|
1/4
|
7%
|
In the Army Now (1994) |
"
This is Hollywood combat at its most irritatingly banal."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
9%
|
Milk Money (1994) |
"
A work so rancid and alienating you can only suppose it was planned as a tax loss."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 22, 2013
|
|
|
32%
|
Radio Flyer (1992) |
"
What you get in Radio Flyer is an unholy brew of whimsy and blasphemy. It flits from the unwatchable to the unbelievable, with nary a pause between them and the effect, to say the least, is unsettling."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
Newsies (1992) |
"
Newsies is a live-action musical, but it's only barely alive. Call it Snoozies."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
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29%
|
The House of the Spirits (1994) |
"
It's also a wretched paradox: a big budget, star-driven art film whose very elements subvert its ambitions and turn it into the thing it least wants to be -- a listless '50s-style Hollywood melodrama."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
The Crucible (1996) |
"
The physical production of the film is so authentic and compelling, you can't get beyond it, not for a second."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
22%
|
Color of Night (1994) |
"
Worst of all, the film never develops much suspense."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 17, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
"
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is a Saturday Night Fever dream: a hot, dense, wicked disco of tough-guy posturings, vivid dips of violence and literally unbelievable plot moves."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 15, 2013
|
|
|
80%
|
The Boxer (1997) |
"
Sheridan is very good on the ways and means of the IRA."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 14, 2013
|
|
|
97%
|
Schindler's List (1993) |
"
It looks, without ever averting its gaze, at the darkest of the dark."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
Groundhog Day (1993) |
"
The movie is expertly calculated to derive maximum comic energy from Bill Murray's great, deadpan mug and his drop-dead I'm-not-impressed line readings."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
One False Move (1992) |
"
One False Move doesn't make a single false move its own self: It's as tough and gripping as they come."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 6, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (1992) |
"
If you didn't get it then, you're not going to get it now."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
98%
|
The Wild Bunch (1969) |
"
It's one of the great, arrogant take-it-or-leave-it jobs in history, and by this point it is so beyond either defense or attack that I come neither to praise nor to bury it but merely to describe it."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
78%
|
Addams Family Values (1993) |
"
Addams Family Values turns out to be both a trick and a treat."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
The Crow (1994) |
"
The movie's central value and its most melancholy tone -- Lee's star presence. It's amazing and it's tragic."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993) |
"
Fans of classical animation are hereby warned to steer clear of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, for it will put them in instant vapor-lock and there aren't enough ambulances available this time of year."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Batman Returns (1992) |
"
It's not really a movie. It's a painting and Burton is a painter, a Hieronymus Bosch for our time. The thing seems to come straight from his subconscious and unspool in dream-logic."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Akira (2001) |
"
[Akira] is a blast and a half, a twisted dystopian parable of violence and rock and roll, Japanese-style. It's Disney on PCP, mean, rotten, psychotic, but incredibly vivid."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
|
92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
A brilliant and dynamic piece of popular movie making, Jurassic Park has a lot more bite than bark."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
65%
|
Reality Bites (1993) |
"
The best -- the brilliant -- bits of Reality Bites etch in epigram, anecdote and brittle, dazzling dialogue the inner life of young people who want desperately to believe but haven't decided in what."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
54%
|
Basic Instinct (1992) |
"
[Verhoeven] has always had a skill for storytelling, however questionable and tasteless the materials; but here he is hopelessly defeated by Ezsterhas' talky, slow-moving, and derivative script."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Cobb (1994) |
"
Stump is well-played by affable Robert Wuhl, who has the unenviable responsibility of representing the one sane man in Ty's crazy universe."
—
Baltimore Sun
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
—
|
——
|
Ghosts (2004) |
—
Washington Post
Posted Jan 22, 2013
|
|
|
83%
|
There's Something About Mary (1998) |
"
This one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!"
—
Washington Post
Posted Feb 3, 2009
|
|
|
41%
|
The Rocker (2008) |
"
If only the movie had some bite, some edge, some anger, some insight. Instead it's generic, staying far away from the darker temptations of the rock scene."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 20, 2008
|
|
|
48%
|
Bottle Shock (2008) |
"
Whatta movie: booze, unhappy French people, Alan Rickman and really cool pickup trucks."
