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98%
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Let the Right One In (2008)
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"Sinister but gorgeous and compelling."
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Carina Chocano
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Grace Unplugged (2013)
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"It should satisfy its intended audience and maybe even bring a few new viewers into the flock."
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Gary Goldstein
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93%
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Re-Animator (1985)
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"It's simply the best, funniest Grand Guignol horror picture to come along in ages."
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Kevin Thomas
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89%
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Near Dark (1987)
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"There's a ghastly humor in all this, and Bigelow brings it out without overindulging it. Faced with a nearly repulsive subject, she makes the blood flow inside it, stream out over the cuts."
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Michael Wilmington
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89%
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Cronos (1994)
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"Cronos surprises with its sophisticated and spirited look at a tale straight from the crypt."
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Kenneth Turan
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95%
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Peeping Tom (1960)
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"Fear, as it turns out, is the most frightening thing in the world, and Peeping Tom makes us feel it palpably as few films have been able to do."
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Kenneth Turan
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98%
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King Kong (1933)
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"The story, like Frankenstein and Dracula, has taken on the significance of a modern folk tale, layered with obvious moralizing and as familiar as personal history."
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Mark Chalon Smith
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63%
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The Network (2013)
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"Feels a bit too cloistered and the subject perhaps too limited for feature-length attention."
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Gary Goldstein
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50%
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All Is Bright (2013)
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"In its own strange way, "All Is Bright" pulls you in even as it frustrates."
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Betsy Sharkey
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8%
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Runner Runner (2013)
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"Even with Affleck doing his Rat Pack best, by the end of "Runner Runner," the chill is gone."
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Betsy Sharkey
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63%
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Pulling Strings (2013)
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"Serving mostly as a strong calling card for star Jaime Camil, the film has an appealingly loose, slightly ramshackle charm."
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Mark Olsen
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47%
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Parkland (2013)
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""Parkland" succeeds as it fails. For whatever its flaws, it is unforgettable."
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Betsy Sharkey
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0%
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Nothing Left to Fear (2013)
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""Nothing Left to Fear" is true to its title. Director Anthony Leonardi III and writer Jonathan Mills have let not one scary moment on screen."
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Betsy Sharkey
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78%
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The Dirties (2013)
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"A masterful blend of black humor and queasy dread ..."
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Inkoo Kang
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60%
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Vikingdom (2013)
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"Once you look past the carnage, special effects and colossal locales, all you're left with is the supper show at Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament."
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Martin Tsai
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55%
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A.C.O.D. (2013)
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"Even with Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O'Hara, Jane Lynch and Amy Poehler on board, the results are regrettably forgettable."
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Sheri Linden
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76%
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Concussion (2013)
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"It is Weigert's performance that gives the film its mystery and charge. Playing seriously with identity, she draws the viewer ever closer. The way she never reveals everything is electrifying."
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Sheri Linden
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68%
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Bad Milo! (2013)
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""Bad Milo!" is a cult classic in the making."
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Inkoo Kang
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80%
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The Summit (2013)
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"A complex and gut-clenching human drama that has the great advantage of all being true."
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Kenneth Turan
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97%
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Gravity (2013)
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"Words can do little to convey the visual astonishment this space opera creates. It is a film whose impact must be experienced in 3-D on a theatrical screen to be fully understood."
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Kenneth Turan
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8%
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Argento's Dracula 3D (2013)
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"Argento ... brings enough moments of kinky madness to his not-great "Dracula" to indicate there may yet be greatness lurking within him. Here's hoping."
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Mark Olsen
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100%
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Valentine Road ()
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"Moving and infuriating ..."
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Gary Goldstein
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45%
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Men at Lunch (2013)
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"Regrettably, "Men at Lunch" obsesses over disappearing ghosts instead of the records we already have and the history we should know."
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Inkoo Kang
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62%
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Linsanity (2013)
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"A plethora of Lin family home-video clips, riveting archival and Leong-shot footage ... help tell the icon's remarkable story."
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Gary Goldstein
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89%
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After Tiller (2013)
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"The film is a welcome exploration of practical and philosophical matters seldom broached across the partisan divide."
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Sheri Linden
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Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy (2013)
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"Brilliantly conceived and beautifully crafted, "Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy" may not only be one of the year's best documentaries but one of the year's finest overall films."
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Gary Goldstein
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98%
|
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
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"Just when things start getting too grisly, Raimi rushes in with a hilarious, sendup joke to remind us that all this blood and guts is meant in spooky Grand Guignol fun."
