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10/10
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Tabu |
"
After a point, you start to forget what actual boundary-pushing cinema looks like. Well, it looks like this.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 8:12 PM PST
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Tim Brayton
,
Antagony & Ecstasy
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1/10
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Silent Night, Deadly Night - Pt. 2 |
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It's hard to be prepared for how much of a nothing this movie is.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 8:12 PM PST
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Tim Brayton
,
Antagony & Ecstasy
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3/4
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Django Unchained |
"
As an entertaining revenge flick with roots in exploitation films and spaghetti westerns, Django Unchained succeeds. But it never rises above its genre to become a real, affecting emotional experience.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 8:12 PM PST
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Eric Melin
,
Scene-Stealers.com
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2.1/2
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Promised Land |
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I give this movie's costars and creators credit for making a "message movie" as palatable and entertaining as Promised Land.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 6:12 PM PST
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Leonard Maltin
,
Leonard Maltin's Picks
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2/5
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Les Misérables |
"
The good news: Les Miserables is a less miserable film experience than expected. The bad news: it's still miserable.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 5:12 PM PST
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Gary Wolcott
,
Tri-City Herald
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5/5
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Django Unchained |
"
Quentin Tarantino is seriously warped. But it's in a good way. His fertile imagination produces unique, albeit, violent and almost always, terrific movies.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 5:12 PM PST
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Gary Wolcott
,
Tri-City Herald
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B
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Django Unchained |
"
When a culture tells stories that excuse its own evils long enough, the pendulum is sure to swing the other direction to reveal, even exaggerate, what has been left out.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 5:12 PM PST
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Jeffrey Overstreet
,
Looking Closer
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4/5
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Les Misérables |
"
A rewarding musical movie. Its sweeping orchestrations and memorable acting make those longer sequences feel shorter, make the overly saccharine stuff not too sticky.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 5:12 PM PST
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Norm Schrager
,
Meet In The Lobby
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2/5
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey |
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There is simply not enough story to justify the inordinate length...the enormous production effort is negated by [the] disastrous decision to shoot at 48 frames per second...This makes the entire enterprise look like the world's most expensive home video.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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3.5/5
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Wreck-it Ralph |
"
This A-grade animated Disney charmer hits the nail on the head...director Rich Moore has enormous faith in the ability of young audiences to absorb multiple story strands at once, a belief aided no end by the exquisite quality of the animation.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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3/5
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Les Misérables |
"
The real diamond here is Russell Crowe. As the committed lawman Javert, he proves what a versatile and magnetic actor he is.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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2.5/5
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Parental Guidance |
"
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler team up as goofball grandparents in a cheesy, by-the-numbers slice of computer-written family comedy designed primarily as multiplex fodder for the holidays.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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3/5
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Quartet |
"
With an obvious love for British gardens and heritage-protected interiors, first-time director Dustin Hoffman...delivers a congenial, easy-to-like comedy-drama.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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3.5/5
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Sightseers |
"
Deftly directed by Ben Wheatley (whose fright-fest Kill List is a must on DVD)...the film is careful not to make light of violence, using comedy to sharpen its sinister edge
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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3/5
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Samsara |
"
Mesmerising, impressionistic movie in which time-lapse photography...is intended to ignite thoughts about the meaning of life, society, technology, God, ecology and robots.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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4.5/5
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Rise of the Guardians |
"
In one of the best, brightest, most beautifully realised and visually sumptuous tentpole animation films of the year...an absolute joy to behold, as lovingly made a piece of corporate entertainment as you're likely to find at the multiplex.
"
Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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3/5
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Paris Manhattan |
"
First-time director Sophie Lellouche keeps this puff pastry-thin piece of romantic fluff as light and inconsequential as it needs to be.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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Jack Reacher |
"
What's missing? Chutzpah.
"
Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Ed Whitfield
,
The Ooh Tray
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3/5
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Love Is All You Need |
"
Finely balanced and occasionally touching, this is the most joyous film by Danish director Susanne Bier, and a welcome, perhaps overdue, shift of gear.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Jim Schembri
,
3AW
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4.5/5
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Raining Stones |
"
Boasting all the gritty hallmarks we've come to expect from Ken Loach (working class struggles, unparalleled authenticity, accents that might require subtitles), Raining Stones is another mini masterpiece from the master of social realism.
"
Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Stephen Carty
,
Flix Capacitor
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2/5
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Argo |
"
Second billing to unabashed jingoism
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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S. James Wegg
,
JWR
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3/5
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Carla's Song |
"
A film of two contrasting halves, Carla's Song isn't among Ken Loach's best work.
"
Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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Stephen Carty
,
Flix Capacitor
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3/4
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Les Misérables |
"
works emotionally even when it stumbles aesthetically
"
Posted Dec 26, 2012 4:12 PM PST
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James Kendrick
,
Q Network Film Desk
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3.5/4
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Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D |
"
For older kids or grown-ups who've dreamed of joining the circus, it's a wildly imaginative treat.
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Posted Dec 26, 2012 2:12 PM PST
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Moira MacDonald
,
Seattle Times
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Django Unchained |
"
Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers.
"
Posted Dec 26, 2012 2:12 PM PST
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Andrew O'Hehir
,
Salon.com
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