With excellent reviews out of Sundance, Hereditary is one of the best -
reviewed films of the year so far.
Mudbound, which features both black and white actors, has a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes, making it already one of the best -
reviewed films of the year.
Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room is one of the best
reviewed films of the year and we've teamed up with Lionsgate Home Video to giveaway a copy of the brand new Blu - ray to a ScreenAnarchy reader!
Currently one of the best -
reviewed films of the year of any kind after rave reactions at Sundance, the story follows a family who unravels cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
It obviously doesn't hurt that it was a giant blockbuster and one of the best
reviewed films of the year.
Mexico's official entry is not only one of the best
reviewed films of the year, but it's also doing very well at the box office (about $ 22 million at press time) and has garnered an astonishing six nominates (tied with «The Queen,» of all films, with the third most).
The year has just begun, but one film has already netted the coveted «best
reviewed film of the year» classification: Paddington 2.
But it will get a significant number of votes as it is beloved and the best
reviewed film of the year.
Gravity took the critics by storm, becoming one of the best
reviewed films of the year.
«Monsters, Inc.» gives Pixar six of Rotten Tomatoes» best
reviewed films of the year this century.
«The Return of the King» may have won Best Picture, but «The Two Towers» is the only «Lord of the Rings» film to earn the Rotten Tomatoes title of best
reviewed film of the year.
Another year, another Pixar movie being named Rotten Tomatoes» best
reviewed film of the year.
«The Social Network» was by any measure the best
reviewed film of the year therefore it only makes sense that it should sweep the critics» awards...
Roadside noted Sunday that the title is «so far tracking closely to open Road's 2014 hit, Chef, which opened and expanded similarly» last May, adding: «Whit Stillman's sparkling comedy starring Kate Beckinsale still sports a rare 99 % score on RT with over 100 reviews and is right now the bests
reviewed film of the year.»
Films like «Call Me By Your Name,» «Mudbound,» «The Disaster Artist,» and «The Florida Project» transitioned from previous festival bows to Toronto, and they continue to rank among the very best -
reviewed films of the year.
«Gravity» has 287 positive reviews, its the best
reviewed film of the year with the most reviews and still remains the most thrilling and accomplished film of 2013.
Like Wonder Woman (and Deadpool last year), it's a box office success from a comic book genre that is actually one of the best
reviewed films of the year.
Currently one of the best -
reviewed films of the year of any kind after rave...
One of the best
reviewed films of the year (it placed fourth in our our survey), Haynes excels in the smallest moments, the tactile particulars of period wardrobe, the longing in a look, the flashes of light across a window, charged details that accumulate an emotional power that pushes the film far beyond its sketchy social problem film plot toward a devastatingly romantic transcendence.
For evidence of that fact, just look at who's left out in the above scenario: Luca Guadagnino, whose Call Me by Your Name was one of the best -
reviewed films of the year, and Steven freaking Spielberg.
Not exact matches
via variety.com - The New York - based National Board
of Review has crowned Steven Spielberg's «The Post» the
year's best
film as the Oscar season's kudos circuit roars to life.
This time to do my Retin - A Update ~ Results on 51 Cosby starred and produced the disastrous Leonard Part 6, about an alien - fighting secret agent, a
film that received some
of the
year's worst
reviews and
I have been involved with DVD and
film review for eight
years, since the age
of sixteen.
Deneb's
Review: You may recall, a few
years back, there being a lot
of hoopla over a certain animated
film.
Though it's among the best -
reviewed movies
of the
year and is just about guaranteed to be 2011's # 1
film by earnings, don't expect Deathly Hallows Part 2 to score a Best Picture Academy Award win like Lord
of the Rings: Return
of the King did.
The
film did only a fraction
of the business
of, say, the previous
year's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but it did earn a few favorable
reviews even as it repulsed critics such as Roger Ebert.Thereafter, Fleming's career waxed extremely uneven from a critical standpoint, though his grosses remained generally favorable throughout and the projects kept rolling in.
