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D-
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Carrie
(2013)
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Schlockier than a Rolox watch, this Carrie will have panphobes howling with laughter.
Posted Oct 18, 2013
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A-
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Don Jon
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Gordon-Levitt's cracking directorial debut depicts porn/sex addiction infinitely more realistically -- and rollickingly -- than 2011's absurdly-overrated snoozefest Shame.
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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D-
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Kick-Ass 2
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Bravo Jim Carrey, bravo. Refusing to promote your work in Kick-Ass 2 is the wisest career move you've ever made.
Posted Aug 16, 2013
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C+
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Elysium
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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What form of British-ish accent is Foster attempting exactly? A Razzie-worthy performance.
Posted Aug 12, 2013
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B+
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The Conjuring
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Thank God I live in newish construction.
Posted Jul 19, 2013
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C+
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Despicable Me 2
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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The Minions' decision to go solo next year is the smartest move since The Simpsons severed their relationship with Tracey Ullman.
Posted Jul 03, 2013
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C-
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The Bling Ring
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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A stick-thin expose of a gaggle of brats obsessed with snatching Prada purses and Alexander McQueen shoes from celebs' high-up-in-the-hills chateaus.
Posted Jun 26, 2013
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C-
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World War Z
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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We've seen it all before and seen it done far, far better. E.g., 28 Weeks Later, the Holy Grail of the zombie-contagion genre.
Posted Jun 20, 2013
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B
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The East
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Marling and Batmanglij pull punches as things come to a close, opting for a more pacifist resolution than their fictional insurrectionist group would certainly espouse.
Posted Jun 14, 2013
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B
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The Internship
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's cinematic reunion renders the Google-glorifying, Revenge of the Nerds ripoff irresistibly likable -- make that +1-able.
Posted Jun 07, 2013
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A-
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Epic
(2013)
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Though Epic walks a woefully-worn, save-the-planet path, it manages to feel fresh, even when drawing inspiration directly from Alice in Wonderland, Avatar and The Lord of the Rings.
Posted May 21, 2013
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B-
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The Iceman
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Getting to see Shannon boogie to Blondie is enough to warrant a stay of execution.
Posted May 17, 2013
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A-
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The Great Gatsby
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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A visually-stunning, theatrically-showy spectacle that's as lavishly grandiose as one of Gatsby's grotesquely over-the-top shindigs.
Posted May 10, 2013
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F
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To the Wonder
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Malick's profound message permeating throughout: Living in Oklahoma blows.
Posted Apr 11, 2013
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B+
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Trance
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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The film's sensory experience is too alluring to resist, Boyle salvaging his unduly swirly story with a slathering of his shimmering, sumptuous aesthetics.
Posted Apr 09, 2013
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B
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Administers exhilaration without a Michael Bay level of enervation.
Posted Mar 29, 2013
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B-
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The Sapphires
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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The most affable, innocuous outing ever set in a war zone.
Posted Mar 27, 2013
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A
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The Croods
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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The Croods is the most entertaining film of the year thus far -- a Neolithic knockout.
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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D
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Admission
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Admission doesn't just misfire, it flatlines.
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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B
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West of Memphis
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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I would have preferred Jackson's clinically-presented project display a bit more reverence for the three young lives that were brutally taken some twenty years ago.
Posted Mar 18, 2013
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D-
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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If The Incredible Burt Wonderstone were a real Vegas show, its rightful home would be amongst the rubble of an imploded casino.
Posted Mar 13, 2013
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C-
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Oz the Great and Powerful
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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The film's CGI'd talking monkey is more alive than Franco. And it totally looks fake.
Posted Mar 07, 2013
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C
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Stoker
(2013)
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Dripping with mood but deprived of dynamics, Stoker fails as an overall film yet wonders with the wizardry of the man behind the cam.
Posted Mar 01, 2013
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B-
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Escape From Planet Earth
(2013)
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A surprisingly well-produced effort that fills the recent vacuum of family films without totally sucking.
Posted Feb 18, 2013
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B-
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A Good Day to Die Hard
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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A bombastic onslaught of smashed-up machinery and king-sized explosions that adequately sates your neanderthalic needs.
Posted Feb 14, 2013
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C-
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Beautiful Creatures
(2013)
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A supernatural spell of boringness smothers it all.
Posted Feb 12, 2013
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C-
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Side Effects
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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Its big twist is telegraphed so soon after its start, there's zero shock value and zero suspense as the film plods towards its pathetically pat ending.
