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71%
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Return (2012)
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"A quietly devastating, powerful and poignant drama boasting an unflinchingly honest and well-nuanced performance by Linda Cardellini."
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85%
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Chronicle (2012)
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"A thoroughly exhilarating, imaginative and character driven sci-fi thriller that's invigoratingly smart and surprisingly poignant. It's destined to become a sci-fi classic. "
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33%
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Lula, the Son of Brazil (2012)
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"Well-acted and mildly engaging, but too much melodrama and not enough compelling insight."
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86%
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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2012)
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"Exhilarating, intelligent and compelling with plenty of surprises and dazzling animation."
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82%
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Crazy Horse (2012)
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"Titillating and captivating, but low on insight and occasionally tedious."
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34%
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Joyful Noise (2012)
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"Painfully awkward, melodramatic and contrived. Skip the movie and just buy its uplifting soundtrack. "
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86%
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Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (2011)
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"Powerful, illuminating and inspirational."
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58%
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Crazy Wisdom (2011)
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"Well-shot and edited, but low on provocative insight. "
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77%
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The Hunter (2012)
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"Atmospheric, but underwhelming, underwritten and emotionally hollow."
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95%
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Pina (2011)
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"An often exhilarating, lively, magical and breathtaking experience of Pina Bausch's art. "
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63%
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Miss Minoes (2011)
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"Charming, harmless, refreshingly bizarre and unabashedly silly, but kids will be much more entertained than adults. "
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8%
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New Year's Eve (2011)
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"Rivals Gigli as one of the most cringe-inducing, asinine and silly romcoms in quite some time. Save yourself the torture and just rent Love Actually instead. "
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56%
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Lads & Jockeys (2011)
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"Sans sufficient insight, it feels incomplete and a tad underwhelming, but quite heartfelt and mildly engaging nonetheless."
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83%
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In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (2011)
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"Wondrous, captivating and genuinely heartfelt. "
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97%
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The Artist (2011)
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"An invigorating, charming, witty and crowd-pleasing delight that's destined to become a classic while skyrocketing the careers of Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Béjo. "
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Joy Road (2011)
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"A riveting, gritty, palpably entertaining drama. "
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47%
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2011)
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"An exhilarating, thrilling and thoroughly suspenseful action thriller."
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20%
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Cherkess (2011)
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"A sweeping and captivating film that offers both style and substance."
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67%
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Cargo (2011)
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"Suspenseful and captivating albeit not as unflinchingly horrifying as it could have been. "
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38%
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God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz (2011)
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"Poignant, but ultimately underwhelming and lacking insight."
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89%
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Into The Abyss (2011)
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"Powerful and profoundly moving. You'll never look at the death penalty the same way again."
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18%
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The Son of No One (2011)
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"A complex, unpredictable and exhilarating crime thriller that's just as suspenseful and captivating as The Departed."
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68%
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Tower Heist (2011)
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"A very funny, clever and crowd-pleasing comedy with a terrific ensemble cast. It deserves to become an instant classic."
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And They're Off... (2011)
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"An often amusing, harmless and sporadically funny "documentary." "
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67%
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Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
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"A palpably terrifying experience that will haunt you for days. It should be watched on the big screen in a crowded theater. Bring on number 4! "
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75%
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The Woman (2011)
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"Suspenseful, disturbing and creepy. Pollyanna McIntosh gives a raw, brave performance."
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59%
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Real Steel (2011)
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"Quite cheesy, yet exhilarating and mindlessly entertaining. It's a fun, crowd-pleasing popcorn movie that will leave you hungry for a sequel. Child star Dakota Goyo has a very bright future ahead of him. "
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93%
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50/50 (2011)
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"Funny, heartfelt, well-acted and refreshingly honest. It's one of the best movies of the year. "
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4%
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Abduction (2011)
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"The best unintentional comedy of the year. "
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94%
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Weekend (2011)
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"The most powerful, honest and engrossing romantic drama since Before Sunrise ."
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93%
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Drive (2011)
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"Atmospheric, refreshingly intelligent and suspenseful with a well-nuanced performance by Ryan Gosling. It's one of the most invigorating thrillers of the year because it offers both style and substance. "
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38%
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Programming The Nation? (2011)
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"Serves as a vital wake-up call and manages to be simultaneously entertaining, provocative and enraging--just as all harsh truths, sans euphemisms, should be presented. "
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34%
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Burke and Hare (2011)
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"A mildly funny dark comedy with iconic British wit and tongue-in-cheek humor. "
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84%
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Contagion (2011)
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"A very entertaining, well-acted and palpably taut piece of propaganda that leaves too little room for interpretation. "
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32%
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
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"A lazy, witless sex comedy that's low on both sex and comedy. "
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88%
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The Hedgehog (2011)
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"A well-acted, intelligent drama filled with tenderness, warmth and humor. Its characters will stay ingrained in your mind long after the end credits roll. "
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56%
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Atrocious (2011)
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"Stylishly directed and palpably frightening because it leaves more to your imagination than most horror films do."
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80%
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Littlerock (2011)
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"A mildly engaging, slight and somewhat breezy slice-of-life drama that's instantly forgettable. "
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77%
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011)
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"Often boring, tedious and only fleetingly insightful. "
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95%
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The Guard (2011)
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"Wickedly funny and irreverent. The best dark comedy since In Bruges. It will leave you in stitches."
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25%
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The Beginning of a Great Revival (2011)
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"Epic with production values and a terrific ensemble cast, but often bland and emotionally hollow. "
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73%
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The Whistleblower (2011)
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"A suspenseful, unflinchingly albeit pedestrian and emotionally uninvolving thriller that's saved by Rachel Weisz's bravura performance. "
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25%
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The Change-Up (2011)
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"A grossly unfunny, asinine example of the tragic decline of American comedy. It will compel you to ask: "Should I vomit inside the theater, outside, or both?""
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78%
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
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"Amusing, initially smart and heartfelt with plenty of charm thanks to its terrific ensemble cast, but it eventually becomes contrived, uneven and sophomoric. "
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Sunny (Sseo-ni) (2011)
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"Poignant and filled moments of tenderness, humor and warmth."
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71%
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The Future (2011)
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"A daring, brilliant, profound and visionary modern masterpiece. It will go down as a classic. "
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79%
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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
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"A thrilling, exciting and enormously entertaining blockbuster that delivers plenty of exhilarating action, solid performances and the right amount of comic relief. "
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55%
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Hood To Coast (2010)
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"Heartfelt and stylishly edited with picturesque scenery, but it's often redundant, underwhelming and neither suspenseful nor insightful enough to be truly inspirational or captivating. "
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82%
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Life, Above All (2011)
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"Profoundly moving, unflinching, inspirational and eye-opening. It boasts a brave, genuinely heartfelt performance by newcomer Khomotso Manyaka. "
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91%
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Tabloid (2011)
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"A provocative, captivating and surprisingly funny documentary. Joyce McKinney deserves to be nominated for Best Actress of the Year. "
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