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Jennifer Lawrence struggled to tell the difference between wine reviews and reviews of her films while taking part in a fun political video campaign.

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It's too soon to tell (and Netflix never releases viewership statistics), but the 62 % of the movie's audience reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, while the film currently has a rating of 7.0 (out of 10) from users on Metacritic.

It was a major shift — and one that took a while to catch on; first used with The Princess and the Frog, a well - reviewed film with disappointing sales, it began to catch hold with Tangled (2010) and Wreck - it - Ralph (2012), each of which outperformed financial and critical expectations.

Not only did Hayes end the game with either 3 or 3.5 sacks (pretty sure one of his half sacks may be turned into a full sack after film review), but he accomplished this while taking down Russell Wilson, one of the league's most elusive quarterbacks, maybe in in NFL history.

While star Johnny Depp's singing earned mixed reviews — and the movie dropped or shortened some of Sondheim's songs — the film as a whole received plenty of critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe for best picture (with Depp himself earning an Oscar nomination for his 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.

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.

Despite all of those well - reviewed films, however, the studio's overall average score dropped nearly six points from 2010, while its box office grosses declined slightly.

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.

And the result is a mix of tones that works, with our review from the Venice Film Festival declaring that, «while the film flirts with a number of genres genres — melodrama, comedy, coming - of - age — it ultimately lands closest to being Green's first western by the time it reaches its conclusion.»

It also received highly positive reviews with some critics lauding it for doing the near - impossible task of compressing more than a dozen superheroes in a film that while feeling overstuffed never overwhelms moviegoers with exposition.

The film is, as I wrote in my own review, an immaculate and often startling piece of work, and while I think Haneke has made richer, more satisfying films in his career, I'm already looking forward to revisiting this one.

While it's about a young child facing her father's fading health and an impending environmental disaster (not to mention a herd of prehistoric monsters migrating ominously towards them) in a fictional part of the U.S. called «The Bathtub,» the emotionally rousing «Beasts of the Southern Wild» is simply an inspiring and celebratory look at love, loss and life that's moving and passionate in the way few films are these days (read our review).

Our reviews aim for critical analysis of film's many aesthetics while talent interviews offer insight into the filmmaking process.

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.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

While the rest of us sit at home and wait for the latest trailers and reviews to give us a glimpse of what's new in the film world, some of the luckier critics were able to flock to Canada for the Toronto International Film Festival.

And while the splashy, claret - coated opera of the original Godfather is the film that kicked it all of, and The Godfather Part III is, well... y ’ know, it is perhaps (and certainly for the purposes of this review) the second instalment of director Francis Ford Coppola's sprawling Mafia opus upon which the Godfather trilogy's sepia - hued reputation pivots.

The Theory of Everything has lost some level of traction since its release and while reviews for the lead performances have been very positive, reviews for the film as a whole have been decidedly mixed.

This film gets generally positive reviews and while I generally loathe to criticize Woody Allen's films, this isn't one of his best in spite of the Academy Awards won.

And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 201of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 201Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 201of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 201of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.

She got her chance at the University Of Iowa, where she double - majored in journalism and film, started freelancing reviews to the university's newspaper, and wound up running its Arts & Entertainment section while giving herself a crash course in cinema via VHS and Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion.

Tasha Robinson (Senior Editor) grew up with limited access to movies, but a great deal of access to film criticism, and she voraciously read reviews while imagining a future where she'd get to actually see the movies she was reading about.

While I haven't had the chance to see this film yet, I've heard great things and seen lots of great reviews since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

While the headline of my review for David Lowery's feature debut was «Ain't Them Bodies Saints Sure Is Pretty, But It Ain't Quite Divine» I do think it's a film that folks really need to get out and see as I'd rather have more American indies like this than The Spectacular Now or Kings Of Summeof my review for David Lowery's feature debut was «Ain't Them Bodies Saints Sure Is Pretty, But It Ain't Quite Divine» I do think it's a film that folks really need to get out and see as I'd rather have more American indies like this than The Spectacular Now or Kings Of SummeOf Summer.

