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5/5
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96%
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Argo (2012) |
"
An ingeniously conceived thriller that's almost as much about our collective love of cinema as it is a tricky international incident."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 23, 2012
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5/5
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87%
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded. And with The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan's masterful coda, he has done just that."
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What Culture
Posted Jul 18, 2012
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5/5
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92%
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Senna (2011) |
"
If we define a classic documentary by its ability to transcend niche subject matter and engage all audiences, then the exhilarating and unbelievable Senna is one of cinema's recent best."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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5/5
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100%
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Toy Story (1995) |
"
To an entire generation of filmgoers, it just might represent the most significant leap in storytelling that they will ever see..."
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What Culture
Posted Jun 20, 2011
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5/5
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86%
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Battle Royale 3D (2000) |
"
It gets no points for subtlety, but this confronting, devastating, hilarious and extremely fun film is a masterpiece all in its own right."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 6, 2011
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5/5
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97%
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Back to the Future (1985) |
"
Undeniably one of the greatest films of the 1980s and indeed, of all time, Back to the Future has endured so well because it walks that fine tightrope of managing to appeal to just about everyone..."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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A-
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Miele () |
"
A virtuoso masterpiece from a director who has instantly made herself one to watch."
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Film School Rejects
Posted May 19, 2013
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4.5/5
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81%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Go in knowing as little as possible and prepare to be blown away by Derek Cianfrance's American crime drama masterpiece."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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4.5/5
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89%
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Lincoln (2012) |
"
Daniel Day-Lewis gives yet another performance for the ages in Steven Spielberg's admirably literate, thoroughly charming biopic."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 24, 2013
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4.5/5
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93%
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Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
A long, challenging film that's also thoroughly gripping, and largely due to its virtuoso climactic sequence, quite the bravura feat of film-making indeed."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 3, 2012
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4.5/5
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52%
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This is 40 (2012) |
"
This relentlessly hilarious and quietly moving riff on middle-aged growing pains stands as a rare spin-off that outdoes the material it spawned from, and is Judd Apatow's best feature to date."
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What Culture
Posted Nov 18, 2012
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4.5/5
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92%
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Skyfall (2012) |
"
It won't diminish Sam Mendes' extraordinary achievement to say that those wanting a Bond film by way of Christopher Nolan shan't be disappointed. The pleasure is all ours, James."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 17, 2012
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4.5/5
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87%
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Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
An hysterically funny, breathlessly paced and moving meditation on old age and existence, topped by an award-worthy turn from Frank Langella. One of the year's best."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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4.5/5
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91%
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The Hunt (2013) |
"
Vinterberg's acidic, important and brilliantly infuriating thriller reaches the heights of his best work, cannily examining the psychology of mob mentality, and bound to leave viewers in a state of high anxiety."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 11, 2012
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4.5/5
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77%
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Killer Joe (2012) |
"
Matthew McConaughey steals the show with a ferocious, transformative performance worthy of awards attention, and Friedkin restores his stature as an architect of taut, muscular cinema."
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What Culture
Posted Jun 29, 2012
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4.5/5
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100%
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Jaws (1975) |
"
It remains an influence on the modern blockbuster, and is one of its best examples."
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What Culture
Posted Jun 14, 2012
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4.5/5
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98%
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56 Up (2013) |
"
The most vital and moving sociological document of our times remains invigorating despite mostly maintaining the status quo because by now the "characters", older, balder, and podgier, are like old friends."
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What Culture
Posted Jun 3, 2012
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4.5/5
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74%
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Prometheus (2012) |
"
Scott's most well-rounded and accomplished feature since his classic Blade Runner thirty years ago. Seek it out for yourself and again remember that imaginative, daring sci-fi is out there for the finding."
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What Culture
Posted May 30, 2012
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4.5/5
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92%
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Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
This super-charged blockbuster is a mammoth spectacle which takes the genre to dizzying, rarely-seen heights. "
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What Culture
Posted Apr 28, 2012
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4.5/5
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85%
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21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
21 Jump Street is that rarest of comedies, a classic in the making that manages to become both more outrageous and hilarious as it bounds along."
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What Culture
Posted Mar 10, 2012
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4.5/5
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100%
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) |
"
This third film, an inarguably powerful knockout punch, reminds us of the documentary film's power to change people's lives."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.5/5
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94%
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Hugo (2011) |
"
Scorsese's unlikely 3D family film takes an agreeably pragmatic stance, that we must embrace the past yet never deny progress."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.5/5
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85%
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Contagion (2011) |
"
The fiercely intelligent Contagion outdoes its genre competition precisely because it doesn't dumb itself down for our sake."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.5/5
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83%
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Warrior (2011) |
"
Trumping even genre classic Rocky, Warrior packs a grand emotional wallop thanks to top-tier performances and the fact that you don't want either fighter to lose."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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4.5/5
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98%
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Project Nim (2011) |
"
This is one of those great documentaries which could be transposed almost without change into a heartbreaking Hollywood tearjerker."
