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50%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Not great, but some very good parts in this 3D, Luhrmannized adaptation."
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Robert Cashill
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"The best of the bunch."
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Robert Cashill
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99%
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Mud (2013)
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"Shown at Cannes last year this is altogether a looser piece that Nichols' two other films, with more humor, and largely unburdened by apocalypse."
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Robert Cashill
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87%
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Easy Money (2012)
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"Watchable if less than inspired."
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Robert Cashill
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42%
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To The Wonder (2013)
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"If you're not on its wavelength, you're off it."
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Robert Cashill
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66%
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Spring Breakers (2013)
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"Only mildly diverting, it still has a certain arthouse fusion quality to it."
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Robert Cashill
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59%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"An Oz for 2013, neither great nor powerful, merely Ok."
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Robert Cashill
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West of Shanghai ()
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"If only it was pre-Code."
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Robert Cashill
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96%
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The Insider (1999)
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"The Blu-ray revives one of the great journalism movies."
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Robert Cashill
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"Fee fye ho hum."
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Robert Cashill
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87%
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Frankenweenie (2012)
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"A tremendous Blu-ray presentation wags the tail of this dog."
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Robert Cashill
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75%
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Peter Pan (1953)
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"A gorgeous Diamond Edition Blu-ray."
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Robert Cashill
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97%
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Cabaret (1972)
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"The new Blu-ray is a magnificent restoration of a film classic."
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Robert Cashill
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82%
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
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"Surprising and stimulating."
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Robert Cashill
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69%
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Les Misérables (2012)
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"Tom Hooper has come up with a screen Les Miz that works splendidly-or as splendidly as a movie of Les Miz could ever work."
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Robert Cashill
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77%
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A League of Their Own (1992)
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"The only indefensible movie in the Natonal Film Registry."
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Robert Cashill
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65%
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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"A decent start--and two more chances to get it right."
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Robert Cashill
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75%
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Killing Them Softly (2012)
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"Killing Them Softly chases respect, and the huffing and puffing to get it is tiring."
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Robert Cashill
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78%
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Brave (2012)
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"A solidly edifying Blu-ray package in want of a more fulfilling movie."
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Robert Cashill
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48%
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
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"Not the fairest of them all."
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Robert Cashill
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70%
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The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2012)
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"n the absence of Westerns I loved this fanciful Eastern, and hope that Tsui and Li send more flying swords in our direction soon."
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Robert Cashill
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38%
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[REC] 3 Genesis (2012)
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"BRIDESMAIDS meets THE EVIL DEAD in this horror comedy followup."
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Robert Cashill
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65%
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The Expendables 2 (2012)
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"I hope they keep making them until THE DEPENDABLES, when the cast is in adult diapers."
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Robert Cashill
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——
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)
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"I think the sharks are albino because the CGI staff didn't know how to render color on their Compaqs. Spielberg can rest easy."
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Robert Cashill
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100%
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Jaws (1975)
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"A classic comes to Blu-ray."
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Robert Cashill
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94%
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Deliverance (1972)
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"Interview with Ronny Cox about John Boorman's masterful adaptation."
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Robert Cashill
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55%
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
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"The world ends, not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a smile or two and treacly old songs."
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Robert Cashill
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——
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Love Never Dies (2012)
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"The music, like the production, is handsome but inert."
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Robert Cashill
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74%
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Prometheus (2012)
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" In space, no one can hear you scream. But on Earth, no one has to show up for the second weekend."
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Robert Cashill
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93%
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
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"May the Force be...nah. The Force is always with us."
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Robert Cashill
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100%
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A Night to Remember (1958)
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"A perfect distillation of a great book. (Criterion Blu-ray)"
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Robert Cashill
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92%
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
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"It's nothing if not affectionate toward horror movies, maybe too much so, and it is so stuffed with things I can see myself pausing the Blu-ray repeatedly to see what I missed."
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Robert Cashill
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83%
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Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012)
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"Behind an awkward, too-cute title is documentarian Morgan Spurlock's sincere and appealing look at Comic-Con International."
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Robert Cashill
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86%
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Battle Royale 3D (2000)
|
"The superior, legitimate presentation on Blu-ray is, short of an actual theatrical release, the showcase it required. "
|
Robert Cashill
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85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012)
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"Here we have another adaptation that doesn't seem to have adapted anything; the movie just spits out plot and exposition and incident for 142 minutes."
|
Robert Cashill
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84%
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The Raid: Redemption (2012)
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"The movie's real redemption is applying defibrillators to the tired action movie market and giving it a jolt."
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Robert Cashill
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90%
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Footnote (2012)
|
"This painfully funny Oscar nominee is no also-ran."
|
Robert Cashill
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53%
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Being Flynn (2012)
|
"An earnest, conscientious, and almost entirely flat adaptation."
|
Robert Cashill
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52%
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The Iron Lady (2012)
|
"Streep acts and acts and acts some more in a vacuum of ideas and sensibility."
|
Robert Cashill
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94%
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Hugo (2011)
|
"Scorsese has made the past present for generations to come, as a good father should."
|
Robert Cashill
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99%
|
A Separation (2011)
|
"A true masterpiece."
|
Robert Cashill
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77%
|
Melancholia (2011)
|
"Only fitfully engaging but the sound and fury, and Dunst's performance, keep it in orbit. "
|
Robert Cashill
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80%
|
Shame (2011)
|
"Another relentlessly negative movie about sex, with a downer aesthetic. "
|
Robert Cashill
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|
90%
|
Blow Out (1981)
|
"A classic comes to Criterion Blu-ray."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
89%
|
Scarface (2003)
|
"Grandiose and outrageous."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
76%
|
The Debt (2011)
|
"The Debt is the kind of movie that you go to see when there's not much playing that you want to see, so you see The Debt."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
93%
|
Drive (2011)
|
"Stalled with audiences but a good ride in some ways."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
95%
|
Moneyball (2011)
|
"Extracts from the book with precision, humor, heart, and a certain muted excitement."
|
Robert Cashill
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85%
|
Contagion (2011)
|
"Effective, but more like a low-grade fever that passes quickly. "
|
Robert Cashill
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|
76%
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The Help (2011)
|
"A whole lot of poop pie."
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Robert Cashill
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77%
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