|
2/5
|
77%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Iron Man 3 isn't a Blockbuster, it's a Blandbuster -- boring and safe and riddled with plot holes and filled with product placement. "
—
GeekNation
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
"Pain and Gain" is Bay's best film, but we're judging on a curve that includes a talking big rig lecturing audiences about human rights and two Miami cops invading Cuba, so that's ultimately not saying much."
—
GeekNation
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Some things borrowed, some things Cruise, some things old and nothing new; 'Oblivion' is pretty as a picture, but dumb and pointless as a bag of hammers made of meth."
—
GeekNation
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
4
|
39%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
... a breakneck, truly thrilling thriller, one that builds excitement through both brains and brutality ..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
" ... lurches its way into theaters like a dying whale into your living room, all breathless bulk and clammy fat." "
—
The Playlist
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The director who came into the field with Sex, Lies, and Videotape leaves it with sex and lies shot on video, still surprising us with both the stories he tells and the stories hidden inside them."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Guns n' Poses in a cover-band version of 'The Untouchables,' a wax museum with a pulse. "
—
GeekNation
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
6%
|
A Haunted House (2013) |
"
Mean-spirited, badly made and unfunny is one set of disasters; adding in storytelling incompetence adds to the catastrophe."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jan 9, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
'The Impossible' is a confounding misfire: so much artistic vision, combined with moral and emotional shortsightedness."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django isn't just a movie only America could make -- it's also a movie only America needs to"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 12, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
Lay the Favorite (2012) |
"
Incoherent, loud and saddled with a lead character far less smart ... 'Lay the Favorite' simply lays down dead."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Tolkien could invent names and languages, but he couldn't create a plot at gunpoint. "
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
A masterwork from a master filmmaker"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
82%
|
Rust and Bone (2012) |
"
A must-see drama that will reward moviegoers who are both smart enough to seek it out and grown-up enough to take it"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
Rise of the Guardians isn't the year's best animated film -- that honor is still held by Wreck-It Ralph -- but it is, more impressively, the year's best animated film for kids"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
... the new "Red Dawn" feels like -- a surface-level photocopy with all of the problems of the first film and none of the accidental, seen-in-the-rearview power."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
68%
|
This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
Sean Penn as an ex-rock-star Nazi hunter feels like a lot to swallow. It is."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 2, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
'Wreck-it Ralph' is a serious contender for the title of best animated film of the year."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Nov 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
49%
|
The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) |
"
A combo-platter mixing classic martial-arts cinema in all of its glorious excess with the beats and breaks and attitude of hip-hop"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
|
76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
As a smart, scary time-passing horror film designed to have you Googling the scientific information it's built on, satisfying your curiosity while roiling your guts with terror, The Bay has the will to thrill and the skill to scare. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 31, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
51%
|
Pusher (2012) |
"
... it feels like just another movie about crime and drugs as Frank's week goes from bad to worse."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Squint at Skyfall and you'll swear you're watching Bruce Wayne"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
25%
|
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) |
"
Adds plenty of in-jokes that also work as legitimate scares."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
39%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
'Here Comes the Boom' is enjoyable -- or, at the very least, not torture like 'Grown Ups' ..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
It turns found footage into a lost opportunity"
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
35%
|
Butter (2012) |
"
Butter is laid on too thick, and in other places it's spread too thin, and it never quite develops a flavor of its own."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
This film, lazy and mismanaged as it is, just feels like the only thing that's going to get taken unjustly is your money."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Bringing Up Bobby (2012) |
"
'"Bringing Up Bobby" is hardly an auspicious debut for Janssen as a director, but, at the same time, there's enough there to suggest that a next attempt would be worthy of investigation..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Jarecki's film has a great performance at its center..."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths promises a bloody good time. It delivers."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
It is so full of passion and heart and empathy that it feels completely unlike any other modern film in its range either measured through scope of budget or sweep of action."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
Gyllenhall and Peña have chemistry together and charisma individually."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
Dredd 3D isn't revelatory, nor does it redefine any of the genres it splashes among as it goes its merry, bloody way, but as goofy-gory self-satire high-tech low-morality future-cop epics go, it's charmingly diabolical."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
56%
|
For a Good Time, Call... (2012) |
"
... not just smart and sexy -- which, to be honest, is rare enough in filmmaking these days -- but it's also got a great deal of humanity and humor."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 27, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
34%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
If you're up for having your heart warmed... and have the patience to go on its short but sweet journey, [it] is truly a family fable for all ages. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 14, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Goats (2012) |
"
... a stubborn, mangy, tangled-haired mutt of a movie -- one that could have used a little more guidance and construction and a little less free-range 'quirkiness.' "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
Compliance is a fascinating and deeply unsettling version of true events, but it goes past that, with art and honesty."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Campaign (2012) |
"
Think of it as someone making a peanut butter and chocolate swirl of Mad magazine and The New Yorker-two unique tastes making one great treat."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Total Recall (2012) |
"
Wiseman directs his film as if it's a shark... But really, it's more of a carp, shiny and pretty but fat and dopey, fed on nothing but scavenged leftovers. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
...if Celeste and Jesse Forever is a showcase for anyone -- and it is -- you'd first have to note Jones and Samberg. "
—
MSN Movies
Posted Aug 1, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
16%
|
The Watch (2012) |
"
It works almost in spite of its overcrowded cast and loose, pulpy spitball of a plot."
—
Boxoffice Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
...a rare gem of a romantic comedy, sharp and smart with a warm glow."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jul 24, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
The Dark Knight Rises feels like a hustle-filled but ultimately cursory trot around the bases, a pleasing but slightly wheezy victory lap as we raise the Bat-jersey, as Nolan tailored it, to the rafters of the pop-culture arena."
—
Movies.com
Posted Jul 16, 2012
|
|
A
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
"Beasts of the Southern Wild" is as unique as it is uneven, as unforgettable as it is uncomfortable, and it trembles with the energy, bravura and passion of director Zeitlin, his cast and his crew like some rough animal."
—
The Playlist
Posted Jul 13, 2012
|
|
B+
|
73%
|
Hello I Must Be Going (2012) |
"
Warm and funny, real and raw, "Hello I Must Be Going" deserves a hearty welcome from moviegoers looking for an honest and frank comedy that never forgets to help us care about its characters."
—
The Playlist
Posted Jul 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
56%
|
People Like Us (2012) |
"
...a sentimental but strongly made standout in a summer otherwise full of superheroes and space aliens."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
55%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
"
...Scafaria's skill here is not only in getting a wide pool of talented people to be in the film, but also in actually giving them something to do."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
0/5
|
21%
|
That's My Boy (2012) |
"
If someone told you about almost every joke in That's My Boy, you would think they were either a sociopath or a budding serial killer."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 16, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
91%
|
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) |
"
Movies with a voice as strong, strange, smart and yes, sincere as "Safety Not Guaranteed" deserve to be heard."
—
MSN Movies
Posted Jun 7, 2012
|
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