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What Culture
Posted Jan 9, 2012
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4.5/5
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98%
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The Artist (2011) |
"
Michel Hazanavicius' spellbinding love-letter to silent cinema is a masterclass of inscrutable production design, top-notch physical comedy, and a postmodern sensibility which never descends into a rose-tintedly overzealous adulation of the era."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 18, 2011
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4.5/5
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76%
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
This is a trenchant and thought-provoking treatise on modern families, specifically the put-upon mother, whose role is to raise, to nurture, and tragically, to account for the terrible things her children might do."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 17, 2011
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4.5/5
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93%
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50/50 (2011) |
"
Nimbly switching gears between heartful drama and uproarious comedy, 50/50 tackles the near-impossible and makes a film about cancer that'll have you crying like a baby one minute and laughing so hard your sides hurt the next."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 13, 2011
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4.5/5
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81%
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The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
Gorgeously mounted and superbly acted, Pedro Almodóvar doesn't make this bracingly intense, off-the-wall story an excuse to forsake the humanist interests that populate his best works. And this sits proudly among them."
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What Culture
Posted Aug 25, 2011
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4.5/5
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96%
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The Social Network (2010) |
"
That the project is not only a success but one of 2010′s best films is a testament to Fincher's talent as a director and his seemingly perennial ability to surround himself with incredibly astute, like-minded collaborators."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 14, 2011
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4/5
|
55%
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Man of Steel (2013) |
"
In Snyder, Nolan and Goyer, the Man of Steel has found an unlikely dream team able to make him soar once again."
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What Culture
Posted Jun 12, 2013
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B+
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83%
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Nebraska (2013) |
"
Payne's latest considers the notion of legacy with quietly heart-wrenching attention to detail, and is one of his sweetest yet most unsentimental films to date."
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Film School Rejects
Posted May 28, 2013
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B+
|
100%
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Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) |
"
Kechiche captures the ecstatic highs and punishing lows of matters of the heart with piercing proficiency."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 26, 2013
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B+
|
93%
|
Behind the Candelabra () |
"
If this really is the end of the road for Soderbergh, then what a class act to finish on."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 25, 2013
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B+
|
67%
|
Borgman () |
"
Damn-near destined to endure as a cult classic and high-point of contemporary Dutch cinema."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 21, 2013
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B+
|
100%
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Seduced And Abandoned () |
"
A rousing documentary that will affirm your love for both cinema and life."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 21, 2013
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B+
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78%
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Like Father, Like Son (Soshite Chichi Ni Naru) (2013) |
"
Hirokazu directs a difficult scenario with sensitivity, but also plenty of mirth, emotional warmth and dramatic aplomb."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 19, 2013
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B+
|
90%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
An exceptional dramatic feature propelled by strong performances across the board."
—
Film School Rejects
Posted May 19, 2013
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4/5
|
85%
|
Sleepwalk With Me (2012) |
"
A riotous breakthrough for Mike Birbiglia, whose humanist comedy says a lot about modern relationships that many of us won't be prepared to admit."
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What Culture
Posted May 1, 2013
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4/5
|
75%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
Serves as an uproarious coming out party for writer-director-lead Lake Bell, and you'll never watch a movie trailer the same way again."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
|
Metro Manila () |
"
This immaculately composed heist flick-cum-morality play just might bring Hollywood knocking on Sean Ellis' door."
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What Culture
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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4/5
|
83%
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Blood Brother () |
"
Uncompromising and enormously life-affirming, this is sure to be one of the year's must-see documentaries. "
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What Culture
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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4/5
|
——
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God Loves Uganda () |
"
The most infuriating and sinister documentary in recent memory. "
—
What Culture
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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4/5
|
75%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
A sexy, seductive portrayal of one young man's downward spiral into existential Hell on the chilly Parisian streets."
—
What Culture
Posted Mar 24, 2013
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4/5
|
98%
|
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012) |
"
If you thought that Amy Berg's Deliver Us from Evil had extracted every last word on the issue of child abuse in the Catholic Church, Alex Gibney proves with his new film that there's still plenty left to be infuriated about."
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What Culture
Posted Feb 11, 2013
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4/5
|
100%
|
Sound City (2013) |
"
An authoritative, beautifully assembled, personal, even romantic account of one of rock music's most important waypoints, a film which aficionados absolutely should not miss."
—
What Culture
Posted Feb 3, 2013
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4/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Perhaps not a great Tarantino film, but an extremely enjoyable one nevertheless, Django Unchained is a thoroughly excessive, gore-soaked odyssey that's blessed with outstanding performances - especially one from Leonardo DiCaprio - above all else."
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What Culture
Posted Dec 17, 2012
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4/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
Easily the best animated film in a year full of crushing disappointments, Wreck-It Ralph is a heart-warming ode to retro gaming that will enrapture gamers and pretty much everyone else along the way."
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What Culture
Posted Nov 26, 2012
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4/5
|
84%
|
Smashed (2012) |
"
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the jaw-dropping stand-out in this gripping addiction drama, which examines the toxic power of alcohol with probing intimacy."
—
What Culture
Posted Nov 18, 2012
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4/5
|
85%
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The Master (2012) |
"
This is one film that doesn't have all or seemingly many of the answers, nor does it pretend to; Anderson's work is a snapshot of a time, one that develops in the viewer's mind long after a sitting."
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What Culture
Posted Oct 30, 2012
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