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Waiting for Superman | Wisconsin State Journal | Rob Thomas | Go see it, and then talk about it. But don't necessarily buy into it. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,525 |
Waking Sleeping Beauty | Wisconsin State Journal | Rob Thomas | Instead, it's a fascinating look at how a group of talented, flawed individuals managed to pull together for a while and make some beautiful and lasting films. There's something kind of magical about that, too. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,525 |
Little | Women Rocking Hollywood | Leslie Combemale | Frustrating pacing nearly derails superior performances and great co-star chemistry in the new film Little, a sweet confection still great for a night out with your gal pals. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,526 |
Target | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | It's great action and gripping fun. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
The Honeymooners | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | Silly remake, but not the worst of the year | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
Assault on Precinct 13 | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | With only a few hours left in the calendar year, Precinct 13, one of Detroit's oldest precinct houses, is closing. You'll want to be there... | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
Bride and Prejudice | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | The Austen story is a true delight... | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
The Devil's Rejects | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | One of the best, most chilling slasher films ever! | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
Hitch | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | Will Smith can play a matchmaker, too! | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
The Interpreter | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | Intriguing, gripping, suspenseful... | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
March of the Penguins | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | It has everything, sex, death, blood, drama and very fascinating creatures... | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
National Treasure | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | The treasure hunt is cool in this DVD, it's a whole game of numbers and quizzes go get to some of the Easter eggs. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
Star Trek: Insurrection | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | Not one of the most successful of the "Star Trek" films, it's always nice to see the cast reunite. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | The Force will undoubtedly be with us -- and the movie world -- for good... | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,527 |
Batman Begins | Wordmag.com | Michael Szymanski | Christian Bale and company delve into the darker side of the Caped Crusader as Batman Begins | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2,528 |
Gone With the Wind | World Socialist Web Site | Joanne Laurier | One of the first technicolor films made by Hollywood, the panning shot of injured and dead soldiers littering a street remains unforgettable... | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2,529 |
The Final Season | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Mad Money | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | [A] pointless payday for director Khourie's banal blank check comedy...a straining pseudo-hysterical heist flick that has all the giddy appeal of an empty bank draft. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
30 Days of Night | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Bleak, bombastic and belligerent, Slade's blood-busting bohemians will indeed take a caustic chunk out of your imaginative horrifying souls. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Across the Universe | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Somehow, the Beatles' precious diamonds are glaringly missing from Lucy's sky if not in Julie's unevenly charismatic but cluttered and customary Universe. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
American Gangster | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Aside from the movie's mouthful title, this [is a] contemplative and carousing exposition. [The] prairie-induced pathos is plenty to digest with absolute reverence. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Bee Movie | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | A spelling bee. A busy bee. A killer bee. But a Seinfeld bee? Sorry Jerry, your hapless honey-seeking hero doesn't create much of an animated buzz. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
The Brave One | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Jordan's Brave delves into a showy yet sluggish crime drama that incorporates all the cliched parts of a fatalistic fantasy audiences have seen over and over. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
The Comebacks | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Control | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | [An] intimate look at a tragic footnote in entertainment. A moody yet strangely melodic concoction about creativity and confusion in an overwhelming abyss of artistic isolation | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Dan in Real Life | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Heartwarming, quirky and quietly affecting...the overall package is peppered with an easy-going dosage of reflective schmaltz...warm, inviting and actively spirited... | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Feast of Love | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Feast does nothing concrete to make us embrace this uneven romancer that has all the giddy spirit of a melted box of chocolates. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Gone Baby Gone | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | [A] tortured morality play that takes place on the salacious sidewalks where bluebloods and bombastic blue-collared souls equally pound the pavement in cynical unity. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Good Luck Chuck | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | [A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Juno | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Margot at the Wedding | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
A Mighty Heart | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Rendition | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | ...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Resident Evil: Extinction | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Extinction is basically a robotic and wretched screen-sized visual video game that never challenges or stimulates the audience's rush for genuine outrageous freakiness. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Saw IV | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Cunningham's scope is myopic and minimal in a mystical yet meandering piece of malarkey that masquerades as a long-winded Tolkien treasure hunt for teenage thrill-seekers. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Starting Out in the Evening | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Wagner's penetrating narrative is poetically stimulating in its smart approach to its dialogue-driven excellence and standout performances. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Taxi to the Dark Side | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
The Game Plan | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Sappy and simplistic, The Game Plan belongs on the sidelines of stale cotton candy creativity. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
The Heartbreak Kid | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | The Farrellys' The Heartbreak Kid is a seemingly sketchy and erratic farce that begs for some of the wayward cinematic siblings' trademark outlandish quirkiness. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Things We Lost in the Fire | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
