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3/4
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65%
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Piles on enough eye candy and action sequences to please fans, plus more humor than the three "Rings" films - even if it only occasionally achieves the trio's grandeur."
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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1.5/4
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32%
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Deadfall (2012) |
"
There's nothing you haven't seen before - and better - in "Deadfall," which would seem to appeal mostly to fans of snowmobile chases."
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New York Post
Posted Dec 7, 2012
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2/4
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50%
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In Our Nature (2012) |
"
Plays distressingly like a photographed off-Broadway drama."
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New York Post
Posted Dec 7, 2012
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3/4
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38%
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Basically a frothy tabloid take on presidential history. And for my money, that's a good thing in a season filled with puffed-up prestige pictures."
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New York Post
Posted Dec 7, 2012
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2/4
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56%
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Walk Away Renee (2012) |
"
Produced on a far more elaborate scale than "Tarnation,'' which Caouette assembled at a cost of $213.32 on his boyfriend's laptop computer. And that's mostly not a good thing."
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New York Post
Posted Nov 30, 2012
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1.5/4
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40%
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Love, Marilyn (2012) |
"
It was a mistake to ask anyone to dramatically read a chicken recipe Monroe prepared for Joe DiMaggio (one of her husbands), or some of the other scribbles included here."
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New York Post
Posted Nov 30, 2012
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2/4
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94%
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The Central Park Five (2012) |
"
"The Central Park Five" ultimately fails to make its case that five teenagers were sent to jail for a crime they didn't commit solely because of institutional racism."
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New York Post
Posted Nov 21, 2012
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3/4
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88%
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Life of Pi (2012) |
"
It's so hypnotically beautiful that people will be using it to calibrate their new TV monitors."
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New York Post
Posted Nov 21, 2012
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3/4
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68%
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Barrymore (2012) |
"
Plummer's Barrymore shows flashes of glory as he delivers bits and pieces of various Shakespearean roles."
—
New York Post
Posted Nov 16, 2012
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3/4
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62%
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Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
A handsome, grandly theatrical reimagining of the Tolstoy novel starring his muse, Keira Knightley."
—
New York Post
Posted Nov 16, 2012
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3/4
|
90%
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
Because of Lawrence, I just can't write off this movie."
—
New York Post
Posted Nov 16, 2012
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3/4
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91%
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Lincoln (2012) |
"
It's a must-see for Daniel Day-Lewis' charismatic, subtly shaded performance as Lincoln - and an even richer one by Tommy Lee Jones ..."
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New York Post
Posted Nov 8, 2012
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1/4
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77%
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The Bay (2012) |
"
[Levinson] demonstrates he can make a shakycam found-footage horror movie every bit as fake-looking, clumsy and unscary as your average college student working on a $200 budget."
—
New York Post
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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3.5/4
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72%
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A Late Quartet (2012) |
"
Yaron Zilberman, a documentarian making his feature debut, treads a fine line between farce and drama ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Nov 2, 2012
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3/4
|
78%
|
The Zen Of Bennett (2012) |
"
Like with any great singer, it's often the telling pauses of the man born Anthony Benedetto that say the most in "The Zen of Bennett.""
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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|
2/4
|
33%
|
Chasing Mavericks (2012) |
"
Neither Curtis Hanson nor the fellow veteran director who replaced him when Hanson took ill, Michael Apted, can do much with the hokey sequences on land."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 26, 2012
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|
4/4
|
93%
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The Sessions (2012) |
"
"The Sessions'' treats intimacy with an explicitness and honesty that's very rare in movies."
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New York Post
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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2/4
|
89%
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Bad 25 (2012) |
"
The posthumous campaign to polish Michael Jackson's tarnished reputation continues apace with this Spike Lee infomercial, commissioned by Sony and the money-grubbing Jackson estate to promote the 25th anniversary of his 1987 album "Bad.''"
