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1 | Timed to be just long enough for most youngsters brief attention spans and its packed with plenty of interesting activity both on land and under the water |
0 | It doesnt matter if a movie costs 300 million or only 300 dollars good is good and bad is bad and Bloodmask The Possession of Nicole Lameroux is just plain bad |
1 | The choreography is so precise and lifelike at points one might wonder whether the movie was rotoscoped but no liveaction reference footage was used The quality is due to the skill of the animators and Kodamas love for professional wrestling |
0 | The films outoftouch attempts at humor may find them hunting for the reason the franchise was so popular in the first place |
1 | Its clumsy determination is endearing and sometimes wildly entertaining |
1 | With every new minute theres another headscratching choice thats bound to elicit some amazing outloud responses so this feels like a true party flick |
1 | Emotionless reaction shots zero characterization guns that have absolutely no special effects when blasted Dangerous Men is rare winning dish from a one star restaurant |
0 | Conceivably it could serve as a primer for students on how not to make a movie and perhaps as a deconstruction of filmic conventions for the more theoretical minded |
0 | If youre not a fan of garbage cinema even for the fun of it Dangerous Men is best to be avoided |
0 | Dangerous Men the pictures production notes inform took 26 years to reach the big screen After having seen it I wonder What was the rush |
0 | Will entertain some viewers and infuriate others with its clunky mix of feminist fury and awkward action sequences |
0 | This is a bad movie but one that awakens your senses every so often with flashes of originality and abundant selfbelief |
1 | Ridiculous artless and wildly entertaining Dangerous Men is more than the sum of its fascinatingly misguided parts although it will take a special sort of moviegoer to truly appreciate or endure depending on your perspective its charms |
1 | To sit through it feels like honoring the dreamers of the world who at least get shit done Is it terrible Of course Is there bellydancing Duh |
1 | Small Town Wisconsin could hit some home truths for viewers44 and though being faced with the truth isn8217t always pleasant44 it feels necessary in growing towards a happier fruition46 |
1 | This lowkey drama has lovely interludes and some nicely understated performances although director Niels Mueller doesnt glean too many new insights from Jason Naczeks familiar story |
1 | Small Town Wisconsinis a success in almost every regard and if you can see over the legions of cheeseheads in the rows ahead of you it shouldnt be missed |
1 | Just like Wayne44 Small Town Wisconsin has flaws44 but the poignancy of the story will stick with you for a long time46 |
1 | It8217s a movie with its heart in the right place44 and does both small town and big city Wisconsin proud46 |
0 | Despite some intriguing character dynamics and performances that generate sympathy for this fractured family44 the film stumbles when it veers into melodrama without the narrative dexterity to tackle its weightier ambitions46 |
1 | This is the kind of movie that draws you so deeply into its story you are reluctant to let it end46 |
1 | Muellers direction is patient and sensitive the cast is accomplished and committed and the pictures comedic aspects sometimes earn a chuckle |
1 | Naczek isnapost interested in making a soap opera with this examination of fallibility44 going somewhere much more authentic when exploring character aches and pains46 |
1 | 8230a warmhearted story of everyday life that8217s easy to recommend for those who like films about people rather than portals and vortexes8230 |
0 | Debuting screenwriter Jason Naczek has concocted a manchild redemption story using metaphors as heavy as a hammer and a fairy godmother who makes everything alright with a seeming flip of the switch46 |
1 | Small Town Wisconsin is always proving itself to be more than its familiar premise thanks to Naczeks ability to infuse a lot more drama into the mix than one custody battle |
1 | The story of a South Texas ranch hand who gets mixed up with a Mexican cartel moves with pulsepounding velocity and features top performances from a talented cast of actors with Texas roots |
1 | An entertaining blast of Texas noir that nods toward the work of the Coen brothers Quentin Tarantino and fellow Austinite Greg Kwedars 2016 lowbudget thriller Transpecos as well as Breaking Bad |
1 | The story itself slithers with twists and turns and unexpected betrayals Its almost ridiculous how many characters die in this film |
1 | Tejano is one of those films that can be described as a hidden gem as it sneaks under the radar and will have you talking telling your friends about it and wanting to watch it again |
1 | Miller has taken a small intimate tale and expanded it into a treatise on larger themes primarily the abuse of the American Dream |
