|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Stepping High (2013) |
"
"Stepping High" is both a trifle and an impassioned argument that dance is a direct route to character, ethics and world peace."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
40%
|
The Rambler (2013) |
"
What all of this means is, frankly, nothing. But it's a handsome nothing, at least until you get sick of the screaming."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
25%
|
Vehicle 19 (2013) |
"
A serviceable if silly B-movie ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 12, 2013
|
|
B+
|
84%
|
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) |
"
Despite the screaming Valkyries on the soundtrack, Évocateur is as fair a portrayal as the weak-chinned warrior will get - and fairer than he deserves."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
17%
|
Hello Herman (2012) |
"
At least it doesn't lack in big moments where people cry and scream."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
24%
|
Rapture-Palooza (2013) |
"
Matheson's script focuses its energy on small, wickedly funny gags, half of which Robinson seems to have sputtered out as improv."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
From The Head (2013) |
"
Griffith's wry dramedy is both a character study and a personal showcase, but his fatal flaw is that Shoes just isn't as interesting as the drunks, jerks, goons and dreamers who stumble into his lair to relieve themselves. "
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
Free Samples (2013) |
"
"Free Samples" is a film about wasting time, and it feels like it."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 30, 2013
|
|
|
70%
|
The East (2013) |
"
It's disappointing that, for all its empathy and equilibrium, The East has nowhere to go after the script backs itself into a corner."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
73%
|
The Painting (2013) |
"
While the artist-as-deity concept was flattering enough to get "The Painting" nominated for a 2012 Cesar Award, its big ideas about equality and friendship are flatly 2-D."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
3 Geezers! (2013) |
"
"3 Geezers" is painful: Simmons tags along doing his best Tim Allen impersonation, which is topped when Tim Allen himself shows up solely so the senior citizens can defecate in his bushes."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
Java Heat (2013) |
"
The film's anthropological interest in Indonesia is the smartest thing in an otherwise familiar scramble of kidnapped babes, expensive jewelry and millions of bullets."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Black Rock (2013) |
"
Aselton, you sure have a purty mouth, but what are you trying to say?"
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Darkness is a cheery combo of classic catchphrases and young Hollywood heat ..."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Desperate Acts Of Magic (2013) |
"
Tthe actors are better at making coins disappear than emoting, though brassy blond Dillman is as lively as a hat full of rabbits."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
How Sweet It Is (2013) |
"
[Piscopo] isn't just too good for this film, he's too good to be giving it this much effort."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Kiss Of The Damned (2013) |
"
The confident, female-driven sensuality of "Kiss of the Damned" anchors this handsome nonsense."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
Generation Um... (2013) |
"
Neither the film, nor the film within the film, hold our attention. Bummer, Keanu."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
57%
|
Here and There (2013) |
"
Esparza's cast of unknowns is so fresh and raw that the drama could be mistaken for a documentary if the camera work weren't so controlled ..."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
45%
|
Filly Brown (2013) |
"
Almost despite our will, the cast keeps us invested in Filly's furious resurrection."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
Three Days (Three Days of Hamlet) () |
"
The result is high school English crossed with "Waiting for Guffman," though the humor is largely accidental."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
For the art-house crowd, who may, I suppose, stumble drunk into the wrong theater after too much Chardonnay, there are nods to Black Swan and 127 Hours."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 13, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
What works is the uncomfortable intimacy of peering over the shoulders of, say, Patton when she watches YouTube videos of her dead son, and the shudder of recognition that our hard drives are our external consciences."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
Hunky Dory (2013) |
"
Golden-hued, feel-good treacle, the sort that the U.K. has tried to export ever since Billy Elliot."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
15%
|
Dorfman in Love (2013) |
"
Inoffensive to everyone besides the homeless living on L.A.'s skid row, whom Dorfman shies away from like they're soul-sucking dybbuks"
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
As amiable art-house fluff, it's a passable way to kill time before the Vince Vaughn American remake later this year."
—
Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
21 & Over powers along with a winning Abercrombie bonhomie, IE naked guys and racism. Hilarious racism."
—
Badass Digest
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
Yes, this is a film where The Rock Wikipedias "drug cartels." But somehow it works. "
—
Badass Digest
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
Their love story has a mellow ease -- as neither of them has much of a personality, we're just watching two swell people decide to bone"
—
Badass Digest
Posted Feb 15, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
60%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
Just bold enough, brutal enough, and dumb enough to feel like a return to form."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 19, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
66%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
Is this Chastain's reputation-besmirching Norbit? Pshaw - for my money, it's her best performance yet."
—
Movieline
Posted Jan 19, 2013
|
|
6.5/10
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
It's the Tom Cruise paradox; he's a great actor who's stopped acting. He can't vanish into a role, but then he doesn't have to."
—
Movieline
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
Apatow gives us a couple who know less about each other than I do about my middle school friends on Facebook"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Every frame of silent, lip-biting, pent-up tension in the series has been holding its breath for this -- a 600-minute soap opera suddenly exploding into a Grindhouse slasher."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. Boobs. If your tween can handle that, they can handle Nickelodeon's naughtiest kids' movie"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
'Rocky' for fifth graders, with enough pro-school propaganda to make parents think it's worth the price of popcorn"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Daniels is a nutcase and almost definitely a perv. But he's gifted at getting actors to drop their guards and commit to nonsense. "
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
See Neeson kill -- kill, Neeson kill!"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
It's rousing -- if not thrilling -- stuff, a multivitamin for a multiplex crowd."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
Pitch Perfect proves no one is too cool for the perfect pop song."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
59%
|
10 Years (2012) |
"
It's too bad 10 Years isn't, you know, funny."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
|
6/10
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Gere does his best to give Arbitrage an agitated energy, but Jarecki's fatalism works against the film."
—
Movieline
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
99%
|
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"
When the blunt head of Bruce the shark slams into the screen like a hammer, everyone -- adults included -- gasps"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
The coolest, most-confident sci-fi flick since 2006's 'Children of Men.'"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Expendables 2 (2012) |
"
The screen practically stinks of Old Spice and sweat"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
42%
|
Step Up Revolution (2012) |
"
Busby Berkeley would have approved of the hijinks director Scott Speer gets up to with his 3D cameras"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
A fine film in a strong summer, but it lacks the spark that made its immediate predecessor a masterpiece."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
A paint-by-numbers pleasure: Boy meets girl, boy meets spider, spider meets world. "
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
Apparently, bootleg copies of Transformers 3 made it to Asgard."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2012
|
71%
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