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Tepenin ardi (Beyond the Hill) ()
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Alissa Simon
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67%
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The Fox (1967)
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"A beautifully photographed, dramatically uneven Canadian-made film."
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Variety Staff
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63%
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
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"[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off."
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Variety Staff
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The Confession (2013)
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"This movie posses slightly more edge than the network's standard fare, and a solid tandem in Katie Leclerc and Sherry Stringfield as its leads. It's also enough of a stand-alone story one needn't have thrilled to part one to join the buggy ride."
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Brian Lowry
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29%
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Hurry Sundown (1967)
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"An outstanding, tasteful but hard-hitting, and handsomely-produced film."
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Variety Staff
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25%
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
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"All this is well mounted and lensed but sans the right dramatic flourishes to get human depth, melodramatic gusto or humane symbolism into the right focus."
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Variety Staff
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60%
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Gaily, Gaily ()
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"A lushly staged, handsomely produced, largely unfunny comedy."
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Variety Staff
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0%
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The Art of Love (1965)
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"Writer Carl Reiner and director Norman Jewison go aground by allowing too many bits to fill their pot."
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Variety Staff
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100%
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Short Term 12 ()
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"Short Term 12 is a film about scars, some physical, others emotional, but all examined with a sensitivity and understanding that cuts deep."
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Peter Debruge
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47%
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
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"What Luhrmann grasps even less than previous adapters of the tale is that Fitzgerald was, via his surrogate Carraway, offering an eyewitness account of the decline of the American empire, not an invitation to the ball."
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Scott Foundas
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47%
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Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013)
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"Jumps skittishly from subject to subject, disjointed and repetitive for all but dyed-in-the-wool fashionistas."
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Ronnie Scheib
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45%
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Peeples (2013)
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""Peeples" may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from "Meet the Parents," but its heart is suffused with French cinema."
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Andrew Barker
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88%
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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""Into Darkness" may not boldly go where no "Trek" adventure has gone before, but getting there is such a well-crafted, immensely pleasurable ride that it would be positively Vulcan to nitpick."
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Scott Foundas
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0%
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Generation Um... (2013)
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"A slapped-together sub-mumblecore exercise that at times suggests a feature-length expansion of 2010′s "Sad Keanu" meme"
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Justin Chang
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Chinese Zodiac ()
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Maggie Lee
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——
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111 Girls ()
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Ronnie Scheib
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——
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La Maison De La Radio ()
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Boyd van Hoeij
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——
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20 ans d'écart ()
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Boyd van Hoeij
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——
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Ekspeditionen til verdens ende (The Expedition to the End of the World) ()
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John Anderson
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95%
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Stories We Tell (2013)
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"This playful and elegiac documentary is wholly of a piece with Sarah Polley's fiction work, and just as rewarding."
|
Guy Lodge
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73%
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Dead Man's Burden (2013)
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"A slow-burning oater that's not gun-shy when it matters, Dead Man's Burden reps an impressive first feature from producer-turned-helmer Jared Moshe."
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Boyd van Hoeij
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67%
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The Iceman (2013)
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"A finely chiseled thriller that reflects the cold-blooded efficiency of its murderous subject in every frame and detai"
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Justin Chang
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83%
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What Maisie Knew (2013)
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"This beautifully observed drama essentially strikes the same sad note for 98 minutes, though with enough sensitivity and emotional variation to make the experience cumulatively heartrending."
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Justin Chang
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——
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Birdemic 2: The Resurrection ()
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"Nguyen's partial self-awareness of his new movie's camp value -- encompassing brief incorporation of zombies -- only makes it an effortful, half-understood in-joke rather than the guiltily pleasurable unintentional joke that was Birdemic: Shock and Terror."
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Dennis Harvey
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57%
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Kiss Of The Damned (2013)
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"Kiss reimagines its bloodsuckers as horny, supercilious Eurotrash with addiction issues, sucking the life blood from naive American thrill-seekers."
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Leslie Felperin
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81%
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Something in the Air (2013)
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"Made with the bittersweet clarity of hindsight and the assurance of a director in peak form, Something in the Air is Olivier Assayas' wise and wistful memory-piece on the revolutionary fervor that suffused his young adulthood."
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Justin Chang
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83%
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Graceland (2013)
|
"A potent combo of hostage thriller and high-impact morality play."
|
Richard Kuipers
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8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013)
|
"The film isn't so much funny as it is merely amusing - a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but never quite manage to land the laugh."
