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Review of Chasing Ice (2012)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Nov 2012

As someone who admits to having harbored skepticism about climate change himself, two decades ago, Balog is trying to present an image-based…

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Review of 28 Hotel Rooms (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 14 Nov 2012

In its own small way, by documenting the petty panic of two people who want to be together but are otherwise entangled, 28 Hotel Rooms is often…

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Review of 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995)

By Ryan Vlastelica (5) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Nov 2012

While the third film has a little more narrative coherence—involving corporate pollution on a Native American tribe’s land—it’s also…

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Review of Ghost Town (2010)

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

Though the plot contrives to throw Gervais and Leoni together and then pull them apart, the two leads stay consistently in sync through it…

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Review of The Ladykillers (2004)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 11 Nov 2012

Already as dark as London soot, the comedy hardly needed work to bring it in line with the Coen brothers' sensibility, but the remake moves…

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Review of The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Nov 2012

As tense and taut as any crime saga, but the stakes are more personal…

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Review of Winter Passing (2006)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Nov 2012

Winter Passing is full of nice dramatic turns, including one from relative-unknown Amelia Warner as Harris' former student-turned-nanny (and…

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Review of License to Wed (2007)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Nov 2012

Krasinski knows how to play off Williams--his pained looks are all too appropriate in the face of Williams' desperate shtick--but it's disillusioning…

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Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Nov 2012

Lincoln is built around a magnetic Day-Lewis turn, and the film is a memorable, sometimes stirring look at how even the most righteous bill…

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Review of Starlet (2012)

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

Starlet is an unusually subtle, quiet character study - especially given the potentially salacious subject matter - that builds to a quietly…

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Review of A Royal Affair (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Nov 2012

Newcomer Følsgaard is the wild card, but he manages to make the king both villain and victim, sometimes a vindictive schemer, at others far-eyed…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 07 Nov 2012

Skyfall doesn't forget it has to be an exciting spy film above all, but from its first scene, it ratchets up the drama in ways that have little…

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Review of In Another Country (2012)

By Mike D Angelo (3) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Nov 2012

It almost seems as if Hong is poking fun at his own single-minded oeuvre, creating a fractal representation of how his other films obliquely…

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Review of Kinsey (2004)

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

For a film about man who spent half his life defying staid convention, Kinsey remains as timid as a choirboy…

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Review of Below (2002)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Nov 2012

Twohy and co-screenwriters Darren Aronofsky and Lucas Sussman don't show their hand until late in the film, but by that time, Below has grown…

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Review of The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Nov 2012

The Man With The Iron Fists has the same advantages of many musical debuts…

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Review of I Capture the Castle (2003)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Nov 2012

Garai's flowery, overwritten narration proves irritating in the movie's first half, then unfortunately sets the tone for a fatal second-half…

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Review of Valley of Tears (2003)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Nov 2012

Not everything Perry's voices say seems relevant to his central thesis, but they speak fervently and colorfully, and their intensity is compelling…

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Review of Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Nov 2012

Bones Brigade is surprisingly emotional and inspirational too, as these now-grown men look back on the days when they were competitive, easily…

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Review of Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Oct 2012

The film's greatest achievement is transforming his supposed acts of deviancy into disease-of-the-week uplift, not to mention a moving love…

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