My Old Lady (2014)
62%
2.5/4
“Kline's prickly character is hard to warm to, but his bumbling hides a spirit broken by life, and it's a credit to Kline's performance that you string along hoping he'll find a way to mend.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oct 9, 2014
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The Notebook (2013)
66%
3/4
“Don't let its Nicholas Sparks-like title fool you.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oct 1, 2014
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The Song (2014)
31%
2/4
“Normally, you can't lose with good material. Although "The Song" has plenty of sincerity and decent tunes going for it, it slips away from its message when it strays too far from its source: the Old Testament's Song of Solomon.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sep 26, 2014
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Persecuted (2014)
0%
2/4
“The hero's allies pop up and disappear; killers are on his heels, then they aren't. And that whole business about the Christian evangelical leader whose father is a Catholic priest? Yeah, that doesn't get explained either.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jul 17, 2014
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Fed Up (2014)
80%
2.5/4
“"Fed Up" has trouble staying on point. But when it does, it's pretty solid.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 15, 2014
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No God, No Master (2012)
73%
2.5/4
“"No God, No Master" is at its best when it sticks with Straithairn, who brings an added humanity to a role designed to celebrate the value of that very trait.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 1, 2014
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Walking With the Enemy (2013)
46%
2.5/4
“"Walking With the Enemy" does a pretty good job presenting Elek and the others in the fight as people just trying to do the right thing in awful times.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Apr 24, 2014
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
24%
2.5/4
“"Frankie" is a little thin despite its weighty subject matter, but it has some strong performances amid the predictable psychodrama.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Apr 3, 2014
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Therese (2013)
41%
2/4
“"In Secret" is like watching one of those gritty film noir melodramas from the 1940s, only set in 1860s Paris - and, unfortunately, without much of the edge of those earlier, set-later predecessors.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Feb 20, 2014
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The Christmas Candle (2013)
22%
2/4
“Does faith come from waiting for miracles to happen, or from being the miracle for others? For most of the movie, "The Christmas Candle" can't seem to decide ...” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nov 21, 2013
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Thanks for Sharing (2012)
50%
3/4
“While it doesn't shy away from the, um, more prurient aspects (porn, prostitutes and worse are addressed), the movie treats sex addiction as addiction first and sex second.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sep 19, 2013
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The Ultimate Life (2013)
20%
2.5/4
“"The Ultimate Life" is thinly drawn, but director Michael Landon Jr. keeps it moving and doesn't let things get bogged down in too much sentiment, keeping the message simple and spare.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sep 5, 2013
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Blackfish (2013)
98%
3/4
“The movie recounts - often with horrifying video - several instances in which trainers are mauled, chomped and otherwise clobbered by killer whales.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Aug 15, 2013
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20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
99%
3/4
“If music has the power to connect, "Twenty Feet From Stardom" shows it's those backup voices making the connection.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jul 4, 2013
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Frances Ha (2012)
92%
3.5/4
“"Frances Ha" could have taken a very different, much darker direction, but not with Gerwig in it.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 23, 2013
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Renoir (2012)
72%
3/4
“"Renoir" is a story of creativity in twilight, and at its dawning. Appropriately enough, most of its scenes are fit to be framed, all soft tones and sun-dappled.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 2, 2013
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Disconnect (2012)
70%
2/4
“By constantly weaving these tales together, Rubin takes humanity out of the equation, almost as if all these human intersections were engineered by technology, not an increasingly interrelated world.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 2, 2013
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Home Run (2013)
55%
2/4
“Boilerplate rise-fall-redemption stuff that works more when it's trying to do less.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Apr 18, 2013
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
38%
2.5/4
“It's a nearly impossibly tall order, but Murray makes it work with an ease that results in the movie-award year's second-best performance as a U.S. president.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jan 3, 2013
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Nobody Walks (2012)
40%
2.5/4
“A bushel full of familiar indie-film devices held together by honest writing and charming performers.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dec 6, 2012
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Hating Breitbart (2012)
0%
2/4
“Perhaps because of its subject's unexpected death, "Hating Breitbart" leaves you wondering how far Breitbart could have taken his crusade for new media to topple the old and take back the power of storytelling.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nov 1, 2012
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The Other Dream Team (2012)
88%
2.5/4
“Shows sports can have other goals besides winning.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oct 25, 2012
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Butter (2011)
35%
2/4
“The movie is larded up with distracting subplots and poorly used stars (Hugh Jackman as an Iowa City car dealer? Really?).” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oct 4, 2012
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Unconditional (2012)
75%
2.5/4
“In a year where what divides us seems to get more attention than what unites us, it's enough to restore your, well, faith.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sep 20, 2012
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Last Ounce of Courage (2012)
0%
2/4
“A good reminder that storytelling clichs and inattention to narrative detail can detract from a movie's message.” –
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sep 13, 2012
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