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B+
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97%
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
"
Neville doesn't dwell unduly on the vicissitudes of fame; he's more concerned with celebrating his subjects' accomplishments and giving them a(nother) chance through new recordings on which they sing both backup and lead."
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AV Club
Posted Jun 13, 2013
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3/5
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100%
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More Than Honey (2013) |
"
Although the unexplained collapse of honeybee colonies is a global problem, the most startling moments in Markus Imhoof's documentary take place on a microscopic level."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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4/5
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97%
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Call Me Kuchu (2013) |
"
It's far too soon for a happy ending, but in praising Kato's bravery, Call Me Kuchu at least points to the potential for one."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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2/5
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0%
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As Cool As I Am (2013) |
"
Mayer doesn't find a way to make the ritual traumas of adolescence feel new again."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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1/5
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17%
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Hello Herman (2012) |
"
It barely tries to offer insight into its much-debated subject, content to rip the scab off an ever-fresh wound for the sake of controversy."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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3/5
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71%
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Wish You Were Here (2013) |
"
The structural fireworks of Darcy-Smith's first feature may ultimately provide more light than heat, but they don't distract unduly from its strong performances."
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Time Out New York
Posted Jun 4, 2013
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A-
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88%
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Upstream Color (2013) |
"
It's no surprise that Upstream Color is a head-scratcher, but its untrammeled emotionalism comes as a shock to the senses."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 23, 2013
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B+
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86%
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Howl's Moving Castle (2005) |
"
Although the movie's anti-war framework naturally lends itself to good guys and bad ones, Miyazaki avoids drawing clear lines."
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AV Club
Posted May 23, 2013
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A-
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92%
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My Neighbor Totoro (1988) |
"
The world the characters inhabit is less expressionist than impressionist, blessed with a delicate evocation of natural light and color that subtly incorporates Miyazaki's environmentalism. "
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AV Club
Posted May 23, 2013
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48%
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At Any Price (2013) |
"
Bahrani shares his characters' ambitions, and also their lack of perspective. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 23, 2013
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A-
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82%
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Something in the Air (2013) |
"
Works with a light touch, but leaves a surprisingly lasting mark."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 23, 2013
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C-
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62%
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Epic (2013) |
"
So generic it might as well come in a black-and-white box: Animated Adventure TBD."
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Time Out New York
Posted May 23, 2013
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D
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20%
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The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
Dumps the fill-in-the-blanks structure for straightforward comic action. Unfortunately, the impetus has less to do with a push for novelty than simple franchise fatigue."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 23, 2013
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B+
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90%
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) |
"
Ricky Jay is the master of a discipline he created: trickster, archivist, showman and raconteur rolled into one. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted May 23, 2013
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2/5
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10%
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And Now A Word From Our Sponsor (2013) |
"
A decade behind the times."
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Time Out New York
Posted May 7, 2013
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B-
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88%
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What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
It fails to bring much insight to what essentially amounts to a massive parental guilt trip."
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AV Club
Posted May 2, 2013
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C+
|
71%
|
The Source Family (2013) |
"
Great stories don't always make for great documentaries, although it's easy to confuse the two."
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AV Club
Posted May 2, 2013
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1/5
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0%
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Generation Um... (2013) |
"
Generation Um... devolves into a heap of sub-American Beauty profundities and strained confessionals ..."
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Time Out New York
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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B
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83%
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Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
Although Heyerdahl's book about the expedition became an international bestseller, and the documentary he directed on the same subject won an Oscar, the anthropology field has remained stubbornly unmoved. But in Kon-Tiki, the dream is all that matters."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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B-
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54%
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) |
"
When Nair tries to take in the larger picture, her focus goes slack, and all that's left is a blur."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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B+
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
It's easy to roll your eyes at the film's overreach, but every movie should be so flawed"
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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C+
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
A cracking thriller built around art auctioneer James McAvoy' convenient amnesia, Danny Boyle's Trance jumps the rails in the closing stretch. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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B+
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Malick doesn't reach for the sublime so much as lunge, arms outstretched, face turned to the sky. He stumbles, but still, it's a beautiful fall."
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Apr 12, 2013
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B-
|
77%
|
No Place On Earth (2013) |
"
No Place On Earth mixes present-day interviews with re-enactments that illustrate the speakers' words without adding much to them."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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B+
|
92%
|
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) |
"
In spite of its attention-grabbing opening and provocative title, Free Angela And All Political Prisoners is less a work of agitprop than straightforward history, intriguing but never unsettling."
