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Ann Hornaday

Ann Hornaday

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Baltimore Sun , Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Washington Post
Total Reviews:
993

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1.5/4 13% W.E. (2012) " A movie that's less about people than the fetishistic obsession with style." — Washington Post
Posted Feb 10, 2012
3/4 53% Albert Nobbs (2012) " [It] sneaks up on the audience with the quiet discretion of the enigmatic protagonist at its center. And, like him, it contains multitudes beneath its prim surface." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/4 32% Man on a Ledge (2012) " It sure is about a man on a ledge." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 26, 2012
1/4 45% Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) " Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 20, 2012
3/4 80% Haywire (2012) " "Haywire" stays true to its low-rent B-movie principles, right down to the fast, strong and quietly competent heroine at its center." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 20, 2012
2.5/4 54% In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) " An ambitious if not entirely fully realized drama about the 1990s war in the former Yugoslavia." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 13, 2012
2/4 54% The Iron Lady (2012) " [Streep's] performance overpowers the movie it's in - a perfectly executed triple axel that renders everything else just featureless ice." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 13, 2012
3/4 94% Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (2011) " Alex Stapleton's lively, engrossing and enlightening documentary about a career that can be described as surprising on multiple counts." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 13, 2012
1.5/4 71% Carnage (2011) " What are supposed to be transgressive observations about the holy state of parenthood and matrimony instead come across as self-satisfied and shallow as the pieties Reza intends to puncture." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 13, 2012
100% Semper Fi: Always Faithful () " Jerry Ensminger isn't an environmental or public health crusader as much as a grieving father." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 6, 2012
4/4 96% Pariah (2011) " "Pariah" feels a lot like life, at its most confusing, contradictory and exhilarating." — Washington Post
Posted Jan 6, 2012
3/4 63% We Bought a Zoo (2011) " "We Bought a Zoo" provides a welcome seasonal dash of wholesomeness and humor, but it's also a heartening celebration of second acts, even at their most unwelcome." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 23, 2011
2.5/4 87% The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) " Mara's bristling, unbridled performance gives the film the ballast it needs to pull off that curious, undeniably engrossing, balancing act." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 20, 2011
2.5/4 75% The Adventures of Tintin (2011) " There's a lot going on in "The Adventures of Tintin," but precious little is really at stake." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 19, 2011
2.5/4 93% Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) " Possesses the requisite number of expertly choreographed how'd-they-do-that scenes, as well as some terrific supporting performances from "Mission: Impossible" veterans and newcomers." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 16, 2011
3/4 84% Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) " It's a 1970s story told in 1970s style, an unrepentant un-reboot so old school that it feels subversively new." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 16, 2011
3/4 78% A Dangerous Method (2011) " Perhaps Cronenberg's most transgressive movie yet, one in which ideas - rather than their fetishistic signifiers - possess more energy and verve than the most calculated shock effect." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 16, 2011
1.5/4 22% The Sitter (2011) " [Its] most valuable contribution to the cinematic landscape is its blessedly brief 80-minute running time." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 9, 2011
1/4 8% New Year's Eve (2011) " Sags when it should shimmer, labors clunkily when it should glide and - most unforgivably - plops some otherwise attractive and even talented actors into roles that are completely outside their physical and psychic comfort zone." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 9, 2011
3/4 80% Shame (2011) " What movies so often relegate to the margins of pornography or sophomoric titillation is radically redefined here, stripped of its erotic charge and depicted as a numbing erasure of life and emotion." — Washington Post
Posted Dec 2, 2011
3/4 75% The Swell Season (2011) " A documentary that is every bit as intimate and disarming as the movie that made them famous..." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 23, 2011
3/4 94% Hugo (2011) " If ever the movie gods were to smile on an adaptation, it would be Scorsese's take on Selznick's bestselling book, a valentine to the cinematic artists whose work the filmmaker has toiled so tirelessly to champion and preserve." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 23, 2011
