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2,800 | Dark Glasses may be an overfamiliar and unambitious victory lap for Dario Argento, but it’s still a gas to see the 81-year-old auteur back in the filmmaking saddle. | negative |
2,801 | Green, along with writer Scott Teems (That Evening Sun) do a wonderful job of mixing the past with the present to remind movie goers of where the franchise started and how far it has come. | positive |
2,802 | The Signal is clever in its execution of recycled concepts. | positive |
2,803 | Quality escapism and a nice rebound for Emmerich after a pair of career lows. | positive |
2,804 | The transition from imagined drama to reality grows tedious. | negative |
2,805 | With its astute capsule biography of DeMille and firsthand accounts from people who worked with him, the film pays tribute to one of Hollywood's most innovative and commercially successful founding fathers. | positive |
2,806 | Payne's film alone would be worth the price of admission. | positive |
2,807 | Slow and uneventful, like a cross-country Greyhound bus trip that never stops. | negative |
2,808 | Greed isn't merely good here, it's God; and He's about to smite His acolytes with blazing Old Testament relish. | positive |
2,809 | While it's pretty effervescent for the first hour, things really take a dire turn toward the end. The whole thing nearly becomes undone at that point. | negative |
2,810 | It's not a perfect film - the ending couldn't possibly live up to the build-up, for instance - but it is just a tremendous amount of fun. | positive |
2,811 | A handsomely shot, well-appointed film that, while lacking nuance, is still one of the most imaginative and stylish incarnations of the Holmes legend we've seen in some time. | positive |
2,812 | The state of the Muppet union remains strong...self-reference sits comfortably along hip pop-cultural references for the 'rents: stylish parodies and retro musical numbers along with vintage Muppet gags... | positive |
2,813 | It's too bad that a movie so lovingly steeped in music hasn't more rhythm and flow. | negative |
2,814 | A stony-faced Tara Sutaria comes off as too self-conscious in her attempt to play Mia. It is Ananya Pandey who stands out among what is otherwise a mediocre cast. | negative |
2,815 | A tender and thoughtful comedy that proves that showcases the ones who dream and the huge determination of the human spirit. | positive |
2,816 | Stallone delivers a touching and wonderfully understated performance. | positive |
2,817 | A well-intentioned but stodgy cinematic fleshing out of an obscure footnote in aviation history, Hawaizaada takes eons to climb to cruising altitude. | negative |
2,818 | I'm laughing but I don't really care about anybody in this movie... Even with something like Sausage Party, as nasty as those sausages were... their story was their priority. | negative |
2,819 | The quintessential '80s artifact -- though in this case I mean that in the best way possible. It arrived at a time when earnestness hadn't yet been overwhelmed by cynicism. | positive |
2,820 | If "Silent Night" ultimately aces its peculiar tone, it struggles with having anything to say. | positive |
2,821 | In addition to being dull, Untraceable is a monster hypocrite, wagging its finger at the mass audience's appetite for strictly regimented, 'creative' torture scenarios. This film is not really in a position to point a finger. | negative |
2,822 | It's based on a true story, which is a very inspiring story, sure ... but as a drama, it just isn't interesting. | negative |
2,823 | Mesmerizing, everything on the screen helping us follow her routine with a domestic rigor that replaces dramatic structure. | positive |
2,824 | As hokey and tone-deaf as it is implausible, this sloppy romance drama makes for one long, hard slog. | negative |
2,825 | The Edgertons are a clever pair, all right, even if The Square seems repetitive and sometimes a bit hackneyed. | negative |
2,826 | Mank is well worth watching and is sure to be in the conversation for year-end awards. | positive |
2,827 | Intriguing experimental feature takes playful aim at the North Korean propaganda machine. | positive |
2,828 | [Populaire] does run through the expected paces with admirable style, with a glossy, Technicolor production design that sometimes makes it seem it might have been made in the '50s, not just set there. | positive |
2,829 | The film is a vital, evocative reminder of a turbulent time that paved the way for hard-fought freedoms. For that alone, it's of value for younger audiences, gay or straight. | positive |
2,830 | Amistad is neither as good as it ought to have been nor as wretched as its detractors claim: it's a fine, skillful drama that suffers primarily from Spielberg's chronic insecurity about whether or not we're being moved by the story he's telling. | positive |
2,831 | The show's brilliant conceit seems mild. In its own way, this is just another teen movie. | negative |
2,832 | A great big lumpen mass of a movie that won a couple of Oscars (including one for Best Picture) and is studded with stars, but ultimately collapses under the weight of the clichés it carries round with it. | negative |
2,833 | It's a measure of the movie's success that one oscillates between two despairs -- noting the abject failure of the system and the utter futility of revolt. | positive |
