|
2/4
|
83%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
This is a fine idea for a PSA TV commercial, but (a) they already did it back in the '70s and (b) it goes on well past the 30-second mark."
—
New York Post
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
81%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
[It] has the aroma of an autobiographical confession by someone for whom life hasn't been overly difficult."
—
New York Post
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
77%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
There's so much dumb stuff in "Iron Man 3" that I expected the credits to say, "Written and directed by Thor.""
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
It's a terrifically engaging throwback to the uplifting, irony-free, outdoorsy '60s Disney yarns ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
24%
|
Arthur Newman (2013) |
"
One of those many indies that exist to give actors a chance to go slumming."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
A dizzying lowlife saga that's fast, smart, wicked, sort of ambitious and blazingly ironic."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
'In the House" promises to be a social satire with a flash of Hitchcockian menace, but gradually it turns into a routine thumb-sucker on reality versus fiction."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
So "Top Gun" has become "Wall-E.""
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
Put it this way, there's a spoof of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in which gorillas throw their feces at the wall to see if it sticks, and you can't help wondering if this is actual documentary footage of the script meetings."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
Soulful though the film is, melodrama gradually sneaks in, and then it takes over."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
"It's like watching grass grow" isn't really a riposte to the stately, placid, dreamlike "To the Wonder." You might as well complain that Quentin Tarantino films are violent."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
74%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
A noirish character study of a young American in Paris, "Simon Killer" chillingly combines the classic amoral drifter out of James M. Cain with a very contemporary figure - the overemotional, overeducated, spineless slacker."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
6 Souls (2013) |
"
A preposterous supernatural thriller that inexplicably managed to sign up Julianne Moore to star."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
This exhilarating brain-twister is a nonstop visual, aural and intellectual delight, steeped in movie conventions and yet fizzing with freshness. It's what happens when film noir goes out to a rave."
—
New York Post
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
Like the paintings of the master, "Renoir" is beautiful to look at, but it would be a mistake to call the film (or its subject) shallow."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
The theories proposed in the doc "Room 237" aren't eye-opening. They're laughable."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
This is a big movie with a lot on its mind. Slowly, it unfolds into a kind of epic."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" has enough hoo-ah to bring a satisfying blast of blockbustery summer to dreary March."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
Geniality and mild laughs aren't enough to sustain interest in this predictable effort, especially given the dragged-out running time."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
I'd like to take back all those times I said Nicolas Cage was one of the most annoying actors on film. It turns out he's equally terrible when he's only on the soundtrack."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
The film is a second-rate "Air Force One" mashed up with a third-rate "Die Hard," with Gerard Butler striving mightily to be charismatic as the One Man Who Can Save the Day."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
67%
|
Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) |
"
Frustratingly little light is shed on either Roth's life or his work by this series of interviews with the novelist and a curious selection of admirers."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
"Upside Down" is such a gorgeous wreck that I could almost sense Terry Gilliam somewhere muttering, "Wait a minute, I should have been the one to screw up this idea.""
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
While a mob thriller can be as nasty as it likes, what it can't be is silly."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
66%
|
The We and the I (2013) |
"
Fake documentaries annoy me - why not put in the effort and deliver the real thing? - and this one is not only aimless and stiff, it also rings false."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
71%
|
Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) |
"
What's next, "Big Oil Is Full of Meanies"?"
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
26%
|
21 And Over (2013) |
"
I don't think I've ever seen someone ralph in super-slo-mo while riding a mechanical bull before, so kudos for originality there, I guess."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
47%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
The movie blithely repeats most of the clichés of the American badass-cop flick, only in impenetrable Cockney."
—
New York Post
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
This digitally tricked-out fairy tale makes for a reasonably engaging kids' fantasy, but at best we're talking about a junior varsity "Lord of the Rings.""
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
One Life (2013) |
"
Nature films don't come any more spectacular than the BBC's "One Life.""
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
Largely a gimmick picture: At all times, it looks like hastily assembled news footage shot on grainy videotape in 1988."
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
The comedy defuses and deflates the drama, frustrating those who would be swept away by belief."
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
We can forgive the silly setup, without which there can be no film, but like many a road movie, this one has a better start and finish than middle."
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
52%
|
The Playroom (2013) |
"
This imitation "Ice Storm" is as refreshing as a step into a puddle of slush."
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
|
100%
|
Blue Caprice () |
"
The strongest film I've seen in the first couple of days at Sundance is the riveting thriller "Blue Caprice," which should put first-time director Alexandre Moors on the map and win him some studio offers. "
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
"John Dies at the End" thinks it's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for dudes. But in its randomness, its vulgarity and its level of humor, it's more like the collected writings on the walls of a roadside men's room."
—
New York Post
Posted Feb 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
It's not that I disapprove of zombie-human dating. I just don't like having my brain eaten by dead writing."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
Chastain has an excellent time. And so did I, for most of the movie: It's much more suspenseful than violent, being careful not to allow us to figure out Mama too quickly."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 18, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
29%
|
Let My People Go! (2013) |
"
Among gay Jewish French postman movies, "Let My People Go!" may be a Hall of Fame entry, but alas, by any other standard this would-be sex comedy is a dismal failure."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
'Quartet" isn't a penetrating inquiry into aging. Who wants that? We all know the facts, so let's not begrudge some fancy."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
50%
|
FrackNation (2013) |
"
McAleer is an expert practitioner of cinematic jujitsu."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
99%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
There is courage and cheekiness here. What there is not is a story, or much insight or even anger; anyone expecting an indictment of Iran will be sorely disappointed."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 7, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
'56 Up" is as good a point as any to get hooked on the magnificent half-century series of documentaries ..."
—
New York Post
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Damon wants to put you in Very Serious mode and have you think of "issue movies" like "The China Syndrome," but all I could do was laugh and think of "Lolita.""
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
"Django Unchained" might have been a revelation in 2005. But after Quentin Tarantino and others have spent years spoofing '60s and '70s genre movies, this mock spaghetti Western tastes like it came out of the microwave."
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
It's touching beyond measure to see an ex-jarhead and a former soldier putting aside their differences in a display of mutual respect, understanding and shooting bad guys in the face."
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
No one could be as whiny, spoiled, tasteless, combative and reliant on annoying stand-up comedy riffs as the entire cast of this film, the most disappointing one of the year."
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
What's best about the film are its quick jumps from one depravity to the next as jazz rambles on the soundtrack: Youth is a candle to be burned at both ends, with (as it was once said about Bob Dylan) a blowtorch in the middle."
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
No movie should credibly simulate the experience of being stuck in a car with Barbra Streisand for eight days. Not unless it's being billed as "a spine-tingling tale of modern horror.""
—
New York Post
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
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