|
LAT |
RTMC |
RTC |
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documentary |
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The Great Flood |
yes |
100 |
100 |
An evocative look at The Great Flood of 1927 |
Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys |
yes |
80 |
|
a look at two brothers in Finnish Lapland over a year. |
If You Build It |
yes |
78 |
80 |
A struggling community finds its own kind of field of dreams |
Hank: 5 Years From the Brink |
yes |
64 |
71 |
*an economic horror story |
The Lion's Mouth Opens |
yes |
|
|
an espresso shot to the heart |
Happy Valley |
yes |
|
|
Penn State scandel |
Kids for Cash |
yes |
|
|
Mark Ciavarella, a former judge … convicted of racketeering. |
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me |
yes |
|
|
You'll hang on her every word |
Particle Fever |
yes |
|
|
*a smashingly captivating look at a big idea [CERN] |
The Last of the Unjust |
so-so |
100 |
100 |
ungainly but powerful |
12 O'Clock Boys |
so-so |
93 |
94 |
*[an] unvarnished, kinetic, often disturbing portrait of illegal dirt bikers |
A Rising Tide of Silence |
so-so |
|
|
a beautiful but bland portrait |
It's Better to Jump |
no |
83 |
|
lopsided snapshot of the ancient walled city of Acre in Israel |
Mitt |
no |
81 |
78 |
needs a broader focus |
The Grounded |
no |
25 |
0 |
digs itself into a hole |
For No Good Reason |
no |
|
|
paints a limited portrait of Ralph Steadman |
A Journey to Planet Sanity |
no |
|
|
crash lands in slapdash-parody territory |
animated |
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|
|
|
Ernest & Celestine |
yes |
100 |
100 |
*about a bear and a mouse |
The Lego Movie |
yes |
96 |
97 |
*a tall stack of subversive fun |
The Pirate Fairy |
so-so |
57 |
|
plenty of pretty spectacles, but true flights of fancy are far too rare. |
Mr. Peabody & Sherman |
so-so |
|
|
*may be too smart for its own good |
The Nut Job |
no |
13 |
14 |
well-animated animals but a too complicated story |
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo |
no |
|
|
looks good but veers to melodrama. |
War of the Worlds: Goliath |
no |
|
|
Absurd plot devices render 3-D animation film nonsensical. |
regular movies |
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|
|
|
The Rocket |
yes |
100 |
100 |
*Laos-set antiwar drama, a touch of fable and a powerful sense of place. |
7 Boxes |
yes |
100 |
100 |
a thrilling Paraguayan crime caper |
Gloria |
yes |
99 |
100 |
*a naturalistic charm to the truth-telling going on |
Stranger by the Lake |
yes |
97 |
95 |
*tantalizing and thought-provoking |
Lunchbox |
yes |
97 |
90 |
a delectable take on the hunger for connection |
In Bloom |
yes |
95 |
91 |
follows fate of young girls in a changing country |
Child's Pose |
yes |
93 |
93 |
*exceptionally written, directed and acted |
Banshee Chapter |
yes |
93 |
|
CIA, LSD and dread |
Omar |
yes |
88 |
87 |
a heartbreaking tale of love across isolation walls |
Like Father, Like Son |
yes |
84 |
82 |
*a film of considerable emotional complexity |
Run and Jump |
yes |
83 |
100 |
luminous and lovely |
Charlie Victor Romeo |
yes |
80 |
88 |
unsettling and chilling |
After the Dark |
yes |
75 |
|
well-shot sci-fi thriller, smart, provocative, about nuclear holocaust |
Non-Stop |
yes |
58 |
61 |
a crisp, efficient thriller |
Generation War |
yes |
57 |
60 |
*an epic, combat-intensive film with a solid ensemble cast. |
Somewhere Slow |
yes |
50 |
60 |
finds lovely expression in woman's journey |
Raze |
yes |
50 |
36 |
*unrelenting, fist-into-skull violence |
Adult World |
yes |
48 |
62 |
*smart, incisive |
The Best Offer |
yes |
46 |
33 |
*a finely layered mystery |
Cold Comes the Night |
yes |
42 |
30 |
cat-and-mouse thriller |
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones |
yes |
39 |
40 |
*smartly aims to be little more than a scary picture |
Beijing Love Story |
yes |
33 |
40 |
an appealing valentine |
Date and Switch |
yes |
33 |
|
broad but credible with heartfelt moments. |
Pompeii |
yes |
25 |
20 |
*accomplishes its ambitious agenda to largely engrossing effect |
Son of God |
yes |
24 |
15 |
proves more than a mere watered-down "The Passion of the Christ." |
Freezer |
yes |
|
|
a snappy action flick that makes good use of its close confines |
Let's Ruin It With Babies |
yes |
|
|
gets a little lost on its cross-country tour but recovers |
Venus Talk |
yes |
|
|
a light and lively look at the sex lives of 40ish female friends |
Bethlehem |
yes |
|
|
a taut cat-and-mouse game |
In Fear |
yes |
|
|
*Unsettling close-ups and a well-paced series of scares … exceptional |
Journey to the West |
yes |
|
|
*a rollicking tale of demon hunters |
Lucky Bastard |
yes |
|
|
a clever thriller set in the world of porn |
The Grand Budapest Hotel |
yes |
|
|
*another oddball world … playful, poignant |
A Field in England |
so-so |
87 |
89 |
trippy but happenstance |
The Suspect |
so-so |
83 |
100 |
frenetic camerawork … stunning set pieces |
G.B.F |
so-so |
79 |
71 |
Gay Best Friend: muddled, eschews smarts for laughs, sharp and amusing |
