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| Big Miracle | 62.4% | WIDE | $20.1M |
| Wanderlust (2012) | 53.7% | WIDE | $17.3M |
| Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da) | 84.9% | Key Cities | $139K |
| Attenberg | 77.5% | Limited | $23K |
| Jeff, Who Lives at Home | 71.1% | National | $4.2M |
| Keyhole (2012) | 63.7% | Key Cities | $22K |
| The Big Fix (2011) | 63.0% | NYC/LA | na |
| My Afternoons with Margueritte (La tete en friche) | 60.4% | Key Cities | $585K |
| The Nine Muses | 57.0% | NYC | na |
| How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? | 56.8% | Limited | $12K |
| A Bag of Hammers | 50.5% | NYC/LA | na |
| Seeking Justice | 46.6% | National | $411K |
| Going Down In La-la Land | 43.9% | NYC/LA | na |
| Four Lovers | 41.0% | Limited | na |
| Cat Run | 39.9% | Limited | $30K |
| The FP (2012) | 35.9% | Key Cities | $41K |
| Average: | 51.7% | ||
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Big Miracle, Good (Not Great) Reviews
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Big Miracle played to good not great reviews. • Roger Moore wrote in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "...a slight film of simple, obvious charms.... Yeah, there are plenty of Hollywood touches. But it's amazing how much of this story is true." • And Stephanie Zacharek wrote for Movieline, "...harmless and big-hearted, and it's also handsomely shot (by the reliable John Bailey). But it could use a lot more bite." 37 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. | ||||||
| 62.4% | 62.2% | 67.5% | 52.0% | 65.3% | 68.4% | 62.9% | 70.9% | $20.1M | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Wanderlust (2012), Mixed Reviews
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Wanderlust (2012) played to mixed reviews. • Carrie Rickey wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "...a riotous, raunchy, and more than a little raggedy showcase for Rudd's improv genius and Aniston's airy groundedness. He is gut-busting funny, she gently ticklish..." • And Connie Ogle wrote in the Miami Herald, "...lazy... You'll laugh a couple of times, but you'll wait a good long time to do it." 41 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. | ||||||
| 53.7% | 52.9% | 53.4% | 61.6% | 54.1% | 52.4% | 56.3% | 59.5% | $17.3M | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da), Outstanding Reviews Key Cities
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da) played in key cities to outstanding reviews. • Ella Taylor wrote for NPR, "...ravishingly atmospheric... about the entanglement of life's big-ticket dramas with the red tape that comes with getting through the day.... it's the distractions and elisions, not the official stories, that carry the existential weight of the days of our lives." 25 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. | ||||||
| 84.9% | 87.5% | 85.3% | 84.1% | 88.4% | 80.0% | 87.0% | 86.0% | $139K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Attenberg, Very Good Reviews Limited
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Attenberg played in limited release to very good reviews. • Rick Groen wrote in the Toronto Globe & Mail, "...strange, moving, puzzling, funny, frustrating and ultimately absorbing..." • And Stephanie Merry wrote in the Washington Post, "Part of the film's success comes from Ariane Labed's performance as Marina, who infuses all that weirdness with a barely there vulnerability." 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. | ||||||
| 77.5% | nr | 78.6% | 75.3% | 78.4% | 77.0% | 78.5% | 75.0% | $23K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Very Good Reviews National
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home played in national release to very good reviews. • Scott Bowles wrote in USA Today, "...lovable stoners are a Hollywood fixture. But they're just tough to hang a movie on.... Thankfully, Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon pick up where Jeff leaves off, and then some." • And Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone, "...reaffirms your faith in Jay and Mark Duplass." 45 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. | ||||||
| 71.1% | 72.4% | 67.3% | 69.0% | 70.7% | 70.8% | 66.6% | 70.8% | $4.2M | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Keyhole (2012), Good (Not Great) Reviews Key Cities
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Keyhole (2012) played in key cities to good not great reviews. • Walter Addiego wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, "...replete with ghosts, Freudian overtones, lots of joking and more than a dash of sex.... I liked this movie somewhat, even if I'm not sure exactly what it means." • And David Rooney wrote in the Hollywood Reporter, "...as frustrating as it is beguiling." 17 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. | ||||||
| 63.7% | 75.0% | 58.0% | 67.6% | 66.2% | 58.3% | 60.1% | 59.2% | $22K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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The Big Fix (2011), Good (Not Great) Reviews, Mixed (Doc) NYC, LA
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The Big Fix (2011) played in New York City and Los Angeles to good not great reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Ernest Hardy wrote in the Village Voice and LA Weekly, "...a mandatory-viewing critique..." • And Elizabeth Weitzman wrote in the New York Daily News, "Do movies like 'The Big Fix' make a difference in exposing hidden corruption and deceit? It would be nice to think so..." 6 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. | ||||||
| 63.0% | nr | 64.2% | 73.5% | 60.2% | 64.5% | 70.2% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (La tete en friche), Good (Not Great) Reviews, Mixed Key Cities
