|
4/4
|
83%
|
What Maisie Knew (2013) |
"
Yes, these people are cliches. But they know it. And so do the actors, who push past the stereotypes to slowly show us that perhaps these young and rather unimportant people are far more grown-up and involved than anyone else around them."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
There's not much style here, beyond the uniformly good acting, and even less of a point."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
It does capture the high emotionalism of a very specific point in a person's life, where the magnitude of the injustices around you is surpassed only by the firm belief that you and your friends alone know an easy way to end them."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Love Is All You Need (2013) |
"
Even with its flaws and occasional flat-footed choices, this is still a rare movie for grownups."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Far too much of this movie - like Tony's new toys - is running on remote control."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
8%
|
The Big Wedding (2013) |
"
I suppose it's always nice to get an invitation but please, this "Wedding"? Send back your regrets."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
"Mud" isn't just a movie. It's the firm confirmation of a career."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
It may be the best movie Michael Bay's ever made. And suggests that, if you just kept his toys put away a little longer, someday he might even make a better one."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 26, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
87%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
Mostly, the film's a confident, very sophisticated meditation on art - on why we need it, how we identify with it and what it gives our lives. And what it can't replace."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013) |
"
It's all meant to be monstrous, unspeakable, blasphemous horror but it comes across more like a slightly dirty drawing, passed in seventh-grade religion class."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
A movie that combines a lot of different films, yet somehow remains less than the sum of its parts ..."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2013) |
"
A lot of the charm of this straight-ahead documentary comes from Jay simply holding forth on old (in many cases, centuries-old) illusionists and their work."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
76%
|
It's a Disaster (2013) |
"
Berger never takes the camera more than a few yards outside the house, but that's fine; there's plenty going on inside, as characters carom off each other like billiard balls, slipping down pockets of misunderstanding and jealousy."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
[Boseman] captures, in a clenched jaw or a sidelong glance, a lifetime's worth of dearly attained dignity and barely contained rage."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
It serves up real emotion, and striking grace. It has moments of simple beauty, and thorny questions."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
The Angels' Share (2013) |
"
Like the spirit it celebrates, "The Angel's Share" is a neat little jolt of pleasure - and guaranteed to leave you feeling just a mite warmer."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
There's a movie to be made, perhaps, about the way that electronic devices have created distance between us. But it'd be better if not every story revolved around a crime."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
Upstream Color (2013) |
"
"Upstream Color" lacks both a clear point and, more crucially, a point of view."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
It's a fun spookshow - if chainsaw violence is your idea of fun - but it's sure not my "The Evil Dead." But that's OK. It's someone else's, now."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
Down the Shore (2013) |
"
None of it hangs together - particularly as the film heads into his final third, and you realize director Harold Guskin and screenwriter Sandra Jennings don't have a clue as to how to wrap things up."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
When Boyle finally pulls aside the curtain to show what he's been up to all along, we don't feel as if we've been fairly fooled. We feel as if we've been cheated ..."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Full of issues, and "relevance," but not enough action, or drama."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
96%
|
Blancanieves (2013) |
"
It creates something new out of something old. And it does it by treating a treasured children's story with the grown-up respect it deserves, and retelling it with a smile - but never a wink."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Family Weekend (2013) |
"
We're sitting there, trapped. An angry little teenager's yelling at us. And we're not having any fun at all."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
Theret - who is supposed to be playing the muse to two great artists - never seems much more than young and pretty, and Rottiers only young and uncertain. When the film switches to them, it goes still."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
A beautifully edited, deeply strange compendium of what different people have read into a single film."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Its ambitions - even its unrealized ones - are a great part of its power."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
If only the movie played as nicely as it looked."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 29, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Unmitigated nonsense to anyone but diehard fans."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
While the fish-out-of-water story remains a little overused, the sweet soul music still provides a terrific hook."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
A film which, if not truly sophisticated, isn't nearly as crude as advertised."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
It's a solid, simple, more-bang-for-our-buck entertainment that doesn't ask us to think."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
43%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
You'll be glad you enrolled."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
29%
|
Upside Down (2013) |
"
It doesn't really develop its story, or its themes. It doesn't truly draw out its characters. It evokes no serious emotions. It has - in the end - no gravity."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
39%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
It's a lot better than you might expect a movie like this to be."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Don't damn it with faint praise by calling it Potter's most "accessible" film. Simply call it what it is: One of her best, and perhaps her most deeply felt."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
"Spring Breakers" is so over-the-top, so-overdone, so extreme, it'd turn even a hedonist off sex."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
67%
|
Philip Roth: Unmasked (2013) |
"
[A] crisply filmed document."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 12, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Where's the gentle sentiment? The quiet moral lessons? The warm comforting message of family, and home, and realizing that the thing you needed most was really inside you, all the time?"
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
Mingiu used to be a journalist, and "Beyond the Hills" has the feel of real-life to it - no soaring soundtrack music, a cast full of everyday faces."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
The Silence (2013) |
"
A clear-eyed look at the hole that a death leaves behind, and the many awkward and always insufficient ways we try to fill it."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Perhaps if Farrell and Rapace and Oplev had all stayed in Europe - and tried to do a similar script, with half-as-much firepower, and twice as much brainpower - they might have had something worth watching. Instead it's just something worth ducking."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
31%
|
Emperor (2013) |
"
Just a dull procedural, with the bland Matthew Fox driving around in a jeep and asking questions and not having them answered."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
The script sets up the situation and characters nicely, and the actors are terrific."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Hava Nagila: The Movie (2013) |
"
Even the occasional bad jokes feel like part of this story."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
A Place at the Table (2013) |
"
As rich as we are as a nation - still - many of our citizens are, at best, malnourished. One in six says they regularly don't have enough to eat."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
25%
|
Phantom (2013) |
"
The film remains mediocre, with flat cinematography and crudely anachronistic dialogue."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
47%
|
The Sweeney (2013) |
"
Winstone is, as always, perfectly believable as a tough guy and after a slow start - due, somewhat, to American ears adjusting to those problematic accents - the film hits a groove."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Park isn't interested in simply trendy material and edgy effects; a former philosophy student, he wants to weave it all into a genuinely disturbing drama."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Mar 1, 2013
|
47%
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