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
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59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Looking backwards in more ways than one. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
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93%
|
Jurassic Park (1993) |
"
Kids who love dinosaurs will love it. And who doesn't?"
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
Cavemen evolving. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
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28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Explosions and action figures. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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|
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62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Again with the dismemberments."
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
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8/10
|
100%
|
The Revolutionary Optimists (2013) |
"
This is the balance the film manages, celebrating the efforts at Prayasam and the successes, while never losing sight of the crises that define daily life for the kids growing up in the Kolkata slums."
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 1, 2013
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8/10
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88%
|
Ballplayer: Pelotero (2012) |
"
The dynamic here suggests what's at stake for Miguel and his family."
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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8/10
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93%
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Knuckleball! (2012) |
"
The knuckleball is something like the quintessence of baseball, the ineffable and the impossible, pursued again and again. The film makes this magic part especially visible, in slow motion sequences and archival game tapes, nostalgia and reverie."
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 11, 2013
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8/10
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100%
|
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) |
"
Purgatory is most affecting in its most intimate performances."
—
PopMatters
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
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93%
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Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
The problem at the center of Zero Dark Thirty is that knowing and not knowing constitute a process, a process in which people tell lies and get hurt, in which costs can be overwhelming."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 23, 2012
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42%
|
Let Fury Have The Hour (2012) |
"
"Once upon a time, we were, I'm told, citizens with rights," says Hari Kunzru. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 23, 2012
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|
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93%
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The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
As Shalom now sits for his interview, wearing plaid shirt and red suspenders, he looks like someone's grandfather as he blames the "politicians" for the cover up."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 23, 2012
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|
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51%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) |
"
More efforts not to be wimpy. "
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) loves zombie movies, monster movies, and all other kinds of movies about dead people, the grosser and gooier the better. "
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
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37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
Here the franchise that recycles other kids' movies recycles itself. "
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
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58%
|
Secret of the Wings (2012) |
"
Even if fairies stories tend to be formulaic - fairy is happy, fairy gets in trouble, fairy gets out of trouble and learns a lesson - this one introduces the bold-ish concept of the sisters' bond rather than the usual marriage plot."
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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——
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Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) |
"
Kids might be briefly entertained by the early onslaught of monsters, but the plot concerning the over-anxious father is soon tedious, especially as Sandler repeats the corny Dracula voice he's been doing since his Saturday Night Live days."
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
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87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
Victor's relationship with Sparky is lovely, even when the revivified dog corpse is stitched together with thick black thread and his tail or ear falls off. "
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
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86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
This movie - much like Toy Story before it - imagines what might happen if toys' designated functions face challenges, if characters have ideas that take them beyond expectations."
—
Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
|
100%
|
The Loving Story (2012) |
"
The film's story of this Supreme Court victory lays out both its legal and moral import, and then turns back to Richard and Mildred Loving's experience."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
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75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Jackie Cogan understands his fate in a way that the other smart guys don't quite, an understanding that makes him seem somehow smarter."
—
PopPolitics.com
Posted Dec 10, 2012
|
|
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
Vera is something of a missed opportunity here. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
|
|
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96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
When Tony (Ben Affleck) lands in Tehran and trains the frightened Americans to play their parts as a Canadian film crew, Argo compares the ruses run by governments and movie studios."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
|
|
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100%
|
The American Scream (2012) |
"
The film shows a series of Halloween visitors making their way through the Haunt, screaming and laughing at once. "When you're scared," Victor Bariteau sums up, "You're most alive.""
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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