|
2/5
|
——
|
The Good Lie () |
"
A Good Lie is a coming-of-age thriller that winds us up for a disappointing payoff, but for a while, it provides a stylish and disturbing twist on the genre."
—
Canada.com
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2013) |
"
Greenwich Village: The Music That Defined A Generation makes you wish you'd been there too, hearing it all for the first time."
—
Canada.com
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
0%
|
The Colony (2013) |
"
There are too many clichés and half-developed characters to make us care enough, and the film's vision is not claustrophobic enough to envelop us in its world."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
33%
|
Tai Chi Hero (2013) |
"
Tai Chi Hero is a kung fu mashup, sticking steam-powered airplanes made of Victorian-age gewgaws and metal gears into one of those martial arts films where people float through the air without benefit of any flying machines at all."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
Dunst, a veteran of the famous upside-down Spider-Man kiss, may be used to this, but viewers of the fantasy romance Upside Down may have the dizzy feeling of blood rushing to their heads. What is going on here and, furthermore, why?"
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
[Bay] is trying to turn what could have been an odd little story about a group of deluded losers into a candy-coloured blockbuster. Like everybody's biceps, it's over-inflated."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
71%
|
My Awkward Sexual Adventure (2013) |
"
Director Sean Garrity keeps the action moving, but can't rescue the movie from its a tone of part earnest Canadiana, part unexpurgated vulgarity."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (2013) |
"
[A] vanity project."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Things are not what they seem in the sleek sci-fi film Oblivion, a two-hour exercise in set design, empty calories and Tom Cruise. It would be better if you could figure out what they seem, so you could be properly shocked."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
The best part of Scary Movie 5 -- not counting the part when it's over -- comes near the beginning."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
Director Wayne Blair -- another veteran of the stage show -- finds his footing during the film's many musical numbers."
—
Canada.com
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
78%
|
Thérèse Desqueyroux (2013) |
"
Beautifully mounted and dryly elliptical."
—
Canada.com
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
Director Peter Webber, who found a more elegant balance between history and passion in Girl With a Pearl Earring, has turned Emperor into a stagy and hollow kind of story."
—
Canada.com
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
It is a parade of bare breasts, writhing bottoms and street gang exhibitionism, tied together with a Girls Gone Wild sensibility and made by a director looking for something resonant in the depraved rites of spring."
—
Canada.com
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Olympus Has Fallen is an exercise in homeland implausibility."
—
Canada.com
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Farrell and Rapace are well suited, two quiet performers who hint at hidden depths."
—
Canada.com
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
We're a little too jaded to be shaken by the idea that demonic possession is real, and the clichés of the genre -- the body that pops out from behind the doorway and turns out to be a friend rather than Beelzebub -- are past stale."
—
Canada.com
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
96%
|
Blancanieves (2013) |
"
It moves slowly at times and the strictures of its classic story keep it from expanding into the joyous sense of rediscovery we got from The Artist. In its own way, though, it's a classic."
—
Canada.com
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
Dark Skies is a drama of the fraught modern world, but Stewart doesn't tie it together. He just throws it all out there in the hope that something will stick."
—
Canada.com
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Jack the Giant Slayer forestalls all that by becoming a story of a princess and a rescue, gussied up with a lot of special effects that are, happily, much more accomplished than what they looked like in the trailers."
—
Canada.com
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
The King's Speech (2010) |
"
It is a wonderful entertainment, a fascinating history lesson and a showcase for several delightful performances."
—
Canada.com
Posted Feb 16, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
It heralds a note of spirituality that would be about the darnedest thing ever if it didn't feel borrowed from another movie that knocked us sideways with a similar shocker."
—
Canada.com
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Movie 43 (2013) |
"
Movie 43 is the year's first utter disaster."
—
Canada.com
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
|
92%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
The result is a film that might be too smart for its own good, a piece of meta-fiction that's all meta. The Cabin in the Woods isn't trying to scare us as much as it's trying to enlighten us about being scared, then settles for amusing us about it."
