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63%
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Pulling Strings (2013)
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"The movie boasts an understated sweetness, largely fueled by Camil's movie-star charms. He's the kind of performer who doesn't have to work hard to win over an audience; he is instantly likable. In a movie like this, that's money in the bank."
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Randy Cordova
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98%
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Wadjda (2013)
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""Wadjda" is a terrific film."
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Randy Cordova
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46%
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Parkland (2013)
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"It's a worthy film, well shot, well told, but told at a remove. This is understandable, given what Landesman is trying to do."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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96%
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Cutie And The Boxer (2013)
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"A painful, powerful portrait of the struggle and sacrifice required to create, and the cost that it can demand."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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68%
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Bad Milo! (2013)
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"This movie is about a monster that crawls out of a man's butt and starts killing people."
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Barbara VanDenburgh
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98%
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Gravity (2013)
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""Gravity" is an amazing movie for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is how Alfonso Cuaron tells what seems like a familiar type of story in a way we've never seen."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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86%
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Blue Caprice (2013)
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"Moors is neither showy nor exploitative in his telling of the story. He just lays out the details, making "Blue Caprice" not just a story of horror, but of tragedy."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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90%
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Inequality For All (2013)
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"An engaging film that's head and shoulders above the average talking-head parade."
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Kerry Lengel
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95%
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Enough Said (2013)
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"Louis-Dreyfus manages the difficult trick of keeping us engaged with her character, even while driving us crazy. She's never been better."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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16%
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Baggage Claim (2013)
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"Takes the bold position that women aren't truly fulfilled unless they're on the arm of a good husband, a notion that's been ridiculous since cavemen stopped dragging women around by the hair."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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88%
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Rush (2013)
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"Hemsworth and Brühl are outstanding. Their story is what drives the movie, two men different in every way except for their unyielding desire to win."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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78%
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Metallica Through the Never (2013)
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"The 3-D concert footage is unassailably cool. Less assured is the occasional storyline threaded through the film."
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Barbara VanDenburgh
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83%
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Don Jon (2013)
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"A sharp turn on the romantic comedy, a movie about flawed people doing flawed things, often in funny fashion."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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59%
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
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"It's the rare [sequel] that takes the spirit of the original and runs with it, coming up with something uniquely good in its own right."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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71%
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C.O.G. (2013)
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"The film features snappy, hilarious bits among the coming-of-age vignettes, but it loses momentum as it winds toward a finish. You won't grow bored with the characters, but you might check your watch a few times."
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Randy Cordova
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5%
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Battle of the Year (2013)
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"If you can get past the mountain of cliches and poor acting and hackneyed story lines and the fact that someone let Chris Brown be in a movie, "Battle of the Year" is actually ... still pretty awful."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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50%
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Thanks For Sharing (2013)
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"Blumberg's film spends its running time showing us that sexual addiction is a disease like any other, and it does a convincing job. It's elsewhere that the film falters."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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51%
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A Single Shot (2013)
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"There at the center of the film is Rockwell, as good an actor as there is working today."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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93%
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Our Children (2013)
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"It's an interesting way to tell a story and a devastating journey, particularly since it's based on a real-life incident."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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80%
|
Prisoners (2013)
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""Prisoners" is, above all, an effective thriller, but it wants you to take it more seriously than that. There's no deal-breaking reason not to."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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61%
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My Father and the Man in Black (2013)
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"It's good that Holiff wants to unlock this puzzle, but Cash is so compelling a figure that he is ultimately the only character we truly care about."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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33%
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The Family (2013)
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""The Family" does have its entertaining moments. But anyone who thinks it's a real knee-slapper needs therapy. Stat."
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Kerry Lengel
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35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
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"All the standard spooks pop up: creepy baby toys, a piano that plays itself, a lady in white roaming the house, predictable jump-scares galore."
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Barbara VanDenburgh
|
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45%
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And While We Were Here (2013)
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""And While We Were Here" is just good enough to pique your curiosity, but never quite good enough to captivate."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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95%
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself (2013)
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"A delightful look at the public career and mostly private life of the ultimate professional amateur."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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75%
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Populaire (2013)
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""Populaire" is catnip for a certain breed of twee Francophile."
