A disappointing effort by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook – an unfortunate case of too much style and too little substance.
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Stoker (2013)
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Tag / 2013
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Enemy (2013)
A strong mood exercise that brings to the fore a tense psychological mystery that is both twisting and twisted.
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Prisoners (2013)
Denis Villeneuve’s assured direction and Roger Deakins’ evocative cinematography elevates this seemingly generic suburban mystery-thriller into something that will shock and haunt you.
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Dance of Reality, The (2013)
Jodorowsky’s return to filmmaking after 23 years is a dazzling, self-indulgent portrait of his childhood under the surrealistic veil of psychomagic.
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Sacro GRA (2013)
Interesting and dull at the same time, this ‘documentary movie’ operates as a series of vignettes of people who live next to an enormous ring road around Rome.
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‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Wang Bing’s extraordinary observational documentary shows us what it’s like in a mental asylum in China—for four gruelling hours, we find ourselves full of human empathy and incapable of rendering judgment.
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Bling Ring, The (2013)
An empty film with shallow characters, this is Sofia Coppola’s worst hour as a filmmaker.
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Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2013)
A familiar if exposition-heavy anime that prides itself in being remarkably composed with its sheer beauty and breathtaking visuals.
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Night Moves (2013)
Reichardt is such a skilled filmmaker that the moral consequences of eco-terrorism is given as nuanced a treatment as possible in this slow-burning gem.
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August: Osage County (2013)
Intense performances by the ensemble cast, in particular Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, elevate this honest and painful portrait of a feuding family to rather solid drama status.
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