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4/5
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68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
It doesn't all work -- and it sometimes feels like a much smarter take on Paul Haggis' Crash -- but enough of it works to make it a worthwhile film."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted May 8, 2013
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|
4.5/5
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81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
You will undoubtedly see better movies than Gilles Bourdos' Renoir this year, but there's a good chance you won't see a more breathtakingly gorgeous one."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted May 8, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
A lumbering half-assed attempt at self-seriousness with lots of stuff blowing up, a smattering of repartee, one excellent sequence, and a brace of uninteresting villains."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted May 8, 2013
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|
3.5/5
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90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Beyond the Hills' undercurrents prove more interesting than its storyline or characters."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 30, 2013
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|
.5/5
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Can I just say that The Big Wedding smells from herring and be done with it?"
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
That I didn't mind seeing it -- apart from finding the opening stretch on the tedious side -- isn't enough in my mind to warrant its reported $120 million price tag."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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|
5/5
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Nichols is something truly rare -- a non-condescending observer and chronicler of the modern South."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 25, 2013
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4/5
|
——
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That Night in Rio (1941) |
"
Yes, it's that kind of patently silly plot, but it works nicely here thanks to pleasant players, luminous Technicolor, a bright screenplay, and good songs. "
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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|
4/5
|
82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
If you can meet Like Someone in Love on its terms, it has much to recommend it."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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|
.5/5
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
Don't. Don't go see this. Don't subject yourself to this. Don't subject your brain to this. Don't give these people your money and encourage them to make more of this."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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|
5/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
A beguilingly brilliant cinematic puzzle."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 13, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
No matter how you slice it, it's a kind of horror wind-up toy: Once you set it in motion, it's going to do the same thing it always does. This one's no different. "
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 13, 2013
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|
4.5/5
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
A sobering look at how the wheels of justice can be -- and are -- manipulated by political expediency and a small town's tendrils of the old boy network"
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
Temptation (2013) |
"
Never has a film so needed Tyler Perry in Madea drag or a pot of boiling grits hurled in someone's face."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
This is not the first time that Meyer's muddled prose has dragged an interesting director to his artistic doom."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
36%
|
The Collection (2012) |
"
Much splattery nonsense ensues -- some of it rather unpleasantly sadistic, and none of it particularly clever."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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|
4/5
|
——
|
Torrid Zone (1940) |
"
Yeah, it's a melange of much, but, boy, is it ever a lot of slickly made fun."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
Red meat for the red state-minded -- and something of an embarassment for the rest of us."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
It's not only entertaining, it's pretty darn visually impressive. On occasion, it's even rather touching."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
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4/5
|
——
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The Battle Of The Sexes (1928) |
"
The fact is Griffith delivered a good, solid, creative movie - it just wasn't the movie the studio was marketing. Seen today it's easier to appreciate than it was in 1928."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
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Calling Dr. Death (1943) |
"
The kind of thing that makes you feel that at least someone was really trying to make a good movie."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
Chances are that you'll come away from this long film feeling a sense of knowing its characters."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Easily the most remarkable film I've seen this year, and one that lingers in the mind. I also strongly suspect that it will pay dividends on repeat viewings."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Remains stubbornly mediocre without ever being actively awful. It's stuck in this dreadful oily neutral of being almost virulently OK."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
While there are quite a few fine things in Oz, I can't say I found the film entirely satisfying."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 13, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
Something so weird and off the beaten track that it's kind of wonderful."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 13, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
The fact that A Good Day to Die Hard returns the Die Hard series to its R-rated roots doesn't change the fact that this latest entry is pretty dire."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 6, 2013
|
|
.5/5
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Here we have about 70 minutes worth of movie spread out over 111 mind-numbingly painful minutes of running time."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 6, 2013
|
|
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
A tepid attempt at making an alien abduction yarn into a Paranormal Activity movie (a dubious enough notion at best) -- and a boring little movie."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
I haven't decided whether Mr. Waugh is actually on a fool's errand or merely charged with a thankless task, but the film doesn't really work in either intended capacity."
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 6, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
Here we have the three B's of horror -- bland, bad and boring -- packed into 88 minutes (that seemed much longer) in a sequel that nobody asked for."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 6, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Not a great movie, but it is a good, entertaining one. More than that cannot reasonably be expected."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 6, 2013
|
|
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
The first release of 2013 I'd put on the must-see list. "
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
82%
|
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge) (1999) |
"
Truly extraordinary filmmaking from a unique cinematic voice."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
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Invisible Ghost (Murder by the Stars)(The Phantom Killer) (1941) |
"
The first -- and in most ways, the best -- of Bela Lugosi's 'Monogram Nine' from legendarily penurious producer Sam Katzman."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
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The Frozen Ghost (1945) |
"
The movie seems a lot better than it probably is if you stop to examine it very closely. But why on earth would you want to do that?"
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
——
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One Way Passage (1932) |
"
A beautiful little movie that has weathered its 80 years effortlessly."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
Ultimately, it's just a pleasant little movie where the dramatic highlight is whether or not King George VI will bring himself to eat a hot dog."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
For pure movie enjoyment -- or movie geek (I plead guilty) enjoyment, if you insist -- I hadn't had this much plain fun in a while."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
I'd call it efficient. I would not call it inspired, groundbreaking, brilliant, innovative -- or even particularly effective as drama."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) |
"
You may think that after six movies that there would be nothing left to say on the topic of Texas chainsaw massacres, and you would be right."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
82%
|
Alphaville (1965) |
"
It may mean absolutely nothing, but it's undeniably one interesting ride -- across universes in a Ford Galaxy."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
I found it humorless (yes, I know it's called Les Miserables, but did it have to include the audience?), unaffecting and absolutely interminable."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
Your best bet for a movie that will entertain you, make you laugh and maybe even make you tear-up."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
All in all I think of it as The Hobbit: A Better Than Expected Journey."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Think of it as a somewhat less stylish Ed Wood, only about people with actual talent, and you'll be in the right ballpark."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Dec 12, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
Constantly entertaining, cleverly written, enthusiastically played and with a distinct and very appealing look."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
A film both wonderful and frustrating -- and about in equal measure. "
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
A glorious feast of a movie that is unlike anything else you will see this year."
—
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
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