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3/5
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14%
|
Piranha 3DD (2012) |
"
Tacky and intermittently entertaining is all"Piranha 3DD"sets out to be, and that is all this playfully graphic horror-comedy sequel accomplishes."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 4, 2012
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1/5
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18%
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For Greater Glory (2012) |
"
The film's length and muddled message will likely keep it from reaching much of an audience, even within the presumed Latino faith-based target."
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Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2012
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2/5
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——
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Like Water (2012) |
"
"Like Water"feels wildly incomplete, a let-down for fans and initiates to the sport alike."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 1, 2012
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1/5
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22%
|
High School (2012) |
"
Lacking real kick, "High School" winds up as irksome as a bag of ditch weed and as lame as the pun of the film's title."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 31, 2012
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1.5/5
|
21%
|
Chernobyl Diaries (2012) |
"
The lack of suspense and surprise in this dispiritingly rote film becomes its own form of contamination."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted May 25, 2012
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1.5/5
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44%
|
Lovely Molly (2012) |
"
Common sense and basic logic are left are the door; there's a brief creature effect that is laughably, outlandishly awful."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 18, 2012
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|
1.5/5
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22%
|
The Samaritan (2012) |
"
The haphazard feeling of the narrative deflates any real tension."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted May 17, 2012
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2/5
|
——
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Dangerous Ishhq (2012) |
"
The idea of the past's effect on the present is handled in such a direct "ah-ha!" manner - scars that unmask character identity, spells that span time - as to feel ham-fisted rather than mystical."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 14, 2012
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2/5
|
28%
|
Girl In Progress (2012) |
"
Less a misfire than a missed opportunity, Girl In Progress squanders its time in high school, neglecting the mother-daughter story that forms its more interesting core."
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Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 12, 2012
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3/5
|
——
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After Dark Action (2012) |
"
Although there are no diamonds in the rough here, the "After Dark Action" series does deliver lots of solid action and bracing, rowdy energy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 10, 2012
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2/5
|
38%
|
Where Do We Go Now? (2012) |
"
In the end, "Where Do We Go Now?" has little to say about human conflict beyond the obvious."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 10, 2012
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|
1.5/5
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0%
|
Hick (2012) |
"
Mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia looking for mileage from the mature-beyond-her-years presence of young star Chloë Grace Moretz."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 10, 2012
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2/5
|
22%
|
Raven (2012) |
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
Likely to disappoint both literary aficionados and action-thriller fans, the film neither captures the creepy atmospheres of Poe's influential writing nor works on its own."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2012
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2/5
|
44%
|
Restless City (2012) |
"
In its portrait of a "Restless City" the film is strangely inert and feels like the work of image-makers, not storytellers."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
44%
|
96 Minutes (2012) |
"
The feature debut of writer-director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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3/5
|
——
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Mamitas (2012) |
"
Unbalanced storytelling aside, Ozeki wisely works to keep the film focused on his actors, a smart move considering their live-wire charm."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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3/5
|
77%
|
Here (2012) |
"
"Here" seems motivated by a tone of searching and yearning, not of finding a single way. As Foster's character says at one point, "Getting lost was the goal.""
