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3/4
|
84%
|
A Touch of Sin (2013) |
"
"A Touch of Sin" is by no means subtle, but it is composed with a passion and sinuous grace that makes it far more effective than many other sincere message movies."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Let The Fire Burn (2013) |
"
The pure-archive approach leaves a taste of despair; civic governance, it seems, can't even promise not to kill you."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
On The Job (2013) |
"
Matti uses this setup to show the rot in Philippine society, and it's often compelling stuff - filmed mostly on dirty streets and in moldy, ramshackle buildings."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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|
|
67%
|
Newlyweeds (2013) |
"
The movie at last finds its legs in a windup that has great compassion for these sweet, lost souls."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
96%
|
Mother Of George (2013) |
"
Darci Picoult's script renders all of these characters, if not always sympathetically, humanly and fully."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
What makes the movie so delightful is that Wadjda isn't trying to make trouble; she's just being herself."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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|
|
60%
|
La Maison De La Radio (2013) |
"
It's a film for Francophiles of the deepest dye, a grand tour of French culture and preoccupations."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
43%
|
Abigail Harm (2013) |
"
The tone teeters between delicate and affected, and there's only so much flitting around and soulful stares a movie can sustain before an audience starts wanting something more earthbound."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
There are some bright one-liners in the beginning, but the comedy/drama mix is an uneasy one, especially considering the shabby way the film treats McKenna, as a tart who's just there to improve some yuppie sex lives."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Tokyo Waka: A City Poem (2013) |
"
After a while it is impossible not to admire the birds' intelligence and resilience, and see that perhaps it's the other way around: The crows are the ones putting up with us."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Una noche (One Night) (2013) |
"
Graced with an appealing soundtrack and actors who put fierce heart into every gesture, the movie never achieves the emotional impact desired."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Sparrows Dance (2013) |
"
Given that the opening shot shows the heroine on the toilet, what a nice surprise to find that this is a pure love story, told with elegance and simplicity on a low budget."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
Savannah (2013) |
"
This is a Southern "Downton Abbey," minus the loopy plot turns and wisecracks that make that series so addictive."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
75%
|
Paradise: Faith (2013) |
"
Now, here's the trilogy's second installment, in which the jolly Austrian makes it clear that women of a certain age do not have his permission to overdo it with religion, either."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
69%
|
The Happy Sad (2013) |
"
Deadly earnestness and sex don't mix well at the movies."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
"The Patience Stone" is essentially a monologue, and Atiq Rahimi (directing the adaptation of his own novel) doesn't have what it takes to make the story more dynamic."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
You Will Be My Son (2013) |
"
It's an entertaining melodrama of the old school that plays out with the clockwork inevitability of a "Columbo" episode."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
All that footage has been organized into a compact, graceful story arc."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
71%
|
The United States Of Autism (2013) |
"
Amateurish and rushed."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
55%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
As pure comedy, it's a hoot."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
82%
|
Jug Face (2013) |
"
This morbid, cruel movie seems leached of all things that might inadvertently give viewers pleasure."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
The Good Son: The Life of Ray Boom Boom Mancini (2013) |
"
Mancini is a tremendously sympathetic figure, a hard-working man who became a fighter because he wanted to make things right, and still does."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
60%
|
Breakup at a Wedding (2013) |
"
"Breakup at a Wedding'' works, because Quinaz has come up with a concept that lets him skewer directorial pretension alongside wedding hysteria."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Rising From Ashes (2013) |
"
The sincerity and simplicity of the film ... lift it somewhat above the ordinary run."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
The Artist and the Model (2013) |
"
Dreamily pretty but insubstantial, Rochefort playing artistic brooding as almost pure grumpiness."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers (2013) |
"
The characters are so flashy that you can cast the Hollywood adaptation in your head while you watch."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
0%
|
Stranded (2013) |
"
It's a scrappy, unpretentious movie, with nicely calibrated pacing, but there's no logic, little motivation and above all, no personalities."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
71%
|
Terraferma (2013) |
"
Emanuele Crialese's film burns with a sense of this situation's inhumanity, and he gives a palpable sense of life in a place where the beauty attracts tourists, but the natives are barely getting by."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
38%
|
First Comes Love (2013) |
"
Davenport makes desultory attempts to bring in other mothers, but she is not an interviewer adept at drawing out scintillating observations."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
62%
|
Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (2013) |
"
The film succeeds as an introduction to Beck the writer but is undercut by its lack of gritty details."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
37%
|
Dealing With Idiots (2013) |
"
The movie was largely improvised, which lends itself more to scenes than a feature-length film."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
25%
|
Copperhead (2013) |
"
So much taste and intelligence went into these finely wrought costumes, props and sets in order to tell a story of such tedium. "
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
The cumulative impact is devastating, and very far from a simple Western condemnation of another country's brutality."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
Nicky's Family (2013) |
"
The unfathomable tragedy of the Holocaust is beyond the scope of "Nicky's Family," and even as the credits roll, Winton's simple decency is as mysterious as ever."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Israel: A Home Movie (2013) |
"
Ultimately, this film reveals the Israeli self-image, but not much more."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
The Hot Flashes (2013) |
"
Lifetime movies have their pleasures, and so does this film."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
7%
|
Just Like A Woman (2013) |
"
[Miller and Farahani] give strong performances as women bonding over their delight in both movement and their own beauty."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
93%
|
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013) |
"
By the end, I was muttering at every critic and musician and record producer, "Guys, tell me something I don't know.""
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) |
"
Once Hart is on, he's hilarious; be warned, however, he takes a long time to get under way."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
72%
|
How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) |
"
It often works, despite in-your-face graphics that occasionally do the job of resembling cheesy sales pitches a little too well."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle (2013) |
"
There's virtually no biographical content. The songs stick very much to one plaintive folk-pop style, and if that is not your passion, the flood of concert footage becomes wearing fairly early on."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Museum Hours (2013) |
"
The film shows how quiet exteriors can mask deep interior lives, and how art feeds those lives."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
Laurence Anyways (2013) |
"
At nearly three hours, it's entirely too long, needlessly padded out with an intrusive interview-framing device."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship (2013) |
"
All this transpires in scenes that play more like skits, though some are pretty funny."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
Downloaded (2013) |
"
Winter can't get his arms around his material. He seems reluctant to pare anything, and his talking techie heads - Napster founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, along with a host of others - often make the same points, one after another."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
Hand-held camerawork, so often a confounded nuisance, here makes the conditions on board the Rozen feel nauseatingly urgent."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
90%
|
The Attack (2013) |
"
"The Attack" starts out strong and swiftly unravels somewhere past the midpoint."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
The Stroller Strategy (2013) |
"
Writer-director Clément Michel forgot to give his characters personality, let alone charm."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
In the Fog (2013) |
"
Even when the pace wanes, the images are still gripping."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 14, 2013
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