I may have claimed that Lifetime makes better movies than one of the ones I reviewed... Click on the links below to
find my reviews of each film.
Not exact matches
I typed «stay - at - home daughter» into Google, and
found my way to a
review of the documentary «Return
of the Daughters,» a
film I'd seen and that was exalted by most
of the women I knew.
Find our
review of his new
film To the Wonder here.
London About Blog There Ought to be Clowns is a brilliant place to
find reviews of plays, musical theatre, TV and
film, describing itself as a «theatrical diary» which actually turns out to be a very accurate description.
Here you'll
find reviews of the latest
films as well as DVD recommendations in For Your Queue, tales
of general woe in So That Happened, and other fascinating reportings.
Personalize hundreds
of music Study
finds store receipts could be making you sick 11 Things You Can Get for Free at an Airport Rotten Tomatoes reveals the best -
reviewed film of all time
As for the story, it has potential but fails to follow through; writes the Guardian in a two - star
review typical
of the overall reaction, «Byzantium starts to introduce issues that you'd seldom
find in most vampire
films, before cutting
of the blood and leaving them to die.»
What do you reasonably expect to
find in a
review of a
film that has been so ruthlessly engineered to target the pleasure - centers
of the most fearful and fragile cohort
of American maleness?
For the remainder
of the
review, you'll
find highlights or tidbits that don't give away any plot points that merely serve as an enticement to see the
film.
Check out my Hack The Movi3s
review of this
film to
find out all the good bits!
Vittorio Storaro comments at some length on the color symbolism in Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which he shot, demonstrating more critical insight into how the
film works and what it's about than we are likely to
find in
reviews, and there are similarly revealing commentaries from Michael Chapman about the iconographic and stylistic sources
of Raging Bull (Life magazine and the photographs
of Weegee) and from Hall about the role played by chance in the lighting
of a scene from In Cold Blood, where the shadows
of raindrops appear to be running down Robert Blake's face.
Click through for my sit - down interview with Mark Levinson, my
reviews of the
films and the above cool poster is a totally awesome
find by Pete at Central Track!!!
His
film Stealing Beauty (1996, 20th Century Fox, $ 19.98) received mixed
reviews at the time, but I
find it to be one
of his most sublime achievements, filled with a sunny laziness and slow awakening.
Film criticism is not something people seek out unless they either love
film or
find the critic entertaining on their own — the issue may be more pronounced in the era
of the Internet and
review aggregators, but it's certainly not a new issue.
Indeed, having just re-read my 2004
review of that
film, I
find I could change the names, cut and paste it, and be discussing this
film.
The National Board
of Review, a collection
of film enthusiasts and academics
founded in 1909, is better known for packing its annual awards dinner (to be hosted by Willie Geist on January 9) with big names than for predicting Oscars.
by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point
of quiet desperation needed to begin
reviewing porn,
find here a smelted cheddar
of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth
film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return
of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.
The only way I made it through the remainder
of the
film was to begin my list
of people I no longer have any respect for; you can
find it at the top
of my
review, right after the word «Starring.»
Tepid
reviews and dismal box office performance put this movie at odds with the directors» previous efforts, but fans
of the
film will nevertheless be pleased to
find the DVD and Blu - ray release on store shelves this Tuesday, January 26.
The news comes as the
film from producer Scott Rudin, and his IACF partner Barry Diller, earned rave
reviews at the 2014 Toronto International
Film Festival, such as Scott Foundas» comments in Variety: «Rock has finally
found a big - screen vehicle for himself that comes close to capturing the electric wit, shrewd social observations and deeply autobiographical vein
of his standup comedy.»
Out
of all the
reviews you will
find on my site, Xanadu is perhaps the
film I feel the most guilty for liking.
In looking back at my
review of the director's previous
film, «The Place Beyond the Pines,» — obviously he likes to either be «between» or «beyond,» I
found the following comment:
As a lifelong avid fan
of feature and independent
films, Judy also
founded the Award winning, immensely popular website, theflickchicks.com., which carries her weekly movie
reviews, coverage
of red carpet premieres,
film festivals and conventions, and other articles related to the motion picture industry.
A whole range
of material can be
found here: interviews,
reviews, selections
of Carné's
film criticism, information on the Carné team, and links to other resources.
Look at the collected
reviews of Pauline Kael since the early 70s, when academic
film study in the U.S. was just getting started, and you'll be hard put to
find a shred
of evidence in more than two decades
of energetic writing that such studies existed at all.
