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Battleship
Shamelessly mimics Michael Bay's larger-than-life dialogue, sweeping cinematography, cornball romance, and military fetishism.
by Nick Schager
Follow Me
The documentary is briskly paced, often compelling, but a little soft, as it succumbs to hero worship.
by Chuck Bowen
The Dictator
Its dolly- and crane-operated polish points toward an acquiescence to Tinseltown mores, which until now Baron Cohen hovered cheekily above.
by R. Kurt Osenlund
What to Expect When You're Expecting
It's the inevitability and uniformity of the film's attitude—as well as the desperately strained and unfunny way in which it puts it across—that's bothersome.
by Andrew Schenker
Elena
Elena is a film deeply concerned with class resentment, but the filmmakers' attitude toward their titular character is disconcerting and even shocking.
by Chuck Bowen
American Animal
It may be baked with the same ingredients that come in your standard mumblecore starter kit, but because of Matt D'Elia's indebtedness to other movies, the film follows a different recipe altogether.
by Kalvin Henely
Lovely Molly
The Eduardo Sánchez film's inconsistent, largely bankrupt style is second to how hard and tackily it leans on the horror of child abuse to goose audiences.
by Ed Gonzalez
Hysteria
Hysteria's happy ending isn't the type that calls for a cigarette, and it certainly isn't the one the film deserves.
by R. Kurt Osenlund
Mansome
The sociological commentary and historical perspectives are superficial at best and the targets often too easy.
by Gerard Raymond
Indie Game: The Movie
Makes a compelling case for games as not only clever hand-eye coordination exercises, but also as manifestations of their creators' emotional and philosophical viewpoints.
by Nick Schager
Virginia
Unfortunately, there's little sympathy granted to these people, and the revelation of their hidden vices comes across like an increasingly mean series of punchlines.
by Jesse Cataldo
The Color Wheel
Much like the work of generational cohort Michael Robinson, Alex Ross Perry's films are steeped in a viscous cultural past.
by Joseph Jon Lanthier
Beyond the Black Rainbow
A film where dark shapes move from out of the shadows into the light with fluid movements that defy the drug-haze pacing.
by Simon Abrams
Polisse
Polisse has been compared to The Wire, but beyond a shared interest in the Sisyphean nature of police work, the two are mostly comparable as inverses of each other.
by Jesse Cataldo
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