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The Lady Vanishes () |
"
It forgoes the crackling pace, light touch and surprisingly sophisticated sexual banter of the original, opting for melancholy, ominousness and sentimentality. "
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New York Times
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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83%
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Endeavor () |
"
Whether the Endeavor pilot, which drew an impressive 8.2 million viewers in Britain, will delight the die-hard Inspector Morse fan is questionable."
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New York Times
Posted Aug 14, 2013
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86%
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Teen Beach Movie (2013) |
"
The film's time-warp, movie-nerd conceit is just clever enough to keep you entertained."
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New York Times
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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79%
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Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) |
"
The filmmakers... add a crucial humanizing element, by focusing on the women's conflicted but supportive parents"
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New York Times
Posted Jun 10, 2013
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60%
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Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic () |
"
The film's inevitable compressions, made worse by the amount of empty, self-congratulatory celebrity blathering, mean that every Pryor fan will have omissions to complain about."
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New York Times
Posted Jun 3, 2013
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Seeking Asian Female () |
"
What keeps this 54-minute film consistently engaging is Sandy herself, wary, pragmatic and... an absolute natural in front of the camera."
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New York Times
Posted May 6, 2013
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3.5/5
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100%
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) |
"
The new film, despite the astounding story it tells, is the most conventional, least urgent and, cinematically, the least interesting of the three."
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New York Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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—
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Tent City, Usa (2012) |
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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3/5
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70%
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The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2012) |
"
While the attractive performers and the action set pieces, including fights inside a sand tornado and around a spider's web of razor wire, are enough to carry you through the film, "Flying Swords" is a bit of a letdown ..."
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New York Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
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—
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Megan Is Missing (2011) |
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New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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—
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——
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Community College (2009) |
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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—
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64%
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The Missing Person (2009) |
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
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—
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——
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Love & Slaps (La bellezza del somaro) () |
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 15, 2012
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—
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91%
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Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) |
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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—
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——
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Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault () |
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 7, 2012
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2/5
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41%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
Zhang Yimou revisits the Nanjing massacre of 1937 by making something resembling a backstage musical, with breaks for the occasional ghastly murder or rape."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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—
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Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010) |
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 25, 2011
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85%
|
George Harrison: Living In The Material World () |
"
An absorbing and beautifully made film in its own right, whose 208 minutes mostly fly by."
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New York Times
Posted Oct 8, 2011
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1/5
|
24%
|
Apollo 18 (2011) |
"
Accomplishes something the world wasn't really crying out for: it recreates the tedium of watching the later Apollo missions."
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New York Times
Posted Sep 3, 2011
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2/5
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0%
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InSight (2011) |
"
A psychological-supernatural thriller that's light on thrills."
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New York Times
Posted Sep 1, 2011
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2.5/5
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Saving Private Pérez (2011) |
"
If you don't get the jokes, there isn't a whole lot else to get, and it's a safe assumption that non-Latino, non-Spanish-speaking viewers are going to miss a lot of them."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 1, 2011
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2/5
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27%
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Colombiana (2011) |
"
There are some early comic moments that have you laughing along with the movie, but eventually the clashing tones and preposterousness just have you laughing."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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1/5
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22%
|
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
"
Feels more like straight-to-DVD filler than a chapter in one of the last decade's most entertaining and sophisticated family-film franchises."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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1/5
|
22%
|
3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy (2011) |
"
Sex in this film looks so nonecstatic that a better title might have been "3D Sex and Zen: Zero Child Policy.""
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New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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2/5
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50%
|
The Journals Of Musan (2011) |
"
Eventually we learn that a haircut and a new suit don't make for a better man, which seems like a small lesson after what we've been through."
