|
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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
|
83%
|
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
|
83%
|
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
|
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3/4
|
84%
|
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
|
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2/4
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71%
|
The East (2013) |
"
It's irritatingly smug."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
Engaging, kinetic, revelatory and unexpected."
—
Newsday
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
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
|
|
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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
|
|
|
91%
|
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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|
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20%
|
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
|
75%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Soft around the edges, but with sincerity at its heart."
—
Newsday
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
|
79%
|
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
|
|
|
91%
|
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
|
96%
|
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
|
68%
|
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
|
|
2.5/4
|
37%
|
Aftershock (2013) |
"
Cross "The Hangover" with the Apocalypse and that'll give you some idea of the level of debauched mayhem that makes "Aftershock" such a shameless and titillating exercise in horror."
—
Newsday
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013) |
"
Less than satisfying treatment of beloved musician, who never quite lets his guard down."
—
Newsday
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
42%
|
Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
Mehta has given us something as pale as it is panoramic."
—
Newsday
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
42%
|
Paris Manhattan (2013) |
"
One supposes that if, by some unlikely convergence of circumstance, the mind that came up with this premise could also invest it with wit, the result would have seemed like genius. It does not."
—
Newsday
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
—
|
——
|
Ekspeditionen til verdens ende (The Expedition to the End of the World) () |
—
Variety
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
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One Night Stand (2013) |
"
"One Night Stand" manages to illuminate something very real about theater, the way each craft contributes to the whole and the sense of community that can develop, even in a day."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
Ozon is an artful provocateur and observer of human nature."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
99%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Nichols' wild narrative tributaries all eventually intersect, and at no time does he let one's attention stall."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
There's enough real evidence supporting the theory that Kubrick was a genius, and that's pretty entertaining all by itself."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
Unexpectedly, and blithely, amusing."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
"To the Wonder" is a trailer for itself, although it could be mistaken for a high-end perfume commercial ..."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
Elliptical and utterly fascinating adventure in cinema, one that defies simple explanations, but worms its way into the brain."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
For much of the film ... Boyle's innate flair as a dramatist and conjurer keeps one clamped to the armrests."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
"Starbuck" is essentially a situation comedy, but what a situation."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
|
77%
|
No Place On Earth (2013) |
"
A substantial contribution to Holocaust cinema."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
|
50%
|
Thale (2013) |
"
It's too wordy by half, saying what it should be showing -- which is ironic, given helmer Aleksander L. Nordaas' able hand, early on, with unspoken, unseen horrors."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
|
92%
|
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
Fugitive, radical, communist and philosopher Angela Davis was the lefty hipster's pin-up girl and the right-winger's Afro-ed nightmare, and her authority and charisma are on full display in Free Angela & All Political Prisoners."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Blancanieves (2013) |
"
Sensuous, mischievous, hotblooded retelling of the old Teutonic fairy tale."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
76%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
Sumptuous, savvy study of art making, love and light. Much of the passion, however, is in the pictures."
—
Newsday
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
Both genuinely emotional and blithely engaging."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
|
42%
|
Leonie (2013) |
"
Failing to carve anything graceful or fluid out of a slab of biography, helmer Hisako Matsui does bring to light a curious and intriguing story of a great-woman-behind-a-great-man in Leonie."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
|
93%
|
Sugar (2008) |
"
Sugar, a baseball movie, an immigrant parable and a thoroughly entertaining drama that accomplishes the seemingly impossible task of putting a fresh face on the fractured American Dream."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Even though Park creates and sustains a mood, and shows what an athlete he is with the camera, the actors are struggling valiantly to give some emotional texture to a story that, ultimately, defeats itself."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Cristian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills" moves so effortlessly through the gnarly intersection of love, loss, God and godlessness that you barely notice how much he's doing, and with such effortless grace."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
On every level, "No" leaves one with bittersweet feelings about democracy, love and the cost of compromise."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
13%
|
Molly's Theory Of Relativity (2013) |
"
For all of "Molly's" naturalistic, low-budget indie ambience, the film is a fantastical curiosity, whose indulgences will try one's patience."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013) |
"
The attitude is so much fun and the story so involving that a little naches is forgivable."
—
Newsday
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
A remarkable character study."
—
Newsday
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
57%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
Ultimately, the social-issue element of the movie gets buried in the wreckage, but it's comforting to know it's there."
—
Newsday
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
Masterful filmmaking bridges a few gaps in the narrative."
—
Newsday
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Sound City (2013) |
"
A cocky, affectionate and very musical documentary that may make its central point a few times too often."
—
Newsday
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
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