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69%
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Liberal Arts (2012)
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"Liberal Arts is so sweet and safe an undertaking, it's like getting baptized in warm bathwater."
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Kathleen Murphy
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86%
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The Master (2012)
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"Quite possibly the movie of the year, or the decade. "
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Glenn Kenny
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82%
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
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"Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths promises a bloody good time. It delivers."
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James Rocchi
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67%
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Cloud Atlas (2012)
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"It is so full of passion and heart and empathy that it feels completely unlike any other modern film in its range either measured through scope of budget or sweep of action."
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James Rocchi
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85%
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End of Watch (2012)
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"Gyllenhall and Peña have chemistry together and charisma individually."
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James Rocchi
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78%
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Dredd (2012)
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"Dredd 3D isn't revelatory, nor does it redefine any of the genres it splashes among as it goes its merry, bloody way, but as goofy-gory self-satire high-tech low-morality future-cop epics go, it's charmingly diabolical."
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James Rocchi
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73%
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Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
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"... not just one of the finest indie releases of the year, but one of the sharpest and most moving and engaging movies of the year, period."
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Glenn Kenny
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22%
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The Words (2012)
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"The problem is with the three nested stories themselves, which...are treacly variations on what a not-too-inventive Nicholas Sparks enthusiast might imagine to be Hemingway-esque. "
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Glenn Kenny
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67%
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Lawless (2012)
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"This isn't to say that there's not enough here, but just don't look for it all to add up. "
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Glenn Kenny
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39%
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The Possession (2012)
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"Nothing earthshaking, but a pretty scary night out..."
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Glenn Kenny
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53%
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Little Birds (2012)
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"Little Birds is strong evidence of a real talent..."
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Glenn Kenny
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56%
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For a Good Time, Call... (2012)
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"... not just smart and sexy -- which, to be honest, is rare enough in filmmaking these days -- but it's also got a great deal of humanity and humor."
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James Rocchi
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48%
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Hit & Run (2012)
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"Hit & Run as a whole is one of the summer's most enjoyable surprises, a consistently disarming romantic comedy..."
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Glenn Kenny
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76%
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Premium Rush (2012)
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"Premium Rush isn't mindless mayhem, a thriller for teenage boys bursting with hormonal bloodlust. Koepp's film has a brain..."
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Kathleen Murphy
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87%
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Robot & Frank (2012)
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"Robot & Frank is very nearly a one-man show, a master interacting with a machine. "
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Kathleen Murphy
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89%
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Compliance (2012)
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"Compliance ends up being about certain things that it would rather not be about. "
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Glenn Kenny
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58%
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Sparkle (2012)
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"...the movie is an unholy mess of awkward staging, uneven pacing, and contrived 'big scenes'..."
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Glenn Kenny
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64%
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Cosmopolis (2012)
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"Cosmopolis is almost certainly some kind of masterpiece, but I have to admit it's probably not for everyone."
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Glenn Kenny
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87%
|
ParaNorman (2012)
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"... if you're any kind of animation or graphic art fiend or even mild enthusiast, the visuals are sure to stagger you. ParaNorman is an extrasensory delight for sure. "
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Glenn Kenny
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34%
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
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"If you're up for having your heart warmed... and have the patience to go on its short but sweet journey, [it] is truly a family fable for all ages. "
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James Rocchi
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56%
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
|
"...there are excellent performances and a few really first-rate suspense-set pieces..."
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Glenn Kenny
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58%
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Red Hook Summer (2012)
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"[The movie] isn't a smooth slow jam... but one doesn't go to Spike Lee pictures in order to solicit a complacent experience anyway. "
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Glenn Kenny
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20%
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Goats (2012)
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"... a stubborn, mangy, tangled-haired mutt of a movie -- one that could have used a little more guidance and construction and a little less free-range 'quirkiness.' "
|
James Rocchi
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65%
|
The Campaign (2012)
|
"Will Ferrell, all is forgiven after the botch that was Casa De Mi Padre. And in fact this may be the best movie, comedic or dramatic, that you've made yet."
|
Glenn Kenny
|
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012)
|
"Compliance is a fascinating and deeply unsettling version of true events, but it goes past that, with art and honesty."
