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2.5/4
|
——
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Ultrasonic (2012) |
"
"Ultrasonic" recalls better indie films like "Pi" and "Primer," but there's just not enough story to stretch over 90 minutes, resulting in several scenes that feel like filler, propelled by Rao's good but occasionally too-intrusive electronica score."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 31, 2012
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3/4
|
——
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Murder Capital of the World (2012) |
"
As Mexican drug cartels continue their deadly campaigns of narco-terrorism, it quickly becomes clear why Charlie Minn's film is titled "Murder Capital of the World.""
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Seattle Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
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1.5/4
|
——
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Overnight (2012) |
"
Formulaic to a fault and painfully unfunny..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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The Christening () |
"
Despite its amped-up energy, the film never quite lives up to the promise of its earlier scenes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
20%
|
People V. The State of Illusion (2012) |
"
If you can overlook its shortcomings and focus on the information it provides, you may find it enlightening."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) |
"
You know the drill: A small group of unsuspecting adventurers wanders into danger, and not all of them will get out alive."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 23, 2012
|
|
—
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50%
|
The Rum Diary (2011) |
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 18, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
2012 Oscar Shorts: Live Action & Animated () |
"
All of these Oscar-worthy shorts are intended for big-screen viewing, where the feast of creativity can fully be appreciated."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
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Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts () |
"
Ellis has broken every rule and emerged triumphant, creating a dark, cynical vision of problematic futures made bearable by an undying glimmer of hope for humankind."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2012) |
"
At some point you have to ask: When are fantasy fans going to tire of heroes and villains throwing bolts of energy at each other? Give it a rest already!"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 19, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
Hipsters (2011) |
"
Todorovsky cleverly indicates how every generation holds bragging rights to its own unique brand of youthful defiance."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 1, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
69%
|
Curling () |
"
"Curling" is, in part, a film about secrets. Maybe we know what's going on, maybe we don't. That subtly unsettling ambiguity is yet another thing that makes this beguiling film so enticingly different."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
55%
|
General Orders No. 9 (2011) |
"
An intimate, meticulously crafted meditation on the impact of civilization on the natural and spiritual landscape of the American South."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
The Woman (2011) |
"
"The Woman" is an affront to human decency that no self-respecting critic (even this tolerant horror fan) would enthusiastically endorse."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 13, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
27%
|
Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011) |
"
Shlain struggles to find the thread that connects her father, her upbringing and her own playful curiosity to the complexities of life in the age of texting, tweeting and apps for just about everything."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
25%
|
Killer Elite (2011) |
"
It's an analog thriller that benefits from refreshing injections of low-tech adrenaline."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Road To Nowhere (2011) |
"
The final scene offers clarity, at least, if not a satisfying payoff."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 11, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2011) |
"
All I can tell you is that it's loud, chaotic, colorful, occasionally amusing and aimed at a fanboy target audience."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
Ironclad (2011) |
"
Through it all, Paul Giamatti spits bilious fury as a ruthless king with a mile-wide mean streak and an army of Danish mercenaries. What's not to like?"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
Bride Flight (2011) |
"
For anyone who shrugs at today's movies and thinks "they don't make 'em like they used to," here's a classy, good-looking chick flick in the old-school tradition."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
0%
|
A Beautiful Life (2009) |
"
The film strains credulity by pushing its characters wildly to and fro with a shamelessly sentimental screenplay."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011) |
"
Becomes a transcendent experience that demands the viewer's attentive participation as it miraculously straddles the line between the orchestrated epiphanies of fiction and the simple, unadorned reality of documentary."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 12, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
The Elephant In The Living Room (2011) |
"
An exceptionally compassionate, fair-minded film that clearly states, beyond any rational benefit of the doubt, that raising potentially dangerous animals as pets is destructive to animals and humans alike."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 28, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
Queen Of The Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? (2011) |
"
As it turns out, helping bees is not only spiritually rewarding and environmentally essential, but it's also a lot of fun."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 20, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Rubber (2011) |
"
Goofily amusing for 85 minutes, and a fitting B-feature to the E.T. comedy "Paul.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 7, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Nostalgia for the Light (2011) |
