|
2.5/4
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
It's fun in sporadic bursts, but never memorable."
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Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 23, 2012
|
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2/4
|
41%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
nostalgic music and digs at the bad aesthetic choices of a previous era, no matter how well executed, will only get you so far, and at some point we have to be invested in Barnabas's many plights, and we never are."
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Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
In some ways, Sound of My Voice is a tease, although it teases us with such skill and efficient use of its minimal resources that we can't help but get caught up in the moment and may even find it difficult to forget. "
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Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 11, 2012
|
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3/4
|
96%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
tender and sincere, frequently striking a fine balance between the dictates of the "inspirational teacher" genre and a more mundane kind of realism that tamps down easy sentimentality and strives for something more organic and genuine"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
While the film certainly suffers from gigantism, it is a self-inflicted malady, and for fans of the series it is like manna from heaven."
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Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
a complex interweaving of bitter reality and a deeply humane worldview that sees the possibility of redemption in even the cruelest of circumstances"
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Q Network Film Desk
Posted May 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
Clueless (1995) |
"
offers some of the best humor, entertainment, and social insight the teen comedy genre has to offer"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
The film has its powerful moments and its heart is certainly in the right place, but as a whole it feels too narrow in its focus, sacrificing the larger context for a sense of intimacy whose state-the-obvious dividends run out fairly early. "
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Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
43%
|
Blue Like Jazz (2012) |
"
dares to confront its audience, both secular and religious, by honestly dealing with the complexities of religion, politics, and personal identity"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 18, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
like a senior thesis about the modern horror genre masquerading as a movie"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
This Happy Breed (1944) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
In Which We Serve (1942) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
71%
|
Blithe Spirit (1945) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
71%
|
Blithe Spirit (1945) |
"
While Coward's witty dialogue and pungent take on the mores of the British upper crust can't help but elicit some smiles, as a whole Blithe Spirit feels like a film that is just going through the motions. "
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
This Happy Breed (1944) |
"
not a particularly deep film, but it gets the details of human interaction and growth just right, providing a moving portrait of one family's durability in the midst of massive historical upheaval"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
In Which We Serve (1942) |
"
a particularly memorable World War II British propaganda film, having successfully outlived its initial propagandistic value and solidified into a timelessly moving drama of human determination and tenacity"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
leans a little too heavily on the familiar and fails to achieve that delicate balance of the nasty and the sweet that made the first one so memorable"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
Action junkies who can't get enough hacking, chopping, and slashing will come out satiated, but others may very well start feeling numb by the last half hour, beaten down by hundreds of colliding body parts, impalements, lacerations, and yelling"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 6, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Chinatown (1974) |
"
one of the great masterworks of '70s American cinema and an apex of the decade's obsession with genre revisionism"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
A Night to Remember (1958) |
"
a film that broke new ground in depicting one of history's worst maritime disasters, interweaving historical reality with a dexterous sense of storytelling that keeps the film fresh and engaging so many decades later"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Apr 3, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
|
The Letter That Was Never Sent (Neotpravlennoye pismo) (1959) |
"
elevates the familiar into something both emotionally engaging and existentially disarming"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
Jennifer Lawrence brings to the pulpy material a sense of weight and gravity that few young actresses could muster; she has a flinty strength that enhances, rather than belies, her soft features, and it makes Katniss a completely believable protagonist. "
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 28, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
The War Room (1993) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 27, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
42%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
The single-take aesthetic eliminates one of the horror genre's best (and most abused) tricks--the shock cut--but it creates a relentless vibe that more than makes up for it. "
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
by no means a great comedy, but it does demonstrate that playing against the grain can be a good move, especially when the people in charge have run out of ideas"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
unfolds with maximum perplexity, ensuring that we will never, despite being able to grasp the stakes and gravity of individual scenes, be sure exactly what is going on."
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
World on a Wire (2011) |
"
a film of ideas and questions whose prescient take on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the moral responsibility humans have toward machines made in their likeness presages such millennial films "The Matrix" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence""
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 17, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
an awesome folly, a misguided project of genuinely enormous proportions that feels like exactly what it is: an impersonal product of franchise-hungry corporate culture"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 16, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
64%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
Westfeldt tries with all her might to ensure that the film is socially and romantically "edgy" by ridiculing anything that might smack of old-fashioned, middle American morality and dowsing us with the characters' unquestioned narcissism"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Immortals (2011) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
Immortals (2011) |
"
an almost overwhelming aesthetic experience in which conventional storytelling and narrative logic frequently take a backseat to pure sensation"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
In Darkness (2012) |
"
the lengthy sequences in the dark sewers certainly convey the monotonousness of the survivors' ordeal, but they come at the expense of narrative flow, weighing down the film in ways that are not necessarily productive."
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Sanbiki no samurai (Three Outlaw Samurai) (1964) |
"
duly impressive in both its strong, unadorned narrative pacing and its rich cinematography"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
56%
|
The Lorax (2012) |
"
manages to maintain the impact of Seuss' original message about the dangers of overindustrialization amid the cacophony of additional characters and action sequences"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 5, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
"
simultaneously plays by and punctures the expectations of the courtroom thriller"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
a paean to the birth and continual rebirth of movie magic"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Undefeated (2012) |
"
a remarkable documentary about the power of commitment and resolve"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 27, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
a brilliant, mesmerizing drama, incredibly well-acted by its ensemble cast"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Rampart (2012) |
"
Dave is, simply put, a bad man, and part of the brilliance of Harrelson's performance is that he makes us feel for him anyway."
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
has energy and vigor to spare, but it still feels too off-the-shelf--prepackaged action and all-too-familiar riffs on the ugliness of behind-the-scenes international conflict"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Tiny Furniture (2010) |
"
succeeds admirably in its relatively scaled ambition to evoke the discomfort of a particular time in one's life while also jabbing playfully at the pretensions of the insular Soho art scene"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
a doggedly old-fashioned Gothic chiller, filled with dank rooms, creepy old toys, flickering candles, and miles of gray mist"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
even when the film is working, it's hard not to wonder how the in-story videorecording adds to the effect in any appreciable way"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 14, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
"
in many ways it is closer to the man Walt Disney's view of the world than any of his preceding films, especially the way it is filtered largely through his sense of nostalgia for the Victorian era"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 13, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
31%
|
Man on a Ledge (2012) |
"
a straight-up genre film with no ambition beyond keeping the audience minimally entertained with its workmanlike execution of a literally high-concept idea"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 8, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
a physically and philosophically grueling survival thriller"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 6, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
continues Daldry's trajectory of increasingly indigestible pretension, although he exchanges earnest morbidity for a mixture of cloying sentimentality and offbeat humor"
—
Q Network Film Desk
Posted Feb 6, 2012
|
66%
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