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Cary Darling

Cary Darling

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:
Dallas Morning News , Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com , Miami Herald
Total Reviews:
157

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2/5 8% Runner Runner (2013) " Do Affleck and Timberlake, who together should have enough cash to make Midas jealous, need a payday this badly? That's the only real mystery at the heart of Runner Runner, a dull, slow-jog of a thriller that's less whodunit than why bother. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 98% Wadjda (2013) " The film is deserving of its position as a pioneer. It's a heartfelt, touching peek into the day-to-day life of a culture Westerners rarely get to see." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 3, 2013
5/5 97% Gravity (2013) " Yet Gravity also has an emotional and spiritual depth that, like 127 Hours, another film about man versus isolation, transcends what might at first seem a gimmicky plot device. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Oct 3, 2013
4/5 82% Don Jon (2013) " Gordon-Levitt enlivens Don Jon with such a sense of swagger, as a director, writer and actor, that the film feels fresh." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 26, 2013
4/5 89% The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) " The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Bill Siegel's fascinating documentary about the legendary boxer, cares less about how he handled himself in the ring than how he handled himself in life." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 23, 2013
4/5 51% A Single Shot (2013) " Sam Rockwell is one of Hollywood's most underrated actors and he shows why that's the case again in A Single Shot, a rural, neo-noir thriller that slowly pulls the viewer under its veil of mystery." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/5 81% Prisoners (2013) " Grim, gray and surprisingly gruesome, Prisoners - the director's first foray into English-language filmmaking - has its flaws, but predictability is not one of them. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 19, 2013
4/5 92% Sample This (2013) " It's amazing how the inquisitive eye can find one intriguing cultural thread, tug on it and then unravel a fascinating forgotten history. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2/5 15% Winnie Mandela (2013) " From the swelling melody on the soundtrack that opens the film to the Wind Beneath My Wings-like ballad that closes it, Winnie Mandela ... feels less like history come alive than Hollywood hagiography at its most blandly sentimental." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 5, 2013
1/5 60% Riddick (2013) " The lack of imagination in Riddick, the third installment in director/writer David Twohy's increasingly forgettable sci-fi franchise, is so stunning that it's almost like a special effect in itself." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 5, 2013
4/5 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " It ranks with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers as one of the most elegant and beautiful martial-arts films to play American screens. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3/5 62% Scenic Route (2013) " It's actually a well-made, well-acted low-budget thriller that is more resonant than expected. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 23, 2013
4/5 62% Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp (2013) " [Dierctor Jorge] Hinojosa does a good job of showing Iceberg's humanity without glossing over the viciousness of his chosen profession." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/5 68% Elysium (2013) " Director/writer [Neill] Blomkamp has tossed adie any sense of subtlety for a heavy-handed reprise of some of District 9's basic themes hog-tied to a riff on undocumented immigration." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 8, 2013
5/5 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " Directors Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn have created something extraordinary in The Act of Killing, the much-talked-about documentary about torture and murder during the Indonesian dictatorship of the '60s and '70s." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/5 64% 2 Guns (2013) " In a summer when so many of the hype-heavy movies turned out to be big-budget bores, it's refreshing when a movie like 2 Guns achieves its admittedly modest ambitions. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 1, 2013
4/5 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Even though we know where this dark road travels, the remarkable Fruitvale Station still manages to be both sorrowful and suspenseful while also celebrating a life only half-lived. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 18, 2013
3/5 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " The fights are well-staged and there's just enough interstitial humanity among boxing matches to keep things from getting monotonous." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 12, 2013
3/5 7% Just Like A Woman (2013) " The problem with the film, directed by France's Rachid Bouchareb from a script by Joelle Touma and Marion Doussot, is that the men are mostly one-dimensional louts." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 4, 2013
4/5 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " As with The Descendants, Faxon and Rash ably balance the humorous and the heavy, tipping neither toward the silly nor the mawkish. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 4, 2013
4/5 96% A Band Called Death (2013) " A Band Called Death shines the light on a previously unexplored corner of musical history and does it in an accessible, straightforward manner. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 3, 2013
5/5 90% The Attack (2013) " The Israeli-Arab conflict is stripped to its most intensely personal level in The Attack, a haunting and heartbreaking meditation on violence, choice, love and duty that is one of the most remarkable films of the year." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 3, 2013
2/5 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " Shot mostly across scenic landscapes in New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, including Monument Valley, [it acts] as a visual tribute to some of the great Westerns of history shot by the likes of John Ford. This Lone Ranger won't be joining their ranks." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jul 3, 2013
2/5 50% White House Down (2013) " In Emmerich's universe, no one ever went broke underestimating the world's desire to see things go boom." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 27, 2013
