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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"A superhero movie with enough intelligence and personality that it should appeal to plenty outside its intended comic book demographic."
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Rob Humanick
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87%
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008)
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"If the first Hellboy was about the loss of our fathers and the mystery of where we come from, Hellboy II centers on where we are going, and what we do when the mantle passes."
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Rob Humanick
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64%
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Quantum of Solace (2008)
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"This time around, Bond's biggest adversaries are those behind the camera."
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Rob Humanick
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91%
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
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"Its flaws are more so of the executional than the conceptual kind, the whole more than the sum of its parts."
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Rob Humanick
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83%
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Avatar (2009)
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"This sci-fi epic would be a masterpiece if judged solely on its technical merits."
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Rob Humanick
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83%
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Avatar (2009)
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"Cameron is flexing his creative muscles, but the film never overcomes the nagging feeling that he's also simply going through the motions."
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Rob Humanick
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013)
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"The creative production design and earnest script go a long way in elevating so modest a work."
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Rob Humanick
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65%
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Mama (2013)
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"No mere shocker, but a thoughtful rumination on what it means to love, lose, and move on from life's cruel blows."
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Rob Humanick
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32%
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Gangster Squad (2013)
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"All style and pose devoid of soul."
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Rob Humanick
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59%
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The Last Stand (2013)
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"If the sequences removed from Sommerton held a little more presence [...] I'd be less hesitant to call The Last Stand anything less than great."
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Rob Humanick
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14%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
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"It would be different if Hansel & Gretel were only stupid; that it's also boring is unforgivable."
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Rob Humanick
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Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
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"Among the most efficient and exciting of the series since the 1954 original"
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Rob Humanick
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98%
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Up (2009)
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"Quintessential Pixar."
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Rob Humanick
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94%
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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"Were films judged entirely by the emotive impact of their opening and closing images, The Dark Knight would be a masterpiece."
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Rob Humanick
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37%
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Rambo (Rambo IV) (2008)
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"Stallone uses his iconic character here to explore the necessary evils of violence through a brutal pop lens."
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Rob Humanick
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96%
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
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"Subjects us to the kind of unrelenting nightmare we only wish we could wake up from."
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Rob Humanick
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77%
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Planet Terror (Grindhouse Presents: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror) (2007)
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"A first-rate homage to the schlocky, sleazy B-movies of decades past."
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Rob Humanick
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67%
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Death Proof (2007)
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"Death Proof doesn't simply comment on its genre inspirations - it adds to their very legacy."
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Rob Humanick
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98%
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Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) (Nosferatu the Vampire) (1922)
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"Certainly one of the most subtly festering horror films ever made."
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Rob Humanick
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64%
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Anna Karenina (2012)
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"The end result remains quixotically affecting, and more than the sum of its many delirious parts."
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Rob Humanick
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88%
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Life of Pi (2012)
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"Martel's novel could have yielded a greater film in different hands, but Lee's work remains one to be grateful for."
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Rob Humanick
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92%
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
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"Succeeds less on the merits of aesthetics than its willingness to give in to crowd-pleasing effervescence."
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Rob Humanick
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86%
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
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"Yearns to find eternal truths under impossible circumstances, and succeeds with flying colors by my watch."
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Rob Humanick
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81%
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The Impossible (2012)
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"What reeks most about The Impossible is that it mistakes adventurous titillation for humanitarian mourning."
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Rob Humanick
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19%
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Texas Chainsaw (2013)
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"Pardon me while I reassess my stance on the death penalty."
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Rob Humanick
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89%
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Lincoln (2012)
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"As essential an entry in Spielberg's catalog as his most popular blockbusters and heralded epics."
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Rob Humanick
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92%
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Skyfall (2012)
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"What propels this grisly chapter is the characters' keen sense of agency."
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Rob Humanick
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69%
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Les Misérables (2012)
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"Fosse wept."
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Rob Humanick
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63%
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Hitchcock (2012)
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"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while."
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Rob Humanick
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78%
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Flight (2012)
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"One would be foolish to expect anything less from one of our great humanitarian mainstream artists."
