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Amarcord
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Fellini's whimsical and tender semi-autobiographical film is one of his best works.
4.5/5
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Cabin Boy
All Movie Guide
Josh Ralske
So...when is Get a Life coming out on DVD?
3/5
5
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Chimes at Midnight
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
A tour-de-force of Wellesian immensity.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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9
2
1,032
City Lights
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
A paean to our finest impulses: perhaps Chaplin's finest effort.
5/5
5
5
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9
2
1,032
The Diary of Anne Frank
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
The first film to deal with the Holocaust on such an affecting and personal level, this is a powerful and painfully tragic film.
4/5
5
4
5
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9
2
1,032
Diner
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
A clever, biting script buoys a cast of soon-to-be famous actors in this endearing male-bonding ritual writ large.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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7
9
2
1,032
Nightbreed
All Movie Guide
Josh Ralske
Goofily entertaining, with an amusing turn by David Cronenberg.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,032
The Rapture
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
A film that boldly goes where few films have gone before
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
1,032
The Red Badge of Courage
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Despite the studio's editing hatchet job, this remains a powerful tale of redemption
4/5
5
4
5
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Shane
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Despite being burdened with grand pretensions, Shane stands securely as one of the most intelligent westerns of its era
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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The Shawshank Redemption
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
despite occasional lapses into familiar formulas and stereotypes, this is a first-rate prison drama
4/5
5
4
5
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A Soldier's Story
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Occasionally preachy, but otherwise intense and provocative racially provocative drama
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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9
2
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Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Equal parts murder mystery, soap opera and psychic surrealism: a Lynchian triumph
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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9
2
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The Untouchables
All Movie Guide
Dan Jardine
Another dePalma triumph of style over substance, climaxed by a great homage to Eisenstein
4/5
5
4
5
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9
2
1,032
Trouble Is My Business
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
A crunchy, witty, and often just plain funny mash-up of classic noir tropes ... in addition to dialogue worthy of Dashiell Hammett and, occasionally, Mel Brooks...
3/4
4
3
4
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4
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RoboCop
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
To grieve for what director José Padilha failed to port over from Verhoeven's version is unfair to the remake, which has a right, if not a responsibility, to be different than the original.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
1,034
A Cop (Un Flic)
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Jean-Pierre Melville's last film, Un Flic / A Cop (1972), is a late noir classic...
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
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Antiviral
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
A gutsy, notable debut for a young filmmaker who needs to find a unique voice to match his unique ideas.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
1,034
Boyhood
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
This 12-year undertaking is one of the most intriguing narrative film projects ever conceived. Richard Linklater has quietly become part of the foundation of American cinema.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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Call Me Kuchu
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
It does the one thing that bigots and homophobes can't stand: it puts a human face on the targets of their unfounded, irrational hatred.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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Captain America: Civil War
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
"...for me to consider Captain America: Civil War a good movie - good enough to make me forget Prince had just died - it must be pretty good indeed.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
The movie's feel for urban warfare takes its cue, though not its severe, disturbing edge, from street-level spectacles like Heat and Ronin.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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Captain Phillips
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Mostly adapted from the Captain's memoir Captain Phillips is conversely taut and slack; culturally savvy and naive; politically astute and manipulative; emotionally sincere and embarrassingly overwrought.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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9
2
1,034
Chi-Raq
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Chi-Raq is a plea for us to Wake Up. It's a tearful plea proffered by a broken mother over a murdered child. Dead for no good reason, as if a good reason might be found.
3/5
5
3
5
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2
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Detroit
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
For Black Americans, the events of Detroit '67 are not the events of a 'dramatic thriller.' They are the events of a tragedy and still-living history we know very well.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
1,034
Elysium
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
Elysium is more ideologically aware than it is ideologically astute, yet Neill Blomkamp is still being much more politically daring here than in District 9.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
1,034
Ender's Game
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
About as good a film as you can squeeze out of a morally complex source work given today's studio environment.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
1,034
Inside Llewyn Davis
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
A minor key ode to a talented singer whose flaws forever keep him one step behind musical and personal success.
