Read our full
review of the film at the end of the link above.
Not exact matches
In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she
reviewed about 1,000 hours
of archival footage, including
of images
of lynchings, cellphone videos
of police abuse, and The Birth
of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith
film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened
at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).
Good Releases are
films receiving a Metascore
of at least 61 out
of 100, indicating generally positive
reviews from top professional critics.
MoneyWeek's
film theatre and book
reviews — A look
at some
of the best financial books on the shelves
at the moment, plus
film and theatre
reviews.
CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off
at the box office In spite
of tepid
reviews from some
film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming
at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group
of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.
Why am I reading a
film review of Fast and Furious 6 when I decided
at age 13, after seeing 2 Fast, 2 Furious, that I was too old for anything involving Paul Walker?
Markus blogs on issues
of missional leadership
at MarkusWatson.com and has published
film reviews for the quarterly journal, Visual Parables.
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.
generates a «sour»
review they could (in theory) change the end
of that very show as soon as they read it... the Story NXT tells is set on
film (digital file) 4 days to 4 weeks before the Audience sees it, to adjust their sails for that would require back stage re-shoots and post production edits (look
at Impact scrambling to re-write their Pre-tape to cover for ADR's release)... easier to let it ride, see if the opinions stay sour, and then IF Needed adjust the angle for the next taping,
at which time they'll have a better idea for the correction and can make it look more organic
Scouting reports on Kennedy became trickier and trickier as the season rolled on because any
film review would show the depth
of personnel the Titans had
at their disposal.
Addison Cooper, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and the founder
of Adoption
at the Movies, where he has
reviewed over a hundred
films for foster and adoptive families.
In Syracuse, within minutes
of arriving
at the Sheraton, he was yelling into a cellphone, arguing with The Villager, the newspaper that publishes his
film reviews, over reimbursement for two $ 9.50 movie tickets.
Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer -
reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms
of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development
of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure
of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development
of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties
of oxide and semiconductor thin
films; and model studies
of adhesion
at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.
So maybe the
film isn't garnering rave
reviews, but
at least we get to look
at Bad Gal RiRi wearing lots
of jaw - dropping fashion.
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
Entertainment One is one
of just two distributors (with
at least 7 releases) in 2015 to fail to release a single positively
reviewed film.
If you've enjoyed the 19 -
film ride so far (I have, immensely), none
of the «negative» Infinity War
reviews published (
at least not the ones I've read) should generate any angst.
From the sands
of Iwo Jima, to the rocky cliffs
at Normandy, brush up on history with these best -
reviewed, all time classic World War II
films.
Laura Poitras» thrilling look
at the Edward Snowden affair (and government snooping in general) is one
of the year's best -
reviewed documentaries (and possibly this month's best new
film, period).
Sony's autonomous specialty
films division was also one
of eight distributors (with
at least seven releases) to avoid releasing a negatively
reviewed film in all
of 2011.
Defying Columbia chief Harry Cohn's demand that he change his last name lest the critics take advantage
of it in negative
reviews, Lemmon quickly made a positive impression in his first
film, the Judy Holliday comic hit It Should Happen to You (1954) and quickly became a reliably nimble comic presence
at Columbia.
In the gallery above, we've identified 30 filmmakers from the past four decades who have directed
at least five features but have managed to receive positive
reviews for just a single one
of their
films.
And, as you can see below in our quick look back
at the last two decades
of best picture nominees, having the best
reviews among just the nominated
films isn't even enough to guarantee a win.
Word -
of - mouth on Reservoir Dogs began to build
at the 1992 Sundance
Film Festival, which led to scores
of glowing
reviews, making the
film a cult hit.
In addition to his studio
films, Monaghan garnered excellent
reviews and a lot
of buzz
at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for his performance in JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD, which was a Sundance 2014 Official Selection in the dramatic competition.
Having won the Golden Lion
at this year's Venice International Film Festival and a Special Filmmaking Achievement Award (but no mention in the ten best
films list) from the National Board
of Review, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere is one
of the more highly anticipated independent releases
of December, especially if you liked her previous
films.
