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The Lion King | Art House Film Wire | Jeff Mitchell | This beautiful remake proudly stands on its own four feet. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1,051 |
The Seagull | Art House Film Wire | Jeff Mitchell | "The Seagull" does not take off and fly. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,051 |
The Secret Garden | Art House Film Wire | Jeff Mitchell | The Secret Garden doesn't quite bloom. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,051 |
The Wedding Guest | Art House Film Wire | Jeff Mitchell | Depending on your expectations, this deliberately slow-paced thriller might serve as a satisfying "I do" or a disappointing "I don't" | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,051 |
Welcome to Marwen | Art House Film Wire | Jeff Mitchell | Zemeckis leaves little screen time for the protagonist's recovery, so the final confrontation seems added as an afterthought. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1,051 |
You Should Have Left | Art House Film Wire | Jeff Mitchell | It's okay to walk away from You Should Have Left. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,051 |
12 Years a Slave | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | A decent film, but hardly the breakthrough anti-slavery masterpiece many have claimed. It's difficult to stay in the brutal reality with A-list movie stars around every bend. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
A Coffee in Berlin | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | A slight slacker comedy derivative of American indies but made by a youth-friendly German director of talent. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
A Fierce Green Fire | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
A Touch of Sin | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Jia shows the new China as a venal,impossibly corrupt place where the downtrodden millions are almost as maltreated, and just as hopeless, as sufferers under Mao. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Afternoon Delight | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | We've heard the protagonist's gripes before. But actress Kathryn Hahn is so enthralling and right that Rachel's poor little rich girl suffering feels harsh and real. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Blancanieves | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | "Blancanieves" is not as charming as "The Artist," but it's more sincerely a work of true silent cinema. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Blue Caprice | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Director-writer Alexandre Moors, a Parisian living in New York, builds a credible narrative story of the killer team in the months before their death spree. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Die Wand (The Wall) | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Has any movie ever had so much gab on the soundtrack? Every confession, every philosophical tidbit of the movie's tormented female protagonist. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Exhibition | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Seeing Exhibition is like spying through a window on our most glamorous neighbors moving about their flat: it's kind of kinky, kind of fun. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Frank | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | If Van Gogh had picked up an acoustic car, he'd be Frank, the eponymous rocker in this idiosyncratic Irish film from the talented Gaelic filmmaker, Lenny Abrahamson. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Gloria | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | "Gloria" explores better than any movie I've seen how, when middle-aged divorcees become a couple, they are still affected by their relationship with their ex-spouses and children. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Filmmaker Nicholas Wrathall takes viewers on a brisk, amusing promenade through Vidal's enviable life: wealthy, globe-hopping, pals of the talented and famous. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Gravity | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Alfonso Cuarón is among the world's finest, most versatile filmmakers, and someone who hasn't yet directed a dud. Gravity is quite OK too, but in the second tier of his work. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
In Bloom | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Among the best features to come recently out of Eastern Europe, featuring the tough-minded cinematography of Romania's Oleg Matu, who shot 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
I Used To Be Darker | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | This delicate, compassionate film has an emotional impact.It unfolds the austere European way, without the heavy baggage of backstory. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
If You Build It | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | This stirring, wonderful documentary follows two idealistic, tenacious young architects arriving in the deep South to teach rural high school kids to design and build. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Inside Llewyn Davis | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | A watchable if not particularily compelling tale of the never-ending woes of the protagonist, a walking basket case of self-destruction.The Coens are trying to say what? | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Le Week-End | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | "Le Week-End" soars because of the glorious leads, reliable Jim Broadbent, veteran of Mike Leigh movies, and Lindsay Duncan, acclaimed on the British stage. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Locke | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | That solo time in the car, predictably, gets trying to watch. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Mother Of George | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Mother of George might work better with an operatic score, for all its brooding, pain, and masochism.Arias, anyone? | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | The absorbing day-by-day of the Pussy Riot trial, and an intimate meeting with three Pussy Riot women unmasked. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Stranger by the Lake | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | This death trip homoerotic thriller, influenced by Hitchcock, is powerful, weird, and intoxicating - until its final scenes. