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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4.5/5
American Factory (2019) Stephen Silver Tells a fascinating story about America today, one that doesn't fit so neatly into any ideological box.
Posted Aug 30, 2019  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blinded by the Light (2019) Stephen Silver It's all ridiculously, relentlessly corny, but it's joyous enough that I didn't quite mind.
Posted Aug 17, 2019  Edit critic review
4/5
Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019) Stephen Silver It's a fascinating, brilliantly made work of cinema, even though its conclusions are far from solid and at times are almost certainly wrong.
Posted Aug 17, 2019  Edit critic review
4/5
The Great Hack (2019) Stephen Silver In a film in which Steve Bannon, Nigel Farage, and various cybercriminal types make appearances, there's a good argument that the biggest villain of the piece is Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
Posted Jul 24, 2019  Edit critic review
Cold in July (2014) Genevieve Valentine [Cold in July is] an absorbing take on the modern family noir, a movie that knows the devil's in the details.
Posted Jun 14, 2016  Edit critic review
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Craig D. Lindsey We shouldn't forget this is McConaughey's world. He remains a magnetic presence, his soft-spoken Southern drawl and slithery charm keeping you from fully despising this guy Woodroof.
Posted Dec 14, 2015  Edit critic review
Capital (2012) Craig D. Lindsey Costa-Gavras certainly found an intriguing leading man in Elmaleh, with his ice-cold stare that may remind audiences of Steve McQueen at his most penetrating.
Posted Dec 14, 2015  Edit critic review
C+
Dare (2009) Matt Prigge I've rarely seen a more rabidly inconsistent film -- astute one moment, stupid the next.
Posted Nov 10, 2015  Edit critic review
Steve Jobs (2015) Zaki Hasan Steve Jobs is a filmmaking achievement of the highest order and one of the best movies of the year.
Posted Oct 29, 2015  Edit critic review
Pan (2015) Zaki Hasan Upon walking out of Pan, all I could muster was, "Well, it's better than Hook." That's not high praise.
Posted Oct 15, 2015  Edit critic review
The Martian (2015) Zaki Hasan While it boasts plenty of amazing effects and wide open vistas to justify its apportionment of IMAX screens, the film -- featuring a droll Matt Damon in the title role -- is a celebration of science, selflessness and good old-fashioned smarts.
Posted Oct 07, 2015  Edit critic review
Everest (2015) Zaki Hasan It's an engrossing, exhilarating, terrifying film that should be experienced on an IMAX screen in 3D -- and for far more reasons than just "because it's there."
Posted Sep 24, 2015  Edit critic review
The Visit (2015) Zaki Hasan The very best thing about The Visit is that it's a brief one.
Posted Sep 17, 2015  Edit critic review
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Zaki Hasan Though The Man From U.N.C.L.E. lacks the wit of Kingsman and the spectacle of M:I-Rogue Nation, it nonetheless sits comfortably alongside its spy movie siblings.
Posted Aug 20, 2015  Edit critic review
Fantastic Four (2015) Zaki Hasan It's hard to figure out where to even start when deconstructing this thing. It doesn't work as an adaptation of a beloved property, nor does it work as a completely new interpretation.
Posted Aug 12, 2015  Edit critic review
C+
The Simpsons Movie (2007) Matt Prigge Why do I still feel a bit jilted? Because the premise is actually kind of promising.
Posted Aug 02, 2015  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) Zaki Hasan Nearly two decades out, Ethan Hunt has become [Cruise's] signature role, and at 53, the indefatigable action hero hasn't lost a step as he runs, jumps, rides and drives from eye-popping set piece to the next with both will and skill.
Posted Jul 30, 2015  Edit critic review
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Al Hoff You will chuckle frequently, but packing a hankie is still a good idea.
Posted Jun 25, 2015  Edit critic review
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014) Genevieve Valentine Those hoping for insight from the man himself will be disappointed by Dark Star's polite reserve. But for those hungry for archival footage or a look inside the citadel of his mind, this is a film that's fond of being unsettled.
Posted May 28, 2015  Edit critic review
Iris (2014) Genevieve Valentine Iris Apfel champions the idea that fashion doesn't have to define you even if you live it, and she's a walking reminder of how much fun it can be just to have a little style.
