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Review of Thin Ice (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Feb 2012

The movie takes some dark, violent turns once Crudup enters the picture, and loses some of its initial soft, regional charm…

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Review of The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Feb 2012

Even when making movies for small children, Studio Ghibli produces stories that are more emotionally sophisticated, and less philosophically…

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Review of Obsessed (2009)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Feb 2012

Doing his best to class up the joint, The Wire's Idris Elba stars as the perfect man…

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Review of Must Love Dogs (2005)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Feb 2012

The dialogue and the movie seem as canned as a Must-See TV laugh track…

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Review of Bombay Beach (2011)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Feb 2012

This aestheticizing of troubled lives proves problematic over the long haul…

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Review of The Swell Season (2012)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Feb 2012

It's too focused on capturing a bygone moment and portraying it as the present, while the band and the couple have inevitably moved on, to…

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Review of Tooth Fairy (2010)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Feb 2012

For a bad, broad comedy, Tooth Fairy boasts a surprising number of positives. Which isn’t to say that it’s good, but it could be much, much worse…

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Review of Safe House (2012)

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

Safe House does altogether too good a job establishing Washington as a seemingly unbeatable adversary: He brings so much gravity to his role…

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Review of Perfect Sense (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Feb 2012

The perseverance of McGregor's restaurant, in spite of its apparent inutility in the changing world, ends up having more poignancy than his…

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Review of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

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

This adventure strands Johnson's famously animated features in eyebrow jail, and squanders his outsized charisma and gift for winking self-deprecation…

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Review of Windfall (2012)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 06 Feb 2012

Windfall is undeniably persuasive - and is likely advocating on the right side of the wind-farm issue - but the movie's case relies more on…

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Review of The Libertine (2004)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Feb 2012

Dunmore creates a memorably grimy London, but the moral grime covering the film proves less memorable…

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Review of Choke (2008)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 03 Feb 2012

Cluttered, flavorless Choke, which crams the novel's nervy narration into an irritating voiceover, and leaps around in time and space with…

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Review of Innocence (2005)

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

The more overtly allegorical Innocence becomes, the duller it gets…

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Review of The Woman in Black (2012)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2012

Without Radcliffe at the center looking scared out of his wits, The Woman In Black would seem even slighter than it already does…

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Review of Kill List (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Feb 2012

While the sum of Kill List comes across as less than its parts, it offers some strikingly nightmarish imagery and a feel that's reminiscent…

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Review of Red Lights (2004)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2012

With ruthless efficiency and wit, Kahn ratchets up unbearable tension and releases it in startlingly visceral fashion, but his placid denouement…

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Review of One for the Money (2012)

By Sam Adams (514) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Jan 2012

During a dinner with Stephanie's colorfully ethnic family, including a squandered Debbie Reynolds, the reaction shots arrive with bludgeoning…

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Review of Big Trouble (1986)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jan 2012

I went into Big Trouble with exceedingly low expectations and was pleasantly surprised...Much of what makes the film so unexpectedly endearing…

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Review of Miss Bala (2011)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Jan 2012

Miss Bala toes a delicate line between exploitation movie and movie about exploitation, but that's part of what gives the film its charge -…

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