Sentences with phrase «as a movie critic»

As a movie critic I reviewed it for the International Tribune, terming it «a great film.»

because some media outlets are hailing it as a cinematic masterpiece, it's not my job as a movie critic to serve as your moral compass.

If you are not as sophisticated as a movie critic, you will love it.

Prior to becoming a national reporter, Monk worked at The Vancouver Sun as a movie critic, pop music critic, news reporter and news editor.

Jay Boyar, for co-founding and leading the Florida Film Critics Circle, and for 22 years as a movie critic for the Orlando Sentinel.

Jim Slotek has been a Toronto Sun columnist since 1983, as a movie critic, TV critic and comedy beat reporter.

Not exact matches

However, movie audiences disagreed with critics, as Rotten Tomatoes» «Audience Score» (comprised of online ratings from users) for Bright is a healthy 87 %.

Negative reviews could ultimately be the undoing of Warner's King Arthur, as well, with the new movie garnering only a 25 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates critics» reviews.

The humor was lost on Washington Post critic Michael O'Sullivan, who said that the movie «stinks like the un-refrigerated ham its studio sent me as a promotion several months ago.»

What critics said: «In a summer movie landscape with Spider - Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War - era superspy, it says something that one of the most compelling characters is Al Gore.»

Critics embraced the film, hailing it as a comic book movie with bite, with Variety's Owen Gleiberman writing that Logan ``... brings the saga to a satisfying finish.»

What critics said: «Perfectly acceptable as an action movie but inspired as a comedy — which is probably where the Thor franchise should have been aiming from the start.»

Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, a cohost of a popular television movie review program, emerged as a major supporter of Kids after interviewing director Larry Clark at Cannes.

The movie, while only a modest box - office success, garnered impressive reviews from mainstream movie critics as well as an impressive 77 % on Rotten Tomatoes4 and a four and a half star rating on Amazon5, where the movie remains available for viewing.

The list of movie buildings collated by Construction Manager magazine using film critics include such movies as King Kong, Die Hard, The Shining, Get Carter and Blade Runner.

«There is something about a movie that is hidden to us, but there are measurable things, such as critic ratings, awards and referencing by other filmmakers, that hint at this hidden element — a movie's significance,» he said.

Critics Consensus: The plot is as barebones a space movie will allow, but The Last Starfighter captures an era and eager style of filmmaking well.

Wunder became «hooked» on the cinema in 1950 when his father took him to the premiere of George Pal's «DESTINATION MOON» Seminal films during Wunder's formative years as a critic were: The HORROR movies of the 1950's THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Kubrick VERTIGO (1958) Dir: Hitchcock ON THE BEACH (1959) Dir: Kramer MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir: Frankenheimer 2001 (1968) Dir: Kubrick Wunder graduated from college in 1963 as an Electrical Engineer and immediately got a union job as an associate film editor for MPO, then, the largest producer of commercial and industrial films in the US.

As a critic who complains about painless and brainless action movies, I hoist a glass of mead to the men and maidens of Ironclad.

Critic Consensus: This clever spy spoof plays politics and movie conventions for laughs and features a great turn by Jen Dujardin as a smarmy - suave nouveau - Bond.

I also know other moviegoers (and, unfortunately, plenty of critics) who believe Hollywood movies should be graded on the curve: We shouldn't scrutinize them too carefully or be so ridiculous as to expect them to be remotely intelligent or capable of subtlety.

As our descendants evolve, colonize more of their own brains, and approach the man - machine singularity, filmmakers can continue to add onto Lucy, and then some critic can add on to the end of this review because we'll never evolve beyond movie criticism.

Critic Consensus: The plot is as barebones a space movie will allow, but The Last Starfighter captures an era and eager style of filmmaking well.

Sullavan won the New York Film Critic's prize for her role here, and it was deserved: if Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner stands as her best movie, then this is certainly her best performance.

Critic Consensus: A somewhat disturbing movie that works as a suspenseful thriller, yet isn't completely satisfying.

I'm writing this not so much as a critic but as an ordinary moviegoer, experiencing Proustian transport via an old - fashioned scary movie executed by a team of filmmakers and actors at the top of their game.

Critics Consensus: Playing as both an exciting sci - fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.

I can still love something even if it means giving support to those critics who actually gave movies a great score such as this one.

Critics Consensus: A somewhat disturbing movie that works as a suspenseful thriller, yet isn't completely satisfying.

