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Gangster Squadnew
Poor screenwriting reveals that this movie is all style, no substance.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeff Meyers |
01-22-2013 |
Movies
Zero Dark Thirtynew
Kathryn Bigelow's thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is a crash course in military-torture tactics.
Orlando Weekly |
Cole Smithey |
01-22-2013 |
Movies
Rust and Bonenew
Jacques Audiard's stark and compelling love story succeeds in spite of itself.
Orlando Weekly |
Rob Boylan |
01-22-2013 |
Movies
Cole Smithey Predicts the 2013 Oscars
Ah the glorious flaws of democracy. As a film critic, I learned long ago to abandon any sense of personal investment in the conclusions drawn by Academy Award voters about the most deserving participants in the seventh arts.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
01-22-2013 |
Movies
A Lone Star look at this year's Sundance Film Festivalnew
This is finally Texas' year at Sundance Film Festival. On January 17-27, filmmakers from across the country will come together in Park City, Utah, to bring their film to market and pray for distribution, a scandal, or any other form of miracle.
San Antonio Current |
Natalia Ciolko |
01-16-2013 |
Movies
Marion Cotillard shines on trite 'Rust and Bone'new
For most of Rust and Bone, Marion Cotillard plays a legless woman. Though the corporeal deficiency is a hardship for the character, Stéphanie, an orca trainer whose limbs are amputated after she is attacked by a whale, it is a boon to the actor.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
01-16-2013 |
Movies
This Ain't a Wrapnew
This Ain't California, an unexpectedly controversial film about East German skaters, challenges the establishment in more ways than one.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nicole Gluckstern |
12-28-2012 |
Movies
The Best of the Best: The Movie Year in Bracketsnew
The best? Argo and Zero Dark Thirty.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-27-2012 |
Movies
Tags: Best Movies of 2012
The Ten Best Movies of 2012new
This year, it was all about genre.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
12-25-2012 |
Movies
The Year in Film 2012new
Was this the year of the doc? PLUS: 5 Top 10s; It came from the South; On the cutting room floor
Tags: 2012 in Movies
Elevator Muzaknew
“Playing for Keeps” is a blasé work spiked with trifling comic bits and smoothed out with a mellow dilemma that works to limp the film to a predestined conclusion of awkward family bliss.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
12-13-2012 |
Movies
Blurring Linesnew
In “Life of Pi,” a tiger named Richard Parker and 16-year-old Pi (Irfan Kahn) struggle to survive—and coexist—on a lifeboat.
Jackson Free Press |
Anita Modak-Truran |
12-10-2012 |
Movies
All That Glittersnew
Memo to the Academy: When you're handing out kudos, please don't forget these gems.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-05-2012 |
Movies
Joe Wright attempts to slap a new facade on an old 'Anna Karenina' barnnew
Does Tolstoy really matter anymore? Directors regularly attempt to plunder the great master's musty catalog, among which the sweaty, love-drenched Anna Karenina ranks as one of the greats.
San Antonio Current |
Corey Hall |
11-28-2012 |
Movies
Seeking Justice: Ken Burns Takes One for the Team
It’s tempting to think that gross miscarriages of justice are less likely to occur in big cities, where police and judicial oversight are theoretically more prevalent than small insular towns — like Memphis for example.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
11-20-2012 |
Movies
