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3/4
|
95%
|
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) |
"
It adds up to an unexpectedly moving portrait of a maverick at twilight."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
It's not that "Runner Runner" is predictable. It's that you don't care, either about the characters or what happens to them."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
Parkland (2013) |
"
Peter Landesman's well-made but dramatically unfocused re-creation of that November day and its aftermath ..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
The movie's an astonishingly detailed, visually painstaking state-of-the-art production that advances what the cinema can show us-even as the human story at its center feels a little thin after a while."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 2, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Holofcener delivers her most confident character comedy to date - a work of deceptively informal mastery - and Gandolfini's gentle performance just about breaks your heart."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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|
3/4
|
83%
|
Don Jon (2013) |
"
R-rating aside, it should be required viewing for every 15-year-old boy on the planet."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
The film's a character piece with a tightening noose of suspense, and while it has its artsy-indie-dawdly moments, it's disturbing in ways that aren't easy to shake."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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2/4
|
67%
|
Haute Cuisine (2013) |
"
If you love France and food, separately or in combination, you will almost certainly forgive Christian Vincent's workmanlike direction, the tedious score, and the near-total absence of dramatic conflict."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
In a way, "Rush" is a philosophical drama about the varying ways men move through the world. It's just a really fast drama."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 25, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
The movie epitomizes everything in the culture from which Salinger himself fled. It is, as Holden Caulfield would put it, phony."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
"Thanks for Sharing" is what Variety would call a "twelve-stepper"-an engagingly didactic drama about addiction and recovery."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
As gripping as it is grueling, with performances that swing for the fences and a knotty central mystery."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani to put on what amounts to a one-woman show."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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|
|
76%
|
How I Live Now (2013) |
"
Weird, weird, weird."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
All Is by My Side () |
"
Ridley doesn't treat Hendrix as a bio-pic enigma to be explained but simply as an instinctual artist, for better and for worse. The only mystery that remains is where the music came from."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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|
|
70%
|
Fading Gigolo () |
"
This is the most confident of Turturro's directing jobs and one of his tenderest performances; at times the movie's a mess, but it goes to such special places that you don't mind."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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|
|
85%
|
The Invisible Woman (2013) |
"
The movie's a hushed and hesitant thing, extremely beautiful in its camerawork, lighting, and editing, and extremely British in its repression. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
[Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
The results are a little life lesson-y but well-observed."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
The movie's cheap but has a sense of humor, and it's smart enough to let Riddick just get back to being a badass."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
Hess has made a classic rookie mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it's spoofing, and this one's twice as dumb."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
The Lifeguard (2013) |
"
The movie's being billed in some quarters as a comedy, which is a hell of a stretch given that the plot expands to take in statutory rape and teen suicide."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
It's a lovely, tough-minded film."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
The characters are too ordinary to care deeply for and the story doesn't add up to much, but Lowery has made a shrine to his actors, to the land through which they move, and to the kind of cinema that once sustained us."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
"The World's End" is more frantic than funny, but it's still funny enough-just-to outweigh its own silliness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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|
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
"Paranoia" is a plug-and-play Hollywood thriller, not the best the genre has to offer but hardly the worst."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
A cleareyed, disarmingly tender teenage romance that bears comparison with the best of its genre, both old ("Say Anything") and new ("The Perks of Being a Wallflower")."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
Remarkable not for its "Forrest Gump"-itude but for its unerring social portrait of a black middle class torn by the stress-fractures of an era."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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|
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
A witless, mean-spirited sequel, "Kick-Ass 2" has the emotional maturity of an arrested 12-year-old and the ethical compass of a turnip."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Despite some thin writing, it's Allen's weightiest work in years."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Le Pont du Nord (2013) |
"
The whole movie seems made of rebar."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
An expertly-made slice of future shock that breaks no new ground whatsoever."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
For a movie about a group of drug smugglers pretending to be an all-American clan, "We're the Millers" hogs the middle of the road like the big, farty RV at its center."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
What's the old expression about putting lipstick on a pig? "2 Guns," a busy and bullet-riddled new action movie, has some mighty fine lipstick, but it's still a porker."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013) |
"
The film sees the creative process as a sacrament in which the play's not the thing but the getting there is."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
It's a film to make you weep with sorrow and anger, and one of the most necessary films of the year."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
Watching "Computer Chess" is like opening an ancient Altair 8800 to peer at the tiny people inside."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
52%
|
The To Do List (2013) |
"
In its exuberantly smutty way, "The To Do List" is revolutionary: A teen sex comedy where the girls get to play nasty and the boys stand around looking terrified."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
"Only God Forgives" is the kind of remarkable disaster only a very talented director can make after he finds success and is then allowed to do whatever he wants. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
It means well and everyone appears to be having a good time, but so many things are wrong with the film, from a limp script to slack editing that leaves entire scenes hanging."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
A trim, effective haunted-house spook show, "The Conjuring" is both a throwback to early-'70s real estate shriekers like "The Amityville Horror" and a big-studio response to the "Paranormal Activity" found-footage genre."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
It's broad, occasionally uproarious, a little wheezy, and every so often inspired."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
A titanic sci-fi action fantasy that has been invested, against all expectations, with a heart, a brain, and something approximating a soul. "
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
"The Way, Way Back" is a minor pleasure rather than a major work. But minor pleasures have their place, especially in summertime, and this one goes down like a popsicle on a hot day."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
Like watching an elephant tap dance in your living room: Everything gets trampled and the dancing's not very good."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
It's the second feature from the young writer-director Tobias Lindholm, and it showcases his gift for tightly focused stories told without an ounce of fat."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
"
A film that may be the happiest time you'll have at the movies all summer."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
If you're going to make a dopey, bawdy, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
What does Coppola want us to think about these beautiful young idiots? What does she think? She's too cool or too wary or too close to her subject to engage."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 20, 2013
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