4/5
5
4
5
false
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9
2
1,034
Iron Man 3
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
Yet another state-of-the-art Marvel creation that strikes an entertaining balance between heart, swagger, and volume.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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2
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Jersey Boys
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys is based on the hit Broadway musical and is a crushing bore. But the music and the performances of the music, are great.
2/5
5
2
5
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Like Someone in Love
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Veteran Director Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone is a fine followup to his brilliant Certified Copy. It's lovely, intriguing, stylish and very, very good.
4/5
5
4
5
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2
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Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Tom Cruise is the last movie star, fortunately, he's in Edge of Tomorrow, making it better despite itself.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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9
2
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Love Is Strange
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Love Is Strange is beautiful in every way that a film can be beautiful, and unabashedly so.
4/5
5
4
5
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2
1,034
Mad Max: Fury Road
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
In Fury Road there is nothing pacifist or even docile in Miller's conception of the nature of the feminine, no matter what they look like or what they are wearing.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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Mud
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Mud is as beautiful to watch as it is to listen to, and feel kinship to, whether you're from the South or just Southern at heart.
3/5
5
3
5
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Only God Forgives
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Only God Forgives is a controversial film and not Nicolas Winding Refn's first. It's also a remarkably good thriller. But I don't believe in god, so that's easy for me to say.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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Pacific Rim
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
So audaciously, shamelessly, and hypnotically cacophonous that you have no choice but to give yourself over to it.
3/5
5
3
5
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9
2
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Paradise: Love
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Sugar Mama sex tourism is the subject of Paradise Love, and director Ulrich Seidl's remarkable film about the subject is deeply affecting in a number of ways.
4/5
5
4
5
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
One senses that completing production was the primary accomplishment to the exclusion of those virtues that made Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back so transporting.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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Spy
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
There is currently no more exciting and rewarding moment in filmed comedy than watching Melissa McCarthy ad-lib.
3/5
5
3
5
false
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9
2
1,034
Stoker
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
While one is sure Stoker will satisfy many with its haughty ambivalence about any number of social taboos, others will find Park's first English-language effort decidedly vapid...
2/5
5
2
5
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Man of Steel
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
Man of Steel (has) a cold heart that no amount of spectacle can compensate for.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
1,034
Teacher of the Year
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Teacher of the Year is a smart and funny movie that manages to pull off one of the more difficult balancing acts in filmmaking; it actually is smart while still being funny.>
3/5
5
3
5
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
If it wasn't for the appealing chemistry between Garfield and Stone, both of Sony's shareholder-approved slabs of Spider-Product would feel more disposable than they already do.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
1,034
The Boss
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
A weak-sauce collection of predictable story beats, au courant vulgarity, and unearned sentiment that is not a sturdy enough foundation atop which McCarthy can shine.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
1,034
The East
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
The East is a didactic polemic couched in a mediocre thriller that takes itself far too seriously to be taken seriously...
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
1,034
The Fifth Estate
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
The only true take-away from the frantic, two-dimensional The Fifth Estate is that Julian Assange isn't championing moral justice as much as brand building and the inconvenience of accountability in the internet age.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
1,034
The Great Gatsby
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
The best version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel ever committed to the screen. But don't get too excited. The bar is very low.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
1,034
The Hangover Part III
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
What once felt like total anarchy now feels mechanical and tired.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
1,034
The Lone Ranger
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
Disney spent over $200 million to prove The Lone Ranger is too old-fashioned for such a newfangled, smart-aleck world.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
1,034
The Lunchbox
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
The Lunchbox, sweet and bitter, full of heartache and hope, asks its audience to accept the possibility that something "new" can happen, and then revel in the possibilities.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
1,034
To The Wonder
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
To the Wonder is built from shattered hearts, broken relationships and unanswered prayers, all better long since forgotten rather than pondered on film, yet again...
