|
LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
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documentary |
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The Revolutionary Optimists |
yes |
100 |
100 |
tracking the lives of kids in Kolkata |
Stolen Seas |
yes |
100 |
100 |
provides surprising details about the pirate trade |
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners |
yes |
92 |
100 |
a composed look into the revolutionary spirit. |
Hava Nagila |
yes |
85 |
78 |
the kudzu of Jewish music |
Unmade in China |
yes |
83 |
|
making a motion picture in a language you do not speak |
Hitler's Children |
yes |
80 |
71 |
disparate responses to a very particular sort of shame |
No Place on Earth |
yes |
76 |
57 |
a gripping Holocaust survival tale |
My Amityville Horror |
yes |
67 |
|
stands apart from most Amityville-alia |
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet |
yes |
64 |
40 |
A kind of crash course in 50-plus years of environmentalism |
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's |
yes |
57 |
56 |
no mere window dressing |
Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge From the Holocaust |
yes |
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*a thorough look at a lesser-known chapter in Holocaust-era history |
Tattoo Nation |
yes |
|
|
deftly chronicles the journey of modern tattoo artistry in the U.S. |
Three Days (of Hamlet) |
yes |
|
|
high school English crossed with "Waiting for Guffman” |
Numbered |
yes |
|
|
Auschwitz prisoners talk about the serial numbers on their left arms |
The Typewriter (in the 21st Century) |
yes |
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|
It's mostly enjoyable, but no interviews with naysayers? |
Venus and Serena |
so-so |
85 |
82 |
fascinating if occasionally disjointed |
The Source Family |
so-so |
67 |
67 |
Now there's a cult you don't want to join. |
Reincarnated |
so-so |
24 |
25 |
Snoop Dogg's Jamaica trip |
Babe's and Ricky's Inn |
so-so |
|
|
the story behind founder Mama Laura never comes into sharp focus. |
André Gregory: Before and After Dinner |
no |
77 |
63 |
rangy survey of the eclectic actor |
Leviathan |
no |
71 |
80 |
a strange and unsatisfying endurance test. |
Bert Stern: Original Mad Man |
no |
20 |
17 |
it's not clear why we should bother listening in |
Aroused |
no |
20 |
0 |
rarely goes beyond surface in profiling porn stars |
Mindless Behavior: All Around the World |
no |
|
|
an acutely positioned marketing tool |
War on Whistleblowers |
no |
|
|
fails to fully sound alarm |
aminated |
|
|
|
|
Consuming Spirits |
yes |
89 |
82 |
*a dark and kooky animated epic |
From Up on Poppy Hill |
yes |
83 |
90 |
*a sweet triumph for Miyazaki duo |
The Croods |
no |
67 |
69 |
lacks a spark of fire |
Silver Circle |
no |
0 |
|
low-rent animation, blunt antigovernment jabs and robotic dialogue |
regular movies |
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|
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Mud |
yes |
98 |
96 |
*creatively rich and emotionally rewarding |
Gimme the Loot |
yes |
94 |
94 |
*improbably enjoyable |
The Sapphires |
yes |
93 |
100 |
plays like a good-time jukebox musical |
Lore |
yes |
93 |
96 |
a potent [Holocaust] drama |
The Angels' Share |
yes |
89 |
83 |
a wee dram of the good stuff...leaves a warm glow. |
In the House |
yes |
87 |
77 |
an imaginative mentor-student tale |
Graceland |
yes |
85 |
71 |
tense, twisty, with moral complexity and intriguing shades of gray |
Upstream Color |
yes |
83 |
85 |
*part romance, part sci-fi and utterly original |
Something in the Air |
yes |
82 |
92 |
scorching new coming-of-age drama |
Sightseers |
yes |
81 |
69 |
A litterbug? Be very afraid. |
Renoir |
yes |
80 |
85 |
a lush, involving film |
The Story of Luke |
yes |
80 |
|
Autism: finds a humanizing lightness |
Reality |
yes |
79 |
91 |
*An astute, dreamlike gut-punch |
Eden |
yes |
79 |
75 |
A sobering thriller |
Iron Man 3 |
yes |
78 |
70 |
smartly reboots the suit midflight |
The Place Beyond the Pines |
yes |
74 |
63 |
*intimate in its telling, sweeping in its issues, stumbles only occasionally |
42 |
yes |
73 |
68 |
survives the full-dress Hollywood biopic treatment |
Ginger & Rosa |
yes |
71 |
92 |
a teen girl's fear about nuclear destruction |
Violeta Went to Heaven |
yes |
70 |
60 |
intense and turbulent like Parra. |
New World |
yes |
64 |
60 |
a tense crime-syndicate showdown |
Evil Dead |
yes |
63 |
57 |
Remake: a gleeful, gory, goofy good time |
The We and the I |
yes |
63 |
50 |
an exuberantly chaotic vision of a teenage moment |
Oblivion |
yes |
59 |
54 |
*a sci-fi adventure to remember |
Somebody Up There Likes Me |
yes |
57 |
|
easily inspires a deep sense of affection and connection |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
yes |
55 |
56 |
an intricate and involving film |
Aquí y Allá |
yes |
50 |
60 |
a man trying to do right in a world of ambitions and indignities, |
He's Way More Famous Than You |
yes |
50 |
|
The farce is so light on its feet that it's buoyant. |
The Lords of Salem |
yes |
42 |
41 |
will make you feel bad … But ... in a good way? … yes |
