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2/4
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20%
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Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
There are moments to make you honestly wish it were a better movie, and that the semi-autobiographical screenplay by Michelle Morgan didn't feel so much like a first draft."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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1.5/4
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8%
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Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Takes us inside the world of Internet gambling which proves every bit as fascinating as you'd imagine, by which I mean, not at all."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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4/4
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98%
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Gravity (2013) |
"
Gravity, a weightless ballet and a cold-sweat nightmare, intimates mystery and profundity, with that mixture of beauty and terror that the Romantics called the sublime."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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3/4
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96%
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Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
A lively double portrait of Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, two Brooklyn-based artists who, after 40 years of marriage, are still creating side by side, and tormenting each other."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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1/4
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31%
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Austenland (2013) |
"
The acting throughout falls into two registers; pantomime mugging for most of the cast, while the romantic leads, Russell and Feild, look so ill at ease that you pity them."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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2/4
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51%
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A Single Shot (2013) |
"
Both predictable and outlandish."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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2/4
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5%
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Battle of the Year (2013) |
"
The 3-D is a pain, and the excitable editing, slo-mo and speeded-up action frustrate attempts to watch the athleticism on display ..."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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3/4
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80%
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Prisoners (2013) |
"
The film you begin watching when the lights dim is not the same one you carry home from the theatre."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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2/4
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35%
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Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
Insidious: Chapter 2 follows the further misfortunes of the Lambert family with diminishing insidious rewards."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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3/4
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80%
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Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
Not much happens in Drinking Buddies, which, frankly, is refreshing."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 6, 2013
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3/4
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91%
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Our Nixon (2013) |
"
It's an exploration of the banality of evil that constantly puts banality first, but this is a relatively narrow experimental film designed to supplement rather than replace more thorough histories."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 30, 2013
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3/4
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84%
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Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
It's an intimate two-hander with lots of dialogue, humour and poignant revelations, set against a backdrop of rugged woodland beauty."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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2.5/4
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74%
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The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
There are sequences in Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's new film, The Grandmaster, that are as gorgeous as anything you'll see on a screen this year, or perhaps this decade."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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2.5/4
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75%
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You're Next (2013) |
"
A well-executed horror-comedy ..."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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1/4
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12%
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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
Mortal Instruments manages to occupy 130 minutes of frantic, numbing, activity."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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2.5/4
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26%
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Jobs (2013) |
"
If Jobs had been a producer on Jobs, he would have sent it back to the lab for a redesign."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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2.5/4
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73%
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Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
The Butler may be a sanctimonious cartoon, but it points to events in the civil rights struggle that were as grotesque and extraordinary as any fiction can invent."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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3/4
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91%
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The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
By the end of The Spectacular Now, you're not quite ready to let these characters go."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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3/4
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100%
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The Deep () |
"
Kormakur's film suggests that the enigma of Gulli can somehow be found in his peasant humility, his connections to his community."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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3/4
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88%
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Informant (2013) |
"
An unsettling portrait of a charismatic true believer, whose most consistent belief is that he's the hero of a grand narrative."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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2/4
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61%
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Byzantium (2013) |
"
A drama that feels both strenuously earnest and impossible to take seriously."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 12, 2013
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2/4
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40%
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Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood () |
"
Puts the viewer in the middle of flailing truncheons and tumbling bodies without necessary context."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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3/4
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72%
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Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
After a long cycle of action movies in which the protagonists spend most of their downtime introspecting about their heroic obligations, Pacific Rim is something different: a heart-warming team-building exercise."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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2/4
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59%
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Pandora's Promise (2013) |
"
The film's tone is boosterish, and the cursory treatment of the cost of a nuclear-based energy overhaul, or the viability of renewable energy, tends to arouse skepticism rather than allay it."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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2/4
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47%
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I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
This return to the past feels more lazy than liberating."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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2/4
|
85%
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The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
The film is awash in safe choices, from indie-pop-accompanied montages to sitcom one-liners and black-and-white characters."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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3/4
|
99%
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
"
You may never hear the Rolling Stones's Gimme Shelter the same way again after hearing Jagger's and Clayton's separate accounts of the recording of the song."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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3/4
|
92%
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Museum Hours (2013) |
"
It's a hybrid drama/art-history essay about how looking at art recasts our experience of looking at the world."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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2/4
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31%
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The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
When it comes to mining boys' adventure stories, defaming pirates may be fair game, but stories about western justice and native Americans? Not so much."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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3/4
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
An animated sequel that, despite not achieving the inspired lunacy of the first movie where Gru literally steals the moon, is smartly calculated to deliver squeals to kids and amusement to accompanying adults."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
Storm Surfers 3D (2013) |
"
A bit thin on plot, but an unequivocal technical tour de force ..."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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3/4
|
100%
|
BB King: The Life of Riley () |
"
[King] is unfailingly articulate, gentlemanly and modest but this is a movie where more music, less talk would definitely have been an improvement."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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3/4
|
——
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Sri Lanka's Killing Fields () |
"
Utterly convincing, and a refutation of Sri Lankan government denials."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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2/4
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
Formula action films don't come much more formulaic that this."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 28, 2013
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2.5/4
|
78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
[It] conforms to [Pixar's] apparent drift toward the average, with toy sales taking priority over originality."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 21, 2013
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3/4
|
67%
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World War Z (2013) |
"
World War Z is a perfectly decent thriller, the smartest and most sober action film so far this summer and a grown-up addition to the zombie canon."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 21, 2013
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2/4
|
——
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Margarita (2013) |
"
The cast works valiantly and the cinematography is crisp, but trite characterizations and an earnest-cutesy tone make this movie feel like too much domestic labour."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 21, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
It all gets exhaustingly bombastic although, sequence by sequence, Man of Steel is something worth seeing."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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3/4
|
——
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Peaches Does Herself () |
"
Mixing humour and pro-sex didacticism in a way that's more like performance art than pop product, Peaches Does Herself is constantly inventive."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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2/4
|
67%
|
Free The Mind (2013) |
"
Danish director Phie Ambo's documentary only scratches the surface of a complex subject."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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3/4
|
93%
|
Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013) |
"
The portrait of the ailing artist is bittersweet, but when Helms sings or plays, the look on his face is pure joy."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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2/4
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
Though by no means a good movie, The Internship floats along for fairly well for about half its length, thanks to the easy interplay between the two stars and a certain melancholic topicality."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 7, 2013
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|
|
81%
|
Nebraska (2013) |
"
There's a poignant suggestion of a modern-day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and it works in a thoughtfully wrought film that feels more built to last than Payne's last feature, The Descendants."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 31, 2013
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2/4
|
50%
|
Now You See Me (2013) |
"
All too quickly ... the smoke clears and Now You See Me proves to be less than meets the eye."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Star Trek Into Darkness offers [a] qualified satisfaction, which, especially after the second half, is akin to the relief of surviving a long beating."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 15, 2013
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2/4
|
50%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
Bahrani aims at a wider audience than his previous films have reached so far, but in the process he has sacrificed much of his artisanal, personal approach."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
After a while, the steady diet of tongue-in-cheek starts to taste monotonous as day-old gum."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
The Colony (2013) |
"
It's reminiscent of the more embarrassing excesses of the tax-shelter movies of 30 years ago."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
The combination of the words "Michael Bay" and "steroids" should be enough to give any moviegoer pause ..."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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