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50%
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Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)
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"An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist."
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Peter Keough
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81%
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Renoir (2013)
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""Renoir" doesn't get much beneath the surface - but, good God, what a surface."
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Ty Burr
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76%
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Kon Tiki (2013)
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""Kon-Tiki" is stalwart and uplifting and there are passing moments of wonder."
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Ty Burr
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87%
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In the House (2013)
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"[A] slyly warped student-and-teacher yarn."
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Tom Russo
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75%
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No Place On Earth (2013)
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"[A] fascinating but frustrating documentary ..."
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Peter Keough
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78%
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Iron Man 3 (2013)
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"The best scenes are when Stark just cuts impatiently through the claptrap."
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Ty Burr
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88%
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The Angels' Share (2013)
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"Charming enough to satisfy even the trenchant-commentary crowd."
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Tom Russo
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88%
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Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013)
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"An entertaining examination of the "kitschy and profound" song's cultural and historical origins."
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Loren King
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98%
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Mud (2013)
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"With "Mud," Jeff Nichols announces his intention to do it all. He just may yet."
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Ty Burr
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24%
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Arthur Newman (2013)
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""He was kind of boring," Kevin says to Mina about his dad. "I mean, the lectures." And boring he remains."
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Peter Keough
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013)
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"An ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway."
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Tom Russo
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46%
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Pain & Gain (2013)
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"Plays like "Fargo" for idiots."
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Ty Burr
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Mary & Martha ()
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"Mary and Martha is fictional, but the characters have the blandness you generally find in docudramas."
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Matthew Gilbert
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94%
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Room 237 (2013)
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"It's about the human need for stuff to make sense - especially overpowering emotional experiences - and the tendency for some people to take that sense-making to extremes."
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Ty Burr
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65%
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A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
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"Comprehensively tackles a sprawling subject and keeps things loose and lively."
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Loren King
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88%
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Girl Rising (2013)
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"The price of good intentions is that it looks and feels like an extended public-service announcement for goodness."
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Mark Feeney
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47%
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The Lords of Salem (2013)
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"A portrait of vengeful occult torment that pushes hard to redefine the meaning of "witch trials.""
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Tom Russo
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56%
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Oblivion (2013)
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"Sometimes Oblivion can be pretty oblivious."
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Mark Feeney
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42%
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To The Wonder (2013)
|
"A meditation on love and lost paradise that starts with breathtaking assurance and slowly crumbles into self-parody."
|
Ty Burr
|
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68%
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Trance (2013)
|
"With "Trance," story becomes just another element in Boyle's commercial pop-Cubism, and the results are nearly fatal."
|
Ty Burr
|
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68%
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Disconnect (2013)
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""Disconnect" is far from a bad movie. It's just better at melodrama than drama."
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Ty Burr
|
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54%
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The Company You Keep (2013)
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"Redford is interested in telling stories again, rather than pounding us on the head for our civic and historical sins."
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Ty Burr
|
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89%
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Koch (2013)
|
"What he really was was one of a kind. Whether intentionally or not, "Koch" shows that that's not necessarily a bad thing."
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Mark Feeney
|
|
87%
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Upstream Color (2013)
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"While I feel compelled to see it again, I don't have high hopes that it will make any more sense."
|
Peter Keough
|
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77%
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42 (2013)
|
"If you want a crowd-pleaser that confirms your belief in America's steady, pre-ordained progression away from racism, this will do fine."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
81%
|
Batman Returns (1992)
|
"Batman Returns is the rarest of Hollywood beasts -- a sequel that's better than the original"
|
Jay Carr
|
|
81%
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)
|
"Cianfrance hasn't figured out what he wants to say, but he spends a lot of time and energy trying to say it."
|
Ty Burr
|
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57%
|
High Tech, Low Life (2013)
|
""High Tech, Low Life" (not a good title) has a nice easy rhythm. It feels neither hurried nor emphatic."
|
Mark Feeney
|
|
81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)
|
"The film's perfectly fine, but it's not a patch on "Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro," "Princess Mononoke," and other Studio Ghibli classics."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
92%
|
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013)
|
"People who weren't around during the '60s-'70s cusp can hardly appreciate just how weird that time was. "Free Angela" brings that weirdness back."
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Mark Feeney
|
|
92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013)
|
"I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement."
|
Tom Russo
|
|
91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013)
|
"As it lopes along, the movie offers a warm but very sharp portrait of New York's have-nots and their uneasy relationship with the haves."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013)
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""Beyond the Hills" seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
|
"Good luck recalling any other would-be set pieces a couple of days after you've seen Retaliation."
|
Tom Russo
|
|
79%
|
Reality (2013)
|
"As cautionary tales go, this one's ripely knowing, and it speaks in a lot more languages than Italian."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013)
|
"Bertrand does his jelly-belly best to keep "Starbuck" a comedy. But even the broadest shtick can't prevent a movie that features a Busby Berkeley-style group hug from becoming a male weepie."
|
Mark Feeney
|
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013)
|
""The Sapphires" illustrates how the same old story - in this case, the one about a 1960s girl group and its struggles - can be freshened up through the novelties of place and characterization."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
9%
|
The Host (2013)
|
"If nothing else, the movie serves as an excellent substitute for the book: better art direction and a quarter of the adjectives."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
93%
|
Matewan (1987)
|
"In its grave clarity, it's as pure and plaintive as a mountain ballad."
|
Jay Carr
|
|
92%
|
Top of the Lake (2013)
|
"Evolves into a rich portrait of hard lives and the possibility of healing."
|
Matthew Gilbert
|
|
87%
|
The Silence (2013)
|
""The Silence" is a victim of over-plotting, clunky narrative, gratuitous stylization, and too many points of view."
|
Peter Keough
|
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013)
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"Elle's acting feels artless and naive, and all the more powerful for it. Fanning easily convinces you of Ginger's emotional reality - that every moment is the only moment."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012)
|
"Against all odds, a surprisingly effective movie."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
43%
|
Admission (2013)
|
"Cheerful, skittish entertainment that never takes its subject seriously enough."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013)
|
"Had the movie figured out a way to stay the less-cliched course, it might have helped the DreamWorks oeuvre take steps toward Pixar's emotional resonance."
|
Tom Russo
|
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013)
|
"Korine likes the poetics of transgression, and he trowels on the bad behavior with a heavy but mesmerizing hand."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
|
"Pop jingoism isn't easy to stir once you've established a vibe that's so deflating."
|
Tom Russo
|
|
0%
|
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
|
"So incompetently crafted that it makes the Saturday-morning cartoons seem like Disney classics."
|
Michael Blowen
|
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
|
"Burt Wonderstone is a lazy, underwritten imitation Will Ferrell movie."
|
Ty Burr
|
|
82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013)
|
"The latest small, perplexing masterpiece from the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who in recent years has chosen the path of a world director."
|
Ty Burr
|
44%
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