|
3/4
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
It's easy to think, 'Shut up, brain, and just enjoy the view!'"
—
RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Reiterating that onscreen cool and edge can't be faked, Runner Runner feels a little like an offshore, Internet-era version of Wall Street."
—
RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Muscle Shoals (2013) |
"
Has funky magic in it. Ooh, baby, does it ever."
—
RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Bad Milo! (2013) |
"
Should entertain a certain pocket of comedy fans, particularly those happy for the rare chance to see the excellent Marino play a nice guy."
—
RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
A collection of strategic choices that has the emotional impact of shopping for tires."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
Arguably boring topics like programming don't have to yield boring films, and Computer Chess makes Ashton Kutcher's recent, uneven Jobs look like a classic."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Blue Caprice (2013) |
"
Wonders how something like this happens without suggesting any simple means of prevention."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
90%
|
Inequality For All (2013) |
"
You're saying taxation is out of hand, and there was some sort of housing bubble too? Go on with all this new information, please."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Enough Said (2013) |
"
Do people, especially men, go see movies like this anymore? I don't think so. Prove me wrong, people. Prove me wrong."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
16%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
With the year's worst comedic performance (non-Kevin James division), Patton's playing a human-shaped bubble, or perhaps a puppy who switched bodies with its owner."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
Don Jon (2013) |
"
The sound of one hand clasping."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
Perpetuates a problem that the film fails to acknowledge: Artists' most devoted supporters frequently refuse to oblige their simple request to be left alone."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
75%
|
Populaire (2013) |
"
After all those words pounded onto the typewriter, this throwback finds a way to capture the big L in any language."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
A breakout role that will earn an Oscar nod if there's any justice."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
71%
|
C.O.G. (2013) |
"
Everyone in this wonderful surprise is looking for a place to belong while ultimately having to look out for No. 1. And I don't mean that in the spiritual sense."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
51%
|
A Single Shot (2013) |
"
Lands somewhere between a good novel and a deadly country song, all with the power to take hold and refuse to leave you be."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
50%
|
Thanks For Sharing (2013) |
"
These are problems you feel in your heart, instead of your head saying, "Pff, lame.""
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
Franchises don't work if the movie improves when the main character is offscreen."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
59%
|
Afternoon Delight (2013) |
"
The lack of judgment toward McKenna's part-time sex work that makes Afternoon Delight refreshingly open-minded. Dan Savage would approve."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
15%
|
Winnie Mandela (2013) |
"
Obscured truth disrespects history, and a biopic without strong writing and acting isn't much of anything."
—
RedEye
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
53%
|
Instructions Not Included (2013) |
"
Alternately and creepily plays toward young children and horny adults."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) |
"
Like crust with the bread cut off."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
This super-serious, horribly-told story may focus on kung fu, but it put me in an almost instant sleeper hold."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
Has an advantage that the Katy Perry and Justin Bieber docs didn't: Its subjects are amusing, and the fun is contagious."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
Believes in logic like the VMAs believe in music."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
Captain Obvious goes to England."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 27, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
Thin excuses to trot out the usual sequences of maniacs busting through windows and gleeful deaths that add layers of bloodlust-fueling cruelty the film's premise doesn't support."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
31%
|
Austenland (2013) |
"
More prejudice than pride."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
Streamlined and real like a new favorite song that both reminds you of something you already loved and gets you to see it with fresh eyes."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
So fun and so funny."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
Earning the coveted and easily attained praise "better than Twilight," City of Bones thrives not on the presence of awesome but the absence of terrible."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
Paranoia (2013) |
"
Destined to be started but not finished by Netflix streaming subscribers."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
The Act Of Killing (2013) |
"
The film absolutely doesn't glamorize this behavior, and it's staggering the matter-of-fact manner with which some of these killers and corruption advocates speak."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Prince Avalanche (2013) |
"
The film's full weight ultimately feels just out of reach, but for a small story about isolation, that mood is fitting."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
A message movie guided by good sense, and a good sense of humor."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
Delivers a powerful lesson via an OK movie: That people can change the world if they don't let others stand in their way."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
Feels like a 12-year-old's C- oral presentation on the subject."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
Crass and affected, preferring to snicker instead of recognize that kids wielding guns is a troubling thing and amateurs hunting down bad guys has moral and physical consequences."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
Teller and Woodley are phenomenal. My heart was floating through The Spectacular Now -- and you know what they say about what goes up."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
54%
|
Lovelace (2013) |
"
Does a good job of setting the record straight about the person behind the '70s late-night talk show punchlines."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
Smurf this movie too."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Overloads with plot and under-delivers on texture."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
We're The Millers (2013) |
"
A funny trip with people who are fun to hang with even when they squabble."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
95%
|
The Hunt (2013) |
"
Shows that even when Klara's parents and their friends aren't sure, they'd rather be wrong on the defensive than be wrong and do nothing."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
22%
|
The Canyons (2013) |
"
Resembling the all-time dullest episode of MTV's 'Undressed,' The Canyons unfolds like Lifetime tried to make a Cinemax movie."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Blanchett's incredible, never allowing Jasmine to become a parody. She's the center of a semi-tragic character study about phoniness and deluded personal fantasies."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
This is what a star vehicle should be: a well-written project that works without the big names but shines with them."
—
RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
The Smurfs 2 (2013) |
"
What did you smurfin' expect?"
—
RedEye
Posted Jul 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Blackfish (2013) |
"
To analyze real-life tragedy we must understand it so we can prevent it, Cowperthwaite justly argues. Not so we can sigh and hope it doesn't happen again."
—
RedEye
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|