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62%
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Lymelife (2008)
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"The movie is an indie jewel; watch it shine."
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Kurt Loder
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93%
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Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
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"The Avengers is a fun time at the movies. That's as important as anything."
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Josh Wigler
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36%
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The Thing (2011)
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"This latest version of The Thing raises one immediate question: Why?"
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Kurt Loder
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96%
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The Social Network (2010)
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"David Fincher-who managed to make information-overload so gripping in Zodiac-is the ideal director for this story: He sweeps you up into its unexpectedly vibrant world."
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Kurt Loder
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85%
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Easy A (2010)
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"For its first half, Easy A is one of the year's freshest and funniest comedies. "
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Kurt Loder
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71%
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Never Let Me Go (2010)
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"Never Let Me Go is a horror movie of a sort, but the horrors are not the kind that come leaping wetly off the screen; instead, they build up in your mind like a toxic silt."
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Kurt Loder
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52%
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I'm Still Here (2010)
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"No civilians were degraded in the making of this film. Its only target is its star - and if he turns out to be the movie's motivating hoax-master, fans of vérité humiliation may feel cheated. "
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Kurt Loder
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73%
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Piranha 3-D (2010)
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"Delivers exactly what you'd expect: gushers of blood, ripped flesh by the kilo, and acres of bare booty and boobs (some of them real)."
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Kurt Loder
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51%
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The Switch (2010)
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"Do women desirous of offspring actually throw "I'm Getting Pregnant" parties at which their chosen sperm donor arrives bearing baby juice in a plastic cup?"
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Kurt Loder
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41%
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The Expendables (2010)
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"Not a parody of an '80s action movie -- it actually is an '80s action movie."
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Kurt Loder
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81%
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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"Summons that rarest of responses: It feels like something new. "
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Kurt Loder
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78%
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The Other Guys (2010)
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"That rare thing, a goofball summer buddy comedy that actually delivers."
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Kurt Loder
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40%
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Middle Men (2010)
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"Director George Gallo embraces the gamey porn scene with gusto: There's oodles of nudity, of course (and lots of over-inflated breastage)."
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Kurt Loder
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28%
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
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"Charlie St. Cloud sees dead people. Possibly filing in to watch this movie."
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Kurt Loder
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43%
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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
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"As summer comedies go, it's a small surprise. "
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Kurt Loder
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62%
|
Salt (2010)
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"The best action movies can sell their implausibilities with a blend of style, pace and personality. In its indifference to such elements, "Salt" is a demonstration of how important they are. "
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Kurt Loder
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86%
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Inception (2010)
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"Are they handing out joints at the box office for this?"
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Kurt Loder
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41%
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
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"Like all great kid flicks, it's too good %u2013 too fast and too funny %u2013 to be confined within the "family film" ghetto."
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Kurt Loder
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93%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
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"It's a new kind of family film, smarter than most and funnier than many."
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Kurt Loder
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69%
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010)
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"It's a chopped-down Swedish TV movie, and it looks it."
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Kurt Loder
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63%
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Predators (2010)
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""Predators" is a B movie that knows its job, and does it."
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Kurt Loder
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78%
|
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (2010)
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"Spector is mesmerizing, exasperating, and a number of other adjectives besides. "
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Kurt Loder
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6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010)
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"The picture is crammed with big-budget CGI -- it seems determined to command our interest through sheer technological will."
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Kurt Loder
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49%
|
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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"Having imposed something like narrative clarity on the story, new director David Slade is still stuck with the story."
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Kurt Loder
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96%
|
Restrepo (2010)
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""Restrepo" is the answer to a question that will surely continue being asked."
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Kurt Loder
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92%
|
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2010)
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"When it's over, we want to put it behind us. It just won't stay there."
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Kurt Loder
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52%
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Knight & Day (2010)
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"In the traditional way, the story is a flimsy thing; and in the traditional way, that doesn't matter."
