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American Psycho | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | American Psycho is one of the greatest horror films of all time; with its disturbingly dark comedy, psychotic breakdowns of society and an unnerving look at the obsessive thoughts of a serial killer. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Child's Play | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | Child's Play isn't going to win any Oscars, but it's a film that you're going to have a lot of fun with. There are laugh-out-loud moments, completely idiotic sections, plenty of creepiness and of course, our beloved Chucky. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Get Out | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | You'll discover a little of everything in this movie; intelligence, wit, horror, humour, deceit, cinematography, dread, realism, scores, fear and more. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Lords of Chaos | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | Lords of Chaos is a badass fucking movie. It gives any newcomer to the topic an accurate depiction of how black metal started, the key characters on the scene, and what happened between Euronymous and Varg. It is a whirlwind of emotions... | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
mother! | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | Mother! is an emotional annihilation; one which leaves the viewer feeling as though they were aggressively buckled to a splintered chair, whilst being tortured with the angst, suffering and heartbreak felt by another human. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Overlord | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | Overlord has everything that anyone could want from a zombie nazi film. An exhilarating yet traumatic experience that will excite your every emotion with fear, fury and fire. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Raw | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | Intelligently portraying the hunger, desire and passion for human flesh, in the most unfathomable way possible. Go treat yourself to some Raw! | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
The Devil's Candy | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | The Devil's Candy carefully burns one end of the candle, creating a hellish canvas which has been tarnished by the brush of evil. The descent into child sacrifice is a soulless and disturbing affair, one that can only find saviour in... | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
The House That Jack Built | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | The House That Jack Built is not the blood-dripped, ultra-violent, traumatising spectacle that I expected from Von Trier, but it is a sophisticated slice of serial killer satisfaction. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
The Swerve | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | The Swerve is a powerful and horrific film that won't loosen it's tightening grip around your throat, but it's one you should prepare yourself for... | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
The Void | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | The Void is by far one of the most fearsome, gross, gory and enjoyable films of the last five years. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Verotika | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | There is an argument to be made that Veroktika has become a famous film from the fact it is so bad, which in some ways is true - but it should also be recognised for the misogynistic pile of trash that it is. | 0.5/5 | 5 | 0.5 | 5 | true | 1 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
VFW | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | This is not a film with depth and personality, but more a homage to some of the most-loved and gory action movies ever made... | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Vivarium | Zobo With A Shotgun | Zoe Rose Smith | Vivarium is a unique piece of storytelling that differs from anything else, and is brave in being a piece of film that only holds negative emotions and pure misery. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2,540 |
Shirley | alexmoreland.co.uk | Alex Moreland | Shirley is a film of small details, keenly observed; there's a careful precision to its craft, an exactness to its story of creative struggle and personal turmoil. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2,541 |
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | alexmoreland.co.uk | Alex Moreland | The Rise of Skywalker has very little trust in its audience, offering not exciting new ideas, but instead only the dim pleasure of recognition. | 4/10 | 10 | 4 | 10 | false | 3 | 10 | 1 | 2,541 |
The Wolfman | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Wolfman is more a slasher flick than a monster movie. He moves like a locomotive and kills like Jason Voorhees, slashing throats, de-limbing, beheading and gutting with repulsive efficiency. | 2.5/10 | 10 | 2.5 | 10 | false | 6 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Crazies | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | It's escapism without being stupid, capable of taking the audience on a ride while still giving them something to talk about on the drive home. | 7.5/10 | 10 | 7.5 | 10 | false | 26 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
World's Greatest Dad | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | It's the kind of flick that makes you laugh and feel like maybe you shouldn't be chuckling quite so hard. Well you shouldn't, you sick bastard. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 28 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Alice in Wonderland | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Did Burton get bored in Wonderland? The end result is a movie that is decently enjoyable escapism, but entirely forgettable in the long run. | 6.5/10 | 10 | 6.5 | 10 | false | 22 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
1408 | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Finally, a good old fashioned scary movie. And hey, it's PG-13 so why not bring the kids along for a little psychological scarring? | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 28 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The A-Team | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | It's too bad that after all these years of revisions and revamps they never really got it. This plan might come together to please the execs at Fox, but Hannibal would be ashamed. | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | false | 16 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Bourne Ultimatum | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | The action starts almost from the opening frame, with a rare breath of air in its lean 111 minutes for audiences to hit the restrooms without missing a good part. