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| The Master (2012) | 83.8% | WIDE | $16.2M |
| The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 | 57.3% | WIDE | $292.3M |
| Chasing Mavericks | 49.9% | WIDE | $6.0M |
| This Is Not a Film (In film nist) | 91.3% | Key Cities | $75K |
| How to Survive a Plague | 89.1% | Key Cities | $123K |
| Holy Motors | 87.6% | Key Cities | $641K |
| Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) | 79.8% | Key Cities | na |
| A Simple Life (Tao Jie) | 77.4% | Limited | $178K |
| Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) | 75.3% | Key Cities | $254K |
| Stolen Seas | 73.3% | Limited | na |
| Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare | 72.6% | Key Cities | $97K |
| Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow | 67.2% | Limited | $47K |
| Seeds of Resiliency | 58.4% | NYC/LA | na |
| Madrid, 1987 | 55.4% | Limited | na |
| Girls Against Boys | 18.8% | NYC/LA | $6K |
| Average: | 51.7% | ||
On DVD/Blu-ray February 26, 2013
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The Master (2012), Excellent Reviews
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The Master (2012) played to excellent reviews. • Joe Williams wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "...a marvel to behold... a brilliantly conceived and powerfully realized work of art, with complex characters, exquisite images and ambiguously big ideas." • And Anthony Lane wrote in the New Yorker, "...casts a spell... gives us so much to revere..." 46 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 83.8% | 80.2% | 86.0% | 83.3% | 95.3% | 95.7% | 90.5% | 78.6% | $16.2M | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Good (Not Great) Reviews
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 played to good not great reviews. • Stephen Whitty wrote in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, "...this is not a movie for cynics... This is for people who were on Team Edward from Day One... for them, at last, this is the big, bloody, beautiful payoff." 43 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 57.3% | 60.6% | 55.4% | 44.5% | 62.9% | 70.2% | 54.1% | 50.1% | $292.3M | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Chasing Mavericks, Fair Reviews
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Chasing Mavericks played to fair reviews. • Colin Covert wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "The surfing scenes are breathtaking, while the side issues of stressed-out working-class parents, teen love troubles and Nicholas Sparks-style life lessons, are ho-hum." 32 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 49.9% | 53.1% | 48.9% | 33.8% | 53.0% | 54.0% | 45.7% | 51.3% | $6.0M | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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This Is Not a Film (In film nist), Exceptional Reviews (Doc) Key Cities
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This Is Not a Film (In film nist) played in key cities to exceptional reviews. • A.O. Scott wrote in the New York Times, "I'm at a bit of a loss to explain, to tell you the truth, since my job is to review movies, and this, obviously, is something different: a masterpiece in a form that does not yet exist." • And Emanuel Levy wrote for Cinema 24/7, "...sly, ironic and occasionally darkly humorous in its observations." 31 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 91.3% | 92.5% | 89.9% | 88.6% | 92.8% | 94.3% | 89.8% | 95.1% | $75K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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How to Survive a Plague, Sensational Reviews (Doc) Key Cities
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How to Survive a Plague played in key cities to sensational reviews. • Claude Peck wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "...powerful, messy and tremendously moving..." • And Emanuel Levy wrote for Cinema 24/7, "...a must-see work.... a unique documentary, which is both an historical chronicle of a plague, and also an intimate and visceral recreation of the period..." 28 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 89.1% | 89.9% | 85.3% | 90.6% | 94.0% | 94.2% | 89.5% | 80.7% | $123K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Holy Motors, Sensational Reviews Key Cities
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Holy Motors played in key cities to sensational reviews. • Patrick Z. McGavin wrote for Cinema 24/7, "...spellbinding, often extraordinary.... captures the poetry of terror with a foreboding visual acuity about collapse and disorder." • And Peter Keough wrote in the Boston Phoenix, "...the most brilliant and exhilarating film of the year." 35 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 87.6% | 92.8% | 85.0% | 91.2% | 81.8% | 83.2% | 87.7% | 80.8% | $641K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Silent Souls (Ovsyanki), Excellent Reviews Key Cities
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Silent Souls (Ovsyanki) played in key cities to excellent reviews. • Mark Jenkins wrote for NPR, "...slow, stately and taciturn.... successfully conveys the poetic fatalism of Meryan culture, yet ultimately oversells it." • And Deborah Young wrote in the Hollywood Reporter, "...takes the viewer on a voyage into the human soul. Disquieting and unforgettable, like a good ghost story..." 13 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 79.8% | 100.0% | 84.0% | 76.7% | 77.1% | 77.0% | 84.4% | 84.0% | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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A Simple Life (Tao Jie), Very Good Reviews Limited
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A Simple Life (Tao Jie) played in limited release to very good reviews. • Mary Corliss wrote in Time, "Ah Tao is portrayed with a poignant delicacy by Deanie Yip, a Canto-pop singer and pert supporting actress in the 1980s... a film of grand and acute emotions." • And Phil Brown wrote in Toronto Now, "...never panders, priming tear ducts without prodding." 10 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 77.4% | 79.8% | 79.5% | 74.7% | 75.0% | 71.0% | 78.0% | 75.0% | $178K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes), Very Good Reviews Key Cities
