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2,700 | Just like Walt used to make! This might've started as a Fox movie but has come home, as it's classic Disney entertainment at its finest. Harrison Ford also returns to form. | positive |
2,701 | Combining elements of a D-grade erotic thriller and a deconstructed international thriller, Boarding Gate proves duly snazzy and sleazy - kinda skanky in a highfalutin' way. | negative |
2,702 | A Top Gun for the NASCAR set. | positive |
2,703 | As in his previous films, McNaughton has an uncanny mastery over reality: this film -- the locations, the people, the emotions -- rings true. | positive |
2,704 | It crams in all of the best Bugs and Daffy Duck cartoons from the post-war period, plus a dizzying 15-minute compilation of Roadrunner sketches. | positive |
2,705 | You'll be embarrassed, sad, happy then exhausted. | positive |
2,706 | Duvall as rough, tough Marine in downer story of family conflict | positive |
2,707 | Novelist Jack Finney's body snatchers have appeared in some fine movies, but the only disturbing-looking thing here is what they've done to Nicole Kidman's lips. | negative |
2,708 | Lying brushes more big ideas than commonplace comedies, but hasn't taken those ideas through enough drafts to work out their implications or -- harder still -- make them killingly funny. | negative |
2,709 | A meaningful engagement with elder care, dementia and mortality, born of the director’s own experiences with his mother and his near-fatal brain haemorrhage. | positive |
2,710 | It's pretty special stuff as offered up by Donoghue and director Lenny Abrahamson. | positive |
2,711 | A creepy little thriller that holds your interest. Plus it features 60's star Rita Tushingham in a lead role. | positive |
2,712 | These days, people are more interested in Kurosawa than he is in being Kurosawa. | negative |
2,713 | Maria Demopoulos and Jodi Wille's disturbing film is an object lesson in psychological manipulation. | positive |
2,714 | On the surface, nearly none of it is clever, which is quite disappointing in a movie about espionage and duplicity and triple-crosses. | negative |
2,715 | Despite being formally unusual, it's always emotionally accessible if not emotionally overwhelming. | positive |
2,716 | [Woodley] spends much of the second [film] captured by the society's merciless overlord (Kate Winslet) and locked into a psychoactive contraption that subjects her to various traumatic hallucinations. Any movie critic can relate to that. | negative |
2,717 | If I want to spend 90 minutes with better lighting on the ninja's body than the fighting, give me Lucinda Dickey in Ninja III: The Domination any day of the week. | negative |
2,718 | It works as a funny and slicker-than-expected parody of the genre. | positive |
2,719 | Malloy's film works for hardcore fans, but also should function as a taster for novices; there's enough tantalising clips and stories to spark interest in the toughest genre of films ever made. | positive |
2,720 | This whimsical French comedy about the ramifications of clandestine good deeds and the courage to follow one's own heart is also a celebration of the boundless potential of cinema itself. | positive |
2,721 | In a way, this failure is a product of its success: so adept is Blamire's backhanded homage that it results in a film every bit as gruelling as its antecedents. | negative |
2,722 | It's not mankind that's been shrunk, it's Payne's conception. | negative |
2,723 | Someone should've told the filmmakers of Love Type D that it's neither funny nor cute to do a romantic comedy about a woman who spends most of the movie stalking an ex-boyfriend who dumped her. It's pathetic ... [And it's] an appalling mess of a movie. | negative |
2,724 | From its slow-burning beginning, The Guardians develops into an epic melodrama. It's a wartime story in which, for a change, the men are relegated to supporting roles. | positive |
2,725 | Martel achieves a distinctive marriage of realism and spirituality. | positive |
2,726 | Gloria Swanson deserves to be called iconic in Billy Wilder's priceless 1950 classic. | positive |
2,727 | The sights are ga-ga, but the storytelling gets fairly turgid. | negative |
2,728 | ...tells a moving tale of a man's love for his sons and the lengths he is willing to go to return his boys home. | positive |
2,729 | A coy and hollow parody. | negative |
2,730 | The first twenty minutes are great with Wahlberg stealing the show as a wannabe inventor but when the Transformers arrive onscreen, it all goes downhill. | negative |
2,731 | An achievement of accomplished filmmaking and superb acting, L.I.E. puts you in the tough spot of unraveling how you feel about what you've viewed. | positive |
2,732 | Perhaps the most charitable way to look at Split is that is a cry for help by its director. "Stop me before I film again," he seems to be saying. | negative |
2,733 | Pleasingly adult material powered by elegant, muscular performances. A strong adaptation of a slippery novel. | positive |