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 28 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Brave One | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Curtis the Dog and Erica Bain review The Brave One. | 4/10 | 10 | 4 | 10 | false | 12 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Charlotte's Web | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | A lackluster live-action remake of E.B. White's classic children's tale. | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 20 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Crazy Heart | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | For my money, anything short of an Oscar for Bridges would be a sin. I'd also call it the best movie of 2009. | 9/10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | false | 32 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Departed | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | It's Scorsese's best film since 1990's GoodFellas. Oscar? Maybe. Classic? Definitely. | 9.25/10 | 10 | 9.25 | 10 | false | 33 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Evan Almighty | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Follows the standard rules of a mainstream comedy and there are few surprises. The story is lifeless and the only thing keeping it from being a complete and utter mess is the talented cast. | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | false | 16 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Halloween | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Have you ever been driving down the road and a song you know starts to play on the radio? Wait a second! What the heck is this? This isn't the original. Who is this? Your heart drops. Oh man, this is just some lame cover version. You flip the channel. | 2/10 | 10 | 2 | 10 | false | 4 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
House (Hausu) | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Plenty of films throughout the years have been called "nightmarish" but never has the statement been more true than in the case of Hausu. | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 24 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Hot Tub Time Machine | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Like the comedies of the decade it returns to, Hot Tub is a balls-to-the-wall Hard-R comedy complete with tasteless humor, nudity and foul language. And thank God. It's about time we put those p***ified, lame PG-13 teen comedies to bed once and for all. | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 28 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Knocked Up | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Knocked Up is an ambient, funny movie more devoted to enjoying the journey of its characters' world than it is bothered with its destination. | 9/10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | false | 32 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Live Free or Die Hard | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Step aside Captain Jack. Swing that web the other way, Spidey. You let us down, Silver Surfer. Yes, John McClane just kicked the $#%# out of all of ya'll. "Yippee Ki Yay Mo...!" | 9/10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | false | 32 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
A Nightmare on Elm Street | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | 2010's Nightmare isn't just flawed, but without any merit whatsoever, amongst the worst of Platinum Dunes' cinematic abortions and as bad, if not worse, than Freddy's Revenge and Freddy's Dead. | 1/10 | 10 | 1 | 10 | false | 0 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Sicko | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | I enjoyed Sicko. It's just that if I were less informed, I might have made my plans to go ahead and move to Cuba after exiting the theater. | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 24 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
Sunshine | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Intense and enthralling...director Danny Boyle has crafted a different breed of summer thriller that delivers on all levels. | 9/10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | false | 32 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Night Listener | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | A small suspense-thriller to scratch your Hitchcockian itch. | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 24 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Number 23 | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | 23 Reasons You Shouldn't Bother Seeing The Number 23. | 3/10 | 10 | 3 | 10 | false | 8 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
We Are Marshall | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | We Are Marshall has plenty of heart. Unfortunately, that heart is dipped in a vat of caramel and topped with marshmallows. | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 20 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Winning Season | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | "The Winning Season" teeters hither and thither on its tonal seesaw, never quite sure where its going and often forgetful of where it's been. | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | false | 16 | 37 | 4 | 2,542 |
The Hangover | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Big laughs, tigers, Heather Graham breast-feeding, naked Asian man beating the boys with a tire iron, Mike Tyson singing Phil Collins… I'm trying, but I'm not finding much to dislike here. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Miss March | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | The first post-coma diarrhea joke was cringe-worthy. The third post-coma diarrhea joke was merely nauseating. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Away We Go | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Away We Go feels like Sam Mendes saying, "Hey, look, I can just make an entertaining, smart movie. No awards consideration necessary." | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Dawn of the Dead | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | A rare remake that improves upon the original. The best horror films in years. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Drag Me to Hell | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Does Raimi really have to go back and do another frickin' Spider-Man movie after this? | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Duplicity | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | The term 'thriller' might be overstating things a bit, although the slow motion battle between Wilkinson and Giamatti will live on in my memory for years to come. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
I Love You, Man | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | I never thought I'd see the movie that made me laugh consistently with references to Lou Ferrigno, Rush and 'Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.' | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Inglourious Basterds | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Tarantino tries his hand at an international ensemble with some rather 'Inglourious' results. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
