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Colin Covert

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Publications:: Chicago Tribune , Minneapolis Star Tribune

Total Reviews:: 1954

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	85%	Fill the Void (2013)	" A moody, exquisitely told tale of love and duty." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2013
3/4	58%	Pandora's Promise (2013)	" Like many advocacy documentaries, it offers a one-sided argument. This time, however, it's advanced by people who spent much of their lives on the opposite side." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2013
	71%	The East (2013)	" A fast-rising newcomer to film, the willowy Marling is maturing fast, and encouragingly unwilling to dumb herself down for stock girlfriend roles. This is her strongest work yet and I hope a harbinger of much more to come." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2013
	55%	Man of Steel (2013)	" "Man of Steel" doesn't do quite as much damage to the 75-year-old hero, but next time out I hope his lighter spirits are allowed to soar." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 13, 2013
1/4	85%	This Is the End (2013)	" How long would it take to count the idiocies in "This Is the End"? Fooled you! Trick question. Numbers don't go that high." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 11, 2013
2/4	71%	Wish You Were Here (2013)	" Hypnotically watchable but badly flawed by a shrug of an ending." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 6, 2013
2/4	73%	The Kings of Summer (2013)	" Vogt-Roberts makes the scenery look great, but doesn't call the plays that could make the movie score. Scenes don't develop, characters don't evolve except in indie-movie-cute ways." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 6, 2013
1.5/4	42%	Midnight's Children (2013)	" A film bloated by excess material." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 6, 2013
4/4	98%	Before Midnight (2013)	" Lovely. Insightful. Sad. Funny." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 6, 2013
3.5/4	88%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" The story is sad, but the talent involved in its telling is elating." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 3, 2013
2/4	90%	Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013)	" The stories are amusing, but the film tells us hardly anything about who Jay is offstage. We get a guided tour of his passion, but never encounter the man himself." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 30, 2013
3/4	96%	Stories We Tell (2013)	" It's a relationship drama spanning three decades, a detective mystery, an essay on the nature of memory, and a critique of our need to process messy human life into streamlined narrative arcs even at the cost of oversimplifying." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 30, 2013
1/4	11%	After Earth (2013)	" "After Earth" is a work of hubris magnified by multiple miscalculations, the kind of film that would cause Ed Wood to excuse himself and skulk to the exit." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 30, 2013
3.5/4	62%	Epic (2013)	" "Epic" may be the thinking family's best Saturday matinee of the summer. And the date movie of the season." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 23, 2013
3/4	71%	Fast & Furious 6 (2013)	" It's a ripsnorting carmageddon that stylizes automotive annihilation the way John Woo used to choreograph death and destruction with guns and explosions." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 23, 2013
3/4	20%	The Hangover Part III (2013)	" The trio's kettle-on-fire of simmering exasperation boils over often and uproariously. Anyone whose best pals drive them crazy (most of us, I'm guessing) will identify." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2013
2/4	75%	Love Is All You Need (2013)	" Bier's first English-language film deals in the same dumbed-down wish fulfillment peddled by standard American studio fare. What's the Danish word for "Sarah Jessica Parker"?" — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 16, 2013
3/4	84%	Sightseers (2013)	" The best way to appreciate this briskly paced sick joke is to view its multiple fatalities as especially pointed examples of slapstick." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 16, 2013
3/4	68%	The Iceman (2013)	" It's as if one of the sideline characters from "Goodfellas" or "The Godfather" starred in his own spinoff." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 16, 2013
3.5/4	87%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" A note-perfect blend of escapist fun and thought-provoking commentary, ensemble drama, comic relief, daredevil action and senses-shattering spectacle." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 14, 2013
3.5/4	88%	Upstream Color (2013)	" A cerebral, mournful mystery that resonates like a tuning fork struck on a far-off star." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
3/4	88%	The Angels' Share (2013)	" If you want to look for it, you'll find a layer of metaphor (the distilling process as a symbol of the characters' evolution) and social-realist commentary amid the gentle, life-affirming laughs." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
1/4	48%	At Any Price (2013)	" It may be saying some true things about the new world of cutthroat agriculture, but it says them in a singularly unconvincing way." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
