|
2/4
|
80%
|
The Summit (2013) |
"
At once visually impressive and narratively unfocused."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 3, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Passion (2013) |
"
What we have here is a tale of lust, deception, manipulation and murder. Quintessential De Palma, in other words."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Mostly a lot of noise and nonsense, a garish enterprise that almost - though not quite - trivializes the tale."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
18%
|
Baggage Claim (2013) |
"
[A] clichéd romantic comedy by writer-director David E. Talbert."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
What emerges is a portrait of an enigma."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) |
"
Soap opera, set-bound and unexceptionally written and directed."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
The Patience Stone (2013) |
"
The bare room where the husband lies helpless becomes a confessional where Farahani pours out the woman's life story in a performance that grabs you with its quiet yet searing power."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
Been there, seen that."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
As a creature feature, Riddick isn't half bad, though it's far from truly good."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
Writer-director Wong Kar-wai has made a martial-arts movie that is truly a work of art. His "The Grandmaster" is a picture of staggering beauty."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
3%
|
Getaway (2013) |
"
The movie equivalent of a continuous closed loop."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
30%
|
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) |
"
I miss Nicolas Cage."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Few mainstream moviemakers have painted as sprawling and densely detailed a portrait of humanity in extremis as Blomkamp does here."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
2 Guns (2013) |
"
Despite its A-list stars, "2 Guns" is a subpar B-movie shoot-'em-up that's lackadaisical, cynical and slow."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
"The Wolverine" just might be the best comic-book-based superhero epic since Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
42%
|
Red 2 (2013) |
"
"Red 2" does have its share of surprises, and the biggest of these is how funny the picture is and how very much fun the actors in it seem to be having. "
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
Godzilla, eat your heart out. "
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
75%
|
Despicable Me 2 (2013) |
"
[It's] fun. It's cheerful. It's lollipop colorful. Best of all, it features lots of minion mischief, which guarantees plenty of laughs. But what it doesn't have is an edge."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
[Emmerich's] slam-bang succession of dire situations - Don't kill that child! Don't launch those nukes! - is so relentless it becomes tedious."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 27, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
A genuine nail-biter."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
75%
|
The East (2013) |
"
Marling and Batmanglij bring an evenhanded perspective to their portrayals of the characters and issues involved."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
38%
|
The Purge (2013) |
"
No real answers are provided by writer-director James DeMonaco. He simply presents this bizarre dystopian future, and the audience is left to take it or leave it."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 6, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
19%
|
The Hangover Part III (2013) |
"
This is an ugly, angry picture."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
"Star Trek Into Darkness" is ridiculously exciting. Which is to say it's so exciting it's ridiculous. But in a good way."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
63%
|
Kiss Of The Damned (2013) |
"
"Kiss of the Damned" is rather a hoot."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
49%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Skillfully made, genuinely funny and appalling for making light of true horror."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
You start wondering whether director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriters Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn have any original ideas of their own. And then you realize they don't."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
Rather than a jolting shot of joe, this French-Canadian comedy is a soothing cup of warm cocoa."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
[Boyle] leaves it to the audience to try to figure out just what's up, and what's going down, in this sleek psychological puzzler."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
For fans of hard-core horror, "Evil Dead" definitely delivers."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
No (2013) |
"
"No" is a picture that perches precariously on the cusp of a paradox."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
As for plot and character development, well, um ... did I mention the picture has a lot of guns?"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
47%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
The picture is basically a ground-based version of "Air Force One" with a much higher body count."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
63%
|
The Monk (2013) |
"
By the end, "The Monk" has revealed itself to be a too- predictable potboiler, served piping hot."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
46%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
[Winstone] radiates such a threatening vibe that he doesn't have to say a word to make your hair stand on end. And his grim, glowering work in "The Sweeney" ranks up there with his best."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
It's "A Good Day to Die Hard," aka "We've Got No Story To Speak Of But We Do Have an Infinite Special Effects Budget and We're Not Afraid To Spend It.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
46%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Fans of generic genre action will get their money's worth."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
41%
|
Parker (2013) |
"
Under Hackford's direction, there is more to "Parker" than explosively staged action sequences (though there are plenty of those)."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
60%
|
The Last Stand (2013) |
"
Arnie is, as he likes to say, "back." And he keeps lumbering onward - thrashing and bashing about in a movie with an itty-bitty dino-sized brain."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
All the people in the picture are playing at their characters, rather than actually playing the characters. Everyone looks grand in their period clothes, but they're making make-believe that is not in the least bit believable."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Tarantino wants Django to be a rousing yarn as well as a commentary, but the movie so revels in its carnage that his larger point is drowned in a sea of blood."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 24, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
Barbara (2012) |
"
Hoss' acting is a marvel of subtlety; her body language is precisely calibrated to reveal a great deal about the character's inner feelings by the slightest changes of posture and facial expression."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
Deadfall (2012) |
"
It's sort of like "Fargo," only with a higher body count and without the wood chipper."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Rape For Profit () |
"
A work of impassioned advocacy."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
Dominik ... expertly captures the flavor of his Higgins source material."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 30, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
12%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
Was anybody out there clamoring for a remake of "Red Dawn"? Show of hands? Anybody?"
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
I'm happy to report that Bond is back, and he's bad. And that's good."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 7, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012) |
"
Seen it before? Sure you have. And this horror flick has exactly nothing new to say, or add, to that threadbare horror cliché."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 1, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
61%
|
Tai Chi Zero (2012) |
"
"Zero" is the first part of a trilogy. Part two, titled "Tai Chi Hero," is due in January. The legend is off to a promising start."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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