Critic Consensus: Playing as both an exciting sci - fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.

The Witch is one of those movies that makes pretentious movie critics **** their pants, but leaves everyone else confused as to why this is categorized as horror at all.

Critic Consensus: A must - see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard - hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best.

Amazing that there was a petition from a huge fanbase that enjoyed this «movie» to remove rotten tomatoes as a website, when it is simply a medium for critics and people to express their opinion, showing nothing but ignorance.

Critics seemed to have cooled on bizarrely praising the movies completely out of left field at this point as well, as Sharknado 3 hits the series» first negative rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film Creation, which some people take to refer to both the creation of the Origins book and the creation / evolution controversy, stars Paul Bettany, who is best known for his roles in popular movies such as «The Da Vinci Code,» «Master and Commander,» and «A Beautiful Mind» (in which he won the London Film Critics» Award for Best British Actor).

But in 1994, Burton again rode high in film - critic circles thanks to his long - awaited Ed Wood (1994), the biopic of another visionary filmmaker, Edward D. Wood Jr., widely celebrated as the worst director in movie history.

A Lover's Discourse was published in 1977, three years before Barthes's death and eleven years before Denis made her first feature, and he was certainly a known quantity among the Parisian cinephile generation of the 1970s, when Denis was coming of age — for example, before starring in Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973), Françoise Lebrun was a contributor to his journal Communications, and several critics, including Alain Philippon, have speculated as to Barthes's influence on the lovers» dialogues in Eustache's movie.

He went on to guest - star stints on such TV series as The Edge of Night and Spencer: For Hire before entering movies, where he scored with the critics for his portrayal of an idealistic, gung - ho Vietnam enlistee in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987).

He was Philadelphia Weekly's Lead Film Critic from 1999 through 2013, and worked as the Movies Section Contributing Editor at The Improper Bostonian from 2006 until 2014.

As a member of the Florida Film Critics Circle, most of his time is spent reviewing upcoming movies.

Previously, Frank had been a film critic for The Boston Banner (now The Bay State Banner) urban newspaper and had appeared on Boston's WBZ NewsRadio 1030 AM for an 11 - year run as a recurring media commentator / panelist on the «Movie / TV Night» overnight broadcasts.

It had been predicted two weeks ago that the critics would hate this movie, and as reflected by Rotton tomatoes, they all did.

Grainger first came to the attention of American audiences in the television series THE BORGIAS, and has appeared in such television productions as BONNIE & CLYDE, playing the titular role of Bonnie and earning nominations from the Critics» Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Movie or Mini-Series and the Satellite Award for Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television; and in LADY CHATTERLEY»S LOVER among others.

Long a pariah, Hopper was suddenly hailed as a major new filmmaker, and his success became so great that in 1971 he appeared in an autobiographical documentary, American Dreamer, exploring his life and times.The true follow - up to Easy Rider, however, was 1971's The Last Movie, an excessive, self - indulgent mess that, while acclaimed by jurors at the Venice Film Festival, was otherwise savaged by critics and snubbed by audiences.

Similar shifts characterize most of Fuller's late films as well as his 1980 novel, which veers from quaint in - jokes — such as naming all the French officers after French film critics who championed his earlier movies, including (Luc) Moullet, (Bertrand) Tavernier, and (Henri) Chapier — to terse epigraphs that suggest the dark poetry of someone like Lautreamont:» «Why are you crying?»

As a film critic and movie lover, my days of reading Roger's reviews and watching him spar with Gene Siskel go back as farRead MoreAs a film critic and movie lover, my days of reading Roger's reviews and watching him spar with Gene Siskel go back as farRead Moreas farRead More →

When I saw it last month, I feared that other critics might view it as a piece of over-the-top emotional schlock, or as an A-List Lifetime movie when it's anything but.

Critical polls conducted by Film Comment, indieWIRE, the Village Voice / LA Weekly, Cahiers du Cinéma and now the Los Angeles Film Critics Association have all chosen David Lynch's 2001 «Mulholland Dr.» as the best movie of the decade.

In other plaudits from the jury of the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci), Lukas Dhont's «Girl» took the nod for best film in Un Certain Regard; and «One Day,» directed by Zsófa Szilagyi, was chosen by the Fipresci jury as best movie in either Directors» Fortnight or Critics» Week.

I did not ever think the detail was so much as to make the movie feel cheap or fake, as many critics have claimed.