|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
Parkland (2013) |
"
Takes one of the most traumatizing events of the American 20th century and turns it into a trivia digest."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
53%
|
A.C.O.D. (2013) |
"
[A] pointless, meaningless and witless comedy ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
He's back! Behold, the second coming of . . . Badfleck."
—
New York Post
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Shepard & Dark (2013) |
"
A disarming but low-impact documentary that amounts to an odd dual biopic, "Shepard & Dark" can feel a bit like intruding on a conversation between two old friends."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 27, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
90%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
A cinematic listicle of misleading economic talking points."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 27, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
59%
|
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) |
"
Whelk, I hope the makers of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" earned a nice celery, but I'm afraid they made a hash of things. A hash seasoned with oy sauce."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
78%
|
Metallica Through the Never (2013) |
"
This movie is basically "Spinal Tap" minus the jokes."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
This comedy is cringe-inducingly lame and the dramatic turns are visible as far in advance as utility poles on the prairie."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
The Colony (2013) |
"
A screaming, lunging, chomping chase movie that has nothing new to bring to a genre that just won't die."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Fine filmmaking, a smart, visually engorged, frequently thrilling tale of boyish competition - inspired by a true story. At heart it's "Amadeus" on wheels, only this time Salieri is the Austrian."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
33%
|
The Family (2013) |
"
Remember when Robert De Niro was an interesting actor? These days his talent, like his character in "The Family," is in the witness protection program, never to be seen again."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
|
23%
|
A Teacher (2013) |
"
An evocative but ultimately hollow indie drama."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
|
34%
|
Adore (2013) |
"
I have no idea why such strapping young men would be so desperate for sex as to hook up with a couple of museum artifacts they've known all their lives, but this hokey soap views contrivance as a small price to pay for lush mommy fantasy."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
The movie jogs along nicely without ever getting a case of the stupids; far from being a bloated "John Carter," it's just a pared-down yarn of survival: "Die Hard" on a planet."
—
New York Post
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
13%
|
The Lifeguard (2013) |
"
The central character simply comes across as whiny and entitled instead of troubled and dark, and the central theme of getting your groove back by acting like a kid again has been done many times by much more talented filmmakers."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
"Getaway" is so bad that what's most surprising about it is that Nicolas Cage didn't manage to star in it."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
The movie independently bungles everything it tries, like a Central Park busker who simultaneously sucks at juggling, harmonica playing and skateboarding."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
The film begins as an utterly routine horror flick with all the usual musty tricks, but that's just rope-a-dope. The expectation of stupidity makes the cleverness to follow stand out."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" hopes to be the start of a new franchise for tweens and Twihards, but the twuth is this twash is anything but a twiumph."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
Why blaze new trails when the old ones are so well-marked? This one is essentially "The Firm" with smartphones."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
Lowery put 90 percent of his energy into the atmosphere and 10 percent into the script."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
A joke isn't as funny the second time around, and maybe especially not if you shout it."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
An uneasy mix of Richard Linklater and Abbott and Costello, "Prince Avalanche" is an oddment, but one that brings some small, peculiar pleasures."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Putting on his Very Serious face for what ought to be a romp, Matt Damon is exactly the wrong choice for a role that 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger would have played with a twinkle in his eye."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
Jason Sudeikis in the lead? As a drug dealer who could never hope to pass for a picket-fence type? Please, the man looks like he was born in a Lands' End catalog."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
Cockneys vs Zombies (2013) |
"
You may protest that this is just a splattery feature-length sketch, and you'd be absolutely right. Why not have a laugh at this absurdly trite concept?"
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
The fast-talking but increasingly insufferable Teller ... displays little ability to modulate his performance as the movie gradually turns darker and darker ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 2, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
Just go ahead and assume that everybody is trying to kill everybody and you'll be relatively clear."
—
New York Post
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
The Smurfs 2 (2013) |
"
They're as lethally uninteresting as Barney the Purple Dinosaur, though a Godzilla-style "Barney vs. Smurfs" is a movie I would pay to see, provided maximum destruction were promised."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
53%
|
Wasteland (2013) |
"
The shallow, derivative and contrived British heist thriller "Wasteland" lives down to its unfortunate name."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
There's teeming bombast and great gushers of villainy, but we've seen it all before and we'll see it all again, probably next week."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
14%
|
R.I.P.D. (2013) |
"
Every movie coming out this year but "R.I.P.D." should pause for a big sigh of relief: The possibility of any of them being called the worst cinematic effort of 2013 has, as of today, just about disappeared."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
A punitively dull chunk of quirk that is about, and feels like, being stuck in a motel with a gaggle of programming nerds for a weekend."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
How bad could the boneyard be compared to sitting through this execrable piece of non-entertainment? Better dead than "RED 2.""
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
81%
|
Crystal Fairy (2013) |
"
We already knew that jerks aren't necessarily interesting. Nor is watching footage of other people doing drugs."
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
In the end, what is the meaning of the film?"
—
New York Post
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
"Byzantium" dares to rework "Twilight" with twice the teen moping and Robert Pattinson replaced by a guy with the sexual magnetism of a sickly Ron Weasley."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
The Secret Disco Revolution (2013) |
"
"The Secret Disco Revolution" laughably fails to turn Barry White and Donna Summer into the Che Guevara and Emma Goldman of the dance floor."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
47%
|
Maniac (2013) |
"
The film is exactly what it intends to be: the purest exploitational trash."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
Somm (2013) |
"
"Somm" does a fairly impressive job of making wine tasting somewhat cinematic despite its being essentially unfilmable, at least until taste-o-vision comes along."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
It's just a jumped-up midnight movie that thinks "stuff jumping out at you and making loud noises" equals horror and "perfect human being impervious to everything" equals hero."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
A clever, elliptical, slightly bizarre and altogether transfixing psychological thriller."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
25%
|
Vehicle 19 (2013) |
"
The plot is brainless even for a Paul Walker movie. Get ready for "The Slow and the Spurious.""
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Though on the surface "The Bling Ring" is slight of aim and repetitive of structure, it is actually a slam-dunk conservative critique of American culture ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
This Is the End (2013) |
"
There is stuff in "This Is the End" that had me laughing so hard, I sensed new body parts joining in to help out - my pancreas was heaving, my bile ducts ripped."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 10, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
72%
|
Wish You Were Here (2013) |
"
A dull drama about domestic squabbling that hopes to be mistaken for a thriller."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
17%
|
As Cool As I Am (2013) |
"
Oh no: Claire Danes as the mom? Already? What's next, Chelsea Clinton for president?"
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (2013) |
"
A frank and worthy look at the trashy demagogue who ruled the airwaves in a spectacular, and spectacularly brief, two-year run."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
35%
|
The Internship (2013) |
"
Director Shawn Levy's work has, as always, all the edge of a tub of margarine - he's the guy who did "Night at the Museum." And "The Internship" has the air of a promotional video for Google."
—
New York Post
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|