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1 | David Nusair
A solid (if derivative) little thriller... |
1 | Dennis Harvey
While terse and minimalist in storytelling terms, the Kafka-esque atmosphere nonetheless builds considerable dramatic tension. |
1 | Peter Debruge
Meticulously acted, gorgeously shot and hilariously insightful about the strange, inarticulable ways people can get on one another's nerves, this psychological thriller takes its premise to surprising, darkly comic extremes ... |
1 | Nell Minow
This is less an updating of Superman than a downgrade. |
0 | Ryan Gilbey
Polley is working in the tradition of Orson Welles, but her trickery can be exasperating; it also neutralises many of the emotional revelations. |
0 | Barry Hertz
There's a smart and subtle drama about treating people as packages in The Crossing, but like any contraband, it's buried beneath layers of artifice. |
1 | Dick Banks
Gigi comes into focus as a whimsical gem -- gorgeous in color, tasteful in its gay little plot, and musically rich as the violins play their hearts out. |
1 | Ernesto Diezmartinez
The opera prima of the unmistakable supporting actor J. C. Lynch is a sort of cinta-summa of the also unmistakable and unforgettable supporting actor Harry Dean Stanton. (Complete review in Spanish in the Mexican newspaper Reforma). |
0 | Brian Webster |
1 | Jean Oppenheimer
An ensemble comedy awarded the top prize at last September's Venice Film Festival, Monsoon Wedding pulsates with music, dance, vibrant colors and laughter. But it also glows with quiet moments of drama. |
0 | Bernard Drew
Yes, it's telekinectics time again, children. |
1 | Graham Verdon
Observations on the modern office space are dead-on, and I dare you not to laugh out loud at a few of the sophomoric jokes! |
1 | Duane Dudek
A slice of regional poetry intrinsic to lives overlooked by, under-lived in comparison to, and outside the mainstream. |
1 | Josh Lasser
Not only does Elle open powerfully, but everything that follows is equally captivating. |
0 | Roger Ebert
A115-minute film that inspires admiration, but also restlessness. |
0 | Leigh Monson
If you haven't seen it and like things that are terrible, what you have here is a gold mine of bad creative decisions that culminate in one of the most baffling cinematic experiences of the 2000s. |
0 | Pete Vonder Haar
A premature homage to an artist who -- while few doubt he will live up to his potential -- has yet to fully do so. |
1 | Jonathan Holland
Pfening delivers a masterful, low-key performance that subtly unpacks the psychology of how immigration can turn lives into lies. |
1 | Kip Mooney
The movie wants to be on the same scale as War of the Worlds, World War Z or Roland Emmerich's movies, but at a fraction of the budget. |
1 | Duane Dudek
It is less about treating others badly than about what happens to us when we do, a bleary-eyed look in the mirror behind the bar when they announce last call. |
0 | Maitland McDonagh
Action director Antoine Fuqua's reverent but uninspired documentary preserves this once-in-a-lifetime combination of performances, many delivered by musicians whose age and infirmity are sadly evident. |
0 | Ben Kenigsberg
The title "Mortal" wouldn't seem to require much explanation, but this Norway-set fantasy film leads with a handy definition ("mortal [mawr-tl] n. A human being"). Its estimation of viewers' intelligence doesn't improve from there. |
1 | Liam Lacey
It's uplifting to discover a debut film so open to showing both its artifice and heart on its sleeve. |
1 | James Berardinelli
It's strangely refreshing to watch a courtroom drama where theatricality doesn't trump meticulous examination and cross-examination. |
0 | Andy Lea
Badly-directed trash which looks like it might have been shot and edited on a mobile phone. |
1 | Roger Ebert
She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns. |
0 | Paul Kosidowski
Screenwriter John Hodge strips Cooper's story of its details and charm, reducing it to a kind of characterless, elemental video game -- an apocalyptic scavenger hunt. |
1 | Monica Castillo
Rarely outside of drama do we see the kind of imperfect motherhood shown in The Babadook, which is what makes this Repulsion-like household of horrors so frightening. |
1 | Tim Grierson
Wilde delivers a confident feature directorial debut, mixing humour, embarrassment and poignancy to crowd-pleasing effect. |
0 | Ed Gonzalez
The kind of film that works better on the small screen than in theatres. |
1 | Brandon Judell |
1 | Colin Biggs
Very self-aware, Violent Night knows just what tropes to poke and when to lean into sincerity. The film shares a similar tone with Deadpool 2; while it goes for gut laughs, you don’t leave with a caustic feeling. |
1 | Dominick Suzanne-Mayer
I Smile Back spends most of its 85 minutes working through the paces of every movie about an addict you've ever seen, but it has a secret weapon: Sarah Silverman. |
1 | Chris Hewitt
A nimble, handsome film that also happens to be about a noteworthy guy: the late Arthur 'Killer' Kane. |