—
Canada.com
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Ben Affleck's wildly entertaining thriller Argo is further proof of the old Hollywood adage that fiction is stranger than truth after all."
—
Vancouver Sun
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Lewis keeps his fire on a low flame, quietly navigating the underlying tone of hagiography and emerging as a believable man, and exactly the kind of pragmatic idealist America could use today."
—
Canada.com
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
What gives it life are the performances of Gyllenhaal and Peña. They emerge as beacons of friendship in a bleak world of barred windows, barking dogs and strutting gangsters."
—
National Post
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
The result is a 92-minute misconduct penalty."
—
National Post
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
It's anodyne but comfortable, and Rogen and Streisand form an amiable bond, allowing for the way she sticks her nose into every aspect of his life."
—
Canada.com
Posted Dec 18, 2012
|
|
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Once again, Jackson proves adept at capturing the tone and feel of Middle Earth, and the film takes us along familiar trails to meet some of our old friends."
—
Canada.com
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
[Playing for Keeps is] a mushy-headed vehicle for what are supposed to be a lot of high-voltage star turns. Nothing much makes sense, but look at all the celebrities. This would be better if they had anything interesting, or appropriate, to do."
—
Canada.com
Posted Dec 6, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
By the end, we appreciate the wisdom of the character who says, "Dude, we're living Call of Duty. And it sucks.""
—
Canada.com
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
|
6%
|
Silent Hill: Revelation (2012) |
"
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is a sequel to the slightly less-mad horror film Silent Hill, both of them based on a video game. This makes it a rare triple-header of indications that this is not a film for the more mature moviegoer."
—
National Post
Posted Oct 29, 2012
|
|
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
The Amazing Spider-Man puts a new spin on an old tale: it's like seeing a new production of Hamlet, say, although with fewer soliloquies -- and fewer dead bodies, for that matter"
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Jul 2, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
The Hunger Games has a rich sense of history that bobs on the surface of its culture of grim amusement."
—
Calgary Herald
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
The secrets of The Woman in Black turn out to be as you might expect: It's the telling of the tale, rather than the upshot, that provides the shivers."
—
National Post
Posted Feb 2, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
91%
|
Arthur Christmas (2011) |
"
Quite brilliant."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Dec 5, 2011
|
|
|
73%
|
The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
There are few surprises in its drama, and the relentless savagery of the wrongdoers wears you down. However, there is no denying the strength of its story and the commitment of its cast."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
3/5
|
71%
|
Friends With Benefits (2011) |
"
There's some fun in this if you stick with it."
—
Vancouver Sun
Posted Aug 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
53%
|
The Mechanic (2011) |
"
People who think they don't make movies like they used to should check out The Mechanic, a persuasive replica of a 1970s B-film with much of the same genre splatter."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
|
2%
|
Meet the Spartans (2008) |
"
It's only about an hour and a quarter long, although a closing dance number stretches it out another few minutes. Brevity, it turns out, is also the soul of stupidity."
—
Canada.com
Posted Jan 25, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Pieces of April (2003) |
—
National Post
Posted Nov 14, 2003
|
|
2/4
|
17%
|
A Problem with Fear (2003) |
—
National Post
Posted Nov 4, 2003
|
|
—
|
15%
|
I Spy (2002) |
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Nov 16, 2002
|
|
2.5/5
|
7%
|
Dragonfly (2002) |
"
Becomes a bit of a mishmash: a tearjerker that doesn't and a thriller that won't."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Mar 9, 2002
|
|
|
14%
|
Black Knight (2001) |
"
The humour is 90 minutes of the same joke."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Nov 24, 2001
|
|
|
66%
|
Spy Game (2001) |
"
It needs twice the tradecraft and half the music."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Nov 24, 2001
|
|
|
13%
|
Thirteen Ghosts (13 Ghosts) (2001) |
"
Beck ... is very good on volume but not much for tension, suspense or frightening anyone."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Nov 2, 2001
|
|
|
96%
|
Chicken Run (2000) |
"
Delightful Chicken Run pure poultry."
—
Ottawa Citizen
Posted Nov 2, 2001
|
43%
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