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Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	74%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" Director Bier, and her longtime writing partner Anders Thomas Jensen, wove serious undertones into the fabric of this bittersweet romance." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted May 3, 2013
	77%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Director Shane Black balances superior action and visual-effects set-pieces with passages that depend on the acting chops of the talented cast..." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted May 3, 2013
	53%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" Riz Ahmed is perfectly cast as a young Pakistani man who, in the year 2000, emigrates to the U.S. to live the modern American dream. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 26, 2013
	54%	At Any Price (2013)	" The last thing one expects is that the film will morph into a grim melodrama." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 26, 2013
	77%	Kon Tiki (2013)	" The visual effects are seamless and, in one key scene, awe-inspiring-all the more impressive for having been executed on a modest budget. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 26, 2013
	98%	Mud (2013)	" The kind of film where small gestures and vignettes convey more than long speeches possibly could. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 26, 2013
	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" What burns me up about Pain & Gain is that the trailer, and even the excerpts shown on TV, make it look like fun." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 26, 2013
	68%	Disconnect (2013)	" Disconnect is tough to watch at times because it cuts so close to the bone. That's also why it's so effective." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 12, 2013
	77%	42 (2013)	" I've become gun-shy about trusting any film that's telling a true story, so I don't know how accurate 42 is... but it does hit the essential points of a great American saga." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 12, 2013
	96%	Blancanieves (2013)	" The actors are well-chosen and make you forget the lack of dialogue, especially with the artful support of Alfonso de Vilallonga's music." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 2, 2013
	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" It's ambitious and unusual, to say the least, but I think it works because it's honest." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 2, 2013
	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" There's a decent attempt to humanize the characters and make them more than mere fighting machines...but there are also potholes in the logic of the screenplay, by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 2, 2013
	9%	The Host (2013)	" The only reason I had any hope was the presence of Saoirse Ronan in the leading role..." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Apr 2, 2013
	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" It helps that the leading actors are so skillful and appealing, beginning with Chris O'Dowd as a roguish Irishman who becomes the girls' manager..." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Mar 24, 2013
	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" I was a bit skeptical about the casting of James Franco in this role, as a small-time carnival magician, but he is thoroughly engaging as a struggling con man and charmer." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Mar 8, 2013
	67%	Stoker (2013)	" At first, Stoker resembles a twisted variation on Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt, with Matthew Goode in the role of Uncle Charlie, created so memorably by Joseph Cotten." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Mar 4, 2013
	25%	Phantom (2013)	" Phantom features some wonky visual effects, but one either buys into a film of this kind or not. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Mar 4, 2013
2.1/2	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" My only real quarrel with Jack, other than the intensity and violence of its battle scenes (which are too potent for younger children), is that it goes on too long" — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Mar 4, 2013
	92%	No (2013)	" Using a technique borrowed from cinema verité documentaries, the director succeeds in making us feel as if we're living each moment right alongside his politically-charged characters." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 15, 2013
	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" Beautiful Creatures has enough exposition for two or three ordinary movies because without constant explanations it would be impossible to understand. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 15, 2013
	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" When I described Sylvester Stallone's Bullet to the Head as cartoonish, I hadn't seen A Good Day to Die Hard." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 15, 2013
	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" I came away from "Identity Thief" with more admiration than ever for Melissa McCarthy, but I hope somebody will devise a better vehicle for her talents." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 8, 2013
	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" Soderbergh and Burns keep us guessing who's who and what's what right to the end of their serpentine story." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 8, 2013
	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" Noah Haidle's screenplay doesn't offer many surprises, but every scene is imbued with a flavor that only actors of this caliber-and history-can provide. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 1, 2013
	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" Failing as a buddy movie, one might consider this an action yarn, but its content isn't so much action as violence-extreme violence, which I found deadening." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 1, 2013
	92%	The Gatekeepers (2013)	" From the moment you hear one of these former insiders admitting his misgivings over an act of violence he perpetrated, you can't help but be drawn in." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 1, 2013
	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" Warm Bodies is a love story set against the backdrop of a bleak future world...but ultimately it offers a ray of hope. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Feb 1, 2013
—	42%	Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012)	— ReelzChannel.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	65%	The Campaign (2012)	— ReelzChannel.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	30%	Broken City (2013)	— ReelzChannel.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	— ReelzChannel.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	51%	Trouble with the Curve (2012)	— ReelzChannel.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	52%	This is 40 (2012)	— ReelzChannel.com Posted Jan 22, 2013
	30%	Broken City (2013)	" What can you say about a story that takes so long to unfold but doesn't take the time to flesh out its characters?" — indieWIRE Posted Jan 18, 2013
	79%	Quartet (2013)	" ...the film is as easy to take as a freshly baked scone with Devonshire cream." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Jan 11, 2013
	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" It's watchable because of the colorful recreation of L.A. in 1949 (thanks to cinematographer Dion Beebe and production designer Mather Ahmad) and its appealing cast..." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Jan 11, 2013
	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" Unlike some films that have become critics' darlings, 'The Impossible' has no pretensions. It isn't edgy and I don't think it has a hidden subtext." — indieWIRE Posted Jan 4, 2013
2.1/2	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" I give this movie's costars and creators credit for making a "message movie" as palatable and entertaining as Promised Land." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 26, 2012
2.1/2	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" If you had pulled me out of the theater one hour into Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, I would have raved. The first portion of the movie is utterly exuberant, full of life and the love of moviemaking." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 26, 2012
2.1/2	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" There are some moving scenes, and some of the songs are well realized. I was particularly impressed with Eddie Redmayne, whose acting and singing ... is, for me, the highlight of the film." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 26, 2012
	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" I had a lot of fun watching Barbra Streisand, who effortlessly commands the screen and reminds us what a gifted, natural comedienne she is. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" What makes the movie so effective is its protagonist, a doggedly determined CIA agent played by Jessica Chastain, who never loses sight of her goal in spite of repeated setbacks and bouts of political in-fighting." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
	69%	Not Fade Away (2012)	" It's imperfect, and overlong, but there are moments as poignant as any I've seen on film this year." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" Cruise may not be six-feet-two, but he's believable as a tough guy who can take down brawny opponents in a street fight." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" The film earns its stripes as a raunchy, R-rated comedy even before the main title appears onscreen." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" The Impossible recreates an unthinkable event and its aftermath with breathtaking-and heartbreaking-credibility." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
2.3/4	45%	On the Road (2012)	" Salles tries to capture the immediacy and spontaneous nature of the book, using long takes and even allowing the camera to drift out of focus when a character moves about." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 23, 2012
	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" Are the creatures amazingly rendered? Yes. Have we seen their lifelike equal onscreen before? No." — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 14, 2012
	38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" After a while you forget you're watching Bill Murray, which is no small feat. " — Leonard Maltin's Picks Posted Dec 7, 2012

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