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1	David Bax Battleship Pretension It’s hard to overstate how crucial an ingredient Bosworth is to the stew here.
0	Hugo Hernández Valdivia Cinexcepción A film more pretentious than deep , and more presumptuous than lucid. [Full review in Spanish]
0	Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Never rises above mediocrity, unwilling to put in the effort to make something special out of working parts already on view in dozens of other films.
1	Michael Sicinski Cinema Scope Davies' films, in their own way, are indicative of the social fissures of our moment.
1	Peter Travers Rolling Stone If you want to see explosive acting, just watch Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett ignite in this film version of Zoe Heller's 2003 novel.
1	Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Mike Wallace had a valid reputation for asking his interview subjects the hard-hitting, and oftentimes controversial, questions
0	Tim Grierson Screen International Rarely has an alien invasion (or the possible eradication of humanity) seemed less gripping.
1	Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Bing, Bob, Dottie, a talking camel, and great songs
0	Lou Lumenick New York Post Remarkably sluggish and not particularly suspenseful.
0	Drew McWeeny HitFix The ring may not make mistakes when it chooses a new Green Lantern, but plenty of mistakes were made in bringing Green Lantern to the screen, and in the end, I have a feeling this is our one and only trip to Oa.
0	Brian Viner Daily Mail (UK) It's not nearly funny, daring or clever enough.
1	Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid I found myself occasionally enthralled, mainly due to Polanski's haunted presence coming through, even in the form of an absent ghost.
1	Hal Hinson Washington Post Convincing and heartbreakingly tragic.
1	Louise Kennedy Boston Globe
0	S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media Friendship comedy is too crude for younger kids.
1	Nell Minow Movie Mom When this movie succeeds, it is not in its attempt at a broader statement. Its strength is in its fine performances and in its smaller moments.
0	Walter Chaw Film Freak Central [Labute's] existential rage is cooling in direct proportion to the rise of his self-pitying belief that no one understands him.
0	Karen Hershenson Contra Costa Times Never has a film deteriorated so abruptly and so completely.
1	Deborah Young Hollywood Reporter A resonant, haunting story about Kashmir.
1	Joe Bendel Epoch Times It features the tragic sweep and striking natural vistas that became hallmarks of Hu's later films, but it is also loads and loads of fun.
1	Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Director Martin Campbell's overtly theatrical action scenes are quick, coherent, and easy on the eyes.
0	Ed Whitfield The Ooh Tray It's hard to see this new Cinders as anything more than a brand-based cash grab when its sole function is to succeed (and perhaps replace) a movie that's ageless.
1	Steph Cozza Aggressive Comix The whole first half of the movie is awesome, seeing his family dynamic and how he learned music...I would probably watch it again, but there were a lot of problems. The directing was great and the cinematography was beautiful.
1	Harvey S. Karten Compuserve
1	Nell Minow Movie Mom The movie not only shows you the longing felt by its characters, it draws you in to sharing those feelings with them. You want them to find their steps and rhythm.
1	Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews Has the benefit of relevance to the current news cycle, but it's about something much larger even than the famous convicted felon who threw his weight around Hollywood.
0	Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Forgettable.
0	Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses o Zwick trabaei parapano apo ektyflotika profaneis parallilismoys tis sygkekrimenis istorias me ekeini tis Eksodoy, poy profanos den tis skeftike o Zwick monos toy, o opoios to mono poy epideiknyei synehos, einai i apithanotita toy na epinoisei otidipote
1	Beatriz Martínez Fotogramas It's a political film, but also deeply human. [Full Review in Spanish]
1	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Resurrecting the Champ is enjoyable in the moment -- But it's the complexity of Lurie's moral universe that makes it linger in the mind.
1	Rachit Gupta Filmfare The Shallows is a taut thriller.
0	Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Alan Parker's turgid, bleeding-heart The Life of David Gale may just shame good liberals straight into the Republican Party.
0	James Berardinelli ReelViews For me, the turgid pace and uneven writing muted any appreciation I might have of what it offers.
1	Richard Haridy Quickflix For a good 80 minutes, Non-Stop delivers exactly what the title promises - an escalating series of exciting set-pieces with a great, mysterious backbone. This is top grade Hollywood entertainment.
1	John Urbancich Your Movies (cleveland.com) Viewers of a certain era especially should enjoy a boffo, warm-hearted documentary with one of the all-time most versatile performers in stage, screen and television at the center of it all.
1	Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Sweet and silly, without a whole lot to say
1	Kam Williams Sly Fox Love, Long Island style!
1	Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com The intent is to create a living nightmare of psychological horror, and Aronofsky succeeds most unsettlingly.
