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Elizabeth Weitzman

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2/5	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" Big and loud and so bland it kinda feels like we've been sold a bill of goods." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 28, 2013
2/5	34%	Dark Skies (2013)	" It's not that Dark Skies is so awful you need to be warned away from it. It's just that it's so bland you might as well find something better to do." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 22, 2013
3/5	92%	11 Flowers (2013)	" Wang Xiaoshuai's gently engrossing coming-of-age tale isn't strikingly unique, but it does possess the heartfelt confidence that comes from autobiographical influence - and natural talent." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 21, 2013
2/5	57%	Shanghai Calling (2013)	" A clear affection for its subject and setting help deepen Daniel Hsia's otherwise shallow romantic comedy." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/5	30%	The Berlin File (2013)	" The story feels fairly perfunctory - not to mention unnecessarily knotty - but the well-connected leads do their best to ground it." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 14, 2013
3/5	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" The greatest pleasure comes from watching Okuno, a stage actor who wholly embraces the biggest film role of his 81 years." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 14, 2013
1/5	46%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" What's missing -- from the entire movie -- is that magical spark that can turn a film into a franchise." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 13, 2013
4/5	92%	Night Across the Street (2013)	" Unusually suffused with the contrast between experience and memory, reality and surreality." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 7, 2013
4/5	91%	Caesar Must Die (2013)	" The Tavianis blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, but they couldn't do it without the full complicity of their actors, or the audience." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 7, 2013
3/5	55%	Top Gun (1986)	" There are elements that hold up - especially Cruise's blinding charisma. The aerial scenes are still thrilling, and perfectly suited to a giant screen. Everything else? Well, that depends on how nostalgic you're feeling." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 7, 2013
2/5	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" What success the movie finds is due to the leads' efforts, which are impressively strenuous. They start out with a great premise, and they're clearly ready to run with it. But most of the laughs are stolen right out from under them." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 7, 2013
	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" As a film critic, I've seen nearly 4,000 movies over the last fifteen years. Right now, I can't think of one worse than Movie 43." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 4, 2013
3/5	60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" A movie so brazenly off-kilter that I'm not entirely sure its title is even accurate." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 31, 2013
3/5	100%	Sound City (2013)	" Grohl's aim is to explore the aura of a place, but what he winds up proving is that people make the magic." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 31, 2013
2/5	91%	The Last Gladiators (2013)	" At his best, Gibney focuses on his subject and then explodes it outward. But with "The Last Gladiators," he's taken a rare misstep. There is undoubtedly a great story within the bruised history of NHL enforcers. Why, though, did he choose Chris Nilan's?" — New York Daily News Posted Jan 31, 2013
2/5	14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" Even if he's slumming, Renner gets it best: his dry delivery fully acknowledges the movie's ridiculousness. If you're planning on entering this fractured fairy tale, you'll want to follow his lead." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/5	88%	Yossi (2013)	" His struggles remain compelling, thanks to Knoller's sad-eyed authenticity." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 24, 2013
3/5	87%	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013)	" There is indeed much beauty on display, from the icy Taiga landscape to the age-old trapping techniques passed on through generations." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 24, 2013
5/5	85%	The Pirogue (2013)	" Every moment feels human and true, from the naive optimism of the trip's sendoff to its unsparingly realistic conclusion, which trades reckless hope for quiet honor." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 24, 2013
4/5	86%	Supporting Characters (2013)	" Schechter made the whole thing for about $50,000, without any A-list names. And yet it's sharper and more entertaining than most of the movies to come out this month at 10 times the budget - or well beyond." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 24, 2013
2/5	28%	Knife Fight (2013)	" Though everyone's intentions seem honorable, this limp political satire overshoots its targets almost every time." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 24, 2013
2/5	40%	Parker (2013)	" A little more effort -- from anyone -- might be nice." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 24, 2013
2/5	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" The script is a mess, built on lazy clichés, stilted jokes and easy payoffs. What the movie does have, though, is enthusiasm." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2013
