|
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43%
|
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
|
50%
|
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%
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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
|
68%
|
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
|
——
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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
|
43%
|
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 3D (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
|
|
|
66%
|
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
|
|
|
66%
|
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
|
79%
|
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
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) |
"
Characters are better employed; emotions are, for once, palpable; and the selfishness of Bella, author Stephenie Meyer's avatar, is finally somewhat squelched."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
Price Check (2012) |
"
The script is teeming with informed jargon about the business of supermarket pricing, and with actors like Posey as its vessel, the dialogue rings with an unlikely blend of fascination and farce. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
Steven Spielberg's film may further the heroism so associated with its subject, and favor a liberal viewpoint that leers down at the Confederates, but it's no bleeding-heart glamorization."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
26%
|
Fun Size (2012) |
"
It pairs modern attitude with John Hughesian tropes, and it's odd enough, in spurts, to boast originality. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
It's the rare film to sell sex as something truly tender and life-affirming, and Helen Hunt, in particular, is lovely and poignant. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
A unique, audacious studio movie, kicking off as a star-driven spectacle before whittling itself down to a raw and riveting character study. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
A singular biopic and a snapshot of a society renewed, No unaffectedly celebrates faith in democracy, and, surprisingly, truth in advertising."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Gayby (2012) |
"
While Jonathan Lisecki is well in tune with his film's niche market, his knack for comedy, both visual and verbal, is universally hilarious."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
The Paperboy deserves to be seen for its pulpy, well-executed excess, but as a filmmaker, Lee Daniels seems ignorant of how the shocks distract from the story."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
The second act shifts the film from a lazy and comfy litany of introductions to a riveting fantasia of pure cinema."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
32%
|
Won't Back Down (2012) |
"
One of its strengths is a knowledge of when to unfurl information, particularly for the strongest emotional effect. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
38%
|
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) |
"
The filmmakers bite off far more than they're able to chew, resulting in an odd blend of touched-upon topics."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
Clint Eastwood makes his infamous chair speech look like chapter one of a season of self-parody."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
Liberal Arts (2012) |
"
Liberal Arts provides a peek into what makes Josh Radnor tick, and what he cares about outside his mainstream-targeted sitcom."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
10 Years (2012) |
"
If nothing else, 10 Years is hip to the fleeting, fundamental joys of revisiting one's youth."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2012
|
|
|
55%
|
Bachelorette (2012) |
"
This nearly pitch-black comedy is better than its tiresome use of '90s pop references, no matter how much they illuminate what the gals bonded over back in the day."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Sleepwalk With Me (2012) |
"
The funny thing about the movie isn't its failure-to-launch humor, but the weird mess of life that rushes in despite it. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
A decidedly adult drama about love and sex, wherein the comedy is largely incidental."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
360 (2012) |
"
Directed by Fernando Meirelles from a dusty script by Peter Morgan, 360 is all superficial stimulation, hollow and stiff as it beats the dead horse of we're-all-connected narratives."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
Succeeds as a satirical fantasy about writerly self-involvement, but it's worth celebrating as a testament to self-made greatness, particularly in regard to the efforts of writer/star Zoe Kazan."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
86%
|
Easy Money (2012) |
"
The humanization of these antiheroic outlaws doesn't feel forced, but it does feel engineered, and there's never a viewer investment to match the story's wide expanse."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) |
"
This frothy 3D concert doc often plays like a Perry ad campaign, assuring viewers that their "Teenage Dream" diva is a good, fun-loving person, and that, by God, she's doing fine."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 4, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
29%
|
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012) |
"
This gooey reteaming of Rob Reiner and Morgan Freeman is crammed tight with baldly manipulative elements, its tearjerker quota busting at the seams."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 2, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
58%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
Its dolly- and crane-operated polish points toward an acquiescence to Tinseltown mores, which until now Baron Cohen hovered cheekily above."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 12, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
5%
|
Hick (2012) |
"
It doesn't take long to gather the influences trickling through Derick Martini's Hick, an aimless tumbleweed of a road movie if ever there was one."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
"
The film is home to some unique redeeming factors, but it panders to viewers by diluting its lesson, which teaches that some comfort zones can only be truly abandoned on the other side of the world."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
No great psychological depths are being plumbed here, which unfortunately, seems to render nil the raison d'être."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
58%
|
Hysteria (2012) |
"
Needless to say, Hysteria's happy ending isn't the type that calls for a cigarette, and it certainly isn't the one the film deserves. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
71%
|
The Giant Mechanical Man (2012) |
"
For a first-time filmmaker, Lee Kirk sure knows how to pick his establishing shots."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
The Lucky One (2012) |
"
At this point, Sparksian romances unfold via their own preordained formula, and measures of their merits largely hinge on how well each can bend the cookie-cutter."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 17, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
38%
|
Blue Like Jazz (2012) |
"
Blue Like Jazz charts a typical existential coming-of-age tale, yet remains atypical by being hip while also treating religion fairly. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
88%
|
Titanic (2012) |
"
The re-release is keenly timed with the 100th anniversary of the actual sinking of the RMS Titanic, yet another factor to validate the 3D film's existence."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Mirror Mirror (2012) |
"
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella with just a dash of Lars von Trier's Dogville, Tarsem Singh's rendering of this revisionist fairy tale is less cinematic than it is purposefully theatrical."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
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