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100%
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Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) (1957)
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"Coming from a director renowned as spartanly anti-dramatic, the film's escape is almost preternaturally gripping."
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Godfrey Cheshire
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94%
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The Central Park Five (2012)
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"Exclusive interviews with former heads of Israel's counter terrorism agency reveal insiders' analysis about the country's policies. Fascinating. Frightening. "
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Jennifer Merin
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100%
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How to Survive a Plague (2012)
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"What making a difference is really all about!"
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Jennifer Merin
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88%
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Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2012)
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"An alarming look at the profitable industry that has grown up around nonprofit fund raising for breast cancer research. Must see!"
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Jennifer Merin
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86%
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The Forgiveness of Blood (2012)
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"Marston examines the barriers of ritual and the passage from youth to adulthood in Albanian society with the perceptive detail of a grand literary feat. "
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Eric Kohn
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66%
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Love Crime (2011)
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"Corneau got his start directing simple, effective cop movies and Love Crime's second half is sort of a return to form."
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John Blahnik
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10%
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The Family Tree (2011)
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"Like the body of a peeping tom high school student that hangs hidden in the Burnett's tree for the duration of the film, the direction of the movie remains dangling over audiences."
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Mark Peikert
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41%
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Special Treatment (2011)
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"Huppert's performance is strong and Labrune's previous films show she's not without talent. You wish she hadn't so stubbornly adhered to one tiresome idea."
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John Blahnik
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94%
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Tales from the Golden Age (2011)
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"Puiu's a skillful widescreen filmmaker, but he's also an urban snob who finds farm animals backward and funny."
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Armond White
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73%
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011)
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"Sfar rescues Gainsbourg from hipsters' self-satisfied claims."
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Armond White
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68%
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Our Idiot Brother (2011)
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"Usually movies this slick and contrived have a shiny, Hollywood look, but Our Idiot Brother's unslick look is dreadful. It lacks the professionalism of mumblecore."
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Armond White
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62%
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Griff the Invisible (2011)
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"What at first seemed to be a superhero film is actually a melancholy portrait of the maladjusted."
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John Blahnik
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36%
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One Day (2011)
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"One Day is neither comedy nor satire; it uses numerous narrative gimmicks to avoid the fact of its humdrum banality."
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Armond White
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45%
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30 Minutes or Less (2011)
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"Sexism may be inseparable from the imperatives of male aggression. 30 Minutes or Less ridicules this..."
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Armond White
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76%
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The Help (2011)
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"The Help demonstrates the conned intelligence of the "post-racial" and "postblack" Obama era, where the anxieties of unequal yet mutually beneficial black-white relationships are conveniently, speciously, put behind us."
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Armond White
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82%
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
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"It is easily the best American movie of this corrupted summer."
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Armond White
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73%
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The Whistleblower (2011)
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"The film is not good or bad, but utterly affecting and incredibly timely."
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Leslie Stonebraker
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67%
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Good Neighbors (2011)
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"Thankfully Tierney saves the film from becoming a prosaic whodunit by casually revealing the murder's identity 40 minutes in, forcing Good Neighbors to succeed as all films should, through character and style."
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John Blahnik
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44%
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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
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"Cowboys and Aliens is an uninspired, third-rate rehash of Western and monster movie lore. It turns genre into formula."
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Armond White
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84%
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Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)
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"If the title suggests soap opera rather than political history, that's part of Ruiz's game -- but it's also why this art project feels overlong for its purpose."
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Armond White
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52%
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The Devil's Double (2011)
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"The film disastrously focuses on Uday's outrages and does so without any moral perspective. "Rape, torture, disembowelment, killing, drinking, drugs and decadence" is practically the film's synopsis. Madness is its misjudged rationale."
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Armond White
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95%
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The Guard (2011)
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"McDonaugh's reflective script and darker tone separates it from the usual pacing of the standard cop film."
|
Emilia Barrosse
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90%
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Attack the Block (2011)
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"It enhances a sense of the world rather than peddling distraction from it."
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Armond White
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98%
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Project Nim (2011)
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"Project Nim provides the much needed backstory to modern scientific achievement unavoidably earned on the backs of innocent apes."
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Leslie Stonebraker
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87%
|
Fire in Babylon (2011)
|
"Rather than explore the nuanced reality of playing a white man's game with white teammates, Riley simply plays the race card and tells the tale in monochrome."
