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Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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Critics' Group:: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 4459
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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
B+	96%	Stories We Tell (2013)	" An absorbing exercise not only in documentary excavation but in narrative construction." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 17, 2013
B	——	Some Girl(s) (2013)	" Even this lesser LaBute offers a nice twist to his characteristically stinging dissection of man's inhumanity to man--and especially woman." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 16, 2013
C-	23%	Violet & Daisy (2013)	" Neither as writer nor as director is Fletcher able to sustain his conceit." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 16, 2013
C+	55%	Man of Steel (2013)	" This rather dour but aggressively whiz-bang take on Superman's first appearance on earth is intriguing up to a point, but...it won't blow you away." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 11, 2013
C	85%	This Is the End (2013)	" Less sharp-edged satire than frat-boy goofiness." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 11, 2013
C	34%	The Internship (2013)	" A lazy comedy, innocuous and inoffensive but formulaic and tired, as well as fatally overlong." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 7, 2013
C-	38%	The Purge (2013)	" Just a routine home invasion tale with heavy-handed pretensions to social commentary." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 6, 2013
A-	88%	In the House (2013)	" A sly, stylish blend of melodrama and suspense that's also a cunning commentary on the seductiveness and danger inherent in storytelling itself." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 6, 2013
A-	98%	Before Midnight (2013)	" The conclusion of a trilogy that...has subtly depicted the birth, growth and maturation of a man-woman relationship with its inevitable vacillations between affection, sacrifice, self-concern and acrimony." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 6, 2013
C+	71%	The East (2013)	" An uneven film...an odd blend of sophistication on one level and maladroit technique on the other." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 6, 2013
B	73%	The Kings of Summer (2013)	" A quirky, genial crowd-pleaser that probably cost less than the catering bill for one of the franchise mega-productions but delivers a lot more fun than most of them." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Jun 6, 2013
B	80%	Pieta (2013)	" [A] lurid but undeniably powerful story, and the lead performances are compelling." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 31, 2013
B	91%	We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013)	" Works...as a saga of self-destructive behavior by capable people whose judgment was perverted by smugness about their own oprinciples." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 30, 2013
C+	50%	Now You See Me (2013)	" A fast-moving puzzler that, on a minute to minute basis, is moderately engaging but by the close has become a rather heavy-handed bit of hokum." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 30, 2013
F	11%	After Earth (2013)	" Every bit as bad as you'd fear of a movie from the writer of 'The Book of Eli' and the director of 'The Last Airbender.' Where are the guys from Mystery Science Theater when you need them?" — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 30, 2013
B+	88%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" One might compare 'What Maisie Knew' to 'Kramer vs. Kramer.' This is the better film, more subtle and less manipulative." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 24, 2013
B-	75%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" While this is hardly Bier at her best, the agreeable leads, lovely locale and tweaking of romantic comedy conventions make the film more engaging than one might expect." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 24, 2013
C	71%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" A thoroughly brainless movie...action without wit or even coherence." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 23, 2013
B-	62%	Epic (2013)	" A visual marvel that's unfortunately pretty derivative in terms of plotting." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 23, 2013
F	20%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" It's the absolute pits." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 23, 2013
B	68%	The Iceman (2013)	" A brooding, neo-noir portrait of a psychopath who balances an apparently normal family life with a career as a cold-blooded hit-man." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 20, 2013
D+	49%	Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013)	" Ridiculously reverential...a love letter to the famously upscale New York department store, lacking any critical sense." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 17, 2013
B	89%	Koch (2013)	" An engaging if incomplete portrait of an unconventional politician." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 17, 2013
B+	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" Nearly as exciting and engaging as its predecessor, and just as supremely well crafted." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 16, 2013
C	42%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" A sprawling, lumbering epic that manages to preserve a substantial amount of the book's content but achieves little of its magic." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 10, 2013
C	36%	Peeples (2013)	" Given the quality of the cast,...this highly uneven, ill-constructed comedy is a disappointment." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 10, 2013
C	48%	At Any Price (2013)	" An old-fashioned, fifties-style melodrama, it offers a host of plots and sub-plots, twists and turns that frankly never congeal--except to make a rather murky mess." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 9, 2013
B	77%	No Place On Earth (2013)	" An extraordinary combination of documentary and dramatization...a Holocaust film that's also a modern detective story." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 9, 2013
B	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" This isn't a great 'Gatsby,' but it's quite a good one...Despite the spectacle-for-spectacle's sake filmmaking philosophy and lack of interpretive depth the picture works on its own terms." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 9, 2013
C	54%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" An earnest, serious film, but ultimately one that fails to satisfactorily dramatize the subject--or to transcend a bare, frustrating didacticism. " — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 4, 2013
C	——	Kon-Tiki (1950)	" A sort of grown-up version of a boys' adventure tale...most travelers will be happy to disembark when the credits roll." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 2, 2013
C-	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Dark, gloomy, chaotic and basically misanthrophic...Iron Man in Dark Knight territory." — One Guy's Opinion Posted May 2, 2013
D	7%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" An extended sitcom with a particularly raunchy streak that grows more and more artificial and hard to stomach as it proceeds." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 26, 2013
D	45%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" Wants to be a goofy blend of farce and violence but comes off as a nasty, brutal, cringe-inducing misfire." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
C-	26%	The Numbers Station (2013)	" Claustrophobic and repetitive...a numbingly tedious would-be thriller." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
D	65%	Starbuck (2013)	" Despite (or because of) Huard's mugging, 'Starbuck' is more likely to cause queasiness than smiles of contentment." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
C-	23%	Arthur Newman (2013)	" An artificial exercise about people who are synthetic in more ways than one." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
A-	99%	Mud (2013)	" A coming-of-age tale that's also a suspense thriller...this beautifully realized picture is easily one of the year's best thus far." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 25, 2013
C+	55%	Oblivion (2013)	" Great-looking but not very filling...this stately, solemn film is yet another sci-fi epic that's technically accomplished but narratively derivative." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 18, 2013
D	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Banal ideas presented as deep thoughts and bandied about in a self-consciously poetic style." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 18, 2013
C+	65%	Disconnect (2013)	" Ironically, by linking things up so snugly it damages its ability to connect with us." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
C	77%	42 (2013)	" Has its heart in the right place but plays the inspirational card too often, and too ham-fistedly." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
C	56%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Lacks the visceral energy that would raise it from the level of a curiously humdrum political thriller." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
C	68%	Trance (2013)	" By the close you're likely to be exhausted by the effort to keep things straight and angry that you bothered to try." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
B	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" A diverting excursion for lovers of Kubrick's films...even if, at over a hundred minutes, it does go on a bit long." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 11, 2013
B-	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" Doesn't always mix its anti-prejudice message and its feel-good nostalgia with complete smoothness. But despite some ragged edges it provides a reasonably good time." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 8, 2013
D	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" Just another gorefest, not appreciably different from the scads of other similar dreck that floods into theatres every month nowadays." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 4, 2013
C	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" The reach of 'The Place Beyond the Pines' exceeds its grasp, and the result is intermittently powerful but ultimately disappointing." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Apr 4, 2013
F	65%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Garish, goofy, leering and nasty, it's meant to be hypnotic, but winds up nearly unwatchable." — One Guy's Opinion Posted Mar 29, 2013

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