|
|
95%
|
Peeping Tom (1960) |
"
Almost forty years later, Powell's audaciousness, satirical wit and dazzling color sense still crackle with life."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Oct 5, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
"Runner Runner" is a bummer. Bummer."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
Parkland (2013) |
"
Methodically and with generally unfailing good restraint, Landesman re-creates the grief surrounding the crime and the confusion of Oswald's capture and subsequent murder."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
"Gravity" must be seen in theaters to be appreciated; the prospect of watching this movie on anything less than a 40-foot screen is tantamount to listening to Beethoven through a tin can and a string."
—
Washington Post
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
"Blue Caprice" doesn't offer the sense of catharsis or closure, let alone new information, that makes it more than a cold, if disciplined, directorial exercise."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
18%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
Glossy, flossy and blithely secure in its own cheerfully fake worldview, "Baggage Claim" bypasses the intellect entirely, happy to satisfy on a silly, screwball, wish-fulfillment level."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Feisty, funny, fizzy and deeply wise, "Enough Said" sparkles within and without, just like the rare gem that it is."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
A grade-A genre exercise - but it's a genre predicated on specious reasoning and promiscuous, pseudo-sacrificial suffering."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Adore (2013) |
"
"Adore" at its core is a bore, nothing more."
—
Washington Post
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
"Short Term 12" is that rare movie gutsy enough to tell the truth about love: that it's not a poetic longing or a magical-thinking happy ending, but a skill. And, the film suggests, we all have the capacity to learn it."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
Rife with convenient coincidences, predictable plot contrivances and breathtakingly perfunctory revelations."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
[Bell's] smart, enjoyable writing-directing debut in which she finally, deservedly stars."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Museum Hours (2013) |
"
"Museum Hours" is every bit as masterfully conceived and executed as the art works that serve as the film's lively cast of supporting characters."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
"Kick-Ass 2" can't decide what it wants to be when it grows up: a vessel for unhinged vengeance and destruction or a meta-critique of those same impulses."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
It's impossible not to see "Computer Chess" as both a humble, low-fi ode to evanescence and the deceptively cute baby picture of the digital disrupters who will soon bestride the Earth."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
"Prince Avalanche" is a work of eccentric but often profound beauty. That old Green magic, it seems, is back."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Blomkamp's admirable if obvious egalitarianism too often devolves into simplistic wish-fulfillment. Still, his formidable visual imagination is on full display."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
The laughs may come in fits and starts, usually by way of sight gags and set pieces, but they do come. And then they go."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
Chicken Run (2000) |
"
Chicken Run isn't just chock-full of references to classic prison-break movies and some witty inside Hollywood jokes, but is filled with a secret ingredient sadly missing from its super-digitized, merchandise-driven counterparts: heart."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Aug 4, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
"
By now we expect this level of performance and narrative competence from a Spielberg film. But what makes Saving Private Ryan a watershed is its emotional maturity."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Blanchett owns this movie as thoroughly as her character owns her delusions."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
64%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
"2 Guns" feels like it's all been done before, whether by John Woo, Michael Bay or any number of their CGI-happy clones."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
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——
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The Typewriter (In the 21st Century) (2013) |
"
Lockett has made a valuable and persuasive film that keenly balances instruction and celebration."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
It's hard to imagine anyone coming out of this movie and not swearing off the next vacation trip to Orlando, San Antonio or San Diego. "
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen delivers an astonishingly restrained and expressive central performance in The Hunt, an engrossing psycho-social drama by Thomas Vinterberg."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
Whatever you call it, The Act of Killing is a must-see."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
In naturalistic and unforced strokes, he allows Grant to exist as a complex, even contradictory human, inviting the audience simply to sit with his life, his loss and what they both meant."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 19, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
The most objectionable thing about Only God Forgives isn't that it's shocking or immoral, but that it's so finally, fatally dull."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 19, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
Kristen Wiig delivers another adorkable star turn in 'Girl Most Likely,' which works until it doesn't."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
|
——
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My Neighbourhood () |
"
...Opens a wide, largely hidden world."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
|
——
|
Inocente () |
"
[Inocente], with her fabulously painted face and indomitable spirit, qualifies as pure joy in human form."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
36%
|
The Hot Flashes (2013) |
"
Even though it earns an R rating for profanity and some risque material, it's too meek and mild-mannered to qualify as brave, or even slyly subversive."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
That humanistic touch is pure del Toro, and it makes all the difference in Pacific Rim, whose own whirring, glowing heart doesn't belong to any machine but to the director himself."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
The Way Way Back (2013) |
"
A coming-of-age drama that manages some genuinely surprising turns despite the formulaic road it travels."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 5, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
Despite its impressively staged set pieces, The Lone Ranger can't survive the epic train wreck resulting from its own tonal clashes, wherein mournful scenes of genocide and stolen immigrant labor are tastelessly juxtaposed with silly slapstick humor."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
Trash Dance (2013) |
"
That Garrison has created such a vibrant, moving document of such an evanescent state of grace is a small miracle in itself."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
Give these ladies a genuinely smart, funny script -- and give McCarthy more to play than what has become a tiresome tomboy shtick -- and there's no telling what liberated heights they can reach."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
White House Down is the kind of celebration of rampant mayhem in which everyone seems to have a rocket launcher -- or at least a live hand grenade -- at the ready, just in case they need to dispatch a scrum of exceptionally vile and cruel villains."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Trainspotting (1996) |
"
Brazen, hilarious, disgusting, audacious, altogether fresh."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jun 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
A modern-day cautionary tale about youth run amok that, for all its ripped-from-the-headlines topicality, still exudes a dreamy, otherworldly perfume."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Whedon finds unexpected meaning in this famously saucy "skirmish of wit," the opposites-attract story upon which myriad modern-day rom-coms have sprung."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
The result is a movie that, while no classic, can be credited with giving the audience something a bit more substantive than the usual disposable summer fare."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
The Truman Show (1998) |
"
The Truman Show is a movie and the name of a television show within the movie, both of which star Jim Carrey. This tidy little metaphysic is superbly maintained throughout Peter Weir's flawlessly executed film."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jun 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
For now, audiences can only speculate as to the hidden depths of Cavill, who in Zack Snyder's busy, bombastic creation myth is reduced to little more than a joyless cipher or dazzling physical specimen."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
As both homage and send-up, it presents viewers with the ultra-meta image of a comedy genre eating its own tail."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
3%
|
Bless the Child (2000) |
"
By turns lurid, risible and offensive."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Jun 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
What Maisie Knew gives the audience a ground-eye view of its mesmerizing title character, a plucky, charismatic New Yorker who navigates downtown bars and building lobbies with the street savvy of a pro."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 3, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
What unfolds is a riveting drama that grows even more so as it plays out."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
Star Trek Into Darkness banishes, at least for the moment, the lugubrious mood and sepulchral look that too many comic-book movies mistake for sophistication. All hail an action film that isn't ashamed to have fun and to be seen doing it."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 15, 2013
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