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97%
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Gravity (2013)
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"Director Cuaron may lack imagination in plot and character, but he excels in style."
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Tony Macklin
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88%
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Rush (2013)
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"There is an essential decency to all Howard's movies, and Rush is no different."
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Tony Macklin
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34%
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Salinger (2013)
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"I have one thing to say to the director, "Sleep tight, ya moron!""
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Tony Macklin
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81%
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Prisoners (2013)
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"Prisoners is like a hyper kid got on an elevator and pushed all the buttons, so that it stopped at every floor."
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Tony Macklin
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77%
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Match Point (2005)
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"But, perhaps, the greatest parallel between Woody's Match Point and Hitch is duality. It's a brilliant device."
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Tony Macklin
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80%
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Drinking Buddies (2013)
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"Pretension. Pretension. Pretension."
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Tony Macklin
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46%
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Closed Circuit (2013)
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"It's entertaining but misses the impact that can make the genre special."
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Tony Macklin
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91%
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
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"Director/writer Woody Allen still has vitality, creativity, and the man can write."
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Tony Macklin
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91%
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
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"The writing is as subtle as a Slurpee -- even a spiked one."
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Tony Macklin
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100%
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La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013)
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"Perhaps Kendall's greatest strength is finding expressive Guatemalan faces."
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Tony Macklin
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68%
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Elysium (2013)
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"Elysium is loud, boisterous nonsense. But it is entertaining."
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Tony Macklin
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78%
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Europa Report (2013)
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"The strength of the film is not the story or the characters. It is the style that is remarkable."
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Tony Macklin
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Coin Toss ()
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"Coin Toss is a good-natured -- if disjointed -- indie."
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Tony Macklin
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20%
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Girl Most Likely (2013)
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"I went in search of Ocean City, and all I got was this stinking movie."
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Tony Macklin
|
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99%
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
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"In a way, critics are the backup singers of film."
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Tony Macklin
|
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72%
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Pacific Rim (2013)
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"What contemporary American audiences probably don't realize is how many movies today are being made in America with the foreign audience uppermost in mind."
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Tony Macklin
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83%
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Berberian Sound Studio (2013)
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"Berberian Sound Studio is a film for critics. General public -- come at your own risk."
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Tony Macklin
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31%
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The Lone Ranger (2013)
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"At one point in the movie, the Lone Ranger is dragged through manure, which begs for comment. But it's self-explanatory."
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Tony Macklin
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64%
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Unfinished Song (2013)
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"Unfinished Song is shameless hokum, but it should please its target audience."
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Tony Macklin
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50%
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White House Down (2013)
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"White House Down is rip-roaring and ridiculous."
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Tony Macklin
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67%
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World War Z (2013)
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"One of the best things about World War Z is that it's not self-indulgent."
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Tony Macklin
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56%
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Man of Steel (2013)
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"I doubt that Russell Crowe ever imagined he'd be on screen saying, "Krypton is doomed.""
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Tony Macklin
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62%
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Broken (2013)
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"Attention: Book Discussion Groups. Have I got a book for you. And a movie beautifully adapted from it. Both are titled Broken."
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Tony Macklin
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88%
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In the House (2013)
|
"Director/scriptwriter Francois Ozon knows his Hitchcock well. He employs him effectively, but the clutter is his own."
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Tony Macklin
|
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50%
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At Any Price (2013)
|
"Just like the seeds, At Any Price is genetically modified reality."
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Tony Macklin
|
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87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
|
"At its best, Star Trek Into Darkness is Cumberbatch; at its worst, it's cumbersome."
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Tony Macklin
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49%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
|
"I went into a dark tavern after I saw Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I wanted to get over the stilted, garish glitz - the 1920s embalmed in bloated bronze."
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Tony Macklin
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79%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"I've got 3D, but I want 4D. And 5D when it is concocted."
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Tony Macklin
|
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98%
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Mud (2013)
|
"Like great directors before him -- Hitchcock, Polanski, Altman, et al. -- Nichols uses duality with real skill and impact."
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Tony Macklin
|
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55%
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The Company You Keep (2013)
|
"Robert Redford -- who once was an active liberal -- is now a tired capitalist. He's also a worn-out egotist."
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Tony Macklin
|
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54%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"In Oblivion, Cruise has more chemistry with drones than with his two love interests."
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Tony Macklin
|
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69%
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Trance (2013)
|
"Trance is an elaborate tease. Trance is more mindless than mind-bending."
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Tony Macklin
|
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79%
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42 (2013)
|
"There should be a Lifetime Sports channel. 42 would be a good movie for it"
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Tony Macklin
|
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82%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
|
"The Place Beyond the Pines is ten pounds of film stuffed into a five-pound movie."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013)
|
"No wonder it's doing so well at the box office."
|
Tony Macklin
|
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36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
|
"In The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Jim Carrey makes a great freak, and Carell and Buscemi are total geeks."
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Tony Macklin
|
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That Guy... Who Was in That Thing ()
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"The film gives a greater insight into the lives of character actors. It brings them out of the shadows."
|
Tony Macklin
|
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——
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History Of The Eagles: Part 1 ()
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"The Eagles live in both the present and the past."
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Tony Macklin
|
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14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
|
"Those going to see the latest John McClane movie (the 5th), expecting another smart and sassy Die Hard, instead get Transformers, Part 12."
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Tony Macklin
|
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84%
|
Side Effects (2013)
|
"Hitch used illogic, but he never plummeted into hokum as Side Effects does."
|
Tony Macklin
|
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46%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013)
|
"Bullet to the Head is a blunt movie with a blunt star. It's also bluntly entertaining."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
56%
|
Fairhaven (2013)
|
"It's difficult to dislike Fairhaven, because it is a promising, earnest effort."
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Tony Macklin
|
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93%
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Amour (2012)
|
"A viewer may want to watch Amour, because it is a work of art."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
82%
|
De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012)
|
"A lesser director would not have breathed life into Rust and Bone, but Audiard directs with skill and sensitivity, even when his characters lack those attributes."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012)
|
"Zobel has proposed an intriguing, disturbing concept. But he makes leaps. Compliance is a good film. I wish it had been a little better."
|
Tony Macklin
|
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88%
|
Django Unchained (2012)
|
"Django Unchained is part Red Bull and part bloody bubble bath. It's a hoot and a holler."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013)
|
"Promised Land is no Good Will Hunting (1997). It brings back director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Damon, but it's another example of you can't go home again."
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Tony Macklin
|
|
80%
|
Quartet (2013)
|
"So often today, the older generation rejects movies because they think they're not for them. But Quartet is."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
70%
|
Not Fade Away (2012)
|
"The British invasion of rock 'n' roll was upon America, and David Chase remembers the time with both fond and bitter memories."
|
Tony Macklin
|
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013)
|
"Zero Dark Thirty is a skillful -- and somewhat cautious -- look at military bureaucracy. It's both hampered and elevated by its dependence on authenticity."
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Tony Macklin
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