|
2/5
|
66%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
Potential is mostly squandered in "The Dictator," which gestures halfheartedly toward topicality and, with equal lack of conviction, toward pure, anarchic silliness. "
—
New York Times
Posted May 15, 2012
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|
3/5
|
34%
|
Tonight You're Mine (2012) |
"
"Tonight You're Mine" is as ephemeral as its title - as thin as a jukebox dime but pretty catchy all the same."
—
New York Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
29%
|
Girl In Progress (2012) |
"
Does it pull out all the melodramatic stops toward the end? Does it resolve its many climactic crises too neatly and too sweetly? Yes on both counts. But, then again, what did you expect?"
—
New York Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
"
Curious souls new to this writer will discover a useful introduction (including passages from "The Rings of Saturn," read by the actor Jonathan Pryce) and a handy map."
—
New York Times
Posted May 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
82%
|
Last Call at the Oasis (2012) |
"
Ms. Yu, who has directed scripted television episodes as well as documentaries, wraps a lot of bad news into a slick, informative, fast-moving package."
—
New York Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
The light, amusing bits cannot overcome the grinding, hectic emptiness, the bloated cynicism that is less a shortcoming of this particular film than a feature of the genre."
—
New York Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
21%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
Mr. Cusack works himself into a lather trying to reconcile the contradictory parts of an incoherent character. In, I am sorry to say, an incoherent movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
63%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
"The Five-Year Engagement" dutifully hits the marks of its genre, but it is also about the unpredictability of life and the everyday challenges of love. The sensitivity and honesty with which it addresses those matters is a pleasant surprise."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
73%
|
Payback (2012) |
"
You can't help feeling that the movie owed its subject - and its audience - a bit more."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 24, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
21%
|
Darling Companion (2012) |
"
How much more fulfilling it would have been to spend those hundred-odd minutes chasing a squirrel, taking a nap or disemboweling a stuffed animal on the living room rug."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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|
4/5
|
81%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
It examines, with compassion and clarity, a young woman's discovery of passion and also of the pain, disappointment and partial wisdom that follow."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
The sun breaks through the clouds, you smile through your tears, and your cynicism - even the tiny voice in your head crying out, "Wait, none of this makes any sense!" - is silenced by sweet music and swelling sentiment."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
90%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
There is a scholarly, nerdy, completist sensibility at work here that is impressive until it becomes exhausting."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Post Mortem (2012) |
"
[A] grim, intense, mordantly comic little film..."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
33%
|
The Lady (2012) |
"
Paralyzes history and human drama with relentless hagiography."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
Keyhole (2012) |
"
To a die-hard Maddinite this may be a little disappointing, but for that reason "Keyhole" may also be a perfect gateway into the bizarre and fertile world of a unique film artist."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
43%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
It has some good moments, but it goes on too long, and not enough happens that is likely to create new memories."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
76%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
Even if it did not have other charms, this peculiar, uneven campus comedy would be worth seeing for the delightful felicity of its dialogue."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
"Bully" forces you to confront not the cruelty of specific children - who have their own problems, and their good sides as well - but rather the extent to which that cruelty is embedded in our schools and therefore in our society as a whole."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
98%
|
The Island President (2012) |
"
The hope that infuses this movie makes it all the more upsetting to walk out of the theater and contemplate a looming disaster that the world's leaders seem unable to prevent."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
50%
|
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) |
"
Your last day - or, as it happens, the whole planet's last day - will be just like every other one. Mr. Ferrara makes this point with ingenuity and characteristic thrift by using found news footage to provide images of apocalypse."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
The social and psychological particulars, and the wonderful period details, are part of the background. And Mr. Hiddleston and Mr. Beale, disciplined and sensitive actors though they are, exist in the penumbra of Ms. Weisz's incandescence."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
72%
|
Free Men (2012) |
"
A worthy and interesting chapter to the tradition of World War II dramas of conscience."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
77%
|
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
You come to like Jeff and even to admire him. The aura of holy foolishness that hangs around him is not just bong exhaust: he turns out to be the hero of a disarmingly sincere spiritual fable."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
Completely abandoning earnest teenagers-in-crisis melodrama in favor of crude, aggressive comedy, this "21 Jump Street" is an example of how formula-driven entertainment can succeed."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
80%
|
Attenberg (2012) |
"
"Attenberg" is a three-layered love story, anatomizing the mysterious emotions of grief, friendship and erotic attraction."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
Messy and chaotic ... but also colorful and kind of fun."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Footnote (2012) |
"
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
Being Flynn (2012) |
"
There is honest feeling, genuine humanity and real intelligence in this movie, but there is also a sense of caution, of indecisiveness, that undermines its potential power."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
56%
|
The Lorax (2012) |
"
The movie is a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Niki and Flo (Niki Ardelean, colonel in rezerva) () |
"
"Niki and Flo" is a fascinating stylistic hybrid, its observant naturalism infused with a delicate, almost coy sense of the absurd."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
If this is not a film, it is, among other things, a statement of creative resistance in the face of tyranny and a document of intellectual freedom under political duress."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
Thin Ice (2012) |
"
It would like to remind you of "Fargo" - what with all the snow, the grubbiness and greed, the exaggerated accents and off-kilter rhythms - and it kind of does, but in a dispiriting way."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
67%
|
The Forgotten Space (2012) |
"
[Displays] a good visual instinct for the sublimity, as well as the ugliness, of the industrial and postindustrial environments, and a patient and generous interest in what people have to say about their own lives."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
The Vow (2012) |
"
The movie's commitment to the blandest possible presentation of its central problem starts to seem perverse after a while."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
The Turin Horse (2012) |
"
Displays Mr. Tarr's uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
Chico & Rita (2012) |
"
Sexy, sweet and laced with a sadness at once specific to its place and time and accessible to anyone with a breakable heart, "Chico & Rita" is an animated valentine to Cuba and its music."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
Luke and Claire are guilty, above all, of being dumb and bored. Even their interest in the ghost that may dwell in the dark corners of the Pedlar seems tepid and lacking in conviction."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
There is action of a sort -- a car blows up, shots are fired -- and what might pass for witty, sexy banter to someone who once overheard a conversation about an episode of Moonlighting."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
It's a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
55%
|
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? (2012) |
"
A film that at times seems ready to levitate from the screen on puffy clouds of praise."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 24, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
80%
|
Haywire (2012) |
"
It is self-consciously and aggressively trivial, a feast for formalists who sentimentalize the gloriously cheap B-movies of the past."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
84%
|
Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
Mr. Wiseman's particular genius has always been to convey, through judicious editing and dogged filming, the tedium, busyness and quiet intensity of group labor."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 17, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
It is a rigorously honest movie about the difficulties of being honest, a film that tries to be truthful about the slipperiness of truth."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
54%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
You are left with the impression of an old woman who can't quite remember who she used to be and of a movie that is not so sure either."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
Pina (2011) |
"
The power and intelligence of Bausch's approach, which at times seems more cerebral than sensual, is communicated."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
You may find yourself resisting this sentimental pageant of early-20th-century rural English life, replete with verdant fields, muddy tweeds and damp turnips, but my strong advice is to surrender."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
Ms. McTeer's sly, exuberant performance is a pure delight, and the counterpoint between her physical expressiveness and Ms. Close's tightly coiled reserve is a marvel to behold."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
Mr. Fincher's impressive skill is evident, even as his ambitions seem to be checked by the limitations of the source material and the imperatives of commercial entertainment."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
85%
78%
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