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Review of American Made Movie (2013)

By Eric Monder (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 28 Aug 2013

American manufacturing gets glossy, infomercial-style treatment in this tiresome documentary…

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Review of Afternoon Delight (2013)

By David Noh (869) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 28 Aug 2013

Writer-director Jill Soloway maintains impressive control over this portrait of a modern marriage that is at once hilarious, audacious, moving…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Harry Haun (78) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 27 Aug 2013

A rinky-dink, kinky sexploiter unworthy of Brian De Palma, who thoroughly trampled this tired territory decades ago and now returns looking…

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Review of Passion (2013)

By Harry Haun (78) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 27 Aug 2013

A rinky-dink, kinky sexploiter unworthy of Brian De Palma, who thoroughly trampled this tired territory decades ago and now returns looking…

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Review of Closed Circuit (2013)

By Michael Sauter (58) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 26 Aug 2013

A storyline that couldn't be timelier unfolds with a vintage air of 1970s cynicism in this unusually thoughtful thriller…

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Review of The Frozen Ground (2013)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Aug 2013

Impressive debut from New Zealand-born Scott Walker is told with style and panache…

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Review of The Grandmaster (2013)

By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Aug 2013

The Grandmaster works best if you've never seen a kung fu movie before…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Sarah Sluis (47) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Aug 2013

What's refreshing about this drama is that it bows neither to the stereotype of a horrifying institution, à la One Flew Over the Cuckoo's…

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Review of Drinking Buddies (2013)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 21 Aug 2013

Though nothing immensely consequential happens during the course of Drinking Buddies, Swanberg crafts a conversational atmosphere that compensates…

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Review of The World's End (2013)

By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Aug 2013

Once again, Wright's direction is wonderfully playful and energetic, and the script he and Pegg have contrived is full of surprises…

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Review of Jobs (2013)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 15 Aug 2013

Terrific dramatization of Apple founder Steve Jobs' rise from inspired, art-inclined hippie to corporate mogul and King of Cool delivers Mac-nificently…

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Review of Austenland (2013)

By Marsha Mccreadie (81) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

What might boggle the mind more, though, and even cause Austen herself to walk out of the film, is that this showcase for Keri Russell (FX's…

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Review of Kick-Ass 2 (2013)

By Michael Sauter (58) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

So yes, Kick-Ass 2 does have its share of winkingly subversive humor…

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Review of Paranoia (2013)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

In trying to play a tense, high-stakes game of corporate espionage and Mephistophelean seduction, this dull, junky thriller is all drift and…

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Review of The Patience Stone (2013)

By Eric Monder (171) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

What might have impressed on the stage-an attenuated monologue by the heroine-seems forced in the confined space of the dreary one-room bedroom set…

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Review of The Butler (2013)

By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

Here, empowered by Danny Strong's smart, encyclopedic screenplay, Daniels tackles both a bigger canvas and cast and manages the challenge with…

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Review of Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

By Erica Abeel (109) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

And though the plot is wafer-thin, 'Bodies' is less about story than mood and visual poetry, playing like a folk ballad about criminal lovers…

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Review of Paranoia (2013)

By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

In trying to play a tense, high-stakes game of corporate espionage and Mephistophelean seduction, this dull, junky thriller is all drift and…

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Review of Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

By Maria Garcia (194) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

Heinzerling has a great eye, and his conventional, low-key approach to cinematography in Cutie and the Boxer-no shaky camera, very few tracking…

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Review of Chennai Express (2013)

By Frank Lovece (341) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 14 Aug 2013

Like the southbound train of the title, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's romantic action-comedy-musical Chennai Express barrels forward…

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