|
2/4
|
75%
|
Simon Killer (2013) |
"
Self-consciousness passing for style."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Night Across the Street (2013) |
"
Elegiac, witty and deeply reflective, "Night Across the Street" strikes a mature and complex tone."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
The film's guilelessness in stoking classic themes, folklore and paradigms in American culture would be absurdly self-conscious if Nichols didn't have such an original voice as a storyteller."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
40%
|
Mental (2013) |
"
The heart of Hogan's film is in the right place, and Collette is masterful as an agent of anarchy."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Pavilion (2013) |
"
Sutton's approach is observation: We're not so much pulled into a narrative as watching images float in ethereal atmospheres."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Not Today (2013) |
"
Writer-director Jon Van Dyke offers rugged production values, and his real agenda - getting Christian viewers to help end sex trafficking - mires the movie in self-conscious angst and speeches."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
In an interesting way, "The Croods" is about storytelling - cave paintings, hints of oral tradition, stumbling upon metaphors - and the impulse to remember amid change. There's something touching in that ..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
Whatever one's political stripe regarding Israel, it's hard to dispute the impressions and perspective of the film's six eyewitnesses."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
60%
|
John Dies at the End (2013) |
"
[It] eventually finds its own rhythm and meaningful chaos."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013) |
"
Herzog is not insincere. His passion for outsize experience has always captured our essential human identity against big backdrops. He captures it again in "Happy People," but this time with a twist."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
We Don't Care About Music Anyway (2009) |
"
"We Don't Care" deftly compensates for the missing element in a film about performance art: immediacy."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
18%
|
Parental Guidance (2012) |
"
From a bounty of low, low moments in "Parental Guidance," it's difficult to choose the absolute lowest."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Dec 25, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
All this random action, Carax suggests, is for some vast, abstract audience anxious to lose itself in imagined narratives."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy (2011) |
"
An eye-opening documentary about a bizarre sociological phenomenon that has been evolving on an Ohio farm since 1995."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
43%
|
28 Hotel Rooms (2012) |
"
A chamber piece rooted in semi-improvisation."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 15, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
68%
|
This Must Be The Place (2012) |
"
In the end, "This Must Be the Place" isn't just bad. It's inappropriate."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Nov 8, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
War of the Buttons (2012) |
"
Barratier can't seem to do anything with it other than keep raising the violence and anger."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Detropia (2012) |
"
A startling, haunting documentary about a once-great city, "Detropia" is all but a eulogy for Detroit."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 18, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
|
What Did You Expect? The Archers of Loaf Live at Cat's Cradle (2012) |
"
The Archers' sometimes near-exotic chord progressions, their blend of raw power and mesmerizing hooks on the likes of "Fabricoh," "Might" and "Wrong," and their '90s slacker-rock flourishes make "What Did You Expect?" a winning concert movie."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
Hotel Transylvania (2012) |
"
There's much to enjoy here in a disposable way, particularly jokes about monsters having ordinary problems with kids and spouses."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 27, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
You May Not Kiss the Bride (2012) |
"
Surely, some Hollywood studio in the 1950s made a prototype of the sprightly if erratic comedy "You May Not Kiss the Bride.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
China Heavyweight (2012) |
"
Yung seems to anticipate real-life emotional beats and positions his camera at exactly the right moments, yet nothing seems artificial or scripted. The result is an unexpectedly tender film about the price of coming into one's own."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Sep 13, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
The Bullet Vanishes (2012) |
"
"The Bullet Vanishes" charges ahead at a perfect clip. Lo's delightful, hyperbolic audacity includes sharpshooter Guo's knack for banking bullets off walls to hit bad guys, as if playing pool."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 30, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
The Green Wave (2012) |
"
A wrenching but illuminating look at what actually happened during Iran's Green Revolution in 2009-10."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 23, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Splinters (2012) |
"
A hybrid work that will appeal to both surf-movie fanatics and armchair sociologists."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
On The Sly (APas De Loup) () |
"
A compelling, wholly original tale marred a bit by its young heroine's incessant chatter on the soundtrack."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
50%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) |
"
It is less unified and more predictable than its predecessors, and doesn't play to all the franchise's earlier strengths."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
55%
|
Starry Starry Night (2012) |
"
A somewhat clunky family movie about childhood escapism, alternating a little too conveniently between the grim and the adorable."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
Savages (2012) |
"
"Savages" is never quite one thing or another."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jul 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Goodbye First Love (2012) |
"
Hansen-Løve films with an eye toward discovering and rediscovering these characters in pure moments of simple, poignant humanity - wading in a river, clambering over rocks."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
The Highest Pass (2012) |
"
This dull documentary looks and feels like a season of MTV's "The Real World" set in mountainous India."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
50%
|
The Manzanar Fishing Club (2012) |
"
Ingeniously, and warmly, looks at a surprising chapter in the story of an internment camp in Eastern California."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 31, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Like Water (2012) |
"
A tepid, superficial sports documentary about Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight king Anderson Silva."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 31, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
Post Mortem (2012) |
"
Mesmerizing, somehow otherworldly..."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Michael (2012) |
"
A strange and agonizingly engrossing drama despite its repellent subject."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
94%
|
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) |
"
A visionary composition on a series of spoken reflections about a literary work - itself full of layered free-association - Gee's intricate, prismatic film might sound as if it must be buried in abstraction."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 10, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
Death of a Superhero (2012) |
"
Much of this film quickly vanishes from memory, but there's some gold here. That's pretty much the message about life itself in "Death of a Superhero.""
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
1.5/4
|
57%
|
Re:Generation (2012) |
"
A well-meaning but overreaching documentary that strains to make a Theory of Everything argument about power and powerlessness in America. Ultimately, it fails to convince about much of anything."
—
Seattle Times
Posted May 3, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
80%
|
Jean Gentil (2012) |
"
A mesmerizing, beautiful drama, "Jean Gentil" is the rare film that teaches one to see."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Whores' Glory (2012) |
"
Like a stroll through Amsterdam's red-light district at night. It's an experience far more sad than sexy."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
[A] truly disturbing documentary, which pretty much argues that human beings are hard-wired to self-destruct."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
74%
|
Chimpanzee (2012) |
"
The makers of "Chimpanzee" appear to have captured a lot of genuine and genuinely lovely footage of instinctive compassion among animals."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 19, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
99%
|
This Is Not a Film (2012) |
"
The more "This Is Not a Film" underscores the cruel containment of a great artist, the more we actually become aware - very indirectly, in a very Panahi fashion - of a city in chaos outside, with sounds of gunfire and distant street blazes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
Blue Like Jazz (2012) |
"
This is a movie with heart but too many distractions."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
The Salt of Life (2012) |
"
"The Salt of Life" finds gentle comedy in the dilemma of a still warm-blooded if sexually marginalized fellow for whom kindness is second nature and lecherousness is alien."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
99%
|
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) |
"
A case study in the phenomenon of mastery."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 29, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
48%
|
The FP (2012) |
"
"The FP" works best as an operatic parody of mixed genres with lunacy on the fringes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
21 Jump Street (2012) |
"
It's mostly another raunchy buddy comedy - albeit one with welcome comic discipline, more focused on maintaining pitch than continually lowering the bar on gross-out jokes."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 15, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
|
How to Make a Book with Steidl (2013) |
"
Much of the film follows the fascinating production of a book full of surreptitious iPhone images by photographer Joel Sternfeld."
—
Seattle Times
Posted Mar 8, 2012
|
78%
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