|
B
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
It's about what you'd expect from the filmmaker whose first feature, In Bruges, featured a coke-addled dwarf pontificating about the impending race riots to a pair of Belgian hookers. "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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A-
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Affleck impresses with the thematic sophistication of his vision. He is a man who truly believes in the redemptive powers of cinema. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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|
C
|
35%
|
Butter (2012) |
"
There are a few chuckles along the way (mainly sight gags involving butter), but the commentary is obvious and toothless. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 4, 2012
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C-
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
The question isn't how such a ham-fisted, clichéd and, frankly, stupefyingly simple-minded film got made. The question is: How did it recruit such a talented cast into its union-bashing ranks?"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 28, 2012
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|
B+
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
So close to being a great movie is Looper that I want to go back in time and chat with writer-director Rian Johnson about the parts of the film that come up short."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 28, 2012
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|
C+
|
84%
|
Detropia (2012) |
"
The dreamlike visual approach makes for undeniably good cinema but as a meaningful examination of why Detroit unraveled, what it's facing, and where it might go, it's woefully inadequate portraiture."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 23, 2012
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C+
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
Anderson's style is clearly epic in scope, but his narrative approach is ambiguous, opaque and chillingly detached. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 23, 2012
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|
C+
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
Audiences who like to see bullets rip through eyeballs and cheeks will undoubtedly be delighted."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 23, 2012
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|
B
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
End of Watch earns a helluva lot of goodwill through the incredible chemistry of Gyllenhaal and Pena. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 23, 2012
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|
B+
|
87%
|
Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
Smart and sweet, Robot and Frank feels familiar while you're watching it yet consistently finds ways to catch you off-guard."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 24, 2012
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B+
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
It earns its hour-and-a-half of thrills honestly, with good solid storytelling and filmmaking. It's amazing how rare that is these days."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 24, 2012
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B-
|
95%
|
The Queen of Versailles (2012) |
"
Watching Jackie fill cart after Walmart cart with crap the family doesn't need is to witness the new millennium's version of Marie Antoinette."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 21, 2012
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|
B+
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
From a visual standpoint, ParaNorman has set the bar for stop-action animation."
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 17, 2012
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|
A-
|
78%
|
Take This Waltz (2012) |
"
Polley expertly navigates the emotional states of her characters, constantly surprising and challenging our expectations about who will say what and what will happen next."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 15, 2012
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|
B-
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
While the results are mostly entertaining, this is the weakest and least thrilling addition to the Bourne series."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 11, 2012
|
|
C-
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
Instead of creating complex, three-dimensional human beings, "Hope Springs" infantilizes the emotions and life experiences of older Americans. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 7, 2012
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|
B-
|
88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
For fans, Journeys is like that box set of uneven rarities that they simply must own. For casual friends, it's 90 minutes in good company. For the rest - ho-hum."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 6, 2012
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|
C+
|
67%
|
Trishna (2012) |
"
Things start off promising, but, by the time the final reel rolls, Winterbottom's too-detached style seems to be willfully wallowing in oversimplified misery."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 6, 2012
|
|
B+
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
Though the canvass is bigger, the cast more assured and the action pieces more impressive - The Joker's embrace of violence and chaos cut closer to the bone. Nothing here feels as spontaneous or as dangerous as Ledger's lip-smacking performance. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jul 20, 2012
|
|
B
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
When Zeitlin zeroes in on the father and daughter, Beasts of the Southern Wild sucks us in and makes us care."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jul 19, 2012
|
|
B
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012) |
"
Strange as it may sound, Magic Mike's male stripper money shots are less a celebration of Tatum and company's impressive pecs and abs and more the jaded reflections of an artist who's lost faith in his career choices. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 28, 2012
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|
B
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
Merida comes off as a slightly more enlightened version of Jasmine, the discontented princess in Aladdin. And though she doesn't need a handsome young prince to make her whole, she ultimately learns that mother (as a stand-in for father) knows best. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 25, 2012
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B-
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Anderson's latest effort is like an Instagram photo - a nostalgic snapshot that seems to be of different time and place but is really the twee affectation of a world that never existed."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 13, 2012
|
|
C-
|
58%
|
Hysteria (2012) |
"
...the movie is a schwing and a miss."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 13, 2012
