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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3.5/4	43%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" A movie that may not be truly great but certainly stands out like a beacon in a sea of silly blockbusters." — New York Post Posted May 7, 2013
2/4	67%	The Iceman (2013)	" A sketchy, flatly directed biopic based on one of the most compelling true crime stories out of New Jersey ..." — New York Post Posted May 2, 2013
3/4	74%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" Mixes in just enough poignancy and honest emotion to make it a perfect date movie, at least for older couples." — New York Post Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/4	98%	Mud (2013)	" A wonderful, piquant modern-day variation on "Huckleberry Finn.''" — New York Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
3/4	33%	The Numbers Station (2013)	" With Cusack's help, Barfoed holds your interest without resorting to car chases, a rarity in a contemporary thriller." — New York Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
0/4	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" "I'd rather gouge my eyes out with hot spoons!'' De Niro exclaims at one point. I'm not sure exactly what he was talking about, but I'd like to think it referred to the prospect of being forced to watch "The Big Wedding.''" — New York Post Posted Apr 25, 2013
3/4	87%	Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013)	" Aside from some references to misdirection, Jay offers no clue as to how he pulls off illusions with sleight of hand, but he performs them with such panache that you have little choice but to suspend disbelief." — New York Post Posted Apr 19, 2013
3.5/4	73%	V for Vendetta (2006)	" Just when we were ready to give up mainstream movies as braindead,along comes the controversial and gleefully subversive V for Vendetta, a piece of corporate-sponsored art that will have audiences rooting for a bomb-throwing anarchist." — New York Post Posted Apr 14, 2013
3/4	77%	42 (2013)	" An inspiring, old-school biopic that doesn't pull any punches in depicting the ugly racism that Jackie Robinson faced on a daily basis as the first African-American player in Major League Baseball." — New York Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
1/4	76%	It's a Disaster (2013)	" [A] practically laugh-free vanity comedy with C-listers facing the apocalypse in the form of a nerve-gas attack on Los Angeles." — New York Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/4	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" "The Company You Keep'' consistently stretches credulity way past the breaking point in its depiction of journalism, police procedure and political activism." — New York Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
1/4	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" If it hadn't been my paying job as a critic to watch Fede Alvarez's remake of Evil Dead all the way to the end, I probably would have headed for the exit door long before the point where somebody cuts off her own arm with an electric carving knife." — New York Post Posted Apr 4, 2013
2/4	40%	Mental (2013)	" The scenery Down Under looks great and you certainly can't write off a film where Liev Schreiber plays a shark hunter." — New York Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
1/4	9%	The Host (2013)	" Long, tedious and often unintentionally hilarious." — New York Post Posted Mar 28, 2013
	59%	At Any Price (2013)	" Maybe the best picture I've seen this year." — New York Post Posted Mar 26, 2013
0/4	0%	InAPPropriate Comedy (2013)	" An inept, brutally unfunny collection of sketches ..." — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
2/4	56%	Hunky Dory (2013)	" The golden-hued cinematography (a filming cliché that really needs to be retired) and the sometimes slack direction by Marc Evans are minuses ..." — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
1.5/4	13%	Love And Honor (2013)	" "Love and Honor'' may be politically clueless, but Hemsworth and the student journalist he hooks up with (fellow Aussie Teresa Palmer of "Warm Bodies'') do make an undeniably attractive couple." — New York Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
2.5/4	43%	Admission (2013)	" Director Weitz doesn't come close to pulling off the film's drastic tonal shifts, but at least it's an improvement over his last two films ..." — New York Post Posted Mar 21, 2013
2/4	10%	If I Were You (2012)	" "If I Were You'' has more than its share of laughs, but director Joan Carr-Wiggin needed to cut half an hour to make this fly without interest flagging." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/4	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Basically a "Girls Gone Wild'' short artily padded out to feature-length by endlessly repeating the same scenes and lines of dialogue, often three or more times." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/4	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" A veritable festival of bad toupees and repeated gags that just lie there, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone'' runs a bit more than an hour and a half but seems much longer - like it had been edited down at the last minute." — New York Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
2/4	31%	Emperor (2013)	" Director Webber and the screenwriters, David Klass and Vera Blasi ... largely [waste] Jones and some very nice period details." — New York Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
