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End of Watch
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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While Ayer and his cast demonstrate a thorough understanding of their subject, and their movie features realistic violence and casual callousness, End Of Watch doesn't really go anywhere.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Jobs
(2013)
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Jordan Riefe
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So impressed with its subject that it leaves precious little time to explore the imperfect man behind the icon.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Mama
(2013)
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Jordan Riefe
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While Mama is occasionally hamstrung by cliches, it is a stylish and effective ghost story that lives up to its promise, delivering spine-tingling scares.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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On the Road
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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With On The Road, Salles creates a vivid portrait of youth and spirited abandon that probably won't resonate with everyone. But then again, the best movies seldom do.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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The Guilt Trip
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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Rogen and Streisand share adequate chemistry but seldom seem like the real deal in Anne Fletcher's fourth movie... Under her direction, Streisand and Rogen look like a pair of actors saying jokes written for them by a comedy think tank.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Parental Guidance
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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A series of contrivances born of some unholy union between America's Funniest Home Videos and Leave it to Beaver.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Promised Land
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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Promised Land is a smart, character driven drama that takes an insightful look at a compelling environmental issue... But as the second act progresses, the movie begins to lose momentum.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Hitchcock
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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An occasionally enjoyable, though uneven look, at the making of Psycho... Hitchcock is most engaging when Hopkins and Mirren share the screen as a durable old couple straining under 33 years of marriage.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Lincoln
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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With a lavish and distinctive look, superb acting and artfully rendered material, it's difficult to call Lincoln anything but a grand success.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Flight
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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Performance and plane crash aside, in a climate of fewer and fewer quality mainstream movies, Flight looks like a winner simply by not being terrible.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Argo
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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Tonal issues aside, however, Affleck's third feature is assured, smart and very entertaining.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Seven Psychopaths
(2012)
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Jordan Riefe
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Seven Psychopaths unspools with clever ease and buffoonish charm. It is effortlessly brilliant and always accessible but more important, it slavishly satisfies the first rule of comedy - make 'em laugh.
Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Playing for Keeps
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Playing For Keeps unfolds like a metaphorical deconstruction of his charms: a meandering, formulaic look at a former sports star confronted by an uncertain future as he continues to exploit the superficial things the world still seems to want from him.
Posted Dec 07, 2012
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Les Misérables
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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a maudlin act of white-noise desperation, underscored by director Tom Hooper's inability to discern the difference between quiet and loud - not just musically, but as a storyteller and dramatist.
Posted Dec 06, 2012
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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A briskly engaging adventure shrouded in superfluous detail, though also, yes, admittedly, technical virtuosity, it's an accomplished if unexciting first chapter in the preamble to his Oscar-winning film series.
Posted Dec 03, 2012
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Alex Cross
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Perry fails to breathe new life into the character, even as co-star Matthew Fox's scenery chewing eviscerates whatever traces of a script existed for this ham-fisted and mindless thriller.
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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Red Dawn
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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at best the cinematic equivalent of a voting-day robocall to people who are susceptible to nailbiting, apocalyptic paranoia - even as a fantasy-actioner, it's too cartoonish to embrace and too dangerous to indulge.
Posted Sep 27, 2012
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House at the End of the Street
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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A soulless, uncreative, clich-laden anger generator disguised as a horror thriller, Mark Tonderai's film undermines itself at every turn and infuriates its audience.
Posted Sep 21, 2012
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The Master
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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a perfect circle of visceral and philosophical energies which makes The Master a remarkable, ferocious experience, not just one of the best films of the year, but a singular achievement that doesn't just earn its divisiveness but outright demands it.
Posted Sep 14, 2012
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Cloud Atlas
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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A stunner of an opus that isn't just admirable but thought-provoking and moving, Cloud Atlas is the Wachowskis' most personal film to date.
Posted Sep 09, 2012
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Looper
(2012)
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Todd Gilchrist
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Thoughtful, intimate, and deeply moving, writer-director Rian Johnson's assured and perfectly-measured third feature is one of the best films of the year.
Posted Sep 06, 2012
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