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| Silver Linings Playbook(2012)RDrama
A bipolar man named Pat attempts to get his life together after spending eight months in an asylum following assault charges. He soon bonds with a promiscuous widow, and offers to be her partner for a local dance competition if she'll help him contact his ex-wife.Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence
 88% 92%Silver Linings Playbook walks a tricky thematic tightrope, but David O. Russell's sensitive direction and some sharp work from a talented cast gives it true balance.
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| Broken City(2013)RDrama
The mayor of NYC hires a disgraced former cop, now working as a private eye, to expose his wife's infidelities. As he does so, the PI begins to unravel a deeper mystery that could bring about the end of more than just a marriage.Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe
 44% 30%Broken City's thinly sketched, formulaic script offers meager rewards for all but the least demanding noir aficionados.
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| Django Unchained(2012)RAction
A former slave-turned-hired gun teams up with a German bounty hunter in order to free his wife from a tyrannical plantation owner. However, their mission is complicated by the plantation's traitorous house slave.Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio
94%88%Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.
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| The Guilt Trip(2012)PG-13Comedy
A traveling salesman takes his mother on a road trip in order to reunite her with a former fling.Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen
46%38%Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand have enough chemistry to drive a solidly assembled comedy; unfortunately, The Guilt Trip has a lemon of a script and is perilously low on comedic fuel.
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| Gangster Squad(2013)RDrama
An elite police squad fights to save the city of Los Angeles from a power-hungry East Coast mobster in this detective film set in the 1940s.Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling
62%32%Though it's stylish and features a talented cast, Gangster Squad suffers from lackluster writing, underdeveloped characters, and an excessive amount of violence.
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| A Haunted House(2013)RComedy
A man seeks help in exorcising his girlfriend of a demon that's destroying their sex life and disrupting their happy home.Marlon Wayans, Cedric The Entertainer
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| The Impossible(2012)PG-13Drama
A family vacationing at a beach resort in Thailand desperately search for each other after they are separated by the chaos caused by a tsunami.Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor
85%81%The screenplay isn't quite as powerful as the direction or the acting, but with such an astonishing real-life story at its center, The Impossible is never less than compelling.
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| This Is 40(2012)RComedy
Couple Pete and Debbie deal with marriage, parenthood and turning 40 in this semisequel to "Knocked Up."Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann
52%52%Judd Apatow definitely delivers funny and perceptive scenes in This is 40, even if they are buried in aimless self-indulgence.
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| Parental Guidance(2012)PGComedy
Old-school grandparents learn new tricks when they are asked to care for their three grandchildren while the kids' type-A parents are away for work.Billy Crystal, Bette Midler
64%18%Parental Guidance is sweet but milquetoast, an inoffensive trifle that's blandly predictable.
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| Lincoln(2012)PG-13Drama
Abraham Lincoln attempts to outlaw slavery by fighting for the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, all while negotiating peace with the South and dealing with his mentally unstable wife.Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field
84%89%Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.
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| Zero Dark Thirty(2012)RDrama
A CIA agent leads a 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden that reveals the cruelty of the War on Terror. Just when it seems that all hope of finding bin Laden has faded, an old clue leads her team right to his doorstep.Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke
81%93%Gripping, suspenseful, and brilliantly crafted, Zero Dark Thirty dramatizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden with intelligence and an eye for detail.
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| Life Of Pi(2012)PGDrama
A zookeeper's son is stranded at sea aboard a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan
87%88%A 3D adaptation of a supposedly "unfilmable" book, Ang Lee's Life of Pi achieves the near impossible -- it's an astonishing technical achievement that's also emotionally rewarding.
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| Promised Land(2012)RDrama
A small-town schoolteacher launches a grassroots campaign against the representatives of an oil company, who want to buy the drilling rights for his community's land.Matt Damon, John Krasinski
43%51%The earnest and well-intentioned Promised Land sports a likable cast, but it also suffers from oversimplified characterizations and a frustrating final act.
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| Iron Man 2(2010)PG-13Action, Sci-Fi
Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) takes on powerful corporate rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) and dons the Iron Man suit to battle his Russian archnemesis Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) in director Jon Favreau's big-budget comic-book sequel.Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow
80%73%It isn't quite the breath of fresh air that Iron Man was, but this sequel comes close with solid performances and an action-packed plot.
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| Erased(2013)RActionSame Day As Theaters
An ex-CIA agent and his estranged teenage daughter are targeted for death in Belgium, and they must rely on each other in order to expose the conspiracy that threatens both of their lives.Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko
37%26%Derivative to a fault, Erased squanders some nifty potential and its talented cast in a bland retelling of a story action fans have seen too many times before.
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| Iron Man(2008)PG-13Action
Robert Downey Jr. is marvelous as the Marvel comics superhero and his alter ego, munitions magnate Tony Stark, who take on villains bent on world domination. Gwyneth Paltrow stands out as his girl Friday, Pepper Potts. Imaginatively directed by Jon Favreau, who has a small role as one of Stark's underlings.Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow
91%93%Director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey make this smart, high impact superhero movie one that even non-comics fans can enjoy.
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| Pitch Perfect(2012)PG-13ComedyRecently Added
A feisty college student gives her school's a cappella group a much-needed makeover by adding some modern hits into the mix during the run-up to a big competition.Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow
83%81%Pitch Perfect's plot is formulaic, but the performances are excellent and the musical numbers are toe-tapping as well.
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| Argo(2012)RDrama
A CIA agent uses the production of a fake science-fiction movie called "Argo" as a cover for a rescue operation in the Middle East during the Iranian hostage crisis.Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston
93%96%Tense, exciting, and often darkly comic, Argo recreates a historical event with vivid attention to detail and finely wrought characters.
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| Rise Of The Guardians(2012)PGAction
Santa Claus, Jack Frost, the Sandman, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy team up to fight a phantom who steals children's dreams and replaces them with fear.Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin
82%74%A sort of Avengers for the elementary school set, Rise of the Guardians is wonderfully animated and briskly paced, but it's only so-so in the storytelling department.
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| Killing Them Softly(2012)RDrama
A professional enforcer probes the robbery of a mob poker game by three low-level thieves, but his investigation is complicated by an alcoholic hit man, incompetent gangsters and the playboy host of the game.Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy
47%75%Killing Them Softly is a darkly comic, visceral thriller that doubles as a cautionary tale on capitalism, whose message is delivered with sledgehammer force.
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