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Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
2.5/4
Homicide (1991)
Homicide, David Mamet's ponderous film about a Jewish cop losing his way, loses its way whenever it wanders from the scene of the crime
Posted Dec 12, 2017
2
3/4
The Theory of Everything (2014)
It's a film about the expanding universe that seems to want to contract and contract and eventually shrink into itself and be gone.
Posted Dec 31, 2014
3
3/4
Boyhood (2014)
4
4/4
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
5
2/4
Birdman (2014)
6
4/4
Wild (2014)
One cannot help but wonder whether Wild, a difficult, challenging film about a woman struggling to make amends, serves its star as both personal and professional penance.
Posted Dec 31, 2014
7
1/4
Unbroken (2014)
8
3.5/4
Gone Girl (2014)
What begins as a beguiling whodunit takes an abrupt, choke on your popcorn turn midway through and, believe it or not, the ride is just getting started.
Posted Dec 31, 2014
9
3.5/4
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
The screenplay does an exceptional job of incorporating this film into the pre-existing and percolating Marvel cinematic universe.
Posted Dec 31, 2014
10
4/4
A bold concept which could have easily resulted in tedium, but not in Liman's hands
Posted Dec 31, 2014
11
2.5/4
Interstellar (2014)
12
2.5/4
World War Z (2013)
Danny Boyle (28 Days Later) and Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) did so much more with less nearly a decade ago.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
13
2.5/4
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
It does not mind raw emotion as long as it is delivered beneath a shimmery smooth veneer. Any and all medicines are accompanied by spoonfuls of sugar.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
14
4/4
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Llewyn Davis, entertaining and witty as all Coen productions quite naturally are, teaches us about the devotion one must have to their art if they intend it to survive them.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
15
2.5/4
Nebraska (2013)
Nebraska is an about-face for Payne, and, although it is an improvement over the indulgent Descendants, it does not resonate as resoundingly as his earlier work.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
16
2/4
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
The problem is that while Ron may not run out of steam, the film about him does.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
17
2/4
Lone Survivor (2014)
The sheer irredeemable gruesomeness makes learning something from the tragedy of the failed mission difficult.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
18
3.5/4
12 Years a Slave (2013)
While Nature/Fate/God can perform apparent wickedness without conscience, neither hold a candle to man.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
19
4/4
Gravity (2013)
A marvel of performance and effect utilizing the man against his environment/survival motif to justify visual and technical elegance and brilliance.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
20
3.5/4
All Is Lost (2013)
As the film goes on, we see Redford in a new light. A light dimmer and paler and murkier. Once a golden god on screen, there now remains a hobbled everyman.
Posted Dec 31, 2013
21
2/4
This Is 40 (2012)
My suspicion is that Apatow made a conscious decision to throw episodes at us scattershot to reflect the battlefield chaos of a relationship in motion.
Posted Dec 31, 2012
22
4/4
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Anderson's manner becomes a second skin and essential to the script, making Moonrise Kingdom a most comfortable way to watch matters uncomfortable.
Posted Dec 31, 2012
23
3.5/4
Argo (2012)
24
2.5/4
Les Misérables (2012)
25
3.5/4
Lincoln (2012)
26
4/4
Flight (2012)
More than anything, the film seeks to capture the anguish of a man trapped - not struggling with, not dealing with, but TRAPPED - by his own vices.
Posted Dec 31, 2012
27
3/4
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises directly counters the arguments made against The Dark Knight. Maybe, sometimes, it is better to leave the demons unvanquished.
Posted Dec 31, 2012
28
2/4
Brave (2012)
29
3/4
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
For all its curiosities and loose ends, Beasts of the Southern Wild casts a formidable spell.
Posted Dec 31, 2012
30
3/4
The Impossible (2012)
The term movie magic should be reserved for scenes such as the one where the unflinching realism of the natural disaster is conveyed without a single false note.
Posted Dec 31, 2012
31
1/4
Butter (2012)
As smart, savvy, and witty as the film is at times, it never escapes the inherent identity crisis in its makeup
Posted Oct 15, 2012
32
3/4
Knuckleball! (2012)
Watching R.A. Dickey become one of the biggest sports celebrities in New York was about as welcome a surprise as a knuckleball that floats and drops under the batter's swing.
Posted Sep 27, 2012
33
2/4
A blow by blow, thoroughly researched rendering of the Hungarian secular journalist's instrumental part in taking Zionism from the theoretical to the actual.
Posted Sep 27, 2012
34
3/4
Prometheus (2012)
35
2/4
Hanna (2011)
The ingredients are there for success, but as we build toward resolution (or even increased conflict) Hanna fails to develop at a rate to match the sum of its parts.
Posted Jan 20, 2012
36
3/4
Warrior (2011)
One cannot genuinely fault Warrior for the clichéd elements of its story, simply because reviving the cliché is the whole point.
Posted Jan 20, 2012
37
2.5/4
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Criticizing or belittling the film is sort of like taking issue with a cup of tea or a navy business suit from Men's Warehouse.
Posted Jan 20, 2012
38
2.5/4
Contagion (2011)
Soderbergh, who is as skilled as they come at uplifting routine templates, gives the infection movie über-A-list treatment.
Posted Jan 20, 2012
39
2/4
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
40
3.5/4
The Muppets (2011)
41
2/4
Rampart (2012)
42
1/4
The Descendants (2011)
43
3.5/4
The Way (2011)
44
4/4
The Tree of Life (2011)
45
2.5/4
Bridesmaids (2011)
46
2/4
Albert Nobbs (2012)
47
3.5/4
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
As much as Olson's incendiary performance reveals her individualism and true power as a career woman and artist, it also exposes her as an enticing dish served up.
Posted Dec 29, 2011
48
4/4
Melancholia (2011)
49
1/4
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
While we were hoping and rightly expecting some old school magic from the director of Iron Man, the director of Iron Man 2 showed up.
Posted Dec 23, 2011
50
2/4