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3/4
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42%
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Zaytoun (2013) |
"
A trek that is occasionally very unlikely, but moving nonetheless."
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Newsday
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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3/4
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98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
Al-Mansour seems out to make a movie that works in America. Which is likely a savvy move, since it seems unlikely she's going to get much traction back home."
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Newsday
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
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42%
|
Zaytoun (2013) |
"
Given how much Zaytoun follows the playbook, the pic's portentous ending is extraordinarily subtle, and will resonate best with those who know the history of the region."
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Variety
Posted Sep 23, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
The entire movie is an experiment in disturbance -- that of the characters, as well as the audience. The results are nerve-racking, and resonant."
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Newsday
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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1.5/4
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34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
Cataloging what's missing from Salerno's movie -- for instance, why "The Catcher in the Rye" worked, or didn't, and what it meant and still means to the American novel -- would run into the sports section."
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Newsday
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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|
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100%
|
Mother Of George (2013) |
"
The imagery in Mr. Dosunmu's film is consistently surprising and lush. Even the straight-ahead portraits of his characters, used as emotional caesuras, are rich in colors and textures. But he's a storyteller, too ..."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
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34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
"Salinger" is all surface."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
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86%
|
Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
Viewers may crave more anatomy of murder, but unlike Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Moors isn't on a mission. What he and his actors are interested in is character."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
2.5/4
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59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
The story doesn't hold together, but Hahn and Temple are terrific."
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Newsday
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
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45%
|
And While We Were Here (2013) |
"
An homage to neorealism, the French New Wave and the cinematic power of faces, as well as a lark of sorts for Coiro and Bosworth after their collaboration on Life Happens."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
Tender, funny and real as a kick in the ribs."
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Newsday
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
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2/5
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34%
|
Adore (2013) |
"
The film has an impressive pedigree -- screenplay by Christopher Hampton, from a novel by Nobel laureate Doris Lessing -- but still feels like something of a bodice-ripper, if people bothered to wear that much clothing."
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Newsday
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
"The Grandmaster" is the work of a director whose work throughout his career has been visually exhilarating, sensuous, even sublime. To that end, "The Grandmaster" doesn't disappoint."
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Newsday
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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|
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81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
A repository of fugitive Americana that's substantial and satisfying."
—
Newsday
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
"Lee Daniels' The Butler" might have been titled "Lee Daniels' Forrest Gump" - its hero challenged morally rather than mentally, but watching history in Gumpian fashion, as a series of cameos viewed through a slightly clueless daze."
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Washington Post
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Lake Bell is a charmer, and her small-bore movie is full of laughs."
—
Newsday
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
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55%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
It's rather close to excruciating."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
The deliriously talented Lake Bell wrote, produced, directed and stars in this peculiar bit of comedy magic, set amid the cutthroat world of Hollywood voiceover artists."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
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54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
With the exception of good-natured porn vet Harry Reems (Adam Brody), everyone here is out to tear a piece off Linda Lovelace, whoever she was: Messrs. Epstein and Friedman don't really get to what made her tick, although one can guess."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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|
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68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Mr. Damon brings both a weary optimism and convincing physicality to Max, who is no revolutionary. He just wants to live, and is willing to don an exoskeletal combat suit and fight robots to do it."
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Wall Street Journal
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
Informative, earnest, but less than briskly paced."
—
Newsday
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
47%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
Too broad for the tarmac."
—
Newsday
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
"Crystal Fairy" isn't going to be the mind-expanding movie buzz that blows your mind, but in its laconic, trippy way it gets under the skin."
—
Newsday
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
Nicky's Family (2013) |
"
What's nettlesome about director Matej Minac's clunkily constructed documentary is what it says about our perverse but understandable need to spin some kind of happy ending onto the Holocaust."
—
Newsday
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Still Mine (2013) |
"
What would otherwise have been be a rather banal David-Goliath story ... is elevated by Cromwell into something more weighty, and even existentially profound."
—
Newsday
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
Any movie that lifts from both "This Boy's Life" and "Meatballs" is a rarefied creation, and in this case a pretty wonderful movie. "
—
Newsday
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
Unfinished Song (2013) |
"
Shamelessly sentimental, cute to a fault, but the acting is first-rate."
—
Newsday
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
The Attack (2013) |
"
Delicately executed thriller balances its political baggage with unflagging suspense."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
|
72%
|
How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) |
"
By being both glib and preachy, this highly stylized pic ends up being a tiresome buzzkill."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 24, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
Fill the Void (2013) |
"
Burshtein creates a one-of-a-kind portrait that nonetheless transcends its setting, and even its worldview; the dynamics are global."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
Hannah Arendt (2013) |
"
Mixed bag, fascinating in its treatment of the Eichmann case, but stilted in its treatment of Arendt and her coterie."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
|
83%
|
Stranger Things (2013) |
"
One of the assets of "Stranger Things" is its air of mystery, and the actors give the indelible impression that they have much locked away inside."
—
Variety
Posted Jun 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013) |
"
Despite some hyperbolic excess, the process of Resnais' production is unexpected and free, and revisits the very nature of cinema, and theater, with a wondrous eye."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Everyone acquits him or herself charmingly, and with a deep appreciation for why Shakespeare travels well, and in defiance of those who would dismiss him as dusty. The fact is, he's writing about us. It's as simple as that, and Whedon well knows it."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) |
"
Downey more or less vanished as quickly as he'd appeared. And yet, as anyone with a television knows, his legacy lives on."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
It's irritatingly smug."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
Engaging, kinetic, revelatory and unexpected."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Augustine (2013) |
"
The hysterics contained in Alice Winocour's "Augustine" -- and "hysteria" is what it's about -- can't obscure the understated, smoldering subtext of what is a sometimes playfully smart and irony-laden story."
—
Newsday
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Mischievous updating of the Henry James novel, made especially moving by young Onata Aprile."
—
Newsday
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
|
98%
|
Before Midnight (2013) |
"
It's a wildly uneven enterprise, overall."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
|
44%
|
The English Teacher (2013) |
"
A screwball comedy that could have been screwier, "The English Teacher" is as interesting for its cast as its content."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
|
95%
|
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
How do you make this a motion picture? Some might call it sleight-of-hand, but it's something Mr. Gibney has proved himself adept at time and time again ..."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
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19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
"Hangover III" is likable enough, even as it collapses in a heap."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Soft around the edges, but with sincerity at its heart."
—
Newsday
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
|
76%
|
Augustine (2013) |
"
Soko is terrific, but it is Mr. Lindon who delivers the performance of the film, his internalized consternation amounting to an eloquent dispatch from the war between the sexes."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
|
93%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Perhaps Ms. Gerwig is the greatest actress alive. And maybe "Frances Ha" is just the ghost orchid of independent cinema."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
While the action is often electric, it's the relationships that matter. That, and a lippy regard for a cultural legacy."
—
Wall Street Journal
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
A fascinating variant on the documentary form that examines what we see, and how we see it."
—
Newsday
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
As both violent drama and character study, Israeli director Ariel Vromen's film does everything it should."
—
Newsday
Posted May 16, 2013
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