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4.5/5
American Factory (2019) Stephen Silver
Posted Aug 30, 2019
3.5/5
Blinded by the Light (2019) Stephen Silver
Posted Aug 17, 2019
4/5
Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019) Stephen Silver
Posted Aug 17, 2019
4/5
The Great Hack (2019) Stephen Silver
Posted Jul 24, 2019
Cold in July (2014) Genevieve Valentine [Cold in July is] an absorbing take on the modern family noir, a movie that knows the devil's in the details.
Posted Jun 14, 2016
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Craig D. Lindsey We shouldn't forget this is McConaughey's world. He remains a magnetic presence, his soft-spoken Southern drawl and slithery charm keeping you from fully despising this guy Woodroof.
Posted Dec 14, 2015
Capital (2012) Craig D. Lindsey Costa-Gavras certainly found an intriguing leading man in Elmaleh, with his ice-cold stare that may remind audiences of Steve McQueen at his most penetrating.
Posted Dec 14, 2015
C+
Dare (2009) Matt Prigge I've rarely seen a more rabidly inconsistent film -- astute one moment, stupid the next.
Posted Nov 10, 2015
Steve Jobs (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Oct 29, 2015
Pan (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Oct 15, 2015
The Martian (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Oct 07, 2015
Everest (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Sep 24, 2015
The Visit (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Sep 17, 2015
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Aug 20, 2015
Fantastic Four (2015) Zaki Hasan
Posted Aug 12, 2015
C+
The Simpsons Movie (2007) Matt Prigge Why do I still feel a bit jilted? Because the premise is actually kind of promising.
Posted Aug 02, 2015
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) Zaki Hasan Nearly two decades out, Ethan Hunt has become [Cruise's] signature role, and at 53, the indefatigable action hero hasn't lost a step as he runs, jumps, rides and drives from eye-popping set piece to the next with both will and skill.
Posted Jul 30, 2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) Al Hoff You will chuckle frequently, but packing a hankie is still a good idea.
Posted Jun 25, 2015
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014) Genevieve Valentine
Posted May 28, 2015
Iris (2014) Genevieve Valentine Iris Apfel champions the idea that fashion doesn't have to define you even if you live it, and she's a walking reminder of how much fun it can be just to have a little style.
Posted May 14, 2015
Promised Land (2012) Sean Burns The road to movie hell is paved with good intentions.
Posted May 03, 2015
Jack Reacher (2012) Sean Burns Plain, cleanly directed meat-and-potatoes action filmmaking that aspires to competence and simplicity. A nice change of pace.
Posted May 03, 2015
This Is 40 (2012) Sean Burns There's a shrillness that is admirable in theory but rather off-putting in practice. It's just not very funny.
Posted May 03, 2015
The Guilt Trip (2012) Sean Burns It just cruises along in second gear, being genial.
Posted May 03, 2015
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Sean Burns A bloated, entirely unnecessary cash-grab prequel suffering from a fatal case of elephantitis.
Posted May 03, 2015
Playing for Keeps (2012) Sean Burns Someone maybe should've told this guy if you want to rekindle a romance with a woman, you probably shouldn't start by sleeping with all her friends.
Posted May 03, 2015
Hitchcock (2012) Sean Burns Wallows in fat jokes and wink-wink nudge-nudge references that anybody with even a passing knowledge of cinema history will find eye-rollingly obvious.
Posted May 03, 2015
Rise of the Guardians (2012) Sean Burns The film has a square-jawed elegance that occasionally hits a note of grandeur when it's not just being silly.
Posted May 03, 2015
Holy Motors (2012) Sean Burns Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend for the digital era. Both exuberant and melancholy, it's a film about an allegedly dying art form that is thrillingly alive. Cinema is dead. Long live cinema.
Posted May 03, 2015
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) Sean Burns Winking, self-aware camp that eventually explodes into a craptacular of the highest order.
Posted May 03, 2015
Wake in Fright (1971) Sean Burns This movie gets under your skin.
Posted May 03, 2015
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Sean Burns Wouldn't it be great if mental illness really was as adorable as it is in the movies?
Posted May 03, 2015
Skyfall (2012) Sean Burns Director Sam Mendes can't decide if he's shooting a chilly noir or a Roger Moore camp classic.
Posted May 03, 2015
The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) Sean Burns All that matters here are cockamamie anachronistic music cues, low-rent filmmaking and one spectacularly hammy turn from Russell Crowe.
Posted May 03, 2015
The Sessions (2012) Sean Burns It's all so plodding and beige, yet giving this movie a bad review is like kicking a kitten.
Posted May 03, 2015
The Details (2011) Sean Burns Everything here is intentionally grotesque to service the filmmaker's cheap shots. Women and black people are just plain crazy.
Posted May 03, 2015
Cloud Atlas (2012) Sean Burns Even at its most risible, this oddball picture has a groovy, inclusive spirit that feels downright revolutionary in our sterile, blockbuster age.
Posted May 03, 2015
Alex Cross (2012) Sean Burns The usual over-familiar mélange of forensic evidence and titillating torture porn that reminds me why I don't watch network television procedurals.
Posted May 03, 2015
Atlas Shrugged: Part 2 (2012) Sean Burns A greedy billionaire's most feverish nightmare realized with all the amateurish panache of a daytime soap opera.
Posted May 03, 2015
Sinister (2012) Sean Burns Even the daytime scenes are shrouded in such deep shadows, you're mainly left wondering why nobody ever just turns on the damn lights.
Posted May 03, 2015
Seven Psychopaths (2012) Sean Burns I'm not sure it all hangs together in the end, but McDonagh's grasping at something interesting.
Posted May 03, 2015
Middle of Nowhere (2012) Sean Burns I should love this movie, but something about it kept me at arm's length.
Posted May 03, 2015
Frankenweenie (2012) Sean Burns Very much the work of an older man revisiting the obsessions of his youth, struggling at times to reconnect with them.
Posted May 03, 2015
Pitch Perfect (2012) Sean Burns A slovenly lark, but a spirited one.
Posted May 03, 2015
Won't Back Down (2012) Sean Burns Funded by conservative Christian billionaire Phil Anschutz and released by rightwing overlord Rupert Murdoch, it attempts to fashion a feel-good family-friendly triumph of union busting and privatization.
Posted May 03, 2015
Looper (2012) Sean Burns Rian Johnson is a very clever man, if sometimes a bit too clever for his own good.
Posted May 03, 2015
Hotel Transylvania (2012) Sean Burns It's isn't awful. Just terribly pleasant, that's all.
Posted May 03, 2015
Trouble With the Curve (2012) Sean Burns Doesn't just remind you what a great screen presence Clint Eastwood is; it makes you appreciate him even more as a director because Lorenz does such a terrible job.
Posted May 03, 2015
Dredd (2012) Sean Burns It's a good deal wittier than expected from a movie that consists mostly of people getting shot in the face.
Posted May 03, 2015
End of Watch (2012) Sean Burns I'm still wondering who we're supposed to assume was holding the camera during Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick's sex scene.
Posted May 03, 2015
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