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4/5
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50%
|
All Is Bright (2013) |
"
With its affection for downscale characters who dart in and out of the men's lives, "All Is Bright" has an openheartedness reminiscent of a Preston Sturges film."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
2/5
|
47%
|
Parkland (2013) |
"
You're left wondering why it was made."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
71%
|
Out in the Dark (2013) |
"
Even though the plot defies credibility at several points, "Out in the Dark" is gripping, and Nimr's tearful exile from his family breaks your heart."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
3/5
|
45%
|
Morning (2013) |
"
One of the more harrowing explorations of grief ever brought to the screen. By the end of its 95 minutes, only a faint ray of light has penetrated the gloom."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
2/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Most ... of the movie never transcends a screenwriting formula that makes you uncomfortably aware of the machinery driving it all."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Newlyweeds (2013) |
"
"Newlyweeds," for all its freshness, never really lands. It remains suspended in a haze of secondhand smoke."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 18, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
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Four (2013) |
"
The close-ups of faces convey reams of inchoate emotion and enhance the stumbling poetry mouthed by characters whose urge to connect conflicts with their innate sense of caution."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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2/5
|
45%
|
And While We Were Here (2013) |
"
The marital crisis at the movie's heart has lost its allegorical weight. Jane and Leonard are just another unhappy couple with problems that have nothing to do with the direction of Western civilization."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
33%
|
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) |
"
In its best moments, you can see what the film might have been with half a dozen fewer characters."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
3/5
|
33%
|
The Family (2013) |
"
It doesn't even try for basic credibility. But buoyed by hot performances, it sustains a zapping electrical energy."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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|
3/5
|
75%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
"Populaire" tells the kind of transcendentally silly fairy tale that has long been a French cinematic specialty."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
34%
|
Touchy Feely (2013) |
"
"Touchy Feely" becomes disoriented and doesn't recover its direction."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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|
2/5
|
15%
|
Winnie Mandela (2013) |
"
Ms. Hudson's frequent and distracting costume changes are a sign of deeper problems in a movie that wants to be all things to all people, especially women."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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|
3/5
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
Whether or not you wince, this meticulously acted movie, which won Ms. Soloway a directing award at the Sundance Film Festival, paints an accurate picture of how a segment of youngish, educated, affluent, white Americans converse."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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|
1/5
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
One can only guess why Ethan Hawke felt compelled to make a high dive from the sublimity of "Before Midnight" into the twisted rubble of "Getaway.""
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
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|
2/5
|
57%
|
The Frozen Ground (2013) |
"
The movie's only fresh element is the wintry setting, which shrouds everything in a mood of weary fatalism. Otherwise, it's the same old, same old, efficiently discharged and utterly disposable."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
Paradise: Faith (2013) |
"
Like it or not, "Paradise: Faith" sticks in your head."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
4/5
|
81%
|
Una noche (One Night) (2013) |
"
Una Noche" surges with vitality so palpable that, for its duration, you feel as if you were living in the skins of characters often photographed in such extreme close-up that they seem to be breathing in your face."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
5/5
|
89%
|
You Will Be My Son (2013) |
"
The parallel dramas underline the universal theme of primal jealousy, as fathers confront the prospect of their sons superseding them."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
In critical ways the movie feels both out of date and out of touch."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
62%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
At a certain point, Mr. Norris forsakes realism for theatricalized fantasy, and "Broken" ultimately loses its stylistic cohesion, if not its humanity."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Still Mine (2013) |
"
More vital than a thousand movies populated by hot, squirming teenagers."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
What is on Mr. Refn's mind? Here is what he says in a director's note: "The original concept for the film was to make a movie about a man who wants to fight God." All right. Whatever."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
36%
|
The Hot Flashes (2013) |
"
In critical ways, the movie is a mess. The basketball scenes are so sloppy and haphazard that the would-be slapstick registers as confusion. But away from the court, the actors bring their caricatures to folksy comic life."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 12, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
81%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
[A] small, lovely road movie ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) |
"
A hillbilly grindhouse yawp of a movie that belches in your face and leaves a sour stink."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
"The Hunt" is a merciless examination of the fear and savagery roiling just below the surface of bourgeois life. "
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Stuck in Love (2013) |
"
Although "Stuck in Love" is an indie film, it hews slavishly to Hollywood formulas right down to its comfy Thanksgiving Day ending. It's all so easy, isn't it?"
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
The Look of Love (2013) |
"
A keenly observed period piece that keeps a celebrity journalist's distance from its subject."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
[It] is consistently diverting and so cute you'll want to pet it. Yet it is also weightless and lacks a center."
—
New York Times
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Gideon's Army (2013) |
"
"Gideon's Army" is a bare film with no narrator and a minimal soundtrack. That's all it needs to grab you by the throat."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
Some Girl(s) (2013) |
"
There are a lot of truthful notes in "Some Girl(s)," but there are also false ones that let you know that you are being played with. You'd best beware. "
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
49%
|
Redemption (2013) |
"
Its narrative continuity is so sketchy and the screenplay so haphazard that the movie doesn't add up to more than trash, seasoned with pretentious religiosity. "
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
Unfinished Song (2013) |
"
It may be hokum, but it gets to you."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
38%
|
Three Worlds (2013) |
"
Each thread of the plot is followed to its dangling, ragged conclusion in a movie that may be painful to watch but that maintains a chilly integrity."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Aliyah (2013) |
"
Far from being the Promised Land, Israel represents a shaky new beginning in a country Alex barely knows. This smart, sober movie makes you feel the full weight of the challenges he faces."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Call Me Kuchu (2013) |
"
A scary but inspiring film with real heroes and villains."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
More Than Honey (2013) |
"
A fascinating but rambling documentary about the decimation of the world's bee population through the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
As Cool As I Am (2013) |
"
It is as if chunks of the film had landed on the editing-room floor in a desperate, last-minute attempt to trim its length. Just when its parts should come together, "As Cool as I Am" crumbles to bits."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
Wish You Were Here (2013) |
"
The time you spend trying to piece together a mystery that is presented as a teasing puzzle inevitably diverts you from deeper identification with characters who are not particularly sympathetic to begin with."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
82%
|
Dirty Wars (2013) |
"
Pessimistic, grimly outraged and utterly riveting ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
The Kings of Summer (2013) |
"
So what if much of it doesn't add up? It's still kind of fun and is embellished with clever cinematic flourishes."
—
New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Now You See Me (2013) |
"
The scatterbrained story loses its thread and becomes a dull, frenetic chase movie ..."
—
New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013) |
"
As modest and farsighted as its cast of Guatemalans who make a living resurrecting discarded American school buses."
—
New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Shadow Dancer (2013) |
"
"Shadow Dancer" is ominously subdued and grimly taciturn. The dialogue is minimal. Only what has to be said is said, and the tone of most of it is one of quiet urgency."
—
New York Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Epic (2013) |
"
As beautiful as it is, "Epic" is fatally lacking in visceral momentum and dramatic edge."
—
New York Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
44%
|
The English Teacher (2013) |
"
Perversely determined to make you laugh. You're more likely to squirm, though ..."
—
New York Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
A dull, lazy walkthrough that along with "The Big Wedding" has a claim to be the year's worst star-driven movie."
—
New York Times
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
And Now A Word From Our Sponsor (2013) |
"
To describe "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" as a one-joke skit stretched well beyond the breaking point isn't entirely fair, because when used ingeniously, which is very seldom, the joke lands."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2013
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