|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
...runs on some delicious self-critique."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Oct 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
...can't be denied as a landmark visceral experience, even if there are some solid reasons to resist it."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Fearless (1993) |
"
...it's the sense of sadness that gives the movie its backbone."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Oct 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Don Jon (2013) |
"
Technology has enabled this Don to do what the original Don Juan may have ultimately wanted: to be pleasured alone, giving nothing of himself."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (Saibogujiman kwenchana) (2006) |
"
...strikes a balance between blithely endorsing the delusions of its mentally ill characters and comically demonizing them."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
...a movie of wry simplicity that has been subjected to all sorts of avant-garde tinkering."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 25, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
86%
|
Haebyonui Yoin (Woman on the Beach) (2008) |
"
None of it is very compelling, thanks in large part to Hong's painfully perfunctory camera style."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
A Cat in Paris (2012) |
"
...has a delightfully idiosyncratic animated aesthetic - it's like an intermingling of Art Deco and Cubism - but the story is all odd angles"
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
If something smells false at all, it's the structure."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Barry Lyndon (1975) |
"
...the point at which Kubrick's black humor crosses over into blatant parody."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 10, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"
...reaches for the stars and finds itself, against all odds, on the other side of them."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort) (1968) |
"
The true pleasures of The Young Girls of Rochefort are its smaller touches."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Secret of Kells (2010) |
"
Very few animated films have had such a mesmerizing, puzzle-like quality."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
80%
|
Oldboy (2005) |
"
..seems to be about the awfulness and inhumanity of vengeance. But watch how the film moves."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
3-Iron (2004) |
"
Evanescence is the movie's most distinguishing characteristic."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Sep 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
It takes more than intertitles and explanatory voiceovers to derail a master like Wong."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Hombre (1967) |
"
"...depicts the American West as a collision of codes.""
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
52 Pick-Up (1986) |
"
...may very well suffer from mismatched sensibilities."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 24, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
The magic is found in the everyday details of domestic life."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
Pegg and Wright's movies laugh, bleed and explode in the face of maturity, even as they begrudgingly recognize the virtue of it."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
The central tension in Prince Avalanche is one between solitude and community."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 18, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
..intentionally keeps comprehension at bay, and therein lies its moral forcefulness."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
97%
|
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (Microcosmos) (1996) |
"
...inverts our understanding of the cosmos."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1999) |
"
...suddenly we have the cinema - that glorious mutt art."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 13, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
...takes tragedies that have inflamed a nation - from Fruitvale to Sanford, Fla. - and brings them back down to human scale."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
...captivated me with its depiction of a not-so-far-off future and the technology that governs it."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
...a remarkably precise portrait of a certain sort of high schooler."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
If only this performance was in a different movie, one more at sync with the panic that glints in Blanchett's eyes."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) |
"
Tennessee Williams filled the tinderbox. Marlon Brando ignited it."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Invisible Man (1933) |
"
Alarming, both for the way it allows its antihero to fully fall into madness and for the violence that this fall involves."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) |
"
...makes me wish Allen would get men out of the picture more often."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Top of the Lake (2013) |
"
...less interested in correcting the abusive patriarchy at its center than worming around in the ugliness such a power structure generates."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
Sometimes a good horror film makes you chuckle."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
Only God Forgives (2013) |
"
If it's possible to overact while barely blinking, Ryan Gosling achieves it."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
Westworld (1973) |
"
There is some satire here - the devouring tourist becoming prey - but Crichton just lets the joke sit there, heavy on the screen."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 17, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
...never quite tingles your brain the way superior science fiction can."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
I'm So Excited! (2013) |
"
"...gleeful self-distraction in the face of impending doom." "
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 10, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Post Tenebras Lux (2013) |
"
If there's a unifying concept to all of this it's the idea of defilement."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
...partly another adventure, but its main concern is romantic matchmaking."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
Instead of a noble savage, Depp gives us a comic savage - Willy Wonka with a dead bird on his head."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
The Heat (2013) |
"
Is it possible that Melissa McCarthy needs to be more abrasive?"
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
78%
|
Monsters University (2013) |
"
...a movie of unsure identity and unclear purpose."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Simón del desierto (Simon of the Desert) (1965) |
"
It's in the circus that surrounds Simon where we really see Bunuel's dark wit at play..."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Monsters, Inc. (2001) |
"
...the movie becomes a giddy, kiddie inversion of time and space."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
"...a B picture on a massive budget.""
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
...high art as a refreshing summer spritzer."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
...an account of youthful disaffection being assuaged by excessive materialism."
—
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Superman (1978) |
"
...a studio product, certainly, but also something that could have grown from one of Smallville's sun-kissed cornfields."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
The movie opens on Superman's home planet of Krypton, and in a sense it never leaves."
—
LarsenOnFilm
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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