|
2/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
The movie plays like an undercooked pie that hasn't had enough time to cool and settle."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Just like he does with those crummy Sherlock Holmes movies, Downey elevates this rather flimsy material with his sheer presence."
—
Miami Herald
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
The Big Wedding is a would-be screwball comedy that forgets to throw in the screws."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
You come away from Mud fondly remembering those two boys, especially Ellis, who has taken his first steps toward adulthood and discovers it suits him just fine. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
This is easily Bay's best movie, the work of a filmmaker with a cracked sense of humor that he is able to share with the audience."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
The filmmakers don't even have the courage to see the story to its proper end, opting for a ridiculous finale that feels vaguely insulting."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
The plot of Trance is purposely convoluted - you're supposed to get more and more confused as the story unfolds, not always sure if what you're watching is a dream."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
The Place Beyond the Pines is hackneyed and dull: Not a single moment rings true."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Blancanieves (2013) |
"
Blancanieves, which won 10 Goyas (Spain's equivalent of the Oscars) and was a smash hit in its native Spain, has traces of a kinky undertone and an uncommon willingness to embrace the darkness inherent in this fairy tale."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
You don't have to buy any of the nutty theories in Room 237 to appreciate what director Rodney Ascher has accomplished."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
The Evil Dead was an absolute blast. Evil Dead is just a well-made gross-out, and it's kind of a bummer."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
65%
|
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013) |
"
Pulls off the seemingly impossible feat of making this horrific crime seem dull."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Having fun has rarely felt this dangerous."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
Despite its astronomical body count, John Dies at the End never takes itself too seriously, and neither should you."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
An oppressive, bloated bore, the latest argument that CGI kills the imaginations of talented filmmakers."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
——
|
After Lucia () |
"
After Lucia builds to an almost unbearable level of tension, and although you may think you know how the story turns out, Franco has a different idea"
—
Miami Herald
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
And justice for all? Hardly."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Yossi (2013) |
"
It's a slight but uplifting charmer that serves as a feel-good bookend to the sadder first film."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
This is the first Die Hard movie to run well under two hours (the incomprehensible final 30 minutes have been so furiously chopped, they deserve their own show on the Food Network)."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Identity Thief apparently forgets it was supposed to be a comedy."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The main thing to keep in mind while watching Steven Soderbergh's playful new thriller is not to take the movie too seriously or else you'll feel betrayed by the end. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
37%
|
Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
An excruciating and melodramatic comedy."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
If it doesn't exactly break new ground, Bullet to the Head reminds you of the pleasures of a genre that today is exploited primarily for comedy or satire. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Shot in long, static takes, Amour stares directly into the indignities of old age and the curse of a slow death."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Even more than The Hurt Locker, which sometimes relied on traditional film techniques to build suspense, Zero Dark Thirty resists manipulating the viewer or building movie-movie excitement."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Jan 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is the most brutal film Quentin Tarantino has ever made.But the movie is also exciting and ironic and, at times, explosively funny: Even at his most serious, Tarantino can't help but entertain and show you a good time. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
What the movie sorely needs is a more intriguing detective - a hero human enough to sometimes make mistakes."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
There are people who claim to see no difference between 24 and 48 frame rates, and to them, I'd recommend an unexpected journey to the eye doctor."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 12, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
The only thing Playing for Keeps teaches us is: Guys, forget the bars and nightclubs. Soccer moms are where the action is."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
The movie spends too much time off the set of Psycho, where the real story was, and focuses instead on incidental matters that feel like outtakes."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Dec 7, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
Holy Motors is wild and unfettered and playful - the work of an artist who carries his love of cinema in his bones, and knows how to share that affection with the audience."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
The movie doesn't break any thematic ground, and in other hands this same material might have made for an insufferable Katherine Heigl vehicle. But Russell and his cast make it sing - and soar, too. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
The House I Live In (2012) |
"
The House I Live In is a work of journalism, not propaganda: Jarecki has done his research and leaves it to you to decide what to make of it."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Mendes' approach to action is classical and elegant - no manic editing and blurry unintelligible images here - but what makes the movie special is the attention he pays his actors. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 9, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
A gorgeously rendered story that will play just as well to children as to their parents, albeit for different reasons. Playstation and Xbox junkies will be equally pleased."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
Hawkes' performance is the must-see hook of The Sessions, but Hunt gives this funny, touching movie its soul."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
If you're interested in the sheer craft of filmmaking, Cloud Atlas is required viewing - a rare example of a movie getting by entirely on technique and creative bravado."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
86%
|
Madrid, 1987 (2012) |
"
Madrid, 1987 operates on a dizzying number of levels - as a romantic comedy, a sex farce, a study of culture clash, ageism and idealism."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Smashed (2012) |
"
Winstead is terrific as a young woman scared into sobriety, only to discover telling people the truth is much harder than lying and hiding her addiction."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 19, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
The movie is accomplished enough to stand alongside the 1970s political thrillers that inspired it, right down to the vintage red-and-black Warner Bros. logo that opens the film."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
For a good hour, Seven Psychopaths is lively, bloody fun. Then the yawning starts."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
This one has it all: sex, violence, torture, incest, jellyfish attacks, telekinetic masturbation, Nicole Kidman peeing on Zac Efron and a gator gutted in revolting close-up."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
V/H/S (2012) |
"
The film also plays to the strengths of the found-footage format, proving that sometimes the scariest things are the ones you can barely see."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Oct 5, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
This is an exciting, exceptionally well-made futuristic thriller that also happens to be loaded with lived-in touches and punchy ideas."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
Actors such as Robert Downey Jr. complain that because digital cameras can be reloaded in seconds, there is no time for performers to hang out in their trailers between takes (in protest, he urinated in jars, which he hid all over the sets of Zodiac). "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) |
"
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai reveals yet another facet of this always-unpredictable filmmaker: a flair for compassionate, humane melodrama."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
The point of Compliance, which caused walkouts and shouting matches when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is how we are programmed to do things that go against our natural instincts as long as we believe we have the law on our side."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
Samsara (2012) |
"
Achingly beautiful and visually transfixing, Samsara offers a transporting vacation from the usual multiplex fare. It's a movie to get lost in. "
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
The actors' commitment to their roles is impressive, but it's tethered to a weightless, airless movie, a film so enamored of itself, the audience gets shut out."
—
Miami Herald
Posted Sep 23, 2012
|
43%
46%
95%
99%
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