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B-
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83%
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Don Jon (2013) |
"
It all still works, despite its obvious problems, in large part because of its likable lead. But Gordon-Levitt should probably find a different writer next time."
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Deadspin
Posted Sep 25, 2013
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A
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86%
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Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
The film attempts to reconstruct the Beltway sniper terror from the inside out. This is what the terror really was: This is how it can happen, anywhere. And that's what's most terrifying of all."
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Deadspin
Posted Sep 10, 2013
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B
|
75%
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You're Next (2013) |
"
You're Next wants you to leave the theater with a big dumbass grin on your face. It succeeds."
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Deadspin
Posted Aug 21, 2013
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B
|
91%
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Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
I'm not sure how much Woody had to do Blanchett's the performance: She gives the character some depths I suspect he never considered. She's also grand and showy and over-the-top that overtakes the whole film. It's impossible to look away from her. "
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Deadspin
Posted Aug 18, 2013
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B
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73%
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Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
There's a lot of silliness in The Butler, and a lot of self-congratulatory self-seriousness, but put them together, and the whole thing somehow holds together."
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Deadspin
Posted Aug 13, 2013
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C
|
68%
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Elysium (2013) |
"
Blomkamp turns subtext into text into screaming red letters into massive hands that appear from the screen and slap you repeatedly in face."
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Deadspin
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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D+
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22%
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The Canyons (2013) |
"
The Canyons appears to be the only movie of the last 25 years to be scandalized that movie producers are sketchy liars, young actors sometimes have to sleep with people to get better roles, and movies are produced more to make money than to create art."
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Deadspin
Posted Aug 5, 2013
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B+
|
86%
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The Conjuring (2013) |
"
This is a director inspired by grand, gothic horror, more interested in long silences and swooping camera movements than torture porn or gruesome decapitations. The guy wants to wring you out."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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B
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
I hope Pacific Rim is a huge hit. Because we need a ton more movies like it."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 13, 2013
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B+
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
It's not a perfect movie. But you will cry your eyes out anyway."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 10, 2013
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A
|
95%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
The movie isn't really about the Polley family: It's about memory, and loss, and forgiveness, and, through it all, hope. It'll knock you over."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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A-
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93%
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No (2013) |
"
It features an enormously appealing lead performance by Gael Garcia Bernal, an impressively even-handed approach, and a dynamic visual gimmick."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 3, 2013
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B+
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
Even when the story line tries to wrench the characters in a certain direction, they keep returning to something real and honest. I want these people to be my friends."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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A-
|
97%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
The movie is so quiet that everything starts to feel heightened; the smallest motions carry great weight, and something as minor as a slammed door causes you to gasp."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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B+
|
78%
|
Jeff Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
The movie creeps up on you, and it's not until its firecracker ending that you realize just how much it made you care about these people."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 2, 2013
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B+
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
I bet Soderbergh secretly considers this one of his favorite films."
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Deadspin
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
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A
|
98%
|
Oslo, August 31st (2012) |
"
Sad, but wise, and clear-eyed about what it means to drift through life until it's suddenly too late to turn back."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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A-
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
The movie is gross and smutty: It is having so much fun portraying terrible people doing terrible things to one another that it has no interest in pausing to think about what any of this means. Thankfully."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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B
|
81%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
It's a zombie movie that's the opposite of a zombie movie, which is a reason to sorta love it."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
D
|
15%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
Sheen is about as capable of playing a character who isn't Charlie Sheen as he is of playing a dog, or a muffin, or a bottle of shampoo."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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D+
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
It's pretty bad. You don't need me to tell you that."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
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B+
|
44%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
If you give yourself up to it, you'll be carried along-not knowing where you're going, and never really minding much either."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
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C+
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
All the women in this movie are shrews, liars and/or emasculators."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
D+
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
This is clearly the worst entry in the franchise, a movie so lazy and dull that if you simply took the Die Hard out of the name, it might as well be Mercury Rising. "
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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A-
|
85%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
It will leave you giddily befuddled. I've never been so swept away by being so lost."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
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B+
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
You're probably gonna hate Spring Breakers, but I bet you love it, too."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
C
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
It strays so far from the whimsy and joy of the original that you forget the two films are even part of the same universe. "
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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B+
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Nothing revolutionary here, and one could make a pretty strong argument that this film exists so Whedon and his actors could have a weekend in a scenic cottage and get drunk together. But it's never self-indulgent. It's just here to have a good time."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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C
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
The movie is so jam-packed and busy that it's essentially an origin story, a coming-of-age story, a science fiction film, a superhero movie, an alien invasion, and a disaster movie all bumping into each other."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
If this is the new baseline for kid's fantasy films, and not freaking Wrath of the Titans, we're in very good shape."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
C
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Adapting Gatsby just so you can recreate the party scenes is like remaking Born on the Fourth of July for the war scenes. Luhrmann has a knack for missing the point."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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C+
|
36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
If the rest of the movie had put much thought into its characters as it did into that final scene, we'd have really had something."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B+
|
98%
|
Before Midnight (2013) |
"
Like the first two films, it reflects the real world in a way that seems almost preternatural. It's just that, here, the real world is a harsher, more disappointing place."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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A
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
A historical timeline, a pulsating thriller, a moving character study and a true-life violent revenge story, all in one, told in a sweating, oppressive, strangling fashion."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
D
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
Movies like this are often called "video game" movies, since they're basically a series of interstitial "story" scenes plopped in to transition to and from the fighting scenes. But this is an insult to video games."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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C-
|
22%
|
The Words (2012) |
"
A movie about a bad author who steals the book of a good author, and I'm pretty certain that The Words, if pressed, wouldn't be able to tell the difference."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
A lot smarter and a lot funnier than it has any real right to be. "
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B-
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
It does so much wrong, and it is so proud of itself for it. But it's too much fun watching these actors have such fun."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
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B-
|
43%
|
To Rome with Love (2012) |
"
Weightless and harmless and made with good cheer."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
C
|
30%
|
Total Recall (2012) |
"
It would rather be a blockbuster than a mind-bender. It turns out to be neither."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B
|
52%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
It's innocent and silly and brainless and funny. This is not a dumb comedy done smartly; this is a dumb comedy done dumbly."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
D+
|
68%
|
Ted (2012) |
"
Soulless, angry-white-guy comedy at its worst. This is a smug, nasty little number."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
A wild mess, but what a mess it is."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
B-
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
The movie, idiotic as it is, has its charms, thanks in large part to its two main actors."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
C+
|
24%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
Instead of the mystery of the known, we spend half our time trying to figure out who in the hell we're supposed to be looking at."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
A-
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
It's Wes Anderson's dollhouse as a home for wayward boys. Turns out, it's a safe place for adults to hide as well."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
There is so much spark here, so much to absorb, that the effect defies any picking of nits and just makes one grateful. "
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
A-
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
This is a wildly entertaining film that isn't content with science and cinematic tricks. It desires, and achieves, much more."
—
Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
A
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
It makes you think we can still do great things."
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Deadspin
Posted Jun 23, 2013
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