The Returned |
so-so |
69 |
|
shakes up standard undead fare before its plot finally fizzles. |
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit |
so-so |
61 |
52 |
something that could pass for the real thing if you're not looking too hard |
Stalingrad |
so-so |
48 |
35 |
a siege of the senses laden with history |
The Truth About Emanuel |
so-so |
30 |
17 |
pain of motherhood and guilt of daughters |
Endless Love |
so-so |
15 |
12 |
some surprising performances rise above a skin-deep plot. |
Dumbbells |
so-so |
14 |
17 |
a competent but feather-light gym-scene comedy |
Winter's Tale |
so-so |
13 |
12 |
you'd like to be able to say it's a complete success. It isn't … |
Awful Nice |
so-so |
|
|
sometimes falls flat, but [the] stars keep lifting up the comedy. |
Special ID |
so-so |
|
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Little suspense, but plenty of kicks |
About Last Night |
no |
76 |
81 |
unnecessary reimagination of the 1986 original |
Enemies Closer |
no |
75 |
80 |
Jean-Claude Van Damme makes few friends |
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 |
no |
70 |
83 |
Z-grade schlock, vigorously offensive |
The Attorney |
no |
70 |
83 |
courts a miscarriage of drama |
Love Is in the Air |
no |
70 |
60 |
too up in the air |
Visitors |
no |
66 |
53 |
an art piece masquerading as a movie |
Nurse 3D |
no |
65 |
|
an oversexed caretaker obsessed with a co-worker. It isn't sexy or fun. |
At Middleton |
no |
58 |
53 |
romantic comedy gets a middling grade |
Interior. Leather Bar. |
no |
55 |
60 |
movie-within-the-movie's seeming pointlessness |
Easy Money: Hard to Kill |
no |
53 |
38 |
a sense of randomness robs the film of meaningful connections. |
RoboCop |
no |
49 |
55 |
this … model could use a recall |
In Secret |
no |
47 |
44 |
simmers but doesn't boil, making an adulterous affair unexciting |
The Pretty One |
no |
45 |
30 |
Tragedy and romance play Twister |
Almost Human |
no |
43 |
|
close encounters of the parasitic variety |
Black Out |
no |
40 |
|
an uninvolving, dark crime comedy |
Holy Ghost People |
no |
40 |
|
No miracle can save 'Holy Ghost People' |
Swerve |
no |
36 |
22 |
has elements of a great thriller, except for a good plot |
A Fantastic Fear of Everything |
no |
35 |
|
[a] dreary, loud, amateurish horror-comedy |
Monuments Men |
no |
34 |
32 |
talks big but lacks artful direction |
Knights of Badassdom |
no |
33 |
|
Oh, the meta-horror |
Angels in Stardust |
no |
33 |
|
bites the dust with hokey material |
3 Days To Kill |
no |
31 |
17 |
spy thriller with faulty aim |
Odd Thomas |
no |
29 |
20 |
gets the hero right, but not the tone |
24 Exposures |
no |
25 |
13 |
takes a subpar stab at crime |
Welcome to the Jungle |
no |
25 |
|
Jean-God [Van] Damme — don't! Don't go into the jungle! |
Gimme Shelter |
no |
23 |
22 |
filled with very good intentions, very bad dialogue |
That Awkward Moment |
no |
22 |
12 |
passing off misogyny for comedy |
The Wait |
no |
18 |
29 |
enigmatic but ultimately wearying |
Twice Born |
no |
18 |
15 |
Romance but little chemistry |
Devil's Due |
no |
18 |
13 |
an inept take on 'Rosemary's Baby' |
Angels Sing |
no |
17 |
20 |
cringe-worthy treacle … bah bumbug |
Reasonable Doubt |
no |
17 |
|
a far-fetched plot with too many holes to be credible. |
Ride Along |
no |
16 |
23 |
any sense of logic is definitely on the lam. |
May I Kill U |
no |
15 |
|
The answer ... is, as you might expect, no |
Jamesy Boy |
no |
14 |
20 |
Inside-the-pen (prison, not ink) follows a too-familiar trajectory |
Free Ride |
no |
14 |
17 |
Reality takes a toll |
Back in the Day |
no |
14 |
|
Cloying and smug when it's not being unfunny and crass |
Brightest Star |
no |
13 |
17 |
a twee look at an aimless, nameless, recently dumped twentysomething |
Barefoot |
no |
11 |
10 |
it's a stumble |
The Bag Man |
no |
10 |
0 |
deserves the sack |
Girl on a Bicycle |
no |
8 |
17 |
runs as flat as Euro-pudding |
Cavemen |
no |
8 |
0 |
movies about child-men on the make may be headed toward the boneyard |
Chlorine |
no |
8 |
0 |
A flat, undercooked suburban comedy. Or … drama? Or … satire? |
The Outsider |
no |
5 |
0 |
a lo-fi imitation of 'Taken' |
I, Frankenstein |
no |
4 |
8 |
staggers forth barely bolted together |
The Legend of Hercules |
no |
2 |
11 |
weakened by cliches |
Hamlet |
no |
0 |
0 |
lacks the creative juice |
Saratov Approach |
no |
|
|
a spiritual thriller with little soul |
California Scheming |
no |
|
|
isn't a well-developed plan |
Down and Dangerous |
no |
|
|
another wearisome 'Breaking Bad' wanna-be |
A Stranger in Paradise |
no |
|
|
criminally underwhelms |
Repentance |
no |
|
|
An unforgivable waste of acting talent |
The Activist |
no |
|
|
suffers from lack of activity |
Haunt |
no |
|
|
winds up feeling like an exercise in horror formalities |
The Face of Love |
no |
|
|
feels contrived |
Southern Baptist Sissies |
no |
|
|
the material is about three decades past due |
300: Rise of an Empire |
no |
|
|
looks great but is weak in plot |