"
"I am convinced that memory has gravitational force," says Guzmán in conclusion. "Nostalgia" states his case so beautifully that even skeptical physicists will be thoroughly convinced."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 31, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
The Last Lions (2011) |
"
No matter how you feel about real-life drama being shaped and enhanced in the editing room, this is wildlife storytelling at its formidable finest."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 10, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Rabbit a la Berlin (Królik po berlinsku) (2010) |
"
Shrewdly combining their own seductive images with archival materials, found footage and observations by artists, journalists and former wall guards, Konopka and Rosolowski create a bunny's-eye view of tumultuous change."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 17, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
The Portuguese Nun (A Religiosa Portuguesa) (2009) |
"
It's a droll, tongue-in-cheek exchange in a film that's well aware of its own unconventional appeal to high-minded cinephiles."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 2, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers (2010) |
"
It's a lot of fun, but it's not the whole story."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 11, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
The Harimaya Bridge (2010) |
"
Essentially, a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie with the picture-postcard beauty of a travelogue."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Bunny and the Bull (2011) |
"
As its story winds through imaginative landscapes of papier-mâché, cardboard cutouts and multilayered stagecraft, the childlike whimsy of Michel Gondry comes to mind. A hint of Terry Gilliam's irreverence adds flavor to the mix."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
43%
|
Highwater (2010) |
"
Serving as director, co- editor and narrator, Brown turns the obsession of top-ranking surfers into a universally appealing celebration of excellence on the treacherous North Shore of Oahu."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 2, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Behind The Burly Q (2010) |
"
More than a dozen of the burlesque performers featured here have died since they were interviewed in 2006, making Zemeckis's slapdash survey definitive by default."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 6, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
Perrier's Bounty (2010) |
"
This is one of those time-killer movies that definitely goes well with a pint of Guinness."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
[Rec] 2 (2010) |
"
The mayhem, efficiently maintained for a just-right 84 minutes, makes [REC] 2 strictly for horror fans."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Johanna (2006) |
"
Mundruczó knows what he's doing, even when it seems like he's intentionally alienating his film's already tiny target audience."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) (2010) |
"
Jeunet's maverick imagination sometimes gets the best of him, and Micmacs is an ultimately exhausting case in point."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 18, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Best Worst Movie (2010) |
"
In 26 years as a film reviewer, I've never seen a film that so perfectly encapsulates the obsession Pauline Kael famously classified as Movie Love."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 18, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Splice (2010) |
"
While it's far from perfect, it's a timely and well-considered thriller about the scarier aspects of genetic engineering."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 3, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
29%
|
Survival of the Dead (2010) |
"
A lot of Survival seems stale, as if Romero were growing bored with his own redundancies. Now in the final years of an uneven career, Romero needs to get out of his comfort zone."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 27, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010) |
"
If you're going to attempt an ambitious action epic, you'd better have the directorial chops to pull it off. Kim clearly doesn't."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
"
This new Nightmare is almost completely redundant, but Freddy's blades remain sharp enough to guarantee Haley's job security for at least a few years."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 29, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
The Losers (2010) |
"
Proving that ensemble chemistry can make or break a franchise, The Losers redeems itself with comedic camaraderie delivered by a well-chosen batch of rising stars."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Sun Behind the Clouds (2010) |
"
Of the many documentaries that have chronicled Tibet's ongoing struggle for independence, The Sun Behind the Clouds offers the most thorough, balanced and up-to-date assessment of the dilemma facing Tibetans under oppressive Chinese rule."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 15, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) |
"
One of Herzog's quirky misfires."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 8, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
34%
|
Formosa Betrayed (2010) |
"
It's a passionate labor of love that pointedly criticizes the U.S. government's failure to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation, independent of mainland China."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 8, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Lourdes (2010) |
"
In a film rich with provocative questions, Hausner audaciously examines the ambivalent nature of miracles. Are they gifts from a loving God or random occurrences, bereft of any moral or meaning?"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
October Country (2009) |
"
Unlike similar yet superior films like Capturing the Friedmans, October Country has no mysteries to probe or revelations to share."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 18, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Old Partner (2009) |
"
Old Partner may strike some as sentimental and repetitious, but it's only because Lee has matched his style to the material."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
79%
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