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2.5/5
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44%
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Midnight's Children (2013) |
"
A pretty but staidly linear epic drained of the novel's larkish, metaphorical sweep, and a collection of multi-generational love stories lacking their originally eccentric, fizzy charm."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2013
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2.5/5
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33%
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Tai Chi Hero (2013) |
"
There's less of the hyperventilated genre-pinging (video games, manga, comic books) from the first film. But there's still a nagging, cartoonish emptiness ..."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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2/5
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33%
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The Numbers Station (2013) |
"
A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action filmed by director Kasper Barfoed in standard-operating shaky-cam ..."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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3/5
|
——
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The Crumbles (2013) |
"
The modest rhythms of small-time dreamers work in Boch's favor, when augmented by his elegant framing and affectionate location shooting among the L.A. neighborhood's sloping streets and hill-perched hipster enclaves."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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4/5
|
——
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Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington (2013) |
"
It's easy to see how inspiring he could be as an artist, and how tragically addictive the insanity of combat becomes when the engagement and desire to understand run that deep."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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3/5
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76%
|
It's a Disaster (2013) |
"
The movie elicits knowing smiles more than laughs, even as it reveals a boundless observational awareness about the beefs and slights that, for the small-minded, must feel like everyday Armageddons."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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3/5
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67%
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Fists Of Legend (2013) |
"
Director Kang Woo-Suk spins an epic swirl of masculine psychodrama over his many punishing fight sequences, including flashbacks to the trio's origins as gifted scrappers who take one too many wrong turns."
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Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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5/5
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94%
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Neighbouring Sounds (2012) |
"
One of the strongest feature debuts of the last decade ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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2/5
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27%
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The Brass Teapot (2013) |
"
Without a human dimension to ground its construct, "The Brass Teapot" ultimately feels like an interminably stretched-out skit rather than a storybook lesson stained with blood and hurt."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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2/5
|
4%
|
6 Souls (2013) |
"
"6 Souls" is regrettably sick with that familiar disease afflicting movies of this ilk: ostentatious, hollow moodiness that spreads like an unwelcome rash."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 5, 2013
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3/5
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
"Welcome to the Punch" is derivative, dumb fun."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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2/5
|
59%
|
Detour (2013) |
"
"Nothing to do but wait," Jackson says early on, in the hopes of a quick response from emergency services. That's sitting through "Detour" in a nutshell."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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4/5
|
80%
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Eden (2013) |
"
Griffiths lays bare a many-tentacled trafficking system sickening in its reach."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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2/5
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
A typical slab of Hollywood action in which the White House crumbles under attack, the American flag is tattered and tossed aside by baddies, and clichés rise like gods."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2013
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4/5
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
[An] astute, dreamlike gut-punch ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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3/5
|
——
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Mindless Behavior Lose Your Mind (2013) |
"
A chaotically high-energy burst of performance and behind-the-scenes footage for fans of the slickly produced hip-hop boy band."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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|
3/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
The movie is an arty lark of ambiguous entertainment value, pulsing with melancholy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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2/5
|
——
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I, Me Aur Main (2013) |
"
It's all slight stuff with a typically oversold Bollywood score, but there are pleasures here and there ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 4, 2013
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2/5
|
57%
|
The Power Of Few (2013) |
"
A ham-fisted, timeline-altering variety pack of crime set in New Orleans."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 22, 2013
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3.5/5
|
57%
|
Kai Po Che! (2013) |
"
Its performances are enjoyably boisterous, and director Abhishek Kapoor refuses to linger on clichés for too long ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
Would You Rather (2013) |
"
Hardly a most dangerous game night at the movies."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 15, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
Shanghai Calling (2013) |
"
[A] modest charmer."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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3/5
|
88%
|
Yossi (2013) |
"
Predictable if measured uplift aside, Fox keeps "Yossi" effortlessly affecting, graced with deadpan humor and a knowingness about lonely lives."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Young Turks (2013) |
"
A snapshot of Los Angeles artists during a cultural pivot point, the documentary "Young Turks" sparks fascination and frustration in equal measure."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
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|
3/5
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
"Bullet to the Head" is an adrenaline shot to your movie memory if the blunt, gleefully dumb, no-nonsense ways of '80s-style action flicks are your nostalgia drug of choice."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
For all the perspiration in jazzing up an old yarn, there's not a whiff of originality in how Wirkola engages with the perverse pleasures enshrined by the Grimm brothers, two of their era's shrewdest storytellers."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 26, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Resolution (2013) |
"
A strangely tense and humorous meta-narrative about two friends experiencing weird goings-on at a remote cabin."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
John lives in a frisky otherworld of willful incoherence all its own."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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|
—
|
79%
|
Battle for Brooklyn (2011) |
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
LUV (2013) |
"
What begins as a promising peek into the tragic cycle of waylaid promise that's crippling broken inner-city families is itself dispiritingly pulled sideways in the Baltimore-set indie "LUV.""
