|
2/10
|
55%
|
Australia (2008) |
"
Part melodrama, part live-action cartoon, and entirely awful ..."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Nov 26, 2008
|
|
3/10
|
0%
|
Stolen Lives (2010) |
"
Unvarying in tone and style, it's a rough slog."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 22, 2010
|
|
3/10
|
29%
|
Deadgirl (2008) |
"
The filmmakers don't really push the envelope visually as much as they are trying to conceptually."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Sep 26, 2009
|
|
3/10
|
84%
|
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) |
"
I can only imagine critics at the initial screening ... marveling at a 20-foot penis taking up the entire screen: "Oh yeah, that totally represents the patriarchy.""
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 26, 2009
|
|
3/10
|
80%
|
El Norte (1984) |
"
Good intentions arent enough to compensate for bad editing, acting and writing."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 26, 2009
|
|
4/10
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
Thor has the feel of a film that never quite starts. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 6, 2011
|
|
4/10
|
84%
|
The Art Of The Steal (2010) |
"
The Art of the Steal paints only in black and white."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 1, 2010
|
|
4/10
|
76%
|
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
"
The film deserves credit for not offering any easy answers, but it also fails to ask any interesting questions."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 22, 2010
|
|
4/10
|
52%
|
Uncertainty (2009) |
"
Perhaps Uncertainty is a metaphor for the writing process. You start with a blank page then you have to make a decision, any decision, and follow it as far as you can."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2010
|
|
4/10
|
29%
|
Brúðguminn (White Night Wedding) (2008) |
"
The films uneasy shifts in tone disrupt the sense of rhythm needed for the comic elements to work."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Sep 26, 2009
|
|
4/10
|
95%
|
The Cove (2009) |
"
Its a sloppy, shamelessly pandering film that will work well as an activist tool."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 3, 2009
|
|
4/10
|
37%
|
X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) |
"
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is a cant-miss idea that misses every target."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2009
|
|
4/10
|
40%
|
My Name Is Bruce (2007) |
"
Its a shame to see such talent squandered here on such a one-note performance."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Nov 8, 2008
|
|
5/10
|
73%
|
Revenge of the Electric Car (2011) |
"
This is more superficial rah-rah than investigation. I'm sure it serves its ideological purpose, but as a documentary, it's uninspired."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
90%
|
Amarcord (2009) |
"
Sweet and endearing for many, irritating and tedious for others."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 26, 2011
|
|
5/10
|
——
|
The Dungeon Masters (2008) |
"
As portrayed in the film, gamers dont play because of passion, but because of pathology."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Aug 1, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
62%
|
Salt (2010) |
"
Salt changes from super-spy to cartoon-spy, and good implausible becomes bad implausible in a hurry."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
79%
|
The Yes Men Fix the World (2009) |
"
A resounding Yes for the Yes Men. A middling Maybe for The Yes Men Fix the World."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
72%
|
Beeswax (2009) |
"
The primary appeal most mumblecore films hold for me is the comfort of knowing that I have never met any of these people and probably never will."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
60%
|
The Fugitive Kind (2005) |
"
Unfortunately the movie doesnt offer much else to supplement Brandos masterstrokes. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
82%
|
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"
The more the film amps up the action, the more tangible the manifestations get, the less scary and involving the movie becomes."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
5/10
|
57%
|
Clickety-Clack (Dodesukaden) (1970) |
"
Everything else feels so hollow and occasionally phony, that its hard not to view the film as one of Kurosawas weakest efforts."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 29, 2009
|
|
5/10
|
94%
|
Hobson's Choice (1953) |
"
If your drunken buffoon tolerance is higher than mine, you will probably be more kindly disposed towards the film."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 25, 2009
|
|
5/10
|
——
|
Ciao Maschio (Bye Bye Monkey) (1978) |
"
Ferreri's first English-language film... is more of a collection of disjointed ideas than an actual story."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 25, 2009
|
|
5/10
|
82%
|
The End of America (2008) |
"
Its very easy to cherry-pick examples and fit them into a previously existing model."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 17, 2009
|
|
5/10
|
64%
|
Duplicity (2009) |
"
