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2.5/4
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67%
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The Summit (2013) |
"
At once repetitive and puzzling. There is a lot of finger-pointing. Assertions are made, theories offered, but not much in the way of certainty."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 11, 2013
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1/4
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23%
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Romeo and Juliet (2013) |
"
It makes Baz Luhrmann's 1996 contempo update - the one with Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio and the plus-sign in its title - look like some kind of masterpiece."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 10, 2013
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4/4
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94%
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Captain Phillips (2013) |
"
We watch these films and wonder about ourselves, about who we are, why we are here, what we would do."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 10, 2013
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3/4
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89%
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Cronos (1994) |
"
Guillermo del Toro's feature debut is an arch twist on the vampire tale."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 5, 2013
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2.5/4
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47%
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Parkland (2013) |
"
Parkland is history as existential despair."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 4, 2013
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3.5/4
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98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
Wadjda is a movie about freedom - and nothing represents freedom with the metaphoric simplicity and symmetry of a bicycle."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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3/4
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68%
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Haute Cuisine (2013) |
"
Haute Cuisine is an epicurean dream where the dishes conjured up by the characters are as essential to the experience as the characters themselves."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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4/4
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98%
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Gravity (2013) |
"
A wildly suspenseful zero-g tale of survival 350 miles beyond the ozone layer, Alfonso Cuarón's space saga is emotionally jolting - and physically jolting, too."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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1.5/4
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10%
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Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Feels like it could drag on forever, and drag us down into a purgatory of stupefaction with it."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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4/4
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Enough Said is a romantic comedy about hurting the people you love, who you want to love - and making mistakes that may be impossible to recover from."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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4/4
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91%
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Inequality For All (2013) |
"
Reich is funny, poignant, passionate."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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3.5/4
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88%
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Rush (2013) |
"
Rush has an elemental simplicity about it. Two men in competition, driven (so to speak) to win. They are enemies. But they need each other, too, and as they roll around at 170 m.p.h., they come to understand why."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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3/4
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82%
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Don Jon (2013) |
"
Not exactly an original idea. But Gordon-Levitt goes at it with gusto, and style. Give the guy some props."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 26, 2013
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3/4
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73%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
Even when there's tragedy around the turn, it doesn't matter. Populaire plays like a musical - you expect anyone, at any time, to break into song."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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2.5/4
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34%
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Salinger (2013) |
"
Salinger is fascinating because Salinger was fascinating. But the film is frustrating, maddeningly so, because it is bent on trumpeting its own importance over that of its subject."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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2.5/4
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50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
Thanks for Sharing is an odd film: The sex-addict business is treated with an uncommon level of detail and honesty."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 19, 2013
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3/4
|
71%
|
Terraferma (2013) |
"
Terraferma offers a sun-splashed meditation on compassion, tradition, tolerance, and generational change."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 13, 2013
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3/4
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84%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
[A] quietly fierce condemnation of fundamentalist Muslim society's treatment of women ..."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Sep 6, 2013
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2.5/4
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74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
Wong Kar Wai is an expressionist master. A master of character - deep, rich, truthful character - especially in The Grandmaster, he is not."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 30, 2013
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2/4
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
Austenland begs a couple of questions: One is why, Keri Russell, why? The other: Where is Christopher Guest when you need him?"
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 30, 2013
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3.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
This is a film about hurt and healing, isolation and fear, need and rage - and it's not just the motley, messed-up crew of 14- and 15-year-olds who are trying to cope, trying to get better."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 30, 2013
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3/4
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
Drinking Buddies walks a fine line between the mundane and the meaningful, but the actors walking it are top-notch."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 30, 2013
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3/4
|
46%
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Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
Director John Crowley trots his crew around London, working up a suitable amount of suspense. And paranoia."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 28, 2013
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3/4
|
68%
|
The Artist and the Model (2013) |
"
It is about inspiration and beauty, of course - and Folch, as a vagabond who escaped from a Spanish refugee camp, is certainly inspiring and beautiful."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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3/4
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
A loping and lovely romance, steeped in tragedy, with a Texas twang."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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4/4
|
96%
|
Cutie And The Boxer (2013) |
"
Directed with invention and insight by Zachary Heinzerling ..."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 23, 2013
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3/4
|
89%
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The World's End (2013) |
"
This inspired nutball comedy is like its heroes on their mission: It just gets progressively more nuts, more blotto."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 22, 2013
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2/4
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
What it lacks is even an iota of originality."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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3/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
The Butler is an inspiring and important summation of the black struggle."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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3/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
The Spectacular Now captures the exhilaration and confusion, longing and dread of young romance with raw honesty and insight. Nothing rings false, nothing feels "cute.""
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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2.5/4
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
It's an American success story of epic proportions, but Joshua Michael Stern's biopic of the Apple co-founder is hardly epic."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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1.5/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
Cartoonishly violent, with blood spray, vomit spew, severed limbs, impaled torsos and more, Kick-Ass 2 has none of the punky flair of the Matthew Vaughn-directed original."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 15, 2013
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3/4
|
85%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
If Laurel and Hardy, wearing matching baggy overalls and similarly dumbstruck expressions, had starred in a screen version of Waiting for Godot, the results wouldn't be far afield from Prince Avalanche."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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3/4
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Blanchett is steady as she goes, delivering one of the most exhilarating performances of the year."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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3/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Among the slew of recent futuristic hell-in-a-handbasket spectacles, Elysium takes the cake."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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2.5/4
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
An innocuously smutty road comedy starring Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 7, 2013
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3/4
|
97%
|
Chicken Run (2000) |
"
Apart from looking like no other type of animated film, Chicken Run stands alone in its unwavering determination not to play down to the kiddies."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 4, 2013
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2.5/4
|
69%
|
Cliffhanger (1993) |
"
The cinematography and gravity-defying stunt performances are exhilarating. The story, alas, is pure routine."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 3, 2013
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2.5/4
|
94%
|
Dave (1993) |
"
While it's sloppy and draggy in parts, Kevin Kline, in the title role, delivers an ingratiating comedic performance."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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2.5/4
|
91%
|
Face/Off (1997) |
"
For all its fiery explosions, Face/Off just kind of implodes."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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3/4
|
96%
|
Unforgiven (1992) |
"
Eastwood deliberately upends the conventions of the western, subverting his own image in the process."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 2, 2013
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3/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
It is utterly chilling."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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2.5/4
|
64%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
The Wahlberg-Washington express hits lots of comfortably familiar notes. And more than a few viciously uncomfortable ones, too."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Aug 1, 2013
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3/4
|
96%
|
The Fugitive (1993) |
"
Thoroughly engaging, edge-of-the-seat entertainment."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 29, 2013
|
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3/4
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
The Hunt offers a powerful, provocative study of mob mentality and the fabric of trust."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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3/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
A deadpan mock-documentary about an early-'80s gathering of programming nerds, arguing about AI and predictive algorithms and showing off questionable fashion choices and facial hair."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
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2.5/4
|
82%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
Shot on the fly, while Silva, Cera & Co. were waiting to make another movie, Crystal Fairy ends up on a beach, and ends up resonating with a pesky charm."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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3/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
Although The Wolverine eventually falls back on a comic-book formula and CG effects (the climactic face-off between Logan and a giant silver warriorlike thing is totally generic), Mangold and his team find time to explore more nuanced realms ..."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 26, 2013
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4/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
Oscar Grant had friends, he had a sister and a mother and a grandmother, a girlfriend, a child. In concise measures, Fruitvale Station shows us these connections, these bonds."
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jul 18, 2013
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