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Review of Broken (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for AV Club (2,778) on 17 Jul 2013

Doggedly manipulative and yet consistently affecting, Broken piles on the miserablism to almost unbearable effect…

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Review of Turbo (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Jul 2013

For all its chronic familiarity, the movie has its minor pleasures, many of them visual…

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Review of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls (2013)

By Gwen Ihnat (16) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Jul 2013

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls continues the appeal of Friendship Is Magic, as the heartening lessons of Ponyville—on friendship, leadership,…

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Review of 100 Bloody Acres (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Jul 2013

At its best, though not often enough, 100 Bloody Acres is as mercurial as its central character, breezily offbeat one moment, spattered in…

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Review of Grown Ups 2 (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Jul 2013

Largely free of Sandler’s usual schmaltz and lame romance, it’s pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that’s…

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Review of Pacific Rim (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Jul 2013

Yet for all its expensive grandeur, almost too epic even for the vast canvases of IMAX, Pacific Rim is unmistakably a Del Toro creation…

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Review of Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)

By Scott Macdonald (9) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Jul 2013

Terms And Conditions may not be a particularly well-made documentary, but it provides a much-needed wake-up call…

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Review of The Hot Flashes (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Jul 2013

Early in The Hot Flashes, Brooke Shields is seen reading Menopause For Dummies, and it doesn’t take long to realize that’s precisely what…

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Review of Still Mine (2012)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Jul 2013

Cromwell delivers his defiantly gruff dialogue with amusing relish, while still grounding his protagonist’s actions in desperation and desolation…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Jul 2013

Putting a human face on a public tragedy that already had a human face, Fruitvale Station plays like an uncomplicated eulogy, with little more…

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Review of Stuck in Love (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Jul 2013

As writer-director Josh Boone introduces these characters, he superimposes words on the screen to suggest how they channel their thoughts and…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 01 Jul 2013

Hammer’s performance — always game, never mugging — certainly helps; his likable but buffoonish Lone Ranger is an essential part of the…

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Review of Despicable Me 2 (2013)

By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 01 Jul 2013

What’s missing — and this was the crucial component of part one — is a little sour to undercut the sweet…

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Review of The Lone Ranger (2003)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 01 Jul 2013

Hammer’s performance — always game, never mugging — certainly helps; his likable but buffoonish Lone Ranger is an essential part of the…

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Review of Some Girl(s) (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jun 2013

The title’s parenthetical plural sums up the problem with Some Girl(s): Five slow-cook dialogues that reveal the nice-guy protagonist as…

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Review of Redemption (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jun 2013

When Redemption works, it’s as a series of writerly miniatures fleshed out by Statham’s street-tough charisma and Chris Menges’ neon-soaked…

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Review of Some Girls (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jun 2013

The title's parenthetical plural sums up the problem with Some Girl(s): Five slow-cook dialogues that reveal the nice-guy protagonist as a…

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Review of A Band Called Death (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jun 2013

The film springs to life in its second half, when the members’ grown kids, who are also working musicians, discover that their dads/uncles…

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Review of Rédemption (2013)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jun 2013

When Redemption works, it’s as a series of writerly miniatures fleshed out by Statham’s street-tough charisma and Chris Menges’ neon-soaked…

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Review of Redemption (2014)

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 26 Jun 2013

A meandering collection of narrative threads tied together by little more than a vague notion of atonement…

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