|
|
B
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
What would you ask your maker if you had the chance? Has humanity earned the right to live? Prometheus' first 40 minutes are a banquet of juicy themes, speculations and inquiries that are ultimately left to rot on the table."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 7, 2012
|
|
C
|
48%
|
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
"
The movie offers few thrills but will provide some great screen-savers."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 1, 2012
|
|
B-
|
83%
|
Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012) |
"
...not only captures the passion and energy of the event, it demonstrates how easily subcultures can be exploited by corporate interests."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
B-
|
90%
|
Bernie (2012) |
"
...plays like "In Cold Blood" - if it had been directed by Christopher Guest. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
C-
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
...more than two hours of high-priced explosion porn that piles on its chest-thumping "America, f&%k yeah!" machismo with a brazenness that makes Top Gun seem Merchant-and-Ivory quaint."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 18, 2012
|
|
A-
|
92%
|
Headhunters (2012) |
"
...a sordid blast of delirious violence, brutal corporate satire, and male inadequacy."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
B-
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
...a constant sense of creepy-crawly discomfort and well-timed blackouts keep things moving along, like a page-turning thriller."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 17, 2012
|
|
C
|
38%
|
Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
Dark Shadows can't really figure out what kind of movie it is. There's comedy and campy macabre and gothic melodrama and horror but none of it ever congeals into a story that dramatically, tonally or thematically makes sense. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
B+
|
93%
|
Marvel's The Avengers (2012) |
"
As spectacle it's big, stupid fun. Visually it's impressive. For comic geeks it's a wet dream come true. But dramatically it's inert. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 4, 2012
|
|
B-
|
75%
|
Damsels in Distress (2012) |
"
How much you enjoy it will depend on your tolerance for Whit Stillman's dry, self-consciously screwball sense of humor, and a storyline that seems to lose track of itself with alarming frequency. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
B-
|
98%
|
The Island President (2012) |
"
As an insight into the cynical nature of world politics, The Island President is wonky but fascinating stuff ... But as a testament to mankind's willingness to change... it's deeply dispiriting. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
B-
|
64%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
Blunt & Segel make a good team, and the jokes, especially in the first third of the film, are solid. But the movie runs too long, stretching its contrived and disconnected situations beyond their ability to generate laughs or pathos."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
B-
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
In the end, image triumphs over narrative. [But] does the natural world really need to be shaped into a cartoonish morality tale?"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
It doesn't always work and it's rarely scary, but damn if it isn't entertaining as hell ... But Goddard and Whedon are striving for something more than just spectacle for spectacle's sake, and that's where they stumble."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
|
B
|
90%
|
Footnote (2012) |
"
...the movie works best [when it's] sending up pompous bureaucrats, petty university politics and personal jealousies."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
B
|
87%
|
Bully (2012) |
"
...as a launching point for discussion and activism, Bully is clearly necessary. But as a documentary that instructs or informs, it's a bit of a disappointment. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
B
|
84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
...a movie that's so in-your-face violent you come out of the theater feeling like it has smashed your head against the wall for an hour and 40 minutes."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 6, 2012
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
The Kid with a Bike (2012) |
"
...the film delivers a final act as riveting as it is artistically satisfying. Not many films can claim a perfect ending. This one can."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
B
|
82%
|
Goon (2012) |
"
...you have to wonder about a film that wants to emulate the outrageousness of "Slapshot" but feels the need to warm the audience's heart. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
B-
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
[The] screenplay seems more like a clever first draft than well-developed property, but the cast is charming and energetic, and Singh knows how to martial the forces of art direction to create stunningly inventive images. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
B+
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
That ["The Hunger Games"] is rated PG-13 while the soon-to-be released documentary "Bully" received an "R," says some rather unflattering things about our culture."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 23, 2012
|
|
B-
|
67%
|
Friends With Kids (2012) |
"
Obviously heartfelt and unusually sharp-sighted, Friends With Kids is good enough that you wish it were better. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 19, 2012
|
|
C
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
Stylized to the point of absurdity, We Need to Talk About Kevin is little more than a blank, tarted-up cartoon, where Ramsey's hyperbolic efforts seem orchestrated to camouflage the fact that she has nothing to say. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 19, 2012
|
|
B
|
78%
|
Jeff Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
Yes, it's another man-child makes good storyline, yet Jeff, Who Lives at Home still manages to find poignancy, mainly because of Segel's shaggy-dog charm, and his obvious rapport with Helms"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 19, 2012
|
|
B-
|
96%
|
Undefeated (2012) |
"
For all its good intentions, the film, like its main subject, is a tourist, earning trust as it earnestly captures the incredible struggles of these young men, but never digging deep enough to actually make the story theirs. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 19, 2012
|
|
C+
|
53%
|
Being Flynn (2012) |
"
To his credit, De Niro actually gives a committed performance for a change. But that doesn't mean what it once did."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 19, 2012
|
|
B+
|
94%
|
Coriolanus (2011) |
"
Expertly balancing his performance between quiet regret, self-destructive arrogance and howling stubbornness, Fiennes takes center stage without making the role a vanity project."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
