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31%
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Hugo Pool (1997) |
"
A sweet, winning diversion that meanders enjoyably on the strength of its laid-back charm."
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AV Club
Posted May 1, 2013
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D-
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
It's almost impressive how the moronic new ensemble comedy The Big Wedding manages to cram three hours' worth of nonsensical subplots, extraneous characters, and implausible plot points into 90 minutes of streamlined idiocy."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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B+
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93%
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Sun Don't Shine (2013) |
"
Working wonders on a tight budget, Seimetz uses handheld cameras and tight compositions to create an air of claustrophobic intensity interspersed with moments of ragged beauty."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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D
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46%
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Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Any pretensions of satire, moral ambiguity, or social commentary get lost in a hurricane of empty, mindless spectacle."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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B
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87%
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) |
"
In Deceptive Practices, the entertainer pays his mentors and inspirations the ultimate tribute by turning a film ostensibly about himself into one fundamentally about all of them."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 18, 2013
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D
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4%
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Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
85 or so minutes of random nonsense from filmmakers so clearly dispirited by their mercenary assignment that they seem to be running out the clock from the very first frame."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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B
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76%
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It's a Disaster (2013) |
"
It's A Disaster is lively and assured before a third-act twist takes the film in an even more bracingly bleak direction."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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C+
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54%
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The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
The result feels like cinematic health food: vaguely good for you but less than delicious."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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D+
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16%
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Temptation (2013) |
"
It isn't until Temptation grows flamboyantly bad in its final act that it rises to the level of good dumb fun in the trashy tradition of Perry's most entertainingly awful films."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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B
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81%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
To the film's credit, it's damn near impossible to imagine where The Place Beyond The Pines will end based on where it begins, even though its ever-widening scope causes it to lose some of the grubby intensity of its early scenes."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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B-
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93%
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The Sapphires (2013) |
"
The Sapphires understands intuitively that cheap tricks still work most of the time, and it is not without its silky, assured virtues-but originality is not one of them."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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B
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43%
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Admission (2013) |
"
It never quite lives up to its potential. But there's value to be found in its meandering."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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C+
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38%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has its cornball charm, thanks largely to the confident work of old pros Carell, Arkin, and Buscemi, but it's ultimately a big, gaudy, predictable show, strictly for the rubes and tourists."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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D+
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36%
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Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
It takes forever to get going, unspooling its hopelessly convoluted, unwieldy plot for so long that it loses whatever marginal narrative momentum it possesses."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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100%
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The Staircase () |
"
The Staircase engenders a good deal of sympathy for the accused and especially for his family, while leaving the question of his guilt wide open."
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AV Club
Posted Mar 4, 2013
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C-
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26%
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21 And Over (2013) |
"
21 & Over seems particularly redundant, since a film already exists that's exactly like The Hangover, only not as good: It was called The Hangover Part II."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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B-
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58%
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Snitch (2013) |
"
It builds into a moderately engaging character study of men driven to dangerous extremes by desperation ..."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 21, 2013
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B
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94%
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The Bitter Buddha (2013) |
"
The Bitter Buddha strains a little too hard for dramatic heft, but it's nevertheless a compelling, sweet, funny valentine to a comic's comic and a true American original."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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F
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16%
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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
The film strangely takes it for granted that everyone adores Charlie Sheen, and is willing to extend affection to the unmistakably Charlie Sheen-like character he plays here."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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D
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56%
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Would You Rather (2013) |
"
Though Combs is clearly enjoying himself, the fun doesn't always carry over to the audience."
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AV Club
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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D
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37%
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Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
Stand Up Guys is the sitcom Mikey & Nicky no one asked for."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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D-
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4%
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Movie 43 (2013) |
"
[A] gauntlet of smutty, profane awfulness ..."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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B-
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88%
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Yossi (2013) |
"
The film's central romance veers into the realm of wish-fulfillment, but it's still drawn with tenderness and sensitivity ..."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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B+
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81%
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...And Justice For All (1979) |
"
Justice is seldom as deep or trenchant as it wants to be, but there's abundant pleasure to be gleaned from skating along its surfaces."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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C+
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30%
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Broken City (2013) |
"
In spite of some punchy scenes, crackling dialogue, and fine performances, Broken City is hopelessly overmatched. It has Academy Award dreams, but a detective-show heart."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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D+
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6%
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A Haunted House (2013) |
"
The craftsmanship here isn't just lacking, it's nonexistent, and the found-footage conceit is little more than a rickety structure to house an endless gauntlet of hackneyed jokes involving sex, flatulence, pot, and feces."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 11, 2013
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D+
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32%
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Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Yet another dispiriting reminder that while the MPAA can be squeamish and hypocritical about depictions of sexuality, filmmakers can nevertheless flood the screen with enough carnage for a world war or two, yet walk away with an R rating."
