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43%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
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"The island locale rings with reggae music regardless of its proximity to Jamaica, and any action sequence is rendered in painfully deliberate slo-mo."
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John Anderson
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73%
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Rampart (2012)
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"With Mr. Harrelson, Mr. Moverman has created an antihero of epic proportions and indiscretions."
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John Anderson
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53%
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Safe House (2012)
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""Safe House" is a sturdy enough thriller, but one that consistently defaults to the less interesting of its two lead characters."
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John Anderson
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71%
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Windfall (2012)
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"Ms. Israel's movie proves, once again, that the best nonfiction cinema possesses the same attributes as good fiction: Strong characters, conflict, story arc, visual style."
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John Anderson
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64%
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The Woman in Black (2012)
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"The landscape is dire, the architecture is haunted, children disappear by the dozens and antique toys inexplicably spark to life. That Mr. Radcliffe doesn't is part of the problem."
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John Anderson
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13%
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W.E. (2012)
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"The director's apparent blindness to the epic banality of her subjects suggests that the whole project is one royally misguided mess."
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John Anderson
|
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53%
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Albert Nobbs (2012)
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"As an experiment in Academy Award psychology, "Albert Nobbs" is fascinating. As drama? It is, forgive us, a drag."
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John Anderson
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32%
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Man on a Ledge (2012)
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"En route to its kitchen-sink climax, "Man" manages to both amuse and provoke, to cleave to convention and promote ideas."
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John Anderson
|
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77%
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The Grey (2012)
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"Certainly an adventure film but one with a spiritual ingredient that is both surprising and fiercely resonant."
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John Anderson
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92%
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The Limey (1999)
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Joe Morgenstern
|
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63%
|
Battle of Britain (1969)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
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95%
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Richard III (1995)
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Joe Morgenstern
|
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36%
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Red Tails (2012)
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"It's antiquated kitsch reprocessed by the producer's nostalgia for the movies of his boyhood."
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Joe Morgenstern
|
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93%
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Coriolanus (2011)
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"Riches of character are revealed, with copious visual invention."
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Joe Morgenstern
|
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89%
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Miss Bala (2012)
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""Miss Bala" is a portrait of a young woman who is at once terribly vulnerable and improbably brave. It's equally a vision of a vulnerable society on the road to anarchy."
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Joe Morgenstern
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80%
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Haywire (2012)
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"There's no deeper meaning to Steven Soderbergh's thriller than what meets the eye, yet its lustrous surfaces offer great and guilt-free pleasure."
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Joe Morgenstern
|
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20%
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
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34%
|
Bringing Down The House (2003)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
68%
|
Laurel Canyon (2003)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
86%
|
Fake It So Real (2012)
|
"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204257504577155051888623474.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"
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Steve Dollar
|
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48%
|
Contraband (2012)
|
"This is an uncommonly well-crafted action adventure, or an action misadventure, given how much goes wrong for the resourceful hero."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
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34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012)
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"Suspense plays second fiddle to the music, which is a good thing, since the music is pretty great, though also to the two leading ladies' store of folk wisdom."
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Joe Morgenstern
|
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90%
|
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
57%
|
It's About You (2012)
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""It's About You" is an odd and touching little film. I'm glad I stuck it out."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
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Swastika ()
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"Paying close attention to the Hitler of these home movies gives one a deepened sense of who he was."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
96%
|
Pariah (2011)
|
"The originality lies in the details, and the dramatic energy that sustains almost every scene."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012)
|
"Takes a blandly nonpartisan approach to one of the most controversial, as well as influential, politicians in British history."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
76%
|
War Horse (2011)
|
"A film that may stay in the mind's eye longer than it lingers in the heart."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
85%
|
Billy Elliot (2000)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
83%
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
|
""We Bought a Zoo" is a movie you want to like, and a movie you can enjoy if you cut its slackness some slack."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
45%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)
|
"The production's penchant for contrivance is insufferable -- not a single spontaneous moment from start to finish -- and the boy is so precocious you want to strangle him."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
|
"The action grows wearisome as it grinds on, and the film becomes a succession of dazzling set pieces devoid of simple feelings."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
|
"It's certainly worth seeing if you missed the original. If you saw it, however, there's no way of unseeing it, and nothing in the new one to top it."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
61%
|
Mission Impossible (1996)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
84%
|
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
|
"There's ... a desire for coherence and humanity in movies. This one doesn't feed it."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
71%
|
Carnage (2011)
|
"I was put off by the acting, or more properly by the spectacle of good actors dutifully following leaden direction, and equally by the writing, which is as thin as the veneer of civilization it purports to peel back."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)
|
"It's not the generic plot that's so memorable, even though its convolutions are clever enough, or the cast of mostly interesting characters, but the surreal swirl of form and color that frequently fills the enormous screen."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
72%
|
The Italian Job (2003)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
80%
|
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
71%
|
The Cider House Rules (1999)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
90%
|
Hunger (2009)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
71%
|
Skammen (Shame) (1968)
|
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
84%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
|
"This version of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" turns on the presence of Mr. Oldman, and he is an actor of great experience and accomplishment who has finally found a film that fully deserves him."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011)
|
"What makes the movie marvelous is the same combination that the filmmaker and writer brought to "Juno" -- unerringly subtle yet precise direction plus a literate script with dramatic energy and a delicate tone."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
83%
|
Outrage (2011)
|
"[Takeshi's] sense of style is very much in evidence here, and so is his sense of humor."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
80%
|
Shame (2011)
|
"Much of the film is banal or pretentious, or both -- vacuous vignettes about emptiness. Occasionally, though, those vignettes burst into life and burn with consuming fire."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011)
|
"Thematic potency and cinematic virtuosity -- the production was designed by Dante Ferretti and photographed by Robert Richardson -- can't conceal a deadly inertness at the film's core."
|
Joe Morgenstern
|
|
98%
|
Some Like It Hot (1959)
|
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Joe Morgenstern
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