4
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Director: Christopher Landon
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 4/10
Spin offs. 9 times out of 10 they are likely not going to work. Taking a thread or character that
5.5
Release Date: January 3, 2014 (Limited)
Currently playing on VOD platforms
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 5.5/10
Gonzalo López-Gallego’s latest thriller, Open Grave, is an interesting movie worth a watch
5
Release Date: December 25, 2013 (Limited); January 10, 2014 (Wide)
Director: Peter Berg
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
When your film is titled “Lone Survivor” the viewing audience already knows how the film
7
DIRECTED by: Brendan Prost Film Pulse Score: 7/10
Brendan Prost’s third feature film, Spaces and Reservations, takes a very real and contemplative look at a couple whose relationship is slowly falling apart. Like many real life relationships,
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
2.5
Release Date: January 31, 2014 (Limited) December 26, 2013 (VOD)
Directors: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 2.5/10
Directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are previously known
7
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,
5.5
Release Date: December 20, 2013 (Limited and VOD)
Director: Quentin Dupieux
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 5.5/10
Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong Cops, such is the case with his last two films, Rubber and Wrong, is
8.5
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Director: David O. Russell
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 8.5/10
Loosely based on the FBI’s Abscam sting in the 70s, David O. Russell’s American Hustle takes the facts and
8
Release Date: December 18, 2013 (Limited); January 10, 2014 (Wide)
Director: Spike Jonze
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
We live in a world where the majority of us are in some way
8
Release Date: November 15, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Alexander Payne
MPAA Rating: R
Film Pulse Score: 8/10
At first glance it would look like Alexander Payne’s films are often about depressing subject matter. Abortion, popularity,
3.5
Release Date: December 13, 2013 (Limited)
Currently available on VOD platforms
Director: Eric Heisserer
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Pulse Score: 3.5/10
As Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in the city of New Orleans, Nolan
7
Release Date: December 6, 2013 (Limited)
Currently Available via OnDemand Platforms
Director: Johnathan Gurfinkel
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 7/10
When the movie begins, we find that the title is “Six Acts”
5
Release Date: December 13, 2013 (Limited)
Available on VOD platforms December 15, 2013
Director: Terri Hanauer
MPAA Rating: NR
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
As I watched Sweet Talk, I thought, “This might make
9
Release Date: December 13, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Lucy Walker
Film Pulse Score: 9/10
Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel provides an intimate look at the life of Kevin Pearce, a world famous snowboarder whose career was tragically cut
5
Release Date: December 13, 2013 (Limited)
Director: Adrián García Bogliano
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Film Pulse Score: 5/10
Your children have vanished into the vast wilderness. Terrifying. Your children are behaving strangely to the point
