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3/5
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Sunlight Jr. (2013) |
"
As Collyer risks caricature,...Watts and Dillon ease Sunlight Jr. back to more grounded, fundamental truths."
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The Dissolve
Posted Oct 7, 2013
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|
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98%
|
Eyes Without a Face (1962) |
"
A lyrical monster movie with visceral thrills and moments of unforgettable visual poetry."
—
AV Club
Posted Oct 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
It puts a premium on sleight-of-hand cleverness and glossy style, but it isn't particularly clever or stylish."
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The Dissolve
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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4/5
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84%
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A Touch of Sin (2013) |
"
It's a bold, invigorating statement from a director who keeps reinventing himself."
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The Dissolve
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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3/5
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62%
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Linsanity (2013) |
"
While it's a shame Leong couldn't find a fresher approach to Lin's story...he does well in setting the stakes. The greatest basketball phenomenon of the last several years takes care of the rest."
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The Dissolve
Posted Oct 2, 2013
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4/5
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Deux hommes dans Manhattan (Two Men in Manhattan) (1959) |
"
Melville's script churns along with the dutiful pace of a procedural...but he mostly seems interested in leading the audience through different places rather than supplying it with twists and turns for their own sake."
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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3.5/5
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100%
|
On The Job (2013) |
"
Matti's primary order of business is regularly serving up tense, stylish action sequences, and he proves more adept choreographing those than sorting out the convolutions of his parallel plotlines."
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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3.5/5
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89%
|
After Tiller (2013) |
"
After Tiller's...true value comes from going inside these clinics, listening to the stories...and asking viewers to wrestle with the moral and ethical complexities of an issue that absolutists on both sides oversimplify."
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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2/5
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81%
|
The Short Game (2013) |
"
It could be argued that the kids are having fun and are picking up valuable life lessons, but The Short Game seems incapable of coming to any other conclusion."
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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85%
|
The F Word () |
"
Dowse seems content to turn out solid, down-the-middle crowd-pleasers-and, goodness knows, those are in awfully short supply. "
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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|
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91%
|
Stray Dogs () |
"
It's just achingly sad, to the point where the walls themselves, streaked black from water damage and neglect, appear tear-stained. "
—
The Dissolve
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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69%
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The Unknown Known () |
"
Morris turns the Bush years into a character study that's revealing in how little is revealed. "
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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76%
|
Joe () |
"
There's a point at which it crosses the line into inadvertent hicksploitation, with cartoonish blood feuds, forced prostitution, dogfighting, and other Southern-fried horrors. But Cage (and Sheridan) does what he can to bring it down to earth. "
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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2.5/5
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41%
|
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2013) |
"
However smart its conceit or inviting its photography and music cues, the film is still about dumb, vulgar, witless teenagers being led to the slaughter."
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 9, 2013
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2.5/5
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73%
|
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) |
"
The good news for fans is that MST3K: The Movie, for all its flaws, at least works as an okay facsimile of the real thing."
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The Dissolve
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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1.5/5
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
Afternoon Delight is one of those bad films that seem to drift further and further away from a recognizable reality the more we get to know it."
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The Dissolve
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
The film never hits beats other than go-go-go, and the overall experience is unrelenting and oppressive, a cacophony of revving engines, twisted steel, and shattered glass."
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The Dissolve
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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4/5
|
68%
|
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) |
"
While Q won't give anyone nightmares, there's a throwback charm to it that honors Japanese monster movies more authentically than an expensive Hollywood production ever could."
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The Dissolve
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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2.5/5
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
Faced with an unjust world, Closed Circuit waves the white flag. "
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 27, 2013
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3.5/5
|
75%
|
Paradise: Faith (2013) |
"
As a vision of exploitation, it's almost insultingly simple, but Seidl deepens it with a story that respects the human neediness of his heroine."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 27, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
96%
|
Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
Cutie And The Boxer chronicles a marriage that's extraordinary in many ways, and ordinary in one-it's a constant work in progress. "
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
Seconds (1966) |
"
From the opening-credits sequence, Seconds mangles and distends the windows of perception until viewers get immersed in [Arthur's] sweat-soaked nightmare."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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3/5
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
In A World... has a scruffy charm that's ultimately disarming and persuasive, and the sheer novelty of the voiceover culture Bell explores, with its hilarious pomposities and tribalism, takes the film a long way."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
The irony of Prince Avalanche is that its most conventional elements, the ones that wouldn't be out of place in a Hollywood buddy comedy, are by far its most satisfying."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
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3/5
|
67%
|
Magic Magic (2013) |
"
Silva has to show his hand eventually, and much like Crystal Fairy, which wrapped up with a whopper of a third-act campfire tale, the film falls apart once its mysteries dissipate. With them go all the dark ambiguities that colored the first hour."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters continues a tradition of adequacy that could be described as "epic-ish" or "majestic-esque.""
