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Review of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Mar 2013

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has its cornball charm, thanks largely to the confident work of old pros Carell, Arkin, and Buscemi, but it’s…

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Review of Reincarnated (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Mar 2013

Part of Snoop’s protean quality comes from the fact that his rhymes only cut so far: He can pivot freely because he’s never dug in too deep…

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Review of Reality (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Mar 2013

His outrageous, self-destructive journey lands him in a place just as ironic as Rupert Pupkin’s in The King Of Comedy, but it’s haunting…

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Review of The Girl (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Mar 2013

It's unfortunate that Riker's strong central character and evocative location work get undermined, at every turn, by a plot that not only springs…

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Review of The ABCs of Death (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Mar 2013

Many of the shorts are visibly impressive, given their scant budgets, and there’s no end of visual and thematic creativity stretched throughout…

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Review of The Girl (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Mar 2013

It's unfortunate that Riker's strong central character and evocative location work get undermined, at every turn, by a plot that not only springs…

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Review of The Sweeney (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

From its lone-wolf mythology to the high, pealing guitar wails in its score, The Sweeney plays like a forgotten ’80s action movie recently…

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Review of War Witch (2012)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

War Witch is a remarkably mature portrait that trusts its audience to have their own reactions to its material; it doesn’t yank at the heartstrings…

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Review of The End of Love (2013)

By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

Shot with tiny digital cameras to minimize the sense of intrusion, The End Of Love sometimes feels like a home movie, but that’s also the…

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Review of Stoker (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

Anyone already planning on seeing Stoker, the English-language film debut of Oldboy and Thirst director Park Chan-wook, shouldn’t read this…

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Review of Phantom (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

A film that promises the threat of World War III sinks limply into the murky depths…

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Review of Phantom (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

Though pitched as a thriller, Robinson’s woefully underbudgeted film plays instead like a chamber drama, so simple and unadorned that it…

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Review of Future Weather (2012)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

First-time writer-director Jenny Deller has assembled a superb cast, with Madigan in particular making the most of her character’s no-nonsense…

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Review of The Condemned (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

Viewers who enjoy a big rug-pull will want to keep an eye out for this one, as it essentially combines the surprise endings of several notable…

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Review of Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 28 Feb 2013

The extra shading is nice, but it doesn’t change the degree to which Jack The Giant Slayer feels like a paint-by-numbers story…

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Review of Dark Skies (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Feb 2013

Good horror films are imprinted by the fears and anxieties of the day, converting real-life atrocities into abstracted scares; mediocre ones…

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Review of Snitch (2013)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Feb 2013

Snitch toys with moral ambiguity and fatalism before losing its nerve and delivering the action-movie goods in a climax that hews closer to…

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Review of Inescapable (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 21 Feb 2013

It’s a deeply confused movie, sometimes productively so…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Feb 2013

The King's Speech is admirably free of easy answers and simple, happy endings; it's a skewed, awards-ready version of history, but one polished…

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Review of Safe Haven (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Feb 2013

The cutaways to this cop-on-the-edge plot are jarring and lacking in conviction, and when the whole tortured mess comes together in a twist-filled…

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