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Review of How to Survive a Plague (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Sep 2012

Drawing on a wealth of footage from inside ACT UP meetings and protests, David France's powerful documentary How To Survive A Plague pays tribute…

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Review of Backwards (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Sep 2012

Thomas, credited as writer, producer, and executive producer, is the obvious auteur, orchestrating a star vehicle she lacks the screen presence…

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Review of About Cherry (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Sep 2012

Demanding everyone accept you as you are can be a way of refusing to compromise, and the film's failure to explore this aspect of the lifestyle…

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Review of 17 Girls (2011)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Sep 2012

The insights into girlhood in the opening are coming from the viewpoint of adults, while in a story this strange-but-true, it'd be more helpful…

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Review of End of Watch (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Sep 2012

Gyllenhaal and Peña's relationship, a sort of heterosexual love affair, is depicted with a sense of tenderness and care that does not extend…

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Review of Trouble with the Curve (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 19 Sep 2012

In Trouble With The Curve, Eastwood plays a reminder of an older way of doing things, a professional whose likes the world won't see again…

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Review of Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 13 Sep 2012

At this point, the Resident Evil movie franchise has become a personal playground for husband-and-wife team Paul W.S…

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Review of 10 Years (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2012

10 Years does nothing noteworthy, but it does it well, thanks to its ensemble cast…

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Review of Liberal Arts (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Sep 2012

Liberal Arts has the tony look and feel of a vintage Woody Allen movie, but the sophistication is all surface-level…

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Review of Seven Psychopaths (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for AV Club (2,778) on 10 Sep 2012

There's a soul to these nesting and rhyming stories of ruthless killers and what motivates them to pick up their guns and knives -- and in…

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Review of The Words (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 05 Sep 2012

The idiotic melodrama The Words is a maddening contradiction: a film about the publishing industry and a great literary fraud that doesn't…

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Review of The Words (2009)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 05 Sep 2012

The idiotic melodrama The Words is a maddening contradiction: a film about the publishing industry and a great literary fraud that doesn't…

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Review of Bachelorette (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 05 Sep 2012

While Bachelorette is admirably free of the normal formulas governing movies that revolve around women and wedding dresses, it doesn't offer…

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Review of For Ellen (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 05 Sep 2012

The kind of film that rises or falls on the strength of its lead performance, given that its protagonist is in every scene, often alone…

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Review of The Ambassador (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Aug 2012

The film's tone and structure seem a little strained by the danger in which the filmmaker increasingly puts himself, and the indifference to…

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Review of The Possession (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Aug 2012

The Possession attempts to breathe new life into a creaky old subgenre by taking its exorcist and demon from Jewish mythology, but even this…

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Review of Lawless (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Aug 2012

Lawless is filled with forbidding shadows and verdant abundance, contrasting the indifference of nature with the violence of the humanity within it…

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Review of The Apparition (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Aug 2012

It's a potentially creepy setting that would give an innovative director a chance to do a lot with a little…

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Review of Samsara (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Aug 2012

No film can possibly capture the human experience as globally and completely as Samsara attempts to, but there's something stubbornly endearing…

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Review of Premium Rush (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 22 Aug 2012

He's Premium Rush's villain, but Shannon doesn't attempt anything like the austere derangement of a Hans Gruber type, even though he specializes…

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