|
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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