While there is no formal text review of the film around here, Andrew, Matt & Myself talk about some of this in our latest Row Three Cinecast

We received the former for review, which contains a 2.35:1 transfer of the film in anamorphic video; the image is quirky in accordance with John Seale's cinematography: grain is overemphasized in several climactic shots, as if to ground the ludicrous plot machinations in some kind of hard - edged reality, while blacks are chalky throughout and detail has a filtered quality — a Lawrence Kasdan trademark.

The National Board of Review has named the dystopian - future blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road the best film of the year, while the box office goliath The Martian grabbed three awards, taking best actor for Matt Damon, best director for Ridley Scott and best adapted screenplay for Drew Goddard.

While Foxtrot did earn the distinction of being named The National Board of Review's best foreign film of the year, it was unfortunately not chosen as one of the Oscar nominated five.

I managed to convince the producers of Jo - Maxi (old RTE magazine show) to let me do their film reviews for a while.

No More Cannes for Lars von Trier: While Lars von Trier's latest, Melancholia, premiered at Cannes to decent reviews, the success of the film is entirely overshadowed by its writer - director's poor behavior.

The majority of films I review are first time watches or at least films that I haven't seen for a while.

DVD Review: While the film didn't fare as well as its previous successors, «Blade: Trinity» certainly has been given the finest DVD treatment of the bunch.

Spotlight review: While not the strongest of this year's awards contenders, Spotlight is one of the most important films of all time.

Avengers: Infinity War also received highly positive reviews with some critics lauding it for accomplishing the near - impossible task of compressing more than a dozen superheroes in a film that while feeling overstuffed never overwhelms moviegoers with exposition.

While 2013 has given us many cinematic gems to behold (Click film title for review of film)-- Captain Phillips, Gravity, Mud, Les Mis, Lincoln and ofcourse Life of Pi to name but a few, there are many still to come before the dawning of the new year.

While I do plan on reviewing several more of the films that I saw at Sundance over the next few weeks, I did want to give everyone my personal picks for the best and worst of Sundance 2015.

And while many reviews at the time praised Malick's incredible attention to detail (particularly in Jack Fisk's stunning production design), it is the philosophical underpinnings of the film, at least in its 172 - minute director's cut, that resonated for me this week.

For some, it's a commonly unspoken rule that while critics purport a policy of impartiality to all their reviews, there is a slanted favor towards films from the indie scene.

After a couple of days in post-screening limbo, the reviews for «The Reader» are in, and while there's much praise for the film, I suspect the response may not be quite what Harvey Weinstein was hoping for.

That was met with a negative reaction by many, albeit unfairly so — you can read our balanced review of the movie here — while some quarters of the online film community took against Netflix for releasing the film, instead it being released in cinemas, branding the project with the outdated stigma of a straight to VOD release.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer gave the movie a C, writing that «too much of a good thing isn't always a good thing... great gobs of this movie about the famously obtuse newscaster are scattershot and dim and obvious,» while the movie holds a score of 61 out of 100 on review aggregator website Metacritic.

McDormand's performance is a huge reason why Three Billboard's is one of the year's must see films and one of recent times best reviewed features, but McDonagh's film is also noteworthy for its supporting turns from Woody Harrelson as police chief William Willoughby, who cops the major brunt of Hayes public call outs, while Sam Rockwell is the best he's been since Moon as loose cannon police officer Dixon.

And while it's beyond doubt that every review of this film must mention Heathers at least once (I've gone... Read more»

And while it's beyond doubt that every review of this film must mention Heathers at least once (I've gone and done it twice now) as the go - to precursor, that isn't to suggest that this film is bereft of original ideas and its own serrated and incisive manner.

But while the reviews of Zemeckis» films were for the most part slightly favorable, the box office returns were regularly beneath expectations, which were heightened on the bases of the filmmaker's steep budgets and strong track record.

Reviews are rolling in for the new adaptation of Stephen King's It, and while you could not pay me enough money to sit through this film, by all accounts this one is a creepy clown triumph.

While the reviews might be on both sides of the fence one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that this is a «twisted dark nightmare of a film» and «freaky as hell».

It seems like Roger had a similar love - hate relationship with Jarmusch over his career, giving him plenty of positive reviews, including four stars for «Mystery Train» and «Broken Flowers,» while also hating «The Limits of Control» and this film, which he gave only a star and a half.

Armando Iannucci's comedy is the star performer of the weekend, while the Gerard Butler disaster film overcomes savage reviews to climb into No 2 spot