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2.5/5
|
78%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
I've got 3D, but I want 4D. And 5D when it is concocted."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted May 5, 2013
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|
4.0/5
|
98%
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Mud (2013) |
"
Like great directors before him -- Hitchcock, Polanski, Altman, et al. -- Nichols uses duality with real skill and impact."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted May 1, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Robert Redford -- who once was an active liberal -- is now a tired capitalist. He's also a worn-out egotist."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 27, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
56%
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Oblivion (2013) |
"
In Oblivion, Cruise has more chemistry with drones than with his two love interests."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 23, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Trance is an elaborate tease. Trance is more mindless than mind-bending."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 17, 2013
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2.5/5
|
77%
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42 (2013) |
"
There should be a Lifetime Sports channel. 42 would be a good movie for it"
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 15, 2013
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|
2.0/5
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
The Place Beyond the Pines is ten pounds of film stuffed into a five-pound movie."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 30, 2013
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|
3.0/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
No wonder it's doing so well at the box office."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 26, 2013
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2.5/5
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38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
In The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Jim Carrey makes a great freak, and Carell and Buscemi are total geeks."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 21, 2013
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3.0/5
|
——
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That Guy... Who Was in That Thing () |
"
The film gives a greater insight into the lives of character actors. It brings them out of the shadows."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 7, 2013
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4.0/5
|
——
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History Of The Eagles: Part 1 () |
"
The Eagles live in both the present and the past."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 26, 2013
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|
1.5/5
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
Those going to see the latest John McClane movie (the 5th), expecting another smart and sassy Die Hard, instead get Transformers, Part 12."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 13, 2013
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|
2.0/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Hitch used illogic, but he never plummeted into hokum as Side Effects does."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 11, 2013
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|
2.0/5
|
47%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Bullet to the Head is a blunt movie with a blunt star. It's also bluntly entertaining."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 4, 2013
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|
2.0/5
|
56%
|
Fairhaven (2013) |
"
It's difficult to dislike Fairhaven, because it is a promising, earnest effort."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 30, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
A viewer may want to watch Amour, because it is a work of art."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
82%
|
Rust and Bone (2012) |
"
A lesser director would not have breathed life into Rust and Bone, but Audiard directs with skill and sensitivity, even when his characters lack those attributes."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 15, 2013
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|
2.5/5
|
89%
|
Compliance (2012) |
"
Zobel has proposed an intriguing, disturbing concept. But he makes leaps. Compliance is a good film. I wish it had been a little better."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 8, 2013
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|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
Django Unchained is part Red Bull and part bloody bubble bath. It's a hoot and a holler."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 6, 2013
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|
2.0/5
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
Promised Land is no Good Will Hunting (1997). It brings back director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Damon, but it's another example of you can't go home again."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 2, 2013
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|
3.0/5
|
79%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
So often today, the older generation rejects movies because they think they're not for them. But Quartet is."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 27, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
69%
|
Not Fade Away (2012) |
"
The British invasion of rock 'n' roll was upon America, and David Chase remembers the time with both fond and bitter memories."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 27, 2012
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|
3.0/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Zero Dark Thirty is a skillful -- and somewhat cautious -- look at military bureaucracy. It's both hampered and elevated by its dependence on authenticity."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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|
2.0/5
|
81%
|
The Impossible (2012) |
"
One might leave the theater wondering how much can one be entertaining by suffering?"
