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4/5
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90%
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Portrait of Wally (2012) |
"
The journey of the painting, and the Bondi family's efforts to reclaim it, are the meaty subject of Andrew Shea's engrossing documentary."
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 6, 2013
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3/5
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48%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
It delivers in the most basic sense, but you wonder what a director with a sense of play might have done with the material."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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4/5
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93%
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Sugar (2008) |
"
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the makers of Half Nelson, return with another subtly observed drama about a character on the outskirts of mainstream America."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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94%
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The Bitter Buddha (2013) |
"
It's a solid doc."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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3/5
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38%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Pleasantly dopey."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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2/5
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35%
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Dark Skies (2013) |
"
It's at this point that Stewart stops ripping off Close Encounters and sets his sights on that awful Julianne Moore thriller The Forgotten, or maybe Richard Kelly's The Box, and Dark Skies slouches to its utterly undistinguished finale."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Feb 22, 2013
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2/5
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15%
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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
If the first film was a finely tuned machine, this one's a great big ugly Mack truck of shooting and exploding and yelling, all shakycams and quick cuts and incomprehensible action blocking."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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2/5
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72%
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The Future (2011) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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2/5
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47%
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Chasing Madoff (2011) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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2/5
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76%
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Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) (2010) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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5/5
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93%
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Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
It's a movie that grabs you from the first frames, takes you to some extremely ugly places and asks you how you feel about what you're seeing."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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3/5
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32%
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Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Director Ruben Fleischer is no Brian De Palma, but he keeps the story moving and delivers a couple of decent set pieces."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 10, 2013
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4/5
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96%
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Argo (2012) |
"
Affleck spins the absurd true story into an engrossing espionage thriller that would be utterly ridiculous if the stakes weren't literally life-or-death."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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4/5
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79%
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Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
Ruby Sparks feels like the best Woody Allen movie Woody Allen never made."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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4/5
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100%
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The Invisible War (2012) |
"
It's an important, infuriating work. The testimonials from assaulted servicewomen and men should be screened on a loop in recruiting offices around the world."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jan 7, 2013
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2/5
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88%
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Django Unchained (2012) |
"
There is no earthly reason why Django Unchained needs to be two and three-quarter hours long, other than to indulge its director's love of digressions and monologues."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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4/5
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52%
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This is 40 (2012) |
"
Rudd gives a terrific performance as the increasingly put-upon hero, showing different facets of himself to his wife, his moochy father, his co-workers and the other people he encounters."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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3/5
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66%
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Once the adventure is finally underway, and Martin Freeman's meek hero starts to come into his own, Jackson digs in and delivers an appropriately epic companion piece to his earlier trilogy."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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2/5
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4%
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Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
Playing For Keeps isn't that bad; Muccino simply doesn't know how to fix the script or manage his actors, and the whole thing just sort of sputters out."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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2/5
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12%
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Alex Cross (2012) |
"
Ever a pro, Cohen orchestrates a couple of energetic set pieces, but the whole thing feels doomed from the start."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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3/5
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Tom Waits is in it, holding a rabbit. That's more adorable than you'd think."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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3/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
That doesn't mean it isn't fun, particularly when Urban uses his stoic deadpan for subtly comic purposes."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Sep 10, 2012
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3/5
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
The last 30 seconds of The Dark Knight Rises very nearly had me on my feet cheering. It's just all the stuff in the middle that needs pruning."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jul 19, 2012
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4/5
|
75%
|
Collaborator (2012) |
"
Collaborator is a gimmick movie, but the gimmick is sound."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jul 17, 2012
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4/5
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
If Sony has to keep making these movies, this is as good a way to go as any."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 28, 2012
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1/5
|
73%
|
Bossa Nova (2000) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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4/5
|
55%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
"
An intriguing, effects-free take on the apocalypse genre, shifting nimbly between dark comedy and outright despair."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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|
4/5
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
See it before people spoil it for you."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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|
4/5
|
35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
"
Is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a great bad movie or a bad great movie?"
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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4/5
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
It's rare to see a movie that throws around this much raw emotion and still gets laughs."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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|
2/5
|
53%
|
Patang (2012) |
"
Bhargava is in love with a visual effect that makes his digital cinematography look like Super 8 film. It's like watching the whole movie through an Instagram filter, and it's utterly unnecessary."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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2/5
|
41%
|
Rock of Ages (2012) |
"
Rock Of Ages is so not rock and roll."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 20, 2012
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4/5
|
——
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I Am A Good Person/i Am A Bad Person () |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 15, 2012
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3/5
|
63%
|
The Woman in the Fifth (2012) |
"
Hawke's sympathetic performance gives the film an emotional continuity that seems to make sense of things even when things don't make sense at all."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 15, 2012
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3/5
|
91%
|
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) |
"
As a hipster rom-com about people trying to shake off their pasts to make present-day connections, it's pretty satisfying."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 15, 2012
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3/5
|
27%
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High School (2012) |
"
One of the broadest, silliest (yet somehow still endearing) stoner comedies in a while, indulging the adult members of the cast with particular gusto."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 8, 2012
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|
2/5
|
——
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Prometheus () |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 8, 2012
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3/5
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
The result is more interesting as an intellectual experience than as entertainment; you watch Cosmopolis fully aware that it wants to be deconstructed rather than enjoyed."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 8, 2012
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2/5
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
Of all the revelations in Ridley Scott's Prometheus, perhaps the most astounding is that Scott doesn't understand his own work."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 8, 2012
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4/5
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Moonrise Kingdom might be Wes Anderson's purest work yet -- a tender tale of longing and melancholy as seen through the eyes of a handful of people on an isolated (fictional) island off the coast of New England."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 1, 2012
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|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Intouchables (2012) |
"
A well-acted, charming buddy picture for the subtitle set."
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
A Beginner's Guide To Endings (2012) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
Lovely Molly (2012) |
—
NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
In the Family (2012) |
—
NOW Toronto
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Last Call at the Oasis (2012) |
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
Chernobyl Diaries (2012) |
"
You can't help but be sucked into the story, even when you pretty much know, beat for beat, where it's going."
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
70%
|
Men in Black III (2012) |
"
It evaporates almost as soon as it reaches your retinas."
—
NOW Toronto
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
It's one of the loudest , most aurally assaultive films I've ever seen. Some audience members will see that as a positive."
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
It probably sounded great in the pitch room, but as an actual experience it's on the redundant side."
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NOW Toronto
Posted May 18, 2012
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