|
3/5
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
[Reynolds] still doesn't quite match up with Washington. And while that doesn't sink Safe House, it certainly makes it a little less of a ride than it might have been. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
42%
|
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
...the best that moviegoers who don't much enjoy genial sci-fi/fantasy silliness can expect is a relatively inoffensive time..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
Rampart (2012) |
"
The movie's got some strong moments, and Harrelson's work here is so committed that many might feel his character's journey is worth sitting through for that alone. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
73%
|
Big Miracle (2012) |
"
If you think it's absolutely not your kind of thing, you might be surprised. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
...even as its ostensible innovations flag, Chronicle remains watchable, and it doesn't hurt that the picture is a pretty tidy 85 minutes or so."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 1, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
Kill List (2012) |
"
It's remarkably clever and resourceful filmmaking, and a little on the diabolical side as well. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
77%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
While some of the effects work is a little obvious, the film does a largely first-rate job of simulating the punishing environment the characters have to push against. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
More often than not, Red Tails feels like it's pandering to every focus group that it never even tested... It's so cautious as to be lifeless, which is a shame on a lot of levels."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
[It] bears almost all the liabilities one gets from current studio product, including bloating."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
It's a good, chugging caper movie for the most part."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
68%
|
Roadie (2012) |
"
While the excellent cast does its level, honest best with the material, the material itself feels secondhand throughout."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
For as much of a mess as this movie is, there are moments in which Streep and Broadbent draw it into a sharp humanist focus. But they don't occur often enough. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
...interesting, and engaging, in both a storytelling and sociological/cultural study fashion."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 26, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
...where We Bought A Zoo earns its stripes is in the process of getting all of its characters to relate to and accept each other. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 18, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
The film also earns points for being the least creepy motion-capture movie I've ever seen..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 18, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
...it's pretty much state-of-the-art. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 18, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
[Fincher] never abandons his meticulousness -- it's what allows him to position you in the exact right spot to deliver the blow. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 18, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
As big, loud moviemaking goes it's not quite as devoid of charm as it could have been, and things being as they are these days, that's saying something. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
Carnage (2011) |
"
Carnage is satisfied to be an absolutely virtuoso piece of cinema craft, and to give its excellent cast multiple opportunities to show off their comedic chops, which are considerable. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 14, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
80%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
View more MSN videosGo to MSN Video One of the most relentlessly and purposefully harrowing movies of the year... "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
...the film and its cast portray the [characters] with steadfastness, precision, empathy and a kind of poignant wisdom."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 5, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
One shot of a shattered Brandon standing in the rain without a clue of where to turn gets more done than any of McQueen's flourishes, frankly. But you can't blame a onetime conceptual artist for trying..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 29, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
The harder you look at it, the wilder, and more disturbing, and more moving, it becomes."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Aside from being one of Scorsese's most personal films, it's also one of the least cynical films of this or any other year."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
[Filmmakers] hew close to the essential innocence informing the Muppets' silliness."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
25%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
One is also grateful for the film's finale... which is genuinely brilliant. There, I said it. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
90%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
It works like a charm...to the extent that one's critic self wants to resist the urge to break down why it's working. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 14, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
3%
|
Jack and Jill (2011) |
"
It is also typical in that it contains a lot of witless bathroom and ethnic humor..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
For all its rough edges, J. Edgar is finally a thought-provoking emotion picture of deep sadness, a far-ranging elegy disguised as a historical drama. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 8, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
78%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
...even when I was getting a little fed up with the film I was still almost entirely engaged by it. Your own reaction will depend on your own indulgence, I suspect. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 7, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) |
"
Not only did I laugh, I was finally convinced that the film's heart, such as it is, was in the right place."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
68%
|
Tower Heist (2011) |
"
...things take a turn for the worse during the heist itself, as more and more ridiculous elements and obstacles turn up, and Ratner fails to sell them. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 2, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Like Crazy (2011) |
"
Its empathy and artful way of conveying honest observation struck a chord with me..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
47%
|
Anonymous (2011) |
"
Even though Emmerich is working with ostensibly more refined material here, the ham-handed touch of the man who gave us The Day After Tomorrow... is felt quite heavily throughout."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Puss in Boots (2011) |
"
...simple, sincere and largely innocent."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 25, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
Still, cheap it may be, but it's not particularly graphic, so it's got that going for it. And in any case, scares are scares, even if they are cheap."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 19, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
The atmosphere is evocative and the story reasonably tense, but the movie as a whole is surprisingly dry..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 18, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
39%
|
The Big Year (2011) |
"
...it's a genuinely engaging and amiable film that convincingly brings the viewer into a world that is very likely not his own"
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
10%
|
Trespass (2011) |
"
Trespass is still something of a dog..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 12, 2011
|
|
5/5
|
79%
|
The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
... this is as visually and sonically gorgeous as anything Almodovar has ever done."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 11, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
...bringing old-school quality and tone to content that plays as both up-to-the-minute and classically timeless. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
24%
|
What's Your Number? (2011) |
"
...the film's tedium is such that by the time the final credits rolled, I felt much sorrier for myself than I did for [Faris]. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
There's absolutely nothing affected about the film's perspective. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 26, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011) |
"
And quite the cliché-ridden desultory mess it is, too..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 21, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Dolphin Tale (2011) |
"
...if it doesn't bring a tear or two to your eye, you might need a visit to the cardiologist to see what you've got in there in place of a heart."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 21, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
The filmmaker's ham-fisted attempts to supply some socio-political relevance to such intractable material finally lands him in a deeper, murkier swamp..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
...Two-thirds' worth of a pretty good to quite good action picture and one-third worth of affected, highfalutin, practically insufferably portentous, pretentious malarkey. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 12, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
Restless (2011) |
"
The generally expected continues to happen, and we're left with another coming of age tale of getting to the emotional maturity while not letting go of the quirk. Meh."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 12, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
34%
|
Burke and Hare (2011) |
"
If it's altogether more cozy than American Werewolf, its ultimately upbeat charm is nevertheless pretty pleasingly fractured. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 6, 2011
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