3/4	82%	Something in the Air (2013)	" Depending on your tolerance for nostalgia, "Something in the Air" is either a bracing flashback to the 1970s wave of student radical fervor or a lengthy ride with some singularly self-righteous and naive troublemakers." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
3/4	88%	In the House (2013)	" The seductions of storytelling drive "In the House," a cleverly structured comic thriller rich with narrative trickery and macabre humor." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
3.5/4	91%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" A film somewhere between documentary and neo-realist drama." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
2/4	50%	The Great Gatsby (2013)	" Although the incurably exuberant Baz Luhrmann had the glitter factories and sequin mines working overtime, his glitzed-up "Gatsby" is dishwater dull." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 9, 2013
2.5/4	54%	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)	" Nair's film draws a clear parallel between violent Islamic fundamentalism and job-destroying capitalist economic fundamentalism, and firmly rejects both. If only good intentions made up for heavy-handed dramatics." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
3/4	77%	No Place On Earth (2013)	" After nine years of research, Nicola unearthed an amazing chapter in WWII history." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
3/4	50%	Bert Stern: Original Madman (2013)	" Now in his 80s, Stern recalls his rise, fall and reinvention without evasion or apology." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
2/4	69%	Paradise: Love (2013)	" Ulrich Seidl: sadomasochistic provocateur or compassionate observer of the human condition?" — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
	83%	Kon Tiki (2013)	" The film harks back to the era of "Swiss Family Robinson," when films were like well-made hospital beds, all four corners neatly tucked." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
	94%	Room 237 (2013)	" "Room 237" evolves from an ode to movie love at its most delirious to a wry examination of the crackpot mind at work." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
3.5/4	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" It balances massive, show-offy effects with hip knowingness and quirky human touches. It's a comic-book world seen not from the viewpoint of a fanboy but a wiseguy adult earthling." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 2, 2013
4/4	94%	Blancanieves (2013)	" Most films are experiences to be ignored or at best forgotten. "Blancanieves" is a little classic to be treasured." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 25, 2013
4/4	99%	Mud (2013)	" Writer/director Jeff Nichols creates richly realized characters in a tale that moves like a cottonmouth viper, advancing slowly until it strikes with sudden violence." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 25, 2013
2/4	45%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" "Pain & Gain" could have been a dark comedy about lowlifes chasing the high life, but lacks the guiding vision to hold its clashing elements in balance." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 25, 2013
2.5/4	76%	Renoir (2013)	" Stately to a fault, the film is not enough drama, too much still life." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 25, 2013
3.5/4	55%	Oblivion (2013)	" The film is rife with elements from its finest predecessors - Kubrick, Lucas, the Wachowskis and Pixar could be listed as creative consultants - but it has the spirit of a love letter to classic sci-fi, not an opportunistic mash-up." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2013
2/4	56%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" "The Company You Keep" is packaged as a political drama, but at heart it's a preachy nostalgia tour of Vietnam-era liberal doctrine." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2013
3/4	91%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" A thousand-watt jolt of mischief, a spunky, funky, ebullient indie that packs its 81 minutes with cinematic exhilaration." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2013
2.5/4	65%	Disconnect (2013)	" I preferred "Disconnect" 10 years ago when it was called "Crash." " — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 18, 2013
2/4	65%	A Fierce Green Fire (2013)	" Kitchell plods through this worthy material." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 11, 2013
3.5/4	68%	Trance (2013)	" Boyle is telling us a story of a perfect crime gone awry. But like his protagonist, he's really shifty about it." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 11, 2013
3.5/4	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" A film of simple themes, minimal dialogue and eloquent imagery." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 11, 2013
3.5/4	77%	42 (2013)	" It's a valuable history lesson, an intelligent drama that hits all the right emotional buttons, and an inspiring portrait of a true American hero." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 11, 2013
	90%	Beyond The Hills (2013)	" The final shot, with windshield wipers struggling to clean away a torrent of muddy water, suggests that no human agency is great enough to handle this world's misery." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 4, 2013
3/4	93%	The Sapphires (2013)	" "The Sapphires" sparkles with sass and Motown soul." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 4, 2013
2/4	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" Bloody havoc? Check. Exuberant gore? Check. Fun? Meh." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 4, 2013

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