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
1,034
Trumbo
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Trumbo stars Bryan Cranston giving a great performance in a movie that is highly entertaining while managing to shovel the history of the blacklist at the audience in every scene.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
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2
1,034
Truth
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
The primary objective of Truth is to rehabilitate the reputation of Mary Mapes.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
1,034
Una noche (One Night)
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
(Mulloy shows) a genuine sense of empathy for her yearning, troubled characters and an artist's eye for the beauty of decay.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
1,034
Whiplash
Alt Film Guide
Tim Cogshell
Whiplash flows freely; it's literally full of improvisations in at least two art forms, but like all good jazz, it always knows where it is, and where it's going.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
1,034
World War Z
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
One senses a disconnect between the more serious-minded disaster epic Brad Pitt and Marc Forster wanted to make and the movie they actually wound up with.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
1,034
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Alt Film Guide
Mark Keizer
A rollicking, if sometimes convoluted, good time, featuring a high-toned cast and a seriousness of purpose that sets it apart from the candy-colored Marvel-produced films and Sony's underwhelming Amazing Spider-Man series.
4/5
5
4
5
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9
2
1,034
Dolls
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
A very heart-driven horror movie, all things considered.
3/10
10
3
10
false
2
10
1
1,035
101 Dalmatians
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
One of the most entirely fun, entertaining of all Disney features.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
1,035
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
The best parts of the film are also the places where it's most ineffective as a sequel.
3/10
10
3
10
false
2
10
1
1,035
The Jungle Book 2
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
Not a good movie, and probably better left unwatched. Which, for a DisneyToon sequel, is actually a pretty good place to land.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
1,035
World's Greatest Dad
American Dreamer
Stephen Silver
A pitch-black dark comedy that certainly won't be for everyone- but if you can stomach it, it's the most outrageous and audacious film of the season.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
1,036
Watchmen
American Dreamer
Stephen Silver
The biggest problem with "Watchmen" is at the screenplay level. The story just plain isn't told very well
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
1,036
Await Further Instructions
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
Await Further Instructions deliberately resists pitting the characters' beliefs against each other in favour of keeping the conflict shallow and straightforward...This is particularly true once the body count begins to rise
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
1,037
It Chapter Two
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
Shoddy CGI, a long run time and some iffy character work aside, IT: Chapter 2 is a solid sequel
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
1,037
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
Despite the five years between films, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a worthy sequel that should appease fans of the first film, particularly its core teen female demograph
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
1,037
Starfish
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
It doesn't entirely work, but the film's dreamy visuals, catchy indie rock playlist and dedicated lead performance by Virginia Gardner (Marvel's The Runaways) should net the film a passionate audience and a dedicated cult following.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
1,037
The Clovehitch Killer
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
Skiles' direction and Plummer's performance, + the focus on darkness permeating a small town suburbia, lends the film a My Friend Dahmer-esque vibe that will undoubtedly attract a sizeable following
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
9
2
1,037
The Sonata
Anatomy of a Scream
Joe Lipsett
Despite sticking to a familiar playbook, The Sonata is an enjoyable reminder of the atmospheric power of gothic horror, which pairs nicely with the horror genre's recently revitalized interest in satanism.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
1,037
Boiler Room
Anchorage Press
Marc Savlov
Not a bad debut for a kid from Queens who never even went to film school.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
1,038
Traffic
Anchorage Press
Marc Savlov
A thrilling, powerful movie.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
1,038
20th Century Women
Anchorage Press
Indra Arriaga
The narrative is fully under the director's control, but in this case this isn't a good thing because he controls the past, present, and future, thus the character development is linear and banal.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
1,038
Band Aid
Anchorage Press
Indra Arriaga
In her new film, Band Aid, Zoe Lister-Jones lays it all on the line and wins. Sally Potter: eat your heart out.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
1,038
Elle
Anchorage Press
Indra Arriaga
What is great about the film is that Huppert delivers the nuances of a deep-seeded ambivalence bordering on psychopathic tendencies that Elle experiences as a result of her childhood history in a way that only Huppert can.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
1,038
Kiki
Anchorage Press
Indra Arriaga
For those of viewers who have never kikied, they should not miss this documentary; for those who have, Kiki offers a refreshing and melancholic look at how far we've come.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
1,038
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Anchorage Press
Marc Savlov
It's a sprawling film and the comic tone matches Joel and Ethan's broad, comic brushstrokes to a T.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
1,038
Wakefield
Anchorage Press
Indra Arriaga
Wakefield illustrates what white privilege is all about - the ability to step out of one's own life, abdicate responsibility, and still one's loved ones are OK, their safety, livelihoods, and overall quality of life remains intact.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
1,038
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
Anime News Network
Sam Leach
The realization that we're reuniting Goku, Vegeta and Frieza feels ripe for some kind of massive catharsis, but this movie's story is simply not that ambitious.
