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79%
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Monsters University (2013)
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"A frivolous but enjoyable prequel. "
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Matt Singer
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97%
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
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"A must see for anyone interested in the crossroads between performing talent and business."
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Jordan Hoffman
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56%
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Man of Steel (2013)
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"If comic book heroes are our modern Greek gods, 'Man of Steel' is solid enough to stand proudly atop Mount Olympus."
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Jordan Hoffman
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34%
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The Internship (2013)
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"Not so much product placement in a movie as movie placement in a product."
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Matt Singer
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85%
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This Is the End (2013)
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"The Miami Heat of stoner comedies. There are so many talented people involved it almost seems unfair to other comedies."
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Matt Singer
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62%
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The Bling Ring (2013)
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"While the film is repetitive, it isn't boring; while the world it represents is morally ugly, the picture is striking to look at."
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Jordan Hoffman
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90%
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Fruitvale Station (2013)
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"If you aren't choked up at the end, you may have some kind of problem. "
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Jordan Hoffman
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50%
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Now You See Me (2013)
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"Silly but not entirely unpleasurable."
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Matt Singer
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11%
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After Earth (2013)
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"I can't lie and say I didn't enjoy this asinine movie. "
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Jordan Hoffman
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91%
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Frances Ha (2013)
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"This movie has an endless supply of small but brilliant comic observations."
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Matt Singer
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20%
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The Hangover Part III (2013)
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"The Hangover giveth and The Hangover taketh away."
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Matt Singer
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36%
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Peeples (2013)
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"The material is beyond stale, but it's made significantly fresher by Robinson and a very enthusiastic cast. "
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Matt Singer
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38%
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The Purge (2013)
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"Snicker all you want at this dopey picture, but instead of being another pointless slasher, it at least makes an attempt at some interesting discourse."
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Jordan Hoffman
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50%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Well, you did it Baz Luhrmann. Even with an enormous budget and a camera that can fly around and do just about anything, you still made watching 'The Great Gatsby' just as boring as sitting through 8th period English."
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Jordan Hoffman
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87%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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"The Enterprise and all the people on it are gorgeous. It's just that by front-loading so much on the visceral thrills and our affection for these characters, there's just no room for the rather tangled storyline."
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Jordan Hoffman
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96%
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Stories We Tell (2013)
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"A study on how facts have repercussions and are interpreted in different ways by different people."
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Jordan Hoffman
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"A worthy, quirky, entertaining follow-up to The Avengers."
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Matt Singer
|
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45%
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Pain & Gain (2013)
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"The satire is as subtle as, well, a Michael Bay movie."
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Matt Singer
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4%
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Scary Movie 5 (2013)
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"There are opportunities to have a good time with this film, if you are a forgiving sort."
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Jordan Hoffman
|
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68%
|
Trance (2013)
|
"A high-gloss throwback to Boyle's first movie, Shallow Grave."
|
Matt Singer
|
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77%
|
42 (2013)
|
"It would be hard to overstate Jackie Robinson's importance to baseball and to American history, but 42 nearly does."
|
Matt Singer
|
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42%
|
To The Wonder (2013)
|
"The artful noodlings of a creative genius off his game."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
75%
|
Simon Killer (2013)
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"brooding and mesmerizing"
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Jordan Hoffman
|
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56%
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The Company You Keep (2013)
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"There's more substance in their sighs than in any of the dialogue"
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
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9%
|
The Host (2013)
|
"It stinks. . .and yet. . .I'm glad I saw 'The Host,' and more so than just as an anthropological study"
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Jordan Hoffman
|
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28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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" It is, surprisingly, the lesser of the two 'G.I. Joe' films, with Stephen Sommers' 2009 'The Rise of Cobra' featuring much more team spirit, pep and fun."
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
|
"A wildly mixed bag."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013)
|
"When the Croods wake up each morning their rallying cry is "Still Alive!" It gets a big laugh, but comes from a genuine place of panic."
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Jordan Hoffman
|
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41%
|
The Call (2013)
|
"You can envision a really interesting version of The Call. This, regrettably, is not that version."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
88%
|
You're Next (2013)
|
"An incredibly fun scary movie."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
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Zero Charisma ()
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"Does for pop culture dorks what Big Fan did for sports obsessives: examines their passion with equal amounts of empathy and satire."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
|
"'The Place Beyond the Pines' comes readymade with a heft. . .as if students have been banging out essays on [it] for years."
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
65%
|
Spring Breakers (2013)
|
" Franco gives an all-time great performance in an otherwise okay film."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
37%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
|
"It's a little weird that a movie about the dangers of doing something so long that it becomes rote and stale is, at times, rote and stale."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013)
|
"Manages to carve out its own distinct and memorable place in the history of this franchise. With a chainsaw."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
37%
|
Dead Man Down (2013)
|
"I can see people renting this over VOD. I can also see a lot of people turning to the person next to them on the couch and asking "do you want to finish this?""
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
38%
|
Admission (2013)
|
"Off the likability charts"
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
|
"A better-than-average blockbuster kids film."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
|
"Bland four-quadrant filmmaking."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
17%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013)
|
"A cursory follow-up to a smart movie. "
|
Matt Singer
|
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013)
|
"[Justin Chon] bursting into a bar shouting the quote "where the white women at?" just speaks to me, what can I say?"
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013)
|
"Prurience aside, 'Stoker's' photography and production design are sublime, each frame worthy of a high-res screenshot for the noblest of cineaste Tumblrs. "
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
57%
|
Snitch (2013)
|
"I can say, with all sincerity, that 'Snitch' is not bad. "
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
46%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
|
"'Beautiful Creatures' is so brazen of a 'Twilight' knock-off, one has to respect its chutzpah. "
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013)
|
"[M]ay as well be set on another planet - a world where everyone is perfect, (except the one guy who is bad), the weather is wonderful (even when it rains) and you can support yourself off of tips from the lunch shift."
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
|
"A poor excuse to Die Hard."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
92%
|
No (2013)
|
"Simultaneously uplifting and unsettling."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013)
|
"Asinine [and] illiterate. "
|
Jordan Hoffman
|
|
84%
|
Side Effects (2013)
|
"A brilliant thriller, made by a filmmaker at the top of his game."
|
Matt Singer
|
|
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The Dirties ()
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"'The Dirties' is a noble mix of entertainment and social importance."
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Jordan Hoffman
|
74%
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