|
|
51%
|
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) |
"
It's a strange hybrid, and not entirely a successful one, but hey, at least it's trying something different."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 28, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
45%
|
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
"
Like the Civil War re-enactments featured in the final action scene, it all looks insane on the surface, but has a mighty power to suck you in."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
13%
|
Safe Haven (2013) |
"
Safe Haven doesn't have a whole lot to offer, with a plot so familiar and stars so uninterested in each other, and its resolution only undermines what it's truly best at being-- a cheap North Carolina vacation. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 14, 2013
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
Side Effects (2013) |
"
A twisty and surprisingly sexy thriller that, despite its heat, is actually about how cold and disconnected the world can be. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Feb 5, 2013
|
|
2/5
|
32%
|
Gangster Squad (2013) |
"
Gangster Squad is bloody, sloppy and far dumber than it looks, a Hollywood spectacle of slo-mo bullets and explosions perfectly calibrated to be soulless. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jan 9, 2013
|
|
3/5
|
62%
|
Jack Reacher (2012) |
"
Jack Reacher errs on the side of taking itself too seriously, and in simplifying the story becomes more of a standard-issue action thriller-- while most of us know that Reacher and Cruise are capable of something more"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Dec 19, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
10 Years (2012) |
"
To hate 10 Years is like hating the enthusiastic girl who organizes your high school reunion-- can you really be so mean when so much effort was made and a reasonably good time was had by all?"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Dec 5, 2012
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Zero Dark Thirty (2013) |
"
Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Dec 4, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) |
"
For its occasional moments of excess and unhurried pace, An Unexpected Journey is proof that Jackson still has a knack for stories in this world."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Dec 3, 2012
|
|
|
88%
|
Life of Pi (2012) |
"
It's a movie cinema lovers can rally behind and gawk at forever."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Nov 20, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
86%
|
Wreck-it Ralph (2012) |
"
The world created in the movie is so utterly fascinating that I desperately want to see what other kind of amazing, creative tales can be told within it. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Nov 11, 2012
|
|
5.5
|
64%
|
Anna Karenina (2012) |
"
Anna Karenina is a massive, boldly imagined work, the rare novel adaptation that's purely, thrillingly cinematic. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Nov 11, 2012
|
|
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
Flight is a messy return to live-action filmmaking for Zemeckis, but its strongest scenes -- and especially that plane crash -- are reason enough to be glad he's back. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 15, 2012
|
|
|
92%
|
Skyfall (2012) |
"
Skyfall isn't just a great Bond film, it's the character's resurrection."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 14, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Lincoln (2012) |
"
If only modern American politics were remotely as entertaining."
—
Guardian [UK]
Posted Oct 9, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
The Paperboy (2012) |
"
It's both a little too serious and a lot too silly to strike that powerful campy chord. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 4, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
As energetic children's entertainment with a twist it works fine, but Frankenweenie has the elements to go further before it settles for something that feels too familiar. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 3, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
Pitch Perfect (2012) |
"
Pitch Perfect takes what ought to be a story with limited appeal and makes it so hilarious you can't deny it."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Dredd (2012) |
"
With style and dour charisma to spare, Dredd proves that the smartest way to handle an action plot is often the simplest."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 21, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
The Master (2012) |
"
The Master is unforgettable, but like the mercurial men at its center, the harder you try to read into it, the more it slips away into the distance. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 12, 2012
|
|
|
67%
|
Cloud Atlas (2012) |
"
This big, ambitious, gorgeous, glorious film demands that its audience walk in as open-hearted as it is."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
"
Chbosky can't reinvent the characters he created for the screen, but he's definitely done right by them. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 9, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
Looper (2012) |
"
Creates a world so lively and well-wrought I'd happily see a dozen more movies set there. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 6, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
68%
|
Lawless (2012) |
"
Shot through with good humor that balances out the blackness, and performances that liven up even rote plots of revenge, Lawless earns its detours and minor missteps, a late-summer surprise with unpredictable power. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 28, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
Hit & Run (2012) |
"
It probably was fun to drive all these hot cars around California, and make a movie with your friends and sacrifice plot logic for better jokes. But where's the fun for the audience in all that? "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 22, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
65%
|
Cosmopolis (2012) |
"
