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3/4
|
65%
|
Greetings From Tim Buckley (2013) |
"
Je ff's accidental drowning death in 1997, at 30, underscores the sense of loss in a heartfelt and deeply moving film. It'll get to you."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
But for all the clanking armies of iron knights on display to dazzle the eager kid in each of us, this summer epic rings hollow. There's no one home inside the suit."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
47%
|
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013) |
"
You don't have to be in vogue to enjoy this stylish ride through Bergdorf's. It's a surprise package to die for. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, abetted by an astute scriptfrom Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright, find something sadly timeless in a child torn apart in a custody battle that no one wins, least of all the child."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
In between scenes of the muscleheads torturing their victim, Bay indulges his taste for treating women as sluts and grisly brutality as a nifty excuse for a cheap laugh."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
|
98%
|
The Wild Bunch (1969) |
"
It's a towering achievement that grows more riveting and resonant with the years."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
58%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
Bahrani is a gifted filmmaker. But he shoots himself in the foot by throwing in a contrived plot device that creates drama at the expense of credibility."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
What you do need to know is that the acting is top-tier all the way. McConaughey, on a career roll, is magnificent."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
For all the bells and whistles - an electronic score by M83, a screen-busting Imax presentation and Cruise going full throttle - Oblivion feels arid and antiseptic, untouched by human hands."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
"
It's a mind-blower."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
Film genius to miss the mark. Case in point: Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, a beautifully empty exercise that - so glacial is the pace - makes Malick's Tree of Life look like G.I. Joe: Retaliation."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
How a new director works with actors is telling, and the performances in Disconnect are first-rate all the way. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
At the top of a new baseball season, it's hard not to root for a movie that's in it for the love of the game."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Drawing skillfully on a first-rate cast, Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Danny Boyle's trippy, Inception-like thriller is a hypnotic head trip that demands you trust no one. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
Ascher's unique and unforgettable film is a tribute to movie love. I couldn't have liked it more."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
The Host is born from the mother of all things Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, which is the next best - or worst - thing, depending on your point of view."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
[The Place Beyond The Pines] a beast of a movie, an emotional roller coaster that threatens to go off the rails, and does. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
Want a bracing alternative to the usual Hollywood swill? Try Gimme the Loot, a fresh, funky jolt of filmmaking joy. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
You could call it an Aussie Dreamgirls. I'd call it a blast of joy and music that struts right into your heart."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
43%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
I'd see Tina Fey and Paul Rudd in anything, but this is pushing it. Admission is so slight that a breeze could flatten it."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Spring Breakers, beach-party fluff done as an art film by the reliably bizarre Harmony Korine, is a return to form for Franco."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Magicians have been pulling rabbits out of hats for ages. And yet, with all this talent, no one can make a decent script materialize. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
... as limitless technology teaches the wizard about his own human limitations, Franco hits grace notes that let us see glimmers of how great and powerful this uneven Oz might have been."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
The effort to put a personal face on the major issue of occupation is as timely as Iraq and Afghanistan, but the execution is clumsy and cliché-ridden."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
What seems like the makings of a tawdry horror show becomes a subtle and moving exploration into the sacred and profane. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Park has built a hothouse of erotic tension that's primed to explode. Some will find it too much. Screw them. Park's goal is to bust form, not conform to it. Take Stoker for what it is: a thriller of savage beauty."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Jack the Giant Slayer proves the axiom "If you can't make it good, make it 3D.""
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
|
80%
|
Dances With Wolves (1990) |
"
Costner tells a personal story that never loses touch with the vast Western spaces encompassing and defining it. Dances With Wolves is an epic that breathes. And it's a beauty."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
Nominated by the Academy as the year's best foreign-language film, No grabs you hard, no mercy, and keeps you riveted."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
I hate Safe Haven. It's a terrible thing to do to your Valentine."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
As supernatural types, Oscar winners Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson overact so strenuously and with such outrageously awful Southern accents that you fear the damage this crock may do to their reputations."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
This series needs to die here. That would be something to "Yippee Ki-Yay" about."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Side Effects is a hell of a thriller, twisty, terrific and packed with surprises you don't see coming. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 6, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
The Gatekeepers cuts deeper than any political thriller. It's a powerhouse. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
37%
|
Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
Some actors don't need top-shelf material. Just the pleasure of their company is enough. And so Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin turn the insubstantial Stand Up Guys into solid entertainment."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 2, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Sylvester Stallone shoots people in the face. That's it for subtext in this formula action swill. Why do I sound like I should expect more. Because the credits list the director as Walter Hill."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 2, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Sound City (2013) |
"
In his directing debut, Dave Grohl shows the instincts of a real filmmaker. Sound City hits you like a shot in the heart. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 2, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
Warm Bodies even suggests that true love can help the right zombie grow a new heart. That's a con job that makes Bodies lukewarm at best. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Feb 2, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
14%
|
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
"
This may be the longest 90 minutes you ever spend in a theater. You've been warned."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
It's the ultimate in spoiler titles. And this stoner Ghostbusters, an altered state disguised as a movie, may also add up to a hot cult item if silliness doesn't sabotage the scares"
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
40%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
A formula action movie that hits its formula marks as if no one expected more. I do expect more. So do Westlake fans. This Parker spits in our collective eye."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
Mama (2013) |
"
You know something is up when what looks like a cheapie fright flick is produced by Guillermo Del Toro and boasts an Oscar-nominated actress in Jessica Chastain. Mama doesn't live up to their potential, but the film knows how to creep you out."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
30%
|
Broken City (2013) |
"
Another January dud. Broken City drops hot-shot actors in a quicksand of clichés and watches them sink."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
Hoffman uses all he's learned as a virtuoso actor to shape a film of flesh-and-blood characters, flushed with humor and tenderness. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
24%
|
Struck by Lightning (2013) |
"
In his screenwriting debut, Glee's gifted Chris Colfer, 22, proves he can lace a line with sass and soul. "
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Gangster Squad [is] a mob epic that flushes a classy cast (Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone) down the sinkhole of creative bankruptcy."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Promised Land is a potent and powerful look at how the stressed economy is stressing farm communities across America. Director Gus Van Sant finds the human side of a knotty issue."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Dec 27, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
No one expects gutsy filmmaking in a musical. But that's just what King's Speech Oscar winner Tom Hooper delivers in Les Misérables. Damn the imperfections, it's perfectly marvelous."
—
Rolling Stone
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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