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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3/5
|
24%
|
Elles (2012) |
"
As an essay on women's roles in society and cross-generational female desire, the film provides many questions with no easy answers."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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4/5
|
100%
|
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012) |
"
"Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story" is in equal measure a look at two families, the ongoing legacy of America's recent past and an essay on one man's moment of transformative courage."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2012
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3/5
|
22%
|
Jesus Henry Christ (2012) |
"
Pleasant without being revelatory, underwhelming but not obnoxiously so, the film explores how we become who we are, whether by genetics or environment or some combination of the two."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
55%
|
Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel (2012) |
"
Ebersol seems uncertain throughout of what tale he is telling, whether to focus on Schemel specifically or the larger picture of the band and the moments in contemporary rock history they were all witness to."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
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1.5/5
|
——
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The Fields (2011) |
"
Flat and lifeless, not even the odd object promised by its unlikely cast, who play it straight and with little energy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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2/5
|
——
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Bad Ass (2012) |
"
It's often difficult to tell what's bad on purpose or just badly handled. The cargo shorts and fanny pack? Purposely funny. The slack pacing? Probably not."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 14, 2012
|
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4/5
|
64%
|
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2012) |
"
The film takes the viewer not just into the world of Genesis and Lady Jaye, but somehow, as a true ballad should, into their hearts."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
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3/5
|
20%
|
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012) |
"
"Woman" is in essence an earnestly competent, slightly overcooked B-movie potboiler, with ideas of faith occasionally added to frame the story as parable."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
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2/5
|
7%
|
Losing Control (2012) |
"
Perhaps investigating something new would have better served Weiss than simply looking to her own experiences, exploring rather than settling."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
68%
|
The Hunter (2012) |
"
The film is really Dafoe's show, and he reminds once again why he is such a tremendous actor and also one so easy to underestimate and take for granted."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
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|
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
More than anything else, Cabin feels like the endgame of so-called fanboy culture in the way in which it is first and foremost about itself, interested only in a fundamental adherence to rules of its own devising and fenced off from the world at large."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
This is pure product, a movie desperately without energy or enthusiasm of any kind."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
50%
|
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) |
"
Ferrara movingly celebrates connection, cooking life down to just its barest essence: a man, a woman and a need."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
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|
—
|
——
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Wrecked (2009) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
Sometimes you don't want to know what is lurking in the dark because the answer is just too obvious and dumb."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
50%
|
Re:Generation (2012) |
"
Pleasant but pointless, "Re:Generation Music Project" is a commercial in search of a product."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
If you walk in knowing nothing of its origins/production story, it just seems like a throwbacky B-movie action junker."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
18%
|
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012) |
"
Like a laboratory experiment on how often a movie can spin from bad to good and back again."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Love (2012) |
"
The film feels disjointed and inorganic as it skips from one set of problems to another."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Michael (2012) |
"
A hermetically sealed creep-fest that seems to have no desire to be anything more than just that."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
there's plenty of jumps and stings, as well as much opening of doors, climbing of stairs and peering around corners, to a point of diminishing returns after, say, the third time Radcliffe creeps cautiously down the same hallway."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
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4/5
|
57%
|
Film socialisme (2011) |
"
With its rich, layered storytelling, "Film Socialisme" is, in its broadest sense, about nothing less than the history, present and future of Western civilization, up to and including Internet videos of cats."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
25%
|
The Divide (2012) |
"
When a character swims through raw sewage to escape at the film's climax, it's hard not feel a certain solidarity."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Addiction Incorporated (2011) |
"
Evans mines enough fresh info from the story that it feels at times familiar but not redundant."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
The Devil Inside (2012) |
"
People of the world: If you find some footage, leave it be. You will likely be doing the rest of us a huge favor."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 7, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
5%
|
Beneath The Darkness (2012) |
"
At times it seems the simple ineptitude of "Beneath the Darkness" surely must mask some undercurrent of deeper sophistication and intention on behalf of the filmmakers. Alas, as it turns out, such things never surface."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 6, 2012
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|
2/5
|
11%
|
The Darkest Hour (2011) |
"
What's the point of going all the way to Moscow if the shots you come back with end up looking like cheap green-screen process work?"
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
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2/5
|
——
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Don 2 (2011) |
"
Director Farhan Akhtar shoots and cuts the action awkwardly, not quite knowing where to place the camera, so the film never gets the slam-bang momentum it might want."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
—
|
——
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Winx Club 3d: Magic Adventure () |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Magic to Win (2011) |
"
Yip's earlier films "Ip Man" and "Ip Man 2" also might have been wildly uneven, but at least they satisfied a basic craving for good action. "Magic to Win" turns up as a real loser."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
—
|
78%
|
Outrage (2009) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 2, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
89%
|
The Yellow Sea (2011) |
"
A breakneck mix of bone-crunching freneticism and bloody close-quarters knife-fighting with a strand of romantic melancholy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
79%
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