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73%
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Love Is All You Need (2013)
|
"'Mamma Mia!' without ABBA or the singing."
|
James Verniere
|
|
82%
|
Sightseers (2013)
|
"Bloody good camping trip tale"
|
James Verniere
|
|
——
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Nicky's Family (2013)
|
"A true story about an ordinary person, who turned out to be an extraordinary human being when it counted the most."
|
James Verniere
|
|
96%
|
Stories We Tell (2013)
|
"Sheds fascinating light on Polley's art."
|
James Verniere
|
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
|
"Cast has chemistry and sparkle, but 'Star Trek Into Darkness' just okay."
|
James Verniere
|
|
50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013)
|
"For his parties, Gatsby appears to have hired the entire Cotton Club and Ziegfeld Follies as well as Busby Berkeley to direct them all."
|
James Verniere
|
|
76%
|
No Place On Earth (2013)
|
"Perhaps too many reenactments, but nevertheless a moving tale of human endurance."
|
James Verniere
|
|
77%
|
Renoir (2013)
|
"Lush, captivating."
|
James Verniere
|
|
50%
|
Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)
|
"Real life Mad Man would make Don Draper jealous."
|
James Verniere
|
|
81%
|
Kon Tiki (2013)
|
"Go on this journey."
|
James Verniere
|
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013)
|
"What next? 'Iron Supplement Man'?"
|
James Verniere
|
|
88%
|
The Angels' Share (2013)
|
"Lead actor Paul Brannigan, the product of Glasgow's working-class East End, is a natural. "
|
James Verniere
|
|
98%
|
Mud (2013)
|
"This densely atmospheric film could have used more Mark Twain-like adventure and less dreary adult intrigue."
|
James Verniere
|
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013)
|
"Makes 'Meet the Parents' look like 'Ninotchka.'"
|
James Verniere
|
|
47%
|
Pain & Gain (2013)
|
"Michael Bay = More pain than gain."
|
James Verniere
|
|
96%
|
Blancanieves (2013)
|
"Inspired filmmaking steeped in the imagery of silent film history, a dark Iberian strain of Roman Catholicism and the magic of fairy tales. "
|
James Verniere
|
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013)
|
"Kubrick fans will take 'Shining' to 'Room 237.'"
|
James Verniere
|
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013)
|
"Nothing looks quite real, and in lieu of being any good or engaging you emotionally, the film pounds you into submission."
|
James Verniere
|
|
68%
|
Trance (2013)
|
"Is there anything Boyle can't do?"
|
James Verniere
|
|
67%
|
Disconnect (2013)
|
"The director of the acclaimed 2005 documentary 'Murderball' takes on a 'Crash'-like feature film involving several storylines on a collision course, and the results are entirely meh."
|
James Verniere
|
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013)
|
"The cheeky emperor known as Terrence Malick bares his rump once again to art-house audiences."
|
James Verniere
|
|
77%
|
42 (2013)
|
"Can a superhero wear a baseball uniform instead of a cape?"
|
James Verniere
|
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013)
|
"'Starbuck' is no father figure"
|
James Verniere
|
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013)
|
"'Sapphires' got heart and soul"
|
James Verniere
|
|
9%
|
The Host (2013)
|
"Invasion
of the
time-wasters: 'Host' alienates audience"
|
James Verniere
|
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
|
"Olympus Has Fallen is derivative, predictable, heavy-handed and a
lot of fun."
|
James Verniere
|
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012)
|
"The film has a dreamy nocturnal lyricism, especially in scenes of Moriarty's streamlined 1949 Hudson Commodore hurtling across America's lamp-lit highways."
|
James Verniere
|
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013)
|
" The nonstop cutting suggests the attention span of a monkey on meth."
|
James Verniere
|
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013)
|
"Emma Stone can even make you fall for a Neanderthal. "
|
James Verniere
|
|
——
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Restless Virgins (2013)
|
"You can find more complex narratives on the back of a cereal box."
|
Mark A. Perigard
|
|
16%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)
|
"Director Roman Coppola is nothing if not soaked in movie lore."
|
James Verniere
|
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013)
|
"Writer-director Juan Solanas is a better photographer than writer or director."
|
James Verniere
|
|
40%
|
The Call (2013)
|
"Silly, sadistic and with a groaner of an ending."
|
James Verniere
|
|
37%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
|
"Steve Carell with a puppy down his pants in a role that Will Ferrell must have turned down."
|
James Verniere
|
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
|
"What a world, all right."
|
James Verniere
|
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013)
|
"On the whole I'd rather watch 'The Addams Family'."
|
James Verniere
|
|
46%
|
The Sweeney (2013)
|
"This throwback to 1970s cops and robbers movies had me 'nicked.'"
|
James Verniere
|
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
|
"Fee-fi-ho-hum."
|
James Verniere
|
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013)
|
"Far from Rock-solid."
|
James Verniere
|
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013)
|
"Coscarelli's visual imagination is still capable of making you sit up and take notice"
|
James Verniere
|
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013)
|
"This year's Nicholas Sparks' movie, Lasse Hallstrom's 'Safe Haven' arrives in time for Valentine's Day, and if your boyfriend lets you talk him into seeing this, he's a keeper, ladies."
|
James Verniere
|
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
|
"It's "Teen True Blood" minus the corpuscles."
|
James Verniere
|
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
|
"20th Century Fox has no one to blame but itself for this stinker."
|
James Verniere
|
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013)
|
"Perhaps the boldest and probably longest running sociological experiment on film."
|
James Verniere
|
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013)
|
"'Side Effects' is perhaps what happens when a screenwriter gets his hands on a dozen Hitchcock movies and prescription pad. "
|
James Verniere
|
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013)
|
"The snow might be tricky to predict. But the bad winter movies arrive right on schedule"
|
James Verniere
|
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013)
|
"Are you, at least those of you not sick to, uh, death of the undead, ready for the 'Romeo and Juliet' of zombie movies?"
|
James Verniere
|
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013)
|
"A nasty, if also amusing, piece of work."
|
James Verniere
|
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012)
|
|
Stephen Schaefer
|
|
52%
|
Where Do We Go Now? (2012)
|
|
James Verniere
|
87%
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