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5/5
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96%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
"Stories We Tell" has a number of transparent virtues, including its humor and formal design, although its most admirable quality is the deep sense of personal ethics that frames Ms. Polley's filmmaking choices."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
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|
2/5
|
82%
|
Sightseers (2013) |
"
Working from a script by Ms. Lowe and Mr. Oram, Mr. Wheatley continues in the same bludgeoning, amusingly if dubiously deadpan fashion for what soon feels like an overextended joke."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
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|
3/5
|
67%
|
Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013) |
"
It's sweet, sentimental, almost inevitably touching if not especially persuasive, brushing against the thorns in each man's life without drawing blood."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
The "Iron Man" films turned Mr. Downey into a huge star, but the role has gradually, maybe inexorably, swallowed him."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
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|
5/5
|
51%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Life and death, nature and culture, sex and money, man and beast, God and the Devil - "Post Tenebras Lux" embraces the world even if it doesn't open itself up to ready interpretation."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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|
2/5
|
81%
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Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
The men are handsome, the sea is pretty and if the sharks look as rubbery as last week's chicken, at least they add some drama - and buckets of sloshing blood and guts - to what otherwise proves a dull affair."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
2/5
|
55%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
By literalizing the idea of American military aggression and all that it implies Ms. Nair doesn't just invest Mr. Hamid's story with Hollywood-style beats, she also completely drains it of ambiguity."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
4/5
|
——
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Out-Takes From The Life Of A Happy Man (2013) |
"
Like so much of his life's work, the movie is a gift from a man who, in between making films and writing about them, helped establish both the Film-Makers' Cooperative and Anthology Film Archives."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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|
2/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
The agony of being a longtime Tom Cruise fan has always been a burden, but now it's just, well, dispiriting."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
90%
|
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) |
"
Unsurprisingly, Mr. Jay proves a hugely entertaining guide, and as generous about his professional inspirations as he is reticent about his own life."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
It's a Disaster (2013) |
"
An underbaked comedy about eight people facing their mortality."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
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Arcadia (2013) |
"
Ms. Silver's ability to translate the liminal into cinematic terms, to catch those moments between innocence and knowing, childhood and adulthood, unforgiving and forgiving, makes her someone to watch."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
The new "Evil Dead" has none of the first movie's handmade charm or hilarity, intentional or otherwise."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Mr. Boyle is a flamboyant visual stylist with a punk rocker's delight in anarchic jolts. His is a cinema of attraction and repulsion."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
A deeply sincere, elliptical movie about being and nature, men and women, self and other, worms and pigs ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
Dopey, derivative and dull, "The Host" is a brazen combination of unoriginal science-fiction themes, young-adult pandering and bottom-line calculation."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
Part of what makes "Room 237" fascinating to watch and think about (beyond other people's loopiness) is that it shows how works of art become encrusted with their reception."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
Part of the pleasure of watching a movie like "Welcome to the Punch" is peeling away the multiple layers of inspiration, isolating the allusions and figuring out if they're what works or whether the movie earns a little credit."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
Mr. Garrone offers a glimpse not only of one man, but also of the soul of a people."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
40%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
An effectively creepy thriller about a 911 operator and a young miss in peril, "The Call" is a model of low-budget filmmaking."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
[Korine] turns his exploration into such a gonzo, outrageously funny party that it takes a while to appreciate that this is more of a horror film than a comedy."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
The Monk (2013) |
"
What repulsed Coleridge in the novel clearly amuses the French director Dominik Moll in his diverting if somewhat thin adaptation."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
The movie might have been better if its Swedish director, Niels Arden Oplev, had played with the genre clichés stuffed in this turkey instead of going for straight-up action."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
A dispiriting, infuriating jumble of big money, small ideas and ugly visuals ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Pavilion (2013) |
"
Mr. Sutton tends toward quiet. And while his characters don't say a lot in these 70 ephemeral minutes, he says enough to make you wonder what's next."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
This finally is just a digitally souped-up, one-dimensional take on "Jack and the Beanstalk," capped by the kind of interminable blowout that makes many big-studio entertainments feel as long as the last Oscars."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
The Condemned (2013) |
"
You may hopefully think you're watching an art-film pastiche along the witty avant-garde lines of something by the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
94%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
Too ingratiating to resonate deeply."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 16, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
Every shot - everything you see, and everything you don't - imparts a disturbing and thrilling sense of discovery."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
There's not much new under the moon here, which makes what the writer and director Richard LaGravenese does with the story all the more notable."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
|
Once Every Day (2013) |
"
Although primarily set in the nondescript, sparsely furnished rooms of a theater, "Once Every Day" takes you into another world that is consistently energizing, largely pleasurable, occasionally baffling and altogether unexpected."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
As is the case with other unsatisfactory diversions, it is entirely possible to ignore the worst parts of this movie, to drift along during the lulls, slide over the half-baked jokes and just wait for Ms. McCarthy and Mr. Bateman to do their things."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
91%
|
Caesar Must Die (2013) |
"
You can only guess what the lines mean to the inmates, who register as atmospheric blanks at best and brutal exotics at worst, even if the tale that they enact with such earnest vigor works because the original tragedy does."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
An improbable romance sweetened with appealing performances and buoyed by one of the better cute meets in recent romantic comedy ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
No one here seems to notice that there's not much going on, including Mr. Stallone, which somehow makes it easier to watch."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
Instead of delivering buckets of guts and gore, this ghost story offers a strong sense of time and place, along with the kind of niceties that don't often figure into horror flicks ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
As it turns out, there are eight million and one stories in the naked city."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
50%
|
Clandestine Childhood (2013) |
"
When a filmmaker proves as reluctant as Mr. Ávila to speak up about the past, to engage with its full complexity, it can be hard to hear what he's saying."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
These are moving images of touchingly vibrant lives at certain moments in time and space."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 3, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
18%
|
Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
Does it work? You betcha. There are smiles and tears, love and affirmations, a few funny jokes and a lot of easy sentimentality."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
By the grand finale, when tout le monde is waving the French tricolor in victory, you may instead be raising the white flag in exhausted defeat."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
"Barbara" is a film about the old Germany from one of the best directors working in the new: Christian Petzold."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
The most important American fiction movie about Sept. 11, a landmark that would be more impressive if there were more such films to choose from."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
40%
|
Yelling to the Sky (2012) |
"
Not much happens in story terms, but the film swirls with emotions that make it by turns grim and amusing, heavy and light, obvious and vague."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
53%
|
The Girl (2013) |
"
What at first came across as a tale of dawning conscience increasingly starts to feel rigged."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Only The Young (2012) |
"
A sketchbook of a documentary filled with adolescent bodies groping, lurching and skateboarding toward burgeoning adulthood."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
32%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
"Deadfall" brings to mind those dark, old-fashioned entertainments in rotation on Turner Classic Movies that suck you in with their genre machinery, sullen beauties and despair."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
None of it is especially credible or engaging."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Roosevelt was one of the towering figures of the 20th century, but he and his accomplishments scarcely register in this amorphous, bafflingly aimless movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
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