3/5 67% World War Z (2013) " A fun, if not particularly emotionally engaging, thrill ride ... Unlike the best in the zombie genre, the movie doesn't tap deep into the existential dread of succumbing to mob bloodlust and the fear of the crowd. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3/5 56% Man of Steel (2013) " By the end, Man of Steel has mutated into just another superhero action movie, with explosions galore and city buildings toppling like so many Legos. Lather, rinse, repeat. That's too bad because ... Man of Steel has so much going for it. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 13, 2013
3/5 84% This Is the End (2013) " [It]gets derailed by [Rogen and Goldberg's] desire to keep upping the level of comedic absurdity and cheesy special effects. Still, there are lots of low-brow laughs, especially in the first half." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 11, 2013
3/5 35% The Internship (2013) " The Internship doesn't break any new comedic ground...But it's an amiable, occasionally laugh-out-loud fish-out-of-water tale that gently mocks our modern technological age while simultaneously embracing it." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 7, 2013
5/5 98% Before Midnight (2013) " How (Jesse and Celine) try to rekindle that flame is what drives Midnight, a film that feels so authentic it's like overhearing a conversation you're not sure you should be hearing. " — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 7, 2013
4/5 76% The Kings of Summer (2013) " The Kings of Summer is the cinematic equivalent of an Arctic-cold popsicle on a Sahara-hot day. Refreshing and satisfying but not overly sentimental, the film taps into the frustrations of adolescence with warmth and wit." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jun 7, 2013
4/5 75% Pieta (2013) " The film's big reveal may not come as that much of a surprise; you may figure out where it's going well before the end. But it's the getting there that is, if not exactly fun, then certainly hypnotic." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 31, 2013
2/5 11% After Earth (2013) " What do you give the kid who has everything? His own summer action-adventure blockbuster, of course ... Well, it certainly beats a cake and a card, but considering what a well-crafted bore After Earth turns out to be, perhaps not by much." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 30, 2013
3/5 93% Frances Ha (2013) " But there's just something so relentlessly likable about put-upon, impoverished Frances (Greta Gerwig) that it almost doesn't matter that her New York is just one big Williamsburg." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 23, 2013
3/5 69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " If Fast & Furious 6 were any dumber, the script would have been written in crayon ... [But] in terms of sheer action adrenaline, it may be the best film of the franchise. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 23, 2013
4/5 87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " Star Trek Into Darkness is a step forward from Abrams' initial foray into this universe in the 2009 movie." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 16, 2013
4/5 60% Here and There (2013) " Set in a village in (Mexico), the slow, thoughtful and absorbing portrait of a working-class family whose father has just returned from being an undocumented worker in New York, Aquí y Allá puts a face ... on the immigration debate. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 9, 2013
2/5 49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " The perfectionist Luhrmann ... captures the exterior excesses of Gatsby's life but overlooks the interior torment that fuels them. Without the latter, Gatsby is less a film and more of a salute to production design." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 9, 2013
4/5 84% Kon Tiki (2013) " Kon-Tiki has the look and feel of a big, bracing adventure. It skirts many of the emotional issues in favor of high adventure with hungry sharks and monster storms." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 2, 2013
3/5 79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Iron Man 3 manages to rise above its naked ambitions thanks to ... Robert Downey Jr.'s sly charm ... and Ben Kingsley's too-short and ... hilarious turn as the villainous Mandarin, a clever update on the comic-book character created in the '60s." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted May 2, 2013
3/5 49% Pain & Gain (2013) " But at heart, it's still a Michael Bay movie: loud as a Harley at midnight, empty as a dance club at noon, yet as beautiful to look at as a sunrise in Miami, where it's set." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 25, 2013
5/5 98% Mud (2013) " Mud has the feel of a novel ... that's rooted deep in American soil. Yet it was written specifically for the screen by [Jeff] Nichols, who has conjured up a coming-of-age story set in the South that doesn't resort to using caricatures and cliches." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 25, 2013
4/5 85% Upstream Color (2013) " Taken as a whole, it's an impressive piece of filmmaking that shows Carruth's talents as director, actor, cinematographer and composer." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 18, 2013
3/5 54% Oblivion (2013) " Stitched together from spare bits of other, often better films,[it]stumbles awkwardly in story and plot, shuffling toward the predictable explosions and fireballs of the third act. Yet...Oblivion is so beautiful to look at. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 18, 2013
2/5 31% Language of a Broken Heart (2013) " Take (500) Days of Summer and Garden State, strip away their charms and you end up with Language of a Broken Heart, a handsomely shot but tired pile-up of indie rom-com clichés. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 11, 2013
4/5 67% Fists Of Legend (2013) " At 2 1/2 hours, Fists of Legend goes on too long. But Kang Woo-suk's take on a genre often relegated to the level of cartoon is a refreshing change of pace." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Apr 11, 2013
4/5 67% Disconnect (2013) " Built around several seemingly separate but ultimately interconnected stories, Disconnect will earn comparisons to Crash. Yet unlike Crash ... Disconnect tempers its more over-the-top moments with a real sense of tension and emotion." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 11, 2013
3/5 79% 42 (2013) " Even the most woefully sports-ignorant probably know all the plot points here by heart. For all its feel-good sports-movie predictability, 42 ... is surprisingly effective and even, at a couple of points, moving. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 11, 2013
2/5 7% Tomorrow You're Gone (2013) " Tomorrow You're Gone looks like it was made after reading the first chapter of Noir for Dummies." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Apr 4, 2013
4/5 92% The Sapphires (2013) " The Sapphiresshouldn't gleam as brightly as it does. The up-from-struggle story follows the predictable form of movies like these, from Dreamgirls to The Commitments. But there's such a sense of joy ... that it's hard not to be won over. " — Dallas Morning News
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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