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LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
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| documentary |
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| Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story |
yes |
100 |
100 |
*A powerful, personal portrait |
| Indie Game |
yes |
100 |
100 |
a compelling glimpse into independent artists of the video game industry |
| Scenes of a Crime |
yes |
100 |
|
*shows how people can be manipulated into confessing to crimes |
| Bill W. |
yes |
100 |
|
an engrossing success story about the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous |
| Bully |
yes |
93 |
100 |
has an emotional impact that must be viewed to be understood |
| Marley |
yes |
93 |
91 |
a fitting tribute |
| First Position |
yes |
92 |
92 |
Combine eager youngsters with the elixir of competition |
| The Pruitt-Igoe Myth |
yes |
89 |
88 |
*thoughtful, troubling |
| Pink Ribbons, Inc. |
yes |
89 |
86 |
good publicity but little in the way of medical progress. |
| Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope |
yes |
82 |
64 |
*full of heart and just plain fun |
| Chimpanzee |
yes |
77 |
72 |
is really crafted for the kids |
| The City Dark |
yes |
67 |
83 |
light pollution? |
| Unraveled |
yes |
67 |
|
A huckster's lessons not really learned |
| The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye |
yes |
64 |
60 |
making what … might seem strange into something … commonplace |
| Hot Flash Havoc |
yes |
|
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vital and enlightening |
| The Manzanar Fishing Club |
yes |
|
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worthy |
| Murder Capital of the World |
yes |
|
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grimly compelling |
| Shakespeare High |
so-so |
86 |
86 |
engaging if uneven |
| MIS: Human Secret Weapon |
so-so |
80 |
|
an excess of talking heads |
| Fightville |
so-so |
56 |
43 |
feels authentic about this world |
| All In: The Poker Movie |
so-so |
55 |
17 |
for poker fans only |
| Hit So Hard |
so-so |
50 |
43 |
seems uncertain throughout of what tale he is telling |
| The Woman Who Wasn't There |
so-so |
|
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documenting a 9/11 fraud |
| U.N. Me |
no |
59 |
57 |
Slick and snarky |
| People V. the State of Illusion |
no |
20 |
|
really a 90-minute PowerPoint presentation |
| Mansome |
no |
19 |
17 |
fails to provide any real insights into male vanity |
| The Highest Pass |
no |
|
|
An unnecessary detour |
| Like Water |
no |
|
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packs no punch |
| amimated |
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| The Pirates! Band of Misfits |
yes |
87 |
92 |
*a clever, delightful story. It's quite a booty |
| Arjun |
yes |
40 |
|
has the appealing air of something passed down through the centuries |
| A Cat in Paris |
so-so |
76 |
60 |
tone and story are sometimes uneven. |
| regular movies |
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| Oslo, August 31st |
yes |
97 |
100 |
beautiful and gripping |
| Moonrise Kingdom |
yes |
95 |
100 |
*a warm and funny fable about kids on the cusp. |
| Monsieur Lazhar |
yes |
93 |
90 |
engages without being overdone |
| The Avengers |
yes |
93 |
86 |
*Marvel-ous team |
| The Cabin in the Woods |
yes |
92 |
86 |
*runs through all the scary-movie genre's cliches |
| Headhunters |
yes |
92 |
75 |
*a thrilling, over-the-top criminal ride |
| Elena |
yes |
91 |
88 |
*spellbinding and impeccably crafted |
| Love in the Buff |
yes |
89 |
83 |
may not be one for the ages, but it is one for right now |
| Polisse |
yes |
88 |
100 |
shot with vérité immediacy and beautifully acted |
| I Wish |
yes |
85 |
100 |
kids just being kids |
| Bernie |
yes |
81 |
89 |
*seems more like eavesdropping than moviegoing. |
| Natural Selection |
yes |
81 |
88 |
tale of small town saints and sinners and a road trip to redemption |
| Sound of My Voice |
yes |
81 |
79 |
an appealing hybrid of genre smarts and a questioning sensibility. |
| A Simple Life |
yes |
80 |
|
a clear-eyed portrait |
| The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel |
yes |
78 |
74 |
sometimes life can indeed get better with age. |
| The Road |
yes |
77 |
100 |
*artfulness makes good on the occasional bumpiness in the journey |
| The Hunter |
yes |
73 |
58 |
characters navigate uncertain terrain, spatially and emotionally. |
| Goodbye First Love |
yes |
69 |
91 |
beautifully captures a girl's first love and its aftermath. |
| Safe |
yes |
52 |
52 |
a suitably grimy playground for action |
| Mirror Mirror |
yes |
50 |
37 |
can be choppy, but the fable zings along on the sharp comic timing |
| Think Like a Man |
yes |
49 |
52 |
sticks to a formula without falling prey to it. |
| The Three Stooges |
yes |
43 |
46 |
a very amusing escape |
| Life Happens |
yes |
33 |
43 |
an oft-tread story [gets] a snappy, new,hip and enjoyable spin |
| Intruders |
yes |
32 |
27 |
*trusts in the narrative richness of modulated creep |
| Elles |
yes |
24 |
29 |
more about thinking and about sex |
| Shanghai Red |
yes |
|
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a tantalizing, involving thriller. |
| In the Family |
yes |
|
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deeply affecting |
| Goodbye Promise |
yes |
|
