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1/5
|
0%
|
Generation Um... (2013) |
"
What does it add up to? Um ... I have no idea and don't really care."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
74%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Despite the gorgeous sights and rollicking sounds of sunny Italy, a Scandinavian heaviness hangs over the film, with a screenplay by Ms. Bier's frequent collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen, based on a story they developed."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
Michael Shannon's mesmerizing portrayal of Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer, has the paradoxical quality, peculiar to many great screen performances, of being unreadable and transparent."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
18%
|
1st Night (2013) |
"
A pallid gloss of a work that teems with deception, disguise and mistaken identity, not to mention humor."
—
New York Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
Arthur Newman (2013) |
"
The film equivalent of a dysfunctional computer sloppily assembled from discarded parts of other machines."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
0/5
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
The screenplay is chopped up into smutty sound bites constructed around the notion that casual obscenity delivered by respected actors of a certain age is hilarious. But it's just embarrassing."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
56%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
If "At Any Price" overstates its points, they are still worth making. And the hot-wired performances by Mr. Quaid and Mr. Efron drive them home in a movie that sticks to your ribs and stays in your head."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 24, 2013
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|
2/5
|
——
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Love Sick Love (2013) |
"
"Love Sick Love" deteriorates into a series of pranks that are not funny enough to register as comedy or brutal enough to qualify as horror."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Herman's House (2013) |
"
Although this documentary has a powerful political subtext, it is best described as a conceptual art piece about confinement, attached to a dual biography of the artist and the prisoner."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
64%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
Eventually the clammy spell of this handsomely designed but solemnly paced movie begins to wear off, and you long for a little action or at least some fresh air."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
Watching it is like receiving a hard slap in the face from someone who expects you to laugh it off, even though the sting lingers."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
The film ominously conveys a world of too much information but too little communication, where people have become slaves to glowing hand-held devices that were designed to make life easier but have made it busier and more complicated."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
This earnest, well-intentioned movie elicits frustration that its story had to be packaged as a conventional, not very suspenseful fugitive thriller with a bogus Hollywood ending."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
77%
|
André Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013) |
"
As Mr. Gregory demonstrated in "My Dinner With André," he is a spellbinding raconteur who exudes the same sorcererlike aura that he emanates while directing Ibsen."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 3, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
40%
|
Mental (2013) |
"
"Mental" wildly overplays the kookiness and quirk."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
The movie, like its subject, refuses to stir up unnecessary melodrama."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Gobots - Battle of the Rock Lords () |
"
True to Saturday-morning cartoon tradition, 'GoBots' is a jerky, semi coherent series of chases, laser-gun battles and explosions, with an allegorical plot about how no one can handle too much power."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
65%
|
Starbuck (2013) |
"
"Starbuck" is up to its eyeballs in mush. You may want to regurgitate."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Hunky Dory (2013) |
"
At various moments this endearing but sudsy movie, which spills all over the place, evokes "High School Musical," "Glee" and "Billy Elliot.""
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
——
|
GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986) |
"
A jerky, semi coherent series of chases, laser-gun battles and explosions, with an allegorical plot about how no one can handle too much power."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Eden (2013) |
"
[An] excruciating vision of under-age women conscripted into sexual slavery by a criminal enterprise from which there is seemingly no escape."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 19, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
The novelty of the idea, which suggests a less elegant offshoot of M. C. Escher drawings, quickly wears thin. The production design is too busy, and the film's desaturated palette is forbiddingly austere."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" can't transcend the fundamental problem built into movies and television shows about magic. It isn't really magic if you're watching it second hand."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
If I Were You (2012) |
"
Buried in the bloat of Joan Carr-Wiggin's interminable "If I Were You" are the seeds of what might have been a lean, snappy farce about duplicitous, adulterous games."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
85%
|
Electrick Children (2013) |
"
"Electrick Children" is well acted and refreshingly nonjudgmental, but its narrative continuity is tenuous at best."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
Mr. Jones's performance is the only spark within this otherwise dull, well-mannered exercise."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
30%
|
Gut Renovation (2013) |
"
Su Friedrich's cranky, sarcastic documentary polemic about the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
5/5
|
96%
|
War Witch (2013) |
"
The movie is committed to revealing the world through Komona's eyes, and you never feel a taint of voyeurism or condescension. It stays true to her."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
13%
|
Molly's Theory Of Relativity (2013) |
"
"Molly's Theory of Relativity" shows how our parents live inside us, and how our relationships with them continue to evolve even after they're gone."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
92%
|
Future Weather (2013) |
"
[A] tiny, beautifully acted movie ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
58%
|
Snitch (2013) |
"
Mr. Johnson's screen presence, however charismatic, is out of sync with the rest of the movie."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
The climactic inferno, which explodes whatever credibility the movie built up, is immediately followed by a cheap, out-of-the-blue supernatural twist. The equivalent of a forged signature, it attests to the movie's essential falsity."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
16%
|
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) |
"
At best it is a mildly diverting goof with a charmless lead performance. Its underlying misogyny leaves a sour taste."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
Lore (2013) |
"
The film sustains an air of overarching mystery in which the viewer, like the title character, is in the position of a sheltered child plunked into an alien environment and required to fend for herself without a map or compass."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
52%
|
The Playroom (2013) |
"
"The Playroom" captures the malaise of mid-'70s suburbia with a merciless accuracy not seen since Ang Lee's 1997 film, "The Ice Storm.""
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
4%
|
Movie 43 (2013) |
"
Once you're attuned to the movie's desperation to shock, you begin to have that jaded, ho-hum feeling."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
Knife Fight (2013) |
"
Whether playing it sleazy or noble, Mr. Lowe brings little emotional weight to his role."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Supporting Characters (2013) |
"
This well-acted film captures a generational and occupational sliver of New York life that rings true."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Yossi (2013) |
"
"Yossi" tells the beautifully acted but overly sentimental story of a man's emotional rebirth in a more sexually liberated era. It is also a pointed portrayal of the revolution in social attitudes inside the most liberal and secularized of Israeli cities."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 24, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
83%
|
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2013) |
"
The film's pleasures are the same ones offered by a sprawling, lavishly illustrated magazine spread."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
17%
|
Brief Reunion (2013) |
"
The juicy dramatic possibilities of buried secrets and lies and cybertrickery are left unexplored. The movie's shade of noir is a dull gray."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Sudoeste (Southwest) () |
"
It leads you to consider the breadth of eternity, the limits of human consciousness and the possibility of reincarnation."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 16, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
24%
|
Struck by Lightning (2013) |
"
Except for Ms. Janney's monstrous mother and an Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother (Polly Bergen), "Struck by Lightning" gives its characters no dimension."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
56%
|
Fairhaven (2013) |
"
[A] beautifully acted, directed and edited little slice of New England life ..."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
19%
|
The Baytown Outlaws (2013) |
"
If it has the right spit-in-your-face attitude, it has neither the stamina nor the wit to go the distance, although it makes it about two-thirds of the way."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 10, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
The film is inspiring because it has a semi-happy ending attached to a love story."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
By focusing on musicians who are talented but finally not good or persistent enough to succeed in the big time, "Not Fade Away" offers a poignant, alternative, antiheroic history of the big beat."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
It all seems - dare I say it? - of little consequence."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 20, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
38%
|
The Guilt Trip (2012) |
"
The chief pleasures of this mild-mannered dud lie in watching two resourceful comic actors go through their paces like the pros they are."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 18, 2012
|
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