1	Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) A cut above the revisionist versions of classic literature we've had to muddle through in recent years.
1	Donald Clarke Irish Times Des Doyle has assembled an impressive array of talking heads to explain the procedures in this consistently engrossing documentary.
1	Dustin Putman TheFilmFile.com Scorsese's most impressive, dramatically sound piece of celluloid in at least the last seven years.
1	Roger Moore Movie Nation Zombie film as comfort food, predictable but just satisfying enough to come off.
1	Clayton Davis AwardsCircuit.com Partnered with another powerhouse performance by Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, who worked once before on Reitman and Cody's "Young Adult," the mojo and groove seem to be back in this touching tale that will garner both laughs and tears.
1	JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Network Chevy Chase is hilarious once again.
0	Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue The film backs itself into a corner when it must choose between either being relentlessly nasty or suddenly heartwarming.
0	Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard The film meanders along in conversational style, encouraging improvisational realism but also the thought that maybe these middle-class characters, not quite slackers, are less interesting than they, or the director, think they are.
0	Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly It's a man's world, but Pitt's star turn and the melodramatic underpinnings may appeal more to women.
1	Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com Offers a fresh reason to remain invested in Shepard's long and winding filmography, providing a meaty role and an irresistible western formula to flare his screen charisma in full.
0	Rashid Irani Hindustan Times The ensuing race-against-the-clock narrative is crammed with chases, stunts and cheesy effects, and totally devoid of intensity.
0	Brent Simon Entertainment Today Well acted and designed of a piece [but] too diffident and emotionally murky to elicit a sustained reaction. The movie could have benefited from a more proactive script.
1	Pablo Vázquez Fotogramas A bittersweet comedy with omnipresent music, but not its backbone. [Full review in Spanish]
1	Luke Y. Thompson Nerdist It's a midnight movie for folks with a sick sense of humor and an attention span dulled by booze. Feel free to take this review as a recommendation or a warning.
1	Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Wandel and her cinematographer Frdric Noirhomme keep their focus tightly on the schoolchildren, adults rarely seen above the waist, heard only as part of Noras ambient experience. The effect is one of intense immersion.
0	Claudia Puig USA Today Laughs are virtually nil, despite a plethora of crude attempts at humor: jokes about vomiting, defecating, flatulence, bosomy babes.
0	Kirk Baird Toledo Blade Given the effort by Eastwood and Ray to set history right in how we remember Jewell, their misrepresentation of Scruggs is an incongruous, and from a plot perspective, lazy misstep that mars an otherwise worthy endeavor.
0	Robert Daniels indieWire “Susie Searches” aims to be about loss and loneliness, and isolation and recognition. But spins its wheels toward mediocrity, instead.
1	Rob Hunter Film School Rejects The most broadly appealing film to come out of Greece in some time, but it's every bit as deserving of the attention afforded to its crazier cousins.
0	Michael Sragow Film Comment Magazine It starts suggestively and enigmatically, then straightens-and flattens-everything out, including the emotional and moral landscape of its characters.
0	Martin Thomas Double Toasted There's no actual humans in this. All they do is just grunt and give tough guy dialogue.
1	Josh Bell Las Vegas Weekly Psychological thrillers became a dime a dozen after the success of Lambs, but Red Dragon is at least worth your $7.50.
1	Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Peosay appears to have taken the Dalai Lama's non-violent philosophy to heart. Rather than rage, his film radiates sadness over a singular way of life in danger of imminent obliteration.
0	Fico Cangiano CineXpress Rambo's supposed last outing on screen settles for excessive violence and gore, rather than giving the iconic character a decent send-off.
1	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Eddie, the Sean Penn character, is a bruised romantic with a good mind, who is as unhappy as a person can be, and in a riveting scene uses cocaine to take him to a place free of raw emotional pain. It is a remarkable performance.
0	Matthew Razak Flixist.com You can deconstruct a genre all you want but <i>See How They Run</i> forgets to build it back up.
0	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle "Annihilation" really isn't worth seeing. Still, if you meet someone who has seen it, have them tell you the good parts.
0	Sonia Saraiya Vanity Fair If anything, Rothstein's documentary spares us some of the worst excesses of WeWork's corporate culture, and as a result, passes up on the opportunity to come down harder on the startup scene in general.
0	Felix Vasquez Jr. Film Threat I remember when the Wayanses were a group of people with ambitions who looked as if they actually had something to contribute to the film world as well as the comedy world.