I was not solely thinking about Ebert's essay (he hasn't written a
review that I have seen so far), but also Tod Browning's FREAKS which even has a bit
of a similar ending, Sam Fuller's Naked Kiss which has the female lead «realize» a horrific situation
at the and several modern
films.
To me, this
review and the last few comments seem like a complete misreading
of the
film - based, as one earlier commentator stated, on Haneke's earlier work and his particular way
of making movies, rather than the actual movie
at hand and its context.
We love «
review proof movies» because you readers already know that (you) are going to buy the tickets and take the kids, all
of whom are champing
at the bit «cuz the first
film was so much fun.
Is every reviewer
at Slant unable to give a concise
review of a
film without spoiling the ending?
REVIEW: Z FOR ZACHARIAH may have the trappings
of a genre
film, but
at its core it is a straight morality tale not all that different from director Craig Zobel's last
film, COMPLIANCE.
I spent a lot
of my
review (in all versions
of it) addressing audience expectations
of the
film rather than
reviewing the
film itself,
at least not as directly as perhaps I would normally.
The rush paid off:
At least judging from the Screen International scores, «You Were Never Really Here» was one
of the two best -
reviewed films of the 19 in competition.
The story
of a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and launches her own talk show, the
film was
reviewed at the Toronto
Film Festival.
«
At the time, there were
reviews of the
film that said they didn't even watch the second half
of the movie because they had to go to the toilet to throw up.»
According to a tipster over
at Latino
Review, Zlotoff is apparently in the midst
of filing a massive lawsuit against Relativity Media with the hopes
of not only blocking the
film's release, but also getting a sizable settlement from them.
Steven Zeitchik
at the LA Times steers clear
of reviewing the
film but does cover the Q&A afterwards.
It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing
film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional
film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence
of professional
film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack
of regular
film reviews of new Chinese movies,
at least for the mass audiences.
After a slew
of negative
reviews out
of Fantastic Fest, the filmmakers behind Applecart took their
film back to the editing bay to retool it for a fresh premiere
at last year's Cinepocalypse in Chicago.
Look
at Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and this
review's subject, Escape from New York: That's quite a run
of films that are well remembered by many fans today, even if they didn't all set the box office ablaze.
Language: English Genre: Documentary / Biography MPAA rating: R Director: Steve James Actors: Roger Ebert, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese Plot: A look
at the life and cultural impact
of Roger Ebert, one
of the world's renowned
film critics and social commentators - from his Pulitzer Prize
film reviews, to his long career with Gene Siskel to his late - life battle with cancer - it a both a poignant and insightful look into Ebert's world.
Ti West's latest
film In a Valley
of Violence (my
review) had its premiere
at the 30th Annual SXSW Music,
Film and Interactive Conferences...
It is hard to remember how few serious
film critics held podiums twenty years ago (when Time magazine carried more influence, for that matter, than all the rest
of the media combined — among the handful
of moviegoers who read
reviews at all).
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.
Franco, brother Dave Franco, and Seth Rogen are amongst the cast
of the
film, which we
reviewed rather positively
at the Toronto International
Film Festival back in September.
Fox announces their distrust
of critics with this title by splaying «Property
of 20th Century Fox Publicity Department» in huge letters across the screen for the duration
of the
film on both sides of the disc (the first time a major studio has done so since DreamWorks sent out advanced copies of the Gladiator Signature Selection in 2000 — which is why you never saw a review of it at FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the im
film on both sides
of the disc (the first time a major studio has done so since DreamWorks sent out advanced copies
of the Gladiator Signature Selection in 2000 — which is why you never saw a
review of it
at FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the im
FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment
of the image.
Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing
film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark
of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated
film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave
reviews and more than $ 100 million
at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.
This writer was lucky enough to catch the
film early
at Comic - Con last month (read my glowing
review here), and coming fresh off a double feature
of Shaun
of the Dead and Hot Fuzz
at The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, I can't wait to see it again.
Fox Searchlight also premiered a third
film to positive
reviews at the festivals, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» «Battle
of the Sexes.»
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!!!