1 | Cath Clarke
A delirious London nightmare that might be overcooked, pretentious even, but is nonetheless beguilingly imaginative and genuinely scary in places. |
0 | Raja Sen
Kedarnath is a pointless, entirely forgettable film, but some may remember the girl fondly - which may well be the film's only task. |
1 | Manohla Dargis
Until the director Frank Darabont decides that he's saying something important instead of making a nifty horror movie, The Mist isn't half bad. |
1 | Noel Murray
There's genuine artistry even to this film's most exploitative moments. |
1 | Keith Cohen
Tomas Alfredson directs this Swedish art house cult alternative to "Twilight" |
0 | Duane Dudek
While the technique significantly streamlines things, it also strips away whatever makes us sympathize with or better understand the characters, leaving love and sex as unintelligible as ever. |
1 | Chris Wiegand
Saved by Fresnadillo's visual virtuosity. |
1 | Sandie Angulo Chen
Centers on sisterhood and family, with a wee bit of peril. |
1 | James Bradshaw
Shot simply but compellingly, it feels like a polished and practised portrait of rekindled bonds. |
0 | Michael Dequina
Aniston's solidly done departure probably would have organically received its due (and possibly even more credit) had it been a genuine discovery in a film released and sold as the modest, blip-on-the-radar non-event indie that it is. |
1 | Jeffrey M. Anderson
I saw great beauty and sadness, trying to imagine the director's final thoughts of his time on this planet, and as a result I think it's a great film, and a last masterpiece. |
1 | Brad Keefe
The twists and turns of "Uncut Gems" are best left untold, but it's a devastating experience. It shows an actor tapping into unexpected depths and establishes the Safdies as true auteurs. |
0 | Rich Cline
A lack of imagination leaves the effects looking dull and the thrills feeling derivative. |
0 | Rebecca Murray
It's one of those films where the more you think about it, the more you realize just how ludicrous and ill-conceived it actually is. |
1 | Pete Hammond
For some reason this movie offended a lot of critic-types at SXSW but the only thing that would really be offensive here is if it wasn't funny. And thanks to a nice teaming of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart this is surprisingly funny stuff. |
0 | Miriam Bale
With the film's incessant strings and narration by Hugh Bonneville of "Downton Abbey," the earnest yet pompous tone could almost be mistaken for a Monty Python parody of the BBC-standard style. |
1 | Ken Hanke
So-so Whoopi comedy-thriller. There are worse things and she's made some of them. |
1 | Dennis Schwartz
This is one terrific musical. |
1 | Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
There is little in the way of John Woo-style action setpieces in a Kitano movie. |
0 | Glenn Kenny
Despite its best efforts, "Tanna" drifts into a mode of exoticism that renders it an ultimately frustrating experience. |
1 | James Mottram
As low-budget as the film looks, Stillman overcomes financial limitations by providing a learned script and eliciting polished performances. |
0 | Filipe Freitas
At once disaffected and ludicrous, its difficult to tell if this fatiguing oddity wants to be dark or funny. |
0 | JoBlo
This film is seasoned in cliches, with plenty of badly written dialogue, over the top acting from Cuba Gooding Jr., zero chemistry between the two leads, and horribly tacky bad guys, tossed in to complete an overall bad movie recipe. |
1 | Philip Wuntch
Many of [Altman's] observations have the strength of truth softened by indulgence and ultimate acceptance. |
0 | Andrew Gaudion
It is frustrating that there are morsels of some inspiration in here that either get rushed over or buried in quite extreme gruesome imagery and predictable plotting. |
0 | Tony Medley
...slow and inaccurate...nothing I'd want to sit through if I knew what was in store for me, unless I just wanted to see a good impersonation of Queen Elizabeth and a bad impersonation of the eloquent Tony Blair. |
1 | Scott Mendelson
Dwayne Johnson's gleefully violent and unapologetically silly IMAX-friendly superhero smash-up doesn't need Superman to, uh, change the hierarchy of power in the DC Films universe. |
1 | Víctor Blanes Picó
It's in that honest, truthful and sensitive way that the director has of approaching moments and everyday realities in which, suddenly, he is able to capture the magic of living, that is, the magic of cinema. [Full review in Spanish] |
1 | Rob Gonsalves
A nastily effective piece of action-horror, as reflective of its time and its war as the Vietnam-era "Deliverance" was of its time and war. |
1 | Duane Byrge
Both an appealing coming-of-age yarn and, as Monsieur Ibrahim embraces his own mortality, a heartfelt coming-of- aging saga. |
1 | Jim Ridley
One for the time capsule -- not just as an irrefutable visual record of the size, diversity, and vitriolic fervor of the anti-Bush protest movement, but also as a demonstration of how unbridgeable the red-blue divide seemed in those dark autumn months. |
