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92%
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Incendies (2011)
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"Villeneuve has a sober eye and a steady hand."
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Stephen Whitty
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55%
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The Conspirator (2011)
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"Wright, who has been doing great and largely unrecognized work for years, is terrific as the hard, handsome, difficult defendant, as is James McAvoy as her reluctant defense counsel."
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Stephen Whitty
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58%
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Scream 4 (2011)
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""Scream" always made fun of itself even as it was frightening us - and that hasn't changed a bit."
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Stephen Whitty
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48%
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Meet Monica Velour (2011)
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"Watching Tobe circle the drain in an open-mouthed daze, like some sort of unwanted goldfish, is absolutely no fun at all."
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Stephen Whitty
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71%
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Hanna (2011)
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"I gave up trying to keep track of the plot and wondered, Just what the hell is going on here?"
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Stephen Whitty
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26%
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Your Highness (2011)
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"None of this is very funny, and most of it is pretty ugly - the last half-hour or so is a paroxysm of bad special effects, amputated limbs and a severed sexual organ."
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Stephen Whitty
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45%
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Soul Surfer (2011)
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"For plenty of family viewers, this film will catch a wave."
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Stephen Whitty
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40%
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Henry's Crime (2011)
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"Reeves seems more laid-back than loser - it's hard to accept him as someone who has let half of his adult life go to waste without minding, or even noticing."
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Stephen Whitty
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86%
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Meek's Cutoff (2011)
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"Our interest is constantly stoked by Reichardt's choices as a director."
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Stephen Whitty
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26%
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Arthur (2011)
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"It's a sardonic screenplay filled with juvenile characters, and the whole thing doesn't mesh."
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Stephen Whitty
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72%
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Monsters (2010)
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"The most interesting thing here is the budget."
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Stephen Whitty
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68%
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Joueuse (Queen to Play) (2011)
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"A film about steady pleasures, not grand passions."
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Stephen Whitty
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77%
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In A Better World (2011)
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"If this is what Denmark dismisses as safe middlebrow fare, please, export it here."
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Stephen Whitty
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91%
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Source Code (2011)
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"The problem with "Source Code" is the idea of "Source Code.""
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Stephen Whitty
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66%
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Insidious (2011)
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"There's little new here. And what is new isn't well done."
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Stephen Whitty
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17%
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Miral (2011)
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"How can you appeal to both sides when you tell only one side's story?"
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Stephen Whitty
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44%
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White Irish Drinkers (2011)
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"The basic outline of the plot, built around a promised local concert by the Rolling Stones - well, if you don't know where that story is headed, you haven't seen as many movies as I think you have."
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Anthony Venutolo
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83%
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Potiche (2011)
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"This isn't just a film set in the '70s. It feels like a '70s film we're only now getting to see."
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Stephen Whitty
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23%
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Sucker Punch (2011)
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"For pure filmmaking - characters taking up half the foreground in close-up while events unfold behind them, action speeding up or stopping on command, a soundtrack of classic rock remixed or redone into droning trances - it's remarkable."
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Stephen Whitty
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58%
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Red State (2011)
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"Add a bunch of forgettable characters (including a one-note Melissa Leo) and an ending which flirts with (but then flees from) a truly provocative climax, and you've got a project which perhaps only Rob Zombie could have made something of."
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Stephen Whitty
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43%
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Jestem (I Am) ()
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Stephen Whitty
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83%
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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
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"It would be more fun if the hero were a little more colorful. All Matthew McConaughey's Haller has to his character is his cockiness, and that gets a bit tiresome."
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Stephen Whitty
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94%
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Win Win (2011)
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""Win Win" is more comic than McCarthy's other films, intentionally and successfully."
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Stephen Whitty
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70%
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Limitless (2011)
|
"If you want a movie with a sermon, well, look somewhere else. But if you want an adrenaline shot to the heart, look here."
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Stephen Whitty
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74%
|
Winter in Wartime (2011)
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"A few of the performances are fine. But this is still a story we've heard before. Only this time, as it's being told, someone's playing his favorite records far too loud."
