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7/10
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Seeking Asian Female () |
"
It's something of a roller coaster ride by film's end. "
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PopMatters
Posted May 6, 2013
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7/10
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Undocumented (2011) |
"
Marco Williams' remarkable film The Undocumented... considers these many burdens in a series of contexts."
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PopMatters
Posted May 3, 2013
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92%
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Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
History and media. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
My zombie boyfriend. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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38%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Magic-less. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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81%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Fathers, sons, and motorbikes. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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43%
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Admission (2013) |
"
On entering adulthood. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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39%
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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."
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
Resistance is futile. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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60%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Looking backwards in more ways than one. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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92%
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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
Kids who love dinosaurs will love it. And who doesn't?"
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Time to Play Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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69%
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The Croods (2013) |
"
Cavemen evolving. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Explosions and action figures. "
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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62%
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Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Again with the dismemberments."
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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8/10
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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."
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 1, 2013
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8/10
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88%
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Ballplayer: Pelotero (2012) |
"
The dynamic here suggests what's at stake for Miguel and his family."
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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."
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PopMatters
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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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%
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Let Fury Have The Hour (2012) |
"
"Once upon a time, we were, I'm told, citizens with rights," says Hari Kunzru. "
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 23, 2012
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92%
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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."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 23, 2012
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50%
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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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37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
Here the franchise that recycles other kids' movies recycles itself. "
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Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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61%
|
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."
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Time to Play Magazine
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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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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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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76%
|
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."
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PopPolitics.com
Posted Dec 10, 2012
|
|
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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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|
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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.""
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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94%
|
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) |
"
Gregory Crewdson drives through the towns in Western Massachusetts that serve as settings for so many photos in Beneath the Roses, towns where the streets are empty and the buildings are low."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Whip (Denzel Washington) is a familiar alcoholic type; not believing he is one and believing that he is in control even when he's hammering himself into stupors each night. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
James Bond looks broken and weary, an embodiment of a traditional model of international spydom, the one premised on national borders, white-Western-wealthy entitlements, and excessive consumptions of alcohol, cars, and women."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
The film presents Abraham Lincoln's deliberations as a function of his innate morality, as well as an emotional rightness."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
Pat's rhyming relationship with Pat Senior makes the son (played by Bradley Cooper) different from the many other movie manboys you've seen in the past couple of years. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Again and again, Anna is bereft, isolated, frightened. That this is more a function of her world than her is a point left to fester: she believes it's them, and then she believes them, that it's her."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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94%
|
The Central Park Five (2012) |
"
The Central Park Five provides background drawn from contemporary media images, including crime scene footage accompanied by a detective's grisly description, as well as reflections by those involved."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
The villain begins by kidnapping Tooth's worker fairies: it's never clear how she's so human-sized and they're all fairy-sized and have no voices, or how they're the workers and she's management."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Hitchcock borrows from Hitchcock, not so much challenging the mythology as reframing it"
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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86%
|
The Law In These Parts (2012) |
"
The Law in These Parts offers a series of historical anecdotes, memories that may or may not be wholly precise, framed by the filmmaker's commentary on the definitions of law, citizenship, and their effects on so-called realities."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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97%
|
Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) |
"
Ginger Baker's perpetual enigma makes for a documentary subject both beguiling and inaccessible, receding and aggressing."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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50%
|
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) |
"
Day of Reckoning is an action movie that's as much about each frame as it is about each punch and thwack and gunshot, not to mention that devastating black and white makeup job on Jean-Claude Van Damme's bald head."
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) understands his fate in a way that the other smart guys don't quite, an understanding that makes him seem somehow smarter. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
|
|
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100%
|
Burn (2012) |
"
As powerful as Burn's images can be, the Detroit firefighters tell their own stories about what's important to them, their neighborhood connections, their family legacies, their pride in their fellows and in their community."
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PopPolitics.com
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Granted, it's not Eleanor Roosevelt's movie, but the focus on F.D.R.'s secret friend, Daisy, and her efforts to comprehend what she takes for greatness, soon looks more quaint than persuasive."
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PopPolitics.com
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
George is desperate, a point hammered home when, as he's recording a sportscasting demo, his concentration is broken by a phone call from a debt collector."
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PopMatters
Posted Dec 8, 2012
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