|
2/4
|
33%
|
Peeples (2013) |
"
These all are amiable people, decent people, sometimes funny people. But unfortunately, the peeps of ''Peeples'' just aren't very memorable people."
—
Associated Press
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
All but the faintest flashes of humanity and pathos are flattened by the cinematic cyclone that is Michael Bay."
—
Associated Press
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
|
|
78%
|
Sin City (2005) |
"
With a huge, well-chosen cast and the blessing of Miller, who was on set as Rodriguez's co-director, Sin City is a gloriously stylized world unlike anything you've seen before on screen."
—
Associated Press
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
For all the hate and hostility it depicts, 42 is a film about decent-hearted people. Hate can be infectious, but so can decency. It's the decency you'll take away from 42."
—
Associated Press
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
|
3%
|
Rollerball (2002) |
"
Loud, crude and outlandish, Rollerball is a parody of itself, a frenzy of extreme-sports stunts masquerading as social commentary on violence and the corporate forces that feed off it."
—
Associated Press
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
|
64%
|
Fever Pitch (The Perfect Catch) (2005) |
"
Stripped of almost all the brothers' usual crudeness, Fever Pitch proves what we've suspected all along: That beneath the gross-out gags and freak-show humor, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are just a couple of lovable romantics."
—
Associated Press
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"
Barely a year after the release of Mystic River, Clint Eastwood delivers a second consecutive drama that fearlessly probes the shadows of human morality without falling back on easy answers."
—
Associated Press
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
|
77%
|
Gladiator (2000) |
"
Time for a little gladiatorial gore with your Milk Duds. Gladiator is here, and it's big, glorious and eminently dumb"
—
Associated Press
Posted Feb 24, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
"West of Memphis" is nonfiction filmmaking at its best, a film with a fierce point of view yet one that doesn't pretend to have all the answers or a monopoly on truth."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
''Django Unchained'' is Tarantino at his most puerile and least inventive, the premise offering little more than cold, nasty revenge and barrels of squishing, squirting blood."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
If you weren't in a failed band yourself, you know people who were, and Chase's story IS their story, if not in the particulars, then in the spirit and the passion. The music may fade, but what's behind it never does."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Tolkien's brisk story of intrepid little hobbit Bilbo Baggins is drawn out and diluted by dispensable trimmings better left for DVD extras."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
|
96%
|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"
Guillermo del Toro has crafted a masterpiece, a terrifying, visually wondrous fairy tale for adults that blends fantasy and gloomy drama into one of the most magical films to come along in years."
—
Associated Press
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
If "Hitchcock" ultimately feels inconsequential, it always aims to please, and for the most part, it does."
—
Associated Press
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Lee and screenwriter David Magee find rich and clever ways to translate even Pi's stillest moments, the film unfolding through intricate flashbacks, whimsical voice-overs, harrowing sea hazards and exquisite flashes of fantasy and hallucination."
—
Associated Press
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
Alex Cross (2012) |
"
Casting Perry as Cross was a bad idea, though it's not necessarily the worst in a movie built on bad ideas."
—
Associated Press
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
When [James] starts winning some bouts and becoming a contender, the movie's credibility skyrockets into "Rocky" territory and beyond."
—
Associated Press
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
"Won't Back Down" lives down to its bland, us-against-them title with a simple-minded assault on the ills of public schools that lumbers along like a math class droning multiplication tables."
—
Associated Press
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
The good time clearly had by the filmmakers rubs off on the audience."
—
Associated Press
Posted Aug 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
Fantastic though the story may be, the people in it need to make it feel real, and no one in "Timothy Green" has any claim to authenticity."
—
Associated Press
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
43%
|
To Rome with Love (2012) |
"
It's not Nero who's fiddling, but Allen, bopping and dithering around the city like a tourist so desperate to cram in all the sights that he comes away only with a few crisp highlights and a lot of out-of-focus snapshots."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
That's My Boy (2012) |
"
In short, we get Sandler, doing what he always does, with whatever edge he once had continuing to erode as he ages and looks sillier at what he's doing."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Lola Versus (2012) |
"
"Lola Versus" deals with relationships in standard-issue Sundance style, ostensibly smarter and more genuine than what flows from the Hollywood rom-com pipeline yet really just as shallow at heart."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jun 6, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
79%
|
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) |
"
The animation is grand, and the lovely images may be enough to send really young kids away happy. Their parents might leave feeling they've been taken in by some carny sleight-of-hand, though."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jun 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
58%
|
Hysteria (2012) |
"
Dancy, Jones and Pryce are dull, while Gyllenhaal plays the spitfire with far too much spit, thumping the other characters and the audience over the head with her do-gooder crusading."
