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2/5
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) |
"
There's a great deal of potential in the approach. The execution, however, is half-baked and half-assed."
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Film Racket
Posted May 5, 2013
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|
5/5
|
68%
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Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
A true gem."
—
Film Racket
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
As a modern commentary, as a piece of pop culture popcorn pizzazz, Shane Black has started the Summer 2013 season off well."
—
PopMatters
Posted May 3, 2013
|
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3/5
|
57%
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Kiss Of The Damned (2013) |
"
an evocative experience that's high on mood and short on shivers"
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Film Racket
Posted May 2, 2013
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1.5/5
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
(This movie is) Michael Bay talking down to his audience, addressing previous criticisms about excess and hyperbole by offering equal amounts of both."
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PopMatters
Posted Apr 26, 2013
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|
2.5/5
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8%
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The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
We appreciate the cast and Zackham's attempted avoidance of cliche. Too bad it's just not very funny."
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Film Racket
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
98%
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Mud (2013) |
"
Clearly inspired by Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn, but with its own unique flavor and feel, Mud may be one of the best examples of Southern Gothic ever committed to film"
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Film Racket
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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2.5/5
|
65%
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Mama (2013) |
"
There's a great horror movie here. Thanks to some assumed interference within the production, Mama is now merely passable."
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Film Racket
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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2/5
|
38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
On paper, it must have seemed like a solid idea"
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Film Racket
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
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2/5
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
the screenplay, filled with hackneyed implausibilities and trite characterization, constantly lets everyone down"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 22, 2013
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1.5/5
|
45%
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The Details (2012) |
"
a painfully dull slog through an exceedingly stupid subdivision"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
underwhelming at best"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013) |
"
With its visual wonders and mindbending narrative, The Lords of Salem is unlike anything Rob Zombie has ever done before."
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Film Racket
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
87%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
For all its impenetrable possibilities, the most obvious thing one can say about Upstream Color is that it is great."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Oblivion is not perfect. But in a genre typically earmarked by superficial sturm und drang, there's an undercurrent of seriousness here that's refreshing"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
a brilliant high tech treatment of the subject and the classified nature of the disclosures"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
The odd thing about the saying "too much of a good thing" is that it acknowledges the fact that, something, in general, is composed of an overabundance of excellence."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
stands up to repeat viewings, and offers new insights each and every time"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
A Monster in Paris (2013) |
"
proves there is life beyond the Hollywood hit machine and the omnipresent House of Mouse"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
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4/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
what you thought would happen does... and doesn't"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
as dopey as it is deliberate "
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
It's a lot better than some of the titles aimed at tykes, but anyone older than 10 may be hard pressed to find anything of value here outside of engaging eye candy."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
As fascinating as it is frustrating"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
Temptation (2013) |
"
beyond dumb"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
And you thought Twilight was bad..."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
While it might be the height of critical cliché (and analytically wrong) to call G.I. Joe: Retaliation "a real American Zero," if the combat boot fits..."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
like a sharp stick in the eye"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
There is more to Jackie Robinson's story than what up on the screen. Sadly, no mere movie could do his legacy justice."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
44%
|
Thale (2013) |
"
When it tries to do something different and dangerous, Thale succeeds. When it goes for the heart, or the hero moment, it winds up being more miss than hit."
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
4%
|
6 Souls (2013) |
"
(T)here is a nice sense of dread here, a level of suspense that slowly dissipates as the movie meanders toward the exhausting end of its one hour and forty five minute run time."
—
PopMatters
Posted Apr 6, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
greater in sum than as a collection of inconsistent parts"
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
It may not be the return of Ash that everyone wants, but in terms of taking an honored original and reimagining it for a post-millennial audience, this remake rocks."
—
Film Racket
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Stoker is a mystery where the means justify the ends, where even the most cynical viewer will stand up and take notice of where this particular filmmaker is taking us."
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 24, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
By the end, we don't care if Burt Wonderstone wins the day, gets the girls, or reestablishes his career credentials. We just want Carell and his calculated creep gone. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
(W)hat we have here is both foreign and familiar, yet another intriguing, if incomplete take on an age old Hollywood crime genre from someone far removed from it. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Oz the Great and Powerful is not some watered down sell out. It's a real Sam Raimi film - and all that encompasses."
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
71%
|
My Amityville Horror (2013) |
"
This was a chance for something definitive. What we get, instead, is something as incomplete yet intriguing as the original tale. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
West of Memphis is the real vindication - even if it is incomplete. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Everything about Jack the Giant Slayer seems slick and self-serving - and empty."
—
PopMatters
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
The action feels awkward and incomplete while the dramatics are drawn out to the point of preposterousness."
—
PopMatters
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
(T)his is Die Hard by the numbers, and said digits just don't add up."
—
PopMatters
Posted Feb 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Side Effects isn't bad. It's actually quite effective. What it isn't however, is great. It seems minor, missing a key ingredient or two that would turn it from acceptable to exceptional."
—
PopMatters
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
It's like (500) Days of Summer with flesh eating, or George Romero's Day of the Dead in which Dr. Logan's 'experiment,' a 'trained' corpse named Bub, becomes a literal ladies man. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Sadly, Mr. Stallone is so somber and blank in Bullet to the Head that you'd swear his onscreen personality is as Botoxed as his face. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
As it stands, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a thoroughly engaging, often rip-roaring, old school yarn. It's got scope, excitement, and above all, emotional heft. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
...this is a fascinating film experience where you never quite know what's coming next, and feel nothing but fulfilled when the eventual entertainment reveal arrives."
—
PopMatters
Posted Jan 29, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Amour may not inspire the kind of emotional epiphany that similar illness-driven dramas tend to, the results are still riveting. "
—
PopMatters
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
Recalling the best...and worst, of Sam Raimi's ridiculously fun Evil Dead trequel, Army of Darkness while falling into the traps of most mainstream Hollywood hackwork, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters belies its bungled release history."
—
PopMatters
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is a joy. It's fun and foolish, unhinged and unapologetic."
—
PopMatters
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
47%
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