|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
Scream (1996) |
"
The picture is so full of cross-references, self-mockery and movies within movies (including a stalking that's recorded on video) that it can't help turning into a precious two-hour in-joke."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
"
Using the most modest means, Sanchez and Myrick manage to tell a compelling story, create recognizable characters and hold our attention even when there's literally nothing on the screen."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Our Nixon (2013) |
"
The result is maudlin beyond belief, especially Nixon's farewell to the aides he's in the process of firing, but other moments simply register as shockingly out of touch."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
This lively film takes a "greatest-hits" approach to Reich, who fears that we're headed for another financial debacle if we don't take a more serious approach to taxes and education."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
53%
|
The Muslims Are Coming (2013) |
"
Some of the stand-up material is funny, but the interaction with audience members is priceless."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
34%
|
Touchy Feely (2013) |
"
There's something fresh and new here, something that wasn't so dominant in [Shelton's] previous work."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
"Short Term 12" is the kind of teen-oriented movie that's often dismissed as an "after-school special," but thanks to a nimble young cast it's frequently better than that."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Museum Hours (2013) |
"
An enthralling and sometimes droll meditation on life, art and mortality, not to mention Internet porn and its influence on modern art."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
Even at its worst, it prefers to stimulate rather than launch another noisy parade of stereotypes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
It's a daring performance that instantly undermines Kutcher's pretty-boy features and makes them seem ugly and brutally uncompromising."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
72%
|
The Wall (2013) |
"
It's a shudder-inducing original."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
"
Jonathan Demme's hypnotic adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel has a seriousness and intensity that's been entirely lacking in horror movies lately."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
The Freshman (1990) |
"
Andrew Bergman's The Freshman is a charmed comedy, the kind of seemingly effortless movie in which everything falls neatly into place, as if ordained by nature."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
The Lion King (2011) |
"
It's perhaps the closest Disney has come to creating a consciously mythical entertainment in the style of Star Wars. Yet like that film it keeps its sense of humor and fun."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
91%
|
Men in Black (1997) |
"
Men in Black is moderately amusing, well-constructed and mercifully short, but it fails to deliver on the zaniness of its first half."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
In the Line of Fire (1993) |
"
For the most part, this is an exciting, engaging thriller, well-directed by Wolfgang Petersen."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
The clash of cultures is harrowing and sometimes hilarious."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
A Hijacking (2013) |
"
Lindholm justifies his confidence in a visual approach that's refreshingly realistic."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
64%
|
A Rage in Harlem (1991) |
"
With its snazzy Elmer Bernstein score, its snappy period flavor and its all-star cast doing something completely different, A Rage in Harlem should have been much more fun than it is."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
23%
|
Dying Young (1991) |
"
Worst of all, Dying Young is a love story about two people who don't seem to be in love with each other."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
Flatliners (1990) |
"
Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon all bring conviction to these scenes, and William Baldwin, as the most irresponsible of the students, continues to suggest an electric screen presence that rivals his brother Alec."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
16%
|
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) |
"
If you loved Wolfe's book, you may very well hate the movie. If you simply liked the novel, you may be simultaneously entertained and disappointed by what De Palma and Cristofer have done to it."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Dirty Wars (2013) |
"
By emphasizing the human cost of the operation, Scahill and Rowling turn "blowback" into much more than an abstract military-political term. "
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
72%
|
Wish You Were Here (2013) |
"
An Australian mystery-thriller dominated by Joel Edgerton's fearless performance as a compromised married man."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
7%
|
Gone Fishin' (1997) |
"
This is one of the summer's sorrier excuses for a major-studio release."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
The Next Karate Kid (2001) |
"
The Next Karate Kid is harmless as children's entertainment, but for 104 very long minutes, there isn't a recognizable human being in sight."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks (2013) |
"
Sometimes it takes a feature-length documentary to stitch together a story we think we already know."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
76%
|
The Kings of Summer (2013) |
"
Starts out as a raunchy teen comedy, slips into nature-epic mode, then adds a romantic triangle and finally finds a comfort zone in family-sitcom land."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Air Bud 2 - Golden Receiver (1998) |
"
The original film's director, Charles Martin Smith... has been replaced by Richard Martin, who brings a family-hour blandness to every scene."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
4%
|
Getting Even With Dad (1994) |
"
The new summer movies don't get much more formulaic than this bald attempt to capture the audience that can't wait to see the next three or four installments of Home Alone."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 28, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
10%
|
Fire Birds (1990) |
"
If you think of movies as big-screen video games, see Fire Birds. If not, you may want to skip this Top Gun with copters and cartels."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
11%
|
Calendar Girl (1994) |
"
Sweet and airy and pleasantly nostalgic, Jason Priestley's first starring vehicle is cotton-candy entertainment for summer's end."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 28, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
7%
|
Ghost Dad (1990) |
"
Ghost Dad may be the dumbest major-studio movie of this none-too-bright summer."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
0%
|
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) |
"
The travelogue-style photography is soothing, the bodies are pretty and the music isn't offensive, but feature-length movies can't survive on the ingredients for a standard airline commercial."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
Radio Flyer (1992) |
"
A very odd, expensive, ambitious failure that tries hard to achieve the Spielberg touch but succeeds only in reminding you of how few filmmakers can successfully lay claim to his territory."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
40%
|
Newsies (1992) |
"
Bale and Menken are literally what make the movie sing."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
22%
|
Color of Night (1994) |
"
Mundane sex scenes, a standard L.A. car chase and Bakula's outrageously gory death scene (which plays like an unintentional parody) are all part of the predictable script."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
How much is fiction and how much is deliberate confusion?"
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
At 153 minutes, the movie does occasionally flirt with tedium, but the risk is worth it: The whole is finally greater than the sum of its pulpy parts. What could have been an anything-goes pastiche has surprising rigor and narrative clarity."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Dance Me Outside (1994) |
"
Filled with characters who are more frustrated than ennobled, Dance Me Outside deftly turns a number of narrative conventions upside down."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Schindler's List (1993) |
"
More than any previous non-documentary Holocaust movie, this one convinces through the accumulation of such detail."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
The Source Family (2013) |
"
While the movie isn't up to much more than illustrating how far his reach extends (two of the commune members live in Yelm, Thurston County), it's a very agreeable entertainment."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Sun Don't Shine (2013) |
"
Writer-director Amy Seimetz's oddly sunny film noir is a classic tale of young lovers on the run, reminiscent in tone of the darkly comic moments in Terrence Malick's "Badlands.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
It's left to the actors to make up for the gaffes, and they're definitely up to the task."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
It may be a slight movie, but it has its sunny charms."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Band Of Sisters (2012) |
"
A revealing account of a work in progress."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
42 (2013) |
"
"42" can feel incomplete (the bland music and the filmmaker's obsession with dates and places are problematic), yet at the same time it offers a very good place to start. "
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
For all its ups and downs and occasional detours into boorishness, it's an original that will surprise if not necessarily delight fans of Garrone's very different crime drama, "Gomorrah.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
Leviathan (2013) |
"
Gradually you realize you're witnessing a nonlinear entertainment that's setting its own rules, and you'll either go with the flow or take an early leave."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
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