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Publications:: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Total Reviews:: 1336

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3.5/4	81%	From Up On Poppy Hill (2013)	" The charming and nostalgic "From Up on Poppy Hill" is as lushly illustrated and vividly realized as memory itself." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 2, 2013
2.5/4	77%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" "Iron Man 3" suffers an identity crisis resembling that of the title superhero's alter-ego, billionaire Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted May 2, 2013
2/4	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" Some filmmakers put feelings into words; Malick uses smoke signals and semaphore to express things felt but unspoken. How you interpret them is up to you." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 18, 2013
2.5/4	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" Almost every step of the way, the film feels ... inauthentic and unrealistic." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 18, 2013
3/4	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" "Oblivion" stitches together genre clichés into a surprisingly satisfying tale with enough twists to give you a surprise or two." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 18, 2013
3.5/4	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" [Its] "sins of the father" theme is vaguely reminiscent of "The Godfather." But it's really about the way the safety of our family is always on our minds but usually out of our control." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 11, 2013
3.5/4	77%	42 (2013)	" Rarely have the words "inspired by a true story" been so true as in "42," because inspirational it is." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 11, 2013
3/4	68%	Trance (2013)	" Half as smart as it pretends to be, and twice as weird." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 11, 2013
2.5/4	79%	Ginger & Rosa (2013)	" Even seemingly ordinary scenes of girlfriends bonding - ironing hair, wearing jeans in the bathtub to shrink them, hitchhiking - are fraught with the sense of the external forces that will divide them." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Apr 4, 2013
2.5/4	45%	On the Road (2012)	" Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation bible "On the Road" was experimental, experiential and ephemeral in a way Walter Salles' film never captures or portrays." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 28, 2013
3.5/4	92%	No (2013)	" A reflection of a moment in time, made in the image of that moment." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 28, 2013
2.5/4	67%	Stoker (2013)	" A film detached from reality and devoid of meaning." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 21, 2013
3.5/4	92%	The Gatekeepers (2013)	" A riveting firsthand account of how legitimate security concerns can lead to policies considered extreme and even immoral by the people administering them." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 14, 2013
3/4	95%	West of Memphis (2012)	" "West of Memphis" re-examines evidence and retells the story in a methodical and procedural fashion in which even the false steps lead somewhere." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 14, 2013
2/4	38%	The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)	" It sounds boring because it is." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 14, 2013
2.5/4	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" A few adjectives shy of great and powerful." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 7, 2013
2.5/4	31%	Emperor (2013)	" There is nothing wrong with "Emperor" that a little more Tommy Lee Jones can't cure." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/4	89%	A Place at the Table (2013)	" It is the food-chain equivalent of the Trail of Tears." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Feb 28, 2013
2.5/4	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" "Good Day" is action-packed, but not in a good way." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Feb 15, 2013
3/4	95%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013)	" Every film is a balance of style and storytelling, the ideas explored and the medium used to express them." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Feb 7, 2013
3.5/4	100%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action (2013)	" Every film is a balance of style and storytelling, the ideas explored and the medium used to express them." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Feb 7, 2013
2.5/4	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" Just because there is nothing new under the sun doesn't mean McCarthy can't make hay while it shines." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Feb 7, 2013
2.5/4	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" Just because "Stand Up Guys" is not very good is no reason not to see it." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 31, 2013
4/4	93%	Amour (2012)	" Death, illness and tragedy transcend demographics, and the characters in "Amour" are all of us in the end." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 31, 2013
3/4	79%	Quartet (2013)	" "Quartet" asks the musical question, "Is there such a thing as too much Maggie Smith?" and answers it with a resounding "No."" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 31, 2013
3/4	82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" Audiard juxtaposes Schoenaerts' physicality with Cotillard's disability and explores their mutual vulnerability in haunting and suggestive fashion." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 17, 2013
2.5/4	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" We've seen the stylized violence and sentimental tropes intended to make us emotionally invested in generic characters many times before." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 10, 2013
3.5/4	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" By not pointing fingers or assigning blame, it allows us to do so ourselves, triggering a cascade of feelings ranging from horror at the morally repellent techniques used to a sense of mission accomplished." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 10, 2013
4/4	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" The filmmakers write history with lightning, and their instrument is Daniel Day-Lewis as the graying, hunched and shuffling Lincoln, bent but not broken and as tall and thin as a stick figure in a Tim Burton cartoon." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 8, 2013
3/4	69%	Not Fade Away (2012)	" Chase, who was the ripe old age of 19 when the Beatles first appeared on Sullivan's show, gives this 1960s period film an autobiographical specificity without the baby boomer navel-gazing." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 3, 2013
3/4	51%	Promised Land (2013)	" This is Damon and Krasinski's soapbox. And while there is little doubt about where their sympathies lie, they are rarely preachy while telling us." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 3, 2013
3/4	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" While the microcosmic nature of this tale of survival neglects the native people that it affected most, its portrait of humanity is compassionate and inclusive." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Jan 3, 2013
3/4	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" These characters dance a tense ballet along a razor's edge in the last third of the film, and their verbal sparring is the sound of gauntlets being thrown before things inevitably reach a bloody conclusion." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 25, 2012
3/4	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" The period production design is intricate and evocative. And although the screenplay, about characters linked by fate, likely owes a debt to the original production, it is structurally and dramatically sound." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 25, 2012
3.5/4	95%	Chasing Ice (2012)	" While skeptics continue to doubt global warming is a man-made phenomenon - Rush Limbaugh called warnings about it "garbage science" - "Chasing Ice" leaves little doubt it is occurring." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 20, 2012
2.5/4	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" "This Is 40" is the equivalent of a vanity license plate." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 20, 2012
3/4	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" Those early scenes in the Shire and the story of the loss of the dwarf kingdom establish character and purpose and give reason to hope and care that, like a talented sports team with a losing record, things can get only better." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 13, 2012
3/4	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" Playing Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins is a mountain of prosthetics. But his portrayal hits all the right, disturbingly quiet notes and the impersonation quickly settles into performance." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/4	76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" While he may have captured something of outlaw culture in "Killing Them Softly," Dominik's portrait of America seems myopic, cynical and coldblooded." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 29, 2012
3.5/4	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" "Life of Pi" is a magical mystery tour." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 20, 2012
3/4	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Unlike typical romantic genre fare, its jagged edges will make the characters and film a challenge for some viewers, which is the reason why others embrace it." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 20, 2012
3/4	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" [Condon and Rosenberg] deviate from the original story created by Stephenie Meyer in a way that feels like a dance in the end zone." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 15, 2012
3/4	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" A film, inspired by the life of the late poet-journalist Mark O'Brien, that celebrates the relationship between physical and emotional intimacy." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 15, 2012
2.5/4	84%	Smashed (2012)	" The way that the willowy, brown-haired girl-next-door type Winstead throws herself into the role results in a sobering character study." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 8, 2012
3.5/4	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" "Skyfall" may be the most intimate Bond film yet." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 8, 2012
2.5/4	79%	Flight (2012)	" "Flight" never soars, despite the often persuasive best efforts of Denzel Washington." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Nov 1, 2012
3/4	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" A sprawling, non-sequential time poem, a vivid dream about the link between history and destiny, in which the past and future are now." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 25, 2012
2.5/4	85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" Is it a tale of first love, traumatized youths, loss of innocence or . . . all of the above?" — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 11, 2012
3.5/4	96%	Argo (2012)	" Its intellectual honesty and lack of agenda are that of a filmmaker who is less auteur than a first-rate craftsman." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Posted Oct 11, 2012

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