1	JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Network
0	Andy Klein Dallas Observer Outside of its action concepts, the script by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen ... varies between mediocre and awful.
1	Republic Staff Arizona Republic Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart comprise the starring trio, sharing honors so perfectly it would be impossible for a reviewer to choose a top performance.
1	Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
1	Rachel Saltz New York Times The pleasure principle is palpable in the giddy, slick Dhoom 2, a satisfying example of the new, thoroughly modern Bollywood.
1	Sara Maria Vizcarrondo Boxoffice Magazine The film knows the aesthetic of enlightenment, the filmmakers demonstrate adoration for their subject, but whether or not the film grasps the principle further is very arguable.
1	James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk a viciously effective polemic against the placid acceptance of film violence, a perverse experiment in audience manipulation that lures us into watching what should be unwatchable and then draws our attention to our unexamined desires
1	Matthew Jackson The Huntsville Item (TX) Driven by a classic, almost throwback sci-fi adventure plot, a confident voice cast, and a host of engaging visuals, "Lightyear" manages to blast off as a story all its own, while never losing sight of why we’re showing up to watch in the first place.
0	Mark Palermo The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Blood Work finds [Eastwood] on auto-pilot -- delivering what we expect so lazily that most of it feels like a bloated tv cop-drama from the 70s.
1	Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
1	Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com A taut, exciting action film with surprising depth.
0	Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media Teens ride horses, cast spells in awful German fantasy.
0	Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter The intention is a good one, but the blending of disparate ingredients under Andrew Davis' direction is often jarring.
1	Stephanie Archer Film Inquiry With a standout cast and captivating story, Villains is one of the most surprising and best horror films of the year.
0	Ty Burr Boston Globe Beware the thriller whose characters are more naive than the audience.
1	Damien Straker Impulse Gamer It's an enjoyable snack, and the guests are good company and don't overstay their welcome during a mostly fun evening.
0	Katie Rife AV Club Overall, the comedy in Thunder Force is apathetic and airless, no matter how hard McCarthy tries.
0	Annie Banks Chuck Load of Comics Reminiscence's official synopsis is gripping with an air of mystery around it. To the misfortune of the film itself, the film in its entirety is deeply impaired by its unexciting, deficient take...
1	Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies So honestly written, so vividly directed, and so brilliantly performed we are transported to a psychological nightmare of despair, insecurity, only the slightest glimmer of hope, and the smallest, most bittersweet rewards.
1	Michael Atkinson In These Times The past is hardly past: Neruda is a vintage ﬁgure, but his story is made fresh by both the ﬁlmmakers' imaginative will and by the oppression-stalked century we ﬁnd ourselves in.
0	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Unlike the first Star Wars, made for a general audience in search of a good time, Attack of the Clones is pitched to a cult audience.
1	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times Kaplan comes off so convincingly, it's not unfair to wonder if he's truly an actor (he is).
0	Andrew Marshall Starburst If it was presented with even a glimmer of postmodern irony it might have had more of an impact, possibly even been engaging, but it's all presented utterly straight.
0	Lisa Rose Newark Star-Ledger At the bottom of it all lies nothing more than a by-the-numbers Hollywood thriller.
1	Caroline Madden Screen Queens Working Woman approaches the complex subject of sexual harassment and the power imbalance of men and women in the workplace with a bold sensitivity, quiet introspection, and subtle realism.
1	Kent Garrison Mad About Movies Podcast It certainly is fun to return to Zombieland after all these years. The dialogue is still razor sharp, the kills still make you squirm and Harrelson once again makes a case for a Tallahassee Cinematic Universe.
0	Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It's too bad this film didn't have some more soul.
1	Bob Lundegaard Minneapolis Star Tribune [The animation], however, would be mere decoration, the frosting without the cake, if it didn't serve to enhance a strong, engrossing story line and vivid characters. And NIMH has an ample supply of both.
1	Chris Barsanti Medium ...spring-coiled and crucial.
0	Kate Taylor Globe and Mail This breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all.
0	William Arnold Seattle Post-Intelligencer The writing and direction is nowhere near smart enough to get this thing off the ground.
1	Carlos Aguilar Los Angeles Times In "White on White," what permeates is a merited sense of dread, by design too starkly impenetrable on emotional grounds, but direct in its fierce thematic intent.
1	Variety Staff Variety Art director and editor have done a standout job in matching and cutting so that it is virtually impossible to decide where Pinewood began and Canada came in.

