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87%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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"Expertly wields impressive CGI effects and boffo set pieces in service of a strong message, confidently expressed with some of the best acting and dialogue in Trek history."
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Jeff Giles
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94%
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Before Midnight (2013)
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"It's painful and beautiful and true, and like many relationships, you'll ask yourself: "WHY AM I STILL IN THIS?""
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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49%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"DiCaprio plays Gatsby in a way that recalls Homer Simpson's description of God: "Like Barbara Streisand before James Brolin: all powerful but insecure.""
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"In spite of some killer set pieces and some genuinely funny moments, the whole thing feels awfully hollow in the end."
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Jeff Giles
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67%
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Disconnect (2013)
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"Some of the rawest and most energetic filmmaking I've seen in some time."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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73%
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Love Is All You Need (2013)
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"This is the loveliest, most patient and gentle romance I've seen in some time."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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88%
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Upstream Color (2013)
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"This is a very sensory world, and it's demanding we interpret its tactile realities to understand it."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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93%
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Amour (2012)
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"In a film that's so explicitly cathartic for the filmmaker, there's a whole lotta catharsis withheld for the audience. "
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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32%
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Gangster Squad (2013)
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"While pretty and often entertaining, Gangster Squad's a violent urban western that gets lost in the fog of homage."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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79%
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Quartet (2013)
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"A quick and charming story of late life revival so surprisingly lithe you'd hardly believe it was a directorial debut."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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89%
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Lincoln (2012)
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"Somewhere in there, Lincoln will call upon [his administration's] faculties and better sense, and the film about him will ask something similar of us."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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92%
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Skyfall (2012)
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"Solicits swoons like the best Bonds ever did, even if Bond's dangerously close to decommission."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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52%
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This is 40 (2012)
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"Watching This is 40 actually feels like aging, which isn't precisely a draw."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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4%
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
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"All the characters and their motivations are banal at best and half drawn at worst, leading to the question: why didn't this end up on The Hallmark Channel starring TV's hot-tail of the moment?"
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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91%
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The Last Gladiators (2013)
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"In a way, this doc is Bully, grown up, and from the bully's perspective."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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47%
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Bullet to the Head (2013)
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"Walter Hill has lost none of his directorial prowess! "
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013)
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"I somehow think this "sensitive parable" took a little too much from Scott Pilgrim."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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85%
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Side Effects (2013)
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"Courtroom drama, forensic thriller, romantic murder mystery...It's as if, the prescription for genre side effects, is more genres."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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69%
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Les Misérables (2012)
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"The [film's] conclusion might be that tragedies deserve sympathy, not judgement...and I wish I could come to this conclusion myself but I saw a film directed by Tom Hooper."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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13%
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Safe Haven (2013)
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"I don't know when has the sexy south has ever looked dry."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"The action is intense but spiritless-it's heavy on fury and light on meaningful stakes."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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27%
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21 And Over (2013)
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"Despite a few lulls in the middle, the jokes pop out like Pez, are seldom stale and feel so well delivered you don't mind the movie's total meaninglessness."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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36%
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Dead Man Down (2013)
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"The brightest attraction in this gripping potboiler is the cast, which is loaded to the gills with high pedigree actors like Isabelle Huppert, who comes just shy of stealing the show as Rapace's comically deaf mother. "
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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60%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"If you liked Hugo you'll be pleased with Oz's coterie of zoopraxiscopes and praxinoscopes and zoetropes (Oh, my!)."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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37%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
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"Carrel looks too bored to "be that guy" anymore."
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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93%
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Amour (2012)
|
"One of the most thoughtful, tenderly wrought ruminations on love in recent memory."
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Jeff Giles
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52%
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This is 40 (2012)
|
"It has a terrific cast and a rich premise. So why doesn't This Is 40 feel like much of a movie?"
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Jeff Giles
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65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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"By the end, An Unexpected Journey has undeniably taken you on a ride -- it's just a much bumpier one than you might have expected."
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Jeff Giles
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74%
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Rise of the Guardians (2012)
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"Unless you have a serious bias against major holiday mascots, you'll be hard pressed to resist the occasional chuckle or wistful sigh."
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Jeff Giles
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48%
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
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"Taken on its own merits, it's a woefully uneven mess; if you've never understood the appeal of The Twilight Saga, nothing you see here will change your mind, but you probably weren't going to see it anyway."
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Jeff Giles
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92%
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Skyfall (2012)
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"A lithe, brutal case study in how characters can stay vital no matter how many stories they've already told."
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Jeff Giles
|
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86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012)
|
"Wreck-It Ralph addresses its themes with more honesty and wit than we've come to feel we have any right to expect from family-friendly Hollywood."
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Jeff Giles
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96%
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Argo (2012)
|
"Uses old-fashioned Hollywood formula to demonstrate exactly why, in the right hands, old-fashioned Hollywood formula always works."
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Jeff Giles
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93%
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Looper (2012)
|
"Only Johnson's third film, Looper's something like a modern masterpiece, and he'll be hard-pressed to follow it up -- but it should be our pleasure to watch him try."
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Jeff Giles
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87%
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