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My Afternoons with Margueritte (La tete en friche) played in key cities to good not great reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Joe Williams wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The larger-than-life Gerard Depardieu is as emblematic of his country as Tom Hanks is of ours, and 'My Afternoons With Margueritte' is his 'Forrest Gump.' Only better." • And Marc Mohan called the film in the Portland Oregonian, "...creaky, saccharine..." 17 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. | ||||||
| 60.4% | 75.0% | 65.3% | 39.3% | 54.7% | 62.5% | 63.2% | 59.0% | $585K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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The Nine Muses, Mixed Reviews (Doc) NYC
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The Nine Muses played in New York City to mixed reviews. • Chuck Bowen wrote for Slant, "One of the most haunting and irresolvable films I've seen in years... might be some sort of masterpiece." • And Paul Brunick wrote in the New York Times, "Conceptually ambitious and oblique in the extreme.... At once austere and conceptually overwrought... both too much and not enough." 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. | ||||||
| 57.0% | nr | 50.0% | 71.9% | 50.0% | 61.0% | 52.6% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, Mixed Reviews (Doc) Limited
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? played in limited release to mixed reviews. • Moira Macdonald wrote in the Seattle Times, "...ultimately, the buildings speak for themselves, illustrating a mantra that Foster repeats in the film: Architecture, he says, can make your life feel better." • And Mark Feeney wrote in the Boston Globe, "...a treatment of Foster so reverential it verges on camp." 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. | ||||||
| 56.8% | nr | 63.3% | 48.9% | 53.4% | 66.7% | 57.3% | 68.0% | $12K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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A Bag of Hammers, Fair Reviews NYC, LA
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A Bag of Hammers played in New York City and Los Angeles to fair reviews. • Alison Willmore wrote for Movieline, "...a film that should be appallingly twee, but more often than not is actually scruffy and sweet.... remains fairly light despite some serious developments..." • And Andrew Schenker wrote for Slant, "Lightly likable, if finally flimsy..." 9 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. | ||||||
| 50.5% | nr | 50.6% | 52.6% | 44.5% | 54.3% | 48.7% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Seeking Justice, Fair Reviews National
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Seeking Justice played in national release to fair reviews. • Roger Moore wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "...a puzzle too easily decoded, but director Roger Donaldson finds enough blind alleys to keep us distracted. Random bits pay off..." • And Nick Schager wrote for Slant, "Cage delivers one awkward, mannered line reading after another while operating in normal-guy mode... sheer silliness..." 22 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. | ||||||
| 46.6% | 57.3% | 43.6% | 40.4% | 41.2% | 45.8% | 47.5% | 46.4% | $411K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Going Down In La-la Land, Fair Reviews NYC, LA
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Going Down In La-la Land played in New York City and Los Angeles to fair reviews. • Frank Scheck wrote in the Hollywood Reporter, "...not exactly revelatory... it does depict its West Hollywood milieu with a comic, insider's knowingness... Matthew Ludwinski is appealing enough to make you cheer for his character..." 6 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. | ||||||
| 43.9% | nr | 41.4% | 52.6% | 38.3% | 50.0% | 43.5% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Four Lovers, Weak Reviews Limited
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Four Lovers played in limited release to weak reviews. • Ben Mercer wrote in the Village Voice, "Co-writer/director Antony Cordier remains sensitive to the subtle shifts in the foursome's dynamics, but do we really need another handwringer about the perils of polyamory?" • And Farran Smith Nehme wrote in the New York Post, "...while the sex is occasionally explicit, it's only fitfully erotic." 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. | ||||||
| 41.0% | 37.5% | 39.4% | 50.0% | 42.0% | 42.0% | 40.7% | nr | na | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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Cat Run played in limited release to weak reviews. • Jesse Cataldo wrote for Slant, "...little more than a collection of bad ideas glued hastily together." • And Bill Stamets wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "Writer-director John Stockwell, who directed the anti-gringo slasher film 'Turista' (2006), calls 'Cut Run' a 'hilariously violent action-comedy.' He’s got the violent part down." 9 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. | ||||||
| 39.9% | nr | 40.6% | 43.7% | 30.5% | 33.3% | 41.3% | 37.5% | $30K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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The FP (2012), Weak Reviews, Mixed Key Cities
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The FP (2012) played in key cities to weak reviews. Reviews were mixed. • Ethan Gilsdorf wrote in the Boston Globe, "...neither obliviously dreadful enough to be 'so bad it's good,' nor intentionally tongue-in-cheek enough to be funny." • And Mick LaSalle wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle, "You need to find a room full of people who get the joke and see this movie there, because audiences will be laughing so hard they'll be screaming." 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. | ||||||
| 35.9% | 25.0% | 44.8% | 34.5% | 36.7% | 36.3% | 33.6% | 58.5% | $41K | ||||||
| Averages: | 51.7% | 54.3% | 51.9% | 47.1% | 46.0% | 49.0% | 49.8% | 54.4% | ||||||
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