—
Washington Post
Posted Aug 6, 2008
|
|
|
55%
|
Step Brothers (2008) |
"
Thank god that when he became a man, Will Ferrell never put away childish things. His Step Brothers is so childish it seems to arrive in diapers, and that's not bad; it's good."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 24, 2008
|
|
|
94%
|
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"
[Ledger's] performance is also the most interesting thing in the film, and when the Joker is absent, The Dark Knight loses most of its energy and dynamism."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 17, 2008
|
|
—
|
0%
|
Remember the Daze (The Beautiful Ordinary) (2008) |
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 16, 2008
|
|
—
|
96%
|
Nanking (2007) |
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 16, 2008
|
|
|
78%
|
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) |
"
The tweener girls for whom it is aimed deserve better. A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2008
|
|
|
41%
|
Hancock (2008) |
"
The problem is that director Peter Berg, aided and abetted by Smith and Theron and third banana Jason Bateman, seem to have made it literally, not realizing its out-of-whack tonalities and grotesque plot twists were meant to be played for laughs."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jul 2, 2008
|
|
|
56%
|
Kicking It (2008) |
"
Kicking It illustrates the transformative power of sports."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 26, 2008
|
|
|
72%
|
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (When Did You Last See Your Father?) (2008) |
"
The movie is slick and treacly and goes nowhere that hasn't been gone before."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 26, 2008
|
|
|
86%
|
Mongol (2008) |
"
The result is a wallow in old movie pleasures, full of battles, flying dust, thousands of men on horseback, beautiful women, treachery, slaughter, really cool hats and even more slaughter."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 19, 2008
|
|
|
51%
|
Get Smart (2008) |
"
As I say: darned funny! Weightless as froth, forgettable as dew, but pretty darned funny."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 19, 2008
|
|
|
38%
|
Savage Grace (2007) |
"
The movie just sloshes along in a heavy, slightly overdone way."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
|
17%
|
The Happening (2008) |
"
The Happening stutter-steps its way in this direction and that to a disappointing ending."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
|
96%
|
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) |
"
The film isn't quite a memoir; it's also a platform to branch off into other areas, briskly and informatively and with a good deal of clearheadedness."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
|
|
|
37%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
In the end, the movie feels as if it exists only to display the Sandler's biceps."
—
Washington Post
Posted Jun 5, 2008
|
|
|
45%
|
The Strangers (2008) |
"
I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 30, 2008
|
|
|
78%
|
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"
It's romantic manliness at its purest, almost but not quite schmaltz, ideally calculated to please true believers and ironic snorters at once."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 22, 2008
|
|
|
86%
|
Beaufort (2008) |
"
The camera never leaves the beleaguered compound, and Beaufort itself becomes a character in the story, a surrealistic zone of tunnels, bunkers and sandbags, about as far from the possibility of heroism as possible."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
|
69%
|
Fugitive Pieces (2008) |
"
Everyone in the movie...is fabulous, and Podeswa has an ability to distill history into a few powerful images."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
|
|
|
67%
|
Redbelt (2008) |
"
What is memorable is the film's portrait of a man of honor in a sleazy world, possibly a metaphor for the struggle of the artist to stay honorable in a world of backbiting, betrayal and hunger for easy money."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 9, 2008
|
|
|
27%
|
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"
Not that What Happens in Vegas is any kind of great movie, but it's an exceedingly bright comedy that never makes you feel stupid for enjoying its brisk pacing, smart lines, sound construction and superb comic acting."
—
Washington Post
Posted May 8, 2008
|
|
|
74%
|
Dark City (1998) |
"
If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will."
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 28, 2008
|
|
|
38%
|
Zombie Strippers (2008) |
"
I stayed to the bitter end out of some romantic sense of professional obligation. Don't make that same mistake!"
—
Washington Post
Posted Apr 24, 2008
|
73%
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