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Rating Title | Year Quote Author
78%

Monsters University (2013)

"Watchable, but unoriginal, laugh-starved and far from Pixar's best and most ambitious."

Roger Moore

72%

World War Z (2013)

"Not "the ultimate zombie movie." But quite good, and the opening 25 minutes will leave you breathless."

Roger Moore

58%

Pandora's Promise (2013)

"A one-sided argument to a debate worth revisiting. "

Roger Moore

90%

Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2013)

"The subject is more fascinating than the documentary about him, in this case. "

Roger Moore

62%

The Bling Ring (2013)

"A winking condemnation of a generation of naive, covetous privacy-abandoning teens "

Roger Moore

97%

20 Feet From Stardom (2013)

"And the colored girls go '"Doo do doo do doo do do doo ..."

Roger Moore

25%

Vehicle 19 (2013)

"Paul Walker is fine behind the wheel. But the chases are shot ineptly and what's a car chase movie without good looking chases?"

Roger Moore

100%

A Hijacking (2013)

"Good, but a bit too straightforward to live up to its dramatic potential. "

Roger Moore

75%

Love Is All You Need (2013)

"A watchable romance that needed a lighter touch."

Roger Moore

22%

Violet & Daisy (2013)

"Not as cute as they think they are."

Roger Moore

84%

Much Ado About Nothing (2013)

"Bare bones, but sexy."

Roger Moore

98%

Before Midnight (2013)

"As witty and charming as ever, with a healthy raw dose of a marriage in trouble"

Roger Moore

82%

Shadow Dancer (2013)

"Solid, but just a shadow of Hitchcock."

Roger Moore

60%

The Lesser Blessed (2013)

"A decently acted coming-of-age drama that scores points for its setting -- a Canadian Indian reservation high school. "

Roger Moore

71%

Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

"Bad movies are rarely as much fun as this. But it is bad. And it is fun. "

Roger Moore

83%

This Is Martin Bonner (2013)

"Small lives, carefully observed, can be awfully dull most of the time."

Roger Moore

28%

Erased (2013)

""Taken." In Belgium. Yawn."

Roger Moore

32%

No One Lives (2013)

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

Roger Moore

88%

What Maisie Knew (2013)

"Searing and sad, with Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan at their fiercely-unlikable best. "

Roger Moore

73%

The Painting (2013)

"Inventive, fanciful, and decidedly UN Disney."

Roger Moore

76%

Venus And Serena (2013)

"A lot of the sibling bond, a little of the sibling rivalry and just a hint of the controversy that makes these tennis players so fascinating. "

Roger Moore

71%

The Source Family (2013)

"The upside of cult living? Sort of."

Roger Moore

23%

Arthur Newman (2013)

"A wistful, well-acted run-away-to-find-yourself dramedy"

Roger Moore

69%

The Croods (2013)

"Nic Cage's best work since "Kick Ass.""

Roger Moore

30%

Emperor (2013)

"Entertaining, revealing about a little-known piece of history, but somewhat historically suspect."

Roger Moore

39%

The ABCs of Death (2013)

"Grim and gory, gross and goofy -- wildly uneven in tone and talent. "

Roger Moore

72%

Greedy Lying Bastards (2013)

"If "An Inconvenient Truth" had been made by Michael Moore, it'd look and sound like this."

Roger Moore

25%

Phantom (2013)

"Watchable, thanks to a stellar cast of character players. "

Roger Moore

95%

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013)

"See the showcase of animated shorts, pick your favorite to root for Oscar night. I'm pulling for "Adam and Dog.""

Roger Moore

92%

The Gatekeepers (2013)

"An inventive, concise and damning look at the tit-for-tat nature of Israel's perpetual war with Palestinians, terrorists and otherwise. "

Roger Moore

29%

Take Me Home Tonight (2011)

"Ten years too late -- for the movie, the actors playing the roles in the movie. It's "Hot Tub Time Machine" without the time machine or the hot tub. Or the fun. "

Roger Moore

67%

The Company Men (2011)

"A bit heavy on the cliches, but this sermon will connect with anyone for whom "the new reality" of today's economy hits close to home"

Roger Moore

55%

Welcome to the Rileys (2010)

" Kristen Stewart ever runs out of "Snow White" sequels, this is what her post "Twilight" career should look like. "

Roger Moore

30%

Broken City (2013)

"Flawed, but gritty, ambitious -- a thriller that hides its secrets well. "

Roger Moore

66%

Mama (2013)

"Creepy and emotional, the best ghost story since "Insidious""

Roger Moore

60%

The Last Stand (2013)

"There are filmgoers nostalgic for this sort of fascist/gun fetishist drivel. Not me. Give me "Seven Psychopaths" any day."

Roger Moore

72%

Rio (2011)

"Comical, colorful, wonderfully cast and beautifully animated, "Rio" is the first Blue Sky movie that could be compared to the best of Pixar."

Roger Moore

49%

No Strings Attached (2011)

"Benefits the most from a sexy, emotionally available/vulnerable turn by Natalie Portman. But the Kutcher guy isn't bad either. "

Roger Moore

81%

Four Lions (2010)

"Home-grown jihadists as wankers. How very British. "

Roger Moore

49%

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)

"The only "Narnia" Chronicle that's a worthy challenger to the far more popular Harry Potter pictures"

Roger Moore

20%

The Tourist (2010)

"A creaking "star vehicle" for two stars who should have known better, and maybe had a little chemistry. "

Roger Moore

66%

Tamara Drewe (2010)

"The overripe Arterton is put on glorious display, but... there's little joy and not much romp in this cluttered sex farce. "

Roger Moore

90%

The Fighter (2010)

"Acting for the silver screen doesn't get more raw, moving or accomplished than what you see in "The Fighter," that rare film in which every performer in it leaves the viewer in awe."

Roger Moore

74%

The Illusionist (2006)

"Dark, dazzling turns by Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, and Jessica Biel makes it achingly romantic. "

Roger Moore

51%

Tron Legacy (2010)

" It's a legacy of "TRON" that its sequel has to be as slow and dense, as humorless and emotionally sterile as its original."

Roger Moore

72%

I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)

" Despite its title, it has nothing to do with cigarettes. But its star, as he once famously said on screen, is absolutely "smokin'.""

Roger Moore

40%

HappyThankYouMorePlease (2011)

"Let's hope "The New Zach Braff" learns from the original Zach Braff to strike while the iron is hot and not dither away his potential waiting for that perfect "next project" to come along."

Roger Moore

82%

Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010)

"Rollicking, epic, and the more riveting, more entertaining half of this two-part epic."

Roger Moore

83%

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (L'ennemi public n1) (2010)

"The only recent gangster film this one falls short of is "Killer Instinct," the first half of the epic. "

Roger Moore

36%

LUV (2013)

"A clumsily violent attempt at grafting two reliable genres together into one somewhat edgy picture."

Roger Moore

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