|
4/5
|
——
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Beyond The Black Rainbow (2012) |
"
A welcome attempt to bring back the days of El Topo and Eraserhead, when night owls embraced directors who wanted to screw with viewers' heads, not just the ones who screwed up their chances for auteristic posterity."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog (2012) |
"
The real star is Rafie, the golden pup that plays Quill; dogs can be taught to sit or lie down, but they can't fake the sort of connection he makes with the people around him."
—
Time Out New York
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
42%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
Battleship is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of its board game source material: occasionally entertaining yet soul-crushingly repetitive."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
8/10
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
A testament to the ingenuity of independent film."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 27, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
63%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
There's a good movie in here, maybe even a great one. But it's buried beneath an awful lot of shoulda-been-deleted scenes."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Citizen Gangster (2012) |
"
Writer-director Nathan Morlando leeches every last bit of color from the frame, until the world around Boyd looks so dreary and drab you can almost understand his desire to liven the place up with a little theatrical mayhem."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Apr 24, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Fake It So Real (2012) |
"
Outsider artists don't expect to be discovered; they just want to share their passion with the world. Greene's film communicates their devotion -- and their desire to hit people on the back with steel chairs."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
4/10
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
The problem with The Lucky One isn't the material's familiarity; it's its lifelessness. "
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
9/10
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
Keep your brain working while you watch this movie."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012) |
"
An Odorama cut of Comic-Con would surely be the scariest film ever made."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
4/10
|
44%
|
Casa de mi padre (2012) |
"
One of the most admirably strange movies by a major Hollywood star in recent memory, though not an entirely satisfying one."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
Isn't the disaster some industry observers predicted, but it's not the high-gloss masterpiece some of us hoped for either. "
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
Doug becomes a character you really root for."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/10
|
33%
|
Intruders (2012) |
"
Intruders was either the victim of reshoots and postproduction meddling or it desperately needed some."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
7/10
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
American Reunion has the same thing going for it that American Pie did: it understands the hilariously perverted inner-workings of the male mind."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
84%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
If you've never read Collins' novels, the odds that you'll enjoy the film are not in your favor."
—
ScreenCrush
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Turn Me On, Dammit! (2012) |
"
The ladies deserve equal time, and they finally get some [Ahem] in this charmingly blunt Norwegian teen sex comedy."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Mar 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
38%
|
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) |
"
To quote an SNL sketch featuring costar and producer Will Ferrell, I don't think that legally this qualifies as cinema."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
11%
|
Gone (2012) |
"
Siblings aren't the only things missing from Gone: Suspense, scares and common sense are all likewise MIA."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Feb 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Gnarr () |
"
It's easy to see what endeared Gnarr to Reykjavík voters, but it's tougher to find things to endear Gnarr, the documentary about his campaign, to American audiences."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Thin Ice (2012) |
"
If Mickey were a little less sneaky, he'd be the perfect protagonist for these hard economic times."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Splinters (2012) |
"
Though Splinters emulates a laid-back surfer-dude vibe all too well in its sluggish middle third, the final surf-off is a total white-knuckler."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Newlyweds (2012) |
"
Burns and Fitzgerald make a snappy onscreen couple."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
29%
|
Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
Also missing... most of the so-called Lycans who, their appearance in a few respectable action sequences notwithstanding, are now nearly extinct. So is this franchise."
—
Time Out Chicago
Posted Feb 1, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
Totally mediocre..."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
7%
|
The Devil Inside (2012) |
"
Whatever possessed Bell & Co. to turn a slow-burning creepfest into a frenzied freak show of multiple exorcisms (including one in a moving car), the devil only knows."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
|
100%
|
Semper Fi: Always Faithful () |
"
It makes an impact. These men fought for our right to pursue our own American Dreams. And as thanks, they had theirs ripped away from them."
—
IFC.com
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
C-
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Less of a movie than a showcase for Streep."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
A-
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
Riveting"
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
B+
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
Spielberg, the analog stalwart, has brought out the best in this new filmmaking technology."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
C
|
77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
War Horse is the law of diminishing returns in action."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
B-
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
Handles the material competently, but not exceptionally."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
|
91%
|
Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) |
"
It's nice to see the greatest hits, and to listen to Corman's refined paternal baritone as he talks about his work."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
B+
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Hugo is an intensely personal statement from Scorsese, one not just about magic, but also the magic of cinema."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
B
|
98%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
Reminds us that silent films aren't inferior to sound ones, just a little different."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
B+
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
A serious character study and exploration of addiction."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
C+
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
The spy movie that refused to come in from the cold."
—
IFC.com
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
It all adds up to a celebrity-obsessed city symphony played on one painfully flat note."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
B
|
74%
|
The Lie (2011) |
"
Leonard does a nice job of ramping up the comedy without sacrificing the believability of the world he's established; the movie is very funny at times but it's never outlandish."
—
IFC.com
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
B
|
77%
|
The Other F Word (2011) |
"
Not just a fluffy portrait of dudes with tattoos and their cute kids"
—
IFC.com
Posted Nov 11, 2011
|
|
B-
|
55%
|
Killing Bono (2011) |
"
An amusingly fluffy musical biopic."
—
IFC.com
Posted Nov 11, 2011
|
|
B-
|
36%
|
Immortals (2011) |
"
The film is handsome enough to recommend on the strength of the visuals alone, which is basically what I'm doing."
—
IFC.com
Posted Nov 11, 2011
|
|
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Good acting, good filmmaking, plus something elusive that most Sundance movies about romance lack: sincerity."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
C
|
50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011) |
"
Never comes close to matching its subject's passion."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 26, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
My Reincarnation (2011) |
"
It's fascinating to watch Yeshi grow from a skeptical teenager into a spiritual leader -- a transformation that still doesn't bring him any closer to his father."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 26, 2011
|
|
C
|
67%
|
Lord Byron (2011) |
"
There is something interesting about the tension between fact and fiction, but there's also something frustrating too."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 17, 2011
|
|
B
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Here is a director talking about a subject he's covered many times before in a totally new way."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 17, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
27%
|
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011) |
"
She never figures out what, exactly, the deal is regarding our short attention spans, but her ADD-afflicted film definitely provides evidence that they exist."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Oct 11, 2011
|
|
B
|
73%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
If ever a man deserved the nickname "Butch," it's Sam Shepard."
—
IFC.com
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
85%
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