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Cary Darling

Cary Darling

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:
Dallas Morning News , Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com , Miami Herald
Total Reviews:
123

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
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
5/5 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " [It's]a harrowing adventure behind the headlines that is at once a riveting procedural and, at the same time, a bracing political statement on the moral ambiguities of our war on terror." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jan 3, 2013
5/5 88% Life of Pi (2012) " Technology and transcendence may sometimes be at war, but in Life of Pi, Ang Lee's spectacular take on the popular Yann Martel novel, they instead make for graceful dance partners." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Nov 20, 2012
5/5 89% Compliance (2012) " There's the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short. It's even worse when you're half-naked and locked in a supply room with your boss." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 22, 2012
5/5 90% Fish Tank (2010) " The film has won a theater full of awards overseas, including Outstanding British Film at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Jury Prize at Cannes. Fish Tank deserves to do equally as well on this side of the pond." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 15, 2010
4.5/5 82% Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010) " Cassel, who took the best actor award at France's equivalent of the Oscars for this role, is compulsively watchable. " — Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 27, 2010
4.5/5 81% Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans) (2010) " Oceans is more of a random collection of images from the deep. But, boy, what images." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Apr 23, 2010
4.5/5 90% Zombieland (2009) " When it comes to genre filmmaking, Zombieland, a grisly comedy about yet another attack of the ravenous undead, does just about everything right." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 2, 2009
4.5/5 91% District 9 (2009) " This might go down as the year that science-fiction cinema, despite the deafening crash and clangor of sparring robots, began to rediscover its brains, heart and soul." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 14, 2009
4.5/5 75% $9.99 (2008) " It has been a good year for animation that pushes thematic and visual boundaries." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 7, 2009
4.5/5 96% Revanche (2009) — Dallas Morning News
Posted May 1, 2009
4.5/5 83% Earth (1999) — Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 10, 1999
3.5/4 85% Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) (2001) " A good story, exceedingly well told." — Miami Herald
Posted Mar 27, 2003
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 57% 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
4/5 81% 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
4/5 88% 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
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
4/5 93% 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
4/5 66% Spring Breakers (2013) " A mash-up of last year's teensploitation opus Project X, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers and a Girls Gone Wild video. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Mar 21, 2013
4/5 85% Side Effects (2013) " If this is indeed Soderbergh's final theatrical film, as the director has said he's going into semi-retirement, it's not such a bad way to go out." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Feb 7, 2013
4/5 80% Warm Bodies (2013) " Warm Bodies is a sweetly funny and touching riff on Beauty and the Beast or Romeo and Juliet -- if the Beast feasted on flesh or Romeo came back from the dead." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Jan 31, 2013
4/5 81% The Impossible (2012) " Perhaps Jaws and Open Water are the only other movie experiences that might engender more fear of the sea." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 3, 2013
4/5 93% Barbara (2012) " The plotting, the planning and the deepening relationships don't make for kinetic action, but they are the foundation for a smart, engrossing film." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Dec 21, 2012
4/5 77% Any Day Now (2012) " Any Day Now, about a gay couple in '70s LA trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome, has movie-of-the-week melodrama written all over it. But it rises above the saccharin thanks to strong performances." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Dec 13, 2012
4/5 89% A Royal Affair (2012) " History may not always be fun, but, at least in this case, it's fascinating." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Nov 15, 2012
4/5 93% Looper (2012) " There hasn't been much lately for those who crave some brain power along with their effects-driven firepower. Now comes Looper, the time-travel tease from Rian Johnson that is an immensely fun yet thought-provoking ride." — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 27, 2012
4/5 85% End of Watch (2012) " The ingredients in [this] cop drama are as routine as a traffic stop. But director/writer David Ayer (who wrote the electric good-cop/bad-cop Training Day) makes it work. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Sep 22, 2012
4/5 86% The Master (2012) " The Master may go down as one of Paul Thomas Anderson's most compelling works for two simple reasons: Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 22, 2012
4/5 67% Lawless (2012) " Based on a novel by Dallas-based Matt Bondurant about his family's real-life bootlegging past, it's a violent, brooding portrait of brotherhood in trying times. " — Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Posted Aug 29, 2012
4/5 81% Today's Special (2010) " Despite the lack of surprises and a too-neat ending, Today's Special radiates charming warmth." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 18, 2010
4/5 71% Lovely, Still (2010) " It concerns an older man, alone during the holidays, who unexpectedly finds love. It also features two strong performances from veteran actors Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn. " — Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 15, 2010
4/5 83% Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (L'ennemi public n1) (2010) " [It] doesn't dig deeply into why Mesrine was the way he was. It's propelled by such a forceful performance from Cassel that, in the end, it hardly matters." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 2, 2010
4/5 59% Centurion (2010) " Far more entertaining, and infinitely less cumbersome, than its recent big-budget Hollywood counterparts." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 27, 2010
4/5 61% The Nature of Existence (2010) " Freewheeling and funny." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 23, 2010
4/5 82% Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009) " Directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (who also provide voices) display a pleasantly warped sensibility without going for adult humor." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 18, 2010
4/5 86% The Square (2010) " The Square announces the arrival of a new talent worth watching." — Dallas Morning News
Posted May 7, 2010
4/5 95% No One Knows About Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans) (2010) " A winning and celebratory look at Tehran's distressed rock musicians." — Dallas Morning News
Posted May 7, 2010
4/5 85% Skin (2009) " By the end, the incredulity stems not from the fact that this happened but that the wider world didn't know about it before now." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 6, 2009
4/5 58% Trucker (2009) " Trucker is a knockout." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 23, 2009
4/5 71% The Boys Are Back (2009) " It manages to veer from touching to humorous (Warr has some rather unconventional parenting techniques) without being overly mawkish, and the sumptuous cinematography by Greig Fraser is perhaps the best commercial ever for South Australia." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 9, 2009
4/5 69% Paris (2008) " Klapisch, who shoots Paris with the eye of someone rapturously in love with the town, is less interested in the reality than the romance." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 25, 2009
4/5 84% Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love (2009) " Be sure to stay through the closing credits as the scenes of Senegalese life act as a captivating coda to a film pulsing with music and memory." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 21, 2009
4/5 60% A Perfect Getaway (2009) " David Twohy doesn't do much new and the twist is as obvious as a tornado in the Texas Panhandle. But that doesn't make it any less of an escapist joyride on a hot summer day." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 7, 2009
4/5 87% 500 Days of Summer (2009) " This sweetly engaging trifle goes down as easy as cold lemonade on a hot afternoon." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 17, 2009
4/5 56% Enlighten Up! (2009) " Enlighten Up! is a low-key, charming trip." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 19, 2009
B+ 62% Lymelife (2008) " Solid performances combine with a sense of warm naturalism to make for engaging, memorable drama." — Dallas Morning News
Posted May 1, 2009
B+ 87% Earth (Disneynature's Earth) (Planet Earth) (2009) " Directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield mostly avoid speaking directly of social issues. Instead, they let the visuals and the animals' plights underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy ecosystem." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Apr 24, 2009
3/4 98% Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) " A winning and surprisingly moving documentary about -- wait for it -- a struggling Canadian heavy metal band that apparently influenced a generation of hard-rockers including Metallica, Anthrax and Guns N' Roses." — Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 10, 2009
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