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• [New - 5/17] | Scott Nye @ Battleship Pretension

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• [New - 5/17] | Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews

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• [New - 5/16] | Don Lewis @ Film Threat

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• [New - 5/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
  • Excerpt: Anecdotes roll absorbingly from the great raconteur, with plenty of self-deprecating humor, and Kleine knits together the different fabrics of the story with considerable skill.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/17] | Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
  • Excerpt: It’s a very short experience but one that hits its beats with a sense of urgency and a feeling of helplessness.
• [New - 5/16] | R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine

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• [New - 5/16] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
  • Excerpt: A fetching dramady starring Julianne Moore as an enthusiastic and vulnerable middle-aged English teacher who turns a corner in her life and realizes she will never be the same again.
• [New - 5/16] | R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine

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• [New - 5/16] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
  • Excerpt: The title might be slightly misleading.

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• [New - 5/16] | Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
  • Excerpt: High-Octane and outrageous, it’s filled with cars careening, catapulting, clattering and crashing – in massive vehicular carnage.
• [New - 5/16] | Ali Gray @ TheShiznit.co.uk
• [New - 5/17] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: A colossal affair swollen with the hubris and arrogance of men who trail the foul dust of mayhem in their wake.
• [New - 5/16] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
  • Excerpt: Not so fast!

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/16] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
  • Excerpt: The comic misadventures of a quirky young woman who falls down seven times but gets up eight.
• [New - 5/16] | Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
  • Excerpt: Frances Ha is a compassionate, complex drama about people trying to find footing in their own chaotic lives.

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• [New - 5/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
  • Excerpt: Filmmaker Jeff Lipsky (Flannel Pajamas) steers his story through intriguing waves of philosophical clarity and doldrums of talky boredom.

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• [New - 5/16] | Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
  • Excerpt: Like classic film noir, this is a film that’s less interested in crime than in slowly peeling away family secrets.

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• [New - 5/16] | David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
  • Excerpt: As is usual for his work, Pieta is a somatic and visceral film that’s really about the human soul. Or, at least, the soul as defined by Kim Ki-duk.

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• [New - 5/10] | Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood

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• [New - 5/10] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: Harrowing and unsettling…

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• [New - 5/16] | Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
  • Excerpt: It’s not that I didn’t appreciate the set-up of “Aftershock.” It’s that the movie just goes too far with the misery porn angle.
• Mark Harris @ About.com
• [New - 5/16] | Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer

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• [New - 5/9] | Peter Martin @ Twitch
• [New - 5/9] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat

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• [New - 5/9] | Jennie Kermode @ Eye For Film

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• Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
• [New - 5/17] | Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
  • Excerpt: Despite high-paced action, shoot-outs, car chases and fist fights, Erased is about as ho-hum as it gets.
• Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
  • Excerpt: Annoying father/daughter interactions interfere with an enjoyable thriller viewing experience.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/9] | Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
  • Excerpt: Raaphorst and scriptwriter Chris W Mitchell seem so proud of the look that they completely forget that a film also needs to have a decent plot and characters lying beneath the costumes.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
  • Excerpt: Truth be told, this may well be the best Gatsby adaptation we’ve yet had. But that’s rather a low bar, and the fact that a film with this many problems is still at the top of the heap speaks volumes about the trouble with making a good Gatsby movie.
• Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
  • Excerpt: The Great Gatsby might just be Luhrmann’s best film to date and he makes a better case for adapting the novel than expected, but as many viewers will likely hate it as love it and are sure to let you know.
• [New - 5/16] | Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
  • Excerpt: It’s really not possible to retrofit a soaring romance onto Fitzgerald’s plot skeleton.
• [New - 5/16] | Daniel Carlson @ Pajiba
• [New - 5/16] | Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
  • Excerpt: The glue the holds the picture together is the presentation that Lurhmann delivers. Like “Moulin Rouge!,” “The Great Gatsby” has some awesome imagery and a pulse-pounding soundtrack.
• Bob Cashill @ Popdose.com
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: …director Baz Luhrmann wants to dazzle you with razzle, make you swoon over the gauzy glory of paperbook romance and hit you over the head with Fitzgerald’s symbols if not his themes…It’s a shame, really, as Leonardo DiCaprio is a great Gatsby.
• Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
  • Excerpt: …it’s Lurhmann’s literal-minded fidelity to the novel—his insistence on emphasizing Fitzgerald’s words when imagery would be sufficient—that sinks THE GREAT GATSBY.
• Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
  • Excerpt: Great literature seldom makes great movies, and Baz Luhrmann’s new, 3D remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” only serves to prove the point. In any event, Luhrmann, who’s madly in love with his own status as a visionary, was absolutely the wrong director to try. This adaptation of a major classic forgot to take its Ritalin.
• Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
  • Excerpt: This is Fitzgerald as seen through the eyes of a gossip columnist.
• [New - 5/16] | Kate Erbland @ Film School Rejects
• Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
  • Excerpt: A sumptuous, exquisitely gaudy spectacle, emphasizing style over substance and filled with extravagant parties to which we wish we’d been invited.
• Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
• [New - 5/16] | Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
• Joe Lozito @ Big Picture Big Sound
  • Excerpt: Baz Luhrmann’s delicious visuals struggle to enliven a fairly standard retelling of the Fitzgerald classic.
• Peter Martin @ Dallas Film Now
• [New - 5/16] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
• Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
• [New - 5/17] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
  • Excerpt: Not so great, eh?
• [New - 5/16] | R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
• [New - 5/16] | Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
  • Excerpt: The kinetic, hyper-stylized conveyance of ideas and emotions – vapid as the style may be – is a perfect match for the thematic undercurrent of the source material.
• Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
  • Excerpt: If nothing else, one should have expected Luhrmann’s Gatsby to be a zippy visual extravaganza, rendering Jay Gatsby’s epic parties and decadent displays with virtuoso indulgence. Such is not the case.
• [New - 5/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
  • Excerpt: Baz Luhrmann’s movie rendering of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel is The Great Gatsby the way Jay Gatsby might have directed it.
• [New - 5/16] | Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
  • Excerpt: Gatsby’s good, but not great
• Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
  • Excerpt: The Great Gatsby is hiding a secret, concealed and lost by a wide-eyed director more interested in visual style than emotional depth.
• Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
  • Excerpt: Luhrmann and DiCaprio bring it vividly to life, even if not in quite the fashion Fitzgerald intended.
• Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
  • Excerpt: This is a C+ high school essay on “The Themes and Symbols of The Great Gatsby,” gussied up with a rhinestone cover.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/9] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast

Reviews for this film from our members:

• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: a pale remake of “Meet the Parents” with an African American cast, and it’s the cast that makes it tolerable.
• Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
  • Excerpt: Even a solid cast has its limits.
• [New - 5/16] | Kate Erbland @ MSN Movies
• [New - 5/16] | Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
  • Excerpt: Formulaically funny, utterly familiar, fish-out-of-water story with a few absurdly engaging comedic touches.
• [New - 5/16] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/9] | Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/9] | Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
  • Excerpt: After seeing Skull World, you’ll probably never look at cardboard the same way again.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New - 5/9] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
• [New - 5/9] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Assayas has gathered a large, mostly inexperienced cast to create a mural of mood, a time when idealism was paramount, at least until the members of a political group begin to drift into their own destinies.
• [New - 5/9] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Assayas has gathered a large, mostly inexperienced cast to create a mural of mood, a time when idealism was paramount, at least until the members of a political group begin to drift into their own destinies.