The Mechanic | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | 'The Mechanic' is the prototypical early year action movie-nothing more and nothing less. Statham, who again plays an infallible, lethal bad-ass, seems to have carved his niche as the current go-to guy for B-movie action flicks. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | false | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Head-bangers and novice metalheads alike should find this bare-bones, honest, often brutal rock movie an intriguing and compelling look into the lives of rock n' roll legends. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | false | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Napoleon Dynamite | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | One of the more bizarre and original characters in recent memory, Napoleon provides some great laughs despite an uneven story that often loses steam. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Terminator Salvation | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Often considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, Bale's performance is shockingly lifeless. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
The Grey | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | A solid piece of escapist fare, pure and simple. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | false | 5 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
The Ugly Truth | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | As usual, characters end up in an escalating series of preposterous events and zany hijinks that, while being occasionally amusing, aren't much different from watching your average humdrum situational TV comedy. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Whatever Works | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | I prefer my Woody and my Larry in separate doses. Perhaps it's sometimes best to choose just the peanut butter or the chocolate. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Year One | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | You heard it here first: Year One is the best prehistoric comedy of 2009. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2,543 |
Atlas Shrugged: Part I | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | The shame of "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," irrespective of politics and prose, is that a work so long-discussed has been so blatantly bastardized in the name of a quick buck. | F | short_letter | null | null | false | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2,544 |
One for the Money | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | We're meant to laugh at the fact that cute little Stephanie bumbles her way to getting one informant killed and another savagely beaten and thrown from a moving vehicle. Oh Stephanie, you're a riot! | F | short_letter | null | null | false | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2,544 |
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 | cinemaobsession.com | Jeff Otto | Easily the weakest entry in the series, it's the fault not just of a director who seems to find difficulty connecting to the material, but of a cast that seems to be looking forward to the close of the franchise a whole lot more than fans are. | D | short_letter | null | null | false | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2,544 |
Banana Split | crpWrites | Peter Gray | Thanks to a genuine script and an honest mentality... its view on relationships in all their forms should resonate with audiences, especially young women. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2,545 |
Endings, Beginnings | crpWrites | Peter Gray | A well-intentioned drama that can't commit to the sentiment it wants to convey. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | false | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2,545 |
Abominable | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | It's truly beautiful to look at, even if the premise is rather light. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Aladdin | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | Will Smith puts a fun spin on proceedings. He brings his "A" game, which we haven't seen in some of his recent outings. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Blinded by the Light | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | As gloriously euphoric as the finest of Bruce's anthems. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Booksmart | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | The story, the players, and the two leads are all endearing in the very best of ways -- warm, funny, charming and bloody lovely. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | false | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Captain Marvel | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | Solidly good and very enjoyable. But the film has flickers of greatness, most of which are when the film takes on the form of buddy comedy with Larson paired with Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury. Jackson and Brie have a hilarious rapport. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Dora and the Lost City of Gold | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | A delightful throwback to 80s family-adventure movies -- camp, funny, slapstick and just the right amount of silly. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Dumbo | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | Whilst the visuals are big, bold and bright -- they're also synthetic and bizarrely joyless. As are the characters. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Joker | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | For just over two hours we are forced into alignment with a monster. And, not only that, it wants us to unrepentantly side with him. It feels hyperbolic to say that this results in a terrible sense of inescapable unease when watching, but it's the truth. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Long Shot | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | Long Shot may not be the return of the romcom, but it's certainly a real return to form. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | A long plod through Tarantino's reflections on Hollywood in 1969 that are summed up pretty well by the shrug emoji. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | Courtesy of Almodóvar's masterful direction and a career-finest performance from Banderas, we feel every moment with Salvador. The pain, the glory, and everything in-between. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Pokémon Detective Pikachu | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | This is a film rooted in a ludicrous concept that doesn't just work, but excels because of the amount of heart that has gone into making it. It's earnest, endearing, and well worth a Pika. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Shazam! | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | There's real joy to be had by watching Shazam, a contagious feeling of childish glee and enthusiasm. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
The Front Runner | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | The drama itself plays out in a rather compelling manner... A prevailing sense of inevitability resides, akin to the feeling of watching a car crash happening and being unable to look away. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | false | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