The financial realities facing movies often have no place in my
reviews — I
find it boring if not depressing to bring up numbers and statistics, and I'm sure I've already lost people here — but I feel an obligation to come to the defense
of producer Scott Rudin, who said damn the torpedoes and pushed through Garland's original vision for the
film, despite fears from Paramount over Annihilation posing too much
of an intellectual challenge for the general moviegoing public.
You will not read a single
review of Bad News Bears that does not compare it to both Michael Ritchie's original 1976 crowd pleaser and to Terry Zwigoff's brilliantly hilarious Bad Santa (2003), and those comparisons will
find the new
film wanting.
It's received mixed
reviews and most
of the critics I respect
found it wanting — it certainly has none
of the depth or resonance
of the
films of Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale) or Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours)-- but I
found myself won over by Klapisch's good will and the charm
of the superb cast.
- Roger, from his 3 star
review of the latest Harry Potter
film, which you can
find HERE
I'm pleased to
find that this
film has held up well for me on each subsequent viewing from immediate revisitation in the summer
of 2002 to another look in July 2004 to a
review of the tardy 20th Anniversary Edition DVD in early 2009 and, now at my most critical state to date, in the summer
of 2013 when Oliver & Company makes its Blu - ray debut in a 25th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + DVD combo pack alongside two
of the studio's less esteemed, sequel-less «animated classics.»
The
film premiered at Sundance late last week to relatively positive
reviews (we were lukewarm) and it follows «a woman (Keri Russell) obsessed with the BBC production
of «Pride and Prejudice «who travels to an Austen - styled England resort to
find her perfect gentleman.»
I
reviewed the
film out
of Cannes and
found it singularly strained and irritating — the kind
of thing described as «quintessentially English» by -LSB-...]
Founded in 2005 by Cole Dabney and Bobby McCurdy, the AFCA has seen its membership grow to over two dozen members with a diverse roster
of professional
film critics who regularly
review movies for national television stations, daily newspapers, weekly alternatives, local radio, monthly magazines, and websites with international prominence.
From my
review (
found here)
of the
film:
Your
reviews for this incredibly tepid and uninspired disappointment and Rogue One are, in my humble opinion, the finest examples
of a
film review to be
found these days.
Ever since I saw Cooties in 2014 and fought with our
founding editor in order to
review the
film (I lost out,
of course) I've been anxious to see how Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott would follow up on their...
As a recap, you can
find two lists below
of ALL
reviews of Sundance
films published over the last two weeks.
If you go back over the daily
reviews of Pickpocket, Les Dames Du Bois De Bologne, Au Hasard Balthazar — an easy matter now that The Times has reprinted its
film criticism through 1970 — you will
find, not disrespect, but such outright incomprehension that the reviewer might never have experienced, let alone understood, the
film.
If not, you'll certainly
find no shortage
of reviews from caustic critics so quick to rip a
film lacking in snark and sarcasm.
The first important thing to note in this or any
review of the most anticipated
film of 2016 is that Fantastic Beasts and Where to
Find Them is not a sequel to the Harry Potter
films.
He has been
reviewing films for a couple
of years and has
found a niche in queer world cinema.
Found below are my capsule
reviews of the feature
films and documentaries from this year's festivals.
Unbroken has garnered mixed
reviews from a number
of prominent critics, but I
found it to be quite a beautiful, poignant and moving
film throughout.
What was greeted with relative fanfare upon release (I myself gave it a four - star
review my sophomore year
of high school) now seems fairly bland when placed in comparison with the other
films, neither exciting (as I
found Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban) nor excruciating (as I
found Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire).
Finally, because a friend
of mine was recommending The Stop Button as a perceptive and effective online
film review site and navigated to it and
found a
review of Ghost Rider, mortifying him.
My more detailed thoughts about the
film itself can be
found in my original
review of the Dolby Digital DVD, but The Haunting provides an unusual case in that more than any other movie I can recall, my enjoyment
of the story stemmed largely from the audio.
As my
review of that
film notes, I really enjoyed Deepwater Horizon, but I
found myself with one semi-prominent complaint: the manner in which it threatened to trivialize the real - life drama.
Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» becomes best -
reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes, Disney
finds its live - action «Mulan,» and «The Post» star Meryl Streep laments the lack
of gender parity
It's hard to
find a horror movie with overwhelmingly favorable critical marks, so congratulations for
finding It Follows, one
of 2015's best -
reviewed films in any genre.
As a highly sought after acquisitions title, the chances
of finding a spot at Sundance increase by ten-fold and it helps that Sundance discovered the filmmaker and launched his career and debut
film The Eyes
of My Mother (
review) in 2016.