2,834 | The film is gritty and tense, and explodes with ferocity. | positive |
2,835 | Epic it indeed is, full of magnificent set pieces - sprawling space battles and incandescent lightsaber duels - gripping performances and a number of truly stunning surprises. | positive |
2,836 | The Heat may not set the box-office ablaze it should be packing more than enough heat to justify that rumored sequel. | positive |
2,837 | One of the very best children's movies of the past quarter-century. | positive |
2,838 | A disarmingly-endearing homage to the Silent Film era! If you're familiar with the surreal cinematic stylings of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, then you have an idea of what sort of treat's in store. | positive |
2,839 | All of the kids in "I Wish" come across as real and believable, a tribute to Koreeda's directing skills working with children. | positive |
2,840 | You can laugh at American Violet, but most defendants are scared into pleading guilty and need all the poster girls they can get. | positive |
2,841 | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, whatever its defects, is the perfect representatives of Lorelei Lee, and... Dorothy. | positive |
2,842 | Em alguns momentos, não sabemos direito se devemos rir ou chorar depois de ouvirmos certos diálogos, mas esse é o charme do filme. | positive |
2,843 | A glibly sour and sentimental thriller. | negative |
2,844 | Anchored by a dazzling turn by Samara Weaving, Ready Or Not brilliantly fuses thrills, satire, laughs and horror. Don't count to 100 - just go and see. | positive |
2,845 | A raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted Korean American stand-up's I'm the One That I Want. | positive |
2,846 | The Outpost reveals a career-changing performance from Caleb Landry Jones despite little cinematic creativity that starts to resemble a video game. | negative |
2,847 | While it's regrettable that Nerve's last act doesn't live up to the lead-in, it still delivers an entertaining and provocative hour and thirty-six minutes. | positive |
2,848 | An entertaining nonsense film from AIP directed by the master of making the meaningless film, Edward L. Cahn. | negative |
2,849 | Now, this is a poorly made film, but can a good film be made according to this moral framework? | negative |
2,850 | On a deeper level, "Shoot Me" is an unflinchingly honest examination of a woman who is aware that the end is approaching. | positive |
2,851 | These are icons, not accessories in some Hot Topic cover version of "Teenage Lobotomy." | negative |
2,852 | Jon M. Chu deserves an award for making a two-hour movie about magic interesting, exciting, and pretty damn fun. | positive |
2,853 | As good as much of the music is, the film still feels like a studio concoction...But, to paraphrase words of wisdom from a previous generation of young dancers from Dick Clark's American Bandstand, it's got a good beat and it's easy to dance to. | positive |
2,854 | Like its title heroine, it's sparkly, pretty and flirty -- but often all wet. | negative |
2,855 | This existential tale about an afterworld exclusively for suicide victims and a handful of newcomers attempting to navigate the landscape pulsates originality through its uncanny way of incorporating the familiar into the offbeat. | positive |
2,856 | Hootnick's approach is far from perfect (formally or politically), but at least it is engaging and worth debating. | positive |
2,857 | Gus Van Sant has made his Malcolm X. | positive |
2,858 | Damn, this is Wayne's movie. | positive |
2,859 | Not even the reassuring familiarity of the Waters stock company (including Mink Stole, Ricki Lake and, pointedly in this case, Patty Hearst) is enough to fully redeem this effort. | negative |
2,860 | Initially gripping, eventually cloying POW drama. | negative |
2,861 | Craig Robert's film debut takes on the diferent tropes of the teen comedy genre but infuses them with dark and acid humor, making it a much more enjoyable experience. [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,862 | Gordon-Levitt's uptight everyman hero fully earns our sympathy and Kendrick is superb as the rookie therapist, but the film suffers from an overly strong dose of Rogen's crudity and mawkishness, which must surely be reaching its use-by date soon. | positive |
2,863 | With a riveting performance, Cate Blanchett creates one of Woody Allen's most memorable movie characters in years. | positive |
2,864 | A picture like The Blair Witch Project just takes your breath away. | positive |
2,865 | Shackled by sports-movie clichés, a reductive view of how creativity works, and, most importantly, Natalie Portman's limitations as an actress. | negative |
2,866 | The most devilish behavior in Emily Rose comes from bait-and-switch marketers who are selling it as if it were an Exorcist-style movie, when it's really a melodrama. | positive |
2,867 | The character is as eccentric as he is lovable and could only have arisen from the imagination of Chema García Ibarra, [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,868 | In lesser hands, Tokyo Drift could've been the series' early death knell, but Justin Lin's confident, propulsive direction makes it a fun, and ultimately necessary, adjunct. | positive |
