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C-
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78%
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The Dirties (2013) |
"
This could have been a great film, and even in its limp final state is oddly effective, but it's no where near the movie that it wants to be, or thinks it is. "
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The Playlist
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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C
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84%
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa () |
"
The pleasure and the pain are all up there on the screen; we just wish it was less painful to watch. "
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The Playlist
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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B
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83%
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Shepard & Dark (2013) |
"
Instead, after all that effort being put into showing this relationship in its fullest terms, they allow the men to, true to their mythic southwestern surroundings, simply walk into the sunset..."
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The Playlist
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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A-
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78%
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Metallica Through the Never (2013) |
"
It's one of the most unexpectedly enjoyable cinematic experiences of the year, even if you couldn't pick a Metallica track out of some hypothetical never-ending playlist."
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The Playlist
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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B+
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Plush (2013) |
"
Ultimately Plush exceeds its very limited expectations of a youth-oriented erotic thriller. It's arch, smart, and incredibly melodramatic."
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The Playlist
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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B+
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60%
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Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story () |
"
This is a documentary about the totemic power of Bob Guccione and how he tried to change the world, one pubic hair at a time."
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The Playlist
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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B-
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60%
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Riddick (2013) |
"
...Riddick undoes much of the cumbersome mythology that made Chronicles of Riddick such a laborious slog, and instead returns it to the meat-and-potatoes format of the first film. The results are much more satisfying, if not wholly so."
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The Playlist
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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F
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3%
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Getaway (2013) |
"
There is literally nothing redeemable about Getaway, besides the fact that, at 97 minutes, you won't waste your whole day on it."
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The Playlist
Posted Aug 28, 2013
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A
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91%
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Sparrows Dance (2013) |
"
It's one of the year's best films and also one of the smallest. We can't wait to see what Buschel does next."
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The Playlist
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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D
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12%
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
No matter how good "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" looks, it's hard to really care about anything that's going on, and not just because we could barely understand it. ""
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The Playlist
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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B-
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27%
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Planes (2013) |
"
When Planes really takes flight, it can be boldly transporting...But as far as summertime animated fare goes, this is honestly one of the better movies..."
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The Playlist
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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C-
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93%
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Our Children (2013) |
"
The film trades in a blank grimness that isn't emotionally involving as much as it is like watching some terrible accident you're helpless to prevent."
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The Playlist
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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D
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14%
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The Smurfs 2 (2013) |
"
The sequel finds the same humans and a couple of the same Smurfs, only the location has been changed to Paris, France, and for some reason noted Irish actor Brendan Gleeson is along for the ride. We suspect that a house payment was due..."
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The Playlist
Posted Jul 30, 2013
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D
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65%
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Turbo (2013) |
"
With Turbo, it feels like large swaths of what it should accomplish are simply omitted (although not for time, at 96 minutes it drags considerably)."
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The Playlist
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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B
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69%
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V/H/S/2 (2013) |
"
V/H/S 2 is a whole lot of fun. We can imagine fans of midnight movies shrieking with delight at some of the sections..."
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The Playlist
Posted Jul 12, 2013
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A-
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63%
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Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) |
"
Hart, one of the most talented and successful comedians working today, can make you laugh. And laugh hard. In Let Me Explain, he's on fire."
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The Playlist
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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C-
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75%
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Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
This is a sequel that's even less necessary than Monsters University; often times it feels like the movie can't even justify it's own existence while you're watching it. "
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The Playlist
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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B+
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49%
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Redemption (2013) |
"
...it's when he's quiet that Statham is the most powerfully devastating, like an undetonated bomb in a church square. The promise of violence is its own kind of allure."
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The Playlist
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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B+
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47%
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Maniac (2013) |
"
It'll get your blood pumping, before it starts spilling down your forehead."
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The Playlist
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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A-
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78%
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Monsters University (2013) |
"
Monsters University isn't perfect...Still, it's easily the most enjoyable animated film so far this year, one that is visually stunning, wickedly subversive, incredibly funny, and lump-in-your-throat emotional."