2,734 | Upbeat celebration of outstanding kids who spell to win. | positive |
2,735 | This is a sprawling complex mystery that, while it's sometimes too tangled for its own good, has an absorbing central story. | positive |
2,736 | If you want a reminder that misogyny is alive and well, this is the documentary for you. It actually ends on a bright note, but the road there is brutal | positive |
2,737 | Two of Us delivers a rare and restrained portrait of enduring love, especially between women of a certain age, right up to its devastatingly moving final frame. | positive |
2,738 | Gemma Arterton grabs hold in this at times uneven but satisfying, escapist story about an author living in the British countryside during WWII--really about nostalgia and (importantly) hope for a better time | positive |
2,739 | Whatever you may think about Gibson the man, Apocalypto shows he's determined to lay all his art and sweat and blood up there on the screen. | positive |
2,740 | It's probably too much to ask James to channel Robert Mitchum in "Cape Fear," but a little gleam in the eyes or a baring of fangs would have been welcome. | negative |
2,741 | It felt a little cold to me...and that's what keeps this movie from being great. | positive |
2,742 | An exploration of the dynamics of sadness and the liberating qualities of love. | positive |
2,743 | An earnest (yet flawed) drama that's absolutely worth celebrating for representation's sake - and worth a watch. | positive |
2,744 | Rather than spend undue attention on these elements, Pellington works his magic by tapping into the talents of his leads. Both MacLaine and Seyfried use their eyes and the act of watching to reveal who these women truly are. | positive |
2,745 | A must-see for Weird Al fans who haven’t been treated to significant Weird Al-style comedy in a movie since 1989’s UHF. Fans of absurdity and parodies also might enjoy it, but the 2010 Funny or Die short serves up a lot of the same comedic beats. | positive |
2,746 | [Liman] reminds you that he was put on this earth to make popcorn thrillers. The ingenuity he brings to this disposable project is a sign of why Hollywood blockbusters continue to rule the globe. | positive |
2,747 | Much better than the first, abysmal, sequel. | positive |
2,748 | A riveting coming of age story that should have universal applicability. | positive |
2,749 | Unlike last year's silly 'Wonder Woman,' while both are impossible fantasies that defy credibility, this one is peripatetic entertainment that doesn't distort history or use real people's names...'Raiders of the Lost Ark' on steroids. | positive |
2,750 | There are flourishes of brilliance, particularly in score, costumes and set design. However, this brilliance is often buried beneath messy, disjointed action sequences and a story that fails to make any sense at all. | positive |
2,751 | The only attractive feature is an occasional shot of Louis in the ring, showing him fighting; but even these scenes have been handled poorly. | negative |
2,752 | There is cuteness and chuckle-worthy visual and verbal jokes, but the film-maker weaves in that element that eludes others: heartfelt emotion. | positive |
2,753 | ... a muddled and relentlessly downbeat examination of marriage and mortality that's more pretentious than profound. | negative |
2,754 | The movie makes sure to never forget that these are all people, stupid, flawed people; the banality of evil is so prevalent here that you'll occasionally laugh just to keep from cry. | positive |
2,755 | Sometimes it's so goofy you want to slap it for foisting so many dud slapstick gags. And sometimes it's so intentionally goofy you have to laugh. | negative |
2,756 | Their chemistry is the best [part] of this film that is more foolish than the previous, less credible and less funny. [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,757 | It's to first-time filmmaker John Dullaghan's credit that he offers a portrait of the Southern California poet and novelist that digs beyond Bukowski's hard-drinking, hard-loving persona. | positive |
2,758 | Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie. | negative |
2,759 | What a disappointment. | negative |
2,760 | Finding the right balance among tones and subtexts can be tricky. In this case, despite some flourishes, the film lacks a deeper resonance. | negative |
2,761 | [The Rock bought] the rights to her tale after seeing a doco about her wrestling family, produced this biopic, and then cast himself as her jacked Jiminy Cricket. It's a fiction, and also one of the best f***ing ideas I've ever heard. | positive |
2,762 | A fair and balanced exposé as well as a powerful wake-up call for a systemically broken system that's in desperate need of significant repair. | positive |
2,763 | Maybe they shouldn't have done it as a musical, but other than that I think it is a fabulous film. | positive |
2,764 | Oscar Isaac upstages impressive visual effects and set design | positive |
