|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Changing the Game (2012) |
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
66%
|
God Bless America (2012) |
"
You can sympathize with Goldthwait's outrage here, even laugh at some of his jokes, and still wonder whether he's decrying the decline of our culture, or contributing to it."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
44%
|
Restless City (2012) |
"
Violent episodes explode and recede, but without context and emotional connection, they're sometimes just pictures."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
[Madden directs] a treasure trove of top-notch British actors who bring professionalism and humanity to a leisurely story that never sinks under the weight of a sentimental script."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
The figures, materials, and sets are beautifully and intricately designed, so polished it's difficult to tell the models and puppets from the computer-animated figures used to fill out the frame."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
The problem with "The Raven" is that ambitious as it sometimes is, it's never really scary."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
Safe (2012) |
"
Yakin wants you to feel (and hear) every broken bone, snapped and cracked skull."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
"Chimpanzee" is a laudable feat of technical prowess and determination..."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
What gives Bully its substance and power are the rich, detailed portraits of life at home for the victims..."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
The movie is smart, funny, unpredictable, deeply weird, and thoughtfully cast..."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
The problem is that you feel the Farrellys' attention to detail may have gotten in the way of the larger mission - to create a workable movie around the central performances."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
Die Hard goes condo in The Raid: Redemption, a frenzied Indonesian action movie whose action credentials are through the roof."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Titanic (in 3D) (2012) |
"
The central love story involving steerage passenger Leonardo DiCaprio and rich girl Kate Winslet has lost none of its luster - metaphorically speaking."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
The cast is very game. Hammer and Roberts have the right attitude, and Collins makes a pretty Snow White."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
Wrath of the Titans (2012) |
"
I'm sure digital artists labored like Hercules to create the meshing gears of this intricate subterranean world, but it feels as mechanical as it looks."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
Lawrence , a rock on which to build a franchise, sells all of this beautifully. Her empathy roots the sci-fi extravaganza in an emotional reality that becomes crucial as the games unfold."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
Being Flynn (2012) |
"
What keeps you watching is its gritty look at life in a homeless shelter, the sort of unexpectedly compelling, slice-of-life context that made "The Soloist" so compelling, and so tough to watch."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
44%
|
Casa de mi padre (2012) |
"
Probably too strange for mainstream tastes, but a movie sure to have a cult-movie afterlife."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
Against all odds, "21 Jump Street" is actually pretty funny and lifts movie comedy out of its recent creative rut."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
You understand the symbolism implied in Kevin's choice of weapon, but I didn't really believe it could work as a WMD."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
It's all meant to be a cutting- edge examination of changing times, non-traditional breeding/parenting, but to my eyes there wasn't enough here to distinguish Julie and Jason from their co-habitating friends."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
"Carter" is so good-natured, and so goofy, that it's hard to completely dislike. But impossible, I think, to understand."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) |
"
It has the U.K. knack for institutional/bureaucratic satire, and Kristin Scott Thomas has a small, vivid, funny role as a tough-talking politico who manages the project from behind the scenes."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
In Darkness (2012) |
"
A grueling but rewarding story of survival."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) |
"
"Billion Dollar Movie" has the feel of improv that reached for design after the fact, in editing, and never quite found it."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
26%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
"Project X" depicts bad behavior compulsively, and ends weakly."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Undefeated (2012) |
"
If you can get through this movie dry-eyed, you are made of sterner stuff than I."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
[It] raises a sticky question: Should realistic combat look this awesome? Should it be so much fun to watch?"
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
71%
|
Thin Ice (2012) |
"
Director Jill Sprecher and sister/writer Karen Sprecher have applied several layers of plot to their chilly thriller, and it's a kick to watch it play out."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Fiennes heads a great cast. Crew cut and scarred, his Coriolanus blends patrician arrogance with the bloodthirsty intensity of the thug he played in "In Bruges.""
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
Watching "This Means War" is like have someone on Ecstasy describe a movie to you in the middle of a rave. It's a date movie if you're dating someone you don't like."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
12%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
Finally, a Hollywood feature directed by someone who's performed live at the Super Bowl halftime show."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
What kills the movie ... is the script. That's strange, because it was known for years as one of the industry's best unproduced screenplays."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
This is a movie that understands how to engage its audience - a spoonful of philosophy and a bucket of CGI."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
I haven't seen this many people jump out of their seats since "Jack and Jill," although in this case, people returned."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
94%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
This seems like a ripping good idea. In practice, "Pina" turns out to have a few problems."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
31%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
Completely preposterous, relying on massively improbable twists of fate. The same few crooked cops are assigned to every major police action in the city of New York."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
"
You feel the movie's authenticity, throughout the ordeal that leaves Laura brutalized, terrified, confused, abandoned, with nowhere to turn."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
As for Close, she looks nothing like a man. Nor much like a woman."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
It's a tight thriller helped a great deal by on-location shooting (in British Columbia) that gives the movie a very vivid sense of place and of winter peril."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
It's awesome."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
Five minutes of Carano fighting, 85 minutes of half-baked espionage plotting that nobody, not writer Lem Dobbs or Soderbergh, seems to care much about."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
This is a story invented to exist in a book, and you can feel it resisting the jump to screen."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
40%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
A strange hybrid of "City of Life and Death" and "Father Goose" that nevertheless, in the hands of Zhang Yimou, musters a few striking moments."
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Pariah (2011) |
—
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
"The Iron Lady" is keenly attuned to the small indignities of a woman trying to elbow her way into a man's world."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Pariah (2011) |
"
Part of what makes "Pariah" exceptional is its skill at mapping family dynamics."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
This has black comedy potential, but "Carnage" is less gruesome fun that it might have been, and for a surprising reason - the performances."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
85%
78%
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