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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|
3/5
|
33%
|
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (2013) |
"
Judicious editing could have helped consolidate the joyfulness at the expense of occasionally repetitive narrative flab, but for the most part "Matru" is neatly energetic, a mix of screwball whimsy and softball seriousness."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
——
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The Tower (2012) |
"
"The Tower" may be skillfully executed as an effects-laden opus, but its miniature portraits in courage are ultimately too jerry-built to feel like anything but filler between the combustive set pieces."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Talaash (2012) |
"
Ultimately the movie's many strands come together for a final twist, but it's too little too late for this regrettably mediocre Bollywood import."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Dragon (2012) |
"
"Dragon" has enough interesting left turns in style, mood and psychodrama to make it stand out."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 30, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
62%
|
Café de Flore (2012) |
"
It's terribly long and repetitive for so delicately dreamy a diptych, and at times the modern-day story feels like little more than a drawn-out apologia for the wandering male gaze."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Dangerous Liaisons (2012) |
"
Zhang, expertly conveying someone closed off yet silently sensual, even rolls out a tear during a moment of impending intimacy as exquisitely timed as a dancer's move."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
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|
4/5
|
88%
|
Starlet (2012) |
"
It's a character study about faith in connectedness, with an unforced love for cross-generational companionship that's special indeed."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
90%
|
Gayby (2012) |
"
What lifts Gayby above its sitcom trappings is its emotional generosity and easy warmth, the sense that characters are defined by -- and made funny through -- their aspirations, not their way with a one-liner."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
North Sea Texas (2012) |
"
"North Sea Texas" explores emergent sexuality and first love with a refreshing optimism."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
78%
|
The Zen Of Bennett (2012) |
"
We see an art form bridge generations with a strange mixture of grace, joy and melancholy."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Seeds of Resiliency (2012) |
"
Little more than a strung-together collection of interviews set to piano muzak."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
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3/5
|
100%
|
Lunch (2012) |
"
An agreeable visit with comedy titans who clearly cherish the opportunity to regale their peers with war stories and opinions about the state of comedy today."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
61%
|
Tai Chi Zero (2012) |
"
"Tai Chi Zero" is often more distracting than diverting with its everything-goes aesthetic - there are strains of steampunk, manga and silent film comedy, with video-game touches."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Wake in Fright (2012) |
"
"Wake in Fright" is true horror."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
41%
|
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012) |
"
A noisy stab at wacky wrongness that starts with reasonably plump possibility as a dispatch from the frontlines of viral video embarrassment hell."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
14%
|
Excuse Me for Living (2012) |
"
Vaguely misogynistic and defiantly paternalistic, the movie fails at nearly everything - comic tone, sex gags, charm, logic, direction of actors ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
Special Forces (2012) |
"
It's not only Americans who can make leaden, video game-style exercises in dumb war action."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
V/H/S (2012) |
"
At nearly two hours, the gimmick punctures a hole in itself, causing ambience bleed-out."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012) |
"
An investment in theatrical self-indulgence with diminishing returns."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
45%
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