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3/4
|
96%
|
Mother Of George (2013) |
"
[A] lushly detailed and passionately performed melodrama ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
More than a critique of Saudi society, "Wadjda" offers a character with universal resonance and appeal."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
91%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
Presents Reich's position by patching together lectures from his "Wealth & Poverty" course at the University of California, Berkeley."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
1.5/4
|
18%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
Convoluted, predictable, and mostly unfunny ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
89%
|
You Will Be My Son (2013) |
"
Gilles Legrand's draggy melodrama about miserable characters who persist in their folly and never wise up is strictly vin ordinaire."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
A Single Shot (2013) |
"
So heavy on atmosphere that it's hard to breathe, this derivative drama sleepwalks through familiar story lines despite the efforts of a first-rate cast."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
Roinsard labors mightily to eke laughs and excitement out of '50s secretaries in Technicolor dresses, towering heels, and awkward hairdos hammering away at keyboards, with limited success."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
Things Never Said (2013) |
"
A powerful statement about the plight of women held back by sexist tyranny."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
33%
|
The Family (2013) |
"
Not known for subtlety, Besson gets the expected laughs, and then some."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013) |
"
[A] bittersweet, frustratingly impressionistic documentary ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
34%
|
Hell Baby (2013) |
"
This offensive, crass pastiche makes "Grown Ups 2" look like a paragon of wit and good taste."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
Thérèse (2013) |
"
The film looks great. As for the human element, the mood is more apathetic than tragic, and star Audrey Tautou has to take much of the blame for the film's failure."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
69%
|
I Declare War (2013) |
"
Imagination is what these filmmakers could use more of, as their ingenious concept doesn't develop much beyond gimmick."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
As a kung fu film, "The Grandmaster," with its exhilarating fighting sequences, won't disappoint. As a Wong Kar-wai film, it rates high."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
Slyly comments on the ironies of the past half century in contemporary art."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
"You're Next" draws on the home invasion/haunted house scenario, but outclasses [other films] with its wit, irony, and technically proficient terror."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" plays like a "Scary Movie" parody."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
It seems like an extended Apple ad, with a few gossipy asides, but less entertaining."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Rising From Ashes (2013) |
"
Though the subject inspires, Johnstone's treatment lacks focus and edge, falling back on platitudes, sentiment, and generalities when clarity is what is needed."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
I Give It a Year (2013) |
"
The tonal clash is jarring, and Mazer doesn't help matters by erring on the side of blandness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
The Attack (2013) |
"
Arouses profound questions about fanaticism, cultural identity, and the essential mystery of other people, even those we think we know best."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Bell wrote and directed the film and also stars, and her voice, sensibility, timing, and pitch-perfect ear for the absurd layer every scene."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
In the Fog (2013) |
"
As remorseless in style as it is in message, "In the Fog" offers little hope and few pleasures, but earns admiration for its elegant exploration of the lowest depths of the human condition."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman spin two versions of the story of the ingénue who starred in the most successful porn film of all time."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Still Mine (2013) |
"
[A] tough-minded tearjerker, based on a true story ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
Frankly, the guy just isn't very interesting."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
[Cera] has transformed himself from one of the most irritating actors of his generation to one of the best."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
[A] harrowing but flawed study of an innocent man accused of pedophilia."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
96%
|
A Band Called Death (2013) |
"
Fortunately, Bobby and Dannis, the surviving brothers, prove genial company."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 12, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013) |
"
In 1958, Ungerer's picture book "Crictor" featured an unlikely hero, a boa constrictor, and the usual anodyne pabulum served up to bored kids would no longer do."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Grown Ups 2 (2013) |
"
Apparently the world demanded another family-friendly version of "The Hangover," one that combined scatological comedy with smarmy sentimentality."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
Markus Imhoof's inventive and powerful documentary ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
7%
|
Just Like A Woman (2013) |
"
Bouchareb fails to turn his outsider's point of view into new insights, and instead takes the easy route, falling back on familiar stereotypes in his tour of US misogyny and xenophobia."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Hannah Arendt (2013) |
"
A film that ultimately says more about banality than evil."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) |
"
This frantic energy at times touches on genius, at other times suggests desperation. And the directors don't do him any favors by the annoyingly frequent close-ups of audience members in convulsions of laughter."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Unfinished Song (2013) |
"
[Stamp] and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as supporting actors Christopher Eccleston and Gemma Arterton, raise "Unfinished Song," Paul Andrew Williams's entry in the golden age genre, from mawkish to genuinely heartwarming."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
Each nutty scenario is surpassed by the next, ludicrous story lines coalesce with expert orchestration, and absurd details return with perfect timing to build to a crescendo of hilarity."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954) |
"
You might not want to bring along someone you love, because you could end up leaving the theater alone."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
[It] not only exploits one of cinema's most important modes, it also attempts something more difficult: turning a genre movie into a work of art."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
Fill the Void (2013) |
"
Burshtein has achieved a gripping film without victims or villains, an ambiguous tragedy drawing on universal themes of love and loss, self-sacrifice and self-preservation."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Augustine (2013) |
"
Winocour does not reduce her characters to caricatures, but depicts them as unwitting actors in the tragedy of a pathological society."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
10%
|
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012) |
"
George ... disdains working on TV or in dinner theater. Compared to this movie, however, these would be preferable alternatives."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (2013) |
"
The excess and earnestness suit the subject - the ephemeral and all-consuming nature of romantic love."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
54%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Along with Bela Tarr and Terrence Malick, Carlos Reygadas is one of today's few genuinely religious filmmakers."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 12, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
The Prey (2013) |
"
Loopy, dumb, and entertaining ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
The Purge (2013) |
"
Somewhere between Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the "Family Guy" episode in which Peter Griffin joins the Tea Party lies "The Purge." Unfortunately, it's as funny as the former and as thoughtful as the latter."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Wish You Were Here (2013) |
"
If you do decide to travel abroad, this film offers some tips on how to stay safe and sane - that is, if you can extract them from the teasingly elliptical, flashback-addled, nerve-racking narrative."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
The effort to pack an already overstuffed picaresque epic into a film of more than two hours ends up an indigestible stew."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 24, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
77%
|
Leviathan (2013) |
"
With its repetitive images of netted and gutted sea life, the film suggests that the beast is the human hunter himself."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 24, 2013
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