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
|
94%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
As a technical achievement, Hero finds Zhang at the height of his powers, effortlessly expanding into complex genre filmmaking without losing his command. But in light of his earlier work, the film continues a sharp decline in urgency."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 5, 2013
|
|
|
92%
|
Insomnia (2002) |
"
As Pacino endures day after day without a wink of sleep, Insomnia skillfully turns the screws, delving further into his troubled mind as it's haunted by past and present sins, as well as deceptive visions that seem to bleed out of his conscience."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 5, 2013
|
|
|
97%
|
Chicken Run (2000) |
"
The level of invention on display, from the vividly detailed models and figurines to the gallery of memorable supporting characters, is astonishing at any length."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"
For the first time, the non-converted may actually see what all the fuss is about."
—
AV Club
Posted Aug 3, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
But even in its rougher patches, The Spectacular Now has a disarming earnestness that keeps it on the level, helped along by two superb lead performances that add up to more than their sum."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
0.5/5
|
8%
|
The Incredible Melting Man (1977) |
"
Even if The Incredible Melting Man were deliberately retro, re-creating the look and feel of a stultifying drive-in undercard isn't exactly a laudable achievement."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
69%
|
I Declare War (2013) |
"
[The filmmakers have] made a film that seizes explicitly on childhood fears, insecurities, and imagination, turning them into a mostly clever, cult-minded throwback to 1980s boy-bonding adventures like The Goonies and Stand By Me."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
One sexual episode follows another without really building toward anything, making a finale in which Brandy spells out what she's learned from her experiences ring all the more false."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
53%
|
Wasteland (2013) |
"
Wasteland reveals itself as little more than a bloodless plot engine, but it purrs and hums under the ultra-slick chassis."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
68%
|
The Fog (1979) |
"
Halloween brought classic genre style into a new era, and The Fog goes even further in that direction."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 23, 2013
|
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3/5
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
It's eye candy with a sour taste."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
Wiig's new comedy sulks limply along with her, unable to bring the kind of energy that might complement her tendency to underplay every scene."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
Computer Chess may seem like a novelty item, but it's that and more, accumulating insight and substance without ever losing the fun of being a lark."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 16, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
100%
|
Lord of the Flies (1963) |
"
Brook's adaptation is an encroaching nightmare of innocence lost, following Golding's thesis about what happens when civilization breaks down and man's true nature is revealed."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
There's no reason such a durable set of characters and tropes couldn't ride again. Verbinski and Bruckheimer just aren't the types to do the necessary streamlining."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
100%
|
The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna) (1952) |
"
It's a devastating journey, and for Mizoguchi, a direct, blunt statement of purpose."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
Faxon and Rash cut Duncan a clear, broad path to growth and perspective, but the audience can see where it's going long before it gets there."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
Feig's indifference to craft hurts the movie ... but he knows funny, and he gives his actors plenty of room to work."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
47%
|
Maniac (2013) |
"
Beyond the killings, there isn't much mystery to Wood's Frank. He has Norman Bates Syndrome. The end."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
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3.5/5
|
——
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Cohen and Tate (1988) |
"
Given the restrictions of being a first-time director on a limited budget, Red didn't conceive Cohen & Tate to be different than other films of its ilk. He just opted to do it better."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
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3/5
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Once the initial thrill of riding shotgun to these robberies starts to fade, the audience has little to do but wallow in amorality, absent any fresh perspective from Coppola."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Laurence Anyways (2013) |
"
Laurence Anyways has the feel of a personal project that got away from Dolan, full of raw, rough-edged drama in desperate need of discipline and refinement."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
The biggest issue with The East is that Batmanglij and Marling so thoroughly rig the script in the environmentalists' favor."
—
The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
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