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84%
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A Touch of Sin (2013) |
"
The most dramatic and even lurid of writer-director Jia Zhangke's movies."
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NPR
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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94%
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Muscle Shoals (2013) |
"
Only the genre's most studious followers will be able to watch Muscle Shoals without being regularly astonished: Even if it sometimes gets lost in its byways, Greg "Freddy" Camalier's documentary tells an extraordinary story."
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NPR
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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91%
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Inequality For All (2013) |
"
Animated charts and graphs, on-the-road interludes and humorous asides designed to show that the speaker isn't too dislikably severe about the crisis that threatens Life As We Know It."
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NPR
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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42%
|
Zaytoun (2013) |
"
Congeniality isn't necessarily honesty ... and Riklis regularly fudges."
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NPR
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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2/4
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56%
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My Lucky Star (2013) |
"
While Zhang is one of China's greatest international stars, "My Lucky Star" is utterly provincial."
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Washington Post
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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2.5/4
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60%
|
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) |
"
The naturalism of Wong's performance is undercut ... by Yau's use of phony-looking sets, sterile CGI and flashy aerial shots."
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Washington Post
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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3/4
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92%
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Sample This (2013) |
"
The movie provides a vivid sense of the period, as well as an intriguing backstage look at the making of improbable pop classics."
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Washington Post
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
This quiet film could become something of a cultural thunderclap."
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NPR
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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75%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
While Populaire would still have suffered from being overlong and overfamiliar, a smoother leading man could have done much to boost the intended Cary Grant vibe."
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NPR
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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3/4
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74%
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The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
The director took great efforts to be true to Chinese martial arts, but he did so without sacrificing his own distinctive vision."
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Washington Post
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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100%
|
Tokyo Waka: A City Poem (2013) |
"
Much of the movie's charm comes from showing aspects of the city that Western visitors usually miss or from viewing oft-photographed sites from unexpected angles."
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NPR
Posted Aug 28, 2013
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2/4
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75%
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You're Next (2013) |
"
Most of these characters are disagreeable, so the prospect of their imminent demise isn't too upsetting."
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Washington Post
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
There are too many characters, and too many of them spend too much time morphing into something else."
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NPR
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
Packed with stunt casting and distracting performances."
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NPR
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
[A] merely serviceable film ..."
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NPR
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
Ultimately, the movie relies as heavily as any porn feature on its intrepid female lead. Rather than exploiting Seyfried, however, Lovelace just sort of wastes her."
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NPR
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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64%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
2 Guns loses its charm amid multiple incidents of torture and brutality, including animal cruelty ..."
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NPR
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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78%
|
Europa Report (2013) |
"
While Europa Report recalls such small-ensemble stuck-in-space flicks as Moon and Sunshine, it's basically The Blair Witch Project relocated to the vicinity of Jupiter."
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NPR
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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97%
|
Drug War (2013) |
"
The story's apparent hero is a police captain without the quirks and complications of To's usual cops. But a scriptwriting team that includes co-producer and longtime collaborator Wai Ka-fai takes the story in satisfyingly unexpected directions."
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NPR
Posted Jul 25, 2013
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2.5/4
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——
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The Rooftop (2013) |
"
The candy-colored musical from Taiwanese heartthrob Jay Chou is two-thirds delightful."
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Washington Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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8%
|
Grown Ups 2 (2013) |
"
Grown Ups Minus 2 would be more apt."
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NPR
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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93%
|
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013) |
"
The story that writer-director Drew DeNicola and producer-director Olivia Mori reconstruct has the power to move even those who prefer Mozart or Lil Wayne."
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NPR
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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1.5/4
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60%
|
Assaulted: CIVIL Rights Under Fire (2013) |
"
The documentary is predictable, stylistically stolid and about as focused as a pellet-gun blast."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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96%
|
A Band Called Death (2013) |
"
It was fans' ardor that began the Death revival and propels the movie's exhilarating second half."
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Washington Post
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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92%
|
Museum Hours (2013) |
"
Ultimately, the movie's easygoing narrative turns to loss, but without melodrama. An awareness of life and art offers perspective, and perhaps a measure of consolation."
