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1/4
|
35%
|
The Collection (2012) |
"
A cheap, loose remake of Aliens that substitutes rampaging hordes of xenomorphs with a gimp-masked kung-fu master."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 29, 2013
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3/4
|
89%
|
The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) |
"
I love Siegel's sly paralleling of Ali's fight preparation with his growth as a human being"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
71%
|
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013) |
"
It's immensely educational...and dry as a soda cracker. "
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 27, 2013
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|
0.5/4
|
52%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
When you make a movie this awful, with no hint of useful self-awareness, you're not proving a point--you're giving up."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 23, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
Tim's Vermeer (2014) |
"
Even at a fleet 79 minutes, feels a little long. For a while, though, Tim's Vermeer paints a compelling picture of inventor (fellow illusionist and 3-D designer) Tim Jenison as he indulges his peculiar obsession."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2013
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4/4
|
69%
|
The Unknown Known () |
"
When Rumsfeld laughs, it's frightening--an alien thing's attempt to simulate a human emotion."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 8, 2013
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|
1/4
|
79%
|
Tracks () |
"
So it's like Into the Wild, but terrible, scored as a child or James Horner would score it..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 8, 2013
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|
4/4
|
88%
|
Under the Skin () |
"
There is latent, pregnant energy in this picture, a thrum of dread that underlays every frame."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 7, 2013
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|
3.5/4
|
81%
|
Nebraska (2013) |
"
a showcase opportunity for national treasure Bruce Dern."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 7, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
I wanted to love this movie with all my heart..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
So it's not a very good movie, but it is a really good spectacle."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 4, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
97%
|
12 Years a Slave (2013) |
"
Hunger and Shame were mimetic where 12 Years a Slave is diegetic."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 4, 2013
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|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
The Burning (1981) |
"
It's a movie very much like Tolkien's writing: if you don't discover it in junior high, you'll never appreciate it the way it was meant to be appreciated again."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
78%
|
Europa Report (2013) |
"
If it had a torso, it'd be wearing a pocket protector."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 14, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
69%
|
The Wolverine (2013) |
"
a man's mute, impotent melancholy and the many females around him engaged in the maintenance of their separate, disintegrating orbits."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 9, 2013
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|
0/4
|
38%
|
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) |
"
The moral of the story, such as it is, is that family is important and, um, appearances are skin deep, I think."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 8, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Medium Cool (1969) |
"
The film doesn't exactly end, because it's not so much a narrative as it is a mile-marker and a warning."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 31, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Computer Chess (2013) |
"
Sneakily, the best science-fiction film of the summer."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
The Conjuring (2013) |
"
Wan's latest exercise in jump-scare theatre... better to call it "The Startling"."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 21, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Attack (2013) |
"
demonstrates as a director the kind of elliptical reserve more commonly associated with Terrence Malick."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 11, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Pacific Rim (2013) |
"
consider that the primary screenwriter on the piece is not del Toro, but the guy who wrote the remake of Clash of the Titans."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 10, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
61%
|
Byzantium (2013) |
"
I can't wait to see it again, to see what else I can see."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 4, 2013
|
|
3/4
|
31%
|
The Lone Ranger (2013) |
"
... not so bad a companion piece to the better-and-better Rango as initially feared."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 2, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
World War Z (2013) |
"
It's mediocre. Huzzah!"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 20, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Man of Steel (2013) |
"
44 beautifully-constructed trailers strung together in the world's most expensive promo reel."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 13, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
100%
|
Sansho the Bailiff (1954) |
"
a film of surpassing, transcendent wisdom and beauty."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Cabaret (1972) |
"
It's an all-time masterpiece, mercurial and timeless. I am changed every time I see it. "
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 7, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
49%
|
The Great Gatsby (2013) |
"
unwatchable farrago"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted May 9, 2013
|
|
1.5/2
|
79%
|
Iron Man 3 (2013) |
"
a surprisingly tedious checklist of Shane Black-isms"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted May 2, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
54%
|
Oblivion (2013) |
"
it's sort of like something L. Ron Hubbard would have written--but that's gotta be a coincidence, right?"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 18, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
90%
|
Beyond The Hills (2013) |
"
It's an exorcism movie for everyone who thought, after Mungiu's gruelling abortion buddy-movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, that this guy should do an exorcism movie"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
3.5/4
|
62%
|
Evil Dead (2013) |
"
not just a taste of the old religion, it's really pretty great."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 4, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
85%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
by itself, gives lie to the idea that Americans don't make great, nuanced, complicated films. It's sublime."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 28, 2013
|
|
4/4
|
75%
|
Design for Living (1933) |
"
The "Lubitsch Touch," indeed: edged and between the ribs before you know it's being brandished."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 12, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
79%
|
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
"
The heart-warming story of how a bitter old Jewess learns to not be such a bitch to a patient Negro driver."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 9, 2013
|
|
0/4
|
59%
|
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) |
"
Based on L. Frank Baum's little-known Pussyhound of Oz."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 8, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
14%
|
A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) |
"
The Bowfinger parody of itself."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
The Apparition (2012) |
"
The apparition, because it's lame, spends a lot of its time tying clothes into knots, moving dressers, and opening doors."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 28, 2013
|
|
0.5/4
|
51%
|
Promised Land (2013) |
"
It's Mitt Romney in blue jeans, this Promised Land, and we've all had enough of that."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 29, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Django Unchained (2012) |
"
he's either a genius or a savant, I don't know, but wholly without equal."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 29, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
70%
|
Les Misérables (2012) |
"
It's ugly in the way that only films driven by fanatical vision, unfettered by checks, and galvanized by awards and money can be ugly"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 29, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
If this were Green Eggs and Ham, the film would stop at approximately the point at which you would not eat them with a fox."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Dec 13, 2012
|
|
0.5/4
|
63%
|
Hitchcock (2012) |
"
about an old couple on the verge of decrepitude deciding to make a go of their marriage because they have no other choice. Yeah, it's awful. "
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 21, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Fa Yeung Nin Wa (In the Mood for Love) (2001) |
"
Ethereal, evanescent, evocative of true, ineffable experience, In the Mood for Love is amazing"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 14, 2012
|
|
4/4
|
70%
|
The Loneliest Planet (2012) |
"
It's alive; it requires active participation and curiosity; and it speaks eloquently to the best possibilities of film as a medium for conversation and reflection."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
moments of real grandeur narrated to death by John Williams's inspiring(TM) and rousing(TM) score"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
It's an old-fashioned Bond movie--or at least promises the next one will be--and that's good news for many."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 10, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) |
"
Boy, you know, I really like the Chiodo Brothers' Killer Klowns from Outer Space. I can't help it."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 31, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
68%
|
Night of the Living Dead (2000) |
"
It's an eye-roller. It didn't need to be."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 28, 2012
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