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2.5/4
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Iron Man 3 feels like an exploitative mulching of present-day anxieties. The script is ambitious but not wise enough to be rightfully cathartic. It's more Cuisinart than art."
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Denver Post
Posted May 3, 2013
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2.5/4
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54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
What gets revealed should rattle, but it doesn't."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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3/4
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87%
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Upstream Color (2013) |
"
Sci-fi might have been too familiar a word, for what may induce a kind of hallucinatory melancholy in its viewers."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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2.5/4
|
42%
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To The Wonder (2013) |
"
There's little doubt this film will deepen, open up with a second viewing. But to what end?"
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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|
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77%
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42 (2013) |
"
This story inspires and entertains with a vital chapter in this nation's history."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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3/4
|
93%
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The Sapphires (2013) |
"
The harmonies they strike in this reality-inspired charmer are sweetly sublime."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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3.5/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
With the arrival of The Place Beyond the Pines, the American dramatic film has found a loyal, gifted advocate in director Derek Cianfrance."
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Denver Post
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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3.5/4
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
What hurt, nuanced terror and exhilaration there is in Sally Potter's beautiful coming-of-age drama Ginger & Rosa."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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3.5/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
It captures the wonder (and more gently, the anxiety) of discovery time and time again. And the filmmakers have a hoot playing with the Croods' encounters with, as well as their misunderstandings of, all things new."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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3.5/4
|
93%
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Sugar (2008) |
"
Not only have director-writers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck crafted a poignant immigrant tale, they've made a sports saga rife with rare truths."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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3/4
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
This comedy about a magician who must hit bottom before rising again to the wonder of his beloved craft pulls plenty of sweet moments and a slew of laughs out of a story that might have been thin air."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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3/4
|
89%
|
A Place at the Table (2013) |
"
You don't have to be a fan of info-graphics in social-justice docs to be troubled by one showing that the price of processed food has decreased in almost exact proportion to the rise in cost of fresh fruits and vegetables."
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
The level of candor here may not satisfy hard-liners of either stripe, but it can help viewers begin to formulate new questions about the philosophical, strategic and moral challenges of conflict, in particular "wars on terror.""
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Denver Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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3/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Let us take a moment to praise two great and surprisingly powerful characters: a winged monkey and a wee girl made out of china. Because so much human wonder resides in these two creations of make-up, puppetry, digital effects and lovely performances."
—
Denver Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
70%
|
Bless Me, Ultima (2013) |
"
Theater firebrand and big-screen presence Miriam Colon portrays Ultima with a minimum of fuss and a gorgeous supply of elder authority."
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
An explosive, high-capacity-clip letdown."
—
Denver Post
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
"Side Effects" does a nice job teasing current anxieties about depression, medical ethics and class striving with the classic thriller quandary of "Who's playing whom?""
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Denver Post
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
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4/4
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
As remarkable as Haneke's films are, not a one has been as transcendently generous as Amour, which is nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best foreign-language film."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
The Waiting Room (2012) |
"
The level of frankness and vulnerability of those featured suggests just how compassionate a filmmaker Nicks (who acted as his own cinematographer) must be."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
It is not that Broken City -- boasting a cast worth big expectations -- is bad, exactly. But it is deeply mediocre. When they say television dramas are getting the better of the movies, this is the sort of middling outing that proves it."
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Denver Post
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) |
"
Shapiro's film is fascinating even if it can't possibly answer all the mysteries propelling the work of a photographer whose interest in secrets was rooted in wondering what tales were being uncovered in his psychologist father's basement office."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
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3/4
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
[It's mostly] a well-wrought drama that feels genuine as it goes about spinning a tale worthy of our challenging times."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
Naomi Watts gives one of her finest, most physically commanding turns."
—
Denver Post
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Jackman is in his element here, mastering the space where acting and singing meet head on."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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|
|
94%
|
The Central Park Five (2012) |
"
The doc is rife with smart or wrenching or shameful moments. The fresh interviews with the accused, now men, are invaluable."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Rust and Bone (2012) |
"
For all its willful melodrama, Rust and Bone takes its characters -- and us -- someplace touching and hard fought."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
To its own narrative detriment, "The Hobbit" works hard to lay the framework for what will follow. Certainly that's one way to set out on a trilogy, but it's surely not the best."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 14, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
A Royal Affair (2012) |
"
What a piece of work is this historical drama."
—
Denver Post
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
It's tough work giving good face to an iconic role, yet Johansson manages to show Leigh as a thoughtful professional aware of the interpersonal booby-traps set by her director for his leading ladies."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Middle of Nowhere (2012) |
"
[A] hushed, tenderly observant drama about a young woman trying to do right by herself and her marriage while her husband is in prison."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Ultimately, as crafted as Killing Them Softly is, it's less satisfying than either The Sopranos or Goodfellas. Still, Dominik and his cast cruise some very mean streets indeed."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Thank goodness for Domhnall Gleeson's gentle turn as Oblonsky's friend Levin. The ginger-haired landowner is the movie's warmest figure."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Shelve your dislike of 3D glasses. Quiet your nattering criticism of CGI. Because Lee and his able crew wield those tools like wands."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Lincoln offers proof of what magic can happen when an actor falls in love with his character. Because as great as Day-Lewis has been in his many parts, he has never seemed quite so smitten."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Craig has settled into a well-suited, grim-reaper role. Even when James flirts and trysts, his creased face suggests an unmovable weight."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
An old-fashioned drama and all the better for it."
—
Denver Post
Posted Nov 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
It will aid your experience of the swirling, sweeping dramatic adventure Cloud Atlas, if you embrace the idea of being a little bit lost."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
For a franchise with an off-the-charts nuanced thinker as its protagonist, Alex Cross isn't very smart."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Yes, it's a dizzying stew set to boil."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Argo has that solid, kick-the-tires feel of those studio films from the 70s that were about something but also entertained. Only it's as laugh outright amusing as it is sobering."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Yes, it's a lot to keep track of, but writer-director Martin McDonagh does so with deft humor as the film hurls toward a desert climax, foreshadowed in one of Billy and Marty's exchanges."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
69%
|
Liberal Arts (2012) |
"
Liberal Arts maneuvers its story in a philosophical way that is anything but detached. There's a warmth here that reminds audiences why college -- and, dare we say, their core curriculums? -- matter."
—
Denver Post
Posted Oct 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Looper has more heart than Brick and the 2008 con-man flick The Brothers Bloom. Both fine achievements, they could also be described as viscerally cerebral."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
If you give it a chance to work its quiet magic, it might make your day."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
The Master is as confounding as it is magnificent."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Gere's very good at making Robert's compromises seem more human than horrid. He portrays the philanthropic, philandering patriarch with his customary twinkle."
—
Denver Post
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
It's all a little depressing."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
Renner and Weisz work well together as two hunted souls who initially need each other for utilitarian reasons."
—
Denver Post
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
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