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Barbara VanDenburgh
|
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81%
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Una noche (One Night) (2013)
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"[Mulloy] brings a documentarian's objective eye to "Una Noche," yet the actors - non-professionals - convey exactly the emotions she is looking for."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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83%
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The Patience Stone (2013)
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"The film burns with the collective anger of exiles, unfolding as an indictment of the Islamic customs and religious practices that oppress women in their native countries."
|
Barbara VanDenburgh
|
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80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013)
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"Swanberg doesn't exactly reinvent the romantic-comedy formula, but he explores it in unexpected ways, with a terrific cast making the relationships all the more genuine and enjoyable."
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Bill Goodykoontz
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34%
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Adore (2013)
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"That the mothers are played by Robin Wright and Naomi Watts is really the only thing that makes the movie something more than an unintentional comedy."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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60%
|
Riddick (2013)
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"Riddick's at his most fun when the pressure's on, and he retreats to plan something special for his new visitors. All the build-up pays off with tense showdowns in the dark, thrilling restraint and ominous suggestion giving way to slasher gore."
|
Barbara VanDenburgh
|
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74%
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The Grandmaster (2013)
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"The movie ultimately winds up falling between two stools, failing as both a biography and an action film."
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Randy Cordova
|
|
56%
|
Inch'Allah (2013)
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"Atmosphere can't compensate for the enormous black hole at the center."
|
Randy Cordova
|
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013)
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"Maybe the title isn't a title, but an instruction: "Getaway," away from this movie, and fast."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013)
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"An authentic drama couched in character that never stoops to manipulation."
|
Barbara VanDenburgh
|
|
34%
|
Passion (2013)
|
"In a film that isn't so good ... excess becomes a lot less enjoyable. And "Passion" isn't so good."
|
Bill Goodykoontz
|
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53%
|
Instructions Not Included (2013)
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""Instructions Not Included" is a sweet little movie that is more than it seems to be."
|
Bill Goodykoontz
|
|
69%
|
I Declare War (2013)
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"Lapeyre and Wilson provide both a commentary on the effects of real-life combat on its participants and an authentic look at how kids really get along."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013)
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"It's a film that eschews intrigue and insinuation for government agents who monologue about the dangers of free speech and fair trials while garroting their victims."
|
Barbara VanDenburgh
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64%
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One Direction: This Is Us (2013)
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"This doesn't set out to be a movie that gets at anything more than making the One Direction guys look adorable, if maybe just a little darker than your average boy-band bunch."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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75%
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You're Next (2013)
|
"A smart, feral flick with a wicked sense of humor."
|
Kerry Lengel
|
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54%
|
Spark: A Burning Man Story (2013)
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"As a spectacle and as an idea, Burning Man is strange and beautiful."
|
Kerry Lengel
|
|
67%
|
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (2013)
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"Only a cynic wouldn't appreciate the sincerity at work in "One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das.""
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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78%
|
Europa Report (2013)
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"There is something refreshing in the decidedly downbeat "Europa Report," a science-fiction film with the emphasis on science that doesn't cheat on the tension."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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31%
|
Austenland (2013)
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"The film does little delving into what could make a modern woman so hung up on the romantic conventions of yesteryear, even less with complications of class conflict."
|
Barbara VanDenburgh
|
|
81%
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
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"A slow-moving story of devotion, obsession and Texas justice."
|
Bill Goodykoontz
|
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013)
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"It's about as much fun as you'll have at a movie this summer, especially if you see it at one of those theaters that serve beer."
|
Bill Goodykoontz
|
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12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
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"The perfect movie for those who thought the "Twilight" series just wasn't quite teenage girly enough."
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Bill Goodykoontz
|
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4%
|
Paranoia (2013)
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""Paranoia" is ostensibly a thriller, but there's nothing remotely thrilling about it. The slick, plodding bore is as exciting as watching somebody else tap out text messages."
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Barbara VanDenburgh
|
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37%
|
Dealing With Idiots (2013)
|
""Dealin' With Idiots," a sort of "Waiting for Guffman" for Little League, isn't a great movie, but it's a heck of a lot better than its title."
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Kerry Lengel
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