|
2/4
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
My suspicion is that Apatow made a conscious decision to throw episodes at us scattershot to reflect the battlefield chaos of a relationship in motion. "
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
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|
4/4
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
Anderson's manner becomes a second skin and essential to the script, making Moonrise Kingdom a most comfortable way to watch matters uncomfortable."
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
We are invested in this rescue mission not simply because these are fellow Americans in peril, but also because Argo takes the time to make each person behind enemy lines unique and authentic. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
The issue with a motion picture reproduction of the musical is not whether the songs will be spectacular or whether nostalgia will play a role; the issue is whether director can capture the play's epic scope and whether the cast was up to the challenge."
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Spielberg undoubtedly is asking us to pay attention and learn something - there is no nodding off in this class - but even with all the talk of ratification, and envoys, and securing votes, Lincoln is an engaging, if not rousing film-going experience. "
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
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|
4/4
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
More than anything, the film seeks to capture the anguish of a man trapped - not struggling with, not dealing with, but TRAPPED - by his own vices. "
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
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|
3/4
|
88%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
The Dark Knight Rises directly counters the arguments made against The Dark Knight. Maybe, sometimes, it is better to leave the demons unvanquished. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
78%
|
Brave (2012) |
"
Although the previews would have you believe that the film was an epic journey for the flame-haired firebrand, we are really treated (or deprived, depending on expectation) to a humble, small scale morality play. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
"
For all its curiosities and loose ends, Beasts of the Southern Wild casts a formidable spell."
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
The term movie magic should be reserved for scenes such as the one where the unflinching realism of the natural disaster is conveyed without a single false note. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
34%
|
Butter (2012) |
"
As smart, savvy, and witty as the film is at times, it never escapes the inherent identity crisis in its makeup"
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Oct 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Knuckleball! (2012) |
"
Watching R.A. Dickey become one of the biggest sports celebrities in New York was about as welcome a surprise as a knuckleball that floats and drops under the batter's swing. "
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Bangitout.com
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
62%
|
It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodor Herzl (2012) |
"
A blow by blow, thoroughly researched rendering of the Hungarian secular journalist's instrumental part in taking Zionism from the theoretical to the actual."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
Scott was so intent on returning his spawn to glory that he mistakenly shot for Alien by way of 2001: A Space Odyssey, making it all the more disappointing when he inevitably settled for Aliens by way of Lost in Space."
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Bangitout.com
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Hanna (2011) |
"
The ingredients are there for success, but as we build toward resolution (or even increased conflict) Hanna fails to develop at a rate to match the sum of its parts. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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|
3/4
|
83%
|
Warrior (2011) |
"
One cannot genuinely fault Warrior for the clichéd elements of its story, simply because reviving the cliché is the whole point."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) |
"
Criticizing or belittling the film is sort of like taking issue with a cup of tea or a navy business suit from Men's Warehouse."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
Contagion (2011) |
"
Soderbergh, who is as skilled as they come at uplifting routine templates, gives the infection movie über-A-list treatment. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) |
"
When I say The Adventures of Tintin sent me back to a more innocent, idealized time; a moment that I wanted to share with my children, I am not talking about watching a curiously brave investigative reporter. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 11, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
The Muppets (2011) |
"
By focusing on the Muppets of The Muppet Show (1976-1981) rather than the independent Muppets of prior films, the writers open up an unexplored aspect of Muppet lore ripe for revival. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 11, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
74%
|
Rampart (2012) |
"
Thankfully, the ever-watchable Woody Harrelson re-teamed with his The Messenger director, Oren Moverman, to carry what may have otherwise been relegated to late night TMC and the discount DVD racks at Duane Reade."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
89%
|
The Descendants (2011) |
"
Hawaii's lush and luminous landscape is well appreciated, but it does nothing to mask the maddeningly irrational plot-points Payne expects us to swallow in the name of an alleged skewering social commentary. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
The Way (2011) |
"
Between the sprightly soundtrack, the sensational on-location shoot, the anchoring performance by Sheen, and the methodological freedom permitted so that Avery's pilgrimage can naturally take its course, The Way immerses body and soul. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Terrence Malick's astonishing masterpiece of light, movement, and spirit, casts a dizzying spell and somehow manages to pronounce the ineffable while telling its humble tale. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
