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36%
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Phil Spector (2013)
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"Pacino and Mirren's teamwork keeps Phil Spector watchable even when it's dousing itself in dramatic ethanol and lighting a match."
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Matt Zoller Seitz
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26%
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Erased (2013)
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"Characters we genuinely care about are lost in a movie that almost dissipates before our very eyes."
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Bilge Ebiri
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37%
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Peeples (2013)
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"Pleasant, if inane - helped along by a likable cast that's clearly having fun."
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Bilge Ebiri
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38%
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Aftershock (2013)
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"Was Aftershock just an elaborate ruse by writer-producer-star Eli Roth to justify an extended vacation to Chile?"
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Bilge Ebiri
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"Black is good at giving his heroes a morbid, self-hating edge and even better at coming up with hateable villains."
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David Edelstein
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013)
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"For all its surface amiability, The Big Wedding might be one of the more frustrating films of the year."
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Bilge Ebiri
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55%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"Was Cruise trying to beat out fellow Scientologist John Travolta for the honor of starring in the dumbest sci-fi epic ever?"
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David Edelstein
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77%
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42 (2013)
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"As Robinson, Boseman has both physical grace and sly charm."
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Bilge Ebiri
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92%
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Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013)
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"Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber."
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Bilge Ebiri
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62%
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Evil Dead (2013)
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"Five years from now, will you want to watch this bloody $14 million extravaganza or Raimi's shoestring original, which was Amateur Hour elevated to pop art? Evil Dead just bleeds money."
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David Edelstein
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94%
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Room 237 (2013)
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"As amusing as the movie is, I think in the end that Ascher misses the labyrinth for the trees."
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David Edelstein
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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"It's not stoopid anymore, but just plain stupid."
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Bilge Ebiri
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69%
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The Croods (2013)
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"The Croods isn't particularly smart, but it has just enough wit to keep us engaged and just enough speed to keep us from feeling restless."
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Bilge Ebiri
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47%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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"Olympus Has Fallen is a disgusting piece of work, but it certainly hits its marks - it makes you sick with suspense."
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David Edelstein
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66%
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Spring Breakers (2013)
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"Spring Breakers strikes me as another of Korine's calculated punk outrages, a sploog in Disney's direction."
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David Edelstein
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37%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
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"The true comeback story in this fictional comeback story doesn't belong to a character named Burt Wonderstone, but to an actor named Jim Carrey."
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Bilge Ebiri
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"It's fast, rousing, and blessedly brief - under two hours instead of, say, nine in three bladder-straining installments."
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David Edelstein
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27%
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21 And Over (2013)
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"In the end, 21 and Over is more exhausting - and exhausted - than funny or wild."
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Bilge Ebiri
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13%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)
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"If you watch closely enough, you'll see that somewhere inside The Last Exorcism Part II is a very good thriller - a genuinely unnerving movie about possession - struggling to get out."
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Bilge Ebiri
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58%
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Snitch (2013)
|
"In the end, this is a movie that lives or dies on Johnson's performance, and luckily, the actor is perfect ..."
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Bilge Ebiri
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82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013)
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"Like Someone in Love has rather simple, sentimental, melodramatic underpinnings, but the vantage changes everything. It opens up this world - and the next. It's an enthralling journey."
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David Edelstein
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13%
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Safe Haven (2013)
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"We genuinely like watching Hough and Duhamel circling around one another, and the movie has a nice sense of place. That all eventually vanishes with a doozy of a third act."
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Bilge Ebiri
|
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20%
|
Identity Thief (2013)
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"Identity Thief is funny enough, but it needed to be darker, raunchier, and crazier to live up to the promise of its casting."
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Bilge Ebiri
|
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16%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)
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"As Charles Swan seems to become more aware of his loneliness, Charlie Sheen seems to become more protective of his Charlie Sheen-ness."