We Own the Night | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless... | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
Why Did I Get Married? | World Voice News | Frank Ochieng | Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,530 |
At Middleton | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | The college visit is a day trip fraught with tension and expectations played out by parents and children across America. In Adam Rodgers' comedy "At Middleton," unexpected love blossoms between the parental units in a single day on a verdant campus. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
Mr. Turner | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | Timothy Spall grunts, gurgles and sputters playing J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh's visually stunning biopic. The round-faced British character actor took Best Actor at Cannes for his crass-yet-compelling portrait of an artist as a wheezy old lout. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
Nightcrawler | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | In director Dan Gilroy's sleek crime-thriller, Jake Gyllenhaal has found a role in which he can act against his good looks and buff bod. He throws himself out there and falls - until something darker and deeper kicks in. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
The Imitation Game | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | Cumberbatch bristles with brilliance in this handsome biopics the British do so well about the fascinating, tragic story of mathematician Alan Turing. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
Tusk | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | A revolting, creepy, and enthralling metamorphosis movie that toys with the audience's ideas of horror and retribution, while presenting a stream of verbal and visual jokes with a great turn by Michael Parks. Kevin Smith is back! | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
Two Days, One Night | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | Naturalistic and probing, in Two Days, One Night, Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne tell an apparently simple, linear story with astonishing depth bolstered by another Oscar-worthy turn from Marion Cotillard. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
Whiplash | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | When an ambitious young musician (Miles Teller) strives to be a Buddy Rich class drummer, he nearly dies trying in a charged battle of wills with his thorny professor (J. K. Simmons). The buzzy Sundance hit vibrates with life lived at fever pitch. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,531 |
August: Osage County | Yahoo! Movies | Thelma Adams | Nothing makes you feel better about your dysfunctional family at the holidays than watching a messed-up clan unravel on screen, only armed with better zingers and prettier faces. That describes this adaptation of Tracy Letts's star-studded drama. | 3.4/5 | 5 | 3.4 | 5 | false | 12 | 21 | 5 | 2,532 |
District B13 (Banlieue 13) | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Gerry Shamray | Genre fans will get a kick from the martial-arts action, and that's all District B13 needs to do. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2,533 |
Scooby-Doo | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Gerry Shamray | This big screen caper has a good bark, far from being a bow-wow. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 2,534 |
The Bourne Identity | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Gerry Shamray | The Bourne Identity is much like a Jackie Chan movie, only with Mr. Matt Damon performing the superman stunts. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 2,534 |
Cherish | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Gerry Shamray | It's best to avoid imprisonment with the dull, nerdy folks that inhabit Cherish. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 2,534 |
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Gerry Shamray | As bright as a light saber, George Lucas strikes back with stunning imagery and the best ending yet to his popular series. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2,534 |
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Your Movies (cleveland.com) | Gerry Shamray | Middle-earth is a real world from the first reel on, thanks to incredible special effects woven seamlessly with great storytelling. | A | long_letter | null | null | false | 16 | 18 | 1 | 2,534 |
Blackhat | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Even if you love Michael Mann, and lust for Chris Hemsworth, this deep January technothriller does not compute. | 1/4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | false | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Carol | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | The notion that true love is a physical, emotional and spiritual bond between two individuals (whatever their sex) forms the powerful theme of a film that glistens from every pore, including those of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Criminal | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Orange is the new black for Kevin Costner in Ariel Vroman's crazy sci-fi espionage actioner, a star vehicle that fast and furiously leaps from action set piece to action set piece in an obvious effort to avoid the giant plot holes imperiling the story. | 2.5/4 | 4 | 2.5 | 4 | false | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Fifty Shades of Grey | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | The biggest disappointment for those non-readers of the book is the feeling of is-that-all-there-is? A bit of rope, some hanging around, six smacks - it's tame enough to make Tyrion Lannister of Game of Thrones smirk. | 1.5/4 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | false | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Florence Foster Jenkins | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | The material could have used a full-out comedic plot in the P. G. Wodehouse vein or something slyly sophisticated like Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. Instead it gets lost in the shallows -- along with Streep's Oscar chances. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Hail, Caesar! | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Joyous chaos is what the Coen Brothers harness in their generous-spirited wet kiss to the industry they continue to master and remake. Bliss! | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Hands of Stone | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | To watch Ramirez and DeNiro spar in the boxing biopic Hands of Stone -- the story of Panamanian fighter Roberto Duran and his aging American trainer Ray Arcel -- is to revel in two nimble performers striking with power and clarity. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Into the Woods | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, as directed by Rob Marshall, from James Lapine's screenplay, is movie musical bliss - better than Marshall's Oscar-winning Chicago and so much better than his miscast, misbegotten Nine. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Mad Max: Fury Road | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Tom Hardy is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. Well, OK, maybe one more time in George Miller's furious adrenaline pill that's true to the movie's kick-ass roots. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Mommy | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Like the bastard child of John Cassavetes and Ingmar Bergman, prolific French Canadian film director Xavier Dolan has made an exhilarating, intimate family drama that digs deep and plays dirty. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Mr. Turner | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Timothy Spall grunts, gurgles and sputters playing J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh's magnificent biopic. The round-faced British character actor continues to seize awards for his crass-yet-compelling portrait of an artist as a wheezy old lout. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Sicario | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Denis Villeneuve's Sicario is a slick, simplistic view of the War on Drugs propelled by great perfs from Blunt, Del Toro and Brolin and balletic violent set pieces. I wanted "Traffic," I got movie crack. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Testament Of Youth | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Lithe and serious Alicia Vikander stars in the gossamer-and-gritty, female-driven WW1 period drama. Adding in "Game of Thrones" Kit Harrington gives this PBS-style drama added John Snow oomph. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | This dark-and-dour installment suffers from saga sag, which is the effort of the Hollywood studios to stretch a stirring girl power series with a monster fan-base beyond reasonable limits for the sake of lucre. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | If there is such a thing as a warm-bath movie, The Second Best Marigold Hotel defines it. Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill Nighy just get better with age in a mild comedy that celebrates life to the very end. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Tomorrowland | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Tomorrowland is "Spy Kids" in space. Which turns out not be a bad thing although it may come as a surprise to those who have watched George Clooney do the P.R. rounds, hefting his epic charm as if it were Thor's hammer. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Top Five | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Multi-hyphenate Chris Rock kills in the hilarious account of a stand-up comic turned movie star that wants to be taken seriously. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Two Days, One Night | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | If you're concerned about the disappearance of ethics in the workplace, 'Two Days, One Night' is among the year's most important films. If you're unconcerned, wake up and absorb Marion Cotillard's powerful performance. One of 2014's top ten. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Weiner | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | "Weiner" emerges as the political film for this election cycle, the tragicomedy we deserve. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Welcome to Me | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | In the burnt-toast black Sundance comedy, Kristen Wiig goes dark and bipolar without losing her shield of likeability. It's a superpower to be marveled at, like the ability to carry on a long conversation without looking at one's mobile device. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
What We Do In The Shadows | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Darkly, edgily funny, the mockumentary about four nocturnal, bloodsucking flat-mates in Wellington, New Zealand reduced me to a quivering laugh zombie. It's MTV's Real World meets Hammer Horror with a nod to Christopher Guest. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Fey's female-driven comedy, written and directed by men, follows the tradition perfected by Evelyn Waugh in his 1938 novel Scoop. While his fish outta water story is hysterically funny and enduring; the forgettable WTF only delivers an occasional chuckle. | 2/4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | false | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Woman in Gold | ZEALnyc | Thelma Adams | Helen Mirren has become like Meryl Streep: nearly every time she has a leading role a little alarm goes off that signals Oscar gold. | 3.5/4 | 4 | 3.5 | 4 | false | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2,535 |
Armageddon | Zaki's Corner | Zaki Hasan | [Michael Bay's] hyper jaunty technique of cut, cut, cut leaves the audiences gasping for air, and never lets a scene's impact truly sink in. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2,536 |
Lethal Weapon 4 | Zaki's Corner | Zaki Hasan | After four films and countless adventures, these characters have become a family, and they've become part of ours too. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,536 |
The Mask of Zorro | Zaki's Corner | Zaki Hasan | The Mask of Zorro is one of those rare instances where everything just falls into place, | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2,536 |
A Good Day To Die Hard | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | This is not the Die Hard you're looking for. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Beautiful Creatures | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | If the best thing that can be said about a bad melodrama is that the actors are in on the joke, it's probably time to rethink the approach. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Behind the Candelabra | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | Miraculously avoiding caricature and only going as camp as necessary, Douglas makes Liberace something of a sympathetic monster. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Identity Thief | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | Plays like one of those junky '80s vehicles Whoopi Goldberg got saddled with because Hollywood didn't know what the hell else to do with her. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Kinsey | Zap2it.com | Michael Szymanski | Way overlooked by the Oscars this year... | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Lovelace | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | Lovelace goes down easy. But it's difficult not to wish for something deeper. | C+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 11 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Phil Spector | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | A stronger film could have inspired questions about the legal system, celebrity or the actual personalities involved in this case. The only question Phil Spector inspires is, "What's the point?" | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Prince Avalanche | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | Prince Avalanche is a film to get lost in, while also proving [David Gordon] Green is back on track. | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
V/H/S/2 | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | The four shorts this time share a unifying structure: they start calmly enough and then build to frenzied -- and usually very bloody -- heights. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
A Scanner Darkly | Zap2it.com | Michael Szymanski | t's fascinating to watch some of the actors who have had real-life addictions (like Dick did himself) dive into their own convoluted rationalizations and philosophies during the film. It's almost like watching one of their 12-step meeting | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Side Effects | Zap2it.com | Geoff Berkshire | The narrative twists and turns ... are no match for the far more interesting mystery still unfolding off screen. | C+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 11 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
Team America: World Police | Zap2it.com | Michael Szymanski | The funniest movie of the year! | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 2,537 |
I Lost My Body | Zavvi | Katie Hogan | This amazingly animated journey of channelling grief, loneliness and hope, connects on several levels depending on what part of self‐discovery you going through. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,538 |
You Don't Nomi | Zavvi | Katie Hogan | The movie is a powerful and unforgettable example of what film criticism really is and that it's not (just) for the filmmakers. It's for the audience, and that is who the film is aimed at. This one is for the fans. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,538 |
The Rookie | Zertinet Movies | Steven Snyder | Lovers of the genre will be surprisingly entertained. You know who you are. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,539 |
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