Posted Feb 06, 2013
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A-
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Warm Bodies
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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It's hard to beat a brain-eating scene with John Waits' "Missing You" blaring in the background, the '80s ode to the forlorn has never sounded so grotesquely poignant.
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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D
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Broken City
(2013)
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A tedious, needlessly-convoluted clunker.
Posted Jan 18, 2013
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B
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Amour
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Haneke addresses the ravaging effects of aging in a starkly intimate way but Amour oddly lacks affectivity. Something that should be overflowing with emotion is strangely as sterile as Georges and Anne's Parisian apartment.
Posted Jan 16, 2013
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B+
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Gangster Squad
(2013)
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Erick Weber
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It's the premium cast that redeems the project.
Posted Jan 11, 2013
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A-
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Zero Dark Thirty
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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While it's executed with the same level of meticulous precision as the raid itself, you can't help but wonder if Bigelow could have compressed things just a bit.
Posted Jan 11, 2013
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C+
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The Impossible
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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The Impossible is immersive only when it's fully immersed.
Posted Jan 03, 2013
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A
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Les Misérables
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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This is filmmaking of the most opulent order -- par excellence.
Posted Dec 25, 2012
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C-
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This Is 40
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Teetering between tepidly humorous and totally unfunny, Judd Apatow's crazy long crudefest plays like bits and pieces of a stand-up routine that would get a comedian booed off the stage.
Posted Dec 19, 2012
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B+
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Packed with crescendos and crap-outs, Peter Jackson's mega-bloated beginning to Bilbo Baggins' pilgrimage across Middle-earth to Lonely Mountain both awes and bores.
Posted Dec 12, 2012
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C
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Killing Them Softly
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Everything about the loaded-with-lowlives crime flick is elongated, extended to the very precipice of its expiration date.
Posted Nov 29, 2012
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B-
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Hitchcock
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Mirren's "I am woman, hear me roar" nuclear weapon-level unloading on her hubby is a contender for the strongest acting moment this year - time stops, jaws drop when she unleashes it.
Posted Nov 28, 2012
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B+
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Life of Pi
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Serving up 2012's single most awe-inspiring stanza of cinema, Ang Lee's Life of Pi is a thing of beauty - a gorgeously presented piece of art.
Posted Nov 22, 2012
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B-
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Red Dawn
(2012)
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Shockingly tolerable and surprisingly entertaining.
Posted Nov 19, 2012
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A-
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Anna Karenina
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Breaking down the walls - literally - Wright has served up a silver screen stunner. Cue the standing ovation.
Posted Nov 15, 2012
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A-
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Lincoln
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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Day-Lewis doesn't play Abraham Lincoln, he is Abraham Lincoln in a performance that will have you seriously questioning if what you're watching is a documentary shot in the 1860s.
Posted Nov 09, 2012
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A-
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Skyfall
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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With the onset of the sublime Skyfall, Daniel Craig officially wrests the title of "Best Bond Ever" from Connery, the British bulldog delivers a brilliant, bulldozing performance in a cinematic spectacular more streamlined than one of his Tom Ford suits.
Posted Nov 06, 2012
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C
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Flight
(2012)
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Erick Weber
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The only thing Zemeckis could have done to make Flight more of a chore to sit through beyond its stunning opening sequence, have a kid kick your seat-back for the protracted remainder of the flick.
Posted Oct 30, 2012
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C
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The Sessions
(2012)
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For the entire endeavor to emotionally register, you must buy into the romance that purportedly blossoms between Hawkes and Hunt. I didn't, not for a second.
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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B+
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Smashed
(2012)
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Winstead's performance is sure to be remembered come awards season, it packs more punch than a bottle of Bacardi 151.
Posted Oct 25, 2012
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C-
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Cloud Atlas
(2012)
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The Wachowskis' monumentally ambitious sci-fi time-hopper demands a superhuman level of dedication and patience but the payoff isn't worth the labor required to endure its nearly three-hour runtime.
Posted Oct 24, 2012
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A-
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Hugo
(2011)
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Erick Weber
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A luminous triumph that may just remind you why our hearts leap when the lights go down in a movie theater.
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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B+
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Take Shelter
(2011)
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Erick Weber
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While Take Shelter isn't by any means perfect - writer/director Jeff Nichols could use a refresher course on editing - it's a powerful film, displaying a devolvement into insanity that ultimately proves to be quite visionary.
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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C-
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Margin Call
(2011)
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Margin Call can't beat the street, missing the mark in a major way given the massive expectations.
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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