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Terraferma | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | It's well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Broken Circle Breakdown | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | The first part is directed in the most conventional way. In the better second half, the Belgian leads dig deeply into their characters, sing bluegrass wonderfully." | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Counselor | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | This is one fine neo-noir, expertly directed by Ridley Scott with a host of superlative star turns, and an arresting, challenging screenplay by Cormac McCarthy | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | It would take a series of spoilers to explain who might have killed whom in "The Galapagos Affair." See the movie and find out, and revel in the grim gallows humor. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Grand Seduction | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | The Grand Seduction has mawkish moments, and it's way long. But it's still a very sweet movie, skillfully made and charmingly told. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | The rightist, racist government is opposed on the island by a Blue State coalition of women (young, old, and punk),an African-American geek, and liberated white males. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Invisible Woman | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Dickens's love is touching in a Chekhovian way.It can only bring sorrow, as it is not returned by the young woman he covets. That's the gutsy decision of the filmmakers. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Normal Heart | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | A pretty decent adaptation of the 1985 stage script, with some good things added, including an effective pre-credit section set on Fire Island in 1982. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
The Unknown Known | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | I hoped the film was a front for a citizen's arrest: Donald Rumsfeld shipped off to the Hague. Still, the movie is as insanely entertaining as a Mad Hatter's tea party. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
To The Wonder | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | To The Wonder - the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
When Comedy Went to School | Arts Fuse | Gerald Peary | Oy gevalt!What a disappoinment! | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1,052 |
Overlord | ArtsHub | Sarah Ward | While Overlord's premise screams B-movie and the feature knows it, [director Julius] Avery doesn't handle the narrative in a simple and senseless manner. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1,053 |
Antebellum | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | One of the great modern social thrillers. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
Bill & Ted Face the Music | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | The jokes are so strong and the chemistry between Winter and Reeves (and Lundy-Paine and Weaving) is so appealing and genuine that the film can't help but succeed. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
I Used to Go Here | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | Two of comedy's most gifted stars, Jacobs and Clement shine brightest in their shared scenes. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
Tesla | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | An improbably lifeless biopic. | D | long_letter | null | null | false | 7 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
The Fight | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | The observational, non-intrusive style allows the lawyers to do their jobs, capturing the lovely highs and painful lows that arise amidst their immense daily pressures. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
The Rental | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | Franco directs with a surprisingly steady hand, though his gift for unsettling viewers and creative staging of familiar slasher moments truly sets his film apart. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
The Tax Collector | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | A sad rehashing of subplots from Ayer's earlier LA crime flicks - and without the talent or budget to offer even minor distractions from the rote storytelling. | D- | long_letter | null | null | false | 6 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
You Cannot Kill David Arquette | Asheville Movies | Edwin Arnaudin | Regardless of the extent to which it might be scripted, the enjoyability factor is appropriately fairly high. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 1,054 |
Driveways | Asian American Press | Diana Cheng | "Driveways" shows us the power of caring human relationships and the change love can bring, yet painfully unfurls the precariousness of life. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1,055 |
House of Hummingbird (Beolsae) | Asian American Press | Diana Cheng | These three [Tribeca] awards speak to the assets of Kim's debut work: adroit directing, insightful cinematography (Guk-hyun Kang), and the mature and nuanced performance of a young actor, Ji-hu Park, who plays Eun-hee with a quiet and natural appeal. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1,055 |
Avatar | AskMen.com | Rick Mele | Rarely a boring moment or unnecessary scene. Avatar isn't going to redefine movies as we know them, but on the level of pure visual spectacle, the bar has certainly been raised. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 14 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | AskMen.com | Rick Mele | A movie that ultimately has more cult than mass appeal, how much you enjoy Bad Lieutenant will probably come down to how much you like Werner Herzog rather than Nicolas Cage. A notoriously eccentric director, his latest film is nowhere near as mainstream | 9/10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | false | 16 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
Dear John | AskMen.com | AskMen.com Staff | The one saving grace is some decent work by the always reliable Richard Jenkins as John's father. Truthfully, the only real appeal there would be for a guy going to see this film is the possibility that it will earn him points with the girl who dragged hi | 3/10 | 10 | 3 | 10 | false | 4 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
