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3/4
|
95%
|
First Position (2012) |
"
Because its subjects are so driven and so talented, "First Position," which is about ballet, is more gripping than the norm."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Headhunters (2012) |
"
It's crisp entertainment even as plot absurdities gum up the works - you can almost hear the pages turn as you watch."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Elles (2012) |
"
Both provocative and muddled, the film's a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
41%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
Tim Burton has got his groove back."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
In short, "This Is Not a Film" is the world within an apartment, and it is quietly devastating."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is proof that art-house films can be as clichéd and soggily sentimental as the big-ticket items playing at the multiplex."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
A grimly preposterous serial-killer thriller set in 19th-century Baltimore, this riff on the final days of the author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other masterpieces of the macabre might qualify as literary desecration if it weren't so silly."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
Between that opening proposal and the film's title, you know exactly what's going to happen, and the result is a comedy-drama almost completely free of dramatic tension."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
What could be didactic is rendered life-size and indelible, even with the cards that Falardeau has carefully stacked."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
All audiences stand to be charmed except those grouches who prefer their animals to be valued as animals rather than as furry little people."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Fairy (2012) |
"
The vibe's too rarefied to last the length of a feature film - and it doesn't - but when "The Fairy" is on, it creates entirely new comic synapses in your head."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
Let's just say that if you like smartly twisted spins on worn-out horror cliches and if you have a strong stomach for flying body parts, put down the newspaper/laptop and go - we'll talk later."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
We Have a Pope (2012) |
"
Whenever it stays with Piccoli ... it's mysterious and moving, struck by the humility of a man who's not up to playing God."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
43%
|
Blue Like Jazz (2012) |
"
The outcome rarely seems out of God's hands, and the filmmaking is low-budget-earnest to the point of drabness - it's not a movie to make converts."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
33%
|
The Lady (2012) |
"
"The Lady" presents a stately, rather dull portrayal of a loving marriage stymied by the whims of political necessity and fascist generals."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
Would you be willing to massage an octopus for 45 minutes, until its flesh possesses just the right amount of chewability? Jiro is."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
71%
|
Thin Ice (2012) |
"
The movie never fully clicks."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
"The Kid With A Bike'' is, remarkably, about hope - about the connections people forge when the ones they've been given desert them."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
As midnight-movie mash-ups go, it's pretty amazing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Boy (2012) |
"
"Boy'' rollicks along with bright, sunny style and, for the most part, balances its sadness with invention."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
"Mirror Mirror'' is just a limp, jokey family film that wants to have its fairy tale magic and its hip irony, too."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
58%
|
Delicacy (2012) |
"
"Delicacy'' walks a cautious line between realism and shaggy-dog whimsy, and its hesitancy comes to grate as much as it charms."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
Like the book, "The Hunger Games'' doesn't end so much as open the door to the next installment; it's frustrating, but you'll probably feel you've gotten your money's worth."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
44%
|
Casa de mi padre (2012) |
"
It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
A quietly insistent parable of male menopause, "The Salt of Life'' ambles along the line between comedy and melancholy, rarely making a misstep but rarely looking up."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
The Forgiveness of Blood (2012) |
"
"The Forgiveness of Blood'' works as a subtle but insistent metaphor for a modern generation trapped by the shibboleths of their elders."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
Against the odds, "John Carter'' is itself pretty amazing - an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
Being Flynn (2012) |
"
"Being Flynn'' is earnest to a fault, and it offers the now-rare sight of De Niro giving an actual performance."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
Some movies punish you, but you take it because you're getting something out of the bargain: an insight, a performance, art, adrenaline. Then there are the movies that punish you for the heck of it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
In Darkness (2012) |
"
The film looks fine, is structured intelligently, measures out the horror in pragmatic amounts. In the end, though, it's that professionalism that gets in the way."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
A scuzzy little cross between a crime movie and a horror freak-out that gets under your skin and stays there, even if you can't understand half of what the characters are saying."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
86%
|
Chico & Rita (2012) |
"
When a soundtrack this fluidly elegant is married to trite dialogue, thin characterizations, and chockablock animation, it has to go down as a missed opportunity."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Tyrannosaur (2011) |
"
The movie is cruelly frank about the ways damage cascades down to the powerless, but while it's not for the fainthearted (or for animal lovers), rewards are there."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
Rampart (2012) |
"
Something to see and little to remember, an acrid character study undone by narrative implausibilities and its own lack of purpose."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
When Caius Martius heads into battle against the invading Volscians, we get 20-odd minutes of brutal street-fighting with RPGs and crackling automatic weapons. The film was shot in Serbia; dial a few decades back and it could have been set there."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
The film flatters young moviegoers' awareness of deeper matters while delivering just enough enchantment to beguile both them and their parents."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
63%
|
Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts () |
"
If you come to have your eyes opened to tales of human suffering and resilience, you stand to get more than your money's worth."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (2012) |
"
Peter McDonald's "Pentecost'' is the standout here..."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts (2012) |
"
There are strong years for short films at the Oscars and there are weaker years, and 2012 appears to be one of the latter."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
29%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
It's quite watchable date-night cheese - the kind of movie you can simultaneously snort at and enjoy."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
12%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
[It] tries awfully hard. In the end it tries our patience."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Alice: A Look into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2010) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
The Look (2011) |
"
Her chattiness here is unexpected and disarming, and if the film's overindulgent, it puts you in a forgiving mood. How often do we get to hear a lioness speak?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
"Chronicle'' will never be mistaken for an artistic breakthrough, but it has a solid gimmick and pieces of it are brilliant."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
Wiseman's are the movies to show to the aliens when they arrive."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
There's an ache of regret that sets "Albert Nobbs'' apart. Everyone here yearns for what they can't get."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Silent Souls (2011) |
"
It's lovely and slow and melancholic and short - 75 minutes, yet you feel you've been gone for an epoch or two."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Sundance Film Festival Shorts () |
"
The hit-to-miss ratio is high and the films underscore what makes a great short work: a solid idea expanded into a brief, powerful vision of the world."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
85%
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