1 | Ron Wilkinson
Simple and charming, an exquisite expansion of a great book into a great animated film. |
1 | Nick Pinkerton
It's Mishima's diagrammatic structure that most perfectly suits its subject, defined by his will to harmony. |
1 | Nigel Floyd
An overripe mlange of Cronenbergian 'body horror' and alienated Lynchian weirdness. |
1 | Brian McManus
A beautiful tale of life, love, music, and family, of things not working out but also working out just as predicted. |
1 | Alex Lines
1% is a gritty gang flick soaked in blood, sweat, beer and cinematic history, with the haze of Once Were Warriors and Romper Stomper wafting in the air of the Copperheads hideout alongside the stale stench of hard liquor and tossed cigarettes. |
1 | Charles Mudede
In the end, you may even like Queen and Country more than Hope and Glory, which is saying a lot. |
0 | Matthew De Abaitua
It's not good enough, at this point in the game, to serve up this collection of cliches and expect anyone to be fooled or entertained by it for a minute. |
0 | Greg Muskewitz |
1 | James Plath
A cute, feline version of "Lady and the Tramp" that should enthrall families . . . and, of course, cat lovers. |
0 | Laura Clifford
If ever a movie pushed my cynicism buttons, this one was it... |
0 | Kat Halstead
British dating comedy has sex, language but lacks chemistry. |
1 | Edward Guthmann
We're back on the social and emotional turf that Leigh knows best. |
0 | Guardian Staff
Of the original, all that is left is a framework, vividly present, but inevitably dissatisfying. |
1 | Dennis Schwartz
Adequately serves as escapist entertainment. |
1 | Justin Craig
Clooney has certainly created a throwback to old Hollywood war films, which is fine, but almost unsure of his own recipe, throws far too many ingredients into the mix ultimately creating a war film that is indeed enjoyable but suffers an identity crisis. |
1 | Brian Orndorf
There's a certain level of breeziness that's worth a sit, especially for anyone who's lost their faith in Chase and Dreyfuss in recent years. |
1 | Mark Adams
It is a grippingly gritty and bleak film. |
0 | Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
However, this central thesis isn't enough to sustain 130 minutes' worth of movie. |
1 | Tom Long
Smart, touching and enlightening, a combination that makes Bigger, Stronger, Faster the best documentary of the year so far. |
1 | Austin Burke
Cocaine Bear commits to the complete absurdity of its premise. Not only is it hilarious at times, but seeing this drug-fueled bear wreak havoc makes for a good time in a crowded theater |
0 | Eleanor Ringel Cater
Keaton may well be the only actress in Hollywood who could play this character without making her despicable or treacly. |
1 | Howard Pearson
The Emigrants is a mighty picture, powerful in its simplicity and earthiness, beautiful in its presentation, inspiring in its theme and message. The people are real people, the story is a real story. |
1 | Sean Burns
A film about the pursuit of perfection. And the cost. |
1 | Adriana Gomez-Weston
Stargirl tells you the importance of staying true to yourself, but it shies away from telling you the consequences if you don't. This is the biggest irony of all considering the source material. Despite its flaws, Stargirl is still a worthy watch. |
0 | Jim Slotek
Despite its thin veneer of grit, deep down the bar-rock fable Goldirocks is as hardcore as a puppy. |
1 | Alci Rengifo
It can't be said "Happy Death Day 2U" is a great movie, but it's better than it should be. It knows it's a gag and basks in its sense of fun. |
0 | A.A. Dowd
The results are sometimes striking, in pure visual terms, but rarely engaging; even as a brutish saga of underworld retribution, the film fails to get the heart pounding. |
0 | Juan Carlos Coto
The movie puts its characters into one of the most hilarious predicaments we've seen in a while. But the punch line doesn't deliver. |
1 | Mark Dujsik
[I]t depicts how Dahmer became the killer he was with frightening clarity. |
0 | Liz Braun
Pretentious twaddle that tells you nothing about Arbus. Robert Downey Jr. manages to be dignified even when covered in mountains of body hair. That's something. |
1 | Desson Thomson
A thoroughly gratifying prestige thriller, thanks to riveting suspense and two brilliant stars. |
1 | Camille Dodero
A concert film by technicality, a cinematic trance in practicality. |
1 | Prahlad Srihari
The racial unease that defined early 20th century is refracted through the prism of blues history. The recording studio becomes a refuge from the racial bigotry of the world outside, and at the same time a diorama of a more insidious form of it inside. |
1 | Carol Cling |
1 | Asia Frey
Daniel Bruhl was highly watchable as Assange's second in command, and all these interesting people grappled with compelling questions about what their rights and responsibilities were towards the information they were handed. |
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