2/5	36%	LUV (2013)	" The first half of the movie is painfully tense, drawing us into a relationship that we desperately want to see work. But the screenplay lets its characters down, as it devolves into platitudes and melodrama." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 17, 2013
2/5	30%	Broken City (2013)	" Wahlberg, at least, keeps the story watchable. But even he can't fix what's irreversibly broken." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 17, 2013
1/5	29%	Let My People Go! (2013)	" Though under 90 minutes, the whole frantically zany affair seems to last at least eight days. It might help to have a bottle of Manischewitz handy." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2013
3/5	50%	Clandestine Childhood (2013)	" The calmer scenes are staged in staid and somewhat clunky fashion, but the graphic animation depicting the worst moments is starkly effective." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2013
3/5	18%	My Best Enemy (2013)	" The script relies on too many unlikely twists, but Bleibtreu manages to sell them all." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2013
2/5	24%	Struck by Lightning (2013)	" One can't blame Colfer for wanting to expand his range, but he's created a character who is neither hero nor villain, in a black comedy that is neither dark nor funny enough." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2013
3/5	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" Fleischer's noir-influenced focus on O'Mara and Cohen offers hints of interesting commentary about Hollywood's historical visions of good and evil. But it's a strong starting point that fizzles by the finale." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2013
3/5	79%	Quartet (2013)	" Everyone onscreen is experienced enough to realize that we create our own fates, regardless of the directions in which we are pushed." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 10, 2013
4/5	85%	End of Watch (2012)	" The actors, both excellent, get right into Ayer's groove. So by the time we arrive at the unsparing climax, we really know and care about these guys." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 8, 2013
	88%	Starlet (2012)	" Baker effectively juxtaposes two vastly different worlds, though he never makes the case that either is as significant as the gauzy visuals suggest." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 8, 2013
3/5	79%	Ruby Sparks (2012)	" Sometimes it's worth surrendering to cinematic enchantments, and Ruby Sparks makes a pretty good case for its own magic." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 8, 2013
3/5	100%	My Brooklyn (2013)	" When Anderson allows the experts - or simply those most deeply impacted by the changes - to speak, the film has a powerful urgency." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 4, 2013
3/5	67%	A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2013)	" What elevates [it] ... is the gentleness with which Binisti approaches his difficult subject." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 3, 2013
3/5	18%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" It's a shame they didn't choose a stronger project than Andy Fickman's family comedy, but you could certainly ask for worse babysitters." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 25, 2012
3/5	45%	On the Road (2012)	" Salles has made an admirable effort, which - while no roman candle - can be appreciated for its honest ambitions." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 20, 2012
4/5	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" When it's over, you will feel enlightened, drained and grateful just to walk away." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 20, 2012
4/5	69%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Hooper has chosen to embrace the theatricality of his project - in which there is almost no spoken dialogue - with full enthusiasm." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 20, 2012
3/5	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" [Cruise] doesn't turn in his finest work, frankly, but he's still a solid presence who holds together an otherwise generic thriller." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 20, 2012
5/5	96%	Monsters, Inc. 3D (2012)	" If history is any guide, you and your family - whether young or old - will probably want to see "Monsters University" over and over." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 18, 2012
2/5	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" This is one seriously uncomfortable movie, especially considering that it's being presented as a feel-good comedy." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 18, 2012
2/5	42%	Let Fury Have The Hour (2012)	" Politics aside, one can't help wishing the structure of Antonino D'Ambrosio's debut documentary was as strong as its philosophical fervor." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 13, 2012
3/5	44%	Save The Date (2012)	" An easygoing romance you might enjoy, despite the fact that you never need to see it again." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 13, 2012
2/5	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" Pacino - embracing painful Viagra jokes with abrasive, motor-mouthed energy - either needs better gigs or stronger guidance." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 13, 2012
4/5	94%	The Rabbi's Cat (2012)	" Though we wander a bit, the trip is a delight, thanks to the witty company." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/5	35%	Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012)	" Not to say it isn't an enjoyable diversion. Just that it's also a superficial one." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 6, 2012
