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Review of Need for Speed (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Mar 2014

Need For Speed possesses eye-rolling, tone deaf dialogue, passable performances (unless you’re Dominic Cooper or Kid Cudi) and plotting so…

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Review of 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 12 Mar 2014

While the doc should prove essential for Nick Cave fans, it should be inspiring for those interested in the creative process or anyone searching…

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Review of In Darkness (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Mar 2014

Holland's film is extraordinarily generous with its characters in ways that take the story beyond being a historical fable of altruism and endurance…

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Review of Oculus (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Mar 2014

It's easily the scariest movie since The Conjuring, and in some ways is a deeper and more satisfying film…

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Review of Neighbors (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Mar 2014

Neighbors is one of the funniest, most visually inventive studio comedies in recent memory…

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Review of Bethlehem (2013)

By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Mar 2014

It’s a strong and eye-catching debut, but one that doesn’t quite mark its ground as the next big thing in Israeli cinema…

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Review of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Mar 2014

Forgettable and only mildly entertaining, 300: Rise of An Empire seals its own fate at the initial story level by being so deeply invested…

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Review of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 06 Mar 2014

It's the accumulation of a set of ideas that a bunch of creative types and executives think would be clever, instead of something that actually…

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Review of Odd Thomas (2013)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Mar 2014

Odd Thomas is a much better film than it's non-release would suggest…

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Review of Non-Stop (2013)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Feb 2014

Non-Stop isn't exactly a smooth ride, but as far it being the big screen equivalent of an airplane novel, one that you read on the flight and…

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Review of The Bag Man (2014)

By Christopher Schobert (126) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Feb 2014

The Bag Man is, in final analysis, truly disheartening…

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Review of River of Fundament (2014)

By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for The Playlist (3,871) on 27 Feb 2014

In addition to the shocking scenes of sex and defecation I found myself reflecting on the way River of Fundament would slide from a typical…

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Review of Non-Stop (2014)

By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Feb 2014

Non-Stop isn't exactly a smooth ride, but as far it being the big screen equivalent of an airplane novel, one that you read on the flight and…

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Review of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013)

By Katie Walsh (1,279) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

Inspirational, entertaining, and absolutely awards-caliber (from first-time director Karasawa), Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me offers up an indelible…

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Review of The Third Side of the River (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

we found it strangely riveting, even if trying to parse it later felt like an exercise in futility-rooting through a massive box of polystyrene…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

The choking pictorialism of the sets and CG backgrounds, coupled with the barely-there performances, contribute to an inescapable sense of…

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Review of If You Don't, I Will (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

Shot in pedestrian fashion, it is set in an intriguing and entirely foreign milieu, but the film ends up just too inscrutable and oblique for…

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Review of Blind (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

This is a peculiarly beautiful film, with lingering sustain and the kind of hard-won optimism that feels truthful as well as hopeful…

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Review of The Midnight After (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

if you go in prepared for its exploitative excesses and can check your expectations of such conceits as logic, character consistency and…

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Review of Thin Ice (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Feb 2014

The odd rhythm of very fast and slick followed by very slow and arty is difficult to settle into, and the film ultimately frustrates, willfully…

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