1

David Bax Battleship Pretension It’s hard to overstate how crucial an ingredient Bosworth is to the stew here.

0

Hugo Hernández Valdivia Cinexcepción A film more pretentious than deep , and more presumptuous than lucid. [Full review in Spanish]

0

Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Never rises above mediocrity, unwilling to put in the effort to make something special out of working parts already on view in dozens of other films.

1

Michael Sicinski Cinema Scope Davies' films, in their own way, are indicative of the social fissures of our moment.

1

Peter Travers Rolling Stone If you want to see explosive acting, just watch Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett ignite in this film version of Zoe Heller's 2003 novel.

1

Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Mike Wallace had a valid reputation for asking his interview subjects the hard-hitting, and oftentimes controversial, questions

0

Tim Grierson Screen International Rarely has an alien invasion (or the possible eradication of humanity) seemed less gripping.

1

Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Bing, Bob, Dottie, a talking camel, and great songs

0

Lou Lumenick New York Post Remarkably sluggish and not particularly suspenseful.

0

Drew McWeeny HitFix The ring may not make mistakes when it chooses a new Green Lantern, but plenty of mistakes were made in bringing Green Lantern to the screen, and in the end, I have a feeling this is our one and only trip to Oa.

0

Brian Viner Daily Mail (UK) It's not nearly funny, daring or clever enough.

1

Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid I found myself occasionally enthralled, mainly due to Polanski's haunted presence coming through, even in the form of an absent ghost.

1

Hal Hinson Washington Post Convincing and heartbreakingly tragic.

1

Louise Kennedy Boston Globe

0

S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media Friendship comedy is too crude for younger kids.

1

Nell Minow Movie Mom When this movie succeeds, it is not in its attempt at a broader statement. Its strength is in its fine performances and in its smaller moments.

0

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central [Labute's] existential rage is cooling in direct proportion to the rise of his self-pitying belief that no one understands him.

0

Karen Hershenson Contra Costa Times Never has a film deteriorated so abruptly and so completely.