—
NPR
Posted Jun 27, 2013
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|
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90%
|
The Attack (2013) |
"
Suliman, who plays Amin, also starred in Paradise Now, and it's no stretch to say The Attack is the most urgent, unblinking movie about the Israeli-Palestinian divide since that 2005 stunner."
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NPR
Posted Jun 20, 2013
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|
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100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
An amiably shaggy combination of science lesson, whimsical musing and alarm bell ..."
—
NPR
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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81%
|
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2013) |
"
Complex yet lighthearted, as diverting as it is meditative."
—
NPR
Posted Jun 6, 2013
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76%
|
The Kings of Summer (2013) |
"
In form and sensibility, the movie is closer to a sitcom. First-time feature director Vogt-Roberts is a veteran of TV, and he retains its preference for the quick payoff and its over-eager pursuit of yuks."
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NPR
Posted May 30, 2013
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|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
Hating Breitbart (2012) |
"
Marcus makes little effort to illuminate Breitbart's character or motivation, so this high-pitched portrait ends up a little flat."
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Washington Post
Posted May 30, 2013
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11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
A disastrous father-son endeavor about a calamitous father-son expedition, After Earth doesn't play to the strengths of any of its major participants."
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NPR
Posted May 30, 2013
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|
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95%
|
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
Even the movie's title, or rather the source of it, is a surprise."
—
NPR
Posted May 23, 2013
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|
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76%
|
Augustine (2013) |
"
Visually, the film conjures the past with shadowy interiors and harsh light. Winocour, who also scripted, often makes her points without words."
—
NPR
Posted May 16, 2013
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|
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78%
|
Bidder 70 (2013) |
"
Seems designed primarily for teach-ins and rallies."
—
NPR
Posted May 16, 2013
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|
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82%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
Viewers who didn't live through the period may not find them evocative. But this movie is about the choices that turn children into adults, and the attempt to balance conflicting enthusiasms."
—
NPR
Posted May 2, 2013
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71%
|
Paradise: Love (2013) |
"
Paradise: Love is startlingly frank if narratively underdeveloped."
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NPR
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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23%
|
Arthur Newman (2013) |
"
Arthur Newman fails to finesse an essential problem: how to make a boring man interesting."
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NPR
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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88%
|
Herman's House (2013) |
"
The contrasting demeanors of its two main characters give Herman's House its spark, but the movie has some pungent moments without them."
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NPR
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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44%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Pretty but inert, To the Wonder is a vaporous mystery wrapped in a gauzy enigma - a cinematic riddle that'll appeal principally to those eager for another piece, however tiny, of the puzzle that is Terrence Malick."
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NPR
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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72%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
The performances are assured, the ambiance impeccable and the themes resonant."
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NPR
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
What's the difference between an action figure and an action star? Very little in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which features no performances of note, even from such combat-tested thespians as Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce and Dwayne Johnson."
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NPR
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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|
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91%
|
My Brother The Devil (2013) |
"
El Hosaini fights the conventions of the brotherly gangster melodrama, but the conventions win."
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NPR
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
There are some funny bits and characters around the edges of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, but its core is empty of humor."
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NPR
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
30%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
Wrapping a history lesson in a romantic melodrama can make for a lively movie, but only if the love story is juicier than the educational narrative."
—
Washington Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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|
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Ultimately, the bleak universe conjured by Beyond the Hills is more compelling than what happens in it."
—
NPR
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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|
|
25%
|
Phantom (2013) |
"
Phantom offers no more plausible a vision of the doomed K-129 than A Good Day to Die Hard does of post-meltdown Chernobyl."
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NPR
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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|
|
81%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
Like Someone in Love boasts gently insightful moments, but sometimes Kiarostami just seems like a wide-eyed tourist in unbuttoned Tokyo, the anti-Tehran."
—
NPR
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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27%
|
The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2013) |
"
These showdowns feature spectacular, Lord of the Rings-style CGI settings, but not much in the way of thrills or terror."
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NPR
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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|
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84%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The movie maintains its sense of style throughout, but that hardly matters as the story just gets stupider and stupider."
—
NPR
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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