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Signature is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Lisa Rosman.

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Fading Gigolo (2013) Lisa Rosman Fading Gigolo, John Turturro's fifth directorial effort, is a wonderful film.
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Noah (2014) Lisa Rosman Really, Noah works so well because it is such a personal take on this biblical story.
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Divergent (2014) Lisa Rosman [Divergent] is faithful enough to the book -- but doesn't work well unto itself.
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Hateship Loveship (2013) Lisa Rosman The film Hateship Loveship is a study in earnestness. To some degree that is a function of our times.
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God's Pocket (2014) Lisa Rosman So long as Slattery trains his lens on the bars and back rooms of this salty-dog slum, this film is great fun, if an acquired taste.
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Palo Alto (2013) Lisa Rosman The real headline is Coppola herself, though. I may not love Palo Alto but its substance and style are singular enough that I am keen to see what she does next.
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Maleficent (2014) Lisa Rosman As Maleficent dawdles along, it not only veers from Disney's traditional values but also - alas, alack - from the studio's recent foray into girl power.
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Lisa Rosman It's safe to declare the adaptation of the popular young adult novel a wild success.
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Snowpiercer (2013) Lisa Rosman Snowpiercer is a fantastic dumb movie for smart people.
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Venus in Fur (2013) Lisa Rosman The ideological messages may continue to shift beneath our feet long after we leave the theater but the solidity of the impact of Venus in Fur will be what sticks.
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The Congress (2013) Lisa Rosman In these hyper-dissociative times, [The Congress] may be just what the doctor ordered.
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Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014) Lisa Rosman For those interested in crime procedurals, Whitey offers a compelling - and admirably comprehensive - look at the fraught dynamics within and between federal agencies.
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Life Itself (2014) Lisa Rosman This is an extraordinary biopic not just because it is about an extraordinary life but because it advocates living - and dying - with candor and grace.
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Mood Indigo (2013) Lisa Rosman These surfaces, however splendid, are just surfaces, and we fuse no emotional connection to these characters or this story, not even as an allegory.
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If I Stay (2014) Lisa Rosman For long stretches, [If I Stay] seems like a TV pilot for a WB show that, rightfully, did not get picked up.
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Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Lisa Rosman Even ignoring the elephant on the screen that is male privilege, the ever-widening age gap between men and their female costars makes for less interesting films.
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The Giver (2014) Lisa Rosman This movie adaption does not live up to the book.
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Love Is Strange (2014) Lisa Rosman Love Is Strange is an extraordinary achievement in the purest sense of the word extraordinary, for it transcends the ordinary by luxuriating in it with wonderfully oddball rhythms.
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The Notebook (2013) Lisa Rosman Notebook frames the evil revealed by the region's Nazi Occupation as the most treacherous of fairy tales: one that realizes our childhood fear that there really are no trustworthy grownups.
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The Two Faces of January (2014) Lisa Rosman Still, there's no shortage of visual pleasures to distract us from the existential boredom of a sinking ship.
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Wetlands (2013) Lisa Rosman This story is entirely Helen's, and there has never been a character like her in the history of film or literature.
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The Drop (2014) Lisa Rosman Happily, The Drop packs an emotional wallop.
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014) Lisa Rosman Somewhere in its two hours, This Is Where I Leave You morphs into the well-considered, emotionally resonant fare that we should still expect from our multiplexes.
Posted Aug 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Tracks (2013) Lisa Rosman Tracks is an invitation rarely proffered by a modern film: one that asks us to consider what we really need.
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Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) Lisa Rosman Gorgeous and yearning, Hiroshima Mon Amour offers a still-modern thesis: Memory, like love, is a commodity that no one fully possesses.
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St. Vincent (2014) Lisa Rosman As much as St. Vincent is a crowd-pleaser with real subtlety, a sympathetic portrayal of working-class people, and a legitimately tender heart, it may go under the radar, too.
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White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Lisa Rosman Events are ultimately spelled out in a way that betrays a novel one would have thought was not good enough to be betrayed.
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Low Down (2014) Lisa Rosman As a biopic, though, [Low Down] is both too much and too little.
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The Theory of Everything (2014) Lisa Rosman Even in her own account, Jane Hawking is not a compelling woman. This does not make her unimportant - just not an ideal subject for a feature-length film.
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Horns (2013) Lisa Rosman No one's going to pretend that Horns lives up to its source material, or even achieves any tonal consistency.
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The Homesman (2014) Lisa Rosman Clear-eyed but never discompassionate, The Homesman collects uneasy truths that are all too often left by the wayside of our nation's road to success.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) Lisa Rosman [Mockingjay Part 1] is quite good - if also the darkest and least accommodating in the series so far.
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Wild (2014) Lisa Rosman Wild is doggedly interior, as if to remind us that we never can see anything so long as we're blinded by the ghosts of our pasts.
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Still Alice (2014) Lisa Rosman What works beyond a shadow of a doubt is Julianne Moore herself. For a long time now, she has demonstrated an uncanny range and power.
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Inherent Vice (2014) Lisa Rosman This affable paean to absurdism will be revered in years to come no matter what hostility it engenders now.
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Unbroken (2014) Lisa Rosman Unbroken is by far Angelina Jolie's strongest directorial effort.
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Two Days One Night (2014) Lisa Rosman There are few pleasures in contemporary cinema comparable to those of watching Marion Cotillard.
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Selma (2014) Lisa Rosman As protests continue to erupt, it becomes ever more apparent that we need models of effective change. Selma fits that bill stirringly.
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Blackhat (2015) Lisa Rosman I'd never suggest [Blackhat] is a perfect movie - but there's a significant amount of odd, stirring stuff here.
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The Humbling (2014) Lisa Rosman [The Humbling] is too impolitic to be celebrated in art-house theaters and too esoteric to be featured in today's sequel-driven multiplexes.
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Cake (2014) Lisa Rosman Cake is a particular disappointment, though the blame cannot entirely be assigned to Jennifer Aniston.
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The Last Five Years (2014) Lisa Rosman The Last Five Years is Anna Kendrick's tour de force, and she sings her heart out, nearly breaking ours in the process.
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Cinderella (2015) Lisa Rosman We shall have this good, slightly bland Cinderella. Sometimes that's more than enough.
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The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) Lisa Rosman Insurgent, the second film in what's now officially known as The Divergent Series, is much better than its predecessor.
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Cymbeline (2014) Lisa Rosman Haunting and richly layered, tis such stuff as dreams are made on.
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Serena (2014) Lisa Rosman As a film, [Serena] translates into a melodrama that makes little sense and fewer friends.
Posted Aug 02, 2017  Edit critic review
Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015) Lisa Rosman The picture it manages to assemble packs such a punch that it gives new meaning to "going clear." Jaw-dropping, indeed.
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White God (2014) Lisa Rosman White God may be about the adventures of a dog and a young girl, but it's far from a Disney tooth-decayer.
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) Lisa Rosman Though it's a respectable two hours, I was disappointed when this film quietly shuttered to a stop. I could have floated on it forever.
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Effie Gray (2014) Lisa Rosman Everything about this potentially vibrant period drama is a washed-out watercolor.
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