Nine | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Lost are Fellini's autobiographical nuances, the deep philosophical and psychoanalytical ramblings, the artistic construction of identity, and the very film specific deconstruction at play. They even scrap the circus! It just makes you wonder what the poi | 3/10 | 10 | 3 | 10 | false | 4 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
The Book of Eli | AskMen.com | Rick Mele | Denzel Washington deserves equal credit for this, delivering his best Man with No Name impression as a Bible-thumping hero in a much more literal sense, one who delivers bloody vengeance in lieu of sermons. Though these types of roles are far more demandi | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | As impressive and as wild as Gilliam's acid-laced visuals can be -- and yes, they are often stunning and hilarious -- it's not enough to keep us engaged in a movie with a plot that spins circles around our heads and characters who are really nothing more | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
Transporter 2 | AskMen.com | AskMen.com Staff | The original Transporter was a surprise hit in 2002, and this second installment will not disappoint. | 7.5/10 | 10 | 7.5 | 10 | false | 13 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon | AskMen.com | Rick Mele | If you're not a teenage girl or don't swoon at the sight of Robert Pattinson or a shirtless Taylor Lautner, then surprise, New Moon wasn't made for you. An event movie for girls in the same way every Michael Bay movie is a guilty pleasure for guys, there' | 4/10 | 10 | 4 | 10 | false | 6 | 19 | 2 | 1,056 |
A Most Violent Year | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | These characters coolly roam through every precise, purposeful scene like the metaphors they are, seemingly motivated by artistic intent as opposed to baser human desires. Even Michael Corleone had a temper; a libido; a pulse. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Aloha | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | The curious thing about the whitewashing accusations against Aloha is that it completely ignores the movie's most genuine theme: white guilt. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
American Sniper | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Unlike the movie version of Chris Kyle who never makes a mistake, Eastwood and his writer are prone to flubs that cost them their "fog of war" stance. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Ant-Man | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Just another run-of-the-mill Marvel origin story that surprises with bursts of flair and humor, as if remnants from Wright and Cornish's script managed to fight their way into the final cut. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Avengers: Age of Ultron | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | There is a significant lack of that human touch in Age of Ultron's very fabric, where the winning personalities of its core superheroes feel diminished, defeated and consumed by whatever algorithm keeps these movies going. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Since the movie is opening in the midst of the Syrian refugee crisis and just days after the Brussels attacks, the hostility conjured between these superheroes feels incredibly and uncomfortably pertinent. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Captain America: Civil War | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | As amiable as he is, Spidey's presence compromises the very stakes Civil War is trying to pitch. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Concussion | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Concussion plays Omalu's compelling work as your by-the-numbers lone crusader story, which is effective right up to the point when a bristling Smith barks, "Tell the truth!" | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Interstellar | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | If only the plot and the corny, exposition-heavy dialogue - where characters speak in fortune cookie - could hold up to the cinematography. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Jason Bourne | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | The franchise just doesn't have the claws it once did; it can't conjure the same outrage in a movie that goes beyond the CIA for a post-Snowden look at how Silicon Valley can be corrupted for the sake of global surveillance. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Joy | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | The comic tale is trademark Russell. That is to say, it's tonally bonkers and dramatically inert, enlivened by some decent gags and a terrific ensemble cast. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Mad Max: Fury Road | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | At no point does the empowering gender switch compromise the movie's speed demon action and pyrotechnics, which are a refreshing return to operatic thrills after all the same-old CGI shenanigans we've become numb to. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | As far as entertainment goes, Rogue Nation is second only to the original Mission: Impossible. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Pitch Perfect 2 | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | These movies hit the four-quadrant notes that blockbusters require. There may not be massive explosions but the charm and voices among the ladies in the cast are its own special effect. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Southpaw | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | In Southpaw, Eminem's encore, relapse and recovery is handled with boxing gloves and cliches. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Spectre | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Ace visuals and simmering performances from Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux, as a reluctant Bond girl, divert attention from the cockamamie plot and backstory cooked up for Christoph Waltz's shadowy and excruciatingly foreshadowed villain. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | The nostalgic callbacks are so insistent that they can stop the narrative dead, like when some real drama is about to go down but everything pauses so we can have a meet-cute with C-3PO. Even the main villain comes off as some emo Darth Vader fanboy. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
The Big Short | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Turns out Adam McKay is the ideal filmmaker to tackle the absurd and infuriating circumstances behind the credit bubble. The Big Short is a load of laughs that get stuck in your throat when you realize the harm behind the insanity. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