1

Deborah Young Hollywood Reporter A resonant, haunting story about Kashmir.

1

Joe Bendel Epoch Times It features the tragic sweep and striking natural vistas that became hallmarks of Hu's later films, but it is also loads and loads of fun.

1

Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus Director Martin Campbell's overtly theatrical action scenes are quick, coherent, and easy on the eyes.

0

Ed Whitfield The Ooh Tray It's hard to see this new Cinders as anything more than a brand-based cash grab when its sole function is to succeed (and perhaps replace) a movie that's ageless.

1

Steph Cozza Aggressive Comix The whole first half of the movie is awesome, seeing his family dynamic and how he learned music...I would probably watch it again, but there were a lot of problems. The directing was great and the cinematography was beautiful.

1

Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

1

Nell Minow Movie Mom The movie not only shows you the longing felt by its characters, it draws you in to sharing those feelings with them. You want them to find their steps and rhythm.

1

Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews Has the benefit of relevance to the current news cycle, but it's about something much larger even than the famous convicted felon who threw his weight around Hollywood.

0

Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Forgettable.

0

Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses o Zwick trabaei parapano apo ektyflotika profaneis parallilismoys tis sygkekrimenis istorias me ekeini tis Eksodoy, poy profanos den tis skeftike o Zwick monos toy, o opoios to mono poy epideiknyei synehos, einai i apithanotita toy na epinoisei otidipote

1

Beatriz Martínez Fotogramas It's a political film, but also deeply human. [Full Review in Spanish]

1

Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Resurrecting the Champ is enjoyable in the moment -- But it's the complexity of Lurie's moral universe that makes it linger in the mind.

1

Rachit Gupta Filmfare The Shallows is a taut thriller.

0

Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Alan Parker's turgid, bleeding-heart The Life of David Gale may just shame good liberals straight into the Republican Party.

0

James Berardinelli ReelViews For me, the turgid pace and uneven writing muted any appreciation I might have of what it offers.

1

Richard Haridy Quickflix For a good 80 minutes, Non-Stop delivers exactly what the title promises - an escalating series of exciting set-pieces with a great, mysterious backbone. This is top grade Hollywood entertainment.

1

John Urbancich Your Movies (cleveland.com) Viewers of a certain era especially should enjoy a boffo, warm-hearted documentary with one of the all-time most versatile performers in stage, screen and television at the center of it all.

1

Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Sweet and silly, without a whole lot to say

1

Kam Williams Sly Fox Love, Long Island style!

1

Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com The intent is to create a living nightmare of psychological horror, and Aronofsky succeeds most unsettlingly.

1

Jeff Vice Deseret News (Salt Lake City) A cut above the revisionist versions of classic literature we've had to muddle through in recent years.

1

Donald Clarke Irish Times Des Doyle has assembled an impressive array of talking heads to explain the procedures in this consistently engrossing documentary.

1

Dustin Putman TheFilmFile.com Scorsese's most impressive, dramatically sound piece of celluloid in at least the last seven years.

1

Roger Moore Movie Nation Zombie film as comfort food, predictable but just satisfying enough to come off.

1

Clayton Davis AwardsCircuit.com Partnered with another powerhouse performance by Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, who worked once before on Reitman and Cody's "Young Adult," the mojo and groove seem to be back in this touching tale that will garner both laughs and tears.

1

JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Network Chevy Chase is hilarious once again.

0

Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue The film backs itself into a corner when it must choose between either being relentlessly nasty or suddenly heartwarming.

0

Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard The film meanders along in conversational style, encouraging improvisational realism but also the thought that maybe these middle-class characters, not quite slackers, are less interesting than they, or the director, think they are.

0

Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly It's a man's world, but Pitt's star turn and the melodramatic underpinnings may appeal more to women.

1

Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com Offers a fresh reason to remain invested in Shepard's long and winding filmography, providing a meaty role and an irresistible western formula to flare his screen charisma in full.