B-
|
51%
|
John Carter (2012) |
"
...an impressively designed world that lacks the danger, wonder and sexiness needed to become a classic. Frankly, the movie seems too epic for Stanton's talents. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
B-
|
70%
|
Thin Ice (2012) |
"
Arkin, as expected, is terrific ... but it's Crudup who steals the show. His brutal annihilation of an ice cream cone on Mickey's dashboard is truly a sight to behold."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
A-
|
94%
|
The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) |
"
...creates a sense of wide-eyed wonder and discovery as we experience the awe-inspiring mysteries of an ordinary house as seen from the four-inch borrower's point of view."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
A
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
One of A Separation's many virtues is the way it gradually reveals, Rashomon-like, the complicated facts, half-truths, and lies that each character tells for perfectly legitimate reasons."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 24, 2012
|
|
C
|
53%
|
Safe House (2012) |
"
Safe House exemplifies the kind of mediocre movie Hollywood pushes into the January-February release slot. It's nothing you haven't seen elsewhere, and it's not as good - even with Denzel's impish smile."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 10, 2012
|
|
C+
|
65%
|
The Woman in Black (2012) |
"
There's a difference between being scared and being startled ... It's too bad that director James Watkins fills The Woman in Black with far more of the latter and too little of the former. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 5, 2012
|
|
B
|
85%
|
Chronicle (2012) |
"
Not only does Trank have a real affinity for his characters, his instincts are pretty edgy, capturing the alienation, class rage and instability of teenage emotions."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 5, 2012
|
|
C-
|
56%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
Nobbs is so closed-off, so understated, that we're never given a chance to empathize with or understand him ... The movie is as unrealized and unexpressed as its protagonist."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
B
|
79%
|
The Grey (2012) |
"
Neeson is a master of brooding badassery in a role that might've gone to Charles Bronson 40 years ago. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 27, 2012
|
|
C+
|
46%
|
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) |
"
Horn's naturalistic performance is so unmannered, expressive, and spontaneous that it almost overcomes every self-consciously precocious personality tic Foer has constructed. Almost. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
|
C
|
39%
|
Red Tails (2012) |
"
...though it's tempting to root for Red Tails based on its intentions alone, I fear it would be similar to clapping extra loud for the handicapped child at the little league game, a celebration of effort over execution."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 21, 2012
|
|
B
|
78%
|
The Mill and the Cross (2011) |
"
Visually, it's a lavish dreamscape. But come prepared. This immersive and mostly nonverbal art tour of history could lead to an evening of regret. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
|
B-
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
David Cronenberg goes Merchant-Ivory. Or maybe it's Last Tango in Switzerland ... As an examination of psyche and desire, A Dangerous Method is smart and sophisticated stuff. As drama it fails."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 18, 2012
|
|
C
|
52%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
...dull, clichéd and wrongheaded as a biopic can be, sporting a shallow and hamfisted script, and equally inept direction. But Streep sure makes a great Margaret Thatcher."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
B+
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
As drama, Tinker struggles to make an impact. [It's] far better as a slow-burning study in blank-faced paranoia ... a surprisingly humane portrait of people who regularly engage in acts of inhumanity. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 10, 2012
|
|
B
|
86%
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) |
"
For all its meticulously crafted mood and mise en scène, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is little more than great filmmaking in service of bad art. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 20, 2011
|
|
B-
|
80%
|
Young Adult (2011) |
"
Theron, no stranger to subverting her super-model surfaces, fearlessly embraces Mavis' ugly inner child, presenting her as a boozy black hole of self-absorption, sexuality and unfulfilled neediness. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
B
|
60%
|
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) |
"
...Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. snipe at each other like a homoerotic odd couple, consummating their bromance through innuendo-laden banter and frantic shootouts. To be honest, without them, the movie would be a lumbering and bombastic bore. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
B+
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
"
I wouldn't say Ghost Protocol makes the most of Bird's skills as a dramatic storyteller, but as a talent in service of entertainment above all else, he rises to the occasion."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 19, 2011
|
|
D
|
7%
|
New Year's Eve (2011) |
"
Watching Robert De Niro put yet another nail in the coffin of his career is bad enough, but et tu Michelle Pfeiffer?"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 12, 2011
|
|
B
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
...an attentively crafted reminiscence of wonderment remembered, rather than wonderment experienced."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 23, 2011
|
|
B
|
89%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
It's good, but far less than you'd expect from the guy who started his career with the gleefully provocative Citizen Ruth and Election."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
B-
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
The destruction of all life has never been rendered with more operatic beauty or cruel finality. ...[Melancholia] offers only unforgiving yet aesthetically gorgeous scorn."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
C-
|
24%
|
Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011) |
"
Meyer's subtext transitions from being pro-abstinence into anti-sex. It's one thing to gussy up teenage anxieties over the loss of virginity; it's another to punish Bella's deflowering with death."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
B
|
91%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
Into the Abyss is both affecting and frustrating, the work of a smart and sensitive filmmaker who, much like the justice system he confronts, mistakes half-formed ideas for profound truth."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
C
|
81%
|
The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
