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AV CLUB Movie Reviews

1,449 reviews, averaging 62.6% positive
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1. 05/17/13 Outstanding "...a magnificent achievement, so dense with the weight of shared history that it's a wonder it doesn't collapse into a singularity."
2. 05/16/13 Very Good "For the first time in years, maybe decades, the crew of the Enterprise faces a worthy adversary... consistently nimble entertainment..."
3. 05/16/13 Excellent "Ozon sticks close to his protagonist but mostly denies us access to her thoughts.... Vacth gives a remarkably assured and subtle performance..."
4.

33 Postcards

Mike D'Angelo
05/16/13 Fair "...a clunky hybrid -- half feel-good weepie, half preposterous thriller -- that functions primarily as an elaborate travel brochure..."
5.

The English Teacher

Ben Kenigsberg
05/16/13 Moderate "...boasts few surprises -- except perhaps its message, which seems to be that selling out isn't so bad. Chalk it up to a case of 'write what you know.' "
6.

Erased (2013)

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
05/16/13 Weak "...aspires to be an action movie and a thriller -- two genres in which style is everything -- but ends up looking like a hyper-violent CBS drama."
7.

Augustine

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
05/16/13 Good "...a movie with a big backdrop -- issues of class, the workings of the mind, a changing society -- and a narrow focus."
8.

Pieta (2013)

A.A. Dowd
05/16/13 Moderate "...a hollow provocation. The film may be all about the burden of debt -- financial, spiritual, or otherwise -- but it's the audience that really pays a price."
9.

Black Rock

A.A. Dowd
05/16/13 Good (Not Great) "...the principal problem with the film: It sets up the distaff-'Deliverance' scenario much better than it pays it off."
10.

Frances Ha

Ben Kenigsberg
05/16/13 Outstanding "...a wry and moving portrait of friendship... makes the subtly optimistic point that the life you build in youth is always available."
11.

State 194

Mike D'Angelo
05/16/13 Good (Not Great) "As a primer, the film does the job, albeit less thoroughly and with more needless digressions than would even a lengthy magazine article on the subject."
12. 05/09/13 Good (Not Great) "...a bland, sub-'Hangover' comedy about guys on the make in South America.... The film is most successful in the way it subverts expectations."
13.

No One Lives

A.A. Dowd
05/09/13 Poor "...a bottom-feeding schlock-fest from WWE Studios.... There's no side to take in Kitamura's film; the killer is a smug bore, his victims disposable scumbags."
14.

Java Heat

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
05/09/13 Good (Not Great) "...for serious action movie buffs. Neither outrageous nor self-conscious, it looks and moves like any number of good late-'80s/early-'90s action flicks."
15. 05/09/13 Moderate "...a feeble satire... like a feature-length version of that video clip in which Christoph Waltz just repeats the words 'dill pickle' again and again..."
16.

Venus and Serena

Mike D'Angelo
05/09/13 Good "What comes across most strongly is the genuine, overpowering love these two women have for each other, even when they're in direct competition."
17.

Sightseers

Ben Kenigsberg
05/09/13 Fair "...proceeds with a lazy, sketch-like feel that makes more sense after considering that these characters began on stage... the humor here, ironically, doesn't travel well."
18. 05/09/13 Outstanding "Polley has taken a big leap forward by looking inward, and she can now be mentioned in the same breath as the great Agnès Varda."
19.

Peeples

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
05/09/13 Good "...light and occasionally very funny... one of the smartest and most accomplished films to emerge from under the Tyler Perry banner."
20. 05/09/13 Good (Not Great) "...half-reverent, half-travestying... campy but not a betrayal, offering a lively take on a familiar work while sacrificing such niceties as structure, character, and nuance."

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