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Notes on a Scandal | Times (UK) | James Christopher | Richard Eyre directs the film like a chamber play. He leans on Philip Glass's ever-present and insistent music like a crutch. But his natural gift for framing scenes is terrifically assured. A potent and evil pleasure. | 5/6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | false | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2,417 |
The Cove | Times Square | Eric Lurio | Damn fine propaganda film! | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 30 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Knocked Up | Times Square | Eric Lurio | This is a genuine romantic comedy. It's funny, honest, and…romantic. Who'da thunk? | 3.2/5 | 5 | 3.2 | 5 | false | 22 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
L'Iceberg | Times Square | Eric Lurio | The film is a series of tableaus and gags that may indeed work by themselves but, when cemented together, creates lots of dead air. | 2.3/5 | 5 | 2.3 | 5 | false | 13 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End | Times Square | Eric Lurio | By managing to turn a Disney theme park ride into a major movie franchise, director Gore Verbinski and his collaborators, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, have done an unintentional remake of Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." Gilliam did it bet | 2.9/5 | 5 | 2.9 | 5 | false | 19 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Ponyo | Times Square | Eric Lurio | Probably the most saccarine horror film I've seen in years. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 10 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Red Road | Times Square | Eric Lurio | The problem with this "thriller" is that it's boring. | 2.7/5 | 5 | 2.7 | 5 | false | 17 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Shooter | Times Square | Eric Lurio | Halfway decent script, good acting, good chases and stuff gets blown up. What more do you want? Godzilla? | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 20 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Shrek the Third | Times Square | Eric Lurio | Price, Seaman, and Zack have created a half-assed script which, while it doesn't bring shame to anyone, it doesn't bring anyone any glory either. | 2.3/5 | 5 | 2.3 | 5 | false | 13 | 41 | 10 | 2,418 |
Night and Day (Bam gua nat) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The directness of Sun-nam's voiceover encapsulates what's salient about Hong's approach, which lays everything bare and leaves little room for ambiguity. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Julia | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Risky, genuine, and alive. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
My Winnipeg | Tiny Mix Tapes | Judy Berman | More an abstract hallucination than a photo-realist portrait, My Winnipeg would be out of place on the "documentary" shelf at the video store. But it deserves prime placement in the Guy Maddin canon. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Tyson | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Compelling as Iron Mike is to listen to, it's hard to fault the filmmaker for not wanting to interrupt him. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
24 City (Er shi si cheng ji) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | In the end, the filmmaker's fragmented approach marks an interesting, if not entirely successful, departure for one of China's most talented working directors. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
About Elly | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | About Elly stands as another strong example of one of the world's true emerging talents. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Ain't Them Bodies Saints | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | There's a good deal to be excited for in Ain't Them Bodies Saints; with another couple films under his belt, hopefully Lowery can develop a more unique voice and make a Badlands of his very own. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Best Of Enemies | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Sadly, for a film at least partially about the impact of evening news and political coverage, little importance is given to the actual political content as compared to the results. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Beyond The Hills | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The skillful handling of such radical yet delicate material in the film's final act is quite a sight to see. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Boogie Woogie | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | I don't begrudge Boogie Woogie's attacks on the art scene for its pretension, greed, and self-aggrandizement run rampant; I begrudge the fact that the film is guilty of these very same things. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Everybody Wants Some!! | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | It still comes off as another unique entry in the Linklater canon in its careful balancing of full-on machismo-filled bro-down comedy with more tender scenes of genuine male bonding. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Although Wild Grass doesn't reach the heights of Resnais' earliest works, it provides ample evidence that the director can still produce vibrant and thrilling work and hopefully will continue to do so through his 90s as well. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Human Capital | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Human Capital treads similar structural and thematic ground as Crash and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's first three films, coming away with some of the advantages of the latter films and the weaknesses of all. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Humpday | Tiny Mix Tapes | Judy Berman | Where Humpday really excels is in its depiction of Ben and Andrew's relationship. After so many years apart, they speak easily and candidly to one another... | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Hunger | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | There is no attempt to set Sands up as a great martyr, no Jesus pose or sentimental music to manipulate emotions. Hunger is interested in none of this. Instead, [McQueen] lets the bodies that sacrificed themselves tell the story they created. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Ida | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Pawlikawski's approach is austere and subdued, capturing a sense of spiritual tranquility with a purity and economy of form that is rare outside of a Bresson or Dreyer film, yet with a political and moral fervor that this type of material demands. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