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Rob Humanick
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88%
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Django Unchained (2012)
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"A work that suggests someone brave or foolish enough (or both) to charge into a hellfire with dynamite strapped to their back."
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Rob Humanick
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65%
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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"Butter spread over too much bread, Bilbo might say."
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Rob Humanick
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74%
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Prometheus (2012)
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"Insulting lip service to 2001 notwithstanding, Prometheus shocks and awes with more than sufficient technical bravura. If only it was as smart as it clearly thinks it is."
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Rob Humanick
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39%
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The Possession (2012)
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"While frustratingly vague in terms of character and motivation, The Possession is among the more competent of recent studio horror efforts. If only that wasn't the best thing I could say about it."
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Rob Humanick
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38%
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Lockout (Unrated) (2012)
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"Lean, fun, smart without overthinking things and always equipped with a one-liner, Lockout is refreshingly free of the bull**** that plagues so many genre films."
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Rob Humanick
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77%
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Killer Joe (2012)
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"The humor magnifies the horror, and vice versa. Like the inflammatory Dr. Strangelove, we've sewn these seeds, and we deserve whatever is reaped from them."
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Rob Humanick
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46%
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Beyond The Black Rainbow (2012)
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"If 2001: A Space Odyssey had an evil twin masquerading as a horror film, this would be it. Beyond the Black Rainbow culls from untold volumes of film history even as it delivers its own uniquely brilliant freak-outs."
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Rob Humanick
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65%
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The Expendables 2 (2012)
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"Enjoyable, but disappointingly tame compared to its ferocious predecessor. The Expendables 2 is disposable."
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Rob Humanick
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31%
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Total Recall (2012)
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"While far from terrible, this retread forgoes any qualities to justify its existence in the first place. It will be justly forgotten before long."
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Rob Humanick
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51%
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Savages (2012)
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"Essentially stupid, but stylistically invigorating, like watching a genius muck about with finger paints like a child on a sugar high. And then it throws it back in your face."
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Rob Humanick
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78%
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Take This Waltz (2012)
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"Polley's sophomore feature fumbles between reality and fantasy, often insightful but frequently ungrounded. Dig that carnival ride, though."
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Rob Humanick
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99%
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This Is Not a Film (2012)
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"The truth of what is and isn't lies deep between the lines of this brilliantly elusive meta-commentary, arguably the greatest Iranian film since Abbas Kiarostami's masterpiece Close-Up."
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Rob Humanick
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37%
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
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"I laughed, and frequently. There are also images I can now never forget, and kind of want to. Is this what it was like for all those people I introduced, kicking and screaming, to Aqua Teen Hunger Force?"
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Rob Humanick
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83%
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Your Sister's Sister (2012)
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"What could have been trite male wish-fulfillment is instead beholden to genuinely messy revelations: life as a tattered, living quilt we sew and wear as one."
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Rob Humanick
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My Life As Abraham Lincoln (2012)
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"Caught somewhere between an overwrought and interminable student film and an affectionately incompetent Ed Wood production. After two viewings, I don't know entirely how to feel about the experience, and that, to me, says it's an essential one."
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Rob Humanick
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67%
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Lawless (2012)
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"Appropriately solemn and violent, yet strangely lifeless. I imagine a better film was lost in the editing room, and will hopefully be found on Blu-ray."
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Rob Humanick
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80%
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Haywire (2012)
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""Don't think of her as a woman. That would be a mistake," says an s.o.b. late in this sexy, jazzy exercise, and he couldn't be more wrong. The action film as a love letter to a lethal goddess."
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Rob Humanick
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87%
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
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"There's enough that works in The Dark Knight Rises that I can overlook most of the more glaring flaws, but it remains to date the most disappointing film I've seen from 2012."
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Rob Humanick
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67%
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Cloud Atlas (2012)
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"But for an unnecessary insistence on reinforcing its own themes and motifs, this might have been a great film. I'm still pleased it exists at all."
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Rob Humanick
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34%
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Battleship (2012)
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"This cheap-looking dung heap doesn't even bother hiding its contempt for paying audiences, and the lack of pretension almost justifies the cynicism on display."
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Rob Humanick
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78%
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