The Kid Who Would Be King | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | Grab the kids and go see it. Go laugh, maybe get a bit weepy and get fully engaged in a cracking story. Are you not entertained? | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
The Secret Life of Pets 2 | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | This is a very sweet and very funny animation that will charm audiences of all ages. A huge surprise, but a joyous one. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Tolkien | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | It's a biopic that somehow glosses over things whilst also simultaneously spending too long on them, too. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
Welcome to Marwen | cultbox | Charlotte Harrison | It desperately wants to be a film about resilience, recovery, and redemption. Instead, it ends up being a serious absurdity of epic proportions, that is as plastic and hollow as the dolls who reside within it. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | false | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2,546 |
The Astronaut Farmer | culturevulture.net | Les Wright | It could be portending the decline and fall of Hollywood, except that it is so unexceptionally bad, and unexceptionally typical of the studio fare right now. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 2,547 |
Marie Antoinette | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | For a film that so enjoys the splendors of the façade that is most of Marie-Antoinette's life it puts tragically little effort into communicating either her stifled sadness or her exhilarated pleasures. | C | long_letter | null | null | false | 10 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
The Bourne Identity | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | Also helped immeasurably by an unusually cool score by John Powell, Mr. Liman also makes good use of the European settings, alternating between close ups of Damon's frustrated face and wider pans that slurp up the snow clad France setting. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
I, Robot | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | On the whole the film is a competent, if intellectually tepid, sci-fi actioner. | C+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 11 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | This humorous and generally invigorating atmosphere of fresh frivolity is moderately tempered by the film's inability to depict Steve's life crisis as one of emotion. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
Miami Vice | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | It is big, sprawling, shaggy, and amateurish, and fascinating in its awkwardness. | C- | long_letter | null | null | false | 9 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
No Country for Old Men | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | The film is powerhouse genre, touching in its strange, graceful arc towards total resignation, and tinged, as the best and purest of all American genre films are... | B+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 14 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
Offside | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | It never has it in itself to move beyond or truly ignite its own highly expressive subject. | C+ | long_letter | null | null | false | 11 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
Zodiac | d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews | Daniel Kasman | For someone to conjure up such a bitter, impotent, darkly frustrated, and ultimately mystified picture of contemporary society, trusted domestic institutions, and individual agency in such a time of external unrest and mistrust is stifling and powerful fe | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 2,548 |
Dunkirk | doghatesfilm.com | Molly Laich | A little carnage goes a long way when it's punctuated with sweeping money shots of thousands of soldiers on an expansive, haunted beach. You don't experience the misery in the misery-you feel it in the spaces in between. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | false | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2,549 |
Extraction | eCartelera | Jesus Agudo | Extraction won't revolutionize the action genre, but it shows that leaving the ones who get the punches in charge of the action is a good idea. [Full review in Spanish] | 5/10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | false | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2,550 |
Frozen II | eCartelera | Jesus Agudo | Frozen 2 brings the strenghts of the first movie and takes them further (...). It's more balanced so kids and adults can enjoy the journey. [Full review in Spanish] | 8/10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | false | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2,550 |
Onward | eCartelera | Jesus Agudo | The characters are well built, animation is outstanding and it has a tenderness that shows how Pixar, even when it's not excellent, gets to the heart. [Full review in Spanish] | 7/10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | false | 6 | 10 | 1 | 2,550 |
Scoob! | eCartelera | Jesus Agudo | Not all movies need superheroes, and Scooby-Doo sure doesn't. [Full review in Spanish] | 6/10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | false | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2,550 |
The Clock | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | Billed in some circles as the original Before Sunrise, Vincente Minnelli's The Clock doesn't come particularly close to reaching those hallowed grounds, but its structure and conclusion certainly make the comparison understandable. | 65/100 | 100 | 65 | 100 | false | 64 | 100 | 1 | 2,551 |
Inception | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | Inception, which has been talked up to crazy heights and showcases the best, as well as the most problematic, aspects of Nolan's directorial chops. | 65/100 | 100 | 65 | 100 | false | 64 | 100 | 1 | 2,551 |
The Last Detail | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | The interaction, dialogue, and parent/child-esque relationships are very well done, if somewhat repetitive. | 65/100 | 100 | 65 | 100 | false | 64 | 100 | 1 | 2,551 |
The Blob | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | A surprisingly smart piece of 50′s camp. | 65/100 | 100 | 65 | 100 | false | 64 | 100 | 1 | 2,551 |
Bad Santa | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | A word of advice: see Bad Santa, but see it once without checking your movie listings twice. | 3/4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | false | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2,552 |
Ed Wood | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | "Strangely compelling and inspiring..." | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,552 |
House of Flying Daggers | eCinemaCenter.com | Gabe Leibowitz | House of Flying Daggers has all the visual extravaganza of Hero but thrice its emotional heft, putting it on par with Ang Lee's extraordinary CTHD. | 4/4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | false | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2,552 |