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Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) played in key cities to very good reviews. • Tom Horgen wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "For the most part it's a savory treat... At its core, this is the story of a lovesick musician whose only cure is death." • And Claudia Puig wrote in USA Today, "...a rueful, occasionally whimsical, lament for a richly artistic life." 24 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 75.3% | 81.3% | 66.9% | 66.3% | 76.1% | 75.0% | 69.8% | 67.9% | $254K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Stolen Seas, Very Good Reviews (Doc) Limited
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Stolen Seas played in limited release to very good reviews. • Sheri Linden wrote in the Hollywood Reporter, "...a view of Somali piracy that's both broader and more incisive than most mainstream news coverage... makes clear that one man's piracy is another's business as usual." 10 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 73.3% | nr | 73.3% | 68.5% | 75.0% | 77.0% | 73.6% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, Very Good Reviews (Doc) Key Cities
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Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare played in key cities to very good reviews. • Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "There's more money to be made in making people sick and healing them than in keeping them well in the first place.... makes this argument with stunning clarity." 13 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 72.6% | 87.5% | 71.9% | 62.8% | 75.0% | 75.0% | 71.7% | 70.2% | $97K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Good Reviews (Doc) Limited
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow played in limited release to good reviews. • Andrew O'Hehir wrote for Salon, "...if you're willing to take this voyage with Fiennes into the psychic landscape and working life of one of the world's greatest contemporary artists, it's a trip you'll never forget." • And Alison Wilmore wrote for the AV Club, "There’s something admirable to this austerity..." 12 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 67.2% | nr | 69.7% | 61.3% | 68.3% | 70.8% | 71.4% | 25.0% | $47K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Seeds of Resiliency, Good (Not Great) Reviews (Doc) NYC, LA
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Seeds of Resiliency played in New York City and Los Angeles to good not great reviews. • Robert Abele wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "More like something you'd see at a seminar on perseverance than a movie... the featured interviewees are nevertheless remarkable examples of triumph..." More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 58.4% | nr | 55.5% | 50.0% | 63.9% | 62.5% | 55.3% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Madrid, 1987, Good (Not Great) Reviews Limited
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Madrid, 1987 played in limited release to good not great reviews. • Jonathan Holland wrote in Daily Variety, "...perceptive... nonetheless feels like a working-out of social and personal themes that hasn't quite achieved the full leap from page to film." 7 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 55.4% | nr | 57.8% | 50.0% | 52.5% | 58.3% | 52.4% | 69.9% | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Girls Against Boys, Poor Reviews NYC, LA
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Girls Against Boys played in New York City and Los Angeles to poor reviews. • Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in the New York Times, "...a dumb, dreary, let's-get-back-at-them slasher in which pulverized genitals pass for feminist critique... less a battle of the sexes than a wipeout by the witless." 8 More Reviews... |
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| Total | Broad National Press | Local News- papers | Alter– native/ Indie | High- Brow Press | Movie Industry | NY/LA Chicago Toronto | Key Cities | Total B.O. | ||||||
| 18.8% | nr | 19.7% | 27.1% | 8.5% | 19.7% | 21.5% | nr | $6K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 45.9% | 49.0% | 49.7% | 54.4% | ||||||
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| 3 Geezers! 50.0% May 22 |
| A Green Story 25.0% May 24 |
| Alyce Kills 62.5% May 24 |
| Before Midnight (2013) 97.5% May 24 |
| Charge 75.0% May 23 |
| Fill the Void (Lemale et ha'halal) 77.5% May 24 |
| Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself 67.9% May 22 |
| We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks 76.7% May 24 |
Friday, May 31
| After Earth nr May 31 |
| Now You See Me (2013) nr May 31 |
| American Mary 66.6% May 31 |
| Hannah Arendt 65.6% May 29 |
| I Do (2013) 54.5% May 31 |
| Shadow Dancer (2013) 73.3% May 31 |
| The East 89.1% May 31 |
| The Kings of Summer 75.0% May 31 |
Friday, June 7
| The Internship (2013) nr Jun 7 |
| The Purge nr Jun 7 |
| Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie nr Jun 7 |
| Dirty Wars 83.0% Jun 7 |
| Much Ado About Nothing (2013) 95.6% Jun 7 |
| Passion 53.5% Jun 7 |
| Rapture-Palooza nr Jun 7 |
| Syrup nr Jun 7 |
| Tiger Eyes nr Jun 7 |
| Violet & Daisy 58.0% Jun 7 |
| Wish You Were Here (2013) 72.7% Jun 7 |
| You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Vous n'avez encore rien vu) 71.1% Jun 7 |
Friday, June 14
| This Is the End nr Jun 12 |
| Man of Steel (2013) nr Jun 14 |
| The Bling Ring 66.6% Jun 14 |
| Vehicle 19 25.0% Jun 14 |
Beyond
| Don Jon 55.6% Oct 18 |
| Battle of the Year nr Sep 13 |
| Ain't Them Bodies Saints 86.3% Aug 16 |
| Crystal Fairy 65.0% Jul 12 |
| Fruitvale Station 89.3% Jul 26 |
| I'm So Excited! 54.7% Jun 28 |
| In a World... 81.5% Aug 9 |
| Lovelace 73.5% Aug 9 |
| Prince Avalanche 77.9% Aug 16 |
| The Attack (L'attentat) 62.8% Jun 21 |
| The Hunt (Jagten) 71.3% Jul 12 |
| The Spectacular Now 82.2% Aug 2 |
| The Way, Way Back 87.6% Jul 5 |
| Touchy Feely 61.5% Sep 6 |
| V/H/S/2 68.3% Jul 12 |
| Wadjda 90.1% Aug 30 |
| You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils) 71.3% Sep 13 |