—
Associated Press
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
23%
|
The Raven (2012) |
"
It's just a bore; quoth the raven, "Go see something else.""
—
Associated Press
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
57%
|
Safe (2012) |
"
"Safe" is the worst Jason Statham movie since the last Jason Statham movie, carrying on the bargain-budget action star's tradition of building a body of work out of, well, dead bodies."
—
Associated Press
Posted Apr 24, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
This is not a property requiring respect and devotion to the source material to satisfy longtime fans, so the filmmakers wisely make a "21 Jump Street" all their own."
—
Associated Press
Posted Mar 13, 2012
|
|
|
0%
|
A Thousand Words (2012) |
"
A Thousand Words is not worth any more dismissive words. It needs to make like a tree and leave."
—
Associated Press
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
A marvel of image and color, its old-fashioned pen-and-ink frames vividly bringing to life the world of children's author Mary Norton's "The Borrowers.""
—
Associated Press
Posted Feb 14, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
41%
|
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
The presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is."
—
Associated Press
Posted Feb 8, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
The question that needs to be asked about Madonna's "W.E." is why?"
—
Associated Press
Posted Feb 3, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
46%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
A cloying exercise in sentimentality, the film also winds up extremely annoying, even infuriating."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
Whatever the movie's shortcomings, director Bird more than compensates with a bullet train of action and an arsenal of cool gadgets. Maybe making cartoons has expanded his conception of what's possible in a live film."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
Craig is an anchor of cool rationality and judiciousness around which Mara revolves like a demon."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
22%
|
The Sitter (2011) |
"
"The Sitter" really fails in the physical comedy department with an assault of mean, humorless sight gags."
—
Associated Press
Posted Dec 8, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
"The Muppets'' marks a very welcome return for Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the rest of Jim Henson's creations after a 12-year big-screen absence."
—
Associated Press
Posted Nov 19, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
In her directing debut, Aardman veteran Sarah Smith and her co-writer Peter Baynham offer a fresh look at the Santa legend: a flawed Claus."
—
Associated Press
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
45%
|
Happy Feet Two (2011) |
"
Sticks to the formula of the original while adding enough variety to give it a life of its own."
—
Associated Press
Posted Nov 14, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
60%
|
Real Steel (2011) |
"
It's hard to buy into the notion that fans could ever be as rabid to watch a couple of machines tear each other apart as they are to see two men sweating and straining and bleeding on the canvas. Without human consequence, where's the drama?"
—
Associated Press
Posted Oct 4, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
23%
|
What's Your Number? (2011) |
"
"What's Your Number?" sticks to the low common denominators of most Hollywood romances, and it ends up a commonplace one for doing so."
—
Associated Press
Posted Sep 28, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
The tension del Toro and Nixey create promises much more than it delivers."
—
Associated Press
Posted Aug 22, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
76%
|
The Help (2011) |
"
Stone, Davis and Spencer forge something quite beautiful, a sense of sisterhood and equality that unfolds with ease and grace, never feeling forced or untrue to their era and circumstances."
—
Associated Press
Posted Aug 8, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
73%
|
The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
"The Whistleblower" is a one-note affair that offers glimpses of the rich, broad life Bolkovac clearly lives but deifies her into someone inaccessible and unbelievable."
—
Associated Press
Posted Aug 3, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
Favreau slipped from fresh and flamboyant on "Iron Man" to lame and listless on its sequel, and there's more of the latter on "Cowboys & Aliens.""
—
Associated Press
Posted Jul 26, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
The Devil's Double (2011) |
"
Cooper has done such a good job bringing Uday to life, it's a bit of a trial simply sitting in the audience and watching."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jul 25, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011) |
"
The trouble is that the modern story whipped up for "Snow Flower" isn't very compelling. Yet it dominates the movie, continually oozing back in just as the period drama is getting interesting."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jul 13, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
James hurls himself into this sad scenario with energy and teddy-bear charm that makes him impossible to hate. But it's easy to hate "Zookeeper." If we could talk to the animals, they'd probably hate it, too."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
|
36%
|
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
It's a thin line between the idiotically incomprehensible Revenge of the Fallen and the merely incomprehensible of Dark of the Moon."
—
Associated Press
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
47%
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