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95%
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)
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"It adds up to an unexpectedly moving portrait of a maverick at twilight."
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Ty Burr
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96%
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Mother Of George (2013)
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"[A] lushly detailed and passionately performed melodrama ..."
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Peter Keough
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8%
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Runner Runner (2013)
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"It's not that "Runner Runner" is predictable. It's that you don't care, either about the characters or what happens to them."
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Ty Burr
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46%
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Parkland (2013)
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"Peter Landesman's well-made but dramatically unfocused re-creation of that November day and its aftermath ..."
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Ty Burr
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98%
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Wadjda (2013)
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"More than a critique of Saudi society, "Wadjda" offers a character with universal resonance and appeal."
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Peter Keough
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98%
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Gravity (2013)
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"The movie's an astonishingly detailed, visually painstaking state-of-the-art production that advances what the cinema can show us-even as the human story at its center feels a little thin after a while."
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Ty Burr
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95%
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Enough Said (2013)
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"Holofcener delivers her most confident character comedy to date - a work of deceptively informal mastery - and Gandolfini's gentle performance just about breaks your heart."
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Ty Burr
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83%
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Don Jon (2013)
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"R-rating aside, it should be required viewing for every 15-year-old boy on the planet."
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Ty Burr
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78%
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Good Ol' Freda (2013)
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"Brian Epstein needed someone to run the nascent Official Beatles Fan Club. Freda, just 17, got the job."
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Mark Feeney
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86%
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Blue Caprice (2013)
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"The film's a character piece with a tightening noose of suspense, and while it has its artsy-indie-dawdly moments, it's disturbing in ways that aren't easy to shake."
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Ty Burr
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90%
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Inequality For All (2013)
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"Presents Reich's position by patching together lectures from his "Wealth & Poverty" course at the University of California, Berkeley."
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Peter Keough
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53%
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The Muslims Are Coming (2013)
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"The film follows a group of Muslim-American comedians on a stand-up-and-public-relations tour who try to win over those skeptical of Muslims, one audience at a time."
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Nick A. Zaino III
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67%
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Haute Cuisine (2013)
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"If you love France and food, separately or in combination, you will almost certainly forgive Christian Vincent's workmanlike direction, the tedious score, and the near-total absence of dramatic conflict."
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Ty Burr
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59%
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
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"It's another brightly rendered effort, but, as the title indicates, a lot of the real creativity seems to have been used up the first time around."
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Tom Russo
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78%
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Metallica Through the Never (2013)
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"An old-school music video stretched to feature length."
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Tom Russo
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16%
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Baggage Claim (2013)
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"Convoluted, predictable, and mostly unfunny ..."
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Peter Keough
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88%
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Rush (2013)
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"In a way, "Rush" is a philosophical drama about the varying ways men move through the world. It's just a really fast drama."
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Ty Burr
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34%
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Salinger (2013)
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"The movie epitomizes everything in the culture from which Salinger himself fled. It is, as Holden Caulfield would put it, phony."
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Ty Burr
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57%
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When Comedy Went to School (2013)
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"It answers that age-old question: What happens when a can't-miss subject gets missed?"
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Mark Feeney
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89%
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You Will Be My Son (2013)
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"Gilles Legrand's draggy melodrama about miserable characters who persist in their folly and never wise up is strictly vin ordinaire."
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Peter Keough
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51%
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A Single Shot (2013)
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"So heavy on atmosphere that it's hard to breathe, this derivative drama sleepwalks through familiar story lines despite the efforts of a first-rate cast."
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Peter Keough
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71%
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Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013)
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"The subtitle declares rather than alludes. It is what it is, as Bill Belichick (that gridiron Ben Bernanke) would say, bluntly informing what the movie is about."
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Mark Feeney
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50%
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Thanks For Sharing (2013)
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""Thanks for Sharing" is what Variety would call a "twelve-stepper"-an engagingly didactic drama about addiction and recovery."
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Ty Burr
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81%
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The Short Game (2013)
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"What Greenbaum captures is compelling, and occasionally uncomfortable to watch."
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Michael Whitmer
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80%
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Prisoners (2013)
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"As gripping as it is grueling, with performances that swing for the fences and a knotty central mystery."
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Ty Burr
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83%
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The Patience Stone (2013)
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"A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani to put on what amounts to a one-woman show."
