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Review of No (2012)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Feb 2013

The most unexpectedly riotous comedy in years -- one with more bite than usual…

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Review of Beautiful Creatures (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Feb 2013

Beautiful Creatures is an oddball creation: a morality play with no basic understanding of morality…

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Review of Like Someone in Love (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 Feb 2013

Is this the stuff of gripping drama? Not at all. But like nearly all of Kiarostami’s films, it’s the stuff of good conversation…

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Review of Lore (2012)

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

If nothing else, Shortland gives Rosendahl a star-making platform on par with Cornish’s in Somersault: She’s a magnetic screen presence…

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Review of A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Feb 2013

It isn’t a movie so much as a feature-length perfume commercial for a Charlie Sheen signature cologne with gorgeous packaging and absolutely…

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Review of Identity Thief (2013)

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

Identity Thief establishes its priorities: Expansive character business is front and center; actual character-building is in the margins, almost…

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Review of Caesar Must Die (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Feb 2013

In Caesar Must Die, the characters are both actor and audience, looking at themselves through the lens of a centuries-old fictionalization of history…

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Review of Side Effects (2015)

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

Of the many twists and turns in Steven Soderbergh's vastly entertaining thriller Side Effects, the most gratifying has less to do with the…

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Review of The Playroom (2013)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Feb 2013

More than anything, The Playroom feels like an excuse to explore this retro house from a child’s point of view—which is perfectly okay,…

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Review of Side Effects (2013)

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

Like his underappreciated Haywire, Side Effects screws around in its own thriller architecture, toying with feints of structure and clever…

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Review of Would You Rather (2013)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Feb 2013

Would You Rather has one major asset in an appropriately gothic, larger-than-life performance by Jeffrey Combs, the great, chameleon-like character…

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Review of Bullet to the Head (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 31 Jan 2013

The X-factors tend to be the script and the performances, and those elements largely betray him in Bullet To The Head, which is a perfunctory…

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Review of Girls Against Boys (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 31 Jan 2013

LaLiberte is the best thing about Girls Against Boys…

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Review of Warm Bodies (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 31 Jan 2013

For a movie about a love so powerful that it brings people back from the dead, it's curiously tepid…

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Review of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 25 Jan 2013

The grim heroes don't have a nuance or more than a hint of emotion between them, and the same goes for the film around them…

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Review of John Dies at the End (2013)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Jan 2013

John Dies At The End sometimes strains to live up to its midnight-movie reputation, but not every B-horror picture combines demonic creatures…

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Review of Supporting Characters (2013)

By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Jan 2013

Supporting Characters tends to meander pleasantly from scene to scene, relying on the testy rapport between its two lead actors…

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Review of ...And Justice for All (1979)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Jan 2013

Justice is seldom as deep or trenchant as it wants to be, but there's abundant pleasure to be gleaned from skating along its surfaces…

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Review of Resolution (2013)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Jan 2013

Benson and Moorhead have made a horror film for jaded aficionados, deconstructing and reconstructing tired elements into a gnarled, distinctive…

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Review of Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Jan 2013

The pleasure of Happy People comes from watching these men go about their work, while they explain that the only way to make it in the taiga…

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