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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2/4
|
90%
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Holy Motors (2012) |
"
The sort of enigmatic movie that many critics embrace because it's open to endless interpretation ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 19, 2012
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|
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77%
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Flight (2012) |
"
A film of individually fine scenes that at best add up to a good, but not a great, movie."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 15, 2012
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|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Photographic Memory (2012) |
"
Utterly delightful."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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1.5/4
|
41%
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3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012) |
"
A sub-Apatovian farce that tries way too hard ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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4/4
|
95%
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Argo (2012) |
"
If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear this was the work of a veteran master like Steven Soderbergh."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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|
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38%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
"Here Comes the Boom'' is low on raunch but even lower on laughs. It also looks like half the lighting crew failed to show up."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
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3.5/4
|
89%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
The most Tim Burton-y of the director's films, and not just because it contains a vast catalog of references to his own movies - everything from "Edward Scissorhands'' to the underrated 1989 "Batman.''"
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 5, 2012
|
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1.5/4
|
21%
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Taken 2 (2012) |
"
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot at stake in a movie where you can crash your way through the armed barricades at the American embassy with a stolen taxicab and survive without a scratch."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 5, 2012
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|
2.5/4
|
32%
|
The Oranges (2012) |
"
As a seven-year veteran of the New Jersey suburban experience, I can testify that it nails the milieu's specifics."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 5, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
64%
|
Solomon Kane (2012) |
"
Been there, done that."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
An indie-inflected popcorn movie with major brains, brilliant acting and a highly satisfying payoff, "Looper'' is the first must-see movie of the season."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower'' is the sort of lower- budget personal film you hardly see being released by a major distributor anymore, except during awards season."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
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3/4
|
85%
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End of Watch (2012) |
"
Gyllenhaal and Pena have great chemistry together ... in their best performances to date."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
The Manzanar Fishing Club (2012) |
"
"The Manzanar Fishing Club'' has enough interesting footage for perhaps a 15-minute segment of a TV news magazine."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 14, 2012
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|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
It's a sharply written, unforgettably directed character study with brilliant performances by Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
The Eye of the Storm (2012) |
"
It all feels like a whittled-down miniseries."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Keep the Lights On (2012) |
"
A tough, well-acted little indie ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
22%
|
The Words (2012) |
"
Bradley Cooper's funniest movie since "The Hangover" - unfortunately, unintentionally this time ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
A surprisingly accessible documentary about an often very technical subject - the revolution surrounding Hollywood's rapid conversion from 35mm film to digital technologies."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 31, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
39%
|
The Possession (2012) |
"
The script, credited to Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, adheres so closely to formula that it's possible to predict not only which characters will end up dead, but in what order ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 31, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
68%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
At least a third of its two hours is devoted to "arty'' shots of landscapes."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 29, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
0%
|
General Education (2012) |
"
Wavers between extreme silliness and unbearable earnestness."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
Shepard and Palmer just don't do anything terribly exciting with the film's vehicles, drawn mostly from Shepard's personal collection."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
It's Langella's crafty, heart-tugging burglar who steals every scene."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 17, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
66%
|
The Expendables 2 (2012) |
"
It's hard not to like a movie in which Bruce Willis' toupee-less CIA agent accuses Stallone's ragtag band of mercenaries of engaging in "male pattern badness.''"
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
Employs stop-motion animation to provide hand-crafted appeal to the clever and surprisingly scary story of a Massachusetts town whose witch-hunting past catches up with it on its 300th anniversary."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 17, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
——
|
Freelancers (2012) |
"
"Freelancers" is De Niro's second-worst film of 2012 after "Red Lights." God help us; he's got two more to go."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
|
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
Renner and the audience deserve better."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
73%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
"Hope Springs'' could have been unbearably schmaltzy or crude. Instead, in the hands of these expert actors and filmmakers, it's a warm and wryly affecting mid-summer treat."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
It may have the faintest relationship to any kind of reality, but Jones' tart performance cuts through the saccharine."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 3, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) |
"
I'd call "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" harmless if it weren't for some totally unnecessary gay-panic jokes that could actually encourage bullying."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 3, 2012
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