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58%
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (in 3D) (2012)
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"The 3D conversion isn't going to change your opinion on the movie or give you a whole new moviegoing experience, but it's not bad either."
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Katey Rich
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28%
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The Vow (2012)
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"As likable as Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are, their presence is small comfort in a movie with so little else going on."
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Katey Rich
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53%
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Safe House (2012)
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"Less a thriller than an experiment in confusion, trying to rile up the audience by stranding them in scenes they don't understand, over and over until the climax mercifully sets us free."
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Katey Rich
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72%
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Big Miracle (2012)
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"Too naive for the tricky grown-up issues it tackles, but not smart or sweet enough to get away with it. "
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Katey Rich
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85%
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Chronicle (2012)
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"A whole lot better than many of the more traditional superhero movies we've seen."
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Katey Rich
|
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100%
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Sleepwalk With Me ()
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"With a sure visual sense despite a clearly limited budget, and most importantly a rock-solid understanding of storytelling, Birbiglia crafts a romantic comedy that's utterly unique, but also satisfying in a primal, familiar way."
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Katey Rich
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77%
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The Grey (2012)
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"The Grey has exciting ambition and the highest emotional stakes imaginable."
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Katey Rich
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36%
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Red Tails (2012)
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"Wearing its heart and ideals on its sleeve, Red Tails is hard not to root for, but impossible to love all the same."
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Katey Rich
|
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80%
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Haywire (2012)
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"A go-for-broke action thriller that only gets more exciting the more grounded and real it feels."
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Katey Rich
|
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48%
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Contraband (2012)
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"Contraband squanders its tiny bit of goodwill with a hotdogging, "gritty" attitude that's never reflected in the actual story."
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Katey Rich
|
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34%
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Joyful Noise (2012)
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"Joyful Noise is an honest delight, as corny and occasionally as preachy as a tent revival, but as open-hearted and dynamic as well."
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Katey Rich
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45%
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)
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"The movie makes no argument for existing."
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Katey Rich
|
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76%
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War Horse (2011)
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"Feels like a good stage play that never quite makes a full transition into the world of movies. "
|
Joshua Tyler
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75%
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
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"Fleet and thrilling and as boundlessly energetic as its hero, The Adventures of Tintin is Steven Spielberg's most purely joyful film in at least a decade."
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Katey Rich
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60%
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
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"A movie capable of culminating in a game of chess and making that every bit as exciting as watching things blow up. "
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Joshua Tyler
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93%
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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)
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"It runs faster, goes bigger, and tells stories better than nearly any action film this year."
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Katey Rich
|
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87%
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
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"A bracing and completely absorbing thriller."
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Katey Rich
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22%
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The Sitter (2011)
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"Dull and instantly forgettable, a nostalgia trip that takes you nowhere worth going. "
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Katey Rich
|
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82%
|
Young Adult (2011)
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"A harsh but insightful and often very funny take on what happens when you cling to that popularity well after its value has faded."
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Katey Rich
|
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84%
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
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"It's entertaining enough, but a missed opportunity as well."
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Katey Rich
|
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94%
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Hugo (2011)
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"Hugo and Scorsese have found a way to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the usefulness of the 3D format."
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Joshua Tyler
|
|
98%
|
The Conversation (1974)
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"A film OF the 1970s, The Conversation is rooted in the new American anxiety of the time, the idea that behind every ideal was a rotten, festering truth. "
|
Brian Holcomb
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92%
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Arthur Christmas (2011)
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"Arthur Christmas, a joyful and tremendously funny spin on Santa as a story of family dysfunction."
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Katey Rich
|
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25%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
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"There really is no polishing a Twilight movie, which by design will have to be both silly and terribly boring."
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Katey Rich
|
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97%
|
The Muppets (2011)
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"One of the best movies you'll see this year. "
|
Joshua Tyler
|
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36%
|
Immortals (2011)
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"Immortals is worth seeing just for the battle prowess of Zeus and his cronies."
|
Joshua Tyler
|
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011)
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"The saddest thing about Jack & Jill is that we allowed Adam Sandler to get to this point."
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Katey Rich
|
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44%
|
J. Edgar (2011)
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"Ultimately undone by a whole lot of bad decisions."
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Katey Rich
|
|
68%
|
Tower Heist (2011)
|
"Tower Heist isn't aggressively bad or even offensive, but its utter lack of presence is almost worse."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
69%
|
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
|
"I'm sad to report that Harold and Kumar have lost much of whatever it was that made them so great in the first place."
|
Joshua Tyler
|
|
50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011)
|
"It never got weird enough for me."
|
Joshua Tyler
|
|
37%
|
In Time (2011)
|
"Loses track of the nifty sci-fi idea that is the best thing the movie has going for it. "
|
Katey Rich
|
|
25%
|
The Three Musketeers (2011)
|
"Completely impossible to understand, a dumb movie that makes you feel dumb."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
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"See it for Olsen's breakthrough performance and Durkin's keen cinematic eye."
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Katey Rich
|
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39%
|
The Big Year (2011)
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"The only real reason to watch it is if you're looking for something to talk about with your granny. "
|
Joshua Tyler
|
|
36%
|
The Thing (2011)
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"It's frustrating to see talent, money and time poured into a project that's just a pale, pointless imitation of something that's already perfectly great on its own. "
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Katey Rich
|
|
93%
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50/50 (2011)
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"You'll walk out a stronger person than you were when you went in."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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59%
|
Real Steel (2011)
|
"The robots punch all the problems out of this story."
|
Joshua Tyler
|
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011)
|
"There will be better movies released this year, but maybe none more sophisticated and shrewd."
|
Joshua Tyler
|
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24%
|
What's Your Number? (2011)
|
"Another regrettable entry in the ongoing Hollywood saga of "When bad movies happen to good people.""
|
Katey Rich
|
|
67%
|
Margaret (2011)
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"See it, goggle at its strangeness, marvel at how a movie can be haunting even when it doesn't work at all. "
|
Katey Rich
|
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29%
|
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
|
"There's no real conflict built within the story, no villains or obstacles to root against other than the general foes of warlords and death. "
|
Katey Rich
|
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4%
|
Abduction (2011)
|
"Lautner appears as stiff and confused as a middle-school kid caught unprepared in the school play."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011)
|
"A story that goes everywhere you expect it to go, and nowhere worth going at all."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011)
|
"It's not the strongest Shakespeare play in the world, but it's a striking adaptation well worth a look."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
94%
|
Moneyball (2011)
|
"Brad Pitt anchors it with a performance that might be the best he's ever given as a leading man."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
78%
|
Melancholia (2011)
|
"A fantastic performance from Kiefer Sutherland."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
90%
|
The Descendants (2011)
|
"A film that's as moving as it is witty and dark. It's simply terrific. "
|
Katey Rich
|
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011)
|
"There's a much smarter, better constructed movie in there that could have better used the dynamite cast."
|
Katey Rich
|
|
89%
|
Take This Waltz (2012)
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"Passionate And remarkable."
|
Katey Rich
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