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Ty Burr
|
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Jerusalem (2013)
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"This IMAX spectacular largely does what it's supposed to: fascinate, educate, and visually wow the audience, in 45 minutes or less."
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Ethan Gilsdorf
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72%
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The Wall (2013)
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"Bleak and beautiful, harrowing yet inspiring, "The Wall" ("Die Wand") is a stunning tale of isolation and survival in a wild and silent world."
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Ethan Gilsdorf
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76%
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How I Live Now (2013)
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"Weird, weird, weird."
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Ty Burr
|
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100%
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All Is by My Side ()
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"Ridley doesn't treat Hendrix as a bio-pic enigma to be explained but simply as an instinctual artist, for better and for worse. The only mystery that remains is where the music came from."
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Ty Burr
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70%
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Fading Gigolo ()
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"This is the most confident of Turturro's directing jobs and one of his tenderest performances; at times the movie's a mess, but it goes to such special places that you don't mind."
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Ty Burr
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85%
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The Invisible Woman (2013)
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"The movie's a hushed and hesitant thing, extremely beautiful in its camerawork, lighting, and editing, and extremely British in its repression. "
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Ty Burr
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34%
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Adore (2013)
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"Cast actresses with the skills that Naomi Watts and Robin Wright bring, give their obliviously icky story some arthouse visual lyricism, and you've got "Adore.""
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Tom Russo
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75%
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Populaire (2013)
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"Roinsard labors mightily to eke laughs and excitement out of '50s secretaries in Technicolor dresses, towering heels, and awkward hairdos hammering away at keyboards, with limited success."
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Peter Keough
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86%
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Viola (2013)
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"A Buenos Aires production of "Twelfth Night" is point of departure for a buoyant examination of love's labor's lost offstage."
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Mark Feeney
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63%
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Things Never Said (2013)
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"A powerful statement about the plight of women held back by sexist tyranny."
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Peter Keough
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80%
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Drinking Buddies (2013)
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"[Swanberg] points the movie in directions that defy our expectations, exploring the characters' immaturity and the entropy of human interaction."
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Ty Burr
|
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59%
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Afternoon Delight (2013)
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"The results are a little life lesson-y but well-observed."
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Ty Burr
|
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33%
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The Family (2013)
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"Not known for subtlety, Besson gets the expected laughs, and then some."
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Peter Keough
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100%
|
Portrait of Jason (1967)
|
"Like any star turn, Holliday's performance rings utterly true. It's that indefinable but unmistakable reality-beyond-reality called art."
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Mark Feeney
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60%
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Riddick (2013)
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"The movie's cheap but has a sense of humor, and it's smart enough to let Riddick just get back to being a badass."
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Ty Burr
|
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93%
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Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2013)
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"[A] bittersweet, frustratingly impressionistic documentary ..."
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Peter Keough
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34%
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Hell Baby (2013)
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"This offensive, crass pastiche makes "Grown Ups 2" look like a paragon of wit and good taste."
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Peter Keough
|
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3%
|
Getaway (2013)
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"It's hard to remember another action entry that expends so much energy on frenetic blacktop choreography and attention-deficit editing with so little to show for it."
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Tom Russo
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31%
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Austenland (2013)
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"Hess has made a classic rookie mistake: Any spoof has to be at least as smart as the thing it's spoofing, and this one's twice as dumb."
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Ty Burr
|
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64%
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One Direction: This Is Us (2013)
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"It's not that Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson aren't charming and likable. The problem is that the movie offers no way of differentiating them beyond their hairstyles."
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Marc Hirsh
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13%
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The Lifeguard (2013)
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"The movie's being billed in some quarters as a comedy, which is a hell of a stretch given that the plot expands to take in statutory rape and teen suicide."
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Ty Burr
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52%
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Thérèse (2013)
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"The film looks great. As for the human element, the mood is more apathetic than tragic, and star Audrey Tautou has to take much of the blame for the film's failure."
|
Peter Keough
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69%
|
I Declare War (2013)
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"Imagination is what these filmmakers could use more of, as their ingenious concept doesn't develop much beyond gimmick."
|
Peter Keough
|
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74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013)
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"As a kung fu film, "The Grandmaster," with its exhilarating fighting sequences, won't disappoint. As a Wong Kar-wai film, it rates high."
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Peter Keough
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