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97%
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Before Midnight (2013)
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"Such is the power of the final scenes that the trio would be more than justified in launching a fourth film sometimes in the next five years or so."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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22%
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The Hangover Part III (2013)
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"All these guys are funnier when they drink - which they barely do here."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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87%
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Behind the Candelabra ()
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"The lifestyles of the rich, famous and queer get a provocative examination in Steven Soderbergh's 'Behind the Candelabra.'"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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50%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Clearly, a Baz Luhrmann film coming at you in 3D is not posturing as a deep-dish literary adaptation."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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73%
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Love Is All You Need (2013)
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"Susanne Bier is unwilling to abandon her own clear-eyed, skeptical view of mankind and its troubles even when in a lighthearted mood."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"At this point, franchise fatigue definitely takes over."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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24%
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Arthur Newman (2013)
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"Ariola is genuinely into character, making sure you get enough glimpses into the lives of these people so you may glean a sense of what ails these damaged souls."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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55%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"Your mind though tends to wander - and wonder - during all the slow bits, which is much of the movie."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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77%
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42 (2013)
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"It's not easy to steal home when you've got a halo over your head but Boseman somehow manages."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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80%
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The Story Of Luke (2013)
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"The first comedy gem of 2013."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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47%
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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"It's hard to isolate what one is rooting for here since you know the outcome even as the opening scenes take place."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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69%
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The Croods (2013)
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"The Croods reps one of DreamWorks' better efforts since the action takes place in a world of startling beauty and striking life forms."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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27%
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21 And Over (2013)
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"'21 and Over' looks for laughs in all the wrong places."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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59%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"The film directed by Sam Raimi, a man who usually works from a clear roadmap into fantastical realms, is a mess."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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67%
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Stoker (2013)
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"The glee of the outrageous one gets from a true trash movie vanishes here to be replaced by a deadening sense of the filmmakers' calculation and cynicism."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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46%
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The Sweeney (2013)
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"This British film's coppers are all anachronisms as are the filmmakers' attitudes toward their anti-heroes and female characters."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"Studios will continue to roll these CGI, 3D fantasias out, but the question I'm raising is why does Bryan Singer keep getting involved?"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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30%
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The Berlin File (2013)
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"'The Berlin File' takes Hollywood's penchant for spectacle and ADD visual neurosis to its logical albeit absurd conclusion."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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92%
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No (2013)
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"The film highlights the sad fact that logical arguments don't win political debates or elections. Sloganeering and advertising do."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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27%
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Saving Lincoln (2013)
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"The film suggests a way modestly budgeted movies can approach historical epochs and figures in a provocative and arresting manner."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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46%
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
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"For a while, in the early going, you sense the filmmakers may entertain greater ambitions, that they see sly possibilities."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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20%
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Identity Thief (2013)
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"This is a movie for those who could care less about a bad premise or, for that matter, misfired gags, false sentimentality and obtuse characters."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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47%
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Bullet to the Head (2013)
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"The filmmakers must see this as idea laundering - if a movie comes from a French graphic novel inspired by American movies, then it's not really stolen moronic movie junk. It's French!"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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93%
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Lore (2013)
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"Lore is a remarkable film that explores characters, often unlikable, in situations of unbearable stress."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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37%
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Stand Up Guys (2013)
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"The movie is a star vehicle for Pacino, Walken & Arkin but this instance, it works terrifically."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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85%
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Side Effects (2013)
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"This is Steven Soderbergh's post-modern Hitchcock thriller"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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40%
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Parker (2013)
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"For fast-paced, no frills, mindless action, you could do a lot worse than Parker."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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86%
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Tabu (2012)
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"The influences of Murnau's 1931 black-and-white Tabu are more thematic than stylistic in this uncategorizable new film"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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60%
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John Dies at the End (2013)
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"A 25-year-old can get away with a sloppy horror-comedy mix of crazed visual effects and cartoonish characters. An aging auteur cannot."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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59%
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The Last Stand (2013)
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"The film is really a Howard Hawksian western where all that stands between a Mexican bandito and the border is a tough hombre sheriff."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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30%
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Broken City (2013)
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"The movie's strategy is to smear all its characters with a taint of corruption; it turns New York into a city so broken that no character is without moral culpability."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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32%
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Gangster Squad (2013)
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"The filmmakers take the most direct route to action thrills with cartoonish characters, outlandish violence and nary a moment of psychology or subtlety."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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79%
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Quartet (2013)
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"Much talent and lovely performances are lavished on a creaky, disingenuous story ostensibly about old age"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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51%
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Promised Land (2013)
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"A dishonest film about duplicity."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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18%
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Parental Guidance (2012)
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"Shouldn't Billy Crystal and Bette Midler demand sharper writing and direction?"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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69%
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Les Misérables (2012)
|
"Once the film acknowledges the exaggeration and two-dimensionality of the story's gleefully villainous characters, 'Les Mis' starts to resemble a party with great music."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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52%
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This is 40 (2012)
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"With a tighter control of his material, Judd Apatow might have made the wry, observant comedy he no doubt has in him."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
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"Seeing this movie is like watching two straight men performing an act: Neither one has any jokes."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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61%
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Jack Reacher (2012)
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"As producer and star, Tom Cruise has made a film that is at once a vanity project, possible franchise and, if one is to be honest, a crowd pleaser."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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81%
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The Impossible (2012)
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"While the final third of the film feels forced, its emotional power comes earlier - in the catastrophe of the tsunami, the immediate aftermath and random acts of heroism."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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69%
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Not Fade Away (2012)
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"Like many a semi-autobiographical piece, characters and events don't fall into place with the rigor of those 10-Step Programs of Good Screenwriting."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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88%
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Django Unchained (2012)
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"While inventive and clever, it doesn't add up to much more than a minor film from a major director."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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44%
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Save The Date (2012)
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"'Save the Date' traffics in the most banal situations and whiny characters imaginable."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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77%
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Any Day Now (2012)
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"Alan Cumming's brilliant performance is eye-catching and provocative, imbued with such feeling that this turns a social-issue film into a must-see movie."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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93%
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Amour (2012)
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"Haneke's challenge to audiences is to experience real love - it's tough and brutal and definitely not for the faint of heart."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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38%
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
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"A presidential mistress makes a good window into events of worldwide importance."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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4%
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Playing for Keeps (2012)
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"How can you stick Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid and Judy Greer in a comedy and come up so empty?"
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Kirk Honeycutt
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93%
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Zero Dark Thirty (2013)
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"The film is a calm, concentrated, densely detailed description of a manhunt on a global scale - moviemaking at its engrossing best."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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35%
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Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012)
|
"A welcome addition to the wedding comedy sub genre, light on its feet and brimming with vivid character portraits."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
|
"Wild slides into caves, pell-mell chases, absurd cliffhangers and other such "thrill-rides" in 3D give the film a playfulness."
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Kirk Honeycutt
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74%
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