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50%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Too specific when it should be open to interpretation, and too concerned with style, it looks lavish -- but looks aren't everything. "
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Michael Smith
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36%
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Peeples (2013)
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"No one looks more lost in the movie than Washington, its biggest right-this-moment star. "
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Michael Smith
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"We can trust in Tony Stark, even when he's falling apart and can't trust himself."
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Michael Smith
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55%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"Of all of the qualities that Cruise brings to a film, an unfortunate one is inevitability. To alter that perception, and truly surprise us, would really be a Maverick move."
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Michael Smith
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50%
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Home Run (2013)
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"It delivers its message of hope and healing in a manner that is honest, entertaining and authentic, in a film that can reach audiences both religious and secular."
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Michael Smith
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68%
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Trance (2013)
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"Deliciously twisty, until it has too many twists."
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Michael Smith
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82%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
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"It's a movie that makes you think -- if not outright say -- You're a good guy. You don't have to do something this stupid. Oh, now look what you've gone and done. "
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Michael Smith
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77%
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42 (2013)
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"As a baseball movie, in its period look, in delivering its message: This entertaining picture is a solid double off the warning-track wall."
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Michael Smith
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42%
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To The Wonder (2013)
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"As a testament to the transcendent power of love and faith, it's gorgeous to look at, occasionally erotic, thoroughly confounding and at times ridiculous. "
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Michael Smith
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41%
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The Call (2013)
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"Everyone watching "The Call" will realize just how implausible its plot is...But even so, this thriller is thoroughly gripping."
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Nour Habib
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69%
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The Croods (2013)
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"It's funny. It's pretty. It's cute. "
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Nour Habib
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37%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
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"You've seen a magician call for a volunteer from the audience, and then once on stage put that person into a deep sleep, right? This movie does that to an entire audience. "
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Michael Smith
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37%
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Dead Man Down (2013)
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"This is murky stuff plot-wise, but there's something odd and original about the relationship between Farrell's and Rapace's characters, in their mutual vengeance and shared pain."
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Michael Smith
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59%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"There will be a high nostalgia factor for those who love the original, but Oz the Great and Powerful can stand on its own. This is a rollicking adventure and wondrously entertaining. "
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Michael Smith
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13%
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The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)
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"It has a better chance of boring you to death than inducing fear. "
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Michael Smith
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74%
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Rise of the Guardians (2012)
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"DreamWorks' newest picture is definitely one for the kids, but director Peter Ramsey makes it fun enough to put a smile on parents' faces."
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Nour Habib
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81%
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The Impossible (2012)
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"The true stand-out performance comes from 16-year-old Holland, whose cinematic debut is nothing short of extraordinary. "
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Nour Habib
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48%
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
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"If you're going to mess with a fairy tale, then you'd better mess with it well. "Snow White and the Huntsman" toes the line - very closely - but eventually falls on the right side of it, once you get past the first half hour or so. "
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Nour Habib
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27%
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21 And Over (2013)
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"This movie is filled with the kind of jokes you'd expect to see on an Internet meme -- something that may elicit at most a chuckle. "
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Nour Habib
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34%
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Dark Skies (2013)
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"Why do aliens unload the pantry and stack items in the form of an abstract art project, or make little boys wet their pants? Who knows, and who cares."
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Michael Smith
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"A big-budget bore that can't decide whether it wants to play more to a fanboy audience or a family audience, virtually ensuring that it will please neither. "
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Michael Smith
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58%
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Snitch (2013)
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"The action thriller "Snitch" is more thriller than action. "
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Nour Habib
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93%
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Amour (2012)
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"Amour is a pure depiction of love, in all its many forms."
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Michael Smith
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46%
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
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"The wow-factor is incredibly low. Stormy skies, blowing winds and turning teen boys into raging horndogs are part of the natural world and don't require much in the way of witchcraft."
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Michael Smith
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15%
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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
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"The poster-child for the big, dumb action movie, but Bruce Willis as John McClane makes everything better."
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Michael Smith
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30%
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Broken City (2013)
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"The movie is thoroughly entertaining. But it is entertaining in a way that, though you enjoy each scene on its own, after it's over and you think of the work as a whole, you can't help but be less than impressed."
