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2.5/5
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62%
|
About Time (2013) |
"
About Time is funny and charming as all get out, but its messy core keeps the many pieces of quirk, sentiment and romance from lining up into anything worthy of all the talent here. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
|
88%
|
Captain Phillips (2013) |
"
True stories this remarkable are rare, and movies about them that work this well are even rarer. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 2, 2013
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|
4.5/5
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
Your mileage may vary on the film's more spiritual elements, but Gravity will make you believe in the higher power of movies."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 1, 2013
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|
4/5
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Rush's greatest strength is the rivalry that drew Howard to tell this story to begin with, and the gifted actors who bring it to life. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 18, 2013
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4/5
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
A bittersweet, marvelously effective end of a certain goofy era, when friends banding together were enough to save the world. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
2/5
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
A great film about the American civil rights movement is way overdue. The Butler, overwhelmed by flash and good intentions, doesn't even come close."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
A movie so lazy that it opens with clips from famous YouTube videos, just to prime the pump for laughs."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
At the very least, it proves that Woodley's vulnerable performance in The Descendants was no fluke, and sets up Teller as easily one of the best actors of his age."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 29, 2013
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2/5
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
It's not the summer's laziest sequel-- that's still Grown Ups 2 by a wide margin-- but it's a comfortable second place."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
8%
|
Grown Ups 2 (2013) |
"
Believe it or not, Grown Ups 2 is better than at least one other movie in existence, and that movie is Grown Ups. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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3/5
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
Pacific Rim is shiny and big and eager to please, but its originality can't save it from feeling as derivative and empty as any cobbled-together remake."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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|
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
Really silly, but really fun."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
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3/5
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
No movie this blatantly cobbled together ought to work nearly as well as World War Z does."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 19, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
69%
|
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) |
"
If endless mumbled monologues from Vin Diesel are the price to pay for watching The Rock land a leaping punch to the face, it's worth it."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby makes enough inventive and fairly amazing choices to earn its outsize existence."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Large-scale, original sci-fi is a hard thing to come by these days, and despite its familiar story Oblivion does dream up some great ideas"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 7, 2013
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4/5
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Cianfrance creates a layered and moving portrait of working-class life, of people trying-- in many of the wrong ways-- to improve lives for themselves and the generations to come. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 7, 2013
|
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4/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Take-flight moments of blockbuster bliss are frequent and consistently spectacular, as Abrams continues to prove his rare gift of combining character, plot, comedy and action into setpiece after setpiece"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
In walking the impossible tightrope of violent satire, Bay succeeds by calling up one of cinema's most powerful and least-understood languages: the relationship the audience has with the people onscreen before the film even begins. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Olympus Has Fallen takes a star performance and gallons of fake blood and stretches it into something both captivating and queasy."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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|
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
It's a strange hybrid, and not entirely a successful one, but hey, at least it's trying something different."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
46%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
Like the Civil War re-enactments featured in the final action scene, it all looks insane on the surface, but has a mighty power to suck you in."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
Safe Haven doesn't have a whole lot to offer, with a plot so familiar and stars so uninterested in each other, and its resolution only undermines what it's truly best at being-- a cheap North Carolina vacation. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
A twisty and surprisingly sexy thriller that, despite its heat, is actually about how cold and disconnected the world can be. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Gangster Squad is bloody, sloppy and far dumber than it looks, a Hollywood spectacle of slo-mo bullets and explosions perfectly calibrated to be soulless. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jan 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
Jack Reacher errs on the side of taking itself too seriously, and in simplifying the story becomes more of a standard-issue action thriller-- while most of us know that Reacher and Cruise are capable of something more"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
10 Years (2012) |
"
To hate 10 Years is like hating the enthusiastic girl who organizes your high school reunion-- can you really be so mean when so much effort was made and a reasonably good time was had by all?"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Dec 5, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
For its occasional moments of excess and unhurried pace, An Unexpected Journey is proof that Jackson still has a knack for stories in this world."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Dec 3, 2012
|
|
|
87%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
It's a movie cinema lovers can rally behind and gawk at forever."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
The world created in the movie is so utterly fascinating that I desperately want to see what other kind of amazing, creative tales can be told within it. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Nov 11, 2012
|
|
5.5
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Anna Karenina is a massive, boldly imagined work, the rare novel adaptation that's purely, thrillingly cinematic. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Nov 11, 2012
|
|
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Flight is a messy return to live-action filmmaking for Zemeckis, but its strongest scenes -- and especially that plane crash -- are reason enough to be glad he's back. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 15, 2012
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|
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Skyfall isn't just a great Bond film, it's the character's resurrection."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 14, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
If only modern American politics were remotely as entertaining."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
It's both a little too serious and a lot too silly to strike that powerful campy chord. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
As energetic children's entertainment with a twist it works fine, but Frankenweenie has the elements to go further before it settles for something that feels too familiar. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
Pitch Perfect takes what ought to be a story with limited appeal and makes it so hilarious you can't deny it."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
With style and dour charisma to spare, Dredd proves that the smartest way to handle an action plot is often the simplest."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 21, 2012
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|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
The Master is unforgettable, but like the mercurial men at its center, the harder you try to read into it, the more it slips away into the distance. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 12, 2012
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|
|
66%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
This big, ambitious, gorgeous, glorious film demands that its audience walk in as open-hearted as it is."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 11, 2012
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|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
Chbosky can't reinvent the characters he created for the screen, but he's definitely done right by them. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Creates a world so lively and well-wrought I'd happily see a dozen more movies set there. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
Shot through with good humor that balances out the blackness, and performances that liven up even rote plots of revenge, Lawless earns its detours and minor missteps, a late-summer surprise with unpredictable power. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 28, 2012
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|
2/5
|
49%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
It probably was fun to drive all these hot cars around California, and make a movie with your friends and sacrifice plot logic for better jokes. But where's the fun for the audience in all that? "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 22, 2012
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|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
It helps to let yourself get lost in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, which adapts Don Delillo's novel and clings hard to the inscrutable, arcane language, which very deliberately keeps the audience at arm's length"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
The Expendables 2 (2012) |
"
The Expendables 2 isn't nearly clever enough to operate as an actual action movie as well as a parody of one, but it is a good amount of fun."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 15, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
With infinite warmth toward its characters, whip-smart humor and a plea for human compassion that feels especially necessary these days, ParaNorman is a movie worth wrapping yourself up in"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Campaign (2012) |
"
There's a genius behind the silliness in The Campaign, in that a go-for-broke comedy might really be the only way to deal with the reality of modern politics."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 8, 2012
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