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D
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4%
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A Little Bit Of Heaven (2012) |
"
Bravely or stupidly, both A Little Bit Of Heaven and its heroine charge on as if the introduction of terminal cancer didn't change things that much."
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AV Club
Posted May 3, 2012
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B-
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78%
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
Brought to life by actors who give the film substance and gravity it doesn't otherwise know how to earn."
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AV Club
Posted May 3, 2012
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A-
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93%
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Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
Tasked with meeting the many requirements necessary for any Avengers movie to work, Whedon checks off all the boxes, then sets about creating new expectations for what a big superhero movie ought to be."
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AV Club
Posted May 2, 2012
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B
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95%
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Marley (2012) |
"
In spite of all the diligence and frankness, Marley remains an enigma."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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C
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
When extraordinary coincidences drive a story just because no other elements step up to get the job done, it's hard not to feel jerked around."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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A-
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92%
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
Where Scream put a postmodern twist on slasher films, The Cabin In The Woods takes on the whole genre and twists even harder."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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C
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44%
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American Reunion (2012) |
"
Filled with more characters and subplots than Middlemarch, American Reunion has a lot of business to attend to, and takes its time getting it done, working through a checklist of items from previous films in the process."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 4, 2012
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C
|
67%
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) |
"
Salmon Fishing quickly turns into exactly the sort of wet cardboard box of a movie its title suggests."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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C-
|
41%
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Silent House (2012) |
"
Gets it right for a good stretch, building the pressure to the boiling point as star Elizabeth Olsen appears to break down onscreen. But once the stumbling starts, it doesn't really stop until the movie ends."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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B
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51%
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John Carter (2012) |
"
At its best, it recalls Star Wars and Raiders Of The Lost Ark in the way it joins of-the-moment technology with the sturdy rhythms and easy thrills of an old B-movie."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 8, 2012
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C-
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27%
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Project X (2012) |
"
There's a lot to dislike about Project X."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 1, 2012
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D
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
It's thin material, to say the least, and manipulative to boot, putting women, children, and a SEAL father-to-be in jeopardy in ways more about servicing cheap thrills than any larger point about the perilous state of the world in 2012."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 23, 2012
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C
|
30%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
It's unashamedly escapist, but a turn for the serious as The Vow nears the finish line only underscores its essential silliness..."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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C
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
Without Radcliffe at the center looking scared out of his wits, The Woman In Black would seem even slighter than it already does."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 2, 2012
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C-
|
39%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
When the heroes crash, they go up in blazes of digital glory that seem just as artificial as the plotting that brought them to their fates."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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A-
|
94%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
It's a fine example of how a contemporary setting can accentuate the continued relevance of Shakespeare's themes, and it bodes well for Fiennes' future as a director."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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A
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77%
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War Horse (2011) |
"
Spielberg exercises stunning control behind the camera, never more than in a late-film sequence that all but erases the distance between the viewers' perspective and Joey's."
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AV Club
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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C
|
67%
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We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
Moves from mopey drama one moment to a reaction shot of a monkey smacking his forehead in exasperation the next. By the end of the film, viewers might understand the monkey's feelings all too well."
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AV Club
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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C
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
Aims lower than its predecessor's modest ambition, and still misses the mark."
—
AV Club
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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A-
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Bird brings a scary amount of assurance to Ghost Protocol. His action scenes are clean, coherent, thrilling, and visceral..."
—
AV Club
Posted Dec 15, 2011
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A-
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
After establishing an atmosphere of nearly unbearable dread, Alfredson keeps thickening and chilling it."
—
AV Club
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
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C
|
82%
|
Autoreiji: Biyondo (Outrage Beyond) (2011) |
"
Compared to the dramatic riches Kitano used to find amid the bloodletting, Outrage's feels pretty paltry."
