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100%
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Short Term 12 (2013)
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"Honest and striking, this is a drama that will have audiences simultaneously laughing and crying."
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Flossie Topping
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100%
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Despicable Me 2 (2013)
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"A spot-on animated sequel that delivers the right balance of laughs and sentimentality ..."
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Mark Adams
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55%
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Man of Steel (2013)
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"The film doesn't lack for spectacle, but after a while its emphasis on grand gestures and unwavering gravitas stops feeling heroic and begins to seem like overkill. "
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Tim Grierson
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97%
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
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""Twenty Feet From Stardom" may follow the template of so many rock documentaries before it, but the movie's breezy execution makes the familiarity go down smoothly. "
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Tim Grierson
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25%
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Vehicle 19 (2013)
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"Paul Walker is an effective and handsome lead and retains a look of brooding intensity that is appropriate for the role."
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Mark Adams
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79%
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Berberian Sound Studio (2013)
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"The second feature from Katalin Varga director Peter Strickland is an idiosyncratic, impeccably crafted mindbender that shifts between the beguiling and the bemusing."
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Allan Hunter
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76%
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Monsters University (2013)
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"A bright, breezy, funny and beautifully presented film that will slug it out with Despicable Me 2 for the animated hit of summer award."
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Mark Adams
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11%
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I Do (2013)
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"Director Glenn Gaylord and director of photography David Morris Gil (shooting his first feature) give the film a nicely autumnal New York."
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John Hazelton
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38%
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The Purge (2013)
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"A dark allegory that never justifies its central conceit, dooming all that follows."
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Tim Grierson
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73%
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World War Z (2013)
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"It ignores or fudges various geopolitical realities, and in fumbling away one of the chief strengths of its source material morphs into just another anonymous quasi-post-apocalyptic blockbuster."
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Brent Simon
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78%
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Dirty Wars (2013)
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"The sobering "Dirty Wars" speaks directly to Americans who believe that their country's behavior overseas has improved appreciably since the election of President Obama. "
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Tim Grierson
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How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013)
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"How To Make Money Selling Drugs turns out to be a far more sobering and substantial piece of work than one might expect."
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Tim Grierson
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34%
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The Internship (2013)
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"The film meanders agreeably enough through its predictable plot but takes a bit too much time out for facile life lessons and admiring depictions of Google's corporate culture."
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John Hazelton
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85%
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This Is the End (2013)
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"As with Superbad, which was at its core a comedy about the anxiety of codependent male high school separation, This Is the End digs into the under-discussed drift of fraternal camaraderie."
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Brent Simon
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50%
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Now You See Me (2013)
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"Smart casting, agreeable performances and a fresh narrative backdrop power this facile, twisty treat, helmed by Louis Leterrier."
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Brent Simon
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83%
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La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur) ()
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"Hugely entertaining."
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Jonathan Romney
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11%
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After Earth (2013)
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"A trite sci-fi adventure that's probably too intense for younger viewers and not sophisticated enough for adults."
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Tim Grierson
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71%
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The Stone Roses: Made of Stone ()
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"A music treat for lovers of the band and anyone interested in contemporary music."
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Mark Adams
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62%
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Epic (2013)
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"If, on a fundamental level, the film's mix of tones doesn't always fully mesh, its many chases and other aerial moments at least provide a nice array of whiz-bang excitement."
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Brent Simon
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Wakolda ()
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Mark Adams
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——
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Dabba (The Lunchbox) ()
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Fionnuala Halligan
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30%
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Gut Renovation (2013)
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100%
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All Is Lost (2013)
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Tim Grierson
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——
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The Weight Of Elephants ()
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38%
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Grigris ()
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"[Features] a thin, undernourished script, mountains of clichés, pale local colour and indifferent performances."
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Dan Fainaru
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32%
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Only God Forgives (2013)
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|
Mark Adams
|
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——
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Un château en Italie (A Castle in Italy) ()
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Tim Grierson
|
|
——
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Last Days On Mars ()
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Fionnuala Halligan
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33%
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Les salauds (The Bastards) ()
|
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Fionnuala Halligan
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20%
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The Hangover Part III (2013)
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"Brings Todd Phillips' R-rated guys-night-out trilogy to an oddly subdued, sometimes downright dark conclusion."
|
John Hazelton
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83%
|
La Danza De La Realidad ()
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"The first feature in almost quarter of a century from the veteran director of El Topo and Santa Sangre is a surprisingly witty, accessible magical mystery tour through his past."
|
Allan Hunter
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|
100%
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Seduced And Abandoned ()
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"Entertaining, amusing and occasionally insightful."
|
Mark Adams
|
|
57%
|
Blood Ties ()
|
"Blood Ties is too sprawling, its fractured narrative cut far too many ways for the film to succeed."
|
Fionnuala Halligan
|
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——
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Ugly ()
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"[A] lazy kidnap caper."
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Lee Marshall
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——
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Jodorowsky's Dune ()
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"Hailed as one of the great films never to be made, its content and structure have been much debated by Dune and film fans, but with Frank Pavich's film the truth behind the deliriously bold plans are finally revealed."
|
Mark Adams
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44%
|
Wara no tate (Shield of Straw) ()
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"The movie has its pulpy thrills -- not to mention a gripping central performance from Takao Osawa -- but plausibility issues and an unconvincing exploration of the limits of justice noticeably dampen the fun"
|
Tim Grierson
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44%
|
As I Lay Dying ()
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"Franco attempts to capture and match Faulkner's stream of consciousness prose with split-screen imagery, interior monologues and slow motion to create a film that might seem more at home as an art museum installation than a mainstream cinema release."
|
Allan Hunter
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91%
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
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"The filmmaking duo's new movie features a protagonist far more flawed and self-defeating, but thanks to a sterling lead performance from Oscar Isaac, the Coen brothers have once again delivered an impressively nuanced character study."
|
Tim Grierson
|
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61%
|
The Bling Ring (2013)
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"The film ... is rather one-tone - they break into houses, wear clothes, go to clubs, do drugs and get caught - and lacks any real sense of drama."
|
Mark Adams
|
|
71%
|
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
|
"Adds some slightly dodgy new elements to the mix but still delivers what should be enough macho swagger and over-the-top auto action to keep fans of the franchise happy."
|
John Hazelton
|
|
90%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013)
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"With a sympathetic and not too heavy hand, Fruitvale Station takes its audience through the constant challenges to black family life - poverty, debt, crime, and the prospect that an encounter with the police can have deadly consequences."
|
David D'Arcy
|
|
92%
|
We Are What We Are ()
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"For horror fans who prefer their terrors served cold, this is a tense, unsettling experience that offers very little gore but nonetheless knows how to turn the stomach."
|
Tim Grierson
|
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79%
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The Hangover (2009)
|
|
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50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013)
|
"Because Luhrmann is always thirsting for the next grand gesture -- the next emotional crescendo -- the book's subtlety and shading get trampled under his overblown aesthetic. "
|
Tim Grierson
|
|
87%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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"A blaze of thrilling sci-fi adventure, stunning special effects and - most importantly - further subtle development of a series of characters who are familiar and yet fresh at the same time."
|
Mark Adams
|
|
——
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La Maison De La Radio ()
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|
Lee Marshall
|
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26%
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The Numbers Station (2013)
|
|
John Hazelton
|
|
25%
|
Aroused (2013)
|
|
Mark Adams
|
|
——
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Veggietales: 'Twas The Night Before Easter (2011)
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|
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——
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Lily ()
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73%
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