Release Date: December 25th, 2013
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
FilmPulse Score: 6.5/10
“If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.”
Not only does that statement apply to Jordan
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Release Date: December 20, 2013 (Limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back with a follow-up to his 2011 multiple award-winning film,
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Release Date: December 6, 2013
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Cooper
Film Pulse Score: 5.5/10
Out of the Furnace, the newest film from director Scott Cooper (Crazy
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Release Date: December 6th, 2013 (Limited and On-Demand Platforms)
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zach Clark
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
It’s Christmastime in the bizarre, slightly depressing world of American
Finkle Is Einhorn is a new segment where we will compare original films against their respective remakes; much like the fictional NFL kicker Ray Finkle and Lt. Lois Einhorn, they are the same…just in slightly different packaging.
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Release Date: October 22, 2013
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Romain Gavras
FilmPulse Score: 7/10
Director Romain Gavras has a thing for redheads; they seem to provide Gavras with a
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Release Date: September 27, 2013 (Limited)
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Mickle
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
The Parkers are a family that tend to keep to themselves and their massive
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Release Date: October 11, 2013
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Directors: Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
To be completely honest I know little to nothing about
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Release Date: September 20th, 2013
Director: Denis Villeneuve
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, best known for the Oscar nominated Incendies, happens to be making his mainstream debut,
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Release Date: September 13th, 2013 (Limited)
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Dosunmu
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Nigerian filmmaker Andrew Dosunmu continues to collaborate with one of the best cinematographers working today – Bradford
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Release Date: August 30, 2013 (limited)
Currently playing on VOD platforms
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Film Pulse Score: 1/10
If Brian De Palma’s Passion happened to be a made-for-TV
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Release Date: September 20, 2013 (Limited)
Currently playing on VOD platforms
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Director David M Rosenthal has switched gears and made a sharp
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Release Date: August 23, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Joe Swanberg
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
Drinking Buddies, the latest from writer/director Joe Swanberg happens to be the first film of
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Release Date: August 16th, 2013
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Film Pulse Score: 6/10
Barbeau-Lavalette sets out, in her second narrative feature, to display the precarious on-going situation on both sides of
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Release Date: August 7th, 2013 (Limited)
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Zellner
FilmPulse Score: 1/10
David Zellner’s newest film Kid-Thing centers around Annie (Sydney Aguirre) a young girl devoid of
