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Boston Globe

Rating Title | Year Quote Author
50%

Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)

"An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist."

Peter Keough

81%

Renoir (2013)

""Renoir" doesn't get much beneath the surface - but, good God, what a surface."

Ty Burr

76%

Kon Tiki (2013)

""Kon-Tiki" is stalwart and uplifting and there are passing moments of wonder."

Ty Burr

87%

In the House (2013)

"[A] slyly warped student-and-teacher yarn."

Tom Russo

75%

No Place On Earth (2013)

"[A] fascinating but frustrating documentary ..."

Peter Keough

78%

Iron Man 3 (2013)

"The best scenes are when Stark just cuts impatiently through the claptrap."

Ty Burr

88%

The Angels' Share (2013)

"Charming enough to satisfy even the trenchant-commentary crowd."

Tom Russo

88%

Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013)

"An entertaining examination of the "kitschy and profound" song's cultural and historical origins."

Loren King

98%

Mud (2013)

"With "Mud," Jeff Nichols announces his intention to do it all. He just may yet."

Ty Burr

24%

Arthur Newman (2013)

""He was kind of boring," Kevin says to Mina about his dad. "I mean, the lectures." And boring he remains."

Peter Keough

8%

The Big Wedding (2013)

"An ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway."

Tom Russo

46%

Pain & Gain (2013)

"Plays like "Fargo" for idiots."

Ty Burr

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Mary & Martha ()

"Mary and Martha is fictional, but the characters have the blandness you generally find in docudramas."

Matthew Gilbert

94%

Room 237 (2013)

"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."

Ty Burr

65%

A Fierce Green Fire (2013)

"Comprehensively tackles a sprawling subject and keeps things loose and lively."

Loren King

88%

Girl Rising (2013)

"The price of good intentions is that it looks and feels like an extended public-service announcement for goodness."

Mark Feeney

47%

The Lords of Salem (2013)

"A portrait of vengeful occult torment that pushes hard to redefine the meaning of "witch trials.""

Tom Russo

56%

Oblivion (2013)

"Sometimes Oblivion can be pretty oblivious."

Mark Feeney

42%

To The Wonder (2013)

"A meditation on love and lost paradise that starts with breathtaking assurance and slowly crumbles into self-parody."

Ty Burr

68%

Trance (2013)

"With "Trance," story becomes just another element in Boyle's commercial pop-Cubism, and the results are nearly fatal."

Ty Burr

68%

Disconnect (2013)

""Disconnect" is far from a bad movie. It's just better at melodrama than drama."

Ty Burr

54%

The Company You Keep (2013)

"Redford is interested in telling stories again, rather than pounding us on the head for our civic and historical sins."

Ty Burr

89%

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."

Mark Feeney

87%

Upstream Color (2013)

"While I feel compelled to see it again, I don't have high hopes that it will make any more sense."

Peter Keough

77%

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%

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

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."

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)

""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)

"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

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