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94%
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Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
Polley's documentary, Stories We Tell, attempts to unravel some of the mysteries of her own family's life, even as it stretches far beyond the confines of your standard navel-gazing autobiography."
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Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
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47%
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The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
It seldom, if ever, captures that fierce delicacy of feeling Fitzgerald packed into every sentence. And it's not an actors' movie."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 7, 2013
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80%
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Something in the Air (2013) |
"
Olivier Assayas's gorgeous, freewheeling, semi-autobiographical Something in the Air is an ode to both youth's universal qualities and the specifics of Assayas's youth in particular."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
The big problems with Iron Man 3 are less specific to the movie itself than they are characteristic of the hypermalaise that's infected so many current mega-blockbusters."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 29, 2013
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64%
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Antiviral (2013) |
"
Before long, the aggressive sleekness of Antiviral becomes its own kind of ennui."
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NPR
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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42%
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To The Wonder (2013) |
"
To the Wonder might be more experimental, but it's still all Malick, a filmmaker who can't see the forest for the craftsmanship."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 9, 2013
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27%
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The Brass Teapot (2013) |
"
The Brass Teapot too often devolves into stale slapstick ..."
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NPR
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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68%
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Trance (2013) |
"
Boyle may be sleepwalking - speed-sleepwalking, maybe - through Trance. But he's awake and alive when it comes to knowing what his actors can do."
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NPR
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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87%
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Upstream Color (2013) |
"
It's a bloodless movie, and its ideas aren't as tricky or complex as Carruth's arch, mannered approach might suggest."
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Village Voice
Posted Apr 3, 2013
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9%
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The Host (2013) |
"
The Host raises many questions, among them, how has it taken this long for Diane Kruger to play an alien?"
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Film.com
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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65%
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Starbuck (2013) |
"
Director Ken Scott, who also cowrote the script with Martin Petit, has fashioned a story that starts out low-key and gradually builds in its emotional expansiveness."
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NPR
Posted Mar 28, 2013
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66%
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Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Korine is tap-dancing so fast that it's never really clear exactly what he's up to, but none of it adds up to much in the end."
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NPR
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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43%
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Admission (2013) |
"
Admission doesn't have the courage to suggest that a childless woman who's doing work she loves just may have it all-or at least her all."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 19, 2013
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67%
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Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) |
"
For some 90 minutes, it's pretty much just one guy talking. But what a guy!"
—
NPR
Posted Mar 14, 2013
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29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
Dunst is radiant, as always, though it's radiance with depth: She's not just your average dream girl; she's gravity's rainbow. But there just isn't enough of her."
—
Village Voice
Posted Mar 12, 2013
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36%
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Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Dead Man Down is a very serious thriller featuring very serious stars being very serious about the seriousness at hand."
—
Film.com
Posted Mar 8, 2013
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75%
|
Leviathan (2013) |
"
As Leviathan trundles on, it's hard to really know what Castaing-Taylor and Paravel are trying to say. There's no strict narrative here."
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NPR
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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26%
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21 And Over (2013) |
"
You can't hate 21 & Over, and you can't laugh at it. The most you can do is just pity it for not being as outrageous as it thinks it is. And as any guy will tell you, being pitied is the ultimate humiliation."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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35%
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Dark Skies (2013) |
"
Dark Skies is sort of supernatural, but it's really more super natural....[it's] about the fragility of family, a muted meditation on how precious it is. "
—
Film.com
Posted Feb 25, 2013
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89%
|
Koch (2013) |
"
If the film were even two minutes longer, it might constitute Koch overload. Luckily, Barsky knows when enough is enough, even if his subject doesn't."
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NPR
Posted Jan 31, 2013
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14%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
What on Earth are Renner and Arterton doing in this godforsaken thing?"
—
Village Voice
Posted Jan 29, 2013
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40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
You can use electricity to make ice, which is pretty much what Statham does in Taylor Hackford's jaggedly satisfying thriller, Parker."
