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Maggie`s farm

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." [read full review]

	Marvel's The Avengers
	Action/Adventure Rated: PG-13
	"Joss Whedon is a small-screen storyteller. And I mean that as a compliment." [read full review]

	This Is Not a Film
	Documentary Rated: NR
	"...a political act, of course, but that's not the most interesting thing about it." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]

	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
	Drama Rated: NR
	"...as if a lush landscape painting is being invaded by the cinema." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]

	The Hunger Games
	Action/Adventure Rated: PG-13
	"...a disturbing dose of science-fiction doom." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]

	A Separation
	Drama Rated: PG-13
	"...like being caught in a barbed-wire fence of ethical dilemmas." [read full review]

	The Artist
	Drama Rated: PG-13
	"Deeper than mere mimicry..." [read full review]

	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." [read full review]