—
AV Club
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
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B-
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
Maybe it's fitting that Williams' performance transcends the predictable film My Week With Marilyn becomes: Hers is a Marilyn seen by all, but always fading away."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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B-
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Cronenberg has made a wholly satisfying case study, but not quite enough of a movie."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
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B-
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
Even when it gets bogged down in angst and misconceived moments -- a Muppetized take on "We Built This City" belongs on the cutting-room floor -- The Muppets remains fundamentally likeable."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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A-
|
83%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
Tyrannosaur sounds like a particularly extreme work of British working-class miserablism, but Considine and his cast have no use for comfortable distance created by cliché."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 17, 2011
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C+
|
63%
|
Young Goethe In Love (2011) |
"
Whatever its basis in fact, there's nothing to Young Goethe In Love's story that dozens of other films haven't done before, and better."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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|
D+
|
47%
|
Anonymous (2011) |
"
It's as dull as it is brainless, the work of creators who've spent far more time concocting silly stories about Shakespeare than learning from him."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
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C-
|
24%
|
The Three Musketeers (2011) |
"
This version of the Musketeers story can't decide if it wants to be an old-fashioned tale of swashbuckling adventure and palace intrigue or a cheeky, effects-heavy rethink of some iconic characters a la the Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
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C-
|
47%
|
The Mighty Macs (2011) |
"
Formulas work if you know how to work them, but writer-director Tim Chambers, making his theatrical debut, only gets the beats right part of the time."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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|
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87%
|
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"
Sanchez and Myrick's film knows that what's not seen frightens more easily that what is, and that the imagination's thoughts of what might have happened generally horrify on a deeper level than knowing what did."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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A
|
100%
|
Deep Red (Profondo rosso) (1975) |
"
Operating under the principle that a moving camera is always better than a static one, and not above throwing in a terrifying evil doll, Deep Red showcases the technical bravado and loopy shock tactics that made Argento famous."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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B-
|
33%
|
Texas Killing Fields (2011) |
"
We get to know the detectives at the film's core, how they work, what drives them, and the place they're sworn to protect. And then the film ends after telling only one story, which seems kind of odd these days."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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C-
|
40%
|
The Big Year (2011) |
"
Owen Wilson and Jack Black appear on the verge of succumbing to the same terminal blandness that's gripped Martin for so long."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
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B-
|
100%
|
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011) |
"
Directors Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson seem to have considered several different approaches for their film and settled on all of them."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
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D
|
29%
|
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) |
"
The first Human Centipede had audacity on its side. Human Centipede II has only excess."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
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C
|
71%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
Despite a wrenching opening that saddles Paquin's character with more guilt than most anyone could bear, much less a less-than-steady-on-her-feet teen, the film lets some great performances and compelling moments drift in a sea of shapelessness."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 30, 2011
|
|
D
|
41%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
A rote revenge thriller attempting to shoulder more philosophical weight than it can bear."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
C
|
37%
|
Restless (2011) |
"
Somehow, Van Sant has made a film about life and death in which the stakes never seem higher than whether one insolent kid will stop being such a horrible mope."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
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B
|
85%
|
Contagion (2011) |
"
Soderbergh places a queasy emphasis on the way the things that make the world we live in smaller make us that much more vulnerable."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
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F
|
25%
|
Apollo 18 (2011) |
"
Make no mistake, Apollo 18 is a *terrible* movie."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
C+
|
53%
|
Brighton Rock (2011) |
"
While the new Brighton Rock makes a great case for Brighton being a fine setting for a grim crime drama, it only intermittently looks like the sort of film that setting deserves."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
B
|
72%
|
Fright Night (2011) |
"
The film's greatest pleasures come from Noxon's script -- which puts the sexual chaos created by Farrell's attractive bloodsucker front and center -- and from the performances."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
D
|
24%
|
Conan the Barbarian (2011) |
"
[Momoa] barks and growls his dialogue with the unpracticed enthusiasm of a first-time Ren Fair performer."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 18, 2011
|
|
C-
|
73%
|
Bellflower (2011) |
"
It is, without a doubt, a striking debut. But it's also punishingly distasteful and disjointed almost beyond coherence, a repetitive heap of a film that feels disgorged rather than crafted."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
B
|
82%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
Wyatt ... keeps the action compelling whether focusing on apes as they run amok or as they quietly contemplate their next move."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 4, 2011
|
|
B
|
95%
|
The Guard (2011) |
"
Though Cheadle is good as a man pushed to his breaking point at every moment, the movie belongs to Gleeson, who keeps his character enigmatic even while engaging in every possible act of slovenly excess and gross negligence."
—
AV Club
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
C
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
You want cowboys and aliens in the same movie? This one's for you. If you want anything beyond what the title promises, look elsewhere. And that means even anything resembling a clever mash-up of established genres."
—
AV Club
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
C-
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
As a study in insanity, Zookeeper is mildly interesting. But as a kiddie comedy, it's something to watch only once the little ones have worn out their Dr. Doolittle DVD (maybe even their Dr. Doolittle 2 DVD, for that matter)."
—
AV Club
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
C
|
35%
|
Larry Crowne (2011) |
"
It's as if Hanks and co-writer Nia Vardalos assumed that getting everyone in one place would be enough, and didn't think much further."
—
AV Club
Posted Jun 30, 2011
|
87%
22%
91%