Posted May 14, 2015  Edit critic review
Promised Land (2012) Sean Burns The road to movie hell is paved with good intentions.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Jack Reacher (2012) Sean Burns Plain, cleanly directed meat-and-potatoes action filmmaking that aspires to competence and simplicity. A nice change of pace.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
This Is 40 (2012) Sean Burns There's a shrillness that is admirable in theory but rather off-putting in practice. It's just not very funny.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
The Guilt Trip (2012) Sean Burns It just cruises along in second gear, being genial.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Sean Burns A bloated, entirely unnecessary cash-grab prequel suffering from a fatal case of elephantitis.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Playing for Keeps (2012) Sean Burns Someone maybe should've told this guy if you want to rekindle a romance with a woman, you probably shouldn't start by sleeping with all her friends.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Hitchcock (2012) Sean Burns Wallows in fat jokes and wink-wink nudge-nudge references that anybody with even a passing knowledge of cinema history will find eye-rollingly obvious.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Rise of the Guardians (2012) Sean Burns The film has a square-jawed elegance that occasionally hits a note of grandeur when it's not just being silly.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Holy Motors (2012) Sean Burns Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend for the digital era. Both exuberant and melancholy, it's a film about an allegedly dying art form that is thrillingly alive. Cinema is dead. Long live cinema.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) Sean Burns Winking, self-aware camp that eventually explodes into a craptacular of the highest order.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Wake in Fright (1971) Sean Burns This movie gets under your skin.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Sean Burns Wouldn't it be great if mental illness really was as adorable as it is in the movies?
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Skyfall (2012) Sean Burns Director Sam Mendes can't decide if he's shooting a chilly noir or a Roger Moore camp classic.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) Sean Burns All that matters here are cockamamie anachronistic music cues, low-rent filmmaking and one spectacularly hammy turn from Russell Crowe.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
The Sessions (2012) Sean Burns It's all so plodding and beige, yet giving this movie a bad review is like kicking a kitten.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
The Details (2011) Sean Burns Everything here is intentionally grotesque to service the filmmaker's cheap shots. Women and black people are just plain crazy.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Cloud Atlas (2012) Sean Burns Even at its most risible, this oddball picture has a groovy, inclusive spirit that feels downright revolutionary in our sterile, blockbuster age.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Alex Cross (2012) Sean Burns The usual over-familiar mélange of forensic evidence and titillating torture porn that reminds me why I don't watch network television procedurals.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Atlas Shrugged: Part 2 (2012) Sean Burns A greedy billionaire's most feverish nightmare realized with all the amateurish panache of a daytime soap opera.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Sinister (2012) Sean Burns Even the daytime scenes are shrouded in such deep shadows, you're mainly left wondering why nobody ever just turns on the damn lights.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Seven Psychopaths (2012) Sean Burns I'm not sure it all hangs together in the end, but McDonagh's grasping at something interesting.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Middle of Nowhere (2012) Sean Burns I should love this movie, but something about it kept me at arm's length.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Frankenweenie (2012) Sean Burns Very much the work of an older man revisiting the obsessions of his youth, struggling at times to reconnect with them.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Pitch Perfect (2012) Sean Burns A slovenly lark, but a spirited one.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Won't Back Down (2012) Sean Burns Funded by conservative Christian billionaire Phil Anschutz and released by rightwing overlord Rupert Murdoch, it attempts to fashion a feel-good family-friendly triumph of union busting and privatization.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Looper (2012) Sean Burns Rian Johnson is a very clever man, if sometimes a bit too clever for his own good.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Hotel Transylvania (2012) Sean Burns It's isn't awful. Just terribly pleasant, that's all.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Trouble With the Curve (2012) Sean Burns Doesn't just remind you what a great screen presence Clint Eastwood is; it makes you appreciate him even more as a director because Lorenz does such a terrible job.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
Dredd (2012) Sean Burns It's a good deal wittier than expected from a movie that consists mostly of people getting shot in the face.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
End of Watch (2012) Sean Burns I'm still wondering who we're supposed to assume was holding the camera during Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick's sex scene.
Posted May 03, 2015  Edit critic review
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