1/4	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Director Sam Raimi's dull, kitschy and overlong patchwork is sadly an epic fail - despite the presence of Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis as a trio of witches." — New York Post Posted Mar 5, 2013
2/4	25%	Phantom (2013)	" It's not something you want to plunk down $12 for, but just diverting enough to check out when it arrives on Netflix Instant." — New York Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
2/4	58%	Snitch (2013)	" A glorified TV movie ..." — New York Post Posted Feb 21, 2013
4/4	94%	The King's Speech (2010)	" The King's Speech is the rare work of art that's also an immense crowdpleaser." — New York Post Posted Feb 16, 2013
2/4	27%	Saving Lincoln (2013)	" Litvak's shoestring production sketches in episodes from Lincoln's entire administration, including a strange "Dixie'' singalong on the White House steps to mark the end of the war." — New York Post Posted Feb 14, 2013
1/4	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" Mr. Willis has said in interviews that he's open to a sixth "Die Hard" film. Next time, Bruce, please read the script." — New York Post Posted Feb 13, 2013
1/4	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" Sort of like Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz'' minus the music, the wit and the insight, not to mention Roy Scheider's brilliant performance." — New York Post Posted Feb 8, 2013
3/4	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" A pill-popping drama that suddenly turns into something entirely different." — New York Post Posted Feb 7, 2013
3.5/4	95%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013)	" There are three separate annual compilations of Oscar-nominated shorts, with the animation reel always more popular than the live-action and documentary offerings." — New York Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
2.5/4	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" Entertaining if nonsensical ..." — New York Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
3.5/4	89%	Koch (2013)	" Koch presents an uncommonly juicy subject for a documentary, and filmmaker Neil Barsky makes the most of the opportunity." — New York Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
0/4	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" If you mashed-up the worst parts of the infamous Howard the Duck, Gigli, Ishtar and every other awful movie I've seen since I started reviewing professionally in 1981, it wouldn't begin to approach the sheer soul-sucking badness of [Movie 43]." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
0/4	14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" An exceedingly dull and stillborn attempt to update the Brothers Grimm." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
2/4	40%	Parker (2013)	" "Parker'' is watchable chiefly for Statham, who exudes effortless cool and excels in hand-to-hand combat, as well as demonstrating his skill at wielding some very unlikely weapons." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
2/4	86%	Supporting Characters (2013)	" Offers a few laughs, all served up on eyeball-gougingly ugly digital video." — New York Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
2/4	30%	Broken City (2013)	" There's rarely a believable moment ..." — New York Post Posted Jan 18, 2013
3/4	100%	Birders: The Central Park Effect (2013)	" An engrossing tour of this little-known subculture and unlikely habitat in the center of densely populated Manhattan." — New York Post Posted Jan 18, 2013
3/4	83%	Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2013)	" Documentarian Laura Archibald has rounded up an impressive group of survivors ..." — New York Post Posted Jan 18, 2013
1.5/4	56%	Fairhaven (2013)	" The cliché-infested script ... is long on booze-filled confessions." — New York Post Posted Jan 11, 2013
2/4	19%	The Baytown Outlaws (2013)	" [Contains] tin-earned dialogue and haphazard plotting ..." — New York Post Posted Jan 11, 2013
2/4	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" A cartoonish 1940s shoot-'em-up that's impossible to take seriously." — New York Post Posted Jan 11, 2013
4/4	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Not only is Zero Dark Thirty one of the year's best movies, it's an inspiring one to share with your daughters. That is, if they're old enough to deal with explicit torture scenes." — New York Post Posted Jan 8, 2013
3/4	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" "The Impossible'' is worth checking out for the acting and effects, but it's a shame that Bayona couldn't have approached the story with the same subtlety and rigor as his outstanding first feature, "The Orphanage.''" — New York Post Posted Dec 21, 2012
2/4	69%	Not Fade Away (2012)	" The acting is OK, but none of the leads has the kind of sizzle that might have turned this into something as special as another film set roughly in the same era, "Diner.''" — New York Post Posted Dec 21, 2012
3/4	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" It's worth seeing the movie for Hathaway alone." — New York Post Posted Dec 20, 2012
3/4	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" Piles on enough eye candy and action sequences to please fans, plus more humor than the three "Rings" films - even if it only occasionally achieves the trio's grandeur." — New York Post Posted Dec 11, 2012

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