|
2.5/4
|
50%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Not great, but some very good parts in this 3D, Luhrmannized adaptation."
—
Popdose
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
The best of the bunch."
—
Popdose
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Shown at Cannes last year this is altogether a looser piece that Nichols' two other films, with more humor, and largely unburdened by apocalypse."
—
Popdose
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
If you're not on its wavelength, you're off it."
—
Popdose
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Only mildly diverting, it still has a certain arthouse fusion quality to it."
—
Popdose
Posted Apr 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
An Oz for 2013, neither great nor powerful, merely Ok."
—
Popdose
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Fee fye ho hum."
—
Popdose
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Sorcerers (1967) |
"
A truly chilling film."
—
Cineaste Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Tom Hooper has come up with a screen Les Miz that works splendidly-or as splendidly as a movie of Les Miz could ever work."
—
Popdose
Posted Dec 22, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
77%
|
A League of Their Own (1992) |
"
The only indefensible movie in the Natonal Film Registry."
—
Popdose
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
A decent start--and two more chances to get it right."
—
Popdose
Posted Dec 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Killing Them Softly chases respect, and the huffing and puffing to get it is tiring."
—
Popdose
Posted Dec 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
48%
|
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
"
Not the fairest of them all."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 22, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
70%
|
The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2012) |
"
n the absence of Westerns I loved this fanciful Eastern, and hope that Tsui and Li send more flying swords in our direction soon."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
38%
|
[REC] 3 Genesis (2012) |
"
BRIDESMAIDS meets THE EVIL DEAD in this horror comedy followup."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
The Expendables 2 (2012) |
"
I hope they keep making them until THE DEPENDABLES, when the cast is in adult diapers."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 1, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
Does Rises rise to the occasion? I'd say it depends on where you're invested, but it's pleasantly straightforward."
—
Cineaste Magazine
Posted Jul 19, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
"
The world ends, not with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a smile or two and treacly old songs."
—
Popdose
Posted Jun 22, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
In space, no one can hear you scream. But on Earth, no one has to show up for the second weekend."
—
Popdose
Posted Jun 8, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
93%
|
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) |
"
May the Force be...nah. The Force is always with us."
—
Popdose
Posted May 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) |
"
It's nothing if not affectionate toward horror movies, maybe too much so, and it is so stuffed with things I can see myself pausing the Blu-ray repeatedly to see what I missed."
—
Popdose
Posted Apr 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012) |
"
Behind an awkward, too-cute title is documentarian Morgan Spurlock's sincere and appealing look at Comic-Con International."
—
Popdose
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
85%
|
The Hunger Games (2012) |
"
Here we have another adaptation that doesn't seem to have adapted anything; the movie just spits out plot and exposition and incident for 142 minutes."
—
Popdose
Posted Mar 30, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
"
The movie's real redemption is applying defibrillators to the tired action movie market and giving it a jolt."
—
Popdose
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Footnote (2012) |
"
This painfully funny Oscar nominee is no also-ran."
—
Popdose
Posted Mar 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Being Flynn (2012) |
"
An earnest, conscientious, and almost entirely flat adaptation."
—
Popdose
Posted Mar 1, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
52%
|
The Iron Lady (2012) |
"
Streep acts and acts and acts some more in a vacuum of ideas and sensibility."
—
Popdose
Posted Jan 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Hugo (2011) |
"
Scorsese has made the past present for generations to come, as a good father should."
—
Popdose
Posted Nov 22, 2011
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
A Separation (2011) |
"
A true masterpiece."
—
Popdose
Posted Oct 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
Melancholia (2011) |
"
Only fitfully engaging but the sound and fury, and Dunst's performance, keep it in orbit. "
—
Popdose
Posted Oct 15, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
80%
|
Shame (2011) |
"
Another relentlessly negative movie about sex, with a downer aesthetic. "
—
Popdose
Posted Oct 15, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
The Debt (2011) |
"
The Debt is the kind of movie that you go to see when there's not much playing that you want to see, so you see The Debt."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Drive (2011) |
"
Stalled with audiences but a good ride in some ways."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Moneyball (2011) |
"
Extracts from the book with precision, humor, heart, and a certain muted excitement."
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 29, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Contagion (2011) |
"
Effective, but more like a low-grade fever that passes quickly. "
—
Popdose
Posted Sep 13, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
58%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
An interview with Guillermo del Toro and Guy Pearce."
—
Cineaste Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
"
An interview with Malcolm McDowell."
—
Cineaste Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
The Help (2011) |
"
A whole lot of poop pie."
—
Popdose
Posted Aug 28, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
58%
|
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011) |
"
Fearful of seeing another lousy horror movie? Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. "
—
Popdose
Posted Aug 23, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
73%
|
Bellflower (2011) |
"
One of the most intriguing movies around, at once knife-edged and tender, ablaze with flaming imagery and a thrashing soundtrack, and more ambitious than films with far greater resources at their disposal. "
—
Cineaste Magazine
Posted Aug 1, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Project Nim (2011) |
"
Compelling to say the least, taking us on a complex journey in a brisk and thoughtful 93 minutes, it raises many vexing questions about our presumed dominion over the animal kingdom. "
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 8, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
The Trip (2011) |
"
A fitfully entertaining journey."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Super 8 (2011) |
"
Works too hard to get us oohing and aahing over things we've oohed and aahed at 300 times before."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
84%
|
The Tree of Life (2011) |
"
Even Malick grinches must admit its occasional potent moments."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
84%
|
Beginners (2011) |
"
Too choked on art to register."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Midnight in Paris (2011) |
"
Brisk and breezy."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
77%
|
Thor (2011) |
"
Vaguely retarded."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) |
"
Almost worth seeing. Almost."
—
Popdose
Posted Jul 2, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
24%
|
Superman III (1983) |
"
A tough call: Good Super stuff, mediocre-to-poor everything else."
—
Popdose
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
2.5
|
75%
|
Stake Land (2011) |
"
Not bad but leaves its best ideas by the side of the road."
—
Cineaste Magazine
Posted May 10, 2011
|
87%
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