Kurt Loder

Kurt Loder

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:
Current.com , MTV , Reason Online , Wide Screen
Critics' Group:
New York Film Critics Online
Total Reviews:
726

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
21% The Hangover Part III (2013) " Achingly unfunny." — Reason Online
Posted May 24, 2013
97% Before Midnight (2013) " The combination of high-level performance and subtle construction, in a picture in which nothing blows up, is actually thrilling. " — Reason Online
Posted May 24, 2013
87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " Techno overkill is a big part of the movie's fun, and nothing overkills quite like IMAX." — Reason Online
Posted May 17, 2013
78% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Surprisingly surprising..." — Reason Online
Posted May 3, 2013
90% Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) " There may be no such thing as "magic," but Ricky Jay's mastery of illusion really is magical." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 26, 2013
99% Mud (2013) " McConaughey's resurgence is a glorious thing, and it continues with Mud. " — Reason Online
Posted Apr 26, 2013
88% Upstream Color (2013) " Baffling from beginning to end, but also woozily beautiful." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 19, 2013
55% Oblivion (2013) " A light sci-fi snack of gently pre-chewed elements from other, meatier futuristic movies." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 19, 2013
67% Disconnect (2013) " Gripping -- filled with rich performances by a top ensemble cast and powered by a script that punches home its points with memorable detail." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 12, 2013
42% To The Wonder (2013) " We feel a tide of boredom rising. But it's Terrence Malick, so we hang on." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 12, 2013
68% Trance (2013) " Dreamland psycho-thriller elevates plot-knotting mind games to a delirious new level." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 5, 2013
62% Evil Dead (2013) " This exercise in classical blood-bath monotony does its job, but little more." — Reason Online
Posted Apr 5, 2013
82% The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) " The picture plays out almost as ritual -- a dark, hypnotic experience. " — Reason Online
Posted Mar 29, 2013
9% The Host (2013) " It's not often -- not ever, in fact -- that a movie will put you in mind of Battlefield Earth." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 29, 2013
43% Admission (2013) " Tina Fey once again excels at portraying a modern woman beset by very modern struggles and expectations." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 22, 2013
47% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " There are more headshots in this picture than might be found at a SAG board meeting." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 22, 2013
37% The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) " Passes up any number of opportunities to be much funnier than it is." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 15, 2013
66% Spring Breakers (2013) " Korine's latest helping of dubious hipster bait..." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 15, 2013
59% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " A grand and magical picture that recalls the sense of wonder that movies could once awaken in us." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 8, 2013
67% Stoker (2013) " A juicily perverse Southern Gothic creepfest." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 1, 2013
52% Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) " The CGI overload is way too much of a well-done thing -- the movie often feels like a wall-to-wall digital fabrication." — Reason Online
Posted Mar 1, 2013
46% Beautiful Creatures (2013) " The movie is enriched by a number of famous actors-some of whom would have to be said to be slumming." — Reason Online
Posted Feb 14, 2013
15% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " Tired, monotonous, and generally unnecessary."" — Reason Online
Posted Feb 14, 2013
20% Identity Thief (2013) " The movie's stretch for happy-happy at the end can't wash away the sour taste of all that's come before. " — Reason Online
Posted Feb 8, 2013
85% Side Effects (2013) " A story that Hitchcock himself might well have wanted to tell." — Reason Online
Posted Feb 8, 2013
80% Warm Bodies (2013) " What the Twilight films might have been if the Twilight films didn't, you know, suck." — Reason Online
Posted Feb 1, 2013
14% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " It's not awful-certainly not as stupid as Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. But that's a very low bar to clear." — Reason Online
Posted Jan 25, 2013
30% Broken City (2013) " The movie has a good skeezy kick, and its pleasures, however minor, can't be entirely written off. " — Reason Online
Posted Jan 18, 2013
66% Mama (2013) " A very stylish ghost story with more on its mind than the usual slash-and-bleed horror flick." — Reason Online
Posted Jan 18, 2013
32% Gangster Squad (2013) " Due out last September, now turning up in the film-dump month of January. Where it seems right at home." — Reason Online
Posted Jan 11, 2013
93% Amour (2012) " Haneke, a master of icy appraisal, here contemplates an elderly Parisian couple at the very end of their lives." — Reason Online
Posted Jan 4, 2013
95% West of Memphis (2012) " The infuriating facts in this famous case are illuminated with new human detail. " — Reason Online
Posted Jan 4, 2013
69% Les Misérables (2012) " I have to admit that I was sometimes moved to the verge of contemplating the possibility of tears." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 28, 2012
88% Django Unchained (2012) " Might be the most savage cinematic depiction of slavery ever made." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 24, 2012
61% Jack Reacher (2012) " The novels are a film franchise waiting to happen. Judging by this film, though, I'd say they'll have to wait a little longer." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 21, 2012
93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " Achieves something rare, presenting a hot-button subject-torture-without the usual moral nudging." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 19, 2012
65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " Not what you might have been expecting, or hoping for." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 14, 2012
85% End of Watch (2012) " Nicely balanced between savage violence and sweet human interactions, and it whips along at a brisk pace." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 7, 2012
32% Deadfall (2012) " Deadfall has most of the elements of a good noir: sex, love, doom, death. But about halfway in you can tell that the film itself is doomed." — Reason Online
Posted Dec 7, 2012
75% Killing Them Softly (2012) " Talky noir with overbearing political agenda. " — Reason Online
Posted Nov 30, 2012
63% Hitchcock (2012) " Alfred Hitchcock would probably be happy that he's finally getting his close-up, but I don't think he'd be thrilled about the way it's being framed." — Reason Online
Posted Nov 24, 2012
88% Life of Pi (2012) " More than just a rip-roaring boy's adventure. Much more, unfortunately." — Reason Online
Posted Nov 21, 2012
92% Silver Linings Playbook (2012) " It's tiresome to hear reviewers hyping this or that funny movie as "the year's best," so I won't. But you get the idea." — Reason Online
Posted Nov 16, 2012
92% Skyfall (2012) " This sensitive new Bond world is really not enough." — Reason Online
Posted Nov 9, 2012
49% The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) " With its ultra-bloody action and magical implausibilities, it drips authenticity. " — Reason Online
Posted Nov 2, 2012
67% Cloud Atlas (2012) " For a movie so jammed full of stuff-nearly three hours' worth of it-Cloud Atlas feels oddly empty." — Reason Online
Posted Oct 26, 2012
12% Alex Cross (2012) " All wrong in just about every way." — Reason Online
Posted Oct 19, 2012
25% Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) " Very creepy, and still very effective." — Reason Online
Posted Oct 18, 2012
82% Seven Psychopaths (2012) " Farrell is perfectly cast as...us. " — Reason Online
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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