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AV Club
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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A-
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88%
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Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Tarantino's sure-footed, gorgeously shot, darkly funny Western starts strong and gains in momentum until a breathtaking climax that represents the apogee of his adventures in culture-mashing."
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AV Club
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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D-
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18%
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Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
[It] might as well be called AARP Presents: Billy Crystal Is Old, And What's Going On With All The Facebooking And Twittering And iPods?"
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AV Club
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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B-
|
38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
While Streisand and Rogen's relationship is smartly, affectionately drawn, just about every other element of the movie feels perfunctory ..."
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AV Club
Posted Dec 19, 2012
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C+
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Hyde Park On Hudson depicts Roosevelt as a boozy adulterer, but it nevertheless tilts heavily towards hagiography."
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AV Club
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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D
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27%
|
Addicted To Fame (2012) |
"
Judging by the film's alternately self-pitying, self-aggrandizing, and bitter tone, the schlock director is afflicted with a bizarre lack of self-consciousness to rival Smith's own impregnable wall of self-delusion."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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F
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33%
|
Liz & Dick (2013) |
"
It feels throughout like those behind it made a deliberately campy, dumb, over-the-top and wildly unconvincing film to satisfy the whims of an audience eager to laugh at, rather than with, it."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 26, 2012
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B
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88%
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Starlet (2012) |
"
Starlet is refreshingly unsentimental in its depiction of both youth and age."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 8, 2012
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B
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49%
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The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) |
"
No matter the medium, RZA is a world-builder who has conceptualized the contours of the rich, bloody, dense universe he created down to the most insignificant details."
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AV Club
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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D
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6%
|
Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) |
"
It confirms once again that with the notable exception of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film that feels like a videogame is never a positive development."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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C+
|
47%
|
The Girl () |
"
It looks gorgeous, with lush production values and gorgeous cinematography, but there's a strange inertness at the film's core."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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C+
|
37%
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Nobody Walks (2012) |
"
Nobody Walks is a film of acutely observed little moments that unfortunately don't add up to anything of substance. It's a forgettable shrug of a movie, pleasant enough, but unlikely to linger."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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B+
|
84%
|
Smashed (2012) |
"
It's a refreshingly complex look at how people's emotional development can play havoc with their partners' security and sense of self, especially if that security and sense of self are shaky to begin with."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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D+
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
For a film dedicated to time-tested formula and clumsily cross-pollinating Rocky and Mr. Holland's Opus, Here Comes The Boom is hilariously convoluted and inefficient in its storytelling."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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D
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Why is The Paperboy so bizarrely dull? It's as if the filmmakers combined 18 different kinds of scalding-hot peppers, yet inexplicably emerged with oatmeal."
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AV Club
Posted Oct 4, 2012
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C-
|
79%
|
The Hole (2012) |
"
All the elements are here, they just don't add up to a satisfying whole."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 27, 2012
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A-
|
100%
|
The Waiting Room (2012) |
"
Among its many other distinctions, The Waiting Room stands as a powerful refutation of Romney's conception of emergency rooms as a reasonable, or even vaguely acceptable, option for the uninsured."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 27, 2012
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C-
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
Regularly devolves into a dry cinematic op-ed with thinly developed characters making didactic speeches articulating the issues involved in the knotty, emotionally charged subject of school choice."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 27, 2012
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C+
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
Gyllenhaal and Peña's relationship, a sort of heterosexual love affair, is depicted with a sense of tenderness and care that does not extend to the cartoonish villains that dominate the film's lackluster final act."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 20, 2012
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C+
|
13%
|
Stolen (2012) |
"
Cage is uncharacteristically muted. He seems to have given up on making art long ago; these days, all he wants to do is entertain, and with Stolen, he succeeds, albeit only on the guilty-pleasure level."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
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C-
|
69%
|
Liberal Arts (2012) |
"
The film's trembling sincerity and preciousness betray the debt Radnor still owes to the oeuvre of Zach Braff, another sitcom star turned sad-sack independent auteur."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
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D
|
5%
|
The Cold Light of Day (2012) |
"
Defined by needless, frenetic exertion in lieu of anything resembling inspiration."
—
AV Club
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
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D-
|
22%
|
The Words (2012) |
"
Though set in the literary world and among the suffering souls who populate it, The Words appears to be the work of people who have never actually read a book."
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AV Club
Posted Sep 6, 2012
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