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91%
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Scandal (1989) |
"
Scandal is an express tour of the Profumo affair that moves with a pop historian's revisionist swagger and plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll."
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TIME Magazine
Posted May 8, 2013
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46%
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Agnes of God (2002) |
"
All three stars do smart, honorable work."
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TIME Magazine
Posted May 8, 2013
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67%
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The Iceman (2013) |
"
Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted May 2, 2013
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there's still intelligent life on Planet Marvel."
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TIME Magazine
Posted May 1, 2013
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46%
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Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
It's like a giant sculpture that is so strange and off-putting, it's instantly, intriguingly post-modern. Swept up in the film's pile-driving self-assurance, even Bay-haters may absorb the pain to enjoy the gain."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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78%
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Sin City (2005) |
"
For all its astronomical body count, Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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81%
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Batman Returns (1992) |
"
Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2013
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92%
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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Retaliation is less a sequel than an antidote to the calcified mound of crap that ostensibly inspired it."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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30%
|
Flashdance (1983) |
"
Unlike its grittily romantic predecessors, Flashdance is pure glitz."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2013
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93%
|
Matewan (1987) |
"
In the rich umbers of Haskell Wexler's cinematography, Matewan does look great."
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TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
The family-dramedy genre that the film inhabits demands a bit more narrative ingenuity than is on display."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
Absent any emotional grounding, the film is a gorgeous, sterile construction, like a dream city unoccupied by humans."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
The 3-D effects are plentiful - hats, lions, and baboons jump off the screen and into your lap - but the characters rarely lodge in the moviegoer's heart."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 6, 2013
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67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
It's not pure Park or pure Hitchcock but a muted, mildly mesmerizing blend of the two. You might want to take a careful stroll in this Hitchpark."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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93%
|
The Departed (2006) |
"
[A] very entertaining, densely layered, just-short-of-fabulous melodrama."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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87%
|
Chicago (2002) |
"
Chicago has so much razzle-dazzle that viewers may end up both raised and dazed. It's remorselessly inventive, trying anything fast and sassy to keep you watching."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 24, 2013
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96%
|
Amadeus (1984) |
"
A grand movie entertainment."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 19, 2013
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15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
A movie like A Good Day to Die Hard ought to either hire someone who can write catchy dialogue and at least superficially plausible characters or just let the real artists, the stuntmen, run the whole picture. No Humans Allowed."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Side Effects virtually demands a three-word review: Just see it."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
The whole kidding trope, which you can bet was ordered by McKay and Ferrell, is pretty lame, and defeats the leads' attempts to bring shadings to cardboard cartoon characters."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2013
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73%
|
V for Vendetta (2006) |
"
Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
When any film works, it's a miracle; when it doesn't, it's this."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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59%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
Slapdash in its character portraits, the movie is slambang in its action scenes; it springs to life whenever it promises death."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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94%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
The film has fifth-act problems, as did the play, but Fiennes' bleak overview should leave receptive viewers feeling daunted and haunted."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
The performances here are so sharp that viewers may wish End of Watch has been shot by someone who knew how to find the right point of view for a scene and leave it there."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
The movie slogs along like a Grant Wood farmer behind his plow."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
If there were an On the Road museum, this could be the elaborate diorama at its center."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2012
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69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
Painful, and not in a good way."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
Even when the film is cool, it manages to be wrong."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is pure, if not great, Tarantino."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2012
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70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Tom Hooper's problem is soiling good projects with bad direction. Even if his Les Misérables wins as many Oscars as The King's Speech did, it's a habit he really needs to correct."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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32%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
[It has] enough plot contrivances and twisted, twinned destinies for any old movie, though not necessarily a good one."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
The movie lacks majesty. Grand in parts, the movie is too often grandiose or grandiloquent; and the running time is indefensible."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
This is movie journalism that snaps and stings, that purifies a decade's clamor and clutter into narrative clarity, with a salutary kick."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2012
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88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Magical realism was rarely so magical and never before so real. "
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
The cool accomplishment of Skyfall, 23rd in the Broccoli franchise, is that it seems a necessary, rather than mandatory, addition to the year's popular culture."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2012
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89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Lincoln is brain food and, at another pivotal moment in American political history, an instructive feast."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Nov 8, 2012
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90%
|
Bad 25 (2012) |
"
It's baaad, and great."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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37%
|
Nobody Walks (2012) |
"
The acting ensemble is crucial. Everyone's really fine."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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25%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
There's a point at which movies become only merchandise, and the Paranormal franchise may be heading for that nexus, that nadir."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Washington's nuanced performance is a tightrope walk between the Denzel whom people expect and the character he's boldly burrowed into."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2012
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82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
It's an old-fashioned John Huston caper film extended to sulfurous comedy - from Beat the Devil to Meet the Devil."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
This 3-D, black-and-white "family" comedy is the year's most inventive, endearing animated feature."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2012
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93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism, Looper is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 27, 2012
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51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
If the modest and moving Trouble With the Curve won't overwhelm anybody, it's still an engaging winner, like a junk-ball pitcher who stays in the bigs on grit and heart."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2012
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85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
It's all frightfully familiar - as if teens sitting around the campfire need to be told the same story every night - until the last 15 mins., when this Cocoa Puffs movie reveals an underlayer of arsenic."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2012
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38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Director Roger Michell's movie is, pretty consistently, dreadful."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2012
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92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
The performances of these actors are reason enough to go."
—
TIME Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2012
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