7/10
Release Date: April 12th, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
In a world where celebrity madness has overtaken society, certain businesses have learned to profit from the situation. For
5/10
Release Date: April 12, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Terrence Malick
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
What to make of Terrence Malick’s latest film To the Wonder? After making what some consider to be
2/10
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 2/10
At its peak, the late ‘70s into the ‘80s, the film parody was ruled by team ZAZ. Yes,
7.5/10
Release Date: April 30, 2013 (DVD and VOD)
Director: Steven Kostanski
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Every once in awhile a movie may come along that when you hear the title you
7/10
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Director: Brian Helgeland
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Brian Helgeland’s biopic 42 is cut from the same cloth as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. As opposed to telling Jackie
5/10
Release Date: April 12th, 2013 (Limited)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Ken Loach
FilmPulse Score: 5/10
“The Angels’ Share” is phrase used in the whisky distilling business; it refers to the amount of
3.5/10
Release Date: May 10th, 2013
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 3.5/10
Ryûhei Kitamura made a name for himself in Japan by directing genre hits like Versus and Azumi, however after
7.5/10
DIRECTED by: Shannon Plumb Film Pulse Score: 7.5/10
Shannon Plumb’s Towheads is a hilarious look at being a mother in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Plumb writes, directs, and stars in the picture,
7/10
Release Date: May 1st, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Carlos Reygadas
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Attempting to write a cohesive and informative review for Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux is proving to be
6/10
Release Date: April 8th, 2012 (Sarasota Film Festival)
Director: Matt Reynolds
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score 6/10
The chicken wing has been a staple of American cuisine for the last 43 years now,
4.5/10
Release Date: April 5, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Danny Boyle
MPAA Rating: R
Score: 4.5/10
Mind-bending psychological thrillers can often be fun films to watch. They require the audience to become active participants as they
6/10
Release Date: April 5, 2013 (Limited Release)
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Antonio Campos
FilmPulse Score: 6/10
Antonio Campos’ follow-up to his critically-revered debut Afterschool (which marked the screen debut
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We here at Film Pulse have been discussing Shane Carruth's Upstream Color for the last several months, basically stating that it would turn out to be one of our favorite films of the year. I made numerous statements and poised questions to myself after watching the first teaser. After revisiting that post I have decided that - Yes, 8 years was definitely worth the wait and I, sort-of, understood the film, but I am still processing what I just saw.
7/10
Release Date: April 5th, 2013
Director: Fede Alvarez
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Fede Alvarez’s remake of the classic Sam Raimi horror film The Evil Dead bills itself as “The most terrifying
8.5
Quentin Depieux's Wrong couldn't be more right. Dogs, gurus, palm trees that morph into pine trees, and nightmarish scenes that pose questions of the source life and death are all crocheted into one giant fishing net. The film comes from a director who is a creative kind of guy, and that much is evident in his career of music, absurdist film, and hand made puppet antics. It's obvious that he is happy to think on a completely different level.
6.5/10
Release Date: April 5th, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Sally El Hosaini
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Film Pulse Score: 6.5/10
There is a very particular air about Sally El Hosaini’s debut feature My Brother the Devil. As I sat