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Peter Debruge
|
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013)
|
"Black largely acquits himself well, keeping the pace brisk, deploying a couple of modest surprises and staging a few undeniably impressive, super-sized setpieces."
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Scott Foundas
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——
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Mood Indigo ()
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"Sy, Maiga and the others play second fiddle not only to the leads but especially to the visual effects, which are indeed impressive, even if quite a few are reminiscent of Gondry's previous films or musicvids."
|
Boyd van Hoeij
|
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46%
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Pain & Gain (2013)
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"Bay can be a master of exuberant chaos, but here the violence mostly lands with a sickening thud, which is fitting, one supposes, but also ultimately numbing."
|
Scott Foundas
|
|
58%
|
At Any Price (2013)
|
"An artfully downbeat drama that proves easier to admire than to embrace."
|
Justin Chang
|
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44%
|
Midnight's Children (2013)
|
"It's a vibrant journey, but not a terribly illuminating one."
|
Peter Debruge
|
|
93%
|
Sun Don't Shine (2013)
|
"This unconventional, unsettling couple-on-the-run tale works best as an exercise in ambiguous atmosphere. "
|
Dennis Harvey
|
|
53%
|
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
|
"Illuminating but heavy-handed."
|
Justin Chang
|
|
——
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War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013)
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"Robert Greenwald's docu paints a sobering picture of a national security state."
|
Ronnie Scheib
|
|
14%
|
Oconomowoc (2013)
|
"At last count, 15,792 people live in Oconomowoc, Wisc. That's about 15,000 more than will see the film that bears its name, a slender absurdist riff on the man-child coming-of-age comedy."
|
Peter Debruge
|
|
57%
|
Unmade In China (2013)
|
"Mostly, it's just a sloppy account of a doomed-to-fail endeavor in which Kaufman retroactively feigns naivete about an assignment with too many obvious red flags."
|
Peter Debruge
|
|
87%
|
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013)
|
"Well structured and dynamically edited, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay relies on the famed magician himself to wax autobiographical with his usual charm, humor and panache."
|
Ronnie Scheib
|
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013)
|
"Less inferno than slow burn, Rob Zombie's retro witch thriller The Lords of Salem has plenty of portent but not much payoff."
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Rob Nelson
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|
——
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Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington (2013)
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"The film is more powerful and haunting thanks to the ample footage incorporated of Hetherington himself, a cheerful soul even when faced with evidence of unimaginable cruelty, such as photographing those blinded during the war in Liberia."
|
Brian Lowry
|
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013)
|
"[A] numbingly inane if cheerfully up-to-the-minute new entry in a franchise presumed to have breathed its last seven years ago."
|
Justin Chang
|
|
60%
|
American Meat (2013)
|
"A low-key, fairly evenhanded look at industrial vs. organic methods of raising livestock."
|
Ronnie Scheib
|
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013)
|
"A moderately clever dystopian mindbender with a gratifying human pulse, despite some questionable narrative developments along the way."
|
Justin Chang
|
|
77%
|
42 (2013)
|
"A relentlessly formulaic biopic that succeeds at transforming one of the most compelling sports narratives of the 20th century into a home run of hagiography."
|
Scott Foundas
|
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013)
|
"Flaws and all, this is ravishing, distrib-worthy work from a filmmaker who hasn't lost his capacity to move and surprise."
|
Justin Chang
|
|
64%
|
Antiviral (2013)
|
"Antiviral never builds the sort of character investment or narrative momentum that would allow its visceral horrors to seriously disturb, rather than seeming like choice gross-out moments lovingly designed for maximum viewer recoil."
|
Justin Chang
|
|
75%
|
No Place On Earth (2013)
|
"A substantial contribution to Holocaust cinema."
|
John Anderson
|
|
44%
|
Thale (2013)
|
"It's too wordy by half, saying what it should be showing -- which is ironic, given helmer Aleksander L. Nordaas' able hand, early on, with unspoken, unseen horrors."
|
John Anderson
|
|
0%
|
Lotus Eaters (2013)
|
"Lotus Eaters wants desperately to be a portrait of the beautiful and the damned, with its tale of West London rich kids doing drugs and shagging each other, but it's more like a spectacle of the spoiled and annoying."
|
Leslie Felperin
|
47%
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