|
3/5
|
56%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
An admirable failure; an overlong, awkwardly paced mishmash of cool but familiar ideas and all-too predictable plot-twists."
—
Moviedex
Posted May 3, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Sleepwalk With Me (2012) |
"
As entertaining as the movie can be, it's the smaller, more poignant material in between the big laughs that makes the final product so charming."
—
Moviedex
Posted Apr 10, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
28%
|
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) |
"
Marries the steroidal firepower of the US armed forces with the narrative sense and technical elegance of a twelve year old playing with his action figures."
—
Moviedex
Posted Apr 6, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
Sees both franchise and character transformed into tragically unimaginative, cacophonously violent and embarrassingly unfunny shadows of their once great former selves."
—
Moviedex
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
A perfectly solid family adventure, one that's made all the more fun for cinebuffs by those signature Raimi touches."
—
Moviedex
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Bigelow's latest proves a rewarding piece of filmmaking, one that, in its best moments at least, is as gripping and as troubling as anything the director's ever made."
—
Moviedex
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
A volatile mix of familial drama and madcap comedy, infectious optimism and razor-wire wit, it's one of the most purely enjoyable films released in the past twelve months."
—
Moviedex
Posted Feb 3, 2013
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Guilty of almost every indulgence [Tarantino] has ever been accused of...but it's hard to hold it against him, when the results are this bloody good"
—
Moviedex
Posted Jan 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
Kids who can handle the bumps should find much to love in this beautifully animated ramshackle parcel, one that's packed full of detail, humour and positive messages."
—
Moviedex
Posted Jan 17, 2013
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
A dazzling digital dreamscape that sets staggering new heights for what can be accomplished with 3D technology."
—
Moviedex
Posted Jan 12, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Too glossy to be film noir or even pulp fiction. But plenty of action and a few stand-out performances guarantee it's a fun ride while it lasts."
—
Moviedex
Posted Jan 7, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Overstuffed, dreary and dripping with sickening sentimentality, what starts promisingly soon becomes a two-and-a-half hour struggle to stay awake."
—
Moviedex
Posted Dec 31, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
69%
|
Liberal Arts (2012) |
"
A warm, funny and, one imagines, rather personal film, one that's all about falling in and out of love, not just with people and places but the ideas they can sometimes embody."
—
Moviedex
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
52%
|
This is 40 (2012) |
"
A deadly combination of bloated, stagnant, self-indulgent and self-pitying - all of which might be forgivable, if it weren't also so embarrassingly unfunny. "
—
Moviedex
Posted Dec 16, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
61%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
Begins with one of the best directed sequences of the year, before spinning out a tangled web of hardboiled intrigue, bone-shattering action and ambiguous political philosophy."
—
Moviedex
Posted Dec 10, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
74%
|
Rise of the Guardians (2012) |
"
While the concept is novel - and the animation often dazzling - the story and characterisations soon prove trite, condescending and dull."
—
Moviedex
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) |
"
For a man who makes his living as a performer and a wordsmith, the writing and acting of this rapper turned filmmaker both leave a lot to be desired."
—
Moviedex
Posted Dec 2, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
A funny, heartfelt if admittedly formulaic feature that boasts first rate performances and a genuine affection for its characters."
—
Moviedex
Posted Nov 28, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Suffers from unconvincing plotting, and a third act so bad it brings the roof of the whole endeavour caving in"
—
Moviedex
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
76%
|
Killing Them Softly (2012) |
"
The message is so unrelenting that it soon drowns out all the films' strengths in an ocean of fashionable nihilism and socially conscious outrage."
—
Moviedex
Posted Nov 14, 2012
|
|
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
Marking Paul Thomas Anderson's most cryptic work to date, this brilliantly shot, superbly acted and powerfully challenging film warrants multiple viewings. "
—
FILMINK (Australia)
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
Driven by John Hawkes' inspired turn, this is a candid, funny and touching charmer. "
—
FILMINK (Australia)
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Even when many of his characters big binges and corresponding redemptive moments stretch credulity, Washington makes you believe them."
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 28, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
"
Will have you laughing through tears while pondering the meaning of life, the universe and everything."
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 21, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
The Raid meets Zack Snyder meets Robocop"
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 17, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Anchors high-concept thrills and captivating ideas in a world of challenging morality and intricate personal consequences."
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 16, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
The Bay (2012) |
"
Contagion by way of Paranormal Activity"
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 11, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Frances Ha (2013) |
"
Blessedly more interested with being funny and relatable than it is with trying to make pretentious statement about generational or societal detachment."
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
44%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
Lewd, ludicrous and utterly convinced of its own gritty artistic merit, The Paperboy's closest cinematic cousin may very well be Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls."
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 8, 2012
|
|
.5/5
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
Emotional exploitation of the most vile and insensitive kind, The Impossible is an insult to the victims of the tragedy it depicts."
—
Moviedex
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Red Dawn (2012) |
"
Yet another awful, flag-waving, post-War on Terror guilt reassignment picture."
—
Moviedex
Posted Sep 29, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
Burton brings genuine enthusiasm to Frankenweenie that helps it transcend its stylistic familiarity"
—
Moviedex
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
68%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
It is stained glass cinema: shards of disparate splendour made breathtakingly whole."
—
Moviedex
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
If To the Wonder is the kind of film we get when Malick is prolific, I'd rather he took another ten or twenty years off."
—
Moviedex
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Much Ado About Nothing (2013) |
"
Whedon and Shakespeare are truly a match made in heaven."
—
Moviedex
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
82%
|
Seven Psychopaths (2012) |
"
Uproariously funny, gleefully violent, delightfully meta and spectacularly original."
—
Moviedex
Posted Sep 17, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
Opts for optimism over authenticity, watering down the period's complex and depressing racial politics into relatively straightforward hurdles for its heroines to overcome."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
War of the Arrows (Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon) (2011) |
"
Combines the visual splendour and historical drama of Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins with the unrelenting second-half intensity of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
Sightseers (2013) |
"
Think Natural Born Killers set in Cornwall. Only much, much funnier."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 25, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
A dull, predictable, embarrassingly self-satisfied low-rent thriller that just about confirms Marling as the most unlikable person working in the American independent film scene."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 22, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
Lovingly obsessive"
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 20, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
The House I Live In (2012) |
"
A fantastically constructed, unrelentingly compelling look at one of the biggest ongoing injustices in American society today."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
The Painting (2013) |
"
A marvellous French animation unafraid of broaching big ideas with a potentially pre-teen audience."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
1.5/5
|
54%
|
V/H/S (2012) |
"
Incomprehensible camera-work, dodgy acting, repetitious pacing, lazy jump scares and low-resolution boobies"
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
Haneke communicates all the minutia and indignity of a slow and inevitable death."
—
Moviedex
Posted Aug 5, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
37%
|
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) |
"
Contains more than enough high energy hi-jinks to keep distractible kiddies entertained."
—
Moviedex
Posted Jul 27, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
There are too many logic gaps, and far too few moments of intimacy. In the midst of things, however, there's no denying its grandeur."
—
Moviedex
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
51%
|
The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
Three Stooges is a very stupid film. Then again, if you bought a ticket expecting anything different, then really, the only idiot is you."
—
Moviedex
Posted Jul 8, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Monsieur Lazhar (2012) |
"
Under Falardeau's inconspicuous lens, life plays out with rare authenticity; not just its tragedies, but its triumphs, its mishaps and its incidental interludes"
—
Moviedex
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
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