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1.5/4
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——
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My Last Day Without You (2013) |
"
It's not often a competent if forgettable movie can be completely torpedoed by one of it's stars, but that's the case with "My Last Day Without You.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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3/4
|
64%
|
Herb & Dorothy 50x50 (2013) |
"
As with the 2008 film, a nice bonus of "Herb & Dorothy 50x50" is a chance to see a lot of the once-avant-garde art that so captivated the Vogels in their prime."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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3/4
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——
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Jerusalem (2013) |
"
Laudable for turning armchair tourism into a breathtaking experience - a viewer can truly feel as if he or she has gone inside a number of fantastic, ancient places."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Rising From Ashes (2013) |
"
Essentially a sports documentary with the look and feel of an ESPN program, "Rising from Ashes" nevertheless has broad, inspirational appeal on a human level."
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Seattle Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
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3.5/4
|
——
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Approximately Nels Cline (2013) |
"
Rewards are plentiful as Cline performs with his wife, the keyboardist Yuka Honda, plus trumpeter Ron Miles, percussionist Matthias Bossi and the extraordinary singer-violinist Carla Kihlstedt."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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3.5/4
|
——
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In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey (2013) |
"
Cullingham reveals both psychological and aesthetic reasons for Fahey's determination to remain a remote iconoclast sheltered by mystique."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
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|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
So derivative of Joss Whedon, George Lucas, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer that it feels like a postmodern young-adult mishmash."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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3/4
|
71%
|
Terraferma (2013) |
"
Crialese and co-screenwriter Vittorio Moroni portray a way of life on that island in complete uproar .."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
Drug War (2013) |
"
An intense and constantly surprising crime story in which destiny seems to fold in on itself ..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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2.5/4
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
Has the look and feel of Pixar's 2006 hit, "Cars," if not the latter's charm or strong story."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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3/4
|
71%
|
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear (2013) |
"
The effect of "Machine" is similar to an anthology of short stories woven around a singular setting. Every life in it is a window onto both a unique and shared destiny."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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4/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
A horrifying yet mesmerizing work, "The Act of Killing" instructively meanders at times as in a Werner Herzog film."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
54%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
Reygadas' jagged, broken-logic drama lurches from fantasy to earthbound complications, though it is often hard to tell one from the other."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
96%
|
The History Of Future Folk (2013) |
"
The nonsense proves good, goofy fun that works well because "History" at least acts as if it takes itself seriously, going easy on obvious ironies while dishing out catchy tunes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) |
"
"How to Make Money" is full of useful insights from people who know the drug trade well, including reformed dealers, ex-international smugglers, former cops, pundits, lawyers and government insiders."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
A story lurching moment-to-moment for inspiration, or full of ceaseless gags about every bodily fluid, or featuring rape jokes or the sight of Franco spitting food into Hill's mouth, doesn't pass as wit."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
The Prey (2013) |
"
[A] sharp if dramatically underwhelming French thriller ..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
71%
|
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2013) |
"
Though lacking narrative focus, it offers rich impressions of a New York City artistic community that profoundly influenced American popular culture."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Adult sophistication is Bier's aim, and she delivers."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
73%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
Self-consciousness passing for style."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Night Across the Street (2013) |
"
Elegiac, witty and deeply reflective, "Night Across the Street" strikes a mature and complex tone."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
The film's guilelessness in stoking classic themes, folklore and paradigms in American culture would be absurdly self-conscious if Nichols didn't have such an original voice as a storyteller."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
40%
|
Mental (2013) |
"
The heart of Hogan's film is in the right place, and Collette is masterful as an agent of anarchy."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Pavilion (2013) |
"
Sutton's approach is observation: We're not so much pulled into a narrative as watching images float in ethereal atmospheres."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Not Today (2013) |
"
Writer-director Jon Van Dyke offers rugged production values, and his real agenda - getting Christian viewers to help end sex trafficking - mires the movie in self-conscious angst and speeches."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
In an interesting way, "The Croods" is about storytelling - cave paintings, hints of oral tradition, stumbling upon metaphors - and the impulse to remember amid change. There's something touching in that ..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
Whatever one's political stripe regarding Israel, it's hard to dispute the impressions and perspective of the film's six eyewitnesses."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
[It] eventually finds its own rhythm and meaningful chaos."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
Herzog is not insincere. His passion for outsize experience has always captured our essential human identity against big backdrops. He captures it again in "Happy People," but this time with a twist."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
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3/4
|
——
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We Don't Care About Music Anyway (2009) |
"
"We Don't Care" deftly compensates for the missing element in a film about performance art: immediacy."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
18%
|
Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
From a bounty of low, low moments in "Parental Guidance," it's difficult to choose the absolute lowest."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
All this random action, Carax suggests, is for some vast, abstract audience anxious to lose itself in imagined narratives."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
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Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy (2011) |
"
An eye-opening documentary about a bizarre sociological phenomenon that has been evolving on an Ohio farm since 1995."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
43%
|
28 Hotel Rooms (2012) |
"
A chamber piece rooted in semi-improvisation."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
66%
|
This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
In the end, "This Must Be the Place" isn't just bad. It's inappropriate."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
War of the Buttons (2012) |
"
Barratier can't seem to do anything with it other than keep raising the violence and anger."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Detropia (2012) |
"
A startling, haunting documentary about a once-great city, "Detropia" is all but a eulogy for Detroit."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
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What Did You Expect? The Archers of Loaf Live at Cat's Cradle (2012) |
"
The Archers' sometimes near-exotic chord progressions, their blend of raw power and mesmerizing hooks on the likes of "Fabricoh," "Might" and "Wrong," and their '90s slacker-rock flourishes make "What Did You Expect?" a winning concert movie."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
45%
|
Hotel Transylvania (2012) |
"
There's much to enjoy here in a disposable way, particularly jokes about monsters having ordinary problems with kids and spouses."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
You May Not Kiss the Bride (2012) |
"
Surely, some Hollywood studio in the 1950s made a prototype of the sprightly if erratic comedy "You May Not Kiss the Bride.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
China Heavyweight (2012) |
"
Yung seems to anticipate real-life emotional beats and positions his camera at exactly the right moments, yet nothing seems artificial or scripted. The result is an unexpectedly tender film about the price of coming into one's own."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
The Bullet Vanishes (2012) |
"
"The Bullet Vanishes" charges ahead at a perfect clip. Lo's delightful, hyperbolic audacity includes sharpshooter Guo's knack for banking bullets off walls to hit bad guys, as if playing pool."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
The Green Wave (2012) |
"
A wrenching but illuminating look at what actually happened during Iran's Green Revolution in 2009-10."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Splinters (2012) |
"
A hybrid work that will appeal to both surf-movie fanatics and armchair sociologists."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
On The Sly (APas De Loup) () |
"
A compelling, wholly original tale marred a bit by its young heroine's incessant chatter on the soundtrack."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) |
"
It is less unified and more predictable than its predecessors, and doesn't play to all the franchise's earlier strengths."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
Starry Starry Night (2012) |
"
A somewhat clunky family movie about childhood escapism, alternating a little too conveniently between the grim and the adorable."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
Savages (2012) |
"
"Savages" is never quite one thing or another."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
Hansen-Løve films with an eye toward discovering and rediscovering these characters in pure moments of simple, poignant humanity - wading in a river, clambering over rocks."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 14, 2012
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