|
5/5
|
100%
|
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
"
One of the great films about memory, perspective and past history."
—
Little White Lies
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Sun Don't Shine (2013) |
"
Amy Seimetz's intoxicating slice of genre revisionism earns its "neo" prefix, envisioning a brightly sinister world where desperation is the new normal."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Van Sant is no Frank Capra, so why is he trying so hard to be?"
—
Little White Lies
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
Ken Loach's breezy scribble about lowlife redemption and drunken buffoonery isn't so much heavy-handed as it is charmingly weightless."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Instead of long takes, which are lovingly utilized in Step Up 3D, Jon M. Chu opts for increasing volatility in the editing room."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
Wayne Blair isn't interested in historical complexity or subtext, just the seamless flow of Hollywood-style storytelling that lazily connects one musical number to the next."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
Caesar Must Die (2013) |
"
Deeply felt melancholy lingers long after the credits roll."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Bless Me, Ultima (2013) |
"
The film's interest in social themes remains background fodder within a far more generic good-versus-evil narrative."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Unlike Hitchcock's work, it fades from memory almost immediately."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
73%
|
A Place in the Sun (1951) |
"
Clift's mesmerising, tragic performance only deepens with time."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Walter Hill thoughtfully regards the pummeling power of weaponry at work. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 29, 2013
|
|
—
|
97%
|
Call Me Kuchu (2013) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Ruben Fleischer's film is a perfect example of Hollywood hypocrisy, something to be ignored diligently."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Gremlins (1984) |
"
Brilliantly potent social critique of Reagan-era fear-mongering and consumerism."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
A warm bit of American classicism with essential themes of humility and sportsmanship."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Nov 29, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
67%
|
Otelo Burning (2012) |
"
The film grows increasingly tiresome the more it flirts with melodrama, unraveling themes of jealousy, regret, and ambition in broad strokes."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
|
51%
|
Savages (2012) |
"
Oliver Stone returns to the grit, grime, and blood of his glory days with Savages, a breakneck SoCal-set thriller about the death of sensitivity in the modern age."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Burn (2012) |
"
The endless scenes of burning buildings and macho posturing merely provide an action-driven context for the filmmakers to deal with more personal topics like loneliness and resiliency. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
51%
|
Pusher (2012) |
"
Do we really need another cautionary tale about an ambitious drug dealer dramatically falling from grace? "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 22, 2012
|
|
|
86%
|
The Forgiveness of Blood (2012) |
"
Essentially a prison film where the bars are age-old customs and contradictory traditions, The Forgiveness of Blood imagines a modern Albania increasingly at odds with its cultural roots."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
In My Mother's Arms (2012) |
"
Throughout, it becomes clear that both the film and its subject are defined by the necessity of multitasking."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
Fat Kid Rules the World (2012) |
"
People matter in Matthew Lillard's film; genre not so much."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
With Barbara, Petzold earns his stripes among Europe's great auteurs."
—
Little White Lies
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
David Ayer's End of Watch is pure frat-boy fantasy, the video game to Southland's great American novel."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
|
97%
|
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) |
"
Marcel Carné's sweeping, yearning, and ravishing Children of Paradise warns that romantic entanglement is nothing but a bog in which we all eventually get stuck."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
If the film covers well-tread territory (a morally bankrupt player trying to prolong his own influence), it does so with pinpoint control of mood and theme."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
|
84%
|
Post Mortem (2012) |
"
A brilliantly macabre examination of evil seamlessly infecting those passionless souls indifferent to the threat of violent political transition."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 7, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
23%
|
The Day (2012) |
"
Despite being a nasty and skillful action film, Douglas Aarniokoski's film goes off the rails in the final stretch."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
|
89%
|
Rosetta (1999) |
"
The Dardennes' Palme d'Or winner, a singular story of survival and relentless persistence, burns with the kind of immediacy that will make it forever relevant."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
The Matchmaker (2012) |
"
The film ultimately fails to treat history as anything but a string of melodramatic reference points for moody characters haplessly trying to find love."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
58%
|
Red Hook Summer (2012) |
"
The seamless juxtaposition of faith and pain, innocence and guilt, allows the film to transcend Spike Lee's occasional bombastic moments and become a strong examination of internal suffering. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
0%
|
Assassin's Bullet (2012) |
"
Isaac Florentine's film is maligned with gaping plot holes, terrible expository dialogue, and obvious moments of foreshadowing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 29, 2012
|
|
|
86%
|
Altered States (1980) |
"
Ken Russell's kinetic head trip about the dangers of scientific self-indulgence comes to high definition in a forgettable package."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
Ponies (2012) |
"
Never distinguishes itself as engaging cinema apart from the main character's vile charisma and a few dynamic dialogue sequences."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Last Ride (2012) |
"
Despite its strong visual sensibility and performances, Glendyn Ivin's film gives into contrivance in its final act."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) (1967) |
"
The film establishes a kinetic documentary effect, making the impact of every shoot-out and explosion a deeply personal experience."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York (2012) |
"
Nina Rosenblum's love letter never attains that essence of ambiguity that makes the best nonfiction films live on after the credits fade."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
—
|
——
|
Reportero (2012) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Jun 16, 2012
|
|
—
|
94%
|
Face/Off (1997) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
|
82%
|
De rouille et d'os (Rust and Bone) (2012) |
"
Rust and Bone, Audiard's latest study in physical weathering and emotional repression, only further confirms his ongoing obsession with surfaces."
—
indieWIRE
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
—
|
47%
|
In the Mouth of Madness (1995) |
—
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Posted May 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
You Hurt My Feelings (2012) |
"
For a film that often veers into potentially absurd territory, You Hurt My Feelings shows a great deal of sensitivity toward its sad-sack characters.""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (2012) |
"
Documentarian and subject, past and present blur together like bleeding watercolors in Raymond De Felitta's gripping memoir."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 28, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
"
The film is content as it is to run clever one-liners and 19th-century pop-cultural references into the same comedic whirlpool."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 25, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
95%
|
Marley (2012) |
"
The bloat and heft of the doc's narrative scope leaves the viewer awash in a sea of historical "facts" with very little sense of the human experience behind the curtain of celebrity."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Think Like a Man (2012) |
"
Unfortunately, like so many women have prophesied regarding the weaker gender's lack of commitment, there's just not enough follow through. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 16, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Jess + Moss (2012) |
"
A strange and intoxicating indie constructed as a series of vignettes that capture two children grappling with the overlap of trauma and nostalgia. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
Even when it veers into familiar narrative territory, the instinct and durability of its characters propels Safe House toward an unspoken sense of resolve."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
96%
|
Undefeated (2012) |
"
Makes a substantial emotional impact whenever coach Bill Courtney and his powerful words dominate a particular scene."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2012
|
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