|
2/4
|
8%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
The ultimately forgettable Runner Runner is, for a gambling film, markedly risk-averse."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
74%
|
Concussion (2013) |
"
The near-imperceptible finesse of Abby's characterization reflects writer-director Stacie Passon's effortless, interesting mix of richness and economy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
Captain Phillips (2013) |
"
It works too hard to keep matters on an even, we're-all-more-alike-than-different keel, which is just one part of its chief problem of forcefully conveying information and intent."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
16%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
Writer-director David E. Talbert adapts his own 2003 novel into something as useless as it is implosive."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Le Week-End (2013) |
"
Both keenly calculated and flowing with offbeat, naturalistic detail, Hanif Kureishi's jewel of a script reflects his sensibilities as a playwright."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
Child Of God () |
"
To really appreciate the film, one needs to look past James Franco's lack of formal poetry and focus on Scott Haze's performance and Cormac McCarthy's themes, which, given the great might of both, isn't exactly hard to do."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
5%
|
Battle of the Year (2013) |
"
The raison d'être of popping-and-locking scenes is trumped by tired team-building bathos, whose flagrancy is anything but conducive to spreading the film's hug-it-out bro-love."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
.5/4
|
14%
|
The Colony (2013) |
"
Greedily tries to cram every dystopian curse into one misbegotten plot, resulting in something wildly disjointed, even if its pieces arguably connect."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Mother Of George (2013) |
"
Beautiful, poetic, and hard-hitting without the use of excessive force and deeply layered with evolving and regional nuances of feminine experience."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
Mademoiselle C (2013) |
"
You never learn why, exactly, she deserves a feature-length portrait. "Maybe people will get sick of me," Roitfeld muses. A little more than 90 minutes should do the trick."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Sep 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
98%
|
Wadjda (2013) |
"
It doesn't play like reality, but like boilerplate filmic fantasy, and its novel setting and inception struggles seem positioned as a beard--or veil, if you will--to mask its mediocrity."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
34%
|
Adore (2013) |
"
A work that's deadly serious and yet so goofily unbound that, in some scenes, incest truly seems like it's on the scandalous menu."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
64%
|
One Direction: This Is Us (2013) |
"
Some of the film's most memorable moments involve Niall and Liam looking down on oceans of screaming devotees in the street, and controlling their cheers like orchestra conductors."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
Though always speeding forward in some gear of ridiculousness, the film is a lot more fun when it's completely nonsensical, before its baddie's motives and harebrained plot are funnel-fed to the viewer."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
You're Next brazenly merges the home-invasion thriller with the dysfunctional family dramedy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
12%
|
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) |
"
The movie blasts by for a while as an odd and busy slice of highly watchable garbage."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
There's tremendous dramatic value to the aching and sometimes devastating scenes that home in on these kids' private torments. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
26%
|
Jobs (2013) |
"
Steered by a lead actor and director, Joshua Michael Stern, who are both way out of their respective leagues, Jobs is excrutiating, failing to entertain and all but pissing on its subject's grave."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
The film feels second-rate in every sense, from the quality of its animation to its C-list voice cast."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
.5/4
|
38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
I'll tell you what's insane: the probability that folks will go easy on this dreck because it's aimed at younger viewers, who are being distressingly trained to expect little from their art."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
Viewer/character solidarity only holds up for so long, and the film falls hard into twisty, nonsense territory, skipping over its stronger themes in the process."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
This may be the year's best superhero movie because, for a sufficient amount of time, it doesn't feel like a superhero movie at all."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
Turbo (2013) |
"
As a film about social issues, and simply being yourself, it's commendably progressive, going so far as serving as a kind of coming-out story."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
The movie, of course, barrels toward climax upon climax, and while possibly better photographed, the crashes, bangs, and booms are no less numbing than anything else you've seen in this summer of garbage blockbusters."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
Roland Emmerich makes love of country into a thing of unabashed hokum, which bleeds through every nook of this overstuffed jumble and leaves no character untouched."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
64%
|
Unfinished Song (2013) |
"
Part end-of-life romance, part grossly manipulative mush, the film tries to stare grief and mortality in the face while practically shitting rainbows."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
The Bling Ring (2013) |
"
Sofia Coppola seems curiously unmotivated to bring full analysis or provocation to her themes, leaving the film feeling like a disappointingly toothless satire."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
50%
|
Free Samples (2013) |
"
An angry indie that favors hollow ridicule over credibility."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
22%
|
Violet & Daisy (2013) |
"
A twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition, a grindhouse fairy tale of sorts that pairs the sugary sweet with the nastily violent."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
It showcases the evolving interests and talents of Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, but expands them and channels them into a more traditional thriller framework."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
64%
|
Epic (2013) |
"
Epic is a major aesthetic triumph for Blue Sky Studios."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
48%
|
Black Rock (2013) |
"
Layered conflicts mount as this lean film treks on, and they're not limited to gender politics. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 13, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
The English Teacher (2013) |
"
The second recent release that aims to channel great, time-honored storytelling without being able to tell a great story."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 12, 2013
|
|
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
When The Great Gatsby actually stops to breathe, there is some greatness to be found, however brief it may be. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
51%
|
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013) |
"
Matthew Miele has made a department store of a documentary, stocked to the hilt with an obscene inventory of storylines, talking heads, and utterly tasteless choices."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
Its title, very graciously, doesn't end with a "Part 1," but The Host sure has enough plot points and ideas to fill two installments. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
It's all provocatively kooky, and ample spoilers forbid ample explanation, but Trance also draws out Boyle's less dazzling commercial side, not to mention his penchant for whirling excess. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Küf (Mold) () |
"
Küf's strongest elements may be its seemingly aimless subplots, which are essentially dismissed just as they're introduced, with minimal warning or explanation. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
The estrogenic elements prove widely ineffectual, but they're just pieces of this overlong, overloaded misfire whose double-entendre title ultimately just goads the jaded viewer to admit defeat."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 11, 2013
|
|
.5/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
This epic waste of $190 million plunders the grab bag of overused plotlines, failing to put its own stamp on much of anything."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Melissa McCarthy is riveting in simply-penned moments of remorse and confession, adding tearful depth to her ace timing and formidable physical comedy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 6, 2013
|
|
—
|
93%
|
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
—
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
36%
|
LUV (2013) |
"
As a film that largely works as a subdued twist on the familiar drama about crime and family, LUV needed more intimacy and focus."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 14, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012) |
"
The movie is something of a compositional nightmare, worlds away, one might say, from the artistry so associated with Cirque."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
Mothers and sons deserve an amiable comedy they can share, but this one is faulty long before the requisite freeway breakdown."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
The tone of Jackson's latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair."
—
House Next Door
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
The tone of Jackson's latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
80%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
For a movie that aims to make four artists' last spotlit hurrah a revel-worthy moment, Quartet shouldn't urge the viewer to welcome the closing of the curtain. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2012
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