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100%
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Stagecoach (1939)
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"Directorially, production is John Ford in peak form, sustaining interest and suspense throughout, and presenting exceptional characterizations. Picture is a display of photographic grandeur."
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Variety Staff
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85%
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In Darkness (2012)
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"With the exception of the group's leader, movie-star handsome Mundek Margulies (German-born, internationally recognized Benno Furmann), the characters are flat as shadows."
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Peter Debruge
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10%
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Acts of Godfrey ()
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Guy Lodge
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Romancing in Thin Air (Gao hai ba zhi lian II) ()
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Maggie Lee
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53%
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Safe House (2012)
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"A viciously energetic South Africa-set actioner that makes up in sweaty atmosphere and brute force what it lacks in surprise."
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Justin Chang
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Gordo, calvo y bajito ()
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Ronnie Scheib
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28%
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The Vow (2012)
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"With its stately crane shots and plaintive score, The Vow feels as unabashedly sentimental as those melodramas, but resists the cloying impulse to manufacture tragedy for easy tears."
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Peter Debruge
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Vinyl (2011)
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Dennis Harvey
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——
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The Harvest/la Cosecha ()
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John Anderson
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73%
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A Single Girl (2000)
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"A Single Girl delivers 80 unbroken and ultimately irritating minutes in the life of a pretty hotel waitress (Virginie Ledoyen)."
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Variety Staff
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50%
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John Dies at the End ()
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"Give or take the titular disclosure, John Dies at the End is a thoroughly unpredictable horror-comedy -- and an immensely entertaining one, too."
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Rob Nelson
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29%
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Private Romeo (2012)
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Ronnie Scheib
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——
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Souvenir ()
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Ctyri slunce (Four Suns) ()
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Peter Debruge
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——
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An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty ()
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Peter Debruge
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——
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A People Uncounted ()
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Dennis Harvey
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——
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Payback (2012)
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"A rarefied conceptual docu that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience."
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Rob Nelson
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——
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Shut Up and Play the Hits ()
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"Much like the band's self-conscious synth-pop itself, Shut Up is initially satiric but ultimately disarming in its emotional resonance."
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Rob Nelson
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We're Not Broke ()
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"A well-researched, brightly presented and provocative argument that the U.S. isn't overtaxed and profligate, but rather a paradise for corporate tax cheats."
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John Anderson
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Under African Skies ()
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"Under African Skies is appreciably smarter than most celebrity musician docus."
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Rob Nelson
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——
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The Perception Of Moving Targets ()
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"Each of the pic's sections is driven by nightmares and memories both ethereal and material, but cinematic interest (generated by such devices as the alternating aspect ratios) is deflated by an obtrusively amateurish approach to staging and editing."
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Robert Koehler
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——
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Dysfunctional Friends (2012)
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"In addition to being crowded and overlong, the pic is thoroughly unpleasant."
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John Anderson
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100%
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The Love Parade (1929)
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"It's a fine, near-grand entertainment."
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Variety Staff
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83%
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All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
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"Heaven is film theatre at its best."
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Variety Staff
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67%
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America, America (The Anatolian Smile) (1963)
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"Elia Kazan gives a penetrating, thorough and profoundly affecting account of the hardships endured and surmounted at the turn of the century by a young Greek lad"
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Variety Staff
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100%
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Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
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"While Hold Back the Dawn is basically another European refugee yarn, scenarists Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder exercised some ingenuity and imagination and Ketty Frings' original emerges as fine celluloidia."
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Variety Staff
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100%
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One Foot in Heaven (1941)
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"A warm and human preachment for godliness."
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Variety Staff
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100%
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Bullhead (2012)
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"Though the story is told and edited in a way that too often obscures rather than enhances its central tragedy, much is compensated by a career-defining, powerfully physical lead perf by Matthias Schoenaerts."
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Boyd van Hoeij
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——
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The Other Dream Team ()
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"An uplifting docu from longtime producer and first-time director Marius Markevicius about the nation's unique love affair with basketball."
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Robert Koehler
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80%
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Pucker Up: Fine Art of Whistling (2006)
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Joe Leydon
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——
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Big Boys Gone Bananas!* ()
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"A David-and Goliath story that delves into corporate scare tactics, legal effrontery, brand protection, media manipulation, online propagandizing and craven behavior."
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John Anderson
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85%
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Chronicle (2012)
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"Unlike other mock docs, which unconvincingly pass themselves off as real, Chronicle cleverly embraces the format as shorthand for a new kind of naturalism."
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Peter Debruge
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——
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To Live (Zhit) ()
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Jay Weissberg
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60%
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Bad Fever (2012)
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"Audley, a helmer in his own right, somehow infuses Eddie with a compelling presence that exerts an offbeat authenticity."
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Ronnie Scheib
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——
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El Ultimo Elvis (The Last Elvis) ()
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"Droll and delusional, the title character of The Last Elvis will win over plenty of fans to Armando Bo's parable of obsession and denial."
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John Anderson
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89%
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George Harrison: Living In The Material World ()
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Jay Weissberg
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——
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Agneepath (2012)
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Russell Edwards
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——
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Can ()
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Robert Koehler
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——
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Here Comes the Navy (1934)
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"It's light on story, and because of that it borders on being an elaborate newsreel."
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Variety Staff
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80%
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The Citadel (1936)
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"Picture is studded with many brilliantly human and dramatic sequences."
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Variety Staff
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71%
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Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (1940)
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"Despite its episodic, and at times, vaguely-defined motivation, picture on whole is a poignant and dramatic portraiture of a typical Cinderella girl's love story."
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Variety Staff
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——
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East Lynne (1931)
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"An excellent piece of work in taking a legendary meller play and transposing it into a screen drama of strength and charm."
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Variety Staff
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83%
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The Champ (1931)
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"A good picture, almost entirely by virtue of an inspired performance by a boy, Jackie Cooper."
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Variety Staff
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——
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The Invisible War ()
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"An aptly infuriating expose of sexual abuse within the U.S. military."
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Rob Nelson
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——
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Gypsy Davy ()
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"Much of this is "stranger than fiction," all of it as engrossing as a flavorsome, twisty literary novel."
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Dennis Harvey
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22%
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The Wicker Tree (2012)
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"Rather likable."
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Ronnie Scheib
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71%
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Sons and Lovers (1960)
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"Sons and Lovers is a well-made and conscientious adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's famed novel, smoothly directed by Jack Cardiff and superbly acted by a notable cast."
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Variety Staff
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——
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New Kids on the Block - Grown Man: On Tour Web Clip (2008)
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Jay Weissberg
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——
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One Night ()
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Jay Weissberg
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——
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The Atomic States Of America ()
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"The Atomic States of America takes a fairly objective approach to an emotionally volatile topic."
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John Anderson
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