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47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
A nitwit extravaganza that makes you long for the intellectual depth of Independence Day."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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97%
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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (2000) |
"
Aviva Kempner hits a grand slam in her thrilling documentary about baseball, about a great baseball player, about Jews in America and about the country itself in the 1930s and 1940s."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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64%
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Fever Pitch (The Perfect Catch) (2005) |
"
The film turns out to be a substantial pleasure as the spirit of the Sox shines through."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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37%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Did the producers appeal to a denominator even lower than common by making their film as dumb as possible, or did it just turn out that way?"
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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80%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Ms. Potter puts her heroines in a succession of interesting-and handsomely photographed-situations in which they define themselves by talking about what they're up to, rather than by taking urgent action."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Fascinating [and] anguishing ..."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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29%
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Upside Down (2013) |
"
At a time when so many movies look alike, and studio productions sometimes look aggressively ugly, here's a quirky vision at the intersection of sci-fi and romance."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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84%
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The Rookie (2002) |
"
Until The Rookie came along, I'd forgotten how good and smart a family film can be."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
What does it say about "Oz the Great and Powerful" that China Doll, a creature born of digital code, is the movie's most affecting character?"
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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89%
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Koch (2013) |
"
The film advances no theories to explain his contradictions, only a thrilling, sometimes affecting account of what he did."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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89%
|
A Place at the Table (2013) |
"
In addition to the dismaying facts and figures is a fuller sense of what hunger can look like, and feel like, among the millions of Americans classified as "food-insecure" ..."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Jack's problem is that he's a commoner, but the movie's problem is that its script is commoner still, an enchantment-free pretext for animated action, straight-ahead storytelling and ersatz romance."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Spontaneity has been banished by rigid stylization, and the net effect is as lifeless as a severed head that turns up in a basement freezer."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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77%
|
A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
"
It isn't the device that's so crude, but the execution, which turns Nash's persecutory demons into nuisances that won't leave us alone."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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91%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
It is thoughtful, unfashionable, measured, mostly honest, sometimes clumsy or remote, often exciting, occasionally moving and eventually surprising. It's correct."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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95%
|
5 Broken Cameras (2012) |
"
This is how the conflict looks from the other side of the barrier."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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91%
|
Caesar Must Die (2013) |
"
What works best is what's readily accessible, the startling power of performers who understand the drama all too well."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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83%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
There is love, the movie tells us, then there is love."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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96%
|
All the King's Men (1949) |
"
A poisonous political process from our not-so-distant past dominates Robert Rossen's classic film about the rise of a Southern demagogue."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 19, 2013
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46%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
The movie is claimed ... by narrative incoherence, Tim Burton-envy and the usual demons of digital effects."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
For anyone who remembers the "Die Hard" adventures at their vital and exciting best, this film feels like a near-death experience."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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92%
|
No (2013) |
"
"No" signals a huge spurt in the filmmaker's growth."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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93%
|
Lore (2013) |
"
The pace is deliberate, verging on slow-Australian filmmakers aren't keen on short takes or quick cuts-but the content is constantly surprising."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
The comedy equivalent of mud-wrestling without the mud."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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84%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The film as a whole is consistently enjoyable and sometimes thrilling, a classic Soderbergh showcase for provocative storytelling and marvelous acting."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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38%
|
Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
Fisher Stevens directed from Noah Haidle's script, which is obviously the work of a young writer."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
By the end I could have used a Bulleit to the mouth."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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|
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92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
The Israeli journalist Dror Moreh has hit a documentarian's trifecta with "The Gatekeepers.""
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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88%
|
Yossi (2013) |
"
An affecting and admirably unsentimental portrait of lost love."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
When you're having great fun at a movie and suddenly you're not, where's the fun?"
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
The most distinctive thing about "Parker" is its title."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
Though the production is unpolished, the music is great and Chris O'Dowd is delightfully droll as the group's boozy manager."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
The only reason to see this dreary parade of deception and venality is Mark Wahlberg's performance as a disgraced ex-cop caught up in the thick of menacing events he can't understand."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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66%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
"Mama" announces the arrival of a director who works unusually well with actors-the two children are truly scary-and who creates highly charged environments, effective sound designs and powerful fantasy sequences."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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60%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
The movie isn't about eloquence, it's about giving Mr. Schwarzenegger a chance to take on new enemies that include advancing age."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
Mr. Hoffman's direction is impeccable, John de Borman's camera bathes the story in warm radiance, and the end credits are not to be missed, since they reveal who's really who in the supporting cast."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
There's only so much style can do to spiff up shriveled substance."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
"56 Up" reminds us that change is ceaseless and often dramatic, bringing growth we could never have dreamed of as little kids."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 27, 2012
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81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
A thrilling, if also punishing, tale of heroic endurance."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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—
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45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
It's neither the first nor the best road trip that Mr. Salles has brought to the screen."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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94%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Amour might seem hardly the stuff of entertainment, yet the reason it has been acclaimed isn't mysterious. Confronting death, it studies life, closely and lovingly."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
Andrew [Rogen], who has invented an organic cleaning compound, pitches it to retailers in a succession of meetings across the country that have no grounding in any known reality."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
This movie is a turkey gone rancid."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
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93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
What it does in the course of telling a seminal story of our time is what contemporary films so rarely do, serve as brilliant provocation."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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|
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65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
An overlong adventure enlivened by wonders."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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|
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82%
|
De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012) |
"
Why are certain films less than the sum of their appealing parts?"
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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|
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38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
A small film that, for all its considerable charm, miniaturizes its hero in the process of humanizing him."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
The film, for all its visual felicities, comes to life only sporadically."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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93%
|
The Central Park Five (2012) |
"
Watching "The Central Park Five" is a deeply affecting experience."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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