|
3/4
|
57%
|
The Color Wheel (2012) |
"
Perry should be commended and encouraged. You now just want to see where else he can take that fidgety iconoclasm."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Mansome (2012) |
"
It's a movie so late in noticing a shift in American male grooming that for a documentary on the subject to work, Spurlock would either have to pitch it to our grandparents (or be a grandparent) or trace the arc of the shift and unpack it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
It runs 157 minutes, and I can't say you don't feel them. You do - but in the way you would, reading a very good book in an uncomfortable chair."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
Cohen and Charles offer a lot of admittedly witty observations, but they don't build into anything bigger or smarter. They're too broad."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 14, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
This is an easy movie to spoil. It's rather plotless. But things happen in precisely the way that life happens."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
The intelligence in it is both soothing and intimidating."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
You don't need to be a "comic-book person" to find the set pieces exhilarating. But if you are such a person, or a fan of the movies that comic books turn into, "The Avengers" feels like the moment you've been waiting for."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Turn Me On, Dammit! (2012) |
"
I can't think of another movie whose finale uses a reference to genitalia to warm your heart."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
This a fun group of actors to watch, although it often seems that Stillman is unsure of what to do with them."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
Seeing [Schilling] and Efron fumble at each other is like watching a stick of butter and a bag of flour not turn into a cake."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
Think Like a Man (2012) |
"
"Think Like a Man" becomes as tedious as "Valentine's Day," a movie based on a holiday, or "He's Just Not That Into You," a movie based on putdowns disguised as advice."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
20%
|
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012) |
"
This overplotted, underwritten, powerfully dumb soap-thriller has more professionalism than it deserves."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
"Bully" doesn't need research or great filmmaking or narrative focus, per se. It needs only the shaming power of its relentlessness and a young audience open to sharing in that shame."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
It pleases me to report that the movie is far from a disaster - on a dozen or so occasions, it's even funny."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
31%
|
Detention (2012) |
"
The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
7%
|
Losing Control (2012) |
"
Weiss's ideas about moviemaking, storytelling, and character development are indistinguishable from bargain-bin romantic comedies (so-called chick flicks) and television shows that barely last a season."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
Just to be clear: 13 is how many years have passed since the first film. It's also a number that's such bad news that elevators skip it all together."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
It feels current. That's to do with the timelessness of Davies's idea of how lush a film can feel. It's also to do with the modernity of his star."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
91%
|
Footnote (2012) |
"
The film was a nominee for this year's foreign-language Oscar, and Cedar has a real grasp of how to create conflict and generate tension."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2012) |
"
This is a manic, overmedicated, and remembered elegy. It's also private, personal, and obscure, a ballad meant more for its subjects' eyes and ears than ours."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
A sitcom would set these events in motion and 22 minutes later have them solved. This is a sitcom at four times the length, 10 percent the amusement, and triple the amount of nauseating photography."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
95%
|
Undefeated (2012) |
"
"Undefeated'' needs less of what we know we've seen (the football stuff) and more of the players' and coaches' lives, which even if we feel we've seen, we haven't."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
Neither man has had a better foil. They are literally and figuratively trying to bring something out of each other, and they do."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
This movie swerves from fantasy to nightmare. It doesn't feel like the story a wife and mother would volunteer to tell about herself."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) |
"
Proudly, it has no conviction to offer, just the comforts of its genericness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
"Silent House'' is up to something. The filmmakers, Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, must have seen plenty of horror movies worth discussing in a women's studies class."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Project X (2012) |
"
This is a music video, a commercial, a deluxe MySpace page, with knockoffs of the boys from "Superbad.''"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
56%
|
The Lorax (2012) |
"
Despite some schmaltz and pandering, this is a still a nifty feat of protest whose activism now comes mostly from songs."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
32%
|
Tyler Perry's Good Deeds (2012) |
"
Whose life, Wesley asks in the movie's narration, is he living? Judging from all the sterile office and apartment space and his mile-long face, I'd say Bruce Willis's in "The Sixth Sense.''"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 25, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Wanderlust (2001) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
25%
|
Act of Valor (2012) |
"
"Act of Valor'' is a roller-coaster ride."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
Bullhead (2012) |
"
[It] has enough strands of story for an epic tale. But Roskam appears more interested in trying to combine genres that don't easily cohere."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
Wanderlust (2012) |
"
This movie has no teeth. It does not want to say anything, other than the unprintable word for penis, over and over."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
25%
|
This Means War (2012) |
"
You can imagine how the ball got rolling on "This Means War.'' You can also imagine how the folks who rolled the ball started to lose their minds."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
85%
|
Declaration of War (2012) |
"
As ponderous and overwrought as a film hogged by a couple of young hipsters named Roméo and Juliette can be."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Journey (2003) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
The ethical breaches and double-agent stuff have no sting. So many people are risking and giving their lives, and we barely care."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
42%
|
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
Even by the unambitious standards of some children's movies and many movies that star Caine, this one has a difficult time making a case for itself as anything other than an adventure in baby-sitting."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
The director, James Watkins, appears to have studied other movies' bumps in the night and accepted the real estate and clammy skin loaned to him by the Hammer studios, which, not incidentally, receive a production credit."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
77%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
For too long, this movie asks us to be interested in something that rarely in the history of the service industry has been sustainably entertaining: how dull certain jobs can be."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
31%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
The movie doesn't give an audience anything that makes sense. How does Harris smoke a cigar that appears to weigh more than he does? And whence is Worthington's accent?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
This is a trenchant emotional thriller that you watch in dread, awe, and amazing aggravation."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
79%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
It's cheap the way "The Grey'' wants to be both a Liam Neeson "Quit Taking My Stuff'' movie and an existential thriller about survival."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
The movie forgoes Foer's ambitious tweeness and presents Oskar's outbursts and moodiness - that precociousness - as a disorder."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
The pleasure of this small, eccentric movie is the natural way Carano hurts people - by, say, walking partway up a wall and climbing onto a man's back, by sprinting toward the camera and flying into the human target standing in the foreground."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
40%
|
The Flowers of War (2011) |
"
All Zhang's splendor does is foster cognitive dissonance in an audience."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
"Red Tails'' has its moments. They've just gone too far in the other direction. The movie is so desperate to be palatable, to appeal to everybody that it doesn't taste like anything."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
Contraband (1940) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Everything Streep does here is a seismic act of theater. If she so much as tilts her head, the earth tilts with it. She doesn't simply overwhelm this thin historic biography - and the other actors around her - she detonates it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
62%
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