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85%
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This Is the End (2013)
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"A series of sketches that don't quite come together as a movie."
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Josh Bell
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56%
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Man of Steel (2013)
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"A long slog through familiar elements of current action-blockbuster filmmaking."
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Josh Bell
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75%
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Love Is All You Need (2013)
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"Pitched somewhere between a frothy Hollywood romantic comedy and a more sophisticated European family drama, Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need succeeds as neither."
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Josh Bell
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34%
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The Internship (2013)
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"A feature-length commercial filled with mediocre jokes."
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Josh Bell
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91%
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Frances Ha (2013)
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"Easily Baumbach's warmest and most upbeat film to date."
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Josh Bell
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71%
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
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"The movie gets bogged down in bonding moments between its cardboard characters."
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Josh Bell
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62%
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Epic (2013)
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"A serviceable animated adventure movie for kids, hitting all the requisite family-friendly beats without ever transcending them."
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Josh Bell
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20%
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The Hangover Part III (2013)
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"What was once fresh and fun is now just obnoxious and worn out."
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Josh Bell
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28%
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Erased (2013)
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"Everything about Erased feels generic, from the dialogue to the plot twists to the action sequences. "
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Josh Bell
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"Black still has to hit all the required superhero beats, but he does it with as much personality as he possibly can."
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Josh Bell
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81%
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From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)
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"A sweet but rather bland coming-of-age story."
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Josh Bell
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56%
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The Company You Keep (2013)
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"Although the movie is structured as a thriller, there's no urgency or suspense."
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Josh Bell
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23%
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Arthur Newman (2013)
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"A slow, lethargic journey to nowhere, full of pseudo-profound dialogue and generic indie-drama plotting."
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Josh Bell
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45%
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Pain & Gain (2013)
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"The story is too inherently fascinating for Bay to completely screw it up, but he comes close."
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Josh Bell
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93%
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Lore (2013)
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"Proves that there is always room for another [World War II] story if it can be presented in an original and unexpected fashion."
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Josh Bell
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55%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"Looks so striking and moves so smoothly that it effectively distracts you from the glaring holes in the plot."
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Josh Bell
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92%
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No (2013)
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"Larrain deftly mixes social satire and historical drama."
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Josh Bell
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68%
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Trance (2013)
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"Boyle's expressive style creates its own trance to carry past the implausible explanations, all the way through to the end."
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Josh Bell
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77%
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42 (2013)
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"More a string of rousing speeches than a narrative."
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Josh Bell
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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"So ludicrous that it might not even convince a sugar-addled 10-year-old on a Saturday morning."
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Josh Bell
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65%
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Spring Breakers (2013)
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"Ironic exploitation is still exploitation, after all."
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Josh Bell
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47%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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"The cheesy, jingoistic Olympus has all the freshness of a Sylvester Stallone vehicle from 1986 (and some of the special effects to match)."
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Josh Bell
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37%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
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"Despite the comedic talent involved, the movie is thin on effective humor."
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Josh Bell
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30%
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Emperor (2013)
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"Handsomely shot but narratively stagnant, with platitude-filled dialogue and mostly listless performances."
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Josh Bell
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59%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
|
"Raimi delivers a movie that may not add much of note to Oz mythology, but is still a lot of fun to watch."
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Josh Bell
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"An utterly generic Hollywood product, easily envisioned by plugging 'Jack and the beanstalk' and 'action blockbuster' into a theoretical screenplay generator."
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Josh Bell
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57%
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Snitch (2013)
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"Waugh is more interested in inspirational melodrama and clumsy social commentary than in rousing action."
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Josh Bell
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70%
|
Bless Me, Ultima (2013)
|
"Instead of a heartfelt exploration of a vibrant part of American culture, Bless Me comes off like a dull TV movie."
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Josh Bell
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13%
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Safe Haven (2013)
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"Pulls out one of the most idiotic twist endings ever, setting it apart from other Sparks movies in the worst way possible."
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Josh Bell
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15%
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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
|
"No one expects Good Day to replicate the excitement of the original Die Hard, but this assembly-line product doesn't even live up to its immediate predecessor."
|
Josh Bell
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94%
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Amour (2012)
|
"For Haneke, love is just another curious human trait to be dissected and used as a tool to disquiet his audience."
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Josh Bell
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20%
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Identity Thief (2013)
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"The contrived setup doesn't make much sense, and the movie throws in far too many extraneous antagonists and dead-end plot detours, none of which are entertaining."
|
Josh Bell
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013)
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"A refreshing approach to both the zombie and teen-romance genres."
|
Josh Bell
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77%
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Any Day Now (2012)
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"Lives down to expectations far too often."
|
Josh Bell
|
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79%
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Quartet (2013)
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"It's so low-key that it's soporific."
|
Josh Bell
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30%
|
Broken City (2013)
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"There's nothing actively offensive about Broken City, but there's nothing memorable or interesting about it, either."
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Josh Bell
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32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013)
|
"More of a cartoon than a history lesson, and about as close to the reality of organized crime in the 1940s as a Dick Tracy comic strip."
|
Josh Bell
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69%
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Not Fade Away (2012)
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"Filled with overly familiar '60s signifiers and narrative dead ends."
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Josh Bell
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81%
|
The Impossible (2012)
|
"The dialogue is almost uniformly awful, and the plotting tugs on heartstrings more blatantly than a Hallmark Channel movie. "
|
Josh Bell
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38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
|
"None of it is quite ridiculous enough to qualify as camp, nor weighty enough to qualify as insightful drama."
|
Josh Bell
|
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51%
|
Promised Land (2013)
|
"Just as underhanded as the soulless corporations it's taking to task."
|
Josh Bell
|
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012)
|
"Django is undoubtedly one of the most creative and striking movies of 2012, but it's also one of the most exhausting."
|
Josh Bell
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38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
|
"The movie could have been made with random basic-cable actors, and it would have been just as unremarkable."
|
Josh Bell
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47%
|
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
|
"Succeeds as a 3D showcase for Cirque performances far more than it does as a narrative feature film."
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Josh Bell
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63%
|
Hitchcock (2012)
|
"Less of the domestic squabbling could have made Hitchcock a movie worthy of its namesake."
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Josh Bell
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65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
|
"Often entertaining, especially for those fans who loved The Lord of the Rings and have been waiting years to see more of Tolkien's Middle-earth onscreen."
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Josh Bell
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53%
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Citadel (2012)
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"By literally dehumanizing its antagonists, Citadel not only muddles its political message but also undermines the gravity of its main character's circumstances."
|
Josh Bell
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80%
|
The Other Son (2012)
|
"At times, certain supporting characters come off as mouthpieces for political points of view, but Levy isn't making a polemic, and her ultimate message is positive and humane."
|
Josh Bell
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75%
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Killing Them Softly (2012)
|
"Delivers some striking elements that never add up to a cohesive whole."
|
Josh Bell
|
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13%
|
Red Dawn (2012)
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"If the North Koreans invaded and saw this movie, they'd probably just turn back."
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
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73%
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