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Hugo
Perfect 10 Points 2011
Children's / Family

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This is, with no doubt, a true masterpiece. This has to be the most complex and interesting children’s movie I’ve ever seen. I don’t even know if I can call it a kid’s movie at all. There are aspects to this movie that are so genius and so creative that I was glued to the screen. Going into the m…

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The Descendants
Really Great 75 Points 2011
Comedy Drama

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Descendents descend from families. The Descendants is about concentric families in crisis: an exploding nuclear family, a feuding extended family, an enduring multigenerational family. All of them center on George Clooney’s reluctant patriarch, the trustee of a landed Hawaiian dynasty.

Clo…

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Tinker Tailor S...
Really Great 60 Points 2011
Spy Film

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The best spy movie ever isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Why? Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy unspools its complex story in non-linear fashion via a swirl of supporting characters declaiming with extreme British reserve. Many people thus find the movie nigh on impossible to follow and deadly solemn to …

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War Horse
Great 75 Points 2011
War

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Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse is an instant classic in several categories:

  • War Movies: WWI’s trench warfare, poison gas and mismatch between pre-industrial and industrial warfare are vividly shown, albeit without the explicit savagery of Saving Private Ryan
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Sherlock Holmes...
Great 75 Points 2011
Action

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Britishly brilliant movie entertainment, what with Victorian-era detective shenanigans done up in state-of-the-art action movie hyper-reality. This latest Sherlock Holmes re-renders Guy Ritchie & Robert Downey Jr’s boldly boffo origin movie

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The Adventures ...
Great 75 Points 2011
Adventure

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Need a lift? I did and The Adventures of Tintin provided it. Light-hearted, highly inventive and magnificently assured, the Belgian boy wonder’s big Hollywood movie proved just the ticket. LOLs are rarely so airy.

A Tintin newbie, I had no familiarity with the comic-page hero: his investi…

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Contraband
Great 75 Points 2012
Action

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High-powered action thrillers should all be this accomplished. Contraband smuggles a slyly clever plot, heavy metal action and solid exploitation of an underexploited setting into theaters. A strong cast led by Mark Wahlberg is less a secret but no less an asset for this savvy crowd-pleaser….

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The Girl with t...
Very Good 72 Points 2011
Thriller

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American remakes of foreign movies work best when they’re moved to America. Otherwise they can seem phony, which is the case with David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Fake Swedish accents are one hurdle. A kitschy feel is another. A merely OK Lizbeth Salander doesn’t h…

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Mission: Imposs...
Good 75 Points 2011
Action

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Pay $15 for an IMAX sequel that spurns the music and conventions that defined Mission Impossible in the first place and that fails to induce vertigo, IMAX or no. Doesn’t seem a worthwhile value in these recessionary times.

MI – GP is a good movi…

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Red Tails
Good 75 Points 2012
War

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The Greatest Generation embodied countless examples of personal and patriotic valor. The Tuskegee Airmen – as great a group of military pilots as this country fielded – delivered more than their fair share of both, making their story among the most significant from WWII.

Red Tails burnishes…

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