2,869 | Battle of the Sexes is not deep enough to speak truth to the enduring powerful impact this match had then and continues to have, now that sports again is a battleground in our never-ending cultural wars. | positive |
2,870 | Edward Burns is fast turning from American indie success story to bad Woody Allen imitation with his tired tales of Manhattan. | negative |
2,871 | Equal parts gossipy tell-all and poignant portrait of a man whose life is revealed to be rather more complicated than the sunny sex romp Bowers describes. | positive |
2,872 | Even as you watch, though, you begin to wonder how much is real life and how much of what you see was "staged" because the teens knew a camera was watching. | positive |
2,873 | In a sense, it's sort of the Return of the Jedi of the Mad Max series: It's solid, it's engaging, but yeah, it's also a kind of a step down from the previous two | positive |
2,874 | Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Theodór Júlíusson are utterly convincing as the battling brothers whose alienation is expressed more through morosely bearded gesture than drunken buckshot dialogue. | positive |
2,875 | Lawrence does the best with what she is given, and her penultimate scene shows a good deal of strength and power, but Russell's messy movie ultimately lets her down. | negative |
2,876 | Hopefully, this is the death-knell for Austin Powers, who went just a little too far this time. | negative |
2,877 | Getting Gertie's Garter is another product of that school of cinema thinking which holds that a bludgeon is more effective than a rapier. | negative |
2,878 | The staggering landscapes of this mountainous land are captured beautifully as director Dirk Simon picks apart contradictions within Tibetan society. Philip Glass, Thom Yorke and Damien Rice provide terrific musical accompaniment. | positive |
2,879 | Admittedly, there are a lot of documentaries like this, made by citizen journalists recording uprisings in their homelands, but this is one of the best of the recent crop, and a timely reminder of a conflict that's slipped out of the headlines of late. | positive |
2,880 | Engaging narrative documentary follows five football freestylers busking their way from Britain to Argentina | positive |
2,881 | A tribute that knows how to stay at the necessary distance to avoid making serious mistakes, a caution that, on the other hand, ends up preventing Tolkien from flying beyond, becoming another generic biopic. [Full Review in Spanish] | positive |
2,882 | As so often with films reverently dealing with theatre folk, the directing itself becomes exasperatingly theatrical and inert. | negative |
2,883 | Typical action fare that features great chemistry between the leads and Lundgren in a role that may surprise some. | positive |
2,884 | The Pale Blue Eye is a period procedural with mood to spare. | positive |
2,885 | Its knockabout humor grows on you, as does Anne Hathaway. | positive |
2,886 | A delightful comedy about two dying men who travel the world to discover the joy in their lives. | positive |
2,887 | The brain, science tell us, is one of the most complex things in all creation, and the movie's depiction of it is a thing of ingenious splendor, a mix of fantastically cartoonish sight gags and sublime comedic riffs. | positive |
2,888 | Not Reitman's most exciting work but still a watchable political thriller. | positive |
2,889 | An orgy of macho posturing and cheap film-school tricks masquerading as style, a supposedly comic dance of violence and gore that repulses rather than entertains. | negative |
2,890 | A film about circus arts, friendship and integration, but also a historical and political portrait of the domain of colonial spirit. [Full review in Spanish] | positive |
2,891 | A fantastic premise anchors this movie, but what it needs is either a more rigid, Blair Witch-style commitment to its mockumentary format, or a more straightforward, dramatic treatment, with all the grandiosity that that implies. | positive |
2,892 | Washington as a filmmaker works in big, unsubtle moves, but this is a sizable story in the never-ending racial struggle so we'll let it slide. | positive |
2,893 | Although it might be described as a kind of ghost story, 'When Marnie Was There' offers evidence of the Studio Ghibli belief that animation should not be restricted to tales of talking animals, one-eyed minions and other impossibilities | positive |
2,894 | A Hard Day works best when it doesn't try so hard. Unfortunately, that is not much of the time. | negative |
2,895 | Has no sense of its own ridiculousness. | negative |
2,896 | In it Edward Abeles who created the role of Monty Brewster in the stage version of the story, duplicates his success and there is every reason why the film should score a hit equal to that of the play and of the book itself. | positive |
2,897 | It’s shock value for the sake of shock, resulting in a shockingly stupid movie | negative |
2,898 | A sense of dread permeates Bryan Bertino's small-scaled, slow-burning supernatural thriller [which] keeps one unnerved up to its abrupt-perhaps overly abrupt-conclusion. | positive |
2,899 | The adaptation transposes the rhythms of her trek as a languid but never lingering odyssey, as anchored by Mia Wasikowska's relentless performance | positive |