After reading
some other reviews of this film, a common theme was that many felt there were too many guest cameos taking away from the films plot.
Not exact matches
And so the
other day, when I read a
review of the new London rom - com «Man Up» and saw another dating blogger slagging off the choice
of date venue in the
film — The South Bank — I have to admit I was taken aback.
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films as well as DVD recommendations in For Your Queue, tales
of general woe in So That Happened, and
other fascinating reportings.
In my own
reviews, I have always maintained that
films should be able to stand on their own regardless
of their relationship to any predecessors, successors or any
other relation.
Michael O'Sullivan has covered the arts for The Washington Post since 1993, contributing
reviews and features on
film, fine art, theater and
other forms
of entertainment to Style and Weekend.
Content warning: this
review (and the
film under
review) contains discussion
of anorexia and
other eating disorders.
This must be the age
of bliss for Harry being he loves absolutly every movie he sees... it's fairly obvious he's being paid off, after the Batman And Robin fiasco (back when the site was pure) studios realized how powerful this kinda site can be so they decided to give knowles a wad
of cash to give their
films a good
review... Only reason Star Trek Nemesis didn't get a good
review was because Moriarty and
others bashed Rick Berman so much he didn't wan na give them Money he was so insulted... everyone do a favor and goto http://www.corona.bc.ca/
films it's a real movie lovers site withreal
reviews and NEWS... no shit about how they got the news or that they think the
film reminds them
of from their youth, just news..
Netflix recently premiered the third
film of Sandler's original deal, «Sandy Wexler,» which is getting more positive
reviews than his
other ventures on the platform.
As a
film critic and movie lover, my days
of reading Roger's
reviews and watching him spar with Gene Siskel go back as far as I can remember to when I was a little kid watching movies instead
of playing outside with the
other neighbor kids.
We'll have a full
review from our own Jacob Hall who is down in Austin, Texas for the
film's premiere (among
other things), but until then, fans can satiate their appetite for a new
film from the director
of Shaun
of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim vs the World with the trailer for this new
film.
At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need
of support for a moribund Australian
film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes
of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing
film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature
films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images
of Australia, The Legend
of Fred Paterson, and numerous
others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in
Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array
of companies and government bodies, contributed
film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia
of Documentary
Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.
We bring you mainstream
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Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video
review to provide context via clips
of the
film is a step beyond what the vast majority
of populist or even academic
film criticism has done in the past, let alone
other related
films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.
Said
review must be original content and the use
of editing press releases, sampling or interpolating
other film reviews, or providing mere plot synopsis or studio - provided summaries, without actual critique, will not qualify as a completed
review.
Women writing
reviews were most likely to hold the job title
of staff writer (35 %), followed by
film critic (29 %), freelancer (29 %), or some
other type
of critic (8 %).
Men critics in areas
other than
film wrote an average
of 6
film reviews whereas women with this job title wrote an average
of 3
film reviews.
The sample included
reviews written by
film critics;
other types
of critics including those for television, music, and popular culture; staff reporters; and
When the first, «Flags
of Our Fathers,» stumbled out
of the gate despite strong
reviews, Warner Bros. rushed «Letters from Iwo Jima» into theatres later in the fall, largely in the hopes that one
film would elevate the
other.
Not only are women outnumbered as
film critics, staff writers,
other types
of critics, and freelancers, women also
review fewer
films on average than men.
We've been
reviewing movies and DVDs since we first launched Bullz-Eye.com so we have a huge archive
of film reviews along with
other features and a web guide.
Other FF2 Media posts include «Hidden Figures and the music
of the spheres» along with
film reviews of Tommy's
Black Panther has arrived, and we are thrilled to get to give a no - spoiler
review of this amazing
film, along with the
other flicks to be seen in theaters this week:
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Samson, Early Man and The Female Brain.
Now we have Twisted, and the hardest part in
reviewing this
film is not stating whether or not I liked it — it's trying not to confuse it with any
of the
other thrillers in the process.
For the purposes
of this
review, I decided to put my own personal prejudices aside (as much as I can anyway), and pretend I know nothing about Paris Hilton or Jason Mewes (Clerks II), treating this
film like any
other that I might happen to see on a daily basis with no - name stars.