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Nour Habib
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14%
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
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"The only audience I can think of who might enjoy this movie would be 12- or 13-year-old boys, whose parents may be wary of letting them watch it because of the numerous instances of haphazardly inserted curse words."
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Nour Habib
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13%
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Safe Haven (2013)
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"Don't let your mind ask questions when you're watching Safe Haven. You'll enjoy the movie better if you don't."
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Nour Habib
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013)
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"Unlike much of early 2013's dead-on-arrival movie fare, this picture has a pulse, and a brain, and a heart that beats strong."
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Michael Smith
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65%
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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"Guess what is unexpected about this journey? Nothing, as there isn't one surprise in watching this continuation of the cinematic telling of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth tales."
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Michael Smith
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92%
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Skyfall (2012)
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" If this proves to be a transitional film, let it be as an introduction to an agent who comes back with his sense of humor intact. "
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Michael Smith
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96%
|
Argo (2012)
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" Affleck's triumph is the way he blends multiple tones in making 'Argo' work as an Iran story, a Hollywood story and a Washington, D.C., story."
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Michael Smith
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73%
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The Whistleblower (2011)
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"The film is at its best when showing how blind justice can be, and why people in occupied countries don't automatically cheer when so-called "peacekeepers" arrive in their country."
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Michael Smith
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34%
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The Hangover Part II (2011)
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"It just might be the worst sequel ever to a really good movie."
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Michael Smith
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91%
|
Source Code (2011)
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"Duncan Jones' twisty sci-fi gem knows how to build a mystery, how to parcel out clues, and how to keep an audience guessing until the end. "
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Michael Smith
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61%
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Leaves of Grass (2010)
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"This is Tim Blake Nelson's affectionate and curious vision of his native Oklahoma, and what he sees makes for a uniquely restless, ribald motion picture."
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Michael Smith
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66%
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The American (2010)
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"Clooney further solidifies himself as the modern cinematic model of the disillusioned American male"
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Michael Smith
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41%
|
The Expendables (2010)
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"While much of the film feels as slow as Stallone, 64, at a full sprint, the last 30 minutes is a blast. Literally. The movie's theme is overkill."
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Michael Smith
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74%
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Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010)
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"So much time is devoted to chases and ricocheting bullets that whimsy for whimsy's sake takes over."
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Michael Smith
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82%
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Solitary Man (2010)
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"It became such a bore that I found myself watching a 60-year-old man and repeatedly saying, Will you just grow up? It's just sad."
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Michael Smith
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62%
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Salt (2010)
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"I should have been spending time considering why the defector would lie and why Salt would run, but I couldn't get past wondering why there are so many ponderous flashbacks."
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Michael Smith
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96%
|
Restrepo (2010)
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"The film's depiction is honest, but showcasing anything more engaging or important proves elusive. "
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Michael Smith
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52%
|
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010)
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"This thin slice of so-called history is both so narrow in focus and out of focus that even the most devoted fans are likely to be disappointed."
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Michael Smith
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86%
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Inception (2010)
|
"Is the movie over-thought? Sometimes, yes. But challenging material is rarely as satisfying as in this blockbuster from one of the dream factory's most gifted artisans. "
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Michael Smith
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93%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
|
"It's no less than a classic portrait of an American family."
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Michael Smith
|
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78%
|
The Other Guys (2010)
|
"Ferrell is funny. But any actor who allows himself to make the same movie again and again, with only slight variations, can expect the law of diminishing returns to kick in. "
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Michael Smith
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94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010)
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"There are so many unforgettable scenes, in which I found my heart racing at not knowing what was about to happen, that I found myself forgetting to breathe."
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Michael Smith
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81%
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
|
"The driving force is the snappy, witty script, one of the year's best, and each actor completely buying into Wright's camp-up-the-comedy kookiness."
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Michael Smith
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73%
|
Iron Man 2 (2010)
|
"It has more characters, more stuff blown to bits, more of everything. It's a condition common to sequels, and it can be both a good and bad thing, but this is still great fun."
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Michael Smith
|
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28%
|
Clash of the Titans (2010)
|
"The kind of remake that I wish Hollywood would make more of: Take an old film that had great ideas but wasn't a great film, and get it right the second time."
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Michael Smith
|
75%
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