3/5	64%	The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)	" Burns has assembled such a fine cast that we leave feeling satisfied, as if we didn't get the iPad mini we wanted, but a pretty good novel instead." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 6, 2012
2/5	4%	Playing for Keeps (2012)	" Perhaps, if this movie fails, studios will finally accept that we all deserve better." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 6, 2012
1/5	19%	Lay the Favorite (2012)	" Hall works like mad to create this character, giving her a breathy voice and hair-twisting tics and wide-eyed expressions that, rather than rounding her out, only flatten her." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 6, 2012
1/5	27%	Addicted To Fame (2012)	" A valuable reflection of contemporary celebrity culture - simply because it shows us how low we've fallen." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/5	65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" The movie itself is a lot of fun. And if you can separate yourself from the visual distraction, you'll find plenty to enjoy." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2012
2/5	29%	Ex-Girlfriends (2012)	" Feels like a promising college project that wasn't ready for the real world." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/5	67%	California Solo (2012)	" Carlyle commits 100%, making Lachlan a guy worth watching, even when we know exactly where he's going." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/5	98%	Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012)	" Miserable individuals do tend to make for interesting subject matter, and this would be far more of a dry biography without its willfully eccentric lead." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2012
2/5	50%	Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)	" Anyone who stumbles into "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" unprepared is bound to leave shellshocked. Not just because of the movie's brutal violence, but from the stunning realization that this grim franchise will never stop regenerating itself." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2012
3/5	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" You won't actually learn much about Alfred Hitchcock from Sacha Gervasi's briskly superficial biopic. But you'll enjoy the experience anyway." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 22, 2012
	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" An edgy romantic dramedy that suits our anxious times." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 21, 2012
1/5	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" The more ludicrous a concept, the more crucial it is that the director embrace the bigger-than-life absurdity. But everything about this project feels small-time." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 21, 2012
3/5	64%	Anna Karenina (2012)	" "Anna" is daring enough to seduce us, if ultimately incapable of breaking our hearts." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/5	80%	Hitler's Children (2012)	" It's always dispiriting to see an ideal subject given shallow treatment, and one spends most of this documentary wishing a more experienced director had made it." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 15, 2012
3/5	86%	Who Bombed Judi Bari? (2012)	" While Thomson's unabashedly admiring tone too often turns the film into an outright tribute, she does present enough evidence to suggest that Bari, who died in 1997, deserves one." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/5	46%	The Comedy (2012)	" The movie may critique its antihero, but it also offers just one more venue in which he's allowed to wallow - while we pay his way." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 15, 2012
3/5	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" "Breaking Dawn, Part 2" expands with a full intensity of force, stronger and more epic than the films that led to this impactful finale." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 15, 2012
3/5	17%	Coming Up Roses (2012)	" A modest drama most notable for its heartfelt performances." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 8, 2012
2/5	5%	Nature Calls (2012)	" After a lot of wandering around, we realize we've really just been walking in circles the whole time." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 8, 2012
3/5	100%	Lunch (2012)	" It's worth pulling up a chair." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 8, 2012
4/5	89%	A Royal Affair (2012)	" Nikolaj Arcel's sumptuous Danish romance looks much like other well-made costume dramas, barring a single, crucial exception: This is the only one with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 8, 2012
1/5	33%	Chasing Mavericks (2012)	" The sinking feeling starts as soon as "Chasing Mavericks" opens, with Gerard Butler's solemn narration: "We all come from the sea," he intones, "but we are not all of the sea."" — New York Daily News Posted Oct 25, 2012
4/5	91%	The Revisionaries (2012)	" Of all the scary movies you may see this month, none will be more chilling than Scott Thurman's documentary about the Texas State Board of Education." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 25, 2012
4/5	25%	The Black Tulip (2012)	" Sonia Nassery Cole's evocative Afghan drama is built on so much local detail, it often has the feel of a documentary." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 25, 2012
1/5	11%	Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012)	" Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 18, 2012
