|
1/4
|
0%
|
Wagons East! (1994) |
"
Awful. A candidate for one of the year's worst movies."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
7%
|
In the Army Now (1994) |
"
If this guy is funny -- and evidently a constituency exists somewhere, probably France -- then his appeal is inscrutable to me and millions of other Americans."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
9%
|
Milk Money (1994) |
"
There's no redeeming this movie, possibly the worst idea Hollywood has conceived in a decade."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
35%
|
Young Einstein (1988) |
"
Young Einstein is good-natured and harmless, but it's not very funny."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
Ghost Dad (1990) |
"
Ghost Dad is so bad, it's scary."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
4%
|
Mobsters (1991) |
"
The virtue of GoodFellas was that it took the glamor out of mob sagas, and it's going to take a picture a lot better than Mobsters to put it back in."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
32%
|
Radio Flyer (1992) |
"
It's the kind of story that could have soared in the hands of a visionary director like Terry Gilliam, but becomes strangely earthbound under the direction of Richard Donner."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
29%
|
The House of the Spirits (1994) |
"
This isn't just a bad movie -- it's hugely, grandiosely, pompously bad."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Color of Night (1994) |
"
The Color of Night tries for the same mix of black humor and clever plotting, but misses by a wide margin. It'll have you laughing at it, not with it, and if you pay the full $6, it'll have you, well, seeing red."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
It's hyper-competent and technically slick, yet made with affection, and emotional and textual understanding of the old TV show."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
Pulp Fiction isn't the sleazy work of a shock artist giving us things no one else will put on film. This is the work of someone talented, smart and thrilled to be making movies, giving us things no one else can put on film."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
B
|
80%
|
The Boxer (1997) |
"
The art-house dream-team pairing of Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson amounts to more of a soft jab than a knockout punch."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 14, 2013
|
|
|
91%
|
Scandal (1989) |
"
The movie is at its best when examining the complex character of Ward"
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
In Country (1989) |
"
Jewison manipulates the audience's familiarity with this national monument to achieve the kind of dramatic pitch that the characters themselves could not attain."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
Schindler's List (1993) |
"
Spielberg never solves the Schindler riddle, which keeps this from being a truly great picture. He does bring to Schindler's List the technical skill and dazzling smoothness of a movie-making natural."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
Groundhog Day (1993) |
"
Groundhog Day is a good vehicle for Murray, tailored to his deadpan style, and should please fans disappointed by some the comedian's recent movies."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
One False Move (1992) |
"
Rookie director Carl Franklin shows an obvious gift for pace and storytelling -- uncertain, halting moments are rare. Almost every scene has rich and authentic feeling."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Hackers (1995) |
"
The real crime of cyberpunks is that they have encouraged Hollywood to make several bad movies aimed at exploiting this new lifestyle niche."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
The Mask (1994) |
"
Adults should also be advised that the previews show most of the good effects, and are 100 minutes shorter."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Addams Family Values (1993) |
"
Though this sequel probably has more creative energy than its predecessor, the constant stream of one-liners and sight gags is very much hit or miss."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
The Crow (1994) |
"
The Crow also runs a huge villain deficit."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
Batman Returns (1992) |
"
Batman has begun to exhibit more of the qualities Burton finds so interesting."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
|
70%
|
Batman (1989) |
"
[Nicholson] has never been more commanding. Not only because he does an outstanding job, but also because so much of the movie's creative energy is devoted to making the Joker one of the most startling movie characters in recent memory."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
Jurassic Park, like the director's other work, is a technical marvel. The effects are great, and the movie's new digital sound system (choose your theater carefully) creates the sensation that giant reptiles are breathing in your ear."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
Basic Instinct (1992) |
"
If Basic Instinct achieves nothing else, it will replace Caligula as Bob Guccione's favorite movie."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
A League of Their Own (1992) |
"
Marshall's methods overwhelm the material, and what emerges is a movie utterly without personality. A unique chapter in American history becomes a movie as ordinary as they come."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
It could use more heart, courage and brains."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
It's a lot funnier than it sounds. The whole enterprise, in fact, is like a slightly snarky version of "Twilight," with a little gender-mandering."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
All is presented in Haneke's exacting style, one that I find controlling and a bit, well, smothering."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The fun of watching "Side Effects" is in discovering how thickly, sneakily plotted it is. The movie hides much, under a tasty and dissolvable coating that conceals the active ingredient underneath."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
It bravely reverses the polarity of an increasingly grim genre."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
A fictional account that honors the essence of the lengthy, painstaking, fitful, deadly process to find and to kill the terrorist leader."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
[A] coming-of-age story that's obviously drawn from [Chase's] own experiences as an artistically-minded kid growing up in straight-laced suburban town with a family that didn't really get him."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Dec 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
The songs in "Les Miz" are big, emotional missiles, meant to carry their three-hanky payload to the very back row, to bend around the pillars offering obstructed views."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Dec 24, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
The shackles the script places on Rogen don't help his performance - he's low on energy, mumbles a great deal, and delivers many of his lines while staring at his shoes."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Nearly three hours, and the story has progressed only slightly. Nothing is short and sweet here, not even the identities. It's always Thorin, son of Theraflu, son of Thong, etc."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Dec 14, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Everything comes together, the performances turning the stylized dialogue into a just-right blend of gilded grunge, and the scenery serving as a handsome peek at downscale New Orleans."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
36%
|
The Collection (2012) |
"
Feels like old-fashioned fun."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Chasing Ice (2012) |
"
Uses time-lapse photography to show just how drastically fast ice sheets up yonder are turning to water, raising sea levels."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
The movie's still gorgeous, but Anna's great tragedy, condensed and accelerated and enacted underneath the visible ropes and pullies of the stage, never attains its power."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
A mostly solemn exercise in respectful top-hatted Lincolnism, with some welcome exceptions."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
"Silver Linings" feels different and fresh, also sincere."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
The prologue picks up where the nutty "Part I" left off, but that's about it for the next hour and a half."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 16, 2012
|
|
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Mendes honors Bond movies past (the monitor lizard is the new alligator), and refers to other fixtures of British cinema (Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed), nodding to the past while also setting it, quite literally, on fire."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Sister (2012) |
"
"Sister" is loose and episodic, but held together with nicely sketched characters."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
"The Sessions" shapes its themes in an appealing way and keeps the script lively and engaging and funny."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
A movie that resonates deeply. Its moral autopsy of a crash and its aftermath of butt-covering and blame-shifting is ideally suited to our time."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
These are the right three directors. The novel's intonations of mysticism and a sci-fi savior are exactly in step with the Wachowski's "Matrix" themes ..."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Smashed (2012) |
"
"Smashed" is low-budget, realistic, well-acted, and shrewd."
—
Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
75%
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67%
85%
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