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Leslie Stonebraker
|
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Me and My Gal (1932)
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"Me and My Gal justifies the loftiest standards of realism and entertainment."
|
Armond White
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79%
|
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
|
"When all these bland Marvel Comics franchise movies blur together in memory, it won't prove that they amounted to one great epic master narrative, but that they're all indistinguishable."
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Armond White
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54%
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Farmageddon (2011)
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"For a film about the benefits of natural food and raw milk, there is ironically nothing organic about Farmageddon."
|
Mark Peikert
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|
96%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)
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"Now that the Harry Potter series is over, maybe the truth can be realized: This has been the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises."
|
Armond White
|
|
90%
|
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
|
"Although this is an adaptation of the A.A. Milne tales first published in 1926, it unleashes an essential quality of dreaming -- and of cinema."
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Armond White
|
|
91%
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Tabloid (2011)
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"Evading the issue of what used to be called "yellow journalism," Morris' depraved method prevents us from ever getting out of this swamp."
|
Armond White
|
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91%
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Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (2011)
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"Tribe's music takes a backseat to power struggle and personality conflict."
|
Armond White
|
|
50%
|
Love Etc. (2011)
|
"Each of the six protagonists in Love Etc. are sweet and hopeful in a genuinely human way that fictional films simply cannot touch. "
|
Leslie Stonebraker
|
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36%
|
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
|
"By avoiding contemplation about the emotional nature of its clanging, morphing, warring creatures ... Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg accommodate the insensitivity that characterizes post-9/11 culture."
|
Armond White
|
|
35%
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Larry Crowne (2011)
|
"The humanist opposite to Hollywood's self-congratulatory snark."
|
Armond White
|
|
44%
|
Bad Teacher (2011)
|
"Kasdan and company miss the opportunity to connect Elizabeth's venality to the greed and materialism that her pop consumer students absorb daily."
|
Armond White
|
|
55%
|
General Orders No. 9 (2011)
|
"It's as exhausting as those never-ending camp songs about branches on trees in holes with green grass growing all around."
|
Leslie Stonebraker
|
|
44%
|
The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
|
"rather than use this premise as a set up for bible satire, the film relies on diarrhea jokes and uninspired buddy-bonding to carry us through an ill-plotted tale of damnation and redemption"
|
Leslie Stonebraker
|
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26%
|
Green Lantern (2011)
|
"The F/X of Hal creating objects out of his ring's green light are successfully, modestly fantastic. Such professionalism needn't resort to dumb stereotyping."
|
Armond White
|
|
79%
|
Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011)
|
"Rossi's own Times bias gives Page One a romantic, rather than journalistic, slant."
|
Armond White
|
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011)
|
"Pandering and illogical, Super 8's plot makes no demands on viewers' intelligence."
|
Armond White
|
|
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Steam of Life (Miesten vuoro) (2010)
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"In breathtaking, open country, men straddling all kinds of pot-bellies toss water on hot rocks as steam and sweat and tears intermingle because "sometimes it's good to talk.""
|
Leslie Stonebraker
|
|
82%
|
Trollhunter (2011)
|
"Ovredal's man-to-monster compositions alternately recall Tiananmen Square or the destruction of New York's WTC, and then evoke the obligation of witnessing such deeds."
|
Armond White
|
|
88%
|
X-Men: First Class (2011)
|
"The entire film is a hackneyed exercise."
|
Armond White
|
|
55%
|
Mr. Nice (2011)
|
"Thewlis' great talent has been MIA since Mike Leigh's 1993 Naked but here he delivers a caricature of British cultural audacity that is so outrageously vivid it deserves the term Dickensian."
|
Armond White
|
|
84%
|
Beginners (2011)
|
"Beginners is not culturally astute."
|
Armond White
|
|
76%
|
Rejoice & Shout (2011)
|
"Rejoice and Shout offers the most magnificent, heroic examples of art to be found in any movie so far this year."
|
Armond White
|
|
57%
|
Film socialisme (2011)
|
"More than a storyteller, always a poet, Jean-Luc Godard continues to challenge how movies function and how we look at them."
|
Armond White
|
|
65%
|
The Wave (2011)
|
"The Wave forces a confrontation with the seductive potential in all of us to abuse and be abused by the exercise of singular power in the name of good. "
|
Leslie Stonebraker
|
|
89%
|
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (2011)
|
"I dare you to leave without the title song firmly stuck in your head. "
|
Leslie Stonebraker
|
78%
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