|
3/4
|
95%
|
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
"
More focused than the Pythons' future work... and a lot less dated, funnily enough."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Rookie (2002) |
"
Slow moving, even pedestrian at times, yet this Dennis Quaid vehicle cranks out a lot of genuinely heartwarming moments along the way."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
The Visitor (2008) |
"
First with The Station Agent and now with The Visitor, actor-turned-director Tom McCarthy has quickly proven himself a master of the delicately-observed social drama."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
57%
|
Die Another Day (2002) |
"
Makes one long for the days when Roger Moore -- youch! -- strapped on 007's hefty PPK."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Buried (2010) |
"
This experiment in minimalist filmmaking succeeds in part because of the tight, controlled performance by one of People magazine's sexiest men (buried) alive! "
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
The Wackness (2008) |
"
Josh Peck and Ben Kingsley make for an oddly engaging couple in Jonathan Levine's audacious comedy about sex, drugs, and unexpected friendships."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted May 31, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
62%
|
Changeling (2008) |
"
Jolie is alternately distraught and outraged (in good ways) but Eastwood's film is an odd mix of genres that never quite settles into the one we want to watch."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted May 17, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
Martyrs (2008) |
"
Brutally well-conceived... for about 40 minutes, and then Martyrs flips on its own bloody axis and falls apart, existentially."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Apr 13, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
Quantum of Solace (2008) |
"
This Bond -- number 22 if you're counting -- is ruthless, efficient, and tough as nails."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
District 9 (2009) |
"
Part alien invasion flick, part social commentary, Neill Blomkamp's chilling, thrilling District 9 is a wholly original work. And it features a star-making turn from Sharlto Copley."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Feb 14, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
Australia (2008) |
"
Unashamedly old-fashioned and corny, if not quite up to the director's usual high standards."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 15, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
93%
|
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"
The scenes between Poppy (Sally Hawkins) and driving-instructor Scott (Eddie Marsan) have real bite."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 8, 2009
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
"
Director Danny Boyle takes a love story, wraps it up in television game show, and delivers it via a kaleidoscopic travelogue of Mumbai. And it works. Splendidly!"
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 8, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
72%
|
Hallam Foe (Mister Foe) (2007) |
"
Grumpy Glaswegians going at it are once again the focus of David ("Young Adam") Mackenzie's bleak and dreary -- but not wholly uninteresting -- drama."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 23, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
33%
|
Morning Light (2008) |
"
This flat, uninspired sailing documentary from the Walt Disney studios has surprisingly little to say."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 23, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
36%
|
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) |
"
British funny man Simon Pegg continues his downwards spiral with this lame, 'Devil Wears Prada-styled "comedy.""
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 23, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
Meet the Parents (2000) |
"
Nobody plays put-upon quite like Ben Stiller."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
96%
|
Monsters, Inc. 3D (2012) |
"
The complexities of the script, while clever, will likely fly over the heads of most within its target demographic."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) |
"
Scores an 11 (out of 10) for sheer inspired lunacy but it's the writers' unexpected fondness for their subject matter that puts the film in a class all its own."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Burn After Reading (2008) |
"
A pleasant return to the silliness of the Coens' earlier pictures from the stiltedness of their latter-day offerings (No Country' excepted)."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 9, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Reprise (2006) |
"
The highs and lows of getting one's first book published are intricately and delightfully examined in Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mature feature debut."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
30%
|
The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
"
A dull dramatization of -- and ill-fitting testament to -- British journalist George Hogg's experiences in war torn China."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Kung Fu Panda (2008) |
"
Jack Black puts the "POW!" in Kung' pao."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
72%
|
Stuck (2008) |
"
Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's murky misuse of Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea makes John Carpenter movies look like Art."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Flawless (2008) |
"
Where are the truth in titular advertising police when you need them?"
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Apr 2, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
53%
|
Penelope (2006) |
"
Maybe I've got some subconscious porcine fetish thing going (or something) but I think Christina Ricci looks kind of cute with a pig's snout where her nose should be..."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Apr 2, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Cidade dos Homens (City of Men) (2007) |
"
More bronzed bodies bearing arms leading to inevitable shootouts delivered via a washed-out, hand-held digital style pulsing along to an infectious Latin beat."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Apr 2, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
67%
|
Snow Angels (2007) |
"
By the time this intense, well-made drama has run its inevitable course you might well want to collapse in the snow and wave your own arms up and down in surrender."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Apr 2, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) |
"
OK of its type, even if its type is starting to exude that slightly disagreeable scent of 'been there, done that.'"
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Feb 20, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"
Daniel Day-Lewis's magnificent, sanguine performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is just one of many reasons to catch P.T. Anderson's latest feature."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 29, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Nanking (2007) |
"
A harrowing look at how war takes its terrible toll on the innocent."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 24, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
U2 3D (2007) |
"
Arguably, it's "Even Better Than the Real Thing.""
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 24, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"
Adam Brooks's traditional rom-com isn't going to win any awards but it's easy on the brain as well as on the eyes."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 24, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
Cassandra's Dream (2007) |
"
Are we supposed to be charmed, or shocked, by this? Allen doesn't seem to know."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 15, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Mad Money (2008) |
"
Money is really important in this world, apparently."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 15, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007) |
"
As an addition to the psychological thriller genre, The Orphanage is a solid, well-rehearsed entry."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 9, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
74%
|
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"
By the end of the The Water Horse...Russell's film has pretty much morphed into Free Willy IV: Lassie Go Home."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Dec 21, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
The Savages (2007) |
"
So darned depressing in its observancy that it's no stretch to assume that writer/director Jenkins might have experienced something entirely similar first hand."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Dec 18, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Juno (2007) |
"
Screenwriter Cody's wit and imagination are seemingly endless."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Dec 12, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
Atonement (2007) |
"
A majestic and intimate romance that should rightly cement the careers of director Joe Wright and leading man James McAvoy, and give Saoirse Ronan some much-deserved exposure."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Dec 1, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
With No Country for Old Men, the brothers Coen return to Texas -- and to form."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 22, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
52%
|
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"
A huge disappointment after Baumbach's sublime 'Squid and the Whale. Ugly and mean."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 22, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
The Descent (2006) |
"
Six sexy spelunkers in an underground fright fest make for keen and claustrophobic cinema."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 19, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Sleuth (2007) |
"
Alas, it just doesn't work. It could have, but it doesn't."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 7, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
16%
|
Saw IV (2007) |
"
The games, the traps, are still the thing and as long as Jigsaw's flunkies continue to build 'em, we will come."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Nov 1, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
39%
|
Feast of Love (2007) |
"
Nice to look at, but about as weighty as the froth atop a tall skim latte."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 20, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"
For all its quixotic quirkiness, The Darjeeling Limited is little more than artifice for the art house set."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 17, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
29%
|
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"
This sporadically funny Farrellys farce is worth watching (mostly) for Stiller (Ben) and the game Akerman (Malin) in the leads."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Oct 17, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
5%
|
Good Luck Chuck (2007) |
"
Good Luck Chuck is a soft-core male indulgence posing as a hip Hollywood good luck chuckle."
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Sep 29, 2007
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Crazy Love (2007) |
"
There hasn't been a documentary this sick since Kirby Dick's Sick!"
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
76%
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