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99% Finding Nemo
Breathtaking animation, talented vocal work, and a well-written screenplay add up to another Pixar success.
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98% Brooklyn Castle
Brooklyn Castle is a warm, engaging, and even uplifting documentary about chess-playing whiz kids.
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93% Lore
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five...
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93% The Central Park Five
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged for brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling it...
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92% Silver Linings Playbook
Silver Linings Playbook walks a tricky thematic tightrope, but David O. Russell's sensitive direction and some sharp work from a talented cast gives it true balance.
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88% Django Unchained
Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.
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88% Upstream Color
As technically brilliant as it is narratively abstract, Upstream Color represents experimental American cinema at its finest -- and reaffirms Shane Carruth as a talent to watch.
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85% A Monster in Paris
An oversized bug is caught up in a most unexpected adventure in this animated comedy. It's 1910, and Raoul is a Parisian delivery man by day and scientist by night...
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84% Side Effects
A smart, clever thriller with plenty of disquieting twists, Side Effects is yet another assured effort from director Steven Soderbergh.
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84% Dragon
Liu Jin-xi (Yen) is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the...
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81% The Impossible
The screenplay isn't quite as powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing real-life story at its center, The Impossible is never less than compelling.
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80% Warm Bodies
Warm Bodies offers a sweet, well-acted spin on a genre that all too often lives down to its brain-dead protagonists.
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79% Quartet
It's sweet, gentle, and predictable to a fault, but Dustin Hoffman's affectionate direction and the talented cast's amiable charm make Quartet too difficult to resist.
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77% It's a Disaster
A clever black comedy, It's a Disaster is sometimes uneven but the sharp writing and stellar ensemble cast keeps the film on track.
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77% Any Day Now
Inspired by a true story and touching on legal and social issues that are more relevant now than ever, ANY DAY NOW tells a story of love, acceptance, and creating...
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68% Wuthering Heights
Director Andrea Arnold's gritty, naturalistic re-imagining of the Emily Bronte classic stays true to the book's spirit while utilizing an unconventional approach to explore the romantic yearning at the heart...
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67% Cloud Atlas
Its sprawling, ambitious blend of thought-provoking narrative and eye-catching visuals will prove too unwieldy for some, but the sheer size and scope of Cloud Atlas are all but impossible to...
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67% Stoker
Its script doesn't quite carry the dramatic heft of his earlier work, but Park Chan-wook's Stoker showcases his eye for sumptuous imagery and his affection for dark, atmospheric narratives populated...
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66% Mama
If you're into old-school scares over cheap gore, you'll be able to get over Mama 's confusing script and contrived plot devices.
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61% Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher is an above-average crime thriller with a smoothly charismatic performance from Tom Cruise.
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