The Hateful Eight | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Playing a gun-control parlor game for 90 minutes without letting a single bullet loose is an intense and bravura direction to take for a Western, that most American genre where the 2nd Amendment rings loudest. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
Tomorrowland | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | This is a movie written copyright first. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1,057 |
12 Years a Slave | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Shooting the travesties at an artistic remove as if he were observing slavery as a mechanism, McQueen's lush, foreboding compositions don't get in the way of the soul-crushing story. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
American Hustle | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Russell's aping is still a knockout, with enough razzle-dazzle style and propulsive humor to make it one of the most casually fun movies of the year. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Black Mass | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Scott Cooper's self-serious style has been oppressive in movies like Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace, but this time he actually has real material to take seriously. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Force Majeure | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | An incisive, stunning and satirical look at the emotional free fall when a man and his marriage can't live up to expectations. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Fury | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | On the one hand, Fury peddles disgust, insisting that we look long and hard at how horrifying war is. Yet that sentiment doesn't translate to its thrilling, first-person shooter battle scenes. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Her | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Spike Jonze's sophisticated look at romance in the near future is beautiful and bleak, heartfelt and oh-so-cool. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Ida | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Ida is haunting and devastatingly beautiful; perhaps my favorite film to come out so far this year, foreign language and otherwise. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Inherent Vice | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | A wildly entertaining, beautiful and hypnotic puzzler from a towering talent, Inherent Vice proves to be so much more than just the best film of the year - though it is that too. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Legend | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Hardy's Reggie is smooth, clever, romantic and calculated. His Ron is fearsome, with eyes permanently bulging and a mouth mumbling out threats as if he were trying to speak and keep a squirrel trapped inside at the same time. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Mommy | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Dolan is an excellent manipulator of melodrama, which is in no way offensive until his film makes strong, dangerous statements about mental health and institutionalization. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Museum Hours | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Cohen's simple, masterful film considers how we anoint value. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Phoenix | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | A thrilling, seductive game of deception fit for film noir, where lies seek to unearth truths that would rather stay buried. Throughout it all, Petzold concocts images that will sear their way into your memory. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Room | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | A devastating, must-see movie. Finds hope and tenderness in an inhuman situation. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Sicario | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve builds a taut, thrilling mood piece, where Roger Deakins' vivid cinematography holds your eyes hostage and Jóhann Jóhannsson's score pounds like a jackhammer on your pulse. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Spotlight | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Spotlight keeps its composure, follows every lead and delivers an important and compelling story. It may no longer land on your porch with a thud but it still hits you in the gut. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Spring Breakers | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | I'm not sure how many glow sticks died in the making of Spring Breakers, but I am sure that it was worth it. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
The Martian | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | Watney's fear for his own life takes a backseat to his stand-up, an attitude that is this consistently entertaining movie's biggest asset and also its flaw. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
The Wolf of Wall Street | AskMen.com | Radheyan Simonpillai | A winning return for Martin Scorsese, who delivers his finest and most balls-out entertainment in more than a decade. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1,058 |
Gloria | AspectRatio.us | Matt Kelemen | We are with Gloria throughout the film, in every scene, as if we are her guardian angels. | 4.5/10 | 10 | 4.5 | 10 | false | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1,059 |
Her | AspectRatio.us | Matt Kelemen | ... poetic processions of images wash over the viewer, warmly enveloping and immersing as Jonze sidesteps easy paths, going deep into his characters. And we relate, simultaneously and unguardedly, ... perhaps discovering truths and insights. | 4.5/10 | 10 | 4.5 | 10 | false | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1,059 |
Inside Llewyn Davis | AspectRatio.us | Matt Kelemen | Llewyn is a beautiful loser, the everyman artist who contributes to the evolution of music and helps set the stage for a Dylan but never reaps the final reward, punched out by a world ready to swoop in on his scene and leave him behind. | 4.5/10 | 10 | 4.5 | 10 | false | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1,059 |
Jodorowsky's Dune | AspectRatio.us | Matt Kelemen | 'If you fail, it's not important. We need to try.' | 4.5/10 | 10 | 4.5 | 10 | false | 7 | 19 | 2 | 1,059 |
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