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Kurt Loder
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55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
|
"There's no resonance, only impact."
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Kurt Loder
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80%
|
Cyrus (2010)
|
"The picture is funny, but it has stalker-flick overtones that are unsettling, and the deft assurance with which Hill navigates the ambiguous narrative is impressive."
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Kurt Loder
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12%
|
Jonah Hex (2010)
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"A lumpy soup of western action and supernatural shenanigans, heavily spiced with narrative confusion."
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Kurt Loder
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66%
|
The Karate Kid (2010)
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"Is there a generation of 12-year-old girls out there yearning for a 12-year-old action-hunk to obsess about? If so, their prayers have been answered."
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Kurt Loder
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74%
|
Splice (2010)
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"The movie keeps raising new issues past the point where you'd think the filmmakers would have run out of them."
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Kurt Loder
|
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74%
|
Micmacs (Micmacs ŕ tire-larigot) (2010)
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"Dany Boon is like a mime you don't want to shoot."
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Kurt Loder
|
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35%
|
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
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"If you know a kid %u2014 of the male persuasion, ideally %u2014 you might want to take him to see it. You might also want to wait at a bar while he does so."
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Kurt Loder
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15%
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Sex and the City 2 (2010)
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"A ghastly mess, and a stake in the heart of the great TV series."
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Kurt Loder
|
|
82%
|
Solitary Man (2010)
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"Douglas reveals himself as a veteran actor, familiar from dozens of other movies over the last 40 years, who's still capable of doing his best work; who can still surprise us."
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Kurt Loder
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47%
|
MacGruber (2010)
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"There's more poop humor than one might have thought strictly necessary."
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Kurt Loder
|
|
40%
|
Letters to Juliet (2010)
|
"Who can resist such ravishing travel porn?"
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Kurt Loder
|
|
43%
|
Robin Hood (2010)
|
"Robin Hood fans hoping for some of the dash and wit of the classic films that starred Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn should set their expectation meters to Off."
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Kurt Loder
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73%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010)
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"We soon realize that fight scenes involving faceless actors in big titanium battle suits sound like nothing so much as a multi-kettle kitchen accident."
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Kurt Loder
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50%
|
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)
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"Is there any place left that torture porn won't go? Not now."
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Kurt Loder
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8%
|
Furry Vengeance (2010)
|
"The movie is both slack and dumb -- a trying combo -- and it's heavily burdened with a big green message."
|
Kurt Loder
|
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15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
|
"The vintage teen-scream thrills, once so fresh, now seem stale."
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Kurt Loder
|
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29%
|
Paper Man (2010)
|
"Are we supposed to look upon a guy who comes on to young girls and plies kids with alcohol as some sort of blithe free spirit?"
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Kurt Loder
|
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49%
|
The Losers (2010)
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"The premise -- good-bad guys versus bad-bad guys -- is muddled with outré James Bond elements, and if it weren't for some of the actors, the film would collapse under its own confusion."
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Kurt Loder
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19%
|
The Back-up Plan (2010)
|
"At the risk of sexist condescension, I'd say that being a woman -- or a woman of a certain kind, anyway -- is a crucial prerequisite for enjoying this film."
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Kurt Loder
|
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61%
|
The Joneses (2010)
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"The story seems to offer more than it ever really delivers, and in the end we're not quite sold."
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Kurt Loder
|
|
96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010)
|
"With the release of this wild new documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," you have to wonder how much longer Banksy can remain an art-world phantom."
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Kurt Loder
|
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76%
|
Kick-Ass (2010)
|
"Sitting through "Kick-Ass" is like seeing a Tarantino movie for the first time. Terrible things are happening, and yet, somehow, they're breathtakingly funny."
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Kurt Loder
|
|
26%
|
After.Life (2010)
|
"Neeson floats through the picture with the conked demeanor of a man who's suffered an accidental self-lobotomy."
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Kurt Loder
|
74%
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