|
3.5/4
|
83%
|
Something in the Air (2013) |
"
A clear-eyed - if largely plot-free - memory play from writer-director Olivier Assayas, whose previous films have veered from the bizarre ("Demonlover," "Boarding Gate") to the poignant ("Summer Hours")."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
Leonardo DiCaprio gives us the full Gatsby, assured yet insecure, and he's magnificent, but the movie ends up romanticizing what Fitzgerald spent the book de-romanticizing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Renoir (2013) |
"
"Renoir" doesn't get much beneath the surface - but, good God, what a surface."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
Kon Tiki (2013) |
"
"Kon-Tiki" is stalwart and uplifting and there are passing moments of wonder."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
The best scenes are when Stark just cuts impatiently through the claptrap."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 1, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
98%
|
Mud (2013) |
"
With "Mud," Jeff Nichols announces his intention to do it all. He just may yet."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
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1/4
|
46%
|
Pain & Gain (2013) |
"
Plays like "Fargo" for idiots."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 25, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
94%
|
Room 237 (2013) |
"
It's about the human need for stuff to make sense - especially overpowering emotional experiences - and the tendency for some people to take that sense-making to extremes."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
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2/4
|
42%
|
To The Wonder (2013) |
"
A meditation on love and lost paradise that starts with breathtaking assurance and slowly crumbles into self-parody."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
68%
|
Trance (2013) |
"
With "Trance," story becomes just another element in Boyle's commercial pop-Cubism, and the results are nearly fatal."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Disconnect (2013) |
"
"Disconnect" is far from a bad movie. It's just better at melodrama than drama."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
54%
|
The Company You Keep (2013) |
"
Redford is interested in telling stories again, rather than pounding us on the head for our civic and historical sins."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
42 (2013) |
"
If you want a crowd-pleaser that confirms your belief in America's steady, pre-ordained progression away from racism, this will do fine."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 11, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) |
"
Cianfrance hasn't figured out what he wants to say, but he spends a lot of time and energy trying to say it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
From Up On Poppy Hill (2013) |
"
The film's perfectly fine, but it's not a patch on "Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro," "Princess Mononoke," and other Studio Ghibli classics."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
91%
|
Gimme The Loot (2013) |
"
As it lopes along, the movie offers a warm but very sharp portrait of New York's have-nots and their uneasy relationship with the haves."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
"Beyond the Hills" seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
79%
|
Reality (2013) |
"
As cautionary tales go, this one's ripely knowing, and it speaks in a lot more languages than Italian."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
The Sapphires (2013) |
"
"The Sapphires" illustrates how the same old story - in this case, the one about a 1960s girl group and its struggles - can be freshened up through the novelties of place and characterization."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
9%
|
The Host (2013) |
"
If nothing else, the movie serves as an excellent substitute for the book: better art direction and a quarter of the adjectives."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 27, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
79%
|
Ginger & Rosa (2013) |
"
Elle's acting feels artless and naive, and all the more powerful for it. Fanning easily convinces you of Ginger's emotional reality - that every moment is the only moment."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
45%
|
On the Road (2012) |
"
Against all odds, a surprisingly effective movie."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
Admission (2013) |
"
Cheerful, skittish entertainment that never takes its subject seriously enough."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
66%
|
Spring Breakers (2013) |
"
Korine likes the poetics of transgression, and he trowels on the bad behavior with a heavy but mesmerizing hand."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
38%
|
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) |
"
Burt Wonderstone is a lazy, underwritten imitation Will Ferrell movie."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
Like Someone in Love (2013) |
"
The latest small, perplexing masterpiece from the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who in recent years has chosen the path of a world director."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
39%
|
The Call (2013) |
"
Maybe Anderson wants to sell out, but he's not very good at it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
West of Memphis (2012) |
"
While the "Paradise Lost" films captured events as they unfolded in the heat of battle, "West of Memphis" has the luxury of at least partial closure."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
Lore (2013) |
"
A fiercely poetic portrait of a young woman staggering beyond innocence and denial, it's about the wars that rage within after the wars outside are lost."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
92%
|
No (2013) |
"
If there are fewer white-knuckle showdowns than in a Hollywood movie, the trade-off is a cool, ironic intelligence that ripples off the screen and up the years to where we live."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
36%
|
Dead Man Down (2013) |
"
Before this urban revenge melodrama falls apart in a clatter of plot absurdities and pretensions, it has its loopy charms."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Franco is, frankly, too callow, too feckless, too much the dude for this role."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 7, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
92%
|
The Gatekeepers (2013) |
"
If for no other reason, it deserves to be seen for arranging decades of events in the Middle East into a chronology that, to an outsider, makes dreadful sense."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
67%
|
Stoker (2013) |
"
The performances are excellent, but it's the direction that lifts the movie up and spins it around."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
Rubberneck (2013) |
"
A creepy number, half suspense drama and half brooding character study, with a strong dash of local flavor and a low-budget feel."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
C+
|
78%
|
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) |
"
Agreement was tame, cautious stuff even back then."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
C-
|
67%
|
Cavalcade (1933) |
"
It's rife with fey, unintentional camp like the scene in which a newlywed couple pledge eternal love on the deck of an ocean liner -- only to move away and reveal a life preserver labeled Titanic."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
B
|
89%
|
How Green Was My Valley (1941) |
"
The acting is strong, and Arthur Miller's Oscar-winning photography gives the images a spooky luster, but a little bit of Ford's salt-of-the-earth piety goes an awfully long way."
—
Entertainment Weekly
Posted Feb 19, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
87%
|
Tabu (2012) |
"
It almost seems a parody of willfully obscure art-house fare. Yet it has an undertow that sucks you in as often as it strands you back on shore."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
15%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
It took 25 years, but with the fifth and latest entry, "A Good Day to Die Hard," the series has finally devolved into joyless sludge."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
I kind of dug "Beautiful Creatures," even if I, like most of you, am ready to drive a stake into the entire "My boyfriend/girlfriend is a vampire/werewolf/alien/zombie/Sasquatch" genre."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 13, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
20%
|
Identity Thief (2013) |
"
Unfunny, predictable, and vulgar, it's the generic equivalent of a Judd Apatow movie. As always, you get what you pay for."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
56 Up (2013) |
"
Time has been neither kind nor cruel to the 13 men and women profiled in "56 UP." It has just been time, which is what this groundbreaking series is about."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
The fun of "Side Effects" lies in figuring out what sort of movie it is even as you're watching it."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Feb 7, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action (2013) |
"
While there are few genuine knockouts, the 2013 crop is an improvement over last year."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013) |
"
While there are few genuine knockouts, the 2013 crop is an improvement over last year."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
37%
|
Stand Up Guys (2013) |
"
It's like watching your grandfather get naked on YouTube."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
80%
|
Warm Bodies (2013) |
"
I don't know if the first zombie date flick is a step forward or backward for civilization as a whole, but I can say that "Warm Bodies" pulls off a pretty impressive trick: It has its "Twilight" and goofs on it too."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
1.5/4
|
4%
|
Movie 43 (2013) |
"
The line between gross-out humor that's inspired and the kind that's witless is fine indeed, and "Movie 43" obliterates it with poop and movie stars."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 28, 2013
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