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 18, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
66%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
Seeing The Hobbit is like going to a timeshare presentation. First you have to sit through the boring stuff before you can take advantage of the spectacular benefits."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
2.0/5
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
Les Misérables is as sodden as a tear-filled hankie. Director Hooper gets bogged down by the bulk of his movie."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 11, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
——
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The Long Green Line (2008) |
"
This documentary, written and directed by Matthew Arnold, captures the vulnerability, naivete, and pretension of youth. He focuses on the student athletes and their irrepressible coach."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 10, 2012
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|
3.0/5
|
92%
|
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) |
"
When you make a movie set in Philly, you'd better get it right. Knowledgeable Eagles' fans may find Russell's sense of history maddening."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 26, 2012
|
|
3.0/5
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
Life of Pi is not a shaggy-tiger story. It is a tale of tantalizing imagination."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 23, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
The best aspect of Lincoln is the stellar performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln. Day-Lewis always is devoted to finding the authenticity."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 18, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
94%
|
The Sessions (2012) |
"
Popular sex therapist Dr. Ruth once said that sexual surrogates are "illegal." The Sessions makes them mainstream."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 13, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
Hitchcock takes us through the struggle, travail, and rejections that faced Hitch as he tried to make a new kind of movie. We perhaps forget how revolutionary Psycho was in 1960. No one had ever done what Hitchcock was attempting."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 8, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
79%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Robert Zemeckis directs unevenly from an erratic screenplay by John Gatins. Flight basically is a shaky character study, but its strength is a terrific action sequence, as the pilot struggles trying to control his plummeting plane."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 4, 2012
|
|
2.0/5
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Where have you gone, 007? Skyfall has transformed you from the human, vulnerable, skillful spy into a Superhero Bond. In Skyfall, Bond is part Aquaman and part Road Runner, with some familial angst pilfered from Bruce Wayne. He's become an action toy."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Oct 26, 2012
|
|
3.0/5
|
96%
|
Shifty (2008) |
"
Shifty is low-key, low budget, but high grade. It's a film about sitting and talking. And drug dealing. It builds slowly - some may want more action, but it has a surprisingly satisfying conclusion."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Oct 18, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Argo is a skillful, dramatic entertainment. It's slick. But in its rush to be "feel-good," Argo sacrifices a lot - such as depth and credibility. It has thrills and laughs; it just doesn't have much substance."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Oct 13, 2012
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|
2.5/5
|
85%
|
End of Watch (2012) |
"
End of Watch avoids many of the conventions of other cop movies and goes its own way. But then it veers back to the easy, most conventional of modes. End of Watch is a moral tale that unfortunately misplaces its truth."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 29, 2012
|
|
2.0/5
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master baits the audience. One may admire The Master for its scope, style, and maybe some of the acting, but its vision is myopic."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 26, 2012
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|
2.0/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the loopy looper, has to time travel into another time to kill himself (Bruce Willis) so that he doesn't make bad movies. No, that's not it. So he can avoid Demi Moore. No. Oh, forget it."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 25, 2012
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|
1.5/5
|
51%
|
Trouble with the Curve (2012) |
"
Trouble with the Curve should be titled Trouble with the Cliche. It was not written by a hitter; it was written by a hacker. It's depressing to think that Clint Eastwood's final screen appearance may be in this junkball movie."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 25, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
87%
|
Arbitrage (2012) |
"
Arbitrage is the latest in a long line of movies with touches of Alfred Hitchcock's DNA. The film reverberates with themes such as deception, ethical ambiguity, and the impact of fate."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 16, 2012
|
|
3.0/5
|
87%
|
Robot & Frank (2012) |
"
Robot & Frank is an airy, engaging flight of fancy. It's also part caper film, part character study, and part allegory about aging. Robot & Frank shouldn't work, but it does."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 8, 2012
|
|
2.0/5
|
64%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
David Cronenberg takes a wayward shot at making a film out of Don DeLillo's artful novel Cosmopolis. Cronenberg's version drones and flounders."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
In Lawless, character wins out amidst the brutal assaults and onslaughts. The Bondurant brothers are outlaws, but they have a strong sense of frontier justice. Just like a good western does."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
3.0/5
|
95%
|
Side by Side (2012) |
"
In Side by Side, editor Walter Murch states, "In a way, film was the church of the 20th century." But the church of film is shutting its doors. Stained glass is being replaced by digital imagery. A new religion is on its relentless way."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 26, 2012
|
|
3.0/5
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
Ruby Sparks goes beyond quirky fluff and deals with relationships. Zoe Kazan rides her screenplay on a high-altitude flight of imagination. Although there's an occasional bump on the way, the landing is smooth."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
3.0/5
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
The Bourne Legacy moves on, and takes us on a spirited journey. Stow your baggage, and it's a trip well worth taking."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 12, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Neil Young Journeys (2012) |
"
Neil Young Journeys does for some of us what a rare film can do - it revives and renews our spirit. Neil Young and Jonathan Demme. Heart and soul. Wisdom and age. Fire and ashes. Lightning and thunder."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
79%
|
The Deep Blue Sea (2012) |
"
The Deep Blue Sea is an eloquent love song. It's both hauntingly pitiful and very human. It's love in all its labor."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 30, 2012
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