0

Rashid Irani Hindustan Times The ensuing race-against-the-clock narrative is crammed with chases, stunts and cheesy effects, and totally devoid of intensity.

0

Brent Simon Entertainment Today Well acted and designed of a piece [but] too diffident and emotionally murky to elicit a sustained reaction. The movie could have benefited from a more proactive script.

1

Pablo Vázquez Fotogramas A bittersweet comedy with omnipresent music, but not its backbone. [Full review in Spanish]

1

Luke Y. Thompson Nerdist It's a midnight movie for folks with a sick sense of humor and an attention span dulled by booze. Feel free to take this review as a recommendation or a warning.

1

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Wandel and her cinematographer Frdric Noirhomme keep their focus tightly on the schoolchildren, adults rarely seen above the waist, heard only as part of Noras ambient experience. The effect is one of intense immersion.

0

Claudia Puig USA Today Laughs are virtually nil, despite a plethora of crude attempts at humor: jokes about vomiting, defecating, flatulence, bosomy babes.

0

Kirk Baird Toledo Blade Given the effort by Eastwood and Ray to set history right in how we remember Jewell, their misrepresentation of Scruggs is an incongruous, and from a plot perspective, lazy misstep that mars an otherwise worthy endeavor.

0

Robert Daniels indieWire “Susie Searches” aims to be about loss and loneliness, and isolation and recognition. But spins its wheels toward mediocrity, instead.

1

Rob Hunter Film School Rejects The most broadly appealing film to come out of Greece in some time, but it's every bit as deserving of the attention afforded to its crazier cousins.

0

Michael Sragow Film Comment Magazine It starts suggestively and enigmatically, then straightens-and flattens-everything out, including the emotional and moral landscape of its characters.

0

Martin Thomas Double Toasted There's no actual humans in this. All they do is just grunt and give tough guy dialogue.

1

Josh Bell Las Vegas Weekly Psychological thrillers became a dime a dozen after the success of Lambs, but Red Dragon is at least worth your $7.50.

1

Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Peosay appears to have taken the Dalai Lama's non-violent philosophy to heart. Rather than rage, his film radiates sadness over a singular way of life in danger of imminent obliteration.

0

Fico Cangiano CineXpress Rambo's supposed last outing on screen settles for excessive violence and gore, rather than giving the iconic character a decent send-off.

1

Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Eddie, the Sean Penn character, is a bruised romantic with a good mind, who is as unhappy as a person can be, and in a riveting scene uses cocaine to take him to a place free of raw emotional pain. It is a remarkable performance.

0

Matthew Razak Flixist.com You can deconstruct a genre all you want but <i>See How They Run</i> forgets to build it back up.

0

Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle "Annihilation" really isn't worth seeing. Still, if you meet someone who has seen it, have them tell you the good parts.

0

Sonia Saraiya Vanity Fair If anything, Rothstein's documentary spares us some of the worst excesses of WeWork's corporate culture, and as a result, passes up on the opportunity to come down harder on the startup scene in general.

0

Felix Vasquez Jr. Film Threat I remember when the Wayanses were a group of people with ambitions who looked as if they actually had something to contribute to the film world as well as the comedy world.

1

JoBlo JoBlo's Movie Network

0

Andy Klein Dallas Observer Outside of its action concepts, the script by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen ... varies between mediocre and awful.

1

Republic Staff Arizona Republic Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart comprise the starring trio, sharing honors so perfectly it would be impossible for a reviewer to choose a top performance.

1

Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

1

Rachel Saltz New York Times The pleasure principle is palpable in the giddy, slick Dhoom 2, a satisfying example of the new, thoroughly modern Bollywood.

1

Sara Maria Vizcarrondo Boxoffice Magazine The film knows the aesthetic of enlightenment, the filmmakers demonstrate adoration for their subject, but whether or not the film grasps the principle further is very arguable.

