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55%
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Man of Steel (2013) |
"
What seals the movie's doom ... is its surrender to the lower power of coarsegrained action and computer-generated images of inexplicable banality."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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84%
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Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
The joyous spirit of the play has been preserved in this modest, homegrown production."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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71%
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Wish You Were Here (2013) |
"
Even a drug-sniffing police dog gives a vivid performance."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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34%
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The Internship (2013) |
"
The director, Shawn Levy, and the writers, Mr. Vaughn and Jared Stern, have dreamed up a feel-good comedy that plays like a demo reel of déjà views."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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6%
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Gigli (2003) |
"
More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Jun 5, 2013
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90%
|
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) |
"
The larger subjects, eloquently evoked, are the sources of his knowledge and inspiration, and the singular tradition within which he works and flourishes."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 30, 2013
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71%
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The East (2013) |
"
The whole movie has the smugness of a cult. At one and the same time it's devoid of reality and insufferably full of itself."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 30, 2013
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11%
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After Earth (2013) |
"
Is "After Earth" the worst movie ever made?"
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 30, 2013
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3%
|
Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997) |
"
Speed 2 is frantic action, tinny dialogue, perfunctory characterization and tried-and-false plot pilferings."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 28, 2013
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68%
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The Crucible (1996) |
"
Then there's always Mr. Scofield, bringing an almost unbearable, yet entirely believable, lightness of spirit to his loathsome character. It's a bold stroke by a great actor, making zealotry and evil seem positively beneficent."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 17, 2013
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80%
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The Boxer (1997) |
"
This is acting that stands apart from fashionable styles."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 14, 2013
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82%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
Worth seeing for what it says of the turbulent state of France in the early 1970s, when Mr. Assayas was a high-school student in Paris ..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 9, 2013
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50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote "The Great Gatsby" while living on Long Island and in Europe."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 9, 2013
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75%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
What's remarkable ... is how Ms. Bier's film, in Danish and English, finds beauty in its quiet moments, which are many and close between."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 2, 2013
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49%
|
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013) |
"
The energy in "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's"-what a great title!-is genuine, infectious and superabundant."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted May 2, 2013
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78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
The third iteration of a franchise that began so well becomes a hollow hymn to martial gadgetry. The suits and story clank in unison."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 2, 2013
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99%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
It's a movie that holds out hope for the movies' future."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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48%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
It's powerful stuff."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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54%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
The movie's failures are all the more unfortunate because they detract from its central and conspicuous success, the performance of Riz Ahmed in the title role."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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45%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Not only hollow and assaultive, but frenzied, madly violent and skullnumbingly loud."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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72%
|
Elephant (2003) |
"
What I'll remember most vividly about Gus Van Sant's extraordinary "Elephant" is not the violent climax but the state of grace that precedes it."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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80%
|
Fight Club (1999) |
"
Fight Club is an arresting, eventually appalling excursion into social satire by way of punishing violence."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 22, 2013
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88%
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In the House (2013) |
"
A celebration of storytelling's power."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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55%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
The mystery posed by "Oblivion" as a whole is why its mysteries are posed so clumsily, and worked out so murkily."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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87%
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A History of Violence (2005) |
"
This peculiarly predictable picture has been calculated, or miscalculated, to set up certain expectations, fulfill them, and then do the same thing again, thereby giving us a chance to see what's coming and, at least in theory, be shocked."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 15, 2013
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81%
|
Oldboy (2005) |
"
Shakespearean in its violence, Oldboy also calls up nightmare images of spiritual and physical isolation that are worthy of Samuel Beckett or Dostoyevsky."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 15, 2013
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87%
|
X2: X-Men United (2003) |
"
There's little zest, less grace and, particularly in the writing, no creative spark to ignite the imagination."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 15, 2013
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78%
|
Sin City (2005) |
"
While Sin City on screen evokes the same feeling of bottomless decadence and dread that the novels do, there is one crucial difference -- you can put the novels down."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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82%
|
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"
What makes the movie pay off is moving pictures of real action and of intimate scenes between man and boy that are all the more moving for being understated."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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85%
|
Batman Begins (2005) |
"
Batman Begins summons up moments of great eloquence and power. If only its cast of characters was as fully inhabited as its turbulent city."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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73%
|
V for Vendetta (2006) |
"
Speaking of love, things go blooey instead of gooey whenever heroine and hero come close enough to touch; far from being sensual, let alone erotic, the movie proves to be not much fun at all."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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92%
|
Ghost World (2001) |
"
The greatest distinction of "Ghost World" is its singular spirit. Here's a dark, deadpan comedy about alienated kids that manages to be smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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94%
|
American Splendor (2003) |
"
I can't imagine how the filmmakers went about it, let alone pulled the whole thing off, but their film comes together in unpredictable and remarkably pleasurable ways."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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88%
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The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
[Mr. Loach] has gone and directed a comedy from a script by his longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, and it's so delightful that his fans will be clamoring for more."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
The film breaks faith with its audience by asking us to care about two profoundly antipathetic characters spouting pseudo-poetic banalities."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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77%
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42 (2013) |
"
Mr. Helgeland's ponderously reverential biopic is a string of unearned runs."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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65%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
A bleak vision of life in the Internet age as an asocial network where faceless predators abound, heedless kids live secret lives, everything is phishy until proven otherwise and quests for love or intimacy lead to loneliness or grief."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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26%
|
The Brass Teapot (2013) |
"
Ms. Mosley, who directed from a screenplay by Tim Macy, struggles to fill her debut feature with a slender notion, but the premise defeats her, even if the story operates at the outset on the pleasure principle."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
[It] may be the surpassingly eccentric-and enormously entertaining-film that Kubrick deserves."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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56%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
The film was shot by an excellent cinematographer, Adriano Goldman, though you'd never know it from the lighting, which is as flat as the writing."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
I floated in and out of states that included suspense, surprise, delight and shock, all of them adding up to steady-state enjoyment."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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81%
|
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) |
"
Better Luck Tomorrow breathes new life into a familiar story: coming of age in high school."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Apr 2, 2013
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28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
I won't pretend that I had a great time watching "G.I. Joe: Retaliation.""
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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76%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
"Renoir" is so beautiful, and so intelligently conceived, that you keep waiting, in vain, for a bit of fire to break out in the narrative."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
Tashiana Washington and Ty Hickson are terrific in the main roles. So is Zoë Lescaze as Ginnie, a spoiled white kid who teaches the taggers a thing or two about drift and being dissolute."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
For the most part ... this is self-serious stuff, seething with ambition but almost devoid of spontaneity, and ultimately drained of genuine energy."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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95%
|
The Return (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003) |
"
The story, set in contemporary Russia, seems unexceptional at the start. Yet it plays out against a vast wilderness of shorelines and lakes, and turns tantalizing ambiguity into urgent mystery."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
A film about many things-so many that the magic of Studio Ghibli's past has been displaced by exposition and earnest discussion."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
"Starbuck" is more than the sum of its calculations, though not a whole lot more."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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38%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
Only Mr. Rudd emerges unscathed. He protects himself by being consistently affable in the face of heavy odds."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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