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B+
|
98%
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Wadjda (2013) |
"
Both uplifting and realistic, charming and incisive."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
D+
|
63%
|
Pulling Strings (2013) |
"
Every bit as bad as most Hollywood romantic comedies."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
C-
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
A piece of lurid pulp...[whose] similarity to '21' is so striking that it should really be titled 'Rerunner Rerunner.'"
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
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B-
|
46%
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Parkland (2013) |
"
Compulsively watchable [although] the film comes across as a little tacky, and some will even see it, fairly or not, as exploitative."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
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B
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
An astonishing technical tour de force and an exciting thrill ride, but as a human drama it barely registers, and it carries none of the metaphysical weight of a film like '2001.'"
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
B
|
90%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
Basically constitutes a liberal jeremiad, but it's one presented with civility, good humor and a human face as well as impassioned conviction."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
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C+
|
59%
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) |
"
Trippy in one sense but trite in another...contains some genuinely gonzo eye-candy, but the weirdly imaginative images are wedded to a tired script. "
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
D+
|
16%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
It would have been better for all concerned if [it] had been consigned to that limbo where lost luggage winds up, never to be heard from again."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
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B
|
83%
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Don Jon (2013) |
"
Undoubtedly raunchy, but it's also pretty funny [and] far more mature and insightful than the frat-boy gross-out farces that come down the pike every week or so."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
C+
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Apart from Gandolfini, this is just bland, middlebrow fare that's not intrinsically superior to standard-issue Hollywood romantic comedies."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
B+
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Delivers the adrenaline rush the title promises, but thankfully it does more than that, providing an engrossing--and ultimately stirring--human story as well."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
C
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
Buries a few nuggets in a mountain of repetition and overstatement."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
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B
|
89%
|
The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) |
"
A solid PBS-level treatment of the triumphs and setbacks in the career of a man who challenged American prejudices at a time when they were still very deep and very dangerous."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
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C-
|
51%
|
A Single Shot (2013) |
"
A slow-moving, unsurprising piece of noirish backwoods pulp."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
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C
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Heartfelt and well-intentioned, but it comes across like an adult version of an afterschool special."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
A
|
80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
A terrific thriller, shattering domestic drama and probing character study in a single package."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
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B-
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
An intermittently powerful piece, driven by Farahani's nuanced performance, though eventually its verbosity takes a toll."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 18, 2013
|
|
D
|
35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
Nothing in the picture delivers the jolts that the first 'Insidious,' or Wan's more recent 'The Conjuring,' did. "
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
C-
|
33%
|
The Family (2013) |
"
Strongly cast, but Besson proves incapable of melding the nastiness and laughs into a cohesive whole--the result is tonally schizophrenic and abrasive."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Museum Hours (2013) |
"
Whether you find the result tedious or enlightening will be a factor of your openness to the director's languidly atmospheric approach."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
B-
|
71%
|
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013) |
"
It resembles a decent academic lecture on the subject...interesting, if hardly scintillating."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
D+
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
Does not make for an evening's pleasure."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
C+
|
34%
|
Passion (2013) |
"
Though you can't logically buy into the movie in the slightest, at least you can enjoy it for the lurid trash that it is."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 8, 2013
|
|
B
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
The alcohol flows freely...but happily not all the high spirits are of the liquid variety."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
B
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
In lesser hands...could easily have become a tearjerker, but it neatly sidesteps the trap to remain truthful and affecting."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
C
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
A mostly competent but utterly mediocre exercise in outer-space mayhem."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
B+
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
A strong, moving portrait of a man shunned by the only society he knows for reasons he can't understand, marked by a stunning lead performance from [Mads] Mikkelsen."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
C-
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
A serious, gravely artistic, stylistically operatic film that's visually intoxicating but also a crashing bore."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
D
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
A broad, witless romantic comedy...a would-be homage that lacks both common sense and an appropriate sensibility."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
B
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
Part concert movie, part bio-sketch and all commercial [but] expertly directed, handsomely shot, spiffily edited and--perhaps most important of all--well recorded."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
F
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
So completely idiotic you might swear it was made by Luc Besson and starred Jason Statham or Liam Neeson."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
C
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
A legal thriller curiously devoid of thrills--the sort of stolid, unexceptional film that might serve as a perfectly adequate offering on PBS Masterpiece Mystery but is woefully out of place on the big screen."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 26, 2013
|
|
C
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
With ostentatiously artsy visuals...and far more concern for mood than narrative coherence, it's a film that tries to mimic the style of Terrence Malick and succeeds only too well."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
B+
|
88%
|
Hannah Arendt (2013) |
"
For those who value the life of the mind and the responsibility of the public intellectual, it's an engrossing--indeed important--film."
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One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
B
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
Isn't as wacky as 'Shaun of the Dead' or 'Hot Fuzz,' but it's amusing enough to please their many fans and plenty of others besides."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
C+
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
A good deal smarter than most big-budget romantic comedies, but its shrillness makes it less pleasurable than it should be."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
F
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
A thoroughly repulsive picture that's even worse when it tries to add some dark humor to the grisly mix of carnage and gore."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
D
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
Overstuffed, overlong...and brainless beyond belief...[with a] numbingly convoluted and derivative plot, woodem acting and cheesy effects."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
D+
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
A tepid would-be corporate thriller with a young lead not ready for prime time, and even old hands like Ford and Oldman can't save it."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
C+
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
While there's a certain tautness to the result, the many longueurs along the way almost make one yearn for an infusion of good old Hollywood pizzazz."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
B
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
This might not be a spectacular movie, but compared to the stuff Hollywood usually churns out about teenagers, it's a breath of fresh air."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
B
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
Strangely affecting...a small-scaled film that offers an alternately funny and sad rumination on the fragility of human affairs."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
C
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
A pedestrian work that exhibits none of the imagination and daring its subject was famous for."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
C+
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
An earnest, well-intentioned film...obviously a labor of love for all concerned, [but] manipulative, melodramatic and rather simplistic."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
D+
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
Its predecessor was almost shamefully giddy fun. By contrast Wadlow's picture is simply shameful...nasty, brutish, but certainly not short."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
B-
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
The spin it gives to the story makes for an intriguingly stylish, if incomplete, biography/cautionary tale."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 11, 2013
|
|
B
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
A shocking exhibition of what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil--or, in this case, the absurdity of evil."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
A-
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Both a sharp-edged character study of a woman on the verge of a psychological breakdown and a cannily-constructed ensemble piece reflecting the differences of class and culture that permeate American life."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
C
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Expertly made but intellectually shallow, especially when it devolves into standard-issue he-man heroics in the last act."
—
One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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