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New York Times
Posted Aug 16, 2011
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—
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0%
|
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (2010) |
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 12, 2011
|
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3/5
|
80%
|
Littlerock (2011) |
"
It's significantly smaller and more casual than "Mystery Train" or "Lost in Translation," movies its premise calls to mind, but in some ways it's more layered and complex."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
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1.5/5
|
61%
|
Final Destination 5 (2011) |
"
A new wrinkle in how the killings spool out actually makes the film even more predictable, and the deaths, which tend to be squirmy rather than explosive, are so perfunctory and lazily jokey that they leave a decidedly bad aftertaste."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
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3/5
|
100%
|
The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2011) |
"
If you've seen the first film, you'll want to come back to see Mir's progress through life. And no matter what happens, it seems, the smile remains."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
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2.5/5
|
40%
|
Habermann (2011) |
"
As directed by the Czech veteran Juraj Herz in prestige-television style, the bulk of the film is a classically proportioned and tasteful wartime soap opera."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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—
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——
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Bitter Harvest (1993) |
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 1, 2011
|
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4/5
|
——
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The Harvest (La Cosecha) (2011) |
"
Has a muckraking agenda but a melancholy soul."
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New York Times
Posted Jul 31, 2011
|
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2/5
|
80%
|
Life in a Day (2011) |
"
"Life in a Day" is "Koyaanisqatsi" minus the consistent visual imagination that made that film bearable."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
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3/5
|
87%
|
Fire in Babylon (2011) |
"
It all adds up to an entertaining 88 minutes, despite the film's ramshackle construction and its once-over-lightly approach to political, cultural and athletic history."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 22, 2011
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3/5
|
90%
|
The Woman With The 5 Elephants (2011) |
"
It's an interesting story, well told, though Mr. Jendreyko overworks some documentary fallbacks: gnarled fingers, the view from a moving train."
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New York Times
Posted Jul 19, 2011
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2/5
|
44%
|
Girlfriend (2011) |
"
Doesn't miss many clichés of small-town, working-class, going-nowhere life."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 14, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
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Summer of Goliath (2011) |
"
What's unusual is the way the story is told."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
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2.5/5
|
——
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Flying Fish (Igillena maluwo) (2011) |
"
The intertwining of the narratives, along with the somewhat elliptical, or perhaps rudimentary, storytelling, makes for a confusing experience."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 6, 2011
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2/5
|
50%
|
Love Etc. (2011) |
"
Breakups and disappearances, loneliness and failing health fit into the film's fabric like beats in a TV drama."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 1, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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The High Life (2011) |
"
An awkward mash-up of what feel like two completely different movies."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
82%
|
Trollhunter (2011) |
"
One of the many pleasures of the Norwegian director André Ovredal's clever and engaging mock documentary "Trollhunter" is the way it plays with the idea of the supernatural rule book."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 9, 2011
|
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3/5
|
——
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Reindeerspotting - Escape from Santaland (2010) |
"
Long after you forget Jani's story, you'll remember the way the snowy landscapes look, and the surreal beauty of a nighttime reindeer race."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
45%
|
Some Days Are Better Than Others (2011) |
"
Like the characters, the three stories show only the most tentative signs of going anywhere."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 2, 2011
|
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3/5
|
50%
|
Spork (2011) |
"
As uplifting stories of tolerance and self-discovery go, "Spork" has a messy appeal, but it's no "Hairspray.""
—
New York Times
Posted May 26, 2011
|
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3/5
|
89%
|
Life 2.0 (2011) |
"
"Life 2.0" would have been more interesting and original if it, like its subjects, had dwelled more in the virtual world, and if it had told us more about that world's mechanics and folkways."
—
New York Times
Posted May 19, 2011
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2/5
|
16%
|
Priest (2011) |
"
The film, based in name only on a series of South Korean graphic novels, has nice, washed-out desert exteriors and some cool jet-powered motorcycles, but there's nothing in the hackneyed story or the derivative action scenes to make you take notice."
—
New York Times
Posted May 13, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
63%
|
True Legend (2011) |
"
The fights in "True Legend" become pretty routine. And beyond some lovely mountain scenery and a tiny cameo by a radiant Michelle Yeoh, there isn't much else to look at."
—
New York Times
Posted May 12, 2011
|
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3/5
|
71%
|
The People vs. George Lucas (2011) |
"
There's a lot of anger floating around in "The People vs.," but Mr. Philippe somehow manages to make the overall tone good-hearted, and he ends on a sentimental note of exasperated love for the man frequently referred to as "the creator.""
—
New York Times
Posted May 6, 2011
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4/5
|
91%
|
Caterpillar (2011) |
"
The husband may look like a caterpillar, but it's the wife who goes through a transformation."
—
New York Times
Posted May 6, 2011
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