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3/5
|
100%
|
Elemental (2013) |
"
The filmmakers behind "Elemental" might have done better to commit to a single portrait and been more fearless about avoiding familiar oratory, but small steps are progress too."
—
New York Times
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
57%
|
Unmade In China (2013) |
"
It is surprisingly boring to watch a movie being made, on the set or off, and a beleaguered production is not necessarily an exception."
—
New York Times
Posted May 3, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
60%
|
Free The Mind (2013) |
"
Larger ideas of a mind-body connection, and mentions of brain research, are not treated in an inspiring or deeply informative way."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
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4/5
|
——
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Fragments of Kubelka (2013) |
"
If "Fragments of Kubelka" demands an investment of time, Mr. Kubelka rewards it."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Hamesima X (2013) |
"
A mystical tract seemingly reincarnated in the ultra-cheesy body of a 1980s straight-to-video thriller."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
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——
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Highway (2012) |
"
Picturesque flourishes and jumpy editing can't disguise this film's soapy heart."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Mortem (2013) |
"
Most often "Mortem" just lacks bite, and the dedicated leads seem at times a little slight for the staging of a struggle at eternity's edge."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
5/5
|
79%
|
An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (2013) |
"
A dense, organic, dazzling and funny tapestry, making use of varied and subtly colored animation and stop-motion; candid video; playfully verbose direct address; chapters and footnotes and doodles; and suavely chosen music and sonic bridges."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
American Meat (2013) |
"
An advocacy film better suited for a class than for a cinema."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
4%
|
6 Souls (2013) |
"
Beginning as a psychiatric freak show, "6 Souls" eventually trades serial-killer intimations for backwoods bad mojo before becoming just another dimly lighted pop-up-stalker flick."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
76%
|
No Place On Earth (2013) |
"
The film mixes emotional accounts by proud survivors from two families with foreign-language re-enactments that are perhaps too faithfully murky."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
92%
|
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
A snappily edited, archivally wallpapered recollection of fearless behavior in the face of an antsy establishment. But it's equally significant as a pointed act of retelling."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
The Revolutionary Optimists (2013) |
"
As heartening as it is to see a slum child tutored about vicious cycles of adversity and using the buzzword "partnership" with aplomb, the film comes to feel cut and dried."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
70%
|
Wrong (2013) |
"
It would take a firmer hand to right this "Wrong.""
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
50%
|
You Don't Need Feet to Dance (2013) |
"
In a film plunked somewhat unfortunately between the inspirational and the ordinary, the impressively patient Mr. Conde voices public-service-announcement sentiments about being able to do as much as anyone else."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Love And Honor (2013) |
"
This trifle about two soldiers who sneak away to America while on leave unfolds in a world about as realistic as a flashback on a sitcom."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Better Mus Come (2013) |
"
Despite its cultural detail and fetching leads this Jamaican director's colorful debut feature is undone by ragged scene construction, weak acting and a scattered script."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
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Crazy and Thief (2013) |
"
Might have been better off in a kid's-size portion as a short."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
The Other Side of the Ice (2013) |
"
This tedious chronicle has the interest level of a home movie of a vacation with bickering and yammering left intact."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Girl Rising (2013) |
"
No one would confuse the movie with a short-story collection. But it's more ambitious and effective at blunting cynicism than most consciousness-raising efforts. "
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
83%
|
Genius On Hold (2013) |
"
This promisingly tragic tale is sunk by cartloads of context and an overbearing, slanted narration."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
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The Unspeakable Act (2013) |
"
[It] is about the familiar more than it is about the forbidden."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
One Life (2013) |
"
A typically eye-catching, years-in-the-making chronicle of animal life that is tainted by the urge to anthropomorphize."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
30%
|
The Berlin File (2013) |
"
As soon as "The Berlin File" takes flight with its exhilarating action set pieces, memories of any muddles evaporate amid the tension and vivid engagement with settings, from courtyards to fields."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Lost In Thailand (2013) |
"
Runs through its clichés reliably enough."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
David (2013) |
"
Complicated [and] entertainingly erratic ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
The Last Gladiators (2013) |
"
Pretty or not, the stories of dropped gloves and smashed faces shed some clarity on the game's violence ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
Mr. Herzog is openly inspired, as ever, by the rugged independence of these resourceful trappers, who seem stoic about everything but their faithful dogs."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Welcome To The Machine (2013) |
"
A strain of quixotic eccentricity runs through the film's endeavor; Mr. Weider basically has more material than he can marshal."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed (2012) |
"
Filled with crushing facts about animal cruelty yet also overstuffed and overwrought, it's emotionally and visually tough to watch."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Happy New Year (2012) |
"
A dully directed movie that sends a message but lacks oomph."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Young & Wild (2012) |
"
The film's sexual intelligence is undone by a paralyzing voice-over and an encroaching case of the blahs."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
Walk Away Renee (2012) |
"
"Walk Away Renee" lets us observe a mother-son bond, but Mr. Caouette hasn't found a way to galvanize this incarnation of material for strangers."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
|
Seeds of Resiliency (2012) |
"
Admirably succinct and often affecting, even if it rarely encompasses the full shape, depth and insights of these stories."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Gottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child (2012) |
"
This repetitive documentary from Lisa Kirk Colburn banally strings Gottfried Helnwein's musings together with creative wrangles ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
Habibi Rasak Kharban (Habibi) (2012) |
"
Despite moments of dour power and a likable female lead, the couple's predicament is all too often flatly staged and acted out."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) |
"
Even though the film drags, the magic of Bollywood is that this story's muddle of twists only clarifies the urgency behind the undying desires of all concerned parties."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
77%
|
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012) |
"
Gradually becomes an echo chamber of personal dramas and exploits, not to mention propulsive soundtrack cues - all within a sport already nursing a penchant for self-documentation."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
A Man's Story (2012) |
"
Vonicos ... misses an opportunity to make a feature-length documentary that takes the full measure of his subject's work."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
0/5
|
——
|
In the Night () |
"
Sometimes a movie is so awful that you worry you are doing yourself some form of harm simply by watching it."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 29, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Dust Up (2012) |
"
The sort of self-impressed tedious effort that many thought had died with the post-Tarantino imitations of the 1990s."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Orchestra Of Exiles (2012) |
"
"Orchestra of Exiles" aspires to a level of primary research that other historical documentaries could take a page from."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
36%
|
Yogawoman (2012) |
"
Doing yoga proves more appealing than watching a film promote it. "
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
|
Chicks (La Vie Au Ranch) (2012) |
"
Ms. Letourneur's film ... bears a rare, even strange, stamp of authenticity."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012) |
"
The film is most illuminating in showing how democratic practice can still find a new voice and innovative means with each generation."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Two Years at Sea (2012) |
"
Thoreauvian self-sufficiency or classical pastoral engagement with nature and its creatures takes a back seat to the company of objects, trees and music."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Split: A Deeper Divide (2012) |
"
Even political foes agree here on today's parlous state of disagreement, leaving you keen to vote but feeling a little defeated already."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
A Whisper To A Roar (2012) |
"
"A Whisper to a Roar" is a vivid documentary with unusual access to the key players in the geopolitical dramas it recounts."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Fat Kid Rules the World (2012) |
"
A relatively respectable slice of high school outsider storytelling."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
78%
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