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83%
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself (2013)
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"...admiring but complicated"
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Chris Barsanti
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0%
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Hating Breitbart (2012)
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"You have to give Hating Breitbard credit. No other film on the subject would be as slavishly non-objective as this one. "
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Bill Gibron
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72%
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Leviathan (2013)
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"Rather than being taught a lesson or being rallied to a cause, Leviathan offers you the opportunity to leave your ordinary world for 87 minutes and plug yourself into the world of a fishing crew..."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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77%
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Amer (2010)
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"... those willing to immerse themselves in the film's own peculiar sensibility (never before has the connection between horror films and pornography been more obvious) will find it to be a rewarding, if also disturbing, experience."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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Prince of Tears (Lei wangzi) ()
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"...the mismatch between a visual style which would make Douglas Sirk envious...slow pace, and frequent use of voiceover have the unintended effect of discouraging the audience from becoming emotionally involved."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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88%
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The Hedgehog (2011)
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"11-year-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) is rich, precocious and extremely judgmental in the way that only a privileged child can be."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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Never Forget To Lie ()
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"If the condominiums in Warsaw serve as one means of forgetting, a collective moving on, Never Forget to Lie absorbs that movement and also remembers the truths, the sacrifices and the losses, that made it possible. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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77%
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Renoir (2013)
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"Renoir is one of those movies where all the pieces are in place for something intriguing and insightful. To that end, the film fails."
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Bill Gibron
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18%
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No One Lives (2013)
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"(T)he filmmaker fashions an experience where nothing is what it seems, where the first 25 minutes or so see more twists and turns than in a dozen derivative fright flicks..."
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Bill Gibron
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93%
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Lore (2013)
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"With its leisurely pace and lengthy run time, Lore will make those expecting a quick and easy indictment of the entire postwar world unhappy."
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Bill Gibron
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49%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"Luhrmann's Gatsby may be the most boisterous downer ever put to film. By playing up the highs, the director increases the depth of the lows."
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Bill Gibron
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Seeking Asian Female ()
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"It's something of a roller coaster ride by film's end. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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Undocumented (2011)
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"Marco Williams' remarkable film The Undocumented... considers these many burdens in a series of contexts."
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Cynthia Fuchs
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"As a modern commentary, as a piece of pop culture popcorn pizzazz, Shane Black has started the Summer 2013 season off well."
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Bill Gibron
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46%
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Pain & Gain (2013)
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"(This movie is) Michael Bay talking down to his audience, addressing previous criticisms about excess and hyperbole by offering equal amounts of both."
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Bill Gibron
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Big Men ()
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"...shapes its alternately dry and dire subject matter with a consistently keen sense of art."
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Chris Barsanti
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——
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The Project ()
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"... advocates for shoving the UN out of the way and allowing military contractors to bring a profitable peace to lawless hinterlands."
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Chris Barsanti
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Bottled Up ()
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"[a] bantamweight romantic comedy"
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Chris Barsanti
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Oxyana ()
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"A nervy portrait of the effects of economic colonialism and over-prescription of pain meds"
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Chris Barsanti
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——
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Let The Fire Burn ()
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"...superbly cool-headed"
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Chris Barsanti
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——
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Wonder Women! The Untold Story Of American Superheroines (2012)
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"Wonder Women: The Untold Story of American Superheroines concludes on a hopeful, somewhat rah-rah note."
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Terrence Butcher
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——
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Vil romance (Twisted Romance) ()
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"...writer/director José Celestino Campusano doesn't seem to be too much interested in anything about his characters beyond their sexual habits. "
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Sarah Boslaugh
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——
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Out In The Open (2013)
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"... the mockumentary device gets old pretty quickly, but it's hard to get too upset at a film that provides pleasant, positive role models discussing how they are successfully navigating life..."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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57%
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The Power Of Few (2013)
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"The Power of Few still feels very "independent" and, more importantly, original. Even if its cast is filled with well-known actors, the film embraces risky, unconventional storytelling."
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J.C. Maçek III
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92%
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Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013)
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"History and media. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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80%
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Warm Bodies (2013)
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"My zombie boyfriend. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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37%
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
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"Magic-less. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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82%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
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"Fathers, sons, and motorbikes. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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43%
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Admission (2013)
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"On entering adulthood. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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41%
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The Call (2013)
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"Put it this way: now educated and abused, good girl Casey no longer has a problem with bad language."
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Cynthia Fuchs
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9%
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The Host (2013)
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"Resistance is futile. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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60%
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
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"Looking backwards in more ways than one. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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69%
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The Croods (2013)
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"Cavemen evolving. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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28%
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
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"Explosions and action figures. "
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Cynthia Fuchs
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62%
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Evil Dead (2013)
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"Again with the dismemberments."
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Cynthia Fuchs
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44%
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Thale (2013)
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"When it tries to do something different and dangerous, Thale succeeds. When it goes for the heart, or the hero moment, it winds up being more miss than hit."
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Bill Gibron
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4%
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6 Souls (2013)
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"(T)here is a nice sense of dread here, a level of suspense that slowly dissipates as the movie meanders toward the exhausting end of its one hour and forty five minute run time."
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Bill Gibron
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100%
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The Revolutionary Optimists (2013)
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"This is the balance the film manages, celebrating the efforts at Prayasam and the successes, while never losing sight of the crises that define daily life for the kids growing up in the Kolkata slums."
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Cynthia Fuchs
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79%
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Ginger & Rosa (2013)
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"The great gift of Ginger & Rosa is Potter's willingness to let her camera observe these gifted young actresses without judgment, and to create the illusion of ordinary life unfolding before your eyes. "
|
Sarah Boslaugh
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86%
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About Sunny ()
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"This is a chilling and illuminating film. Too bad the ending feels hollow."
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Stuart Henderson
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91%
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Gimme The Loot (2013)
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"...a magical, summery treat."
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Chris Barsanti
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33%
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The Magic Sword (1962)
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"[Estelle} Winwood provides some campy humor (I kept thinking of Bewitched every time she was on screen)..."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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0%
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Alien from L.A. (Odeon) (Wanda) (1987)
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"..the answer to the trivia question "What was Kathy Ireland's first film?" but it makes her so annoying and unattractive...that you sort of wish it could be wiped from our collective memory. "
|
Sarah Boslaugh
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83%
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself (2013)
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"...give[s] you some sense of what it must have been like a literary/journalistic star in the 1960s. "
|
Sarah Boslaugh
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87%
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The Silence (2013)
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"...part police procedural and part psychological study, with more than just genre thrills to offer."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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——
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Elvis & Madona (2012)
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"Charm goes a long way...especially when accompanied by a bouncy soundtrack, and it's fun to watch a film in which things pretty much work out for the good characters and not so much for the bad ones."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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——
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Il Raggio infernale (Nest of Spies) (Danger!! Death Ray) (1967)
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"...worse-than-average spy flick starring muscleman Gordon Scott as Bart Fargo (one for the all-name team, at any rate), who is trying to get back one of those contrary-to-the-laws-of-physics death rays that seemed to pop up frequently in 1960s films."
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Sarah Boslaugh
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——
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The Mole People (1956)
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"If the plot alone is not enough to give you a terminal case of the giggles, the costuming and painted backdrops will surely do the job..."
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Sarah Boslaugh
|
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——
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The Falls (2012)
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"...a sweet little film that does offer a payoff if you're willing to wait for it."
|
Sarah Boslaugh
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67%
|
Stoker (2013)
|
"Stoker is a mystery where the means justify the ends, where even the most cynical viewer will stand up and take notice of where this particular filmmaker is taking us."
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Bill Gibron
|
77%
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