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The Playlist
Posted Jun 18, 2013
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B+
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38%
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The Purge (2013) |
"
...maybe the most invigorating aspect of The Purge is how it might be the launch of the next great horror franchise, one in which subversive ideas are much more important than bottomless buckets of blood."
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The Playlist
Posted Jun 5, 2013
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B-
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37%
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Aftershock (2013) |
"
Aftershock Is Like Piranha 3D Meets The Impossible"
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The Playlist
Posted May 10, 2013
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A
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96%
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Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
As a documentary and a love story, Cutie and the Boxer is nothing short of breathtaking. There's a nimbleness to the storytelling that always keeps you involved...It's not mushy but it is resonantly heartfelt."
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The Playlist
Posted May 3, 2013
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A
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75%
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Big Bad Wolves () |
"
Some thrillers are described as being "edge of your seat" affairs, but with Big Bad Wolves, it's more like you are hovering just beyond the chair, midair, waiting for the story to resolve itself. "
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The Playlist
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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D-
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9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
A dopey, dull, depressingly inert sci-fi disaster that retains all of the benchmarks of Meyer's mediocrity (the weird politics, the staid plotting, the moony eyes) but somehow manages to be even more humiliatingly awful."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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A-
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82%
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Eden (2013) |
"
Tackles the issue of sex slavery, but does so in a way that never feels too clumsy or overarching. Instead, it's a character study with thriller elements; it exposes you to a horrible underworld without ever beating you over the head with it."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 25, 2013
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C-
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47%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
While the action sequences are competent, much of the second half of the movie takes place in the wrecked White House, in diffuse lighting conditions, which makes for hazy visuals that further obscure the action sequences' sense of spatial geography."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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B
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75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
While it isn't quite the groundbreaking genre triumph many initially made it out to be, it is still a whole lot of fun. Barrett and Wingard are clever filmmakers, but unlike many modern day horror directors, their cleverness never gets in the way. "
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 18, 2013
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A
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Milius () |
"
The movie is zippy and funny...and more emotional than the man himself would ever allow it to be. It's a triumph."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 18, 2013
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D
|
55%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
It's hard to imagine ever laughing again after being steamrolled by this juggernaut of lameness."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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A-
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71%
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My Amityville Horror (2013) |
"
A disturbing mixture of the paranormal and the psychological."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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B
|
63%
|
Kiss Of The Damned (2013) |
"
For those adventurous enough to go along with it, the movie weaves an intoxicating spell, one that is...rarely seen outside of shopworn VHS tapes of old European horror movies. It's not perfect...but is perfectly odd."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 11, 2013
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D
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86%
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Haunter (2013) |
"
We're all for "deliberate pacing," but this is better described as "patience testing." None of the spark or verve that is present in Natali's other films is present here. It's as dusty as a Victorian ghost story without any of the actual scares."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 10, 2013
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F
|
36%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Nothing in the movie works; there are flashes of when it seems that it could be faintly tolerable but those drift into the ether, along with rabbits and folded up playing cards...I wish I could make it disappear. Forever."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 9, 2013
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B+
|
38%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Oplev composes shots with grace and an understanding of where everything is geographically and how scenes relate to each other in the multi-threaded plot. Like everything else in Dead Man Down, his direction is beautiful and brutal at the same time."
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The Playlist
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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—
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30%
|
The Tempest (2010) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
|
61%
|
Jig (2011) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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29%
|
Broken City (2013) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
|
88%
|
Ethel (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
|
82%
|
The Tall Man () |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
|
56%
|
Citadel (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jul 13, 2012
|
|
—
|
77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jul 6, 2012
|
|
—
|
35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jun 22, 2012
|
|
—
|
56%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jun 20, 2012
|
|
—
|
68%
|
Extraterrestrial (2012) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jun 15, 2012
|
|
—
|
13%
|
The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
—
The Playlist
Posted Jun 8, 2012
|
|
—
|
47%
|
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
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The Playlist
Posted Jun 1, 2012
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