To the Wonder |
yes |
41 |
40 |
calm seas, treacherous storms, incredible beauty and ... god |
Peeples |
yes |
38 |
40 |
a refreshing and warm romantic comedy |
Upside Down |
yes |
33 |
29 |
*worth the leap |
And Now a Word From Our Sponsor |
yes |
10 |
14 |
An ad agency executive resurfaces speaking only in advertising slogans |
Neighboring Sounds |
yes |
|
|
*mastery of pacing, theme and stylistic eccentricity |
Filly Brown |
yes |
|
|
a fierce tale of a promising hip-hop rapper |
The Crumbles |
yes |
|
|
elegant framing and affectionate location shooting |
Kon-Tiki |
yes |
|
|
captures the journey in thrilling detail. |
Love Is All You Need |
so-so |
75 |
67 |
might not have all you need, but … it has enough. |
Antiviral |
so-so |
64 |
40 |
It's fascinating but not deep enough |
Starbuck |
so-so |
63 |
64 |
amiable art-house fluff |
Fists of Legend |
so-so |
60 |
|
overlong yet involving Korean actioner |
Come Out and Play |
so-so |
56 |
|
a simple but eerie horror story. |
The Company You Keep |
so-so |
55 |
52 |
political potboiler |
Welcome to the Punch |
so-so |
54 |
22 |
derivative, dumb fun |
Admission |
so-so |
43 |
31 |
a high-strung romantic comedy about college-track pressures. |
Family Weekend |
so-so |
29 |
22 |
no worse than many of the dysfunctional family comedies |
Molly's Theory of Relativity |
so-so |
14 |
17 |
in the end it tries too hard |
Love and Honor |
so-so |
9 |
0 |
suffices as old-fashioned, pie-in-the-sky entertainment. |
Better Mus' Come |
so-so |
|
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a tad overstuffed, but never lacks for interest |
Silver Case |
so-so |
|
|
pointless fun |
Pawn |
so-so |
|
|
a mild thrill |
My Brother the Devil |
no |
94 |
78 |
schematic storytelling |
Blancanieves |
no |
92 |
100 |
visually impressive, but the plot isn't so pleasing. |
Simon Killer |
no |
81 |
62 |
a creature so frightening...you just want him to go away. |
Desperate Acts of Magic |
no |
71 |
|
conjures absurd love triangle |
Spring Breakers |
no |
70 |
44 |
bongs, breasts and beat-driven boredom |
Disconnect |
no |
68 |
69 |
cyberspace: the flick can't resist overheating |
Wrong |
no |
67 |
54 |
doesn't feel right |
Trance |
no |
67 |
52 |
overuse of feints and dodges |
Greetings From Tim Buckley |
no |
65 |
75 |
many languid scenes and little narrative momentum |
The Iceman |
no |
65 |
60 |
can't heat up |
Paradise: Love |
no |
62 |
64 |
lacks a real purpose |
Kiss of the Damned |
no |
59 |
50 |
a bit of handsome nonsense |
Leonie |
no |
57 |
40 |
too seldom comes fully alive |
Hunky Dory |
no |
56 |
44 |
feel-good treacle that saps the audience's energy |
Detour |
no |
50 |
60 |
Nothing to do but wait |
Olympus Has Fallen |
no |
50 |
43 |
doesn't add anything new to the genre |
Home Run |
no |
50 |
|
overplays its morality pitch |
The Great Gatsby |
no |
48 |
32 |
suffocates any dramatic interest the story might have generated. |
Pain & Gain |
no |
47 |
47 |
bargain-budget, still excessive |
Midnight's Children |
no |
43 |
29 |
Salman Rushdie's novel turns disappointingly literal in its film adaptation. |
Mental |
no |
40 |
11 |
crazy quilt of a movie |
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone |
no |
38 |
24 |
Neither as good as you might hope nor as dreadful as doubters may fear |
Aftershock |
no |
38 |
20 |
should be enough to make anyone seek emergency relief. |
The Call |
no |
37 |
43 |
Halle Berry is fierce in 'The Call,' but script needs 911 |
Tai Chi Hero |
no |
33 |
0 |
a nagging, cartoonish emptiness |
The Numbers Station |
no |
29 |
40 |
a rote espionage flick |
The Brass Teapot |
no |
29 |
27 |
Magic teapot: feels more like a stretched-out skit |
G.I. Joe: Retaliation |
no |
29 |
21 |
Rescue mission needed |
Everybody Has a Plan |
no |
27 |
60 |
a frustratingly dissipated movie |
Arthur Newman |
no |
25 |
0 |
has good swing, doesn't follow through |
Kill Hole |
no |
20 |
|
a muddled thriller about war veterans |
Assault on Wall Street |
no |
20 |
|
shamelessly subpar melodrama |
No One Lives |
no |
18 |
14 |
Blood, cheap tricks and regrettable acting flow freely. |
Oconomowoc |
no |
17 |
0 |
alternates between the pointless and the elliptical |
Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor |
no |
16 |
0 |
light comedy and heavy dramatic moralizing |
Dorfman in Love |
no |
15 |
0 |
old-fashioned makeover movie |
Language of a Broken Heart |
no |
13 |
20 |
Story rings false |
The Host |
no |
12 |
17 |
limps along as alien tale fails to generate heat |
If I Were You |
no |
10 |
14 |
strained, absurd marital farce |
K-11 |
no |
10 |
0 |
a dreary jailhouse drama |
The Big Wedding |
no |
6 |
4 |
a talented cast wasted |
6 Souls |
no |
5 |
0 |
Turgid...could use more personality |
Scary Movie V |
no |
5 |
0 |
[The] strategy is to out-stupid the competition |
Generation Um... |
no |
0 |
0 |
Disaffected lives devolve into oblivion |
How Sweet It Is |
no |
0 |
0 |
squanders good talent |
The Happy Poet |
no |
|
|
Slacker bliss in a tofu cart |
Bob's New Suit |
no |
|
|
threadbare |
Paris-Manhattan |
no |
|
|
This French rom-com, inspired by Woody Allen, grows strained. |