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3.5/4
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80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
The lasting legacy of an exceptional thriller is to not only be surprised on the first viewing, but also to realize the picture offers qualities to be enjoyed on repeat screenings. "
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Tulsa World
Posted Sep 20, 2013
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2.5/4
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52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
Raunchy for the sake of being raunchy. Poignancy, a key element in making any sex comedy something more important, is lacking."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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3.5/4
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94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
The film is both personal and universal. Jordan can be so touching, and his intimidating ferocity is palpable. This is an important picture with a breakout performance."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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2/4
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69%
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The Wolverine (2013) |
"
It takes a special kind of talent to make the prime player from the X-Men movies a bore. "
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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|
1.5/4
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50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
There is a difference between dumb fun and dumb. The new White House-under-attack movie celebrates all that is red, white and stupid. "
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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3/4
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75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
What makes this another winner is that there are more than enough subversive chuckles to balance out the sugar. It is almost impossible to not smile through the duration of the movie. "
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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|
1.5/4
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31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
What would Jay Silverheels say? Tonto laugh at bad movie, cannot fix with editing, much money wasted."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 5, 2013
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|
2.5/4
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65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
The good news is that McCarthy and Bullock are often hilarious together, so you don't have to worry about the story. The filmmakers didn't."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jul 1, 2013
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3/4
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59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Coppola constructs their true-crime events rather conventionally for her usual style, but that's because she's smart enough to know that people this dumb don't need much embellishment."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
A crackling good political thriller, made in the spirit of some of the best espionage films, and with themes like eco-terrorism and whistleblowers that make it feel immediate like few recent dramas. "
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Tulsa World
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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3/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
There's less blood and more brains (put to use in the making of the film, rather than being munched on...), and it feels more streamlined than some of this summer's more bloated entries."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
2.5/4
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78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
The picture is very funny, and the animation is beautiful, and yet it's all a bit forgettable, by Pixar standards. That's the price of success."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
2.5/4
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56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
The film is about finding your inner child and acceptance and maturing into something greater. This is what gives me hope for the inevitable sequel. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Before Midnight (2013) |
"
Loving words mix with personal attacks, the magic moments with the unintended slights, as we witness the occasional desperation of imperfect people doing the best they can when life moves beyond meet-cute and courtship. That's authentic."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jun 25, 2013
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|
1.5/4
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11%
|
After Earth (2013) |
"
It made me believe I'd been transported to a Hollywood studio backlot, where Smith family movies are made. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
Now You See Me (2013) |
"
This will be best enjoyed by those willing to be hoodwinked along with the characters."
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Tulsa World
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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|
3/4
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
Rude, crude and socially unacceptable, and in all of those ways, it is hilarious. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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|
2/4
|
64%
|
Epic (2013) |
"
An unfortunate name for such a simplistic, sleepy little eco-goofy animated movie. "
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Tulsa World
Posted May 27, 2013
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1/4
|
19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
It is a sobering realization to exit the theater and know that I have come to despise the Wolf Pack and these movies. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted May 27, 2013
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3/4
|
69%
|
Fast & Furious 6 (2013) |
"
The international ensemble might resemble a bad beer commercial if these people didn't work together so seamlessly and have actual conversations and laughs about their pasts, their futures, life, love and, of course, cars. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted May 27, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Set phasers for fun with this blockbuster. "
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Tulsa World
Posted May 27, 2013
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|
2.5.4
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Too specific when it should be open to interpretation, and too concerned with style, it looks lavish -- but looks aren't everything. "
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Tulsa World
Posted May 14, 2013
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|
2/4
|
35%
|
Peeples (2013) |
"
No one looks more lost in the movie than Washington, its biggest right-this-moment star. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted May 14, 2013
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|
3/4
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
We can trust in Tony Stark, even when he's falling apart and can't trust himself."
—
Tulsa World
Posted May 14, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Of all of the qualities that Cruise brings to a film, an unfortunate one is inevitability. To alter that perception, and truly surprise us, would really be a Maverick move."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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|
3/4
|
50%
|
Home Run (2013) |
"
It delivers its message of hope and healing in a manner that is honest, entertaining and authentic, in a film that can reach audiences both religious and secular."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Deliciously twisty, until it has too many twists."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
It's a movie that makes you think -- if not outright say -- You're a good guy. You don't have to do something this stupid. Oh, now look what you've gone and done. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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|
3/4
|
79%
|
42 (2013) |
"
As a baseball movie, in its period look, in delivering its message: This entertaining picture is a solid double off the warning-track wall."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
As a testament to the transcendent power of love and faith, it's gorgeous to look at, occasionally erotic, thoroughly confounding and at times ridiculous. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
You've seen a magician call for a volunteer from the audience, and then once on stage put that person into a deep sleep, right? This movie does that to an entire audience. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Mar 17, 2013
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|
2/4
|
38%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
This is murky stuff plot-wise, but there's something odd and original about the relationship between Farrell's and Rapace's characters, in their mutual vengeance and shared pain."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Mar 9, 2013
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|
3/4
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
There will be a high nostalgia factor for those who love the original, but Oz the Great and Powerful can stand on its own. This is a rollicking adventure and wondrously entertaining. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Mar 9, 2013
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|
2/4
|
16%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
It has a better chance of boring you to death than inducing fear. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Mar 5, 2013
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|
2/4
|
37%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
Why do aliens unload the pantry and stack items in the form of an abstract art project, or make little boys wet their pants? Who knows, and who cares."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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|
2/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
A big-budget bore that can't decide whether it wants to play more to a fanboy audience or a family audience, virtually ensuring that it will please neither. "
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Tulsa World
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Amour is a pure depiction of love, in all its many forms."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Feb 15, 2013
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|
2/4
|
46%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
The wow-factor is incredibly low. Stormy skies, blowing winds and turning teen boys into raging horndogs are part of the natural world and don't require much in the way of witchcraft."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Feb 15, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
The poster-child for the big, dumb action movie, but Bruce Willis as John McClane makes everything better."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Feb 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Unlike much of early 2013's dead-on-arrival movie fare, this picture has a pulse, and a brain, and a heart that beats strong."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Feb 4, 2013
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|
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Guess what is unexpected about this journey? Nothing, as there isn't one surprise in watching this continuation of the cinematic telling of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth tales."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
If this proves to be a transitional film, let it be as an introduction to an agent who comes back with his sense of humor intact. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Nov 9, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Affleck's triumph is the way he blends multiple tones in making 'Argo' work as an Iran story, a Hollywood story and a Washington, D.C., story."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Oct 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
The film is at its best when showing how blind justice can be, and why people in occupied countries don't automatically cheer when so-called "peacekeepers" arrive in their country."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Sep 19, 2011
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|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
It just might be the worst sequel ever to a really good movie."
—
Tulsa World
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Source Code (2011) |
"
Duncan Jones' twisty sci-fi gem knows how to build a mystery, how to parcel out clues, and how to keep an audience guessing until the end. "
—
Tulsa World
Posted Apr 1, 2011
|
|
|
61%
|
Leaves of Grass (2010) |
"
This is Tim Blake Nelson's affectionate and curious vision of his native Oklahoma, and what he sees makes for a uniquely restless, ribald motion picture."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Sep 17, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
66%
|
The American (2010) |
"
Clooney further solidifies himself as the modern cinematic model of the disillusioned American male"
—
Tulsa World
Posted Sep 1, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
41%
|
The Expendables (2010) |
"
While much of the film feels as slow as Stallone, 64, at a full sprint, the last 30 minutes is a blast. Literally. The movie's theme is overkill."
—
Tulsa World
Posted Aug 14, 2010
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