In Another Country | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Hong embraces the power of fiction both to reflect reality and to reflect upon itself, and, in doing so, once again shows why he's one of the most important directors working today. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Inglourious Basterds | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Tarantino devotes roughly equal time to discussing the cinema of G.W. Pabst and dramatizing the gory scalping of dead Nazi soldiers. It's just that kind of movie. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Stray Dogs | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The emotional and geographical wasteland where this takes place is both foreign and achingly real, and for those with the patience to traverse its terrains, its rewards are as vast as they are strange and unsettling. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Kon Tiki | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Kon-Tiki sinks itself well before its journey is finished. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Like Father, Like Son | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Like Father, Like Son explores the meaning of parenthood in a most unique way, taking a deeply thoughtful approach to a hypothetical and following its unknown paths in an organic manner. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Lilting | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | [Lilting] wears its heart on its sleeve, but without bleeding too much, and is overly square and precise, but also a welcome reprieve from the irony-prone fair that most often fills our cinemas. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Lorna's Silence | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The results are no less emotionally gratifying or personal than in [the Dardennes'] previous films, but Lorna's Silence is mysterious and mystifying in an entirely new way. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | As fascinated as it is by Welles' ascent, his unfair decline and lifelong battles to have his visions realized, it never really offers any insight on his actual work. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Melancholia | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Despite its sci-fi premise and air of apocalyptic doom, Melancholia, surprisingly enough, is a small film, locating both its terror and its humor. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Moonrise Kingdom | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | For the first time, Anderson's artifice has worked against him. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
New York, I Love You | Tiny Mix Tapes | Judy Berman | Most of the shorts suffer from similarly hackneyed story lines, with all action leading up to a pat resolution. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Pacific Rim | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The humans battle the kaiju both intellectually and physically, although it doesn't take long to realize that Pacific Rim is really only concerned with the latter. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Patema Inverted | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Unless you're jonesing for new Japanese animation, you'd be advised to reverse your gravitational pull and steer clear of this one. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man | Tiny Mix Tapes | Judy Berman | "Ultimately, your work is your world," Walker says toward the end of the documentary. 30th Century Man succeeds, then, because it inhabits the world of its subject. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Sightseers | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | It has a levity and self-aware absurdity that makes it not only a different kind of beast, but also another film that marks Ben Wheatley as a young director to keep an eye on. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Assassin | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | [The film's] uncanny ability to be meticulously precise in some aspects, yet distant and mysterious in others make it a unique achievement and exactly the kind of film that could only be made by a master like Hou Hsaio-hsien. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Bastards | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Like most of Denis's work, Bastards provides no clear conclusions and her characters' behavior remains just as ineffable, endlessly complex, and unknowable as human behavior in real life. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Better Angels | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Kudos to this young director for making quite a good film -- even if the guiding hand of Malick is present in every shot. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Fits | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | If nothing else, it introduces Anna Rose Holmer to the world as another bright young female director with a unique perspective and, especially for a debut feature, a surprisingly impressive command of pacing and tone. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Forbidden Room | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The Forbidden Room is an absolutely manic, joyous romp through a hilariously warped revision of seemingly the entirety of silent film, an endlessly inventive celebration of the limitlessness and sheer dexterity of cinema from the first frame to the last. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Despite The Galapagos Affair's bloated runtime, clocking in at a shade over two hours, the two-thirds of the film that is good is a very compelling illustration of the inescapability of human nature and the constraints of society. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Joheun-nom, Nabbeun-nom, Isanghan-nom) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | It isn't the film's style-over-substance approach that prevents it from being as engaging and entertaining as it desires; it's the lack of cohesiveness and discernible rhythm. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Handmaiden (Ah-ga-ssi) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | One of the year's more delightfully offbeat and pleasurable films. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Hunt (Jagten) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The Hunt has left me more shaken than any other film I've seen all year. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Immigrant | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The Immigrant functions quite impressively as a character piece (or pieces, as the film is as much about Bruno as Ewa), a condemnation of the subjugation of foreigners and as a uniquely beautiful period piece. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Missing Picture | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | he Missing Picture is a fascinating and vital film of a history that too often remains a footnote or a death toll in the margin. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Unknown Known | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | Frustrating and fascinating. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Witch | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The horror clichés could practically write themselves from that point, but Eggers himself resists temptation at nearly every turn. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Tokyo Sonata (Tokyo Sonata) | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | A film that effectively examines both the familial conflicts in Japan's transitioning society and the wondrous avenues each individual within the family explores. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Two Days, One Night | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | It is in within these acutely observed aspects of humanity, not at its best or worst but simply as it is that Two Days, One Night achieves its greatness. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Upstream Color | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | An equally frustrating and rewarding experience. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
The Yes Men Fix the World | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | The duo also seems too focused on justifying their own controversial actions and harping on the humor element in the sequel. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Zero Bridge | Tiny Mix Tapes | Derek Smith | While the film's minimalist nature is its greatest asset in the first act, it ultimately makes its flaws and screenwriterly touches all the more apparent, resulting in some great individual slice-of-life sequences and some truly hackneyed ones. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2,419 |
Kiss Of The Damned | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | a significantly more mature - and sexy - take on vampire romance, approaching its subject with sophistication and sensuality even as it indulges in gore and terror that's as metaphorical as it is visceral. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
Maniac | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | The kind of empty brutality modern horror feebly disguises as unvarnished realism, Maniac offers a literal first-person perspective in an attempt to create either empathy or complicity, but instead generates only repulsion, or more often, boredom. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | false | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
Only Lovers Left Alive | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | Only Lovers Left Alive is at its most powerful, and beautiful, when it's concentrating on how the search for immortality, or life's meaning, is found not in time spent, or accomplishments achieved, but in love shared with someone else. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
V/H/S/2 | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | Its seven directors surpass the imagination and intensity of those in the original V/H/S, reiterating the format's importance as both a showcase for interstitial creativity between feature-length projects and a testing ground for future ones. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
Stitches | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | Aiming for a gruesomely silly vibe that plays like equal parts American Pie and Evil Dead 2, Stitches preys on teenage foibles and clown clichés alike, offering mostly solid if not quite cult-classic-level fun. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
Stoker | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | A visual feast whose psychosexual boilerplate proves intriguingly complex, Stoker is a born classic - a brilliant English-language crossover effort for Park that doubles as a genre-transcending triumph. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
The Conjuring | ToddGilchrist.com | Todd Gilchrist | Thoughtful where its competition is glib, featuring substantive and relatable characters, and steadily-paced where most feel lackadaisical, Wan has made a truly great movie. And I'm only talking about the parts that I saw from between my fingers. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,420 |
Promised Land | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | The drama can be funny and romantic and occasionally moving. It has a bigger message about fracking and the environment, and big companies and small towns, and while Promised Land is not a great film, such ambition is not its intention. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
42 | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Just as 42 is a reminder of Robinson's importance to those who struggled for basic human rights of recognition and dignity during segregation, it's a reflection of those still persevering for equality. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
A Good Day To Die Hard | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Yes, it's a brain drain of a film, but its go-for-broke zeal is contagious and fun, mindless or otherwise. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Admission | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Depending on your point of view, then, Admission is either a so-so comedy, or a quirky drama that's never fully formed. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
After Earth | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | For a father-son film project, there's strangely little emotional connection between the pair onscreen. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Bullet to the Head | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | I didn't think it was possible to make a boring action film in New Orleans, but Bullet to the Head proved me wrong. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Cockettes | Toledo Blade | Christopher Borrelli | The effect is to actually bring to life the idealistic spirit of the times, to provide a context more resonant than simply the fashions and the music. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Despicable Me 2 | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Not as consistently funny as the original, Despicable Me 2 still proves itself a quite-capable sequel, one that moves the characters and their stories along in humorous and often sweet ways. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Fast & Furious 6 | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | This film is about pushing driving stunts to new limits and further from what we've seen in the other installments. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | Toledo Blade | Christopher Borrelli | It made me want to book a trip to Japan then do doughnuts in a subdivision. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Getaway | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | It's an excuse for a 90-minute orgy of car chases and crashes that thoroughly tests the audience's endurance and patience. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | true | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Gigli | Toledo Blade | Christopher Borrelli | Here is a film that exists on another plane. It is so insane, so misguided, so Dadaesque, so Kafkaesque, you'll think I'm exaggerating. I'm not. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | true | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Identity Thief | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | A self-indulgent comedy catchall, one that's saddled with an irony for a title; that is, for a film about the value of identity, Identity Thief doesn't have a clue about what it wants to be. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Jack Reacher | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie paces his film at a steady clip, and the requisite car chases and action sequences are well executed. But his attempts at shoehorning humor into tense standoffs play to groans and silence. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Jack the Giant Slayer | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | The original release date of Jack the Giant Slayer was pushed back several months, in part, to accommodate the special effects crew. As it turns out, that was the least of the film's problems. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Les Misérables | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | The gorgeous art direction and sweeping cinematography by Danny Cohen elevate the filmmaker's vision of Les Misérables as something greater than a rehash of the musical. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Life of Pi | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Life of Pi proves to have the heart of a small art film with the big aspirations of a major blockbuster. And on the big screen, there's nothing else quite like it. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Men in Black III | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | This is the proper sequel to the 1997 original, and not the 2002 laugh-free abomination, Men in Black II. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Monsters University | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | The heart of the film is Crystal and Goodman, who remain as funny, spunky, and relatable as you remember. Their buddy-buddy chemistry is so natural, the actors could team up for several more Monsters films. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Oblivion | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Even as so many once-bankable action stars ungracefully age out of the genre, Cruise reclaims it... and returns to doing what he does best. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Oz the Great and Powerful | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Oz the Great and Powerful isn't destined to become a classic, but it's a fun time at the movies, one that reminds us that even old stories can be new again. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Pacific Rim | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Pacific Rim is the Godzilla movie that should have been. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Pain & Gain | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | There's undeniable humor in this comedy of errors of three bumbling criminals, and Wahlberg, Johnson, and Mackie strike the right tone in their performances. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Perfect Man | Toledo Blade | Christopher Borrelli | [Hilary Duff movies] never do solve their one nagging flaw: Duff's characters are remarkably self-possessed for teens but not enough to recognize the sitcoms they inhabit. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | true | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Red 2 | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | It's Mirren again playing against type that proves most satisfying. Watching the 68-year-old and still dazzling actress wield guns with the best of 'em and calmly eradicate the corpse of a fresh kill with a bottle of acid is novel and darkly pleasurable. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Silver Linings Playbook | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Silver Linings Playbook doesn't settle for the routine or the cliché. It's a funny drama about imperfect people looking for love. It also happens to be the best romantic comedy in years. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Spider-Man: Homecoming | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Spider-Man: Homecoming is light, quick and never too serious, bounding with a playful sense of humor lacking in the increasingly angsty and no longer fun franchise. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Supercross | Toledo Blade | Christopher Borrelli | It's a bizarre, contradictory mess, a lousy promotion for a sport still unknown to many Americans | 0/4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | true | 0 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Man of Steel | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Man of Steel is an expensive set-up piece that puts everything and everyone in the familiar positions, but moves no further. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | true | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Adventures of Tintin | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | By no means a masterpiece, the full-length computer-generated animated film nevertheless has freed Spielberg from the shackles of conventional filmmaking and physical limitations. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Dark Knight Rises | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | The Dark Knight Rises is all about risks, and there are payoffs and failures to go with it. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | true | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
Evil Dead | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | There's no break from the intense gore and horror, no ironic wink; Evil Dead is the basic nightmare tale of five doomed individuals trapped in a cabin by an evil entity. And where's the fun in that? | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Family | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | What sells The Family is its cast; in particular, De Niro and Pfeiffer, who are charming and believable as a couple fluent in each other's faults but still unabashedly in love. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Hangover Part III | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | The Hangover Part III is the encore to a concert that's gone on too long: You know what's coming and you can't wait for it to end. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | true | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
The Heat | Toledo Blade | Kirk Baird | Even with its nearly two-hour run time, The Heat is consistently funny. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | true | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,421 |
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