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5/5
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84%
|
A Touch of Sin (2013) |
"
A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of China, "A Touch of Sin" is at once monumental and human scale. "
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
2/5
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53%
|
A.C.O.D. (2013) |
"
Mr. Zicherman needs a better crew, some time with the Criterion Collection and a fresher story, one perhaps not plucked from his own life."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
3.5/5
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83%
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Don Jon (2013) |
"
[A] deceptively sincere movie about masculinity and its discontents that Mr. Gordon-Levitt, making a fine feature directing debut, shapes into a story about a young man's moral education. "
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
94%
|
Muscle Shoals (2013) |
"
At once overstuffed with interviews and intellectually underdeveloped, the movie charts the area's music industry and what is lyrically if elusively called the Muscle Shoals sound."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
2/5
|
51%
|
A Single Shot (2013) |
"
None of these characters, no matter how trashed-up for the down-market occasion, are believable."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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|
4/5
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Mr. Howard doesn't just want you to crawl inside a Formula One racecar, he also wants you to crawl inside its driver's head."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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|
|
95%
|
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) |
"
The movie feels far more about Mr. Kechiche's desires than anything else."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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|
3/5
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100%
|
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2013) |
"
A sly, amusing if underconceptulized and needlessly elliptical inquiry into truth, memory and appearances from the Portuguese filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
2/5
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23%
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A Teacher (2013) |
"
Ms. Fidell ... has a fine eye but not the makings of a feature-length movie here and, it quickly becomes clear, isn't interested in this relationship or the moral, ethical and legal issues it raises."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
The dust churns, the clouds gather, the bullets fly, the men fall. The Diesel rises."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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|
2/5
|
60%
|
La Maison De La Radio (2013) |
"
As Mr. Philibert continues to pop in and out of different studios, in and out of the building, flitting from one face to the other, it feels as if he were searching for a story that never emerges."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 3, 2013
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|
2/5
|
43%
|
Abigail Harm (2013) |
"
"Abigail Harm" tracks the lonely lulls and strange eruptions in one desperately uninteresting life. "
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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|
3/5
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
A slick, tasty slice of late-summer nonsense ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
Even as the gathering melodramatic storms threaten to swamp this pungent slice of life, Mr. Cretton manages to earn your tears honestly."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Thérèse (2013) |
"
Mr. Miller's stolid approach - with its waxwork figures, postcard beauty, insistent tastefulness and glaze of politesse - feels far too comfortably of this world to mount a critique of it. "
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
4/5
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
However much history informs this movie, "The Grandmaster" is, at its most persuasive, about the triumph of style."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
2/5
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
After a while, you don't care."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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|
0/5
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
There isn't anything good to say about "Kick-Ass 2," the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to "Kick-Ass.""
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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|
4/5
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
Life and death circle each other restlessly and then furiously in the Afghan-set movie "The Patience Stone.""
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
The Gardener (2013) |
"
An intimate, discursive inquiry into religious belief that opens to include questions about cinema ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
There's a lot in this story about victimization and agency that Mr. Epstein and Mr. Friedman never satisfactorily address."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Mr. Damon's performance helps keep the movie from sinking under the weight of its artfully constructed horrors."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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|
5/5
|
93%
|
Our Children (2013) |
"
At once beautifully realized and brutally uncompromising ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
A slick, slippery thriller that taps into the anarchic playfulness that made the best American action flicks of the 1980s and '90s pop. "
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
22%
|
The Canyons (2013) |
"
A dispiriting, unpleasurable work punctuated with flashes of vitalizing vulgarity."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
97%
|
Drug War (2013) |
"
While Mr. To may not fill the movie with rousing speeches, either by inclination or out of political necessity, the brilliant, unsettling action scenes - ugly, savage, dehumanizing - speak volumes."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
[A] moving, sometimes funny film ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
Mr. Bridges is almost always fun to watch, but even his squinting and Slim Pickens-style whooping can't make the time pass faster."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
The dread gathers and surges while the blood scarcely trickles in "The Conjuring," a fantastically effective haunted-house movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
It's impossible not to root for Kristen Wiig, even while you wait in vain for the funny to pop in her latest."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
[An] airless, uninvolving movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
Again and again, as the story shifts between women, times and moods, Mr. Jordan adds a punctuating flourish ... that exquisitely illustrates the once-upon-a-time mood."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
As demented and entertaining as promised, and a little less idiotic than feared."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
The Attack (2013) |
"
[An] intelligent, involving movie that's by turns a murder mystery and a politically charged argument about contemporary Palestinian identity."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
Both the originality and stirring emotional complexity of "Monsters, Inc.," with its exquisitely painful and touching parallels with the human world, are missing ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
The Guillotines (2013) |
"
The blades fly as do the heads, but the movie remains disappointingly aground."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
89%
|
In the Fog (2013) |
"
The world and its choices are often cruel, but for all the devastations visited on the characters, Mr. Loznitsa is searching for the human good amid a human catastrophe."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
Mr. Snyder isn't capable of mythmaking, but in his sometimes poetic, sometimes crude way, he has given Superman a new lease on franchise life by affirming that this most American hero is also an alien yearning to breathe free."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
59%
|
Pandora's Promise (2013) |
"
You need to make an argument. A parade of like-minded nuclear-power advocates who assure us that everything will be all right just doesn't cut it."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
38%
|
The Purge (2013) |
"
The message just gets louder and louder, cruder and cruder, which is too bad because Mr. DeMonaco knows how to set a stage."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
A big-studio release that, from start to gaga finish, is a hosanna to a single company, its products, philosophy and implicit politics."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
63%
|
The Prey (2013) |
"
It's no insult to say that it doesn't aspire to art-house significance, just to white-knuckled entertainment."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
Mr. Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, are producers on "After Earth," which suggests that there was no one on the production who could really say no to him."
—
New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
3%
|
fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002) |
"
While such artlessness doesn't inspire shivers, it's definitely worth a few cheap laughs."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 29, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
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
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
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
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
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
|
|
2.5/5
|
79%
|
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
|
|
5/5
|
54%
|
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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