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Bilge Ebiri
|
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013)
|
"Warm Bodies doesn't even have the conviction to follow through on its lame ideas, let alone its good ones. It's a mostly terrible film that misses the opportunity to be a merely mediocre one."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013)
|
"On its own degenerate terms, the movie works."
|
David Edelstein
|
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
|
"The good news is that the actors appear to be having fun. The bad news is that we're not."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw (2013)
|
"Texas Chainsaw 3D isn't exactly good, but despite its many clichés and generic indulgences, you want to give it some points for trying."
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Bilge Ebiri
|
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013)
|
"The effect is often profoundly moving, but you can't help but feel at times like there are other stories here you're missing."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012)
|
"Chase has captured this one for all time. He delivers on the movie's title."
|
David Edelstein
|
|
93%
|
Amour (2012)
|
"It is a stunning film."
|
David Edelstein
|
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012)
|
"Jack Reacher already feels as if it belongs to another era."
|
David Edelstein
|
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
|
"Breaking Dawn 2 can't do anything but go through the motions. These actors can't even lose their heads with conviction."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012)
|
"It mixes attempts at realism and grit with transparently Hollywoodized good guys-vs.-bad guys social melodrama. That requires a deft directorial hand, but director Daniel Barnz doesn't seem to have it."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
43%
|
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
|
"It's all strictly one-note stuff. But it's a funny note, and the film has a grand old time giving us the same type of gag over and over again."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
90%
|
Keep the Lights On (2012)
|
"[A] haunting, melancholy relationship drama."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012)
|
"It is one of the director's better movies of recent years, even if it is occasionally maddening."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
21%
|
Madea's Witness Protection (2012)
|
"He's still a young guy, but all throughout Witness Protection I imagined Perry sitting glumly at a dressing-room mirror, like the aging Chaplin in Limelight, forlornly rubbing makeup in his face -- a tired, old clown stuck in a tired, old routine."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012)
|
"The Raid, about as pure an action film as you're ever likely to see, wants to have its cake and eat it, too. It does."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012)
|
"Even as it settles a bit more comfortably into its story of romantic disillusionment, The Deep Blue Sea is marked by a kind of profound stasis of choice."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012)
|
"With this convoluted set-up in place, three actors with extraordinary chemistry play it all out to the end, and somehow the feeling deepens, even as the jokes spiral out of control."
|
Logan Hill
|
|
71%
|
Natural Selection (2012)
|
"I'm still reeling at how high a level of difficulty this film worked at, with its bold tonal shifts, meshing of truly dark material and spastic physical comedy."
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Logan Hill
|
|
0%
|
A Thousand Words (2012)
|
"Does Eddie Murphy actually have any range, or is it just an illusion created by a few early edgy roles and, later, a lot of CGI makeup and fat suits?"
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Bilge Ebiri
|
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012)
|
"One wonders how the movie might have played as pure, unceasing battle scenes, allowing the combat to define the characters; with real soldiers doing the onscreen fighting, something special may well have emerged."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
17%
|
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
|
"The bad news is that this sequel, which wants to wow us with its unrestrained, hyper-stylized, WTF-ness, is way too disposable for its own good."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011)
|
"For all my cavils, this is one of those wonders of the world you need to see."
|
David Edelstein
|
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011)
|
"It may not entirely work as a movie, but The Muppets shines as a piece of touching pop nostalgia."
|
Bilge Ebiri
|
|
75%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012)
|
"Stillman is in fine form, depicting this campus as a kind of Ivy League Idiocracy."
|
Logan Hill
|
|
90%
|
Winnie the Pooh (2011)
|
"After a summerlong rampage of Hollywood's obnoxious misbehavior, Pooh is mercifully without sting."
|
Logan Hill
|
|
70%
|
Horrible Bosses (2011)
|
"Still, Day's scene involving a mountain of cocaine is hyperspeed-hilarious, Farrell's unhinged, irrational fuming is marvelously cretinous, and Aniston's fully committed sex-addict sexpot act is wickedly absurd."
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Logan Hill
|
77%
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