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Review of The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (2007)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Dec 2012

Between their bickering, Grønkjær's offscreen prompting, and the sappy, ubiquitous soundtrack, The Monastery is like the opposite of Into…

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Review of The House of Yes (1997)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Dec 2012

Director Mark Waters has done probably the best possible job translating the material to film, and the truly filmic moments work well, but…

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Review of We Live in Public (2009)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Dec 2012

We Live In Public doesn’t show that Harris was a genius so much as that he was a mentally and emotionally unstable egotist, trying to force…

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Review of Not Fade Away (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Dec 2012

Chase deals with the mundane reality that squashes those dreams, but he doesn't downplay the dreams themselves, which he keeps honoring throughout…

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Review of The Impossible (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 19 Dec 2012

Like The Orphanage, The Impossible confirms that Bayona is a major talent, with a skill for constructing sequences that build tension as masterfully…

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Review of Amour (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Dec 2012

A director known for the icy classicism and genre subversion of films like Funny Games and Caché, Haneke has a pitilessness that could not…

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Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Dec 2012

Zero Dark Thirty stands to become the dominant narrative about this important historical event, no matter its distortions, composites, or other…

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Review of Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2007)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Dec 2012

About A Son may not let in anybody who doesn't already have one foot in Nirvana's doorway, but those people are invited in fully, to experience…

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Review of Any Day Now (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Dec 2012

Cumming and Dillahunt are so terrific - as is Isaac Leyva as their ward - that they pull Any Day Now up from its more maudlin and melodramatic…

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Review of Consuming Spirits (2012)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Dec 2012

The connections and the meaning aren't immediately apparent, and viewers are given plenty of time to find their own patterns and invent their…

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Review of Glory Road (2006)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Dec 2012

Glory Road treats history as if it were a 7th-grade social-studies text laid out in a 16-point font, getting the basics right without trying…

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Review of Save the Date (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Dec 2012

Save The Date's achievements are modest - it could be funnier and more affecting, and it ends with a shrug - but the film is wise about sibling…

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Review of Imagine Me & You (2006)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Dec 2012

The film nearly works in spite of its adherence to formula, thanks to clever one-liners and appealing, sharply drawn supporting performances…

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Review of Over the Hedge (2006)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2012

Over The Hedge stands out as genuinely witty and even a little barbed…

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Review of Broken Flowers (2005)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Dec 2012

Murray and Jarmusch, two modern masters of minimalism, triumphantly join forces in Broken Flowers, a bittersweet tour de force about a wealthy,…

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Review of Playing for Keeps (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Dec 2012

The film is a bedroom farce without the farce, a fish-out-of-water comedy on sun-cracked lake-bed, a story of fatherly redemption that barely…

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Review of Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Dec 2012

Hyde Park On Hudson once again finds Meatballs star Bill Murray leading a populist, crowd-pleasing slobs-vs.-snobs comedy, but this time, his…

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Review of In Our Nature (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Dec 2012

Brian Savelson's small-scaled domestic drama In Our Nature evokes a specific, fairly common experience: when two young lovers expose a still-blossoming…

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Review of Only the Young (2012)

By Mike D Angelo (3) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Dec 2012

Not much of real significance happens, which makes Only The Young feel a bit slight, even at a mere 70 minutes…

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Review of Tchoupitoulas (2012)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 05 Dec 2012

A hypnotic 80-minute drift through nocturnal New Orleans that seeks more to pick up on bits of culture and atmosphere than to tell any stories…

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