4/4 90% The Descendants (2011) " A tough, tender, observant, exquisitely nuanced portrait of mixed emotions at their most confounding and profound -- all at play within a deliciously damp, un-touristy Hawaii that's at once lush and lovely to look at." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 18, 2011
97% The Artist (2011) " Michel Hazanavicius's black-and-white throwback to cinema's silent era may seem steeped in fusty nostalgia, but it glitters and gleams with utterly of-the-moment wit and romantic zest." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/4 89% Into The Abyss (2011) " What could have been a well-aimed examination of the most troubling contradictions of capital punishment instead becomes a maudlin, unrestrained wallow." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 11, 2011
3/4 78% Melancholia (2011) " A masterwork of grandeur, millennial angst and high romantic style, "Melancholia" takes themes that have marked the best films of 2011 and spins them into a blast of cosmic sparkle dust." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 11, 2011
2.5/4 50% Janie Jones (2011) " Nivola and Breslin make a terrific mismatched pair in a film that often resembles a mash-up of "Crazy Heart" and Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere"..." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 4, 2011
3/4 74% Like Crazy (2011) " A serious, deeply felt romance for an audience Hollywood most often bombards with raunchy sex comedies and video-game adaptations." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 4, 2011
2.5/4 68% Tower Heist (2011) " "Tower Heist" is an improbably satisfying action comedy, the kind of wax-on-wax-off, slickly machined Hollywood widget that meets its audience's expectations without once aspiring to exceed them." — Washington Post
Posted Nov 4, 2011
3/4 90% Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) " Shot in long, quiet takes of bucolic idylls, "Martha Marcy May Marlene" sneaks up on viewers with a barely perceptible sense of oncoming dread." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 28, 2011
3/4 100% We Were Here (2011) " "We Were Here" pays eloquent homage to men and women who deserve to be celebrated and remembered as heroes." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 28, 2011
2/4 50% The Rum Diary (2011) " "The Rum Diary" exudes a cheery, beery sense of warmth and affection." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 28, 2011
2/4 47% Anonymous (2011) " Don't let the frilly costumes, courtly language and historical pretense fool you: "Anonymous" is still a Roland Emmerich movie - a blessing when it comes to vigor and a curse when it comes to subtlety, proportion or sense." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 28, 2011
4/4 92% Take Shelter (2011) " Taut, unsettling, haunting and powerful, "Take Shelter" stars Michael Shannon in a shattering performance as a man caught up in forces beyond his control." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 14, 2011
2.5/4 70% Footloose (2011) " Brewer has delivered a largely unobjectionable note-for-note facsimile of Herbert Ross's ode to teenage rebellion, young love and the unfettered joy of movement." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 14, 2011
2/4 39% The Big Year (2011) " "The Big Year" has heart and sweetness to spare - but as any birder will tell you, focus and energy count, too." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 14, 2011
3.5/4 92% The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011) " Uses Soviet-era lies to uncover buried truths about its subject." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 7, 2011
2.5/4 85% The Ides of March (2011) " Clooney does a good job opening up the ideas Willimon first explored onstage, but the result is still a pessimistic truth so universally acknowledged that it doesn't bear repeating, however stylishly." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 7, 2011
3/4 80% The Way (2011) " A sensuous, expansive hymn to travel and transformation in a movie that honors earthly pleasures as readily as it contemplates higher things." — Washington Post
Posted Oct 7, 2011
3.5/4 93% 50/50 (2011) " "50/50" takes the hackneyed convention of illness-driven melodrama and reinvigorates it with honesty, clear-eyed compassion and unsentimental wit." — Washington Post
Posted Sep 30, 2011
2/4 91% The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) " A film that suffers from a surfeit of credulity." — Washington Post
Posted Sep 30, 2011
3/4 80% Incendiary: The Willingham Case (2011) " A gripping, appalling and finally galling tick-tock of justice denied in modern-day Texas." — Washington Post
Posted Sep 30, 2011
70% Never Let Me Go (2010) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
84% Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
—— Thriller (1983) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
90% The Oath (2010) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
96% 35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
26% The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2009) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
96% Restrepo (2010) Washington Post
Posted Sep 24, 2011
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