|
F
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Malick's profound message permeating throughout: Living in Oklahoma blows."
—
NECN
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
F
|
67%
|
God Bless America (2012) |
"
For a movie that purports to be a statement about how mean-spirited and crass we've become, Goldthwait has no qualms piling on. Blowing a baby away with a 12 gauge - real or imagined - is about as bottom of the barrel as it gets."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 22, 2012
|
|
F
|
29%
|
The Oogieloves in The Big Balloon Adventure (2012) |
"
Forget Saw, I'd argue this is the most freakishly disturbing outing of Cary Elwes career."
—
NECN
Posted Sep 5, 2012
|
|
F
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
If you pay even a single penny to watch the thing, you'll be making the most ill-advised purchase of your natural born life."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D-
|
37%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
If The Incredible Burt Wonderstone were a real Vegas show, its rightful home would be amongst the rubble of an imploded casino."
—
NECN
Posted Mar 13, 2013
|
|
D-
|
56%
|
For a Good Time, Call... (2012) |
"
An inexorably laughless affair that would make a potent interrogation tool."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 29, 2012
|
|
D-
|
53%
|
Being Flynn (2012) |
"
It's a shame the studio didn't choose to keep the original title of the book in place, Another Bulls**t Night in Suck City would have been quite fitting for the film."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
D-
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
Have your exit route mapped out before the lights go down."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
D-
|
46%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
As Oskar opines about his father's casket: "It's just an empty box". The same charge the film's guilty of."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D-
|
67%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
I'd rather have my head stuck in a vise than be forced to sit through another viewing."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D-
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
It's not Renner's fault the script is a heap of dung."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D
|
43%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
Admission doesn't just misfire, it flatlines."
—
NECN
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
D
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
A tedious, needlessly convoluted clunker."
—
NECN
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
D
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
Revenge is a dish best served riotously laughable."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
D
|
43%
|
To Rome with Love (2012) |
"
After the cinematic glory Woody Allen bestowed upon Paris, to be given this kind of treatment is akin to being served Steak-umms instead of filet mignon. "
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D
|
75%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
Whit Stillman hasn't been behind a camera in 13 years and it's time to toss the old adage out, you can forget how to ride a bike."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
By the time a herd of Godzilla-sized hogs - the Aurochs - arrive on the scene, it might as well be a Cajun-styled Cloverfield."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D
|
70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
Building a relationship around the shared love of a masturbatory joke involving a bottle of Blistex is undoubtedly as sturdy a foundation as any twosome has ever known."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
D+
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
A thoroughly annoying and staggeringly laughless quirkfest featuring the most alarmingly miscast role of 2012."
—
NECN
Posted Nov 12, 2012
|
|
D+
|
70%
|
The Hunter (2012) |
"
By the time Dafoe tracks down the elusive CGI'd thylacine, my eyelids had washed over with a glaze of numbness. The big winner here, Tasmania's tourist board."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 22, 2012
|
|
D+
|
38%
|
Blue Like Jazz (2012) |
"
A hot mess that somehow manages to somewhat redeem itself by the final frame but sadly not enough to save it from ultimate damnation."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
D+
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
A dreadfully dull black comedy that reckons it's infinitely more provocative and shocking than it actually is."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
C-
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
A movie so block-headed, so aimlessly busy, you'd think Michael Bay directed the thing. Actually, that would be an upgrade."
—
NECN
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
C-
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
The film's CGI'd talking monkey is more alive than Franco. And it totally looks fake."
—
NECN
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
C-
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
A supernatural spell of boringness smothers it all."
—
NECN
Posted Feb 12, 2013
|
|
C-
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Its big twist is telegraphed so soon after its start, there's zero shock value and zero suspense as the film plods towards its pathetically pat ending."
—
NECN
Posted Feb 6, 2013
|
|
C-
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
Teetering between tepidly humorous and totally unfunny, Judd Apatow's crazy long crudefest plays like bits and pieces of a stand-up routine that would get a comedian booed off the stage."
—
NECN
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
C-
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
The Wachowskis' monumentally ambitious sci-fi time-hopper demands a superhuman level of dedication and patience but the payoff isn't worth the labor required to endure its nearly three-hour runtime."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 24, 2012
|
|
C-
|
88%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
Margin Call can't beat the street, missing the mark in a major way given the massive expectations."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 22, 2012
|
|
C-
|
22%
|
The Words (2012) |
"
Dennis Quaid reading from a book his character purportedly authored redefines "suspension of disbelief"."
—
NECN
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
C-
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
A retread of a tale that's The Running Man meets Lord of the Flies with a dash of Twilight for tween-adoring measure. "
—
NECN
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
C-
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
There's an infinitely more impactful movie to be made that deals with the same subject but doesn't take things to an unrealistic extreme. A son that's not the very spawn of the devil is a solid place to start."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 27, 2012
|
|
C-
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
As Chuck D put it back in '88, don't believe the hype."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
C-
|
41%
|
Silent House (2012) |
"
As Trish declared to Darry in Jeepers Creepers: 'You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates them for it?' This is littered with those moments. "
—
NECN
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
C-
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
Director Marc Webb apparently didn't get the memo that the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink edition is strictly reserved for the DVD."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
C
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Dripping with mood but deprived of dynamics, Stoker fails as an overall film yet wonders with the wizardry of the man behind the cam."
—
NECN
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
C
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Everything about the loaded-with-lowlives crime flick is elongated, extended to the very precipice of its expiration date."
—
NECN
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
C
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
The only thing Zemeckis could have done to make Flight more of a chore to sit through beyond its stunning opening sequence, have a kid kick your seat-back for the protracted remainder of the flick."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 30, 2012
|
|
C
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
For the entire endeavor to emotionally register, you must buy into the romance that purportedly blossoms between Hawkes and Hunt. I didn't, not for a second."
—
NECN
Posted Oct 26, 2012
|
|
C
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
It's a collection of cockeyed ideas compressed into a narrative that's utterly devoid of any actual attachment."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
C
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
When the heartfelt professions of love and soul-unloading declarations of betterment are emulsified down to mush, all that remains is a swiftly evaporating run-of-the-mill residue."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
C
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
Rankin/Bass never made me feel so detached."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
C+
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
The Impossible is immersive only when it's fully immersed."
—
NECN
Posted Jan 3, 2013
|
|
C+
|
74%
|
Rampart (2012) |
"
A film saddled with a melodramatic script that would serve better as a TV pilot."
—
NECN
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
C+
|
51%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
It's absurd, it's mindless, it's infantine but it's also bizarrely charming."
—
NECN
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
C+
|
13%
|
W.E. (2012) |
"
Kudos to Madonna for ultimately producing a celluloid smorgasbord that contains the caloric content of a couple of Snackwell's cookies."
—
NECN
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
C+
|
77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
Its epic length is the one thing you're guaranteed to take from the experience."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
C+
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
The whole thing is nearly brought to its knees by David Sardy's abominable score. It's amongst the most generic electronica-ish tripe ever splattered across a film and it's incessant."
—
NECN
Posted Aug 24, 2012
|
|
B-
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
Getting to see Shannon boogie to Blondie is enough to warrant a stay of execution."
—
NECN
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
B-
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
The most affable, innocuous outing ever set in a war zone."
—
NECN
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
78%
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