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Kevin Thomas
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64%
|
Herb & Dorothy 50x50 (2013)
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"As engaging and unpretentious as its subjects, the Manhattan couple who became unlikely benefactors of Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art. "
|
Sheri Linden
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82%
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Don Jon (2013)
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"Who would have thought one of the most amusing and oddly insightful romantic comedies would be built around the power and the potent pull of porn?"
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Betsy Sharkey
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——
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Okami kodomo no ame to yuki (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki) ()
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"Rather an odd story, told in a one-of-a-kind style that feels equal parts sentimental, somber and strange."
|
Kenneth Turan
|
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89%
|
The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013)
|
"An intriguing portrait of a man who never wavered no matter what the world threw at him. Which was a lot."
|
Kenneth Turan
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85%
|
We Are What We Are (2013)
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"Mickle never seems in a hurry, so there is time to take note of the detail. "We Are" is rich in that regard."
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Betsy Sharkey
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45%
|
Morning (2013)
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"Leland Orser makes a raw, soul-searching feature debut as writer, director and star in "Morning." He plays the devastated father opposite his real-life wife, Jeanne Tripplehorn."
|
Betsy Sharkey
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91%
|
Inequality For All (2013)
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"Smart, funny and articulate, Robert Reich is the university professor we all wish we'd had. He's so accessible and entertaining he takes a subject that sounds soporific and makes it come alive like you wouldn't believe in "Inequality for All.""
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Kenneth Turan
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78%
|
Metallica Through the Never (2013)
|
"The problem is that Antal and Metallica took two different movies - a fine live-band document and a supernatural end-of-days romp - and smashed them together to make both of them more boring."
|
August Brown
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59%
|
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
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"Honestly, anyone who can pull off a running joke about leeks that does not make you gag, and is in fact a silly delight, deserves props."
|
Betsy Sharkey
|
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71%
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Out in the Dark (2013)
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"Ratchets up the tension on its appealing lead characters in believable, heartfelt ways while spinning out an edgy tale fueled by do-or-die sociopolitical intrigue. It's unique, powerful stuff."
|
Gary Goldstein
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——
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The Spy ()
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"Regrettably, the subtitles fail to capture Sul and Moon's witty wordplay - but their snappy, prickly chemistry is obvious to all."
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Inkoo Kang
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17%
|
The Secret Lives Of Dorks (2013)
|
"Johnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's ... clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance."
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Annlee Ellingson
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We Came Home (2013)
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""We Came Home" has its amateurish side, but it's effortlessly affecting when showing how music acts as an extended hand across generations and cultures. "
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Robert Abele
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Winter Nomads (2013)
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"An exhilarating vérité work by first-timer Manuel von Stürler, the documentary follows this seasonal migration, or transhumance, with a sense of quiet awe and intimacy, capturing the feel of cold rain, deep snow and the comforting heat of a campfire."
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Sheri Linden
|
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——
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Cleaver's Destiny (2013)
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"An earnest but ultimately amateur production on all fronts that misses an opportunity to deal seriously with topics writer-director-star Karl Lentini obviously cares about."
|
Robert Abele
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42%
|
Zaytoun (2013)
|
"It's just all too breezy to have any real effect."
|
Robert Abele
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84%
|
Blue Caprice (2013)
|
"The grainy texture of the imagery is darkly arresting. Isaiah Washington is charismatic and fearsome, channeling a toxic mix of compassion and rage."
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Betsy Sharkey
|
|
100%
|
On The Job (2013)
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"Despite the relative flatness of [the] characters - their relationships to one another are more archetypal than particular - the film is as heartbreaking as it is heart-stopping."
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Inkoo Kang
|
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43%
|
Wedding Palace (2013)
|
"The genre elements of the romantic comedy "Wedding Palace" attempt a transpacific transit, but get lost in translation."
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Inkoo Kang
|
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18%
|
Baggage Claim (2013)
|
"For a chick flick that meets the first two criteria of the Bechdel Test (it has at least two women who talk to each other), "Baggage Claim" fails the third (about something besides a man) big time."
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Annlee Ellingson
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First Cousin, Once Removed ()
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"Heartbreaking, haunting and unexpectedly heartening, "First Cousin Once Removed" is an uncommonly moving documentary portrait of a mind in disarray."
|
Kenneth Turan
|
|
96%
|
Mother Of George (2013)
|
"An unexpected gem about true love, infertility and a meddling mother-in-law."
|
Betsy Sharkey
|
|
60%
|
+1 (2013)
|
"In trying to say everything, "Plus One" reveals it doesn't have much to say at all."
|
Inkoo Kang
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