|
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60%
|
As I Lay Dying () |
"
Franco offers up a competently acted, technically adequate Cliff Notes take on Faulkner's narratively refracted tale of dirt-poor Mississippi folk in mourning."
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Variety
Posted May 20, 2013
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|
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77%
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Pieta (2013) |
"
This tidy, ultimately moving thriller about a loan shark who meets a woman claiming to be his mother offers up the director's vintage blend of cruelty, wit and moral complexity."
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Variety
Posted May 15, 2013
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|
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62%
|
Kiss Of The Damned (2013) |
"
Kiss reimagines its bloodsuckers as horny, supercilious Eurotrash with addiction issues, sucking the life blood from naive American thrill-seekers."
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Variety
Posted Apr 29, 2013
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0%
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Lotus Eaters (2013) |
"
Lotus Eaters wants desperately to be a portrait of the beautiful and the damned, with its tale of West London rich kids doing drugs and shagging each other, but it's more like a spectacle of the spoiled and annoying."
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Variety
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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|
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69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
Although state-of-the-art in its rendering of textures, movement and stereography, DreamWorks' latest 3D toon, The Croods, adopts a relatively primitive approach to storytelling."
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Variety
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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|
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63%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
Even if the emotional mathematics don't quite add up, enough diversion is provided by pic's broader comic setpieces to paper over the cracks."
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Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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|
—
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64%
|
Miss Minoes (2011) |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
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73%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Corny as a vat of polenta, but still rib-sticking enough to satisfy those who like lightly seasoned, easily digestible cinematic starch."
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Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
—
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67%
|
Helen (2008) |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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—
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——
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Saudâji (Saudade) () |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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—
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——
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Yuryev den, (Yuri's Day) (2008) |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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|
—
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——
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Totem () |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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—
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——
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La demora () |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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78%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
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93%
|
What Richard Did (2013) |
"
A low-key but compelling morality tale."
—
Variety
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
|
96%
|
War Witch (2013) |
"
Along with the moral lesson, Nguyen remembers to give auds some pleasures, including the exquisitely chosen soundtrack of African folk and pop music, Nicolas Bolduc's cinematography and the very artful use of sound throughout."
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Variety
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
|
56%
|
Walk Away Renee (2012) |
"
Renee really does feel something like a remake of Tarnation, this time with more budget and less feeling."
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Variety
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
|
92%
|
Crossfire Hurricane () |
"
This tribute to the Rolling Stones offers a blizzard of archive material nimbly sutured together with interviews with the Stones themselves, making this a succinct, officially sanctioned but not necessarily fawning history of the band."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Eschewing the classical realism that's characterized most adaptations of Tolstoy's source novel, helmer Joe Wright makes the generally inspired decision to stylize his dark, expressionist take on Anna Karenina."
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Variety
Posted Nov 12, 2012
|
|
|
19%
|
Gambit () |
"
Middling in every respect."
—
Variety
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
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55%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
The pic's colorful, almost-wastefully impressive cast limns a sociologically convincing rogue's gallery of reformed revolutionaries."
—
Variety
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
|
78%
|
The Ambassador (2012) |
"
Brugger ensures it's a fairly entertaining excursion, especially when he starts to enjoy getting into character as the nefarious white man in Africa."
—
Variety
Posted Aug 27, 2012
|
|
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53%
|
Cleanskin (2012) |
"
The ambition is laudable even if the execution isn't as smooth or detailed as it might have been. "
—
Variety
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
|
95%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
Although laid out with such clarity that any layperson could catch the gist of what's being discussed, Side by Side is not afraid to get nitty-gritty about more technical matters."
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Variety
Posted Jul 20, 2012
|
|
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
Tense throughout, even for history-savvy auds, but still rich in the sort of Andean-soil-black humor that made Larrain's previous work so distinctive."
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Variety
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
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77%
|
Augustine (2013) |
"
Anchored by two intense, intertwined perfs by veteran Vincent Lindon and relative newcomer Soko, this period drama offers a coolly febrile study of madness, Victorian sexual politics and power."
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Variety
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
|
88%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
An amiable comedy about young Glaswegian roughnecks discovering the world of whisky, "The Angels' Share" finds helmer Ken Loach and long-term screenwriting partner Paul Laverty in better, breezier form than their rebarbative prior effort,"
—
Variety
Posted May 23, 2012
|
|
—
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82%
|
Fast Girls (2013) |
—
Variety
Posted May 23, 2012
|
|
|
87%
|
Trashed (2012) |
"
Earnest but rather televisual."
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Variety
Posted May 23, 2012
|
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——
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Student (2013) |
"
There's much to admire in the film's elegantly classical tempo and the way Omirbayev achieves so much with so little."
—
Variety
Posted May 19, 2012
|
|
|
62%
|
Paradise: Love (2013) |
"
Repulsive and sublimely beautiful, arguably celebratory and damning of its characters, it's hideous and masterful all at once."
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Variety
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
|
13%
|
Piranha 3DD (2012) |
"
Ups the self-parody so much that it's practically a Wayans Brothers spoof, albeit with fewer jokes."
—
Variety
Posted May 14, 2012
|
|
|
56%
|
Hunky Dory (2013) |
"
Like a retro version of High School Musical with less charm."
—
Variety
Posted Apr 18, 2012
|
|
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
After dipping its toes into pure CG animation for Arthur Christmas, Aardman integrates its feted old-school stop-motion technique with top-drawer visual effects to create the irrepressibly amusing The Pirates! Band of Misfits."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 26, 2012
|
|
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
Davies is in fine form here, with luminous perfs, especially from Rachel Weisz, rounding out a classy package."
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Variety
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
—
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22%
|
Raven (2012) |
—
Variety
Posted Mar 10, 2012
|
|
|
23%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
The Raven is a squawking, silly picture that never takes flight."
—
Variety
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
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—
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——
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This Is What Love In Action Looks Like (2011) |
—
Variety
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom () |
—
Variety
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
—
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64%
|
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) |
—
Variety
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
—
|
88%
|
La Danse -- Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris (2009) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Neue Welt (2007) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Giallo (2010) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Tout est parfait (2008) |
"
Morose but impressive drama."
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
100%
|
Enemies of the People (2010) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Calvet () |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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—
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——
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Frozen Land (Paha maa) (2006) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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——
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Deux Jours à Tuer (Love Me No More) (2008) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
|
89%
|
Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) (Surviving Life (Theory and Practice)) (2010) |
—
Variety
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
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