|
1.5/4
|
40%
|
No One Lives (2013) |
"
A novel twist, given away early. Otherwise, a generic bloodbath, decently acted but not frightening. "
—
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Searing and sad, with Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan at their fiercely-unlikable best. "
—
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Aftershock (2013) |
"
Utterly generic, but worth seeing just to experience Eli Roth -- movie star. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
So what if it's not literally "The Great American novel"? DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career, and he and the movie "get" Gatsby."
—
Movie Nation
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Painting (2013) |
"
Inventive, fanciful, and decidedly UN Disney."
—
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Greta Gerwig makes "hapless" a happening and hip way to be."
—
Movie Nation
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
60%
|
Venus And Serena (2013) |
"
A lot of the sibling bond, a little of the sibling rivalry and just a hint of the controversy that makes these tennis players so fascinating. "
—
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's (2013) |
"
A modestly amusing celebration of a store, and consumption at its most conspicuous. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
The Source Family (2013) |
"
The upside of cult living? Sort of."
—
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Posted May 1, 2013
|
|
3.5
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
The best straight-up, down low and dirty mob picture since "Goodfellas.""
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Jokier, bloodier, and a bit winded. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
76%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
An old fashioned true life adventure yarn, old fashioned in all the best ways."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
A little kinky, a little creepy, and quite clever and literary."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Stories We Tell (2013) |
"
Self indulgent, yes. But few autobiographical documentaries can boast of the jaw-dropping revelations of this one. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
Broad, coarse and crude -- but bottom line? A lot of good actors land more than a few laughs. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
24%
|
Arthur Newman (2013) |
"
A wistful, well-acted run-away-to-find-yourself dramedy"
—
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Not bad, but it's obvious Bay doesn't have the lighter touch this story, even at its ugliest, required. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
|
|
58%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
Overreaching, melodramatic -- but also thoughtful, well-acted and utterly engrossing"
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
45%
|
Filly Brown (2013) |
"
A traditional make-your-way-into-the-music-biz drama with lots of Latin-flavored grit and gravitas. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013) |
"
Dull and incompetent. And I'm not just talking about his wife."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
Just the sort of sci-fi picture you'd expect to see in April. Close, but not all that. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Home Run (2013) |
"
Well-cast but thinly scripted faith-based dramedy about baseball, booze and redemption"
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 16, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Paris-manhattan W/woody Before Allen () |
"
Delivers more laugh-out-loud moments than a film this short and slight should"
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 16, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
Scary Movie 5 (2013) |
"
These movies grow shorter and less funny by the year."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Not Today (2013) |
"
Well-intentioned, but slow, with no urgency and a lot of preaching. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
Earnest, righteous, overlong but very entertaining, and darned accurate as history. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
A blunt instrument of a movie...melodramatic. But it sometimes moves and often hits its target square on the nose."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 9, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
This Is Where We Live () |
"
Bleak, with moments of heart and even cuteness. "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" without the laughs. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
Lovely, with everybody in the story more interesting than the dull, dedicated craftsman whose name provides the title. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Well cast, beautifully acted, with a solid script. But thanks to the ages of the cast, mathematically inept. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
A little old-fashioned, now. But Jeff Goldblum in 3D? Enough said."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Relentless, pitiless, but not much fun."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
It feels more like a technical stunt, but one DDanny Boyle pulls off with his usual panache, if not his usual heart."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
27%
|
The Brass Teapot (2013) |
"
Heavy-handed, but you have to love that message -- "Greed causes physical harm" -- and the ways Juno Temple and Angarano sell it."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 30, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Authentically Southern Gothic, featuring one of Matthew McConaughey's best performances ever."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
16%
|
Temptation (2013) |
"
Adding the no-talent Kim Kardashian to his sass and semonette formula was a mistake. Casting four dull leads was a bigger one. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Detour (2013) |
"
A buried alive picture that puts you in there, trying to reason your way out with our hero."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
I Declare War () |
"
A sometimes chilling, heavy-headed allegory about kids and conflict, and sometimes an amusing send-up of war movie cliches. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The History Of Future Folk () |
"
A sci-fi comic thriller folk music musical. Even its genre is a hoot."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
The Taiwan Oyster () |
"
Just charming and picareseque enough, thanks in large part to its novel Taiwanese setting. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
Putzel () |
"
An ethnic comedy of thin charms but a very nice sense of place -- Manhattan's Upper West Side."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Seeking Asian Female () |
"
White guys with "yellow fever," looking for an Asian mate. Not as creepy as you might expect. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
'Twilight' of the Body Snatchers, without much urgency or sexual heat. "
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
Welcome to the Punch (2013) |
"
McAvoy keeps trying to become the Scottish Tom Cruise. In action pictures, he's more the Scottish Michael J. Fox."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Things go boom and bodies go down and the one hour and fifty minutes zip by like oh, two hours and ten."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
An interesting movie, followed by a less interesting movie, followed by a third movie that's even weaker"
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
The details and performances make this overly nostalgic and melodramatic coming-of-age picture watchable"
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
What Salles gets just right is the sense of speed - of lives lived too fast, of the blacktop passing before their windshield in a blur."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
0%
|
InAPPropriate Comedy (2013) |
"
Surely there are phone apps that could write a funnier film than this."
—
Movie Nation
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
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