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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	10 Years New York Magazine	09/14/12	Moderate	"Pretty much all of these characters are blandly likable, in basically the same way... the movie provides a template more than a story.... harmless, to a fault."
2.	2 Days in New York New York Magazine	08/09/12	Excellent	"...assured, sensitive, and occasionally very funny... takes sharply drawn and recognizable characters and stretches them until something fascinating emerges."
3.	21 and Over New York Magazine	03/01/13	Fair	"I'd be lying if I said I didn't chuckle occasionally at the degree to which it takes the whole latent homosexuality thing to new levels.... But it's all so lifeless."
4.	360 New York Magazine	08/03/12	Weak	"...a perfect example of how structure can completely bulldoze humanity and character in a narrative... great cast, but nobody gets to do anything... like a mixtape of cameos."
5.	42 (2013) New York Magazine	04/12/13	Good	"...often exciting, and just as often shallow and ham-handed... the film works, because it practices what it preaches: If you're good at baseball, nothing else really matters."
6.	56 Up New York Magazine	01/04/13	Very Good	"The effect is often profoundly moving, but you can't help but feel at times like there are other stories here you're missing."
7.	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III New York Magazine	02/08/13	Weak	"...moves in fits and starts, as gorgeous as it is frustrating.... The character seems like a jerk lost inside what might have otherwise been a beautiful film."
8.	A Thousand Words (2012) New York Magazine	03/12/12	Poor	"...all those years of acting opposite animals and CGI effects for the kiddies appear to have taken their toll on the actor... another in a line of dispiriting failures..."
9.	A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas New York Magazine	11/05/11	Very Good	"...a perfectly calibrated Christmas cheer machine designed to prove the awesomeness of friends, family, and drugs."
10.	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter New York Magazine	06/22/12	Moderate	"...there's a certain artificiality to the whole film, both visually and narratively.... Still, there is something bracing..."
11.	Act of Valor New York Magazine	02/26/12	Moderate	"As a no-holds-barred recruiting video, 'Act of Valor' kicks all sorts of ass. As an actual movie, however, it barely coheres."
12.	Aftershock (2013) New York Magazine	05/10/13	Poor	"The problem isn't unoriginality, but incompetence.... goes from being merely lousy to stupendously, lifeforce-suppressingly awful."
13.	Arbitrage New York Magazine	09/13/12	Excellent	"...insanely gripping... There are holes in the plot, but somehow we don't mind... for all the unbearable tension of Jarecki's script, the central attraction is the man..."
14.	Big Miracle New York Magazine	02/06/12	Fair	"...the film bulldozes any genuine nuance or insight or even emotion in exchange for ready-made plot points and by-the-numbers catharsis."
15.	Broken City New York Magazine	01/18/13	Good	"...has an appropriately grungy, disreputable sheen to it that feels right.... effective... a movie that's alive in its own way..."
16.	Butter (2012) New York Magazine	10/05/12	Weak	"These shrill stereotypes might have worked -- possibly -- against a broader canvas... They also might have worked if the film were genuinely funny..."
17.	Chasing Mavericks New York Magazine	10/26/12	Weak	"...a perfect fortune cookie of a movie, full of bland life lessons for everybody; would that there were some drama or style in it somewhere along the way."
18.	Chronicle (2012) New York Magazine	02/03/12	Very Good	"...maintains a kind of austere, provincial integrity. In the end, it's just a movie about the joys and dangers of finally having some power over our fate."
19.	Contraband (2012) New York Magazine	01/16/12	Very Good	"...that rare Hollywood genre film that earns its intensity rather than forcing it upon you.... an atmospheric, effectively nasty, quietly tense little action flick..."
20.	Cosmopolis (2012) New York Magazine	08/14/12	Very Good	"Hyper-intelligent, hyper-rich, hyper-controlling, and hyper-alienated.... 'Cosmopolis' is often beautiful, but at times it feels like a movie sealed off from itself."

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