—
NPR
Posted Jan 25, 2013
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—
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0%
|
That's What She Said (2012) |
—
NPR.org
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
—
NPR.org
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
—
NPR.org
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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52%
|
Grassroots (2012) |
—
NPR.org
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
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65%
|
2 Days in New York (2012) |
—
NPR.org
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
B-
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65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
This is a picture about how a mother's love can be nourishing at its best but suffocating in the extreme. Chastain embraces that idea wholly, without squeezing the life out of it."
—
Film.com
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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59%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
By the end, even Schwarzenegger looks worn out. Maybe being governor wasn't such a hard job after all."
—
NPR
Posted Jan 17, 2013
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88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is by turns exhilarating, hilarious, horrifying and poetic."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 25, 2012
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93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
Lit from within, like a lantern; Petzold has made a nighttime movie that ends right on the edge of dawn."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
The picture is joyless and perfunctory. Call it Mission: Possible."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 20, 2012
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53%
|
Love, Marilyn (2012) |
"
A heartfelt and well-intentioned love letter to an already deeply beloved star, and for anyone who's still not convinced, the picture works hard to make the case for Monroe's gifts as an actress."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 13, 2012
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93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Bigelow and her screenwriter Mark Boal [operate] from the idea that doubt is dynamic, while moral certainty is just another kind of stasis."
—
Film.com
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Les Misérables is ... shellacked with appropriate levels of grimy grandeur. It's designed to make us feel every emotion fortissimo - because pianissimo is so 1862."
—
Film.com
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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80%
|
Wagner & Me (2012) |
"
An exuberant and deeply personal documentary about the allure and the legacy of the German composer's work."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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64%
|
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012) |
"
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas is extremely perceptive about certain angles on life in a big family."
—
NPR
Posted Dec 6, 2012
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76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
It's the characters, and their words, that drive the story here, and Dominik preserves all their scruffy colors ..."
—
NPR
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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82%
|
Rust and Bone (2012) |
"
Audiard isn't afraid to be a little sentimental, and that's what distinguishes Rust and Bone from so many other contemporary dramas or romances."
—
NPR
Posted Nov 22, 2012
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74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
Too cluttered and manic to bring real pleasure."
—
NPR
Posted Nov 22, 2012
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63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
[Gervasi's] Hitch is a portly, naughty cutie-pie who delights in showing off crime-scene photos to his assembled luncheon guests. What a cutup! Don't you just want to hug him?"
—
Film.com
Posted Nov 20, 2012
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69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
Feels like a three-part miniseries shoehorned into one nearly-two-hour morsel - there's too much going on in it for anything to have much weight."
—
Film.com
Posted Nov 19, 2012
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|
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92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
Cooper's performance meets Lawrence's, beautifully, halfway."
—
NPR
Posted Nov 15, 2012
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48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
While "Breaking Dawn - Part 1" was zany enough...to almost work as a stand-alone, "Part 2" relies on mad rushes of exposition to explain exactly what's at stake here."
—
Film.com
Posted Nov 15, 2012
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89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Its characters, people who lived long ago and who tended to be much more loquacious than a 140-character burst would allow, somehow seem to breathe the same air we do."
—
Film.com
Posted Nov 9, 2012
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26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
The fun to be had in Fun Size, a 'tween comedy featuring Victoria Justice of the Nickelodeon TV series Victorious, is neither gigantic nor minuscule; it's just about fun size, which is probably enough."
—
NPR
Posted Oct 25, 2012
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0%
|
That's What She Said (2012) |
"
The road to hell is paved not just with good intentions, but with movies that attempt to capture the way women really talk."
—
NPR
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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|
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94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
This is either a delicate subject or an unapologetically vital one, and the key to "The Sessions" is that [Ben] Lewin treats it as the latter."
—
Film.com
Posted Oct 17, 2012
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