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3/4
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Our Nixon () |
"
An insular time capsule, and a somewhat snarky tweak, of the country's most complicated president."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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3/4
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Anton tut ryadom (Anton's Right Here) () |
"
And boy, has the director found a compelling story line ... Remarkably, the overall point of view remains sober-it's uplifting, but no Kleenex is necessary."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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3/4
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Eles Voltam (They'll Come Back) () |
"
Though geared for adults, this quiet and enfolding film feels like a remarkably perceptive YA novel."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
The effect of watching this beautifully crafted and sincere film about desire run amok is virtually hypnotic, thanks to the long gilding takes."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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2.5/4
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——
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Mauvaise Fille () |
"
The film refuses to embrace even its audience. Take that as praise and a warning."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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3/4
|
71%
|
Le magasin des suicides (The Suicide Shop) () |
"
After the success of the irreverent The Book of Mormon, this would be a natural for the stage-Broadway would be so lucky."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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3/4
|
——
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Le jour des corneilles () |
"
Gorgeously animated ... smart enough for adults and appealing for anyone with abandonment issues. "
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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2.5/4
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Une Estonienne à Paris () |
"
At 84, actress Jeanne Moreau gives out a dangerous and a high-voltage charge in the otherwise sweet and straightforward A Lady in Paris."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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3/4
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Jappeloup () |
"
The drama really takes off during the competitions, filmed with an aerobic camera that moves everywhere ... Even if you're not an equestrian, this is a knuckle-biter. "
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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|
2.5/4
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45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
If the film survives the poxes and put-downs from fans, it will be due, in no small part, to the breezy charms of actor Alden Ehrenreich as Ethan. He has the looks of mid-1950s Tony Curtis and a goofy affability."
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School Library Journal
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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3/4
|
92%
|
Night Across the Street (2013) |
"
The film's like wandering unescorted in someone else's mind ... It becomes more beautifully melancholic as you remember it."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Feb 12, 2013
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3/4
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
The film has recently been slammed, perhaps as backlash to its early critical raves, but on close examination, it's not a work to readily dismiss."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
The overgenerous running time is somewhat to the film's advantage, but there are warning signs that Jackson might be stretching the tale to its limit."
—
School Library Journal
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Wagner & Me (2012) |
"
The composer has no better advocate than Fry."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
The film ... will make you firmly believe in the power of movies. "
—
School Library Journal
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Immortality becomes Bella. After moping and mewing throughout the first four film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" paranormal romance series, the heroine takes charge."
—
School Library Journal
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
89%
|
A Royal Affair (2012) |
"
It wants to burst out of its corset and get down-and-Dangerous Liaisons dirty ... the political backstabbing becomes less personal and more like a history lesson in fancy dress."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Nov 13, 2012
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|
2/4
|
26%
|
War of the Buttons (2012) |
"
The film's trailer doesn't lie. What you see is what you'll get ... A warning for those who can't watch The Sound of Music all the way through: the adorable factor hits the roof"
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Wuthering Heights (2012) |
"
Arnold knocks the work off its high-culture pedestal back into the mud."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Fat Kid Rules the World (2012) |
"
Like Going's award-winning book, the film is frank and doesn't sugarcoat the source material. "
—
School Library Journal
Posted Oct 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
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Memories Look at Me (2013) |
"
Watching Memories's like listening to the secrets of this family's history."
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Camille Redouble () |
"
The film plays the scenario straight and seriously ... the lessons learned don't take much of a detour from what Peggy Sue discovered in her time travel."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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Linhas de Wellington (Lines of Wellington) () |
"
A film to admire, with moments here and there to fully embrace"
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
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|
3/4
|
——
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Bwakaw () |
"
A terrific mix of black comedy and subtle sentimental drama"
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
[The] characters, though familiar, become multidimensional and transcend stereotypes and the hot-button issues."
—
School Library Journal
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
This sharp psychological drama should serve as a calling card for the lean-and-mean director Tobias Lindholm."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
A subdued portrayal of youthful idealism, even with surging hormones"
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
——
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Superstar () |
"
The prescient Network was way ahead of the curve, even predicting reality TV, while Superstar is just catching up."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
The ghost of There Will Be Blood lingers in the background, except this time around there are two antisocial megalomaniacs descending into their own insular, myopic forms of crazy."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
This may be the only film where Oklahoma has ever looked as stunning as France ... The film comes to life when [Rachel] McAdams appears on the screen; she oozes with vulnerability."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
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Fill the Void (2013) |
"
For its clarity and lack of pretension alone, Void stands apart ... beautifully acted "
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
Chicken with Plums (2012) |
"
The visual equivalent of an intoxicant. One beautiful setting or image hazily dissolves into another, producing an enthralling kaleidoscope..."
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
We want the pie-in-the-face moments, and the script figurative splatters them on Celeste, but never completely humiliates her. She has some dignity intact. Barely."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Trishna (2012) |
"
Not wasting any time, Michael Winterbottom hurls Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel into the 21st century ... He's indebted to, but not weighed down, by the literary classic"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Jul 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
To Rome with Love (2012) |
"
Ellen Page takes narcissism to new heights. Coldly manipulative, Monica is not quite an all-out villain, but she's close. "
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
95%
|
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) |
"
How do you react when you walk through an entryway between a naked man and woman standing less than a foot a part ... and where do you put your hands?"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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Shun LI And The Poet (2013) |
"
Quietly moving and unassuming"
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 9, 2012
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2/4
|
——
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La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser () |
"
The sketchy film has the best score that Giorgio Moroder never wrote. The movie may be a bit daft and draggy, but disco lives on."
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Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
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Cavalli (Horses) () |
"
A beautifully filmed and sentimental period piece with a quickening pulse"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Jun 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
75%
|
The Intouchables (2012) |
"
You'll wearily throw in the towel, and the take-no-prisoners performance of Omar Sy will win you over against your better judgment."
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Anderson has imagined the '60s on the East Coast as if from an Eddie Bauer catalog and Boys' Life, with the sensibility of The New Yorker."
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Elena (2012) |
"
Absorbing"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2012) |
"
[The director] delivers a sentimental tale for dog lovers, grounded by the man-and-his-dog bond that has made the novels Where the Red Fern Grows and Old Yeller perennially popular. "
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
I Wish (2012) |
"
Never for a moment did I think that the two boys at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's simply told and layered film I Wish were actors."
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted May 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Wagner's Dream (2012) |
"
An engrossing look behind the curtain of the Metropolitan Opera ... it will wear down any resistance to the composer"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted May 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Whores' Glory (2012) |
"
Whatever qualms there may be, it's never less than compelling: entirely atmospheric, vulgar, and boundary bursting."
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
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Room 514 (Heder 514) (2013) |
"
One of the finds this year is the Israeli pressure cooker Room 514"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
A wonky gabfest for film buffs ... you're bound to learn something"
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Grupo 7 (Unit 7) () |
"
It also features a major star turn by Mario Casas, a Spanish star who is bound to break out internationally. "
—
Film-Forward.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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