The "trust nobody" shtick wears old pretty quickly."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Mar 20, 2009
|
|
5/10
|
26%
|
Punisher: War Zone (2008) |
"
Without a consistent style, "Punisher: War Zone" never establishes a real identity."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 8, 2008
|
|
5/10
|
83%
|
JCVD (Van Dammage) (2008) |
"
JCVD sputters badly during the bank heist scenes which, unfortunately, make up the bulk of the film."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Nov 12, 2008
|
|
5/10
|
29%
|
Captain Mike Across America (Slacker Uprising) (2008) |
"
It doesn't offer enough fresh material either to inspire or to infuriate."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Oct 11, 2008
|
|
5/10
|
46%
|
Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"
... a thunderously stupid ending that has all the markings of a heavy dose of production notes."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Sep 20, 2008
|
|
6/10
|
90%
|
The Woman With The 5 Elephants (2011) |
"
Literary Translators Gone Wild!"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
85%
|
Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2011) |
"
Strictly a soft sell, a breezy, fan's-eye appreciation of one of America's (and now much of the world's) most popular board games. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 12, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
87%
|
Zazie dans le métro (Zazie in the Subway) (1960) |
"
Zazie, you're so darned adorable, you even make getting picked up by Aqualung look like fun."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
6/10
|
86%
|
Senso (The Wanton Countess) (1954) |
"
As a chronicle of doomed love, the story gains quite a bit of steam as it bulldozes towards its tragic ending."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 26, 2011
|
|
6/10
|
87%
|
Black Swan (2010) |
"
Aronofsky doesnt waste any time dialing up the hysteria. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 5, 2010
|
|
6/10
|
95%
|
Best Worst Movie (2010) |
"
What about old-school cult favorite "Manos: The Hands of Fate" ... Does Armond White have to step in with a Fresh review to get the ball rolling?"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Nov 12, 2010
|
|
6/10
|
83%
|
Entre nos (Between Us) (2010) |
"
The films sleeve-worn earnestness is both its strength and its primary flaw. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
|
6/10
|
79%
|
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009) |
"
One of the most pronounced recent trends in documentary is the use of the medium as a form of public therapy."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2010
|
|
6/10
|
75%
|
Invictus (2009) |
"
(Freeman) portrays Mandela more as a legend than as a man, a symbolic figure who is play-acting an already determined history rather than living in the uncertain moment."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Dec 10, 2009
|
|
6/10
|
94%
|
Secrecy (2008) |
"
Its a neat balancing act that no doubt required some serious juggling in the editing room."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Oct 4, 2009
|
|
6/10
|
88%
|
Danton (1983) |
"
The film lacks the vitality and excitement of Wajdas earlier work."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jul 29, 2009
|
|
7/10
|
95%
|
The War Room (1993) |
"
It's so intoxicating that sometimes it's easy forget we are, in effect, watching a couple of pitch men selling that year's newest brand of soap."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
I'll go to my grave believing that Elmo is a punk. Kevin Clash, however, is definitely not a punk, not one bit."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
50%
|
Chasing Madoff (2011) |
"
When the officials getting paid to do the job failed miserably in their duties, it was the crazy guy who stood as the public's last and only line of defense"
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
——
|
I Compagni (The Organizer) (The Strikers) (1963) |
"
The style often features broad comic performances against a background of despair and defeatism; these were not comedies with happy endings which seems to be a contradiction."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
80%
|
The Flaw (2011) |
"
(The film) makes a series of points rather than an argument... Think of it as a Festivus-style airing of grievances. "
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
73%
|
Design for Living (1933) |
"
The dialogue is sharp without seeming too impeccably perfect to be real human speech."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
83%
|
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) |
"
It's hard not to chuckle at the fiftieth cutaway to an oddly passive Burr after watching a scene from the Honda original, but this cut shouldn't be dismissed either."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
78%
|
Il Momento della Verita (The Moment of Truth) (1965) |
"
There's one thing I can say about every bullfighting movie I've seen: I'm always rooting for the bull."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
——
|
Transcendent Man (2011) |
"
Is Kurzweil a crackpot? Opinions vary, but one thing everyone agrees on is that Ray Kurzweil is brilliant."
—
Movie Metropolis
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
63%
——
96%