90%
|
Bridesmaids (2011) |
"
Whether it says something incisive about female friends and their inability to truly feel comfortable and rise above petty jealousies and competition, Bridesmaids never achieves the wolf pack camaraderie that The Hangover executes so naturally. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
Albert Nobbs (2012) |
"
Although one cannot question the quality of performances here, with Glenn Close Mia Wasikowska, and Janet McTeer leading the way, Albert Nobbs suffers for lack of breadth and vision. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) |
"
As much as Olson's incendiary performance reveals her individualism and true power as a career woman and artist, it also exposes her as an enticing dish served up. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
Melancholia takes great pleasure in distressing its audience with ugly, harrowing imagery and behavior, but, more often that not, Von Trier's film is an exhibition of life's beauty and the shame it would be to watch it burn. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 29, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011) |
"
While we were hoping and rightly expecting some old school magic from the director of Iron Man, the director of Iron Man 2 showed up. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
Only in a world where James Franco portrays Will Rodman, a brilliant biochemist working for a pharmaceutical company, can apes get the best of mankind. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) |
"
What the film can never overcome, though it mightily tries via superior score, costumes, and atmosphere, is the inanity of its premise. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) |
"
While swept up in the desperate search for Horcruxes, Yates allows us to feel once more as though we are very much in the middle of things, but, alas, it was a trick and a false hope, because in the end...it was, irrevocably, THE END."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 23, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
The Debt (2011) |
"
The Debt, for all its heart-stopping power and subject-matter gravitas, is not without its fair share of cliché. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Sep 12, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
87%
|
X-Men: First Class (2011) |
"
In Matthew Vaughn's pitch-perfect, fluid, sparklingly edited movie, we learn about demons. And wouldn't you know it? It's all about Jewish revenge. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jul 14, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011) |
"
Super 8 embodies everything unsettling and disappointing about the culmination of [Lost]."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jun 28, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
78%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) |
"
The domineering final stretch of a story that has become as much popcorn distraction as old, reliable friend is shaping up to be part family reunion, part merciless slugfest. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Kick-Ass (2010) |
"
Kick-Ass is such an exciting, refreshing development in comic book filmmaking that I want to shout it from the rooftops"
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) |
"
Scott Pilgrim is a film where youth is power and power is music, video games, and confronting your exes with how great your current hook up is, but like most hipsters you meet, it is more impressed with itself than anything else"
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
62%
|
Salt (2010) |
"
The reason Salt succeeds is because it believes in its lunacy and goes for it in a frank, but fabulous way."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
83%
|
The Ghost Writer (2010) |
"
I would not put the narrative conceit The Ghost Writer perpetrates in its final moments past a doped up high school sophomore in a screenwriting elective."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
68%
|
Shutter Island (2010) |
"
Scorsese and DiCaprio, in their fourth film together, again create an intense, provocative film-going experience, where the ride, accommodations, and destination are all first class. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Black Swan (2010) |
"
Aronofsky holds his audience's throat with both hands and squeezes, firming his grip with each scene."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
It is the film by which to measure the density of all others. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
Waiting for Superman (2010) |
"
The audience of the public school system documentary Waiting for "Superman" is either supposed to get depressed into action, enraged into action, or overwhelmed into inaction"
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
The Social Network (2010) |
"
The merits of Facebook can be debated; the merits of The Social Network are undeniable. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Barney's Version (2011) |
"
This Chanukah, your plate of latkas is not the only oily mess worth appreciating. Give yourself the gift of Barney. "
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 30, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
48%
|
Can't Buy Me Love (1987) |
"
The story of a nerd who pays a perky cheerleader to date him so he will become popular is almost pornographic in its uninhibited, primitive display of the confusion and insecurity that roils like a tempest in the developing mind of the American teenager"
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 30, 2010
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
The Terminator (1984) |
"
Throughout his extraordinary, legend in his own time career, James Cameron has done very little that cannot be legitimately considered well ahead of its time."
—
Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 30, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
96%
|
True Grit (2010) |
"
True Grit carries on gallantly for much if its ride, but when the sun sets in the west, it's still missing something."
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Bangitout.com
Posted Dec 30, 2010
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