|
5/10
|
40%
|
Leroy & Stitch (2006) |
"
A Lilo & Stitch picture that ends warmly has done its duty, though I suppose only by the skin of its teeth. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 8, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
——
|
Les Misérables (2004) |
"
The stand-out, and easily the best reason to see this "Les misérables"... is obviously Jean Gabin."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 7, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
83%
|
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) |
"
The best movie, with the best script, in writer Shane Black's career."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
Not quite as much fun as Iron Man the first... but there are worse ways to welcome summer than with the low-key return of an old friend in good spirits."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Covered in an impenetrable layer of irony that evinces the smuggest imaginable contempt for the characters."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2/10
|
50%
|
Bambi II (2006) |
"
Even if we're going to concede that the narrative space filled by Bambi II needed the filling... surely there was a better story than this one."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 30, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
71%
|
Army of Darkness (1993) |
"
A loopy work of imagination that never fails to be entertaining."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 29, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
98%
|
Evil Dead 2 (1987) |
"
The best horror-comedy ever made."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 28, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
People who need anything remotely resembling an emotional anchor in their movies had best look elsewhere."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 27, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
47%
|
The Lords of Salem (2013) |
"
[Rob Zombie] makes good on the promise of being one of America's most distinctive horror directors to securely become one of its best."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
85%
|
Death Race 2000 (1975) |
"
A movie that has a little bit of everything, and it's easily the best version of itself that could possibly be put together. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 22, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
——
|
Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) |
"
It's kind of amazing how much one can learn from these Pooh films. In this case, I learned that you cannot overestimate how crass Disney is actually capable of being. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 19, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
It manages to be something that inspirational biopics, in my experience, virtually never are: inspiring."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
49%
|
Jurassic Park III (2001) |
"
More than half an hour shorter than The Lost World, so at least there's a lot less of it to suffer through."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
52%
|
The Lost World - Jurassic Park (1997) |
"
Readily the worst thing Steven Spielberg has ever made."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 16, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
40%
|
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) |
"
Not much happens, and it happens to characters who don't feel quite right, and there's no reason to care about any of this except those reasons that you bring in with you."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
92%
|
Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013) |
"
[Looks] better not only than effects-driven movies of the same period, but better, frankly, than half of what gets released nowadays."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
98%
|
The Evil Dead (1981) |
"
A great, genuinely unnerving horror movie."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 14, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
The good parts are so good, and the bad parts are so bad, that there's not even a way to calculate an average."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 12, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
20%
|
Tarzan II (2005) |
"
The general level of technical accomplishment is so high that it really stands out badly whenever something briefly drops to the normal level of DisneyToon animation."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
Rather overt about its intentions to replace the campfire story creepiness of [the original] with over-the-top gore effects and a truly unfortunate reliance on jump scares."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 8, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
82%
|
Empire of the Sun (1987) |
"
The best mix in his directorial career between typical Spielbergian flourishes of audience-friendly spectacle and seriousness of intent."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 7, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
79%
|
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) |
"
There's not a scrap of Milne left, at this point."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 5, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
16%
|
Temptation (2013) |
"
There are many problems with the opening two-thirds of Temptation; an infinity of problems. But the biggest is that it's immoderately boring."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 3, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
0%
|
Mulan II (2003) |
"
It's no surprise that a script this addicted to fortune cookie utterances would fall short on presenting a sane, realistic version of China."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 2, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
It's a minor work. There's no argument around that. Still, it's got a good heart, and likable characters."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
85%
|
King of Kings (1961) |
"
Many of the scenes (especially the ones centered on Pilate and John the Baptist) are as good as anything in the history of the Biblical epic."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Apr 1, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Where the first film is a rancid violation of everything that makes cinema even a little bit tolerable in any regard, the sequel is merely empty and mediocre."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 30, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
48%
|
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) |
"
If you go in with an extremely specific set of expectations about what you want from an R-rated thriller released in March, it is likely to leave you satisfied."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Irredeemably toxic."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
96%
|
War Witch (2013) |
"
Made with extremely clear-eyed restraint from harangues, sentiment, message-mongering, or anything else that would cheapen its central character's suffering and fight."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
An impressive, colorful, imaginatively-designed cartoon adventure, rather spoiled by being shackled to a deeply perfunctory story."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
——
|
Winnie the Pooh - Springtime with Roo (2004) |
"
Aggressively and obnoxiously telegraphs its intention to only impress and entertain very small children. Indiscriminate ones."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 25, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
39%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
There's no one moment where The Call breaks; more like a five minute span where it goes from everything mostly working to everything mostly not."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
Freshens up a decades-old story with vibrant humor and a good sense of storytelling."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 20, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
75%
|
The Lion King 1 1/2 (2004) |
"
It is creative, and that's alone enough to rocket it to the top of the Disney sequel heap."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 19, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
Largely a pretext for style, but the style works."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 18, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
——
|
Stitch! The Movie (2003) |
"
Disney had to call it something, and "Pilot Episode for an Upcoming TV Series That We're Shamelessly Going to Make You Pay for Separately" is a lot of words for a DVD spine."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Pretty as all heck, in a manner that unquestionably reeks of Disney's attempt to sell you a theme park ride. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 12, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
55%
|
Return to Oz (1985) |
"
On its own merits, has some very fine cinematic flourishes... if we can but manage the herculean feat of separating it from the older movie."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 10, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
13%
|
The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) |
"
So impoverished in every regard that it cannot dare to dream of being something so impressive and respectable as "ramshackle"."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
Neither musty enough to seem like a charming throwback nor complex enough to work well as a reimaginging."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
92%
|
The Sting (1973) |
"
A perfectly calibrated machine designed to be as entertaining as possible in as many ways as possible."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 3, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
35%
|
Dark Skies (2013) |
"
Dark Skies is not only about invading aliens whose psychology is so removed from ours as to make them totally unknowable, it was apparently written by them."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Mar 2, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
As a work of contemporary political history and moral philosophy, it's essential viewing."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Feb 27, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
100%
|
Rebecca (1940) |
"
Self-consciously prestigious literary filmmaking... more in line with the producer's career than the director's."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
It wants to have it both ways, mixing the aesthetics of the '80s and the '10s together, and this does not work."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Feb 20, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
97%
|
Gun Crazy (Deadly Is the Female) (1950) |
"
One of the great, specifically American love stories ever put to film... among the most overtly erotic films of the post-WWII era."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
67%
|
101 Dalmatians II - Patch's London Adventure (2002) |
"
Not nearly as galling as it should be."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
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