The
film, directed by John Lee Hancock, won AFI's 2014 «Movie
of the
Year» Award and was recognized by the National Board
of Review in their «Top 10 Films» and chronicles the true story
of the development
of the 1964 Walt Disney
film Mary Poppins.
Another distributor that goes for the quantity and quality approach, Magnolia had one
of the
year's most popular documentaries in Blackfish and one
of critics» favorite foreign
films in The Hunt, even as its percentage
of films receiving positive
reviews dropped from 50 % in 2012 to 45 % last
year.
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).
Falling just one
film — and two points — short
of «perfection,» ARC scored negative
reviews for eight
of its nine releases last
year.
Even with the presence
of a rare outright misfire (Third Person, from Crash director Paul Haggis), SPC managed to boost its already - high average Metascore by a few points last
year, thanks to widely praised
films like Mr. Turner (the
year's # 2 drama, behind Boyhood), Leviathan (2014's best -
reviewed foreign - language
film), and Sundance hit Whiplash.
In all, Sony managed to collect terrible
reviews for a third
of its movies and saw its percentage
of films with positive
reviews drop from 42 % in 2012 to just 27 % last
year.
Just when you thought we were done with our
review of the past
year in
film (including our recent report on 2013's best and worst movies), we have one last look back to offer you: our annual evaluation
of movie studio performance.
While Lionsgate posted the
year's highest - grossing
film (domestically) in Catching Fire, that was one
of only three positively
reviewed films released by the studio in 2013.
The studio's total
of four positively
reviewed films last
year was just half
of its 2012 total.
And, out
of all distributors (including the indies), only six managed to avoid releasing a single negatively
reviewed film last
year — that's down from 10 such studios the previous
year.
Warners» success rate (
of films receiving positive
reviews from critics) dropped from 39 % in 2014 to just 16 % last
year, while the studio's average Metascore declined by four points.
But, though we graded Lionsgate a «D» in 2015 — a
year in which just three
of its
films received positive
reviews from critics — the quality
of the studio's output actually appears to be increasing, albeit slightly.
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.
In my
review of the first
film, I argued that Woodley seemed out -
of - sorts in an action - adventure
film, but a
year and a different haircut really made a world
of difference this time, with Woodley coming into her own here.
Earlier this
year I had posted a
review of Mark Wahlberg's then - latest
film, the Rupert Wyatt - directed drama The Gambler.
I can't wait to write my
review, but suffice it to say that it's unlike any
film you'll see this
year, just as its probably one
of the last gasps
of this kind
of film from a major studio, where the shock and awe comes from expert artistry
of the hand drawn variety rather than CGI (which Scorsese mastered in Hugo).
The National Board
of Review, the oldest
film organization to hand out
year - end awards and who almost always announce their awards first, didn't take that news lightly and revealed today that their winners will be announced on November 29th.
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.
Texas Chainsaw 3D, the first
film I get to
review this
year is actually one I saw a while back in December, Ruben Fleischer's (director
of one
of my favorite comedies
of recent
years, Zombieland, and one
of the most forgettable comedies
of recent
years, 30 Minutes Or Less) stylistic 1940s tale
of heroism, gangsters, and a colorful - but - corrupt Los Angeles, Gangster Squad.
The
film, also titled Youth in Revolt, is adapted from the book by screen writer Gustin Nash who made a minor splash last
year with Charlie Bartlett (our
review), directed by Miguel Arteta and stars Michael Cera in the title role
of Nick.
Asghar Farhadi's
film has already been
reviewed for the site by Jansen, but as I wanted to see it badly since Cannes (and also because Blue is the Warmest Colour is one
of the hardest
films to get into this
year) I took the chance to catch it.
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).
It's one
of the best
films of the
year, period... Full
Review
The series - crowning crossover success
of «Skyfall» three
years ago — yielding not just $ 1 billion worldwide but breathless
reviews, two Oscars and even a BAFTA for best British
film — places «Spectre» in a tricky returning position.