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AV Club
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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1/5
|
26%
|
The Brass Teapot (2013) |
"
The film feels like it's over long before the credits roll-or perhaps that's just wishful thinking."
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Time Out New York
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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A-
|
90%
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Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Mungiu works in long takes and at a measured pace, burying the story's true-crime origins for half the film's two-and-a-half-hour length. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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B+
|
80%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Potter's take on the '60s occasionally slides into Big Chill cliché, but with her actors, she's on virgin ground."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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B+
|
100%
|
White Elephant (2013) |
"
[Trapero is] as thoughtful and perceptive a filmmaker as ever, using tools appropriate to the goal of drawing attention to systemic social ills."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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B+
|
73%
|
Violeta Went to Heaven (2013) |
"
Unlike most awards-grubbing biopics, this one feels no need to telegraph its own difficulty."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
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2/5
|
50%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
So redolent of adolescent fantasy, you can practically hear a 12-year-old shouting "Blam!""
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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2/5
|
40%
|
Mental (2013) |
"
Artistic inspiration can be close to madness, but Mental is just plain nuts."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
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B+
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Works mostly as a mood piece, but what a mood it is."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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A-
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
A canny comedy and cutting critique, Pablo Larraín's No looks back at the 1980 vote to extend or end Chilean autocrat Augusto Pinochet's rule through an adman's eyes. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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A-
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
Petzold handles personal, formal and political concerns in such harmony that it's difficult, and not especially desirable, to separate one from the next. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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D+
|
35%
|
Everybody Has a Plan (2013) |
"
Everybody Has a Plan isn't overburdened so much as stretched pitifully thin, and the double-the-fun result is closer to the dueling-Elvises vehicle Kissin' Cousins than, say, Dead Ringers."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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D+
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
Clutching Jack Kerouac's peripatetic roman à clef like a besotted sophomore, Walter Salles trails Kerouac and Neal Cassady's novelistic doppelgängers like an eager puppy. "
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Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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C-
|
0%
|
Silver Circle (2013) |
"
Like a Rand Paul rally rendered in the style of Grand Theft Auto, Silver Circle engineers the perfect marriage of sub-par animation and sloppy thinking."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
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2/5
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
The Sapphires might pass muster as escapist fluff, but its pretensions of significance go woefully awry."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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2/5
|
41%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
Crude as it is, The Call milks its jump scares and don't-go-down-to-the-basement tension for all they're worth. See it with a full house, if you absolutely must see it at all."
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Time Out New York
Posted Mar 19, 2013
|
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B-
|
67%
|
Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) |
"
Sticking to what's on the page pays off, especially with regard to Roth's undervalued late novels, but also means he has [the filmmakers] just where he wants them."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
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D
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30%
|
Reincarnated (2013) |
"
Essentially an MTV Cribs episode padded out to feature length, Andy Capper's obsequious doc shadows Snoop Dogg-now Snoop Lion-during the making of his first reggae album."
—
AV Club
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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4/5
|
81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
Shows a different side of the Japanese animation house, one that finds equal wonder in comparatively mundane affairs."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 12, 2013
|
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C-
|
46%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
The only thing more tiresome than a gritty reboot of a TV series is a gritty reboot of an unfamiliar TV series."
—
AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
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B+
|
56%
|
The End of Love (2013) |
"
Shot with tiny digital cameras to minimize the sense of intrusion, The End Of Love sometimes feels like a home movie, but that's also the source of its strength."
—
AV Club
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
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4/5
|
96%
|
War Witch (2013) |
"
The film's subject is almost too horrible to contemplate, but it finds a way to space out the blows without softening them."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
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B
|
92%
|
Future Weather (2013) |
"
Feels like the product of an explosion at the Sundance factory: a rural setting here, a wisp of mildly quirky indie rock there. "
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 23, 2013
|
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B-
|
87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
Unmistakably part of the director's canon, and just as unmistakably a minor addition to it."
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Feb 23, 2013
|
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A-
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
In 49 Up, many of the series' subjects seemed to be just settling into their bliss; now they're committed to it, and the foreclosed possibilities that come alongside. "
—
Philadelphia City Paper
Posted Feb 23, 2013
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