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2/4
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77%
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Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
Most everyone loves a ripping good sea yarn, so why doesn't Kon-Tiki rip?"
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 3, 2013
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|
2.5/4
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54%
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The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
You can't help but applaud the effort, even as it falls short."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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2/4
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
A shining example of a dull studio comedy."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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2.5/4
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76%
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It's a Disaster (2013) |
"
The humour may not be wickedly black, but once in a while it's amusingly beige."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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3/4
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——
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Molly Maxwell () |
"
A first feature that, much like its young protagonist, is sometimes awkward and stiff but always refreshingly candid. And honesty is a tonic to even the most tired genre."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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2.5/4
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56%
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Oblivion (2013) |
"
Oblivion is an okay blockbuster, a multimillion-dollar exercise in competence."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 19, 2013
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2.5/4
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73%
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V for Vendetta (2006) |
"
This is just darkness played bright, a disposable object but hardly objectionable."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 14, 2013
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2.5/4
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77%
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42 (2013) |
"
In the hallowed frames of 42, the legend is front and centre and still inspiring. Too bad the more interesting man is nowhere to be seen."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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2.5/4
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68%
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Trance (2013) |
"
The story draws us in even through the murk."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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3/4
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89%
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A Place at the Table (2013) |
"
Hunger in America is not about a shortage of food but an abundance of poverty. This is where the spiral spins downward."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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3/4
|
53%
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Love, Marilyn (2012) |
"
Remove the comma from the title and Love, Marilyn plays like the command it is."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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3/4
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79%
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Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Coming from anyone else, Ginger & Rosa would be a sensitive if predictable coming-of-age tale set in the mists of the distant past. But coming from writer-director Sally Potter, it's a major surprise."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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3/4
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66%
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Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Neon bright and all raw energy, Spring Breakers is a pulsating paradox of a movie, both a tangerine dream and a cultural reality check, a pop artifact that simultaneously exploits and explores the shallowness of pop artifacts."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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3/4
|
90%
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Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
If you long for the bleak intelligence of an Ingmar Bergman film, where humankind is deeply flawed and God is indifferently silent and the landscape is cloaked in perpetual winter, then Beyond the Hills promises to be your cup of despair."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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3/4
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43%
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Admission (2013) |
"
Some films are electric - Admission settles for alternating current."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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3/4
|
88%
|
Yossi (2013) |
"
Yossi is an early spring breeze of a film - too delicate to be substantial but definitely holding the promise of warmth."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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2/4
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone isn't."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 15, 2013
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2.5/4
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83%
|
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2013) |
"
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation behaves altogether too much like the generation that got defined - yep, its starts out energetic and fresh only to age into tedious self-importance."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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2.5/4
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——
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Cloudburst (2013) |
"
It's a delight to see Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, superb talents and Oscar winners both, share almost every frame of Cloudburst."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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3/4
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36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Yep, there's a whole lot going on here, but this is one of those plot-heavy scripts that carries its weight with confidence - the intricate twists don't cheat."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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2/4
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
This is comedy on a familiar train where every stop is reassuringly predictable."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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2/4
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67%
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Stoker (2013) |
"
Talent behind the camera, talent in front, and yet nothing worth watching. What happened?"
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 1, 2013
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3/4
|
92%
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The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
As a political testament, the result is revealing and important."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
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3/4
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
What a pleasant surprise."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 22, 2013
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|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
Why make a movie when making a Hallmark-card-with-dialogue is so much less risky?"
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
A quarter-century after it began, A Good Day to Die Hard continues the franchise without undue embarrassment."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Really, this a two-hander that unfolds at two distinctly separate speeds."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
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3/4
|
87%
|
Middle of Nowhere (2012) |
"
Made by a black American woman, about a black American woman, it's a study of a culture where the matriarchs are strong by necessity and trapped by circumstance - adrift in the middle of nowhere."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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2/4
|
65%
|
All In Good Time () |
"
In short, All in Good Time is a failed performance about a performance failure."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 8, 2013
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3/4
|
——
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Italy: Love It, Or Leave It () |
"
Frustrating and unstructured, yet charming and convivial too."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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|
3/4
|
——
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Krivina () |
"
A tiny gem of a film that resonates far beyond its 70 minutes."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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|
1/4
|
6%
|
A Haunted House (2013) |
"
Along comes Marlon Wayans to do in A Haunted House what he once did in Scary Movie. And do it much, much worse."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
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3/4
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
59%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
Dig just a shade beneath the surface, trade in the text for the subtext, and a more interesting picture emerges - a little richer, sadder, almost poignant."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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|
2/4
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
Sorry, On the Road just doesn't travel well."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
A Dark Truth (2013) |
"
A lightweight flick about a heavy-duty subject, A Dark Truth plays like a TV movie back in the days when TV wasn't worth watching."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 11, 2013
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|
4/4
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
The film is a graphic portrayal of the unfunny end game we're all fated to play; the title is just a simple declaration of how best to play it."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Gangster Squad is to the great tradition of the Scarface genre what plastic is to cutlery - tiny, imitative, disposable."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
Ultimately a disappointment - this is a movie easy to watch and even easier to forget."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
Sometimes, the sun shines and the wind blows fresh and the very elements that make for intense hardship also open a window on intense joy."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
Urgent yet measured, like the onrushing tide, The Impossible is a real-life disaster flick with a compelling twist."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
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3/4
|
82%
|
Rust and Bone (2012) |
"
By turns brutal and tender, Rust and Bone is a bullet train of heightened melodrama that refuses to derail."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
Mixing topicality and improv, Apatow rescued big-screen comedy from its lengthy wallow in the trough of dumb-and-dumber -- we have good reason to thank the guy. Until now."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
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3/4
|
93%
|
Meet the Fokkens (2012) |
"
Despite the occasional stumble, the doc never falls, thanks to the sheer strength of its subjects' undaunted and indomitable character."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 14, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Essentially, Hyde Park on Hudson is a Shakespearean revel."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (2012) |
"
The story that remains is intriguing without being transporting - the facts are all there but the emotion is largely lost in translation."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
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1/4
|
——
|
Lloyd The Conqueror () |
"
Lloyd the Conqueror is nothing if not brave. Then again, since Lloyd the Conqueror is also not funny, not even remotely, brave will have to do."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
In this adaptation, director Joe Wright, plus screenwriter Tom Stoppard, are determined to tame the untameable. And they do."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Every once in a long while, the right director comes across the right project at just the right moment, and things so often discordant fall into perfect harmony."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 21, 2012
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