4/5	84%	The Flat (2012)	" Ultimately, this is not a film about one specific event but about human nature - most notably, the instincts toward denial and delusion, acceptance and forgiveness. From start to finish, revelations abound." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 18, 2012
3/5	90%	Bad 25 (2012)	" Jackson fans will love Spike Lee's look back at the making of a classic, even if the extensive collection of clips and contemporary interviews - which could have used a firm edit - feels more suited to DVD." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5	12%	Alex Cross (2012)	" Perry is a likable presence, but the movie around him is such a mess that he never gets to prove his potential." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 18, 2012
2/5	15%	Special Forces (2012)	" An uneven effort ..." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 11, 2012
3/5	90%	Gayby (2012)	" [It] embraces broad jokes and obvious setups. Fortunately, these are balanced out by assertive pacing and entertaining observations." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 11, 2012
1/5	13%	Hotel Noir (2012)	" It's hard to know whether Sebastian Gutierrez is imitating or satirizing the hard-boiled noirs of Hollywood's past, but either way it feels like a botched attempt." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 11, 2012
3/5	87%	Middle of Nowhere (2012)	" This modest, micro-budgeted story has been beautifully packaged." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 11, 2012
2/5	41%	3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012)	" Just like that cumbersome "3, 2, 1 ..." of the title, Roberts adds too many elements to nearly every scene of this insanely frenetic comedy." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 11, 2012
3/5	93%	The House I Live In (2012)	" An empathetic, if not entirely persuasive, look at an ongoing national dilemma." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 4, 2012
3/5	81%	Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (2012)	" There are neither enough personal histories nor enough proposed solutions to spark any significant debate." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 4, 2012
3/5	54%	V/H/S (2012)	" This indie compilation has enough inventive chills to interest any horror fan." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 4, 2012
2/5	35%	Butter (2012)	" It's one thing to create biting social satire; it's quite another to shoot at such easy targets." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 4, 2012
4/5	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" Burton's extraordinary powers of imagination are in dazzling bloom, from the gorgeous stop-motion animation to the goofy, homemade horror movies the children direct." — New York Daily News Posted Oct 4, 2012
3/5	81%	Pitch Perfect (2012)	" [It] could have used a little more spontaneous spirit and a little less manufactured sass. What it has going for it, though, is an amiably enthusiastic cast." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 27, 2012
2/5	60%	Stars In Shorts (2012)	" None of the seven shorts here is worth a single, well-made feature." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 27, 2012
4/5	86%	Harvest of Empire (2012)	" This sobering and much-needed look at Latino migration is built on an undeniably optimistic premise: that once Americans have accurate facts, "they rarely allow injustices to stand."" — New York Daily News Posted Sep 27, 2012
1/5	32%	Won't Back Down (2012)	" The plot is just a clothesline on which to hang an unabashedly biased diatribe." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 27, 2012
2/5	28%	Backwards (2012)	" [A] painfully clichéd inspirational sports drama ..." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 20, 2012
3/5	94%	Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012)	" While plenty of talking heads turn up to offer breathless praise, it's no surprise that the preeminent words of wisdom are, thanks to copious archival footage, Vreeland's own." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 20, 2012
4/5	100%	How to Survive a Plague (2012)	" Should be invaluable to every frustrated movement, as both a road map and a reminder of how vital personal activism remains." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 20, 2012
3/5	85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" Screenwriter/director Chbosky deserves credit for insisting on adapting a story he knows best, and he takes a heartfelt, if hardly visionary, approach." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 20, 2012
2/5	88%	Head Games (2012)	" James has a worthy message, but never makes the case that he needs an entire documentary to deliver it." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 20, 2012
4/5	59%	10 Years (2012)	" Writer/director Jamie Linden and his excellent cast beautifully evoke the sentimental magic inherent in their scenario." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 17, 2012
2/5	68%	Step Up To The Plate (2012)	" While foodies are sure to feel sated by the gastronomic splendors of Paul Lacoste's debut documentary, others may walk out with a strange sense of emptiness." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 13, 2012
5/5	99%	Finding Nemo 3D (2012)	" A timeless delight." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 13, 2012
2/5	22%	The Words (2012)	" While it's no chore to watch so many appealing actors, it does feel like something of a waste to see them hemmed in by such flat material." — New York Daily News Posted Sep 6, 2012

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