It helps to let yourself get lost in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, which adapts Don Delillo's novel and clings hard to the inscrutable, arcane language, which very deliberately keeps the audience at arm's length"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 20, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
The Expendables 2 (2012) |
"
The Expendables 2 isn't nearly clever enough to operate as an actual action movie as well as a parody of one, but it is a good amount of fun."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 15, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
87%
|
ParaNorman (2012) |
"
With infinite warmth toward its characters, whip-smart humor and a plea for human compassion that feels especially necessary these days, ParaNorman is a movie worth wrapping yourself up in"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 13, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
65%
|
The Campaign (2012) |
"
There's a genius behind the silliness in The Campaign, in that a go-for-broke comedy might really be the only way to deal with the reality of modern politics."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
Perhaps in a second movie Aaron Cross can stand on his own, but for now he feels trapped in the shadow of what came before. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 8, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
74%
|
Hope Springs (2012) |
"
The chance to watch these two veterans stake out a very real relationship on screen, while muddling through a film that doesn't offer a whole lot beyond them. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 7, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
31%
|
Total Recall (2012) |
"
Farrell is a bland presence at the center of a surprisingly bland movie."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Aug 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
79%
|
Ruby Sparks (2012) |
"
Ruby Sparks diminishes its own stakes from the start, and nothing that happens in this breezy, ineffective rom-com does anything to improve that. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 26, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
It's sprawling but undeniably engaging, not quite the blast of clever mayhem The Dark Knight was, but no slouch either. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
|
70%
|
Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) |
"
Though Samberg nicely handles his dramatic scenes and eliminates all the shtick you might expect from SNL, Jones is the clear standout."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 29, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
For the first hour of The Amazing Spider-Man, you'll be forgiven for feeling serious deja vu. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
4.5/5
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012) |
"
What's probably most impressive about the work Steven Soderbergh does, directing from Reid Carolin's script, is that it's got the glitz and the heavy character study, without sacrificing either."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 27, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
"
Your mileage, as with any movie crammed with unintentional laughter, may vary, but there are performances and some spectacular fight choreography that ought to keep anyone's interest."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 21, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
55%
|
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) |
"
Lorene Scafaria never nails down a tone for this rambling road trip romance, tossing together some dark humor, some rom-com contrivances and some last-minute sap for an uncomfortable, never quite satisfying combination."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 19, 2012
|
|
|
27%
|
High School (2012) |
"
HIGH School isn't exactly Harold and Kumar-level genius, but it is worth the legal risk."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 14, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
34%
|
Lola Versus (2012) |
"
Lola Versus feels more like a slog through the breakup doldrums than the frothy, intimate growing-up story it hints at throughout. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 11, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
It's aiming to be both an epic space thriller and a spiritual treatise, and watching it almost accomplish both makes it all the more frustrating. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 5, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
48%
|
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) |
"
Sanders has approached a classic fairy tale with a few strong visual ideas and a very game Charlize Theron, and it's almost impressive how little he's managed to make of it. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 30, 2012
|
|
3.5/5
|
94%
|
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
"
With lots of good jokes and very funny child actors, plus adults who carry the emotional weight the children cannot, Moonrise Kingdom has elements that hold up to the best of what Anderson has done"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
2/5
|
58%
|
The Dictator (2012) |
"
An uncomfortable mix of comic setpieces and a treacly plot about a dictator who just wants to be loved. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
2.5/5
|
34%
|
Battleship (2012) |
"
Battleship isn't the longest or dumbest blockbuster to ever exist, but so soon after bar-raising spectacle of The Avengers, maybe the most pointless."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
4/5
|
75%
|
Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
Focused on its razor-sharp execution and ideas rather than its characters, the movie is more of an intellectual wallop than an emotional one. "
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
The Five-Year Engagement (2012) |
"
The Five-Year Engagement catches a bad case of the meanders and never quite recovers, leaving us to wonder what Segel and Stoller could do if forced into a tight 90 minute runtime"
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Apr 26, 2012
|
|
|
83%
|
Your Sister's Sister (2012) |
"
A quiet and well-told movie that wears its big beating heart on its sleeve."
—
CinemaBlend.com
Posted Apr 25, 2012
|
33%
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