|
1/4
|
39%
|
Tonight You're Mine (2012) |
"
The film's narrative conceit is so rigidly formulaic and lethargically spun that even the looseness and spontaneity that the setting affords feels dull and constricting."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) |
"
Despite crafting a consistently engaging film, the director doesn't present the full scope of Sixto Rodriguez's life."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
None of Eric Bana's mildly rousing moments clearly rise above the laborious gobbledygook that Ruzowitzky builds up through the course of the film's 94-minute duration. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2012
|
|
0/4
|
——
|
Struck by Lightning () |
"
A class-five pity party so unbearably condescending and unconvincing that it might just make you run out and buy an "I'm With Mitt" t-shirt, it makes an inadvertent but hugely compelling pro-bullying argument."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
Cut () |
"
Amir Nedari's Cut is a punishing work of movie love, equal parts powerful and calamitous."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Keyhole (2012) |
"
Keyhole offers no promise of landing on solid ground or breaking through the atmosphere. It's a perpetual acid-trip comedown."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
We Have a Pope (2012) |
"
We Have a Pope is a film concerned deeply with how religious doctrine stresses a disconnect from human experience and, by extension, the very notion of humanism."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 6, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
35%
|
Womb (2012) |
"
One of the more effectively eerie chamber dramas to come around so far this year, perhaps because its chosen "chamber" exists on an otherworldly plane."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
the work of a British master "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
50%
|
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) |
"
It's a film by a cynic, to be sure, but a cynic who still is in desperate love and voracious lust with life."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Ambassadøren (The Ambassador) () |
"
Simply put, there's no fire in Mads Brügger's belly, or at least any perceivable fire."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
5 Broken Cameras (2012) |
"
Provides a birdsong of perseverance in the face of irrational violence, immense historic anger, and grim, seemingly insurmountable realities."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
52%
|
Detachment (2012) |
"
A temper tantrum so shallow, aimless, and self-serious that it makes the films of Larry Clarke look genuinely optimistic in comparison"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
comes to its triumphs after tremendous internal struggles, unseen yet palpable at every moment. "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
Attenberg (2012) |
"
Perpetually off-balance and maybe just a little too satisfied with its cynicism"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2012) |
"
Few music documentaries bloom with such lovely, rambunctious energy and singular vision as this."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
82%
|
The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
enough to makes the cheapest of Woody Allen sex comedies look like the second coming of D.H. Lawrence. "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
A devastating meditation on artistry and form."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
The Snowtown Murders (2012) |
"
the ghastly glee of The Snowtown Murders comes not in the kills, but in the stalking of one's true prey."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Ish lelo selolari (Man Without a Cell Phone) () |
"
An irrefutably pleasant and yet terminally half-hearted comedy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
90%
|
Cirkus Columbia (2012) |
"
reaches a sublime balance between the personal and the political"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Shooting Michael Moore (2010) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
80%
|
Return (2012) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Michael (2012) |
"
convincing as a character study to the point of disconcertment"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
82%
|
Return (2012) |
"
It's the brief glimpses of unsettling ordinariness -- ho-hum drug dependency, the joy of scoring a good plumbing job, the downsizing of a factory to two lone, lonely figures -- that gives Return its real punch"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
"
It's the brief glimpses of unsettling ordinariness -- ho-hum drug dependency, the joy of scoring a good plumbing job, the downsizing of a factory to two lone, lonely figures -- that gives Return its real punch"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
Declaration of War (2012) |
"
The personal weight of the story is abundant but as the title infers, Donzelli's film is not an ode to anguished soul-searching in the face of that most blunt notice of mortality. "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
The Turin Horse (2012) |
"
mesmerizing "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
The Innkeepers (2012) |
"
West understands the unsettling power of silence, making the banshee-like howl of visceral terror that caps the film all the more effective"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
73%
|
Domaine (2012) |
"
suggests nothing so much as a Catherine Breillat joint in embryo"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
87%
|
Miss Bala (2012) |
"
unyielding in its very real terror"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Crazy Horse (2012) |
"
leaves you amazed at the abilities of the women, each one showing grace, physical exactitude, and timing that suggest a startling devotion to their art"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
12%
|
The Bounty Hunter (2010) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 13, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
94%
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) |
"
an epic procedural that doubles as an existential study in death and guilt, life and faith, science and law."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
74%
|
Norwegian Wood (2012) |
"
The emotions don't always hit with the force of Watanabe and Naoko's heartbreak, but the imagery perfectly realizes the shifts in romantic tone and emotional struggles "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
El Sicario, Room 164 (2011) |
"
gives off the sense that you're watching a 60 Minutes interview with Death himself"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
45%
|
My Piece of the Pie (2011) |
"
a construct meant solely to provoke"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
4.5/5
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
tremendous and beautiful "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
an exquisitely choreographed setpiece"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
1.5/5
|
55%
|
Killing Bono (2011) |
"
the story of what would charitably be called a wackadoo"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
Sleeping Beauty (2011) |
"
stunningly empty and one-note"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Le Havre (2011) |
"
offers plenty of things to talk about but perhaps the most remarkable part about it is its confidence of style and its sober-eyed sense of uplift"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
genuinely haunting"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 20, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
76%
|
Bombay Beach (2011) |
"
Har'el still seems tied too tightly to her work as a music video director"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
My Joy (2011) |
"
a lively work of howling wickedness"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011) |
"
a hillbilly Ren & Stimpy"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Shut Up Little Man! (2011) |
"
at once wholly melancholic and unexpectedly joyful, adjectives that I have yet to employ while describing any YouTube clip to date."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Silent Souls (2011) |
"
Fedorchenko's chief fascination seems to be with the dichotomies inherent in the modern rehashing of rituals based in folklore and mysticism. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Bobby Fischer Against The World (2011) |
"
at once the director's most accomplished and entrancing film to date"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) |
"
the concept seems unfocused and the subject matter feels as if it is being handled with kid gloves"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 8, 2011
|
82%
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