|
3.0/5
|
97%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
Director Cuaron may lack imagination in plot and character, but he excels in style."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Oct 5, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
There is an essential decency to all Howard's movies, and Rush is no different."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 29, 2013
|
|
1.0/5
|
34%
|
Salinger (2013) |
"
I have one thing to say to the director, "Sleep tight, ya moron!""
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 22, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
81%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
Prisoners is like a hyper kid got on an elevator and pushed all the buttons, so that it stopped at every floor."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 21, 2013
|
|
4.0/5
|
77%
|
Match Point (2005) |
"
But, perhaps, the greatest parallel between Woody's Match Point and Hitch is duality. It's a brilliant device."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 14, 2013
|
|
1.0/5
|
80%
|
Drinking Buddies (2013) |
"
Pretension. Pretension. Pretension."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 9, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
46%
|
Closed Circuit (2013) |
"
It's entertaining but misses the impact that can make the genre special."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 27, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
Director/writer Woody Allen still has vitality, creativity, and the man can write."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 24, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
91%
|
The Spectacular Now (2013) |
"
The writing is as subtle as a Slurpee -- even a spiked one."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 20, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
100%
|
La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus (2013) |
"
Perhaps Kendall's greatest strength is finding expressive Guatemalan faces."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 11, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
68%
|
Elysium (2013) |
"
Elysium is loud, boisterous nonsense. But it is entertaining."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
78%
|
Europa Report (2013) |
"
The strength of the film is not the story or the characters. It is the style that is remarkable."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 6, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
——
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Coin Toss () |
"
Coin Toss is a good-natured -- if disjointed -- indie."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 29, 2013
|
|
1.0/5
|
20%
|
Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
I went in search of Ocean City, and all I got was this stinking movie."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 25, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
99%
|
20 Feet From Stardom (2013) |
"
In a way, critics are the backup singers of film."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 22, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
What contemporary American audiences probably don't realize is how many movies today are being made in America with the foreign audience uppermost in mind."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 16, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Berberian Sound Studio (2013) |
"
Berberian Sound Studio is a film for critics. General public -- come at your own risk."
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tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 6, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
At one point in the movie, the Lone Ranger is dragged through manure, which begs for comment. But it's self-explanatory."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 3, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
64%
|
Unfinished Song (2013) |
"
Unfinished Song is shameless hokum, but it should please its target audience."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
50%
|
White House Down (2013) |
"
White House Down is rip-roaring and ridiculous."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 29, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
One of the best things about World War Z is that it's not self-indulgent."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 23, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
I doubt that Russell Crowe ever imagined he'd be on screen saying, "Krypton is doomed.""
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 15, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
62%
|
Broken (2013) |
"
Attention: Book Discussion Groups. Have I got a book for you. And a movie beautifully adapted from it. Both are titled Broken."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 9, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
88%
|
In the House (2013) |
"
Director/scriptwriter Francois Ozon knows his Hitchcock well. He employs him effectively, but the clutter is his own."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 31, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
Just like the seeds, At Any Price is genetically modified reality."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 23, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
87%
|
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) |
"
At its best, Star Trek Into Darkness is Cumberbatch; at its worst, it's cumbersome."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 19, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
I went into a dark tavern after I saw Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I wanted to get over the stilted, garish glitz - the 1920s embalmed in bloated bronze."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
I've got 3D, but I want 4D. And 5D when it is concocted."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 5, 2013
|
|
4.0/5
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
Like great directors before him -- Hitchcock, Polanski, Altman, et al. -- Nichols uses duality with real skill and impact."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted May 1, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
55%
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 27, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
In Oblivion, Cruise has more chemistry with drones than with his two love interests."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 23, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
69%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
Trance is an elaborate tease. Trance is more mindless than mind-bending."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 17, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
79%
|
42 (2013) |
"
There should be a Lifetime Sports channel. 42 would be a good movie for it"
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 15, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
82%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
The Place Beyond the Pines is ten pounds of film stuffed into a five-pound movie."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 30, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
69%
|
The Croods (2013) |
"
No wonder it's doing so well at the box office."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 26, 2013
|
|
2.5/5
|
36%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
In The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Jim Carrey makes a great freak, and Carell and Buscemi are total geeks."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
——
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4.0/5
|
——
|
History Of The Eagles: Part 1 () |
"
The Eagles live in both the present and the past."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 26, 2013
|
|
1.5/5
|
14%
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
84%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
Hitch used illogic, but he never plummeted into hokum as Side Effects does."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 11, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
46%
|
Bullet to the Head (2013) |
"
Bullet to the Head is a blunt movie with a blunt star. It's also bluntly entertaining."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
2.0/5
|
56%
|
Fairhaven (2013) |
"
It's difficult to dislike Fairhaven, because it is a promising, earnest effort."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 30, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
Amour (2012) |
"
A viewer may want to watch Amour, because it is a work of art."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 21, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
82%
|
De rouille et d'os (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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 15, 2013
|
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 8, 2013
|
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 6, 2013
|
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 2, 2013
|
|
3.0/5
|
80%
|
Quartet (2013) |
"
So often today, the older generation rejects movies because they think they're not for them. But Quartet is."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 27, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
70%
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 27, 2012
|
|
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."
—
tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 21, 2012
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