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.
From Kevin Jagernauth's Playlist
review: «This is a
film that desires to say something about how we relate to each
other, and how the often overlooked consequences
of our actions can refract down avenues we could never expect.
Some
of these launched at prestige fall
film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»);
others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad
reviews or audience reaction, or both.
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.
Over the next seven days, we'll cover these and dozens
of other films in the TIFF lineup, filing capsule
reviews of everything we see.
Other films reviewed include Bite, Tale
of Tales and Phantom
of the Theater, and the show wraps up with bold box office predictions and the world - famous home cinema round - up!
The Buzz: The first two «Pirates»
films made buckets
of money — despite scathing
reviews, in the case
of the second installment — so there's no reason to expect «At World's End» to be anything
other than a tentpole picture for Disney all summer long.
Black Panther has arrived, and we are thrilled to get to give a no - spoiler
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I loved the last Robert Aldrich
film I
reviewed, The Flight
of the Phoenix, and I'm a fan
of some
of his
other classics, such as Kiss Me Deadly and The Dirty Dozen, so it didn't take much to convince me to
review one
of his last
films, 1977's Twilight's Last Gleaming.
Given the
reviews from both coasts and nearly everywhere in between it just wouldn't make sense if any
film other than «The Social Network» won both
of these groups» best picture awards.
As Roger Ebert put it in his positive
review of the
film, Hughes»
films made an «honest attempt to create teenagers who might seem plausible to
other teenagers.»
As with
other reviews, my main issue with the
film was the shallow take on the moral dilemma
of the story with the timely spaceship mishap allowing a neat and tidy wrap - up.
In 1997, Mr. Bean made a jump to the big screen in the poorly -
reviewed Bean (sometimes subtitled The Movie), a
film that did modest business in the States but was sensationally attended in
other parts
of the world.
Many
of his
other film reviews feature many
of the same issues I have with this one, his opinions.
The Oscar contender starring Saoirse Ronan was «certified fresh» with a 100 percent score earlier this month, but now officially reigns over all
other films on the website with 165
reviews (Toy Story 2 has a score
of 100 percent, with 163
reviews).
One is that this is all incidental and happens to give them some kind
of moral background to stop the killer (but they could / do have morality coming from
other sources) or Two, a propaganda
film (the way most critics took it, making it one
of the worst -
reviewed films of Eastwood's career) that says because «God was on their side» and the like, they were ready and even protected just enough to «defeat evil» because
of U.S. «moral exceptionalism» or the like.
After watching The Ultimate Gift and jotting down some initial thoughts, I elected to read a few
other reviews to see what
others thought
of the
film.
In a
review for New York magazine's Vulture.com, Emily Yoshida added, «There's a kind
of late afternoon enchantment that wafts over the
film and keeps the characters fixated on some
other life they could be living.
On the
other hand, with a Metacritic score
of 49/100, the
film was always going to have to overcome some stinging critical rebukes, including the Guardian's two - star
review.
But in
reviewing the 945 top - grossing
films since 1950, the researchers behind the report for the American Academy
of Pediatrics did identify several PG - 13 titles that had a noticeably higher level
of violent acts per hour than
other similarly rated movies.
Reviewing Transformers 3 is a bit
of a quandary, on the one - hand it is undoubtedly a better cinematic outing than Transformers 2, so low expectations are met and slightly heightened, but on the
other hand
films shouldn't really be congratulated for being slightly better than the eye - gouging you had anticipated.
Kyle's
Review: More so than any
other film in the Nightmare series, just edging out New Nightmare, Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors stands out as an impressive and worthy addition to the accumulated collection
of True Horror Classics.
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Reviews New to DVD: Hot Lead & Cold Feet (1978) The Cat From Outer Space (1978)
Other Disney
films with the cast
of North Avenue Irregulars: Freaky Friday (1977) The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
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).
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.
He also sounds off about the upcoming Lion King remake before
reviewing the
other new
films: Deepwater Horizon, Masterminds, Queen
of Katwe and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.