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visually alert, enormously well-observed |
| Intouchables |
so-so |
81 |
81 |
engaging if somewhat predictable |
| Attenberg |
so-so |
79 |
100 |
bored young characters and flat-affect performances |
| Here |
so-so |
73 |
80 |
a swoony sense of time and place |
| Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale |
so-so |
73 |
50 |
keeps cartoonishness at bay |
| Men in Black 3 |
so-so |
67 |
74 |
has got the MIB mojo back — well, most of it anyway |
| God Bless America |
so-so |
66 |
48 |
certainly locked and loaded, even if its aim is sometimes off. |
| The Dictator |
so-so |
61 |
59 |
hysterical, heretical, guilty, innocent, silly, sophisticated, teasing, tedious |
| We Have a Pope |
so-so |
52 |
77 |
never really comes into focus |
| Delicacy |
so-so |
51 |
44 |
a crepe-thin romantic snack |
| Snow White and the Huntsman |
so-so |
46 |
62 |
It's a joy to watch, but it needs a love story with passion. |
| Dark Shadows |
so-so |
41 |
39 |
weaknesses in story and drama show |
| Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day |
so-so |
40 |
|
an earnestly competent, slightly overcooked B-movie potboiler |
| Jesus Henry Christ |
so-so |
40 |
|
underwhelming but not obnoxiously so |
| Tonight You're Mine |
so-so |
39 |
57 |
might have had more resonance |
| Girl in Progress |
so-so |
31 |
22 |
shaky yet charismatic |
| The Lucky One |
so-so |
21 |
16 |
sweet but not too syrupy |
| Fetih 1453 |
so-so |
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a straight-up shot of martyrdom and extravagance |
| Mamitas |
so-so |
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Unbalanced storytelling |
| Goon |
no |
79 |
84 |
Send Goon to the penalty box |
| Damsels in Distress |
no |
77 |
71 |
too often substitutes pith for insight |
| American Animal |
no |
65 |
57 |
fails to exploit its wild side |
| Keyhole |
no |
63 |
63 |
overthinks its exploration of memory and forgiveness |
| The Five-Year Engagement |
no |
63 |
62 |
a missed opportunity |
| Going Down in La-La Land |
no |
63 |
60 |
predictable tropes about fame-seeking |
| A Bag of Hammers |
no |
59 |
43 |
has more misses than hits |
| Cellmates |
no |
55 |
|
cruel and unusual punishment |
| The Perfect Family |
no |
52 |
40 |
filled with self-doubt |
| Citizen Gangster |
no |
50 |
60 |
overly familiar characters and situations. |
| Lovely Molly |
no |
50 |
40 |
creepy, but not in a good way |
| Where Do We Go Now? |
no |
46 |
40 |
stumbles most when reaching for its bigger themes. |
| Mother's Day |
no |
46 |
20 |
gory remake of the 1980 slash flick |
| 96 Minutes |
no |
46 |
|
overstuffed and overcooked |
| American Reunion |
no |
44 |
33 |
who goes to their 13th high school reunion? |
| Restless City |
no |
40 |
|
lacks bustle |
| Blue Like Jazz |
no |
37 |
36 |
an overlong mishmash |
| Detention |
no |
36 |
30 |
outcasts, slasher and prom make mess |
| Battleship |
no |
36 |
29 |
It's all very earnest, but it's not a whole lot of fun |
| Crooked Arrows |
no |
33 |
33 |
can't break free of the usual underdog sports picture tropes |
| Musical Chairs |
no |
33 |
0 |
emotionally cut-and-dried |
| The Trouble With Bliss |
no |
27 |
33 |
Little fresh with this slacker |
| The Cup |
no |
27 |
|
a relatively perfunctory walk-through |
| Wrath of the Titans |
no |
25 |
29 |
lacks inspiration or zest in storytelling, performance or action |
| Chernobyl Diaries |
no |
25 |
18 |
dull characters and a rote horror formula |
| We the Party |
no |
25 |
11 |
a colorful but superficial mess |
| The Samaritan |
no |
24 |
25 |
leave[s] viewers feeling ripped off |
| What to Expect When You're Expecting |
no |
22 |
29 |
expect little |
| Hide Away |
no |
22 |
17 |
sinks |
| The Raven |
no |
21 |
28 |
If only the filmmakers could equal Poe's prose. |
| High School |
no |
21 |
7 |
get it? It's a stoner comedy |
| For Greater Glory |
no |
20 |
6 |
plodding historical drama |
| Darling Companion |
no |
18 |
6 |
[a] dog of a story |
| Mighty Fine |
no |
15 |
13 |
unfortunately, isn't |
| Battlefield America |
no |
14 |
20 |
cloying and dizzying hip-hop dance flick |
| ATM |
no |
12 |
14 |
tedious thriller |
| Piranha 3DD |
no |
12 |
0 |
Tacky and intermittently entertaining-l |
| A Little Bit of Heaven |
no |
4 |
0 |
a lot of hokum |
| Losing Control |
no |
0 |
0 |
vague cheerfulness but no real snap or insight |
| Deadline |
no |
0 |
0 |
righteously corny |
| My Way |
no |
0 |
0 |
Cuisinart-edited scenes … preposterously whisker-thin escapes |
| Nesting |
no |
0 |
0 |
built on flimsy premise |
| Hick |
no |
0 |
0 |
should be sent packing back to the sticks. |
| Virginia |
no |
0 |
0 |
aims for roller-coaster passion but only flatlines. |
| Dark Tide |
no |
0 |
|
a shark movie with no bite |
| Gangster |
no |
|
|
lacks name and focus |
| Life, Love, Soul |
no |
|
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haphazardly shot and edited, with invasive music cues |
| The Fields |
no |
|
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is flat and lifeless |
| Helpless |
no |
|
|
sometimes loses its way amid a whole lot of cinematic onion-peeling |
| Dangerous Ishhq |
no |
|
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ham-fisted dance with reincarnation |
| The Yankles |
no |
|
|
takes its eye off the ball one too many times |
| Memorial Day |
no |
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|
suffers from battle fatigue |