|
1.5/4
|
57%
|
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (in 3D) (2012) |
"
We don't want to remember it's pretty bad. Then we do. "
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
The photography and editing are state-of-the-Bourne-art exciting - breathless chases, brutal, blurry fights and unnerving shootouts. "
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
27%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
Like a Nicholas Sparks novel with a dash of wit, a hint of edge and a smidgen less sap. "
—
Winston-Salem Journal
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
Amusingly childish..."
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
"The Artist" drags, as any film telling its story with its mouth and ears tied behind its back can be expected to. But it's a lovely bit of froth, the meringue on a cinema season that is both high-minded and awards oriented."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
76%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
Writer-director Ti West goes where many - especially Stephen King - have gone before... "
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
A semi-serious sci-fi romp, lighter and more fun than many of the comic-book movies that it steals from, a superhero movie in which nobody ever crusades, or wears a cape."
—
Winston-Salem Journal
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
Old-fashioned and old school, it makes a convincing case for life after death and, for Radcliffe, life after Harry Potter. "
—
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
73%
|
Big Miracle (2012) |
"
Political cynicism, media opportunism, dogmatic native traditions, corporate greed and environmentalist stubbornness are each, in turn, dashed against this sunny confection."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
|
64%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
The bottom line on The Woman in Black is that it is a very spooky movie. Old-fashioned and old school, it makes a convincing case for life after death and, for Radcliffe, life after Harry Potter."
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Orlando Sentinel
Posted Feb 1, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
Heigl traded down to TV and "Last Song" sob sister Julie Anne Robinson for a director, and then let her pack Stephanie Plum's world with the blandest supporting cast ever. That makes for the most colorless movie this side of Oscar favorite "The Artist." "
—
Winston-Salem Journal
Posted Jan 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
Best picture? Best director? It's certainly better than some of the nominated films. But Fincher & Co. lose points every time this movie is nothing more than a slightly--just ever so slightly -- inferior version of the Swedish films. "
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 28, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
Didn't Jennifer Aniston already do a bounty hunter movie? Talk about sloppy seconds. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
—
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
—
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
32%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
"Man on a Ledge" isn't a caper comedy. It's a heist picture, a thriller -- and a not-that-thrilling one at that. But the folks who made it have enough of a sense of humor to get how silly it is and run with that on occasion. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
I couldn't decide if they lost track of the wolves in the editing, or if Carnahan realized how "Twilight"-fake the beasts looked and limited their scenes in the final edit."
—
Winston-Salem Journal
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have still managed to get at a fundamental truth that screenplays traditionally ignore. People don't change. Character "arc" is one of those myths that movies perpetuate."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
The film has intrigues, shootings, infidelities and clues -- lots of clues -- which we ponder, along with the poker-faced Smiley, played with Oscar-nominated perfection by Gary Oldman."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
44%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
Veering from the sensational to the maudlin, this is a compromised epic that panders to the Chinese audience. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
13%
|
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011) |
"
A Sarah Palin joke? A Charlie Sheen wisecrack? Is this a Chipmunks movie or a Letterman monologue? Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/12/15/2312646/chip-wrecked-a-squeaky-but-tolerable.html#storylink=cpy"
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
rollicking, breezy, motion-capture animated romp, Spielberg & Co. have adapted the comic book character Tintin in a way that avoids all that worry about killing stuntmen and all that fuss about obeying the laws of physics. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Brad Bird passe his audition for a career as a live-action director. And "Ghost Protocol" more than makes its bones as an argument for why Tom Cruise should continue in this role as long as his knees, and his nerves, hold up. "
—
Courier Mail (Australia)
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Brad Bird passes his audition for a career as a live-action director. And "Ghost Protocol" more than makes its bones as an argument for why Tom Cruise should continue in this role as long as his knees, and his nerves, hold up. "
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
Cronenberg spares us few of the gory details of the patient who brought the two fathers of psychoanalysis together and helped tear them apart."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
A cheerful, not-quite-off-color crowd-pleaser that rarely breaks formula, it's the big screen equivalent of a sloppy smooch from your over-affectionate aunt over the holidays. "
—
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Streep's performance of a dismissive line such as "People don't think anymore, they feel," will have even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberal questioning core beliefs. "
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
45%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
The mysteries aren't that mysterious and some may have a hard time embracing its abrasive hero. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
54%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
It's a good movie on a great subject, even if it is well short of a great film."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
|
5%
|
The Devil Inside (2012) |
"
If it's January, it must be low-grade horror season. Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/06/2018306/the-devil-inside-ex-lexingtonians.html#storylink=cpy"
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Beauty and the Beast (In 3D) (2012) |
"
The greatest animated film ever made and one of the screen's great musicals hardly needs this (3D) sort of sprucing up. "
—
Houston Chronicle
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
Gina Carano has a face that can hold a Hollywood close-up and a fist that can hold your nose until it comes clean off."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
48%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
Mark Wahlberg delivers the goods in "Contraband," a B-movie about smuggling in boozy, corrupt New Orleans."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
29%
|
Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
Pitiless, puerile, pointless and perfunctory - and those are just the "P's" "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
It's something of a sweet-natured slog, peppered, as all of Crowe's films are, peppered with he pop music the former pop music journalist loves. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
If only they'd spent the cash on a bad guy with stature, instead of taking that phrase, "the banality of evil," so literally. Playing this "Game" might have been even more fun."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
Despite having a horse that has as much personality as any animal actor we've ever seen on the screen, "War Horse" never achieves the pathos, awe and lump-in-the-throat emotion that director, composer and screenwriters were aiming for. "
—
Chicago Tribune
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
To its credit, the film gets at the things that gave the Airmen their lasting fame -- the odds and racism they overcame, leading to the integration of the armed forces, the civil rights movement and the integration of America."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
50%
|
Fanny, Annie & Danny (2011) |
"
Fanny, Annie & Danny will make anybody with a family, the more dysfunctional the better, cringe and grin."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
Rarely has a movie been so sexual without being remotely sexy. Rarely has a guy who might be admired in a sex comedy as a "playa" seemed more pathetic with each fresh conquest."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 28, 2011
|
|
|
89%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
Herzog has managed another strange and intriguing look at a culture and the sorts of people it creates - victims, cops and criminals."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 27, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
It's a lovely, heartfelt character study of common, everyday people trapped on the horns of an uncommon but not unheard-of dilemma."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 21, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
"Arthur Christmas" is a spirited, comically chaotic and adorably anarchic addition to the world's over-supply of holiday cartoons."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 21, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
A stunning exercise in 3D and a delightful celebration of Scorsese's lifelong love of the movies, something he, like Hugo, developed on childhood."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 21, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
The musical comedy whimsically and often cleverly revisits the characters, their shtick and and the TV show and movies that made them most famous."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 21, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
"
In scene after scene, Williams "gets" Monroe - the sex appeal, the vulnerability, the sense of fear of discovery behind all that out-there sexual bravado."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 20, 2011
|
|
—
|
——
|
Breaking Dawn (2006) |
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
25%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
When you're not giggling at the jokes ... you'll be rolling your eyes at the dull melodramatics, or rolling on the floor at the big doggie debate amongst the digital wolves."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
"Happy Feet Two" is to 2006's "Happy Feet" what "Babe: Pig in the City" was to "Babe," a clever and adorable original film remade with most of the charm wrung out of it."
—
Orlando Sentinel
Posted Nov 16, 2011
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