Not even DePalma, at his sleaziest, or Hitchcock, at his most sexually frustrated, dared to be so unabashedly ugly."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
C-
|
44%
|
J. Edgar (2011) |
"
Long-winded and trite, this two-and-a-half-hour exercise in Oscar bait plays like a dramatized Wikipedia entry that hasn't been edited for innuendo, half-truths and self-serving revisionism."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 13, 2011
|
|
C
|
69%
|
Tower Heist (2011) |
"
The 99 percent get to pay $10 to watch a member of the 1 percent pretend to steal back their money. Who's laughing their way to the bank now?"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 4, 2011
|
|
A
|
93%
|
Take Shelter (2011) |
"
(Director) Nichols creates the kind of quiet malevolence that Roman Polanski used to excel at."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 28, 2011
|
|
C+
|
74%
|
Blackthorn (2011) |
"
The consequences, costs, and culpability of living life as a gunslinger are never really examined, which leaves us wondering: Why is the movie so damn broody?"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
B
|
47%
|
Anonymous (2011) |
"
Arguing over who really penned Hamlet is a little bit like arguing with a Christian over who wrote the Bible. It all comes down to faith. Still, the movie is as entertaining as it is cluttered."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 27, 2011
|
|
B-
|
82%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
...is uplifting without being maudlin, and has a heart on its sleeve sincerity that sidesteps sentimentality. It's also a bit too long."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 21, 2011
|
|
C
|
40%
|
The Big Year (2011) |
"
If The Big Year does anything, it highlights how far Martin, Black, and Wilson have fallen from the giddy, off-kilter humor they used to bring to projects."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 16, 2011
|
|
C+
|
36%
|
The Thing (2011) |
"
For all that digital technology has given us over the last 30 years, Rob Bottin's slippery and textured practical effects in the 1982 version were far creepier."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 16, 2011
|
|
B
|
85%
|
The Ides of March (2011) |
"
Filled with topnotch actors, punchy dialogue, sophisticated storytelling ... it has the kind of pedigree that begs for an Oscar. Unfortunately, it has nothing to say about politics that we haven't already heard. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 7, 2011
|
|
C
|
37%
|
Restless (2011) |
"
Restless may have a few things working in its favor, but the balance tips toward quaint self-indulgence, teenage narcissism and amateur storytelling. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
C
|
29%
|
Machine Gun Preacher (2011) |
"
Forster's sincere but graceless reinforcement of the white bwana myth is either unable or unwilling to confront the violent and lawless actions of its supposedly God-fearing Christian protagonist."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 30, 2011
|
|
B
|
85%
|
Tucker & Dale vs Evil (2011) |
"
The deaths are inventively splatterific, the one-liners hit often enough, and Labine and Tudyk make for an engaging and likeable team. "
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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C+
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74%
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Mozart's Sister (2011) |
"
Buried beneath the glacially slow pacing and inexpressive acting, there's a potentially interesting examination of female talent suppressed by a heartless patriarchy. "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 28, 2011
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C+
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73%
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Bellflower (2011) |
"
There's a fine line between passion and self-indulgence - and Bellflower hops back and forth between the two. "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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C
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25%
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Killer Elite (2011) |
"
...ust another middle-of-the-road, choppily edited, unsatisfying mess of an action movie. Think of it as The Killer Mediocre."
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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B+
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95%
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Moneyball (2011) |
"
...much of what makes it all work is Pitt and Hill, who have the kind of quirky chemistry that pops off the screen but always feels rooted in reality. "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 22, 2011
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B+
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93%
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Drive (2011) |
"
...delivers enough action, suspense, and revenge to satisfy the multiplex masses while introducing them to the bleak, unsettling stillness and deconstructive black humor of Refn's overseas instincts."
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 16, 2011
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58%
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Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
The plot plays like a humorless remix of Coraline and Gremlins, with the predictable human interactions dragging the story down. But that doesn't mean it isn't creepy. "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 3, 2011
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B
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73%
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The Whistleblower (2011) |
"
As a throwback to the politically conscious, paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, The Whistleblower does a good job of mixing muckraking social commentary and suspense, while avoiding the typical missteps of the genre."
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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B
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68%
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Our Idiot Brother (2011) |
"
It's hard to play a character who's both humanely decent and laugh-out-loud funny, and Rudd delivers in spades."
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 26, 2011
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C+
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75%
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The Names of Love (2011) |
"
It's commendable to want to mix serious ideas and emotional complexity into a light comedy, but you need to have a point that goes deeper than "bigotry is bad." "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 24, 2011
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B+
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95%
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The Guard (2011) |
"
Like bacon, Brendan Gleeson makes everything taste better. "
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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