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B-
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
The movie, as if on an action time clock, punches in the standard set pieces: bloody fights, clattering shoot-outs, an escape through a packed soccer stadium. Some of this stuff is well-done, and some of it has been done a lot better."
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Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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|
A-
|
85%
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Chronicle (2012) |
"
Based on Chronicle, it's clear that Trank has the right stuff to move up to big-budget fantasy movies. If he wants to, that is. In a lot of ways, he has already beaten the studios at their game."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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B-
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83%
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Reise der Hoffnung (Journey of Hope) (1991) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 31, 2012
|
|
D
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
Imagine an Elmore Leonard movie scripted by a bad Nora Ephron imitator, and you'll have an idea of how dead-in-the-Jersey-water it is."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 27, 2012
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C+
|
65%
|
Cherry Tree Lane () |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 24, 2012
|
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B+
|
80%
|
My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski) (1999) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
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C+
|
21%
|
Loosies (2012) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
A-
|
39%
|
Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston (2012) |
"
This film has a grander trajectory than just about any other fashion doc."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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B-
|
36%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
As long as it stays in the air, Red Tails ... is a compelling sky-war pageant of a movie."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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|
B
|
48%
|
Contraband (2012) |
"
Contraband, while often grungy and far-fetched, does keep you watching. And in January, that's recommendation enough."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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B-
|
34%
|
Joyful Noise (2012) |
"
The movie's musical numbers are catchy and rollicking and, in their bright sunshiny way, rather soulful."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 11, 2012
|
|
C+
|
54%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
In the Land of Blood and Honey captures the sickening way the war in Bosnia became a gray zone of genocide. Yet that, unfortunately, is not enough to make it a good movie."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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|
A
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
The film wraps us, with stunning directness, in the complex folds of its characters' passions."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
A
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Powered by Cruise's moxie, Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol proves that in a Hollywood action-ride culture drenched in fake adrenaline, it's cathartic to encounter the real thing."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 16, 2011
|
|
B-
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
Here, as before, part of the movie's perversely cheeky design is that it throws away its own cleverness."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 15, 2011
|
|
B
|
63%
|
We Bought a Zoo (2011) |
"
From the high-concept title to the family-friendly story line, it's basically a Tim Allen movie, only made with taste and feeling."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
A
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
[Fincher] has made The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo into an electrifying movie by turning the audience into addicts of the forbidden, looking for the sick and twisted things we can't see."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
C
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
I've barely even glanced at a Tintin comic, and what I saw looked more like The Adventures of Rubber Boy and Captain Boring."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 9, 2011
|
|
B-
|
8%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
A movie I often found myself laughing at in ridicule, and one that also gave me a lump in the throat. So I guess you could say I had a good time."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
B-
|
80%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
The movie is creepy, but it has no texture or depth. It's like The Omen directed by Miranda July."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
A
|
73%
|
Rampart (2012) |
"
Rampart won't be for everyone, but it's the work of a major directorial voice. It's a thriller on fire."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
A-
|
97%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
As it opens, we're watching an audience watch a silent adventure film, and in a funny way we spend the rest of the movie watching ourselves get swept up in conventions we can see through."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
C+
|
59%
|
Twilight (1998) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
A
|
90%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
Another beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking - sharp, funny, generous, and moving - that writes its own rules as much as About Schmidt or Sideways did."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
C
|
89%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
It's really just a rambling episode of A Current Affair."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
B
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
Eastwood, forsaking his deliberate rhythms for something speedier and wordier, turns J. Edgar into a dramatic essay about how the law and repression, heroism and corruption, fused in Hoover."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 9, 2011
|
|
B-
|
50%
|
Janie Jones (2011) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 5, 2011
|
|
A
|
69%
|
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) |
"
In its shaggy, pleasure-bombed, '80s-meets-2011 way, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is a deft and generous comedy..."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 5, 2011
|
|
A
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
A marvelous movie."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 5, 2011
|
|
C-
|
18%
|
The Son of No One (2011) |
"
The more that secret comes out, the more incoherent (and ludicrous) the film gets."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Nov 2, 2011
|
|
C+
|
48%
|
Man From Nowhere (2010) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 29, 2011
|
|
C+
|
37%
|
In Time (2011) |
"
Timberlake and Seyfried's relationship is way too thin to make us believe in them as a powerful outlaw couple, and the plot, once you get past the premise, is basically all clichés."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
C
|
50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011) |
"
Depp stares off into space, as if his brain were being slowly eaten by worms, and he speaks in a robo-monotone. You could call his acting ''cool,'' but a more apt description would be monochromatic and hollow."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
C
|
83%
|
Puss in Boots (2011) |
"
In the Shrek films, the joke of Puss in Boots, with his trilled consonants and penchant for chest-puffing sword duels, is that no one this cuddly should try to be this dashing. But in Puss in Boots, that joke wears out its welcome in 15 minutes."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
A-
|
67%
|
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) |
"
The bottom line, for me, is this: I don't scare easily at horror films (that's one of the reasons I tend to pan them), but I watched Paranormal Activity 3 in a state of high anxiety."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 19, 2011
|
|
A-
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
It captures how our financial institutions became secret havens to a selfishness so undiluted it was sociopathic. You watch this drama of big money with a tingle of toxic fascination."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 19, 2011
|
|
B-
|
39%
|
The Big Year (2011) |
"
The characters are just as two-dimensional as they sound, but damned if Wilson, Martin, and Black don't make those dimensions pop."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
B+
|
31%
|
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) |
"
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) could be the sickest B movie ever made. But that's why you may feel gripped by the horror of what you're seeing and the terror of what's coming."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
It pulses along like an update of The Candidate fused with a political Sweet Smell of Success - it's got that kind of noirish fizz."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 5, 2011
|
|
C-
|
7%
|
Dream House (2011) |
"
This suburban gothic is a logy, convoluted mess. "
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Oct 1, 2011
|
|
B-
|
67%
|
Margaret (2011) |
"
Lonergan's dialogue can sweep you up in a whoosh of personality and ideas, but it's hard to see what, apart from ego, convinced him that this story was so epic."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
B
|
30%
|
Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011) |
"
Broomfield is so dogged that he makes
a case, in a deeper way than we've seen, that there's a
terrifying remorselessness to Palin's feuding nature."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
B
|
53%
|
Puncture (2011) |
"
This true-life film is a likable oddity: a rambling, low-budget Erin Brockovich with a cokehead hero."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
|
C
|
4%
|
Abduction (2011) |
"
[Lautner's] not a terrible actor, but if he wants a career after the Twilight fades, he'll pick better films."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 23, 2011
|
|
D
|
29%
|
Machine Gun Preacher (2011) |
"
It's like Machete remade as an awards-bait snoozer."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 21, 2011
|
|
A-
|
94%
|
Moneyball (2011) |
"
[It] may be the first baseball film to tap into the thrill of strategizing - of manipulated cause and effect - as entertainingly as you'd expect from a movie about chess or a casino heist."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 21, 2011
|
|
C+
|
42%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
The original Straw Dogs, at least to me, isn't close to being one of Peckinpah's masterpieces, but it's a movie that the people who first saw it still remember 40 years later. I doubt that anyone will remember the new one by next month."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
F
|
71%
|
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti) (2010) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
A
|
90%
|
Gabbeh (1996) |
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Sep 7, 2011
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