1

James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk a viciously effective polemic against the placid acceptance of film violence, a perverse experiment in audience manipulation that lures us into watching what should be unwatchable and then draws our attention to our unexamined desires

1

Matthew Jackson The Huntsville Item (TX) Driven by a classic, almost throwback sci-fi adventure plot, a confident voice cast, and a host of engaging visuals, "Lightyear" manages to blast off as a story all its own, while never losing sight of why we’re showing up to watch in the first place.

0

Mark Palermo The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Blood Work finds [Eastwood] on auto-pilot -- delivering what we expect so lazily that most of it feels like a bloated tv cop-drama from the 70s.

1

Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

1

Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com A taut, exciting action film with surprising depth.

0

Barbara Shulgasser Common Sense Media Teens ride horses, cast spells in awful German fantasy.

0

Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter The intention is a good one, but the blending of disparate ingredients under Andrew Davis' direction is often jarring.

1

Stephanie Archer Film Inquiry With a standout cast and captivating story, Villains is one of the most surprising and best horror films of the year.

0

Ty Burr Boston Globe Beware the thriller whose characters are more naive than the audience.

1

Damien Straker Impulse Gamer It's an enjoyable snack, and the guests are good company and don't overstay their welcome during a mostly fun evening.

0

Katie Rife AV Club Overall, the comedy in Thunder Force is apathetic and airless, no matter how hard McCarthy tries.

0

Annie Banks Chuck Load of Comics Reminiscence's official synopsis is gripping with an air of mystery around it. To the misfortune of the film itself, the film in its entirety is deeply impaired by its unexciting, deficient take...

1

Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies So honestly written, so vividly directed, and so brilliantly performed we are transported to a psychological nightmare of despair, insecurity, only the slightest glimmer of hope, and the smallest, most bittersweet rewards.

1

Michael Atkinson In These Times The past is hardly past: Neruda is a vintage ﬁgure, but his story is made fresh by both the ﬁlmmakers' imaginative will and by the oppression-stalked century we ﬁnd ourselves in.

0

Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle Unlike the first Star Wars, made for a general audience in search of a good time, Attack of the Clones is pitched to a cult audience.

1

Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times Kaplan comes off so convincingly, it's not unfair to wonder if he's truly an actor (he is).

0

Andrew Marshall Starburst If it was presented with even a glimmer of postmodern irony it might have had more of an impact, possibly even been engaging, but it's all presented utterly straight.

0

Lisa Rose Newark Star-Ledger At the bottom of it all lies nothing more than a by-the-numbers Hollywood thriller.

1

Caroline Madden Screen Queens Working Woman approaches the complex subject of sexual harassment and the power imbalance of men and women in the workplace with a bold sensitivity, quiet introspection, and subtle realism.

1

Kent Garrison Mad About Movies Podcast It certainly is fun to return to Zombieland after all these years. The dialogue is still razor sharp, the kills still make you squirm and Harrelson once again makes a case for a Tallahassee Cinematic Universe.

0

Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It's too bad this film didn't have some more soul.

1

Bob Lundegaard Minneapolis Star Tribune [The animation], however, would be mere decoration, the frosting without the cake, if it didn't serve to enhance a strong, engrossing story line and vivid characters. And NIMH has an ample supply of both.

1

Chris Barsanti Medium ...spring-coiled and crucial.

0

Kate Taylor Globe and Mail This breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all.

0

William Arnold Seattle Post-Intelligencer The writing and direction is nowhere near smart enough to get this thing off the ground.

1

Carlos Aguilar Los Angeles Times In "White on White," what permeates is a merited sense of dread, by design too starkly impenetrable on emotional grounds, but direct in its fierce thematic intent.

1

Variety Staff Variety Art director and editor have done a standout job in matching and cutting so that it is virtually impossible to decide where Pinewood began and Canada came in.