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Stephen Whitty
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72%
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Paul (2011)
|
"Beam us up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life here."
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Stephen Whitty
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37%
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I Am (2011)
|
"Shadyac seems pleasant and sincere - he looks a little like "Weird Al" Yankovic might if he became a storefront preacher - but as you watch his film, "I Am," you may well become a doubter."
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Stephen Whitty
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62%
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Kill the Irishman (2011)
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"It's full of familiar old faces, a wee bit of color -- and, occasionally, a literally explosive charge of drama."
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Stephen Whitty
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11%
|
Red Riding Hood (2011)
|
"If you're a Twilight fan, you may feel as though you've already seen this. And if you're not, well, why would you be interested in something like this at all?"
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Stephen Whitty
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35%
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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
|
"Excitement? Not so much."
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Stephen Whitty
|
|
88%
|
Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) (2011)
|
"Kiarostami has a wonderful star in Juliette Binoche and an interesting find in William Shimell, a British opera singer making his dramatic-film debut."
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Stephen Whitty
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84%
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Jane Eyre (2011)
|
"Some wonderful parts in the novel are crudely truncated; other, oft-omitted material is added without adding very much."
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Stephen Whitty
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37%
|
Mars Needs Moms (2011)
|
"So, okay, men are completely irresponsible slobs, which is why women need to be unceasing nags. Check. Great message for the kids."
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Stephen Whitty
|
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Classic US National Parks Films - United States National Park Films Featuring Yellowstone National Forest With Footage of Wildlife & Redwood National Park & Giant Redwood Trees (2005)
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Stephen Whitty
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20%
|
Beastly (2011)
|
"For a fable about a magical curse, "Beastly" is strangely earthbound. And once it starts, it just seems to go on sappily ever after."
|
Stephen Whitty
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29%
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Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
|
"It's formulaic at best - and even that formula isn't always thought through."
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Stephen Whitty
|
|
88%
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Rango (2011)
|
"Adults and slightly older children should have a great time."
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Stephen Whitty
|
|
73%
|
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
|
"Fans looking for something a little different will find it here - as well as the first real romance of the year."
|
Stephen Whitty
|
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45%
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Drive Angry (2011)
|
"It's hard to care when the CGI is so obvious and Cage's character so clearly invincible."
|
Stephen Whitty
|
|
34%
|
Hall Pass (2011)
|
"It wastes a lot of energy to very little effect."
|
Stephen Whitty
|
|
93%
|
Of Gods and Men (2011)
|
"Beauvois channels the pace of the monks' life, which is both his film's strength and its weakness."
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Stephen Whitty
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56%
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Unknown (2011)
|
"It's not "North by Northwest," of course. But at least it's heading in the right direction."
|
Anthony Venutolo
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|
51%
|
Vanishing On 7th Street (2011)
|
"Anderson does a lot with very little - a wavering light, a patch of darkness - and Jaswinski's script tries to break up the stage-bound monotony with a few well-timed (if not particularly informative) flashbacks."
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Stephen Whitty
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32%
|
I Am Number Four (2011)
|
"Pettyfer - a child actor turned model turned self-satisfied hunk - isn't much except blond hair and good cheekbones as our hero."
|
Stephen Whitty
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64%
|
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)
|
"The movie remains so sanitized, so authorized that it never gives us credit for being able to make up our own minds about him and what he represents."
|
Stephen Whitty
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|
38%
|
The Eagle (2011)
|
"It's even less interesting than "Centurion.""
|
Stephen Whitty
|
|
56%
|
Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
|
"Seriously, have most small children here even seen a garden gnome? Outside of a website commercial, maybe, or the cover of Grandpa's old "All Things Must Pass" album?"
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Stephen Whitty
|
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85%
|
Cedar Rapids (2011)
|
"Sure, it may make you uncomfortable while you laugh. But only if you've gotten a little too comfortable laughing at small-town squares."
|
Stephen Whitty
|
|
19%
|
Just Go with It (2011)
|
"Sandler should know better."
|
Stephen Whitty
|
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The Other Woman (2010)
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Stephen Whitty
|
79%
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