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James Rocchi
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|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012)
|
"Though falling short of what might have been, Hope Springs must still be recommended as superior entertainment for card-carrying grown-ups. "
|
Kathleen Murphy
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50%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)
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"...I think it's possible that all tween audiences, wimpy or not, deserve better than this. "
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Glenn Kenny
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31%
|
Total Recall (2012)
|
"Wiseman directs his film as if it's a shark... But really, it's more of a carp, shiny and pretty but fat and dopey, fed on nothing but scavenged leftovers. "
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James Rocchi
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21%
|
360 (2012)
|
"I hope Peter Morgan doesn't give up writing, and I do hope Meirelles gives up trying to be Alejandro González Iñárritu. "
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Glenn Kenny
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8%
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The Babymakers (2012)
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"...this is one of the most technically inept movies I've seen in quite some time..."
|
Glenn Kenny
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70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)
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"...if Celeste and Jesse Forever is a showcase for anyone -- and it is -- you'd first have to note Jones and Samberg. "
|
James Rocchi
|
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42%
|
Step Up 4: Miami Heat (2012)
|
"Despite their infectious energy and some mind-blowing moves, there's a chaotic formlessness to even the best of these set pieces"
|
Kathleen Murphy
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16%
|
The Watch (2012)
|
"In the end, the jokes aren't funny enough, and there aren't enough of them to make up for the sound and fury and incoherence and, yeah, for the preponderance of damn shooting. "
|
Glenn Kenny
|
|
79%
|
Klown (2012)
|
"...a reasonably enjoyable and not entirely dumb raunch comedy of awkwardness until it disastrously overplays its hand in the final two minutes. "
|
Glenn Kenny
|
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012)
|
"...a rare gem of a romantic comedy, sharp and smart with a warm glow."
|
James Rocchi
|
|
87%
|
Easy Money (2012)
|
"This Swedish gangster flick blasts out from under you like a high-octane muscle car..."
|
Kathleen Murphy
|
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
|
"The Dark Knight Rises only rarely starts to tremor under the weight of its own portent, and is not without its own sly humor. Well done. "
|
Glenn Kenny
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37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
|
"It all would have been more enjoyable without all the treacle and pandering."
|
Glenn Kenny
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29%
|
Red Lights (2012)
|
"Stultifying from start to finish, this mess of a movie is supremely incoherent -- plot-, dialogue- and character-wise."
|
Kathleen Murphy
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51%
|
Savages (2012)
|
"Frustration turned to irritation by the time the thoroughly anti-climactic, can't-make-up-its-mind dénouement finally rolls around. "
|
Glenn Kenny
|
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77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)
|
"What is there of interest for non-Katy-Perry fans? Not a whole lot... Still, I was hardly bored."
|
Glenn Kenny
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73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
|
"... if you're not sick of superhero movies by now, this is a relatively decent one."
|
Glenn Kenny
|
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56%
|
People Like Us (2012)
|
"...a sentimental but strongly made standout in a summer otherwise full of superheroes and space aliens."
|
James Rocchi
|
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012)
|
"Steven Soderbergh's funny, exhilarating, down-and-dirty celebration of a different breed of costumed superstud..."
|
Kathleen Murphy
|
|
69%
|
Ted (2012)
|
"...it does serve up a pretty jaw-dropping array of remarkably crude, nasty, and at times pretty gut-busting jokes."
|
Glenn Kenny
|
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
|
"Beasts is striking and affecting in all kinds of ways."
|
Glenn Kenny
|
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35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
|
"It constitutes a moral sin, if not an outright moral crime, and commits a grave insult against history."
|
Glenn Kenny
|
|
43%
|
To Rome with Love (2012)
|
"...a refreshing summer entertainment, not too sweet but not terribly bitter, and very picturesque besides. "
|
Glenn Kenny
|
|
55%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
|
"...Scafaria's skill here is not only in getting a wide pool of talented people to be in the film, but also in actually giving them something to do."
|
James Rocchi
|
|
78%
|
Brave (2012)
|
"...what seemed a relatively conventional family film gets downright eccentric."
|
Glenn Kenny
|
77%
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