2,765 | With impressive agility, "Wadjda" finds room to maneuver between harsh realism and a more hopeful kind of storytelling. | positive |
2,766 | I Love You, Stupid is fine and nothing more, but maybe something slightly less. | negative |
2,767 | Those with warm memories of the BBC television serial in the 1980s will find much in this Brideshead to enjoy. | positive |
2,768 | This is one well-made thriller, and for a director who wants to work in that genre, this is as strong a first feature as any filmmaker could hope for. | positive |
2,769 | Despite its obvious currency, it's more yesterday than tomorrow. | negative |
2,770 | This edition -- clean and tight as Scott would have it -- presents a strong case for Alien as both the greatest horror film and the greatest science-fiction film ever made. | positive |
2,771 | Not perfect, by any means, but a top night out | positive |
2,772 | Fearless as a fatwa and subtle as a Second Coming, Religulous is a revelation. | positive |
2,773 | A top-to-bottom miracle of a film, burly in its philosophy and graceful in its style. | positive |
2,774 | "The Kingmaker" chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law. | positive |
2,775 | DIG! is part post-grunge version of A Star is Born, part Cain and Abel fable of split fraternal affinities, and part reiteration of the oldest story in rock music: the impossibility of reconciling success with integrity. | positive |
2,776 | Bathed in an atmosphere of nightmare, dread and otherworldliness that is unlike anything else in American horror cinema. | positive |
2,777 | The incessant talk that continues from start to finish might just be the movie's strongpoint -- and given how clumsy and contrived it is, that's saying something. | negative |
2,778 | An old-fashioned, hand-tinted postcard that's as inert as it is pretty. | negative |
2,779 | After Earth is an underwhelming exercise in science fiction that barely registers as entertainment. | negative |
2,780 | It's too bad-in the right, Herzogian hands, this could have been one of the great Man vs. Nature epics in cinema. Instead it's a boring, lame Moby Dick spin-off. | negative |
2,781 | It's Kate Beckinsale who is fantastic and she is able to hold the strong premise long enough to keep my interest in a politically-charged thriller. | positive |
2,782 | Too slow, both leads seem self-conscious. | negative |
2,783 | In true Hitchcockian fashion, Everybody Knows is an absorbing film filled with twists and turns and the mesmerizing ambiguity of "who dunnit". | positive |
2,784 | A rare bird, not because of what it's like but because it makes you ask: why was it made? [Full review in Spanish] | negative |
2,785 | As both war epic and historical character piece, it feels weirdly insubstantial. | negative |
2,786 | The film's tonal and situational shapeshifting doesn't go to the surrealist lengths of Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but James Vaughan similarly indulges in burlesquing upper-middle-class complacency. | positive |
2,787 | one of the sloppiest pieces of hackwork to be put out by a major studio recently. In fact, this flaccid comedy's only laughs come from its sheer ineptitude. | negative |
2,788 | ...levitates above its limitations thanks to its three leads. | positive |
2,789 | Frenetic to a fault, bordering on sensory overload, this is a van ride to be remembered. | positive |
2,790 | With the studio seemingly more interested in mini-Marvel-esque universe building than basic storytelling, I'll be bracing myself for another underwhelming, rather than amazing, Spider-Man. | negative |
2,791 | In Theo Anthony's excellent new documentary Rat Film, these parasitic little critters seem to be scuttling about wherever the camera happens to look. | positive |
2,792 | The Final Girls offers a lovely twist on the horror genre and some good laughs for movie fans of every stripe. Nice to see the more ludicrous elements of retro slasher fare get the mockery they deserve. | positive |
2,793 | While the first ninety minutes or so are sporadically amusing, if hardly classic, the sag of the last thirty leaves one anxious for it all to end. | negative |
2,794 | The performances are great, it looks great, the clothes are great. Sometimes that's enough for me. | positive |
2,795 | A delight for very young children and any parent who'll get the Attorney General joke of "Geneva Convention? I don't care if it's a Star Trek convention!" | positive |
2,796 | Brandon Cronenberg's slick, strenuously naughty Infinity Pool, letting the characters descend into a moral freefall without any real downside gets tiresome fast. | positive |
2,797 | It’s tame, like really tame, with a distinct 80s screwball comedy feel. The comedy is cringe-worthy but wholesome, and we laugh with the foibles, not at them. | positive |
2,798 | A convoluted mess that will likely appeal to neither the young nor the old. | negative |
2,799 | Hepburn's sparkle and charm prove as irresistible as ever, but it feels like there's so much more to say. | positive |