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Sound of My Voice  | 
Drama  Rated: R
"Marling underplays her character's charisma to the point of nonexistence."
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Dark Shadows
Comedy  Rated: PG-13
"There is nothing holding this jumble of odd impulses and expensive makeup together."
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Marvel's The Avengers
Action/Adventure  Rated: PG-13
"Joss Whedon is a small-screen storyteller. And I mean that as a compliment."
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This Is Not a Film
Documentary  Rated: NR
"...a political act, of course, but that's not the most interesting thing about it."
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The Cabin in the Woods
Horror  Rated: R
"...a film of such frothy geekery that watching it is like having a comic-book store dropped on your head."
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Drama  Rated: NR
"...as if a lush landscape painting is being invaded by the cinema."
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The Kid with a Bike
Drama  Rated: NR
"...manages to balance a spiritual sense of grace with the earthy eye of a here-and-now realist."
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The Hunger Games
Action/Adventure  Rated: PG-13
"...a disturbing dose of science-fiction doom."
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Jeff Who Lives at Home
Comedy  Rated: R
"...quiet, dreamy and full of possibility. In fact, the possibility of possibility is what the movie is all about."
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John Carter
Action/Adventure  Rated: PG-13
"...has more personality than anyone should rightly expect from a two-hour-plus, CGI-heavy, sci-fi fantasy epic."
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The Secret World of Arrietty
Family  Rated: G
"The soft-focus animation has an impressionistic quality, as if a gentle breeze had wafted across a Monet canvas."
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Drama  Rated: R
"The use of red is so overdone that you assume the color must be paying for some sort of product placement."
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A Separation
Drama  Rated: PG-13
"...like being caught in a barbed-wire fence of ethical dilemmas."
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The Artist
Drama  Rated: PG-13
"Deeper than mere mimicry..."
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Shame
Drama  Rated: NC-17
"...rough, sickening stuff - not in a morally offensive way, but in the way that it lays bare the rot that can fester in the human soul."
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