LATEST FILM REVIEWS ADDED

May 8, 2013, 10:06 PM
Rating Movie Review Critic
D+ Java Heat

" It's violent enough to numb, but Allyn doesn't launch the effort to rousing heights of escapism. In the end, Java Heat works better as a travelogue than an international actioner. "

Posted May 8, 2013 9:05 PM PDT

Brian Orndorf ,
Blu-ray.com

B What Richard Did

" Isn't shocking in obvious ways, preferring to stun the audience with an authentic atmosphere of guilt and indecision, investing in the frustration of delayed response over unapologetic manipulation. "

Posted May 8, 2013 9:05 PM PDT

Brian Orndorf ,
Blu-ray.com

3/4 The Great Gatsby

" If you're able to make it through the first party scene at Gatsby's mansion, you'll come out on the other side to find a film of surprising restraint and patience. "

Posted May 8, 2013 9:05 PM PDT

Josh Larsen ,
LarsenOnFilm

1.5/4 No One Lives

" A novel twist, given away early. Otherwise, a generic bloodbath, decently acted but not frightening. "

Posted May 8, 2013 7:05 PM PDT

Roger Moore ,
McClatchy-Tribune News Service

3/4 The Fox

" Good performance by Heywood. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

TV Guide's Movie Guide

The Fox

" [Dennis] is excellent, though the movie goes sour anyway. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

TIME Magazine

The Fox

" Overdone adaptation of DH Lawrence's novella, making explicit everything that was implicit. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Time Out

4/4 The Fox

" A quiet, powerful masterpiece. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Roger Ebert ,
Chicago Sun-Times

The Fox

" A beautifully photographed, dramatically uneven Canadian-made film. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Variety Staff ,
Variety

4/5 The Fox

" A good and interesting movie. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Renata Adler ,
New York Times

Star Trek Into Darkness

" Manages to appease lifelong Star Trek fans without alienating newcomers. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Chris Laverty ,
Clothes on Film

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

" For all its flaws, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is the kind of first movie so rich in texture and invention that we can look forward to a lot more from Philip Kaufman. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Jay Cocks ,
TIME Magazine

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

" Kaufman's own script never gels and the whole exercise, admirable as it is and enlivened by quirky decidedly unwestern like humour, fails to make much dramatic impact. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Film4

4/5 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

" A lovely, odd sort of middle Western. That is, it's neither conventional Western fiction nor completely documented fact, although it makes full use of history and is as crammed with the artifacts of 19th-century America. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Vincent Canby ,
New York Times

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

" [The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Variety Staff ,
Variety

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

" Interesting for its demonstration of how exploitative capitalism leads simple-minded farmers' boys into outlawry, though somewhat marred by Duvall's manic interpretation of the role of Jesse James. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Time Out

3/4 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

" An offbeat, ragged but totally absorbing Western. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

TV Guide's Movie Guide

2/5 The Great Gatsby

" Elliott Nugent directs with some atmospheric touches, but can't counter screenwriter Richard Maibaum's verbosity. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

David Parkinson ,
Radio Times

3.5/5 The Reluctant Fundamentalist

" A near perfect masterpiece which tries hard to sprint on three legs but ultimately stumbles due to the weakness of its fourth one ... The problem is the love story. Frankly I'm not sure this film needed a love story, but it has one and it's a disaster. "

Posted May 8, 2013 6:05 PM PDT

Jan Lisa Huttner ,
Films for Two

The Great Gatsby

" Unfortunately, the movie version misses many of its opportunities. "

Posted May 8, 2013 5:05 PM PDT

TIME Magazine

3.5/4 The Great Gatsby

" A large part of what makes this version work is the glacial central presence of Alan Ladd, who's quite convincing as a man with a mysterious past. "

Posted May 8, 2013 5:05 PM PDT

TV Guide's Movie Guide

4/5 Village At The End Of The World

" Much like its subject, this film by Sarah Gavron has a leisurely, warm pace. "

Posted May 8, 2013 5:05 PM PDT

Dave Calhoun ,
Time Out

3/5 The Reluctant Fundamentalist

" There's much to enjoy in 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist': fine photography, juicy supporting turns from Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, and a powerfully sustained sense of a man adrift in a world going mad. "

Posted May 8, 2013 5:05 PM PDT

Tom Huddleston ,
Time Out

4.5/5 Midnight's Children

" Deepa Mehta's radiant film Midnight's Children ... runs approximately 2.5 hours. But for me, the time passed in a flash ... American movie audiences might well relate to [it] as an Indian version of the Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump. "

Posted May 8, 2013 5:05 PM PDT

Jan Lisa Huttner ,
Films for Two

2/5 The Great Gatsby

" On paper "Gatsby" sounds like quite the film. On screen, though, things start to fall apart. "

Posted May 8, 2013 5:05 PM PDT

Kenneth Turan ,
Los Angeles Times

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