|
4/5
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
A slam-bang comics-inspired blast where the superhero collective fuses seamlessly and works marvelously."
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Filmcritic.com
Posted May 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
Like all Disneynature films, Chimpanzee is a mixed bag, but it fulfills its role in the natural selection of the Hollywood box-office."
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Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
The film is at least good-natured and occasionally charming, less flagrantly offensive than many recent tear-jerkers. Yes, I am damning with faint praise."
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Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
It's a good thing 21 Jump Street is funny, because in terms of pure filmmaking, it is a near-embarrassment."
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Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
50%
|
Wanderlust (2001) |
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Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
59%
|
Wanderlust (2012) |
"
pure comedy, populated with one inspired comic performance after another"
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Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
another wonderful Studio Ghibli film, distributed by Disney but refreshingly not Disney-fied. "
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 16, 2012
|
|
90/100
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
...Spielberg's dazzling return to peak action form, an action-packed spectacle that leaves us breathless and smiling."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 27, 2011
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|
85/100
|
98%
|
The Artist (2011) |
"
...a gem of post-modern significance, celebrating a bygone era by commenting on it, fleshing it out with broad universality."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
90/100
|
80%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
...flirts with conventional expectations before ripping them out from under us."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
99/100
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
...cinema at its most vivid, wrenching, and revelatory - an abstract masterpiece about the withering fragility of the human soul."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
65/100
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
...a meticulous slow burn of visual suggestion, dripping in atmosphere and loaded with evocative subtext in nearly every shot."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
74/100
|
94%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
...makes this wintry season feel like summer all over again."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 27, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
The remake everyone's been talking about doesn't disappoint."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 24, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
The stolid inertia of this story is so joyless that the film's sole "passionate" element is the desire to garner Oscar consideration for Close's performance."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
War Horse (2011) |
"
a time capsule back to the days of John Ford and David O. Selznick"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 22, 2011
|
|
45/100
|
23%
|
The Smurfs (2011) |
"
...candy for kids and arsenic for adults."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
40/100
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
For a movie with a kitschy-verve title like Cowboys and Aliens, the resulting film sure is flaccid and joyless, without even a hint of spice."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
79/100
|
79%
|
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) |
"
...a minor godsend in the midst of heinous sequels, lame comic adaptations, and overblown action epics."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
30/100
|
25%
|
The Change-Up (2011) |
"
...the cinematic equivalent of a 14-year-old boy watching scrambled porn in his room."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
93/100
|
84%
|
Beginners (2011) |
"
Beginners offers a greater insight into humanity than any film I've seen in 2011."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
73/100
|
83%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
...a very well-mounted summer entertainment with a few intriguing allegorical strokes to stimulate more than just our eyes."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
70/100
|
78%
|
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) |
"
Wonderful sequences. Great performances. A very good movie...but could've been so much more."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
70/100
|
74%
|
Fright Night (2011) |
"
This is a wild haunted house of a movie, full of jump cuts, overt creepiness, and an ever-present smirk on its face that lets us in on the joke..."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
55/100
|
81%
|
Four Lions (2010) |
"
...is this a deft film about the chaos of nothingness, or is it simply a chaotic movie with nothing inside?"
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
18/100
|
27%
|
Colombiana (2011) |
"
Perhaps the filmmakers purposefully intended to fly in the face of traditionally sound writing and directorial practices...or, more likely, the movie just plain sucks."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
50/100
|
47%
|
Super (2011) |
"
This is, clearly, a film as confused and as deranged as its hero - and, perhaps, as its maker. That is alternately a compliment and a warning."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
10/100
|
67%
|
Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) |
"
...we reach the point where we forget about enjoying kitsch and completely disengage from what has become a cinematic vomitorium."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
95/100
|
83%
|
Warrior (2011) |
"
...a staggering epic of humanity, a film capable of both rendering tender intimacy on a grand scale and finding the elusive emotional center in even the most brutal battle."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
68/100
|
58%
|
Red State (2011) |
"
...promising at it is, Smith's experimenting feels like an 80-minute exercise without a solid payoff."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
59/100
|
68%
|
Our Idiot Brother (2011) |
"
The most interesting takeaway from Our Idiot Brother is that there isn't much interesting to take away - the film is about as blandly genial as its namesake."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
32/100
|
61%
|
The Beaver (2011) |
"
Simply put, the film is a pretentious disaster, miscalculated on every level. "
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
44/100
|
59%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
...a straightforward haunted house movie with a few pleasing injections of visual goth that holds our superficial interest but doesn't even try to probe any deeper."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
98/100
|
92%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
Its brilliance lies in the fusing of incongruous elements that burn slowly and meticulously into a hysteric explosion, like a masterful cinematic symphony."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
72/100
|
93%
|
50/50 (2011) |
"
...certainly a flawed film, but its truth is beautiful and its power is undeniable."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
63/100
|
41%
|
Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
...endlessly interesting but not ultimately successful."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
65/100
|
85%
|
Meek's Cutoff (2011) |
"
...clearly in-tune with the elements of cinema but with a narrative structure that doesn't allow for those elements to coalesce into "cinema" itself."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
83/100
|
73%
|
The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
...probably the most important film of 2011."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
38/100
|
75%
|
Cold Weather (2011) |
"
...entirely form-less, a movie that starts nowhere and goes nowhere..."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
66/100
|
85%
|
Jane Eyre (2011) |
"
...beautifully rendered though it is, this ambitious Jane Eyre is unable to plumb the depths of agonizing romantic and societal turmoil..."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
90/100
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
...a grand-scale political epic with shattering intimacy at its core..."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
35/100
|
75%
|
Everything Must Go (2011) |
"
...ultimately quite depressing, a film that seems even more aimless and futile than the character whose story it tells."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
72/100
|
73%
|
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) |
"
The total openness with which Spurlock presents his material is at once revelatory in pinpointing just how inescapable the pull of advertising is and just plain fun in the ways it embraces said advertising."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
49/100
|
40%
|
HappyThankYouMorePlease (2011) |
"
...frequently lost and unfocused in spite of being snappy and smart, more often in search of the point than it defines the point."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
95/100
|
85%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
...the weight of humanity and the enormity of nature surround the viewer in ways other films are simply unable to achieve or fathom. "
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
43/100
|
72%
|
The Future (2011) |
"
...plunges unnecessarily deep down the rabbit hole to make a point that is cripplingly simple and obvious."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
49/100
|
47%
|
Anonymous (2011) |
"
...little more than a standard-order Emmerich movie filtered through a time machine. "
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
56/100
|
83%
|
Puss in Boots (2011) |
"
...the story plods along, working overtime to twist the fairytale mythology and leaving behind its characters, who start with a specific set of quirks and never grow from there."
—
Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
|
|
75/100
|
89%
|
Margin Call (2011) |
"
...an end-of-the-world thriller where the uncompromising elements of the apocalypse are not earthquakes or monsoons, but numbers and formulas."
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Next Projection
Posted Dec 7, 2011
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79%
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