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James Rocchi

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The Last Survivors (2014) 75% A- EDIT “Hammock may have begun his career making worlds for other directors, but given a chance to create his own here, he not only succeeds but excels.” – IndieWire Feb 12, 2016 Full Review Brand: A Second Coming (2015) 73% 3/5 EDIT “Timoner's doc seems at its best when asking if a person can grow up, atone for their mistakes, lead people to think and make them laugh, all at the same time and in public.” – TheWrap Sep 23, 2015 Full Review The Martian (2015) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Smart, slick and, yes, funny, The Martian provides a compelling story well-told, with Scott's tendency to excess kept in line by a simple, strong plotline: Survive.” – About.com Sep 22, 2015 Full Review The Intern (2015) 59% 3/5 EDIT “Considering the movie's fortune-cookie-style "insights" that old and young have much to learn from each other, it's only appropriate that De Niro and Hathaway's charms, and those alone, comprise the saving graces of "The Intern."” – TheWrap Sep 22, 2015 Full Review Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) 47% 2/5 EDIT “There's no flare of strangeness or freshness here, just a pile of images and ideas stolen from smarter people's second-hand bin banged into each other for a numbingly dull 132 minutes.” – TheWrap Sep 17, 2015 Full Review Captive (2015) 28% 1/5 EDIT “A Lifetime movie shoved into a cage and fattened with sermons and platitudes until it is ready to be served up cold and bland.” – TheWrap Sep 17, 2015 Full Review The Perfect Guy (2015) 19% 1/5 EDIT “"The Perfect Guy" - which was, it must be pointed out, deliberately not screened for critics prior to release - is a perfect example of how lame, lazy material strands good actors, resulting in a movie that looks great and feels less so.” – TheWrap Sep 11, 2015 Full Review The Visit (2015) 68% 2/5 EDIT “Startling but never terrifying, "The Visit" may make a little money, but it does not mark a return to long-lost greatness for Shyamalan. It's more of the same, presented on a smaller, cheaper canvas where you can see every flaw all the more clearly.” – TheWrap Sep 9, 2015 Full Review The Transporter Refueled (2015) 16% 2/5 EDIT “The original "Transporter" films were hardy filet mignon - more like Hamburger Helper. "The Transporter Refueled" feels even more bulked up and bland, Hamburger Helper Helper, a re-launch of a franchise that didn't really need, or deserve, one.” – TheWrap Sep 3, 2015 Full Review Z for Zachariah (2015) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The last human beings alive will still be human; that reality, and that realism, is what makes Z is For Zachariah both compelling and worth seeing.” – About.com Aug 24, 2015 Full Review No Escape (2015) 47% 1/5 EDIT “No Escape isn't a hard-hitting drama about the uneasy relationships between local needs and international commerce: It's a geopolitical snuff film, where hundreds die before our eyes but wind up not mattering one bit.” – About.com Aug 24, 2015 Full Review The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) 68% 3.5/5 EDIT “Sleek, seductive and equally dedicated to horseplay and gunplay, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. may not be deep, but its shallowness contains vast pleasures.” – About.com Aug 14, 2015 Full Review Cop Car (2015) 82% 4.5/5 EDIT “Like To Kill a Mockingbird or The Night of the Hunter or the under-seen Undertow, Cop Car runs -- or, in this case, drives -- with the storytelling idea of innocent kids being caught up in less-than-innocent events, and goes to fascinating places.” – About.com Aug 6, 2015 Full Review Fantastic Four (2015) 9% 2/5 EDIT “Fantastic Four is trapped between the unique look of its iconic characters and the all-too-familiar storytelling structure of the modern superhero film; it's a $100-million movie that gets found sorely wanting in comparison to 50-cent comic books.” – About.com Aug 6, 2015 Full Review Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014) 64% 2/5 EDIT “"Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet" is achingly well intentioned, but not especially well executed, and its failings as a film can't be overlooked.” – TheWrap Aug 4, 2015 Full Review Straight Outta Compton (2015) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Underneath the gunshots and the battle raps, "Straight Outta Compton" is a fairly conventional movie about a music group, somewhere between hero-making and the honest truth.” – TheWrap Jul 31, 2015 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) 94% 5/5 EDIT “A spy adventure with champagne-fizz style and double-shot-of-scotch action sequences, Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation is a perfect demonstration that sequels can aim higher in places other than just the box office, and to everyone's benefit.” – About.com Jul 29, 2015 Full Review Vacation (2015) 27% .5/5 EDIT “Vacation may not be the worst comedy of the summer -- Adam Sandler was busy, after all -- but it's a pretty lame, loud and lazy attempt to wring cash and cachet out of the dried-up husk of a movie from 30 years ago.” – About.com Jul 28, 2015 Full Review The Gift (2015) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Nothing here feels cheap or hasty, which is why the horror, when it comes, is all the more chilling and grim. Slick, sharp and terrifying, "The Gift" is a truly brilliant thriller - and, one hopes, the first of many features from Edgerton to come.” – TheWrap Jul 22, 2015 Full Review Pixels (2015) 18% 1.5/5 EDIT “When you run the equation that made Pixels into a feature -- a 3-minute short about 8-bit creatures times 90 minutes and divided by a 2-bit script -- it's us who are on the losing side of this loud, boring game thanks to Sandler's smug smirk.” – About.com Jul 22, 2015 Full Review The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Disturbing, honest and compelling, "The Stanford Prison Experiment" turns a well-known story into must-see storytelling, depicting the ugly truth through gorgeous filmmaking.” – TheWrap Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Mr. Holmes (2015) 88% 4/5 EDIT “After his recent string of what feels like too many comic-book blockbusters, social-media memes and chat-show appearances, it's nice to see McKellen in a role that actually demands - and rewards - his acting abilities.” – TheWrap Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Trainwreck (2015) 84% 3/5 EDIT “Trainwreck is worth seeing and worth talking about, but it's too managed and well-conducted; hopefully, next time, Schumer will really go off the rails and show us something truly worth looking for in the wreckage.” – The Playlist Jul 14, 2015 Full Review Jenny's Wedding (2015) 20% 2/5 EDIT “"Jenny's Wedding" isn't ill-intentioned or actively bad; it's just a little too familiar, a little too safe and a little too satisfied with itself.” – TheWrap Jul 13, 2015 Full Review Boulevard (2014) 53% 3/5 EDIT “"Boulevard" consistently evokes the road not traveled, but doesn't particularly stand out alongside other dramas that have explored the same terrain.” – TheWrap Jul 8, 2015 Full Review
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