B
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4
6
1
1,039
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Anime UK News
David Hogan
If you even have a passing interest in the series, this is an experience that can't be missed.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
1,040
The Truman Show
Apollo Guide
Elspeth Haughton
A deliciously vicious and intelligent satire on the media who manipulate us, and the audience who encourages it.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
1,041
Uncommon Valor
Apollo Guide
Jaime N. Christley
Supremely entertaining.
3/4
4
3
4
false
4
7
2
1,042
Hulk
Apollo Guide
Derek Smith
The only Ang Lee film where he shows even a modicum of originality in his direction or any real personality or interesting visual flair.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
1,042
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me
Apollo Guide
Jaime N. Christley
Occupies worlds of the natural, the supernatural, and the (wilfully, purposefully, and often wittily) clichéd.
4/4
4
4
4
false
6
7
2
1,042
War of the Worlds
Apollo Guide
Kevin N. Laforest
There's not much plot, depth or character development, but it more than makes up for it in relentless intensity and consistency of vision.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
1,042
Blame It on Rio
Apollo Guide
Scott Weinberg
Stuff that goes on in this movie is illegal nowadays.
1/5
5
1
5
false
0
5
1
1,043
Seven Chances
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
Keaton at his stonefaced best
5/5
5
5
5
false
4
5
1
1,043
This Is Spinal Tap
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
Simultaneously created the genre and broke the mold
5/5
5
5
5
false
4
5
1
1,043
Wild Strawberries
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
A film of rare beauty and pain
5/5
5
5
5
false
4
5
1
1,043
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Apollo Guide
Bryant Frazer
A preening, superficial film that expects you to appreciate its smart concept without noticing the stupid execution.
D
long_letter
null
null
false
7
18
1
1,044
Severance
Apollo Guide
Bryant Frazer
A The Office-style comedy of corporate manners crossed with a Friday the 13th-style slasher movie, with encoded satire on U.S./British foreign policy and birds coming home to roost.
B-
long_letter
null
null
false
12
18
1
1,044
A Mighty Heart
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
The only drama comes in the waiting, which eventually becomes tiresome.
3.5/10
10
3.5
10
false
5
19
2
1,045
Running Scared
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
It's like a gruesome merry-go-round filled with unpleasant characters and bad acting.
2/4
4
2
4
false
2
7
2
1,046
Sky High
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
This movie about a high school for superheroes is so good-natured and self-deprecating that it's virtually impossible to dislike the thing.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
1,046
Crash
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Haggis challenges our common conceptions about race and allows no character to escape his own hypocrisy.
4/4
4
4
4
false
6
7
2
1,046
Rent
Arizona Republic
Kyle Lawson
If Rent works -- and most of the time, it does so flawlessly -- it is because it remains Rent.
4/4
4
4
4
false
6
7
2
1,046
Accepted
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
It's loud and goofy, but it's sorely lacking energy, not to mention laughs.
2/4
4
2
4
false
2
7
2
1,046
The Ant Bully
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
The Ant Bully, in trying to match Antz or A Bug's Life, just digs itself into a big hole.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
1,046
Aquamarine
Arizona Republic
Kathy Cano Murillo
Think of Aquamarine as an eventful day at the marine park, with plenty of bubble gum to go around.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
1,046
Ask the Dust
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
What's surprising about the new film's vapid emptiness is that Towne also wrote the screenplay. And the writing is the film's central problem.
1.5/4
4
1.5
4
false
1
7
2
1,046