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4/5
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Brooklyn Castle |
"
Brooklyn Castle does a superb job of celebrating the triumph while reinforcing the relentless vigilance it requires from everyone involved.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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David Hinckley
,
New York Daily News
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3/5
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Valentine Road |
"
For viewers, Brandon's action feels tragic and inexcusable. The hard part is how to respond to it, and Valentine Road, like much of "the system," doesn't suggest any easy answer.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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David Hinckley
,
New York Daily News
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2/4
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Static |
"
[Blu-ray Review] One of those movies where none of the pieces quite fit when the viewer thinks back on them, "Static" takes a crafty idea, but debuting director-cowriter Todd Levin doesn't always play fair with the audience.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Dustin Putman
,
DustinPutman.com
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3/4
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Captain Phillips |
"
Shades of Cast Away, with Tom Hanks being tortured by sadists as opposed to talking to a volleyball for over an hour while waiting for the cavalry to arrive.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Kam Williams
,
AALBC.com
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2.5/5
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Runner Runner |
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The movie itself feels like the bigger con: a fast-paced thriller that turns out, in retrospect, to have been kind of a drag.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Jesse Hassenger
,
Film Racket
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2.5/5
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Best Man Down |
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The movie's tearjerking core starts to get buried beneath needless distractions.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Mike D'Angelo
,
The Dissolve
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5/10
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Haunter |
"
Haunter is a step down for director Vincenzo Natali, but yet another step up for Abigail Breslin, who continues to prove herself as a leading lady.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Perri Nemiroff
,
We Got This Covered
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A
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Le Mépris (Contempt) |
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Instinctively self-reflexive, "Contempt" ("Le Mepris") is one of Jean-Luc Goddard's brightest achievements
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Cole Smithey
,
ColeSmithey.com
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Night of the Living Dead |
"
If [Romero's] original vision of the undead looks dulled by today's standards, his embedded political commentary on racism feels just as sharp.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Amos Barshad
,
New York Magazine
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5/5
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Night of the Living Dead |
"
Director George A Romero redefined the meaning of horror for fear-sated audiences in the 1960s with this seminal classic.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 11:10 AM PDT
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Alan Jones
,
Radio Times
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B
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Muscle Shoals |
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[Camalier's] rambling love letter to a unique American sound is not only full of the beautiful landscapes and small town Americana which inspired it, it has an enveloping, beautiful heart.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 10:10 AM PDT
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Laura Clifford
,
Reeling Reviews
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4/5
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The Evil Dead |
"
Director Sam Raimi burst onto the horror scene with this crude cult favourite that's short on story but long on excessive gore and innovative camerawork.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 10:10 AM PDT
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Alan Jones
,
Radio Times
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1.5/4
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As I Lay Dying |
"
James Franco's readiness in approaching famously abstract source material certainly doesn't translate well into his directorial formalism, or, more appropriately, lack of formalism.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 10:10 AM PDT
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Wes Greene
,
Slant Magazine
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3/5
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Grace Unplugged |
"
It should satisfy its intended audience and maybe even bring a few new viewers into the flock.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 10:10 AM PDT
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Gary Goldstein
,
Los Angeles Times
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3/5
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Evil Dead 2 |
"
Campbell mugs shamelessly and clearly has a ball as scene outdoes scene in comic thrust and haphazard horror.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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Alan Jones
,
Radio Times
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Filth |
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It feels less like a contemporary snap, more an old, dog-eared Polaroid.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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Ed Whitfield
,
The Ooh Tray
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein |
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An engaging portrait of an academic whose work is both fueled and undermined by his vitriolic personality.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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J. R. Jones
,
Chicago Reader
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3/5
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Sunlight Jr. |
"
As Collyer risks caricature,...Watts and Dillon ease Sunlight Jr. back to more grounded, fundamental truths.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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Scott Tobias
,
The Dissolve
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The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete |
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There very well may not be a more moving, honest film this year.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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David Noh
,
Film Journal International
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The Congress |
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a hallucinatory trip through a cityscape of the imagination, it also allegorises our own very real relationship with the mythopoeic worlds of cinema (from which this film quotes with relentless, voracious postmodernism) or of the internet
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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Anton Bitel
,
Grolsch Film Works
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3.5/5
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Shack Out on 101 |
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For such a short movie packed with so much incident, Shack Out On 101 devotes an awful lot of its time to folks simply hanging out and shooting the shit, and it's richer for it.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 9:10 AM PDT
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Nathan Rabin
,
The Dissolve
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2.5/4
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Spinning Plates |
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Kind of all over the place, like a mismatched meal. But fascinating.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 8:10 AM PDT
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Roger Moore
,
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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1.5/4
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane |
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Too good to abandon, but not some "lost classic" either.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 8:10 AM PDT
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Roger Moore
,
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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3/5
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Emperor |
"
Fun when Jones is around, dull when he's not, it's all just a little bit of history repeating.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 8:10 AM PDT
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Neil Smith
,
Total Film
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3.5/4
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Captain Phillips |
"
"Captain Phillips" will grab and hold your attention from its first few minutes to its startling conclusion.
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Posted Oct 7, 2013 8:10 AM PDT
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Charlie McCollum
,
San Jose Mercury News
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