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5/5
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98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
Like the movie itself, Bullock is brilliant, taking us inch by inch through Stone's alternating panic, despair, hope and hopelessness in the chaotic struggle to survive."
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Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 3, 2013
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2/5
|
53%
|
Instructions Not Included (2013) |
"
A sloppy melange of unpersuasive melodrama, amateurish mugging, unfunny comedy and mawkish sentimentality."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Call it The Not-Half-Bad Gatsby. Or rather, it is half-bad, but the not-bad half turned out better than expected."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted May 10, 2013
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|
2/5
|
23%
|
Ready to Rumble (2000) |
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
... parodies, by faithful imitation, the silly adolescent soap opera of Glee ..."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
... breathes new life into the conventions of the cop-buddy movie ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
... suitably grimy and relentlessly violent."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
33%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
... Gyllenhaal and Davis make a powerhouse team ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
... has an irresistible energy and a don't-give-a-damn unpredictability ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Hotel Transylvania (2012) |
"
... another empty-calorie animated feature ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
83%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
If your cringe threshold is high enough, this is one of the funniest comedies of the year."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
... a bizarre hybrid of Rocky, Warrior and Mr. Holland's Opus ..."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
... feels like exactly what it is: a padded-out short."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
... a crackling good suspense thriller ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
63%
|
Sinister (2012) |
"
Writer-director Scott Derrickson does absolutely nothing right."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Liberal Arts (2012) |
"
... likeable in its unambitious way."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
5%
|
Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) |
"
Rand's detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Detropia (2012) |
"
... will do little for Motor City tourism."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Taken 2 (2012) |
"
... less credible, less suspenseful and less satisfying than it was before."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
17%
|
The Watch (2012) |
"
... one of the funniest movies of the year."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
33%
|
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) |
"
... rather solemn whimsy, but hard to dislike ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
... all middle with no beginning -- and, of course, no end, so the franchise can go on."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
The Imposter (2012) |
"
... both interesting and repellent."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
Sparkle (2012) |
"
... transfers the 1976 cult hit from 1950s Harlem to '60s Detroit with faults and virtues intact."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Premium Rush (2012) |
"
... a lightning-paced, hyper-adrenalized entertainment."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
... not so much creepy as simply unpleasant ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
49%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
... a wacky trailer-trash farce ..."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
Red Hook Summer (2012) |
"
... shimmers with unfocused energy."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
39%
|
The Possession (2012) |
"
... a stale and shameless rip-off of The Exorcist ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
... if you can take it, there's good stuff here ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Sleepwalk With Me (2012) |
"
... pleasant entertainment with overtones of personal confession ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
5%
|
The Cold Light of Day (2012) |
"
... the kind of shoddy, low-rent stinker the robots on Mystery Science Theater 3000 used to enjoy ripping to shreds."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
22%
|
The Words (2012) |
"
One of the meatiest movies of the year ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
... a tightly written, sharply acted melodrama with a Tiffany gleam."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
... easy to take star-vehicle entertainment ..."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
... an attractively wrapped but thick and indigestible slab of baloney."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Ted (2012) |
"
... just misses being a real classic ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
People Like Us (2012) |
"
... rises above its Lifetime-channel trappings ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012) |
"
... the director, the unpredictable Steven Soderbergh, gives the clichés a surface gloss of credibility."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) |
"
... a sympathetic, even adoring portrait ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
... worthless junk, just like the three worthless movies that came before it."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
42%
|
Step Up Revolution (2012) |
"
... the series rises again to the mediocrity it attained in the first two movies."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 30, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
41%
|
Rock of Ages (2012) |
"
... the driving beat keeps toes tapping."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
21%
|
That's My Boy (2012) |
"
... cheerless vulgarity instead of laughs."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
34%
|
Lola Versus (2012) |
"
... at heart it's just a trite and shallow Hollywood rom-com ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
"
It's chemistry; sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't."
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
Such are the pleasures of improv when the players are as sharp and canny as they are here. "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) |
"
... fairly bulges with quirky hangdog charm ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
... has the customary supple Pixar animation ... [but] the story lacks punch ... "
—
Sacramento News & Review
Posted Jul 5, 2012
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