1 | A classic American tragedy |
1 | Death of a Salesman directed by Volker Schlondorff draws out the multiple meanings of this Pulitzer Prizewinning play by Arthur Miller about change family and fatherhood work and love |
1 | Schlndorffs artificial settings and some amazing performances help keep this from looking like a typical filmed play |
1 | They MAKE you watch it in English class for a good reason |
1 | A Bressonesque movie that is always enigmatic Full Review in Spanish |
1 | The story Director Gustavo Fontn tells is an excuse to give way to the exploration of feelings and sensations that avoid verbality Full review in Spanish |
1 | South Korean political history of the previous twenty years Peppermint Candy is not tempered by its hysterical edge which adds unpredictable violence to its vignettes of romantic domestic and business failure |
1 | Lee Changdong presents a melodrama that stands apart from the plethora of similar productions due to its intense political element because it doesnt lose its seriousness at any point and because it doesnt become hyperbolic in his effort to draw tears |
1 | This is Koreas millennial elegy filtering its search for times past through a confection no less bittersweet than Prousts madeleine |
1 | The film offers a heartbreaking drama told in reverse chronology and spanning twenty years in both the life of the main character and the political history of Korea |
1 | Its a story about the original sin of a nation as well as one character There has rarely been a better film made ever |
0 | Prison Girls didnt have a lot of prison sets because it was a bigbudget exploitation movie Maybe |
1 | Rubios film shows ambition where none is required making Gimme the Power a lot like Molotovs music politically engaged without having to take itself too seriously |
1 | The film which peters off into vague subplots about slum redevelopment and unwarranted mediabashing in the first half suddenly picks up and scales new heights in the second half |
0 | Disappointingly Paa is not as outofthebox as it could have been |
0 | Will Auro survive to know his Pa and reunite his parents Forget about the disease this is a vanity vehicle designed to showcase the Big Bs versatility |
0 | This wouldbe tearjerker without the musical numbers of typical Bollywood fare is for diehard Amitabh Bachchan fans only |
1 | The film owes much of its interest to the alertness and sincerity of the younger Bachchan and the luminous Vidya Balan as the anguished parents and to the soft wash of the tasteful playback songs supplied by Ilaiyaraaja |
0 | Wellacted funny and occasionally witty with terrific makeup design However its often convoluted awkwardly paced and too uneven as a whole |
1 | A wouldbe tearjerker without the singingdancing musical numbers of typical Bollywood fare seen in the US the lackluster Paa is for diehard Amitabh Bachchan fans onlyu2014of which there is no small number |
1 | Odd and sometimes oddly affecting |
1 | The acting is not only artistic it is also as realistic as can be possible in such a film |
1 | Aimed straight for the gooseflesh it strikes directly into the centre of the target |
1 | Built around a luminous and intriguing central performance by danceractor Elani Dekker |
1 | A satisfying marriage of folky period romance and environmental parable from the misty mossy depths of South Africas Knysna forest region |
0 | although Criss does show some potential as a performer his efforts to step into the shoes of a blind character are laughable |
0 | Standard cable fodder all the way with only a few solid action scenes and maybe one colorful performance in the whole thing |
1 | One of the most acerbic of all films noir boasting essentially no redeemable characters or a wealth of deliciously evil villains while also being utterly enthralling |
1 | a fairly typical filmnoir premise thats employed to watchable yet entirely unmemorable effect by Robert Wise |
1 | Competent if slightly too tame for a supposedly sleazy story |
1 | The usually meek Robert Wise trades his chameleonic tastefulness for fullon jazzy misanthropy in this nasty melodrama |
1 | Hard to watch but effective and alluring nonetheless |
0 | A revolting B film noir |
1 | Sapienza is a pretty lovely film Symmetricities are everywhere starting with that opening architectural showreel which deliberately avoids perfect symmetricity |
1 | Their sincere expression of these thoughts rings true and melts away its artificiality in its presentation soon enough This is the beauty of La Sapienza and Green films in general |
1 | Its a nice entry point into a peculiar cinematic universe and those willing to open themselves to it will find a lot to enjoy |
1 | If architecture aspires to the condition of music the acting in La Sapienza aspires to the condition of architecture You will love the ending of this very original and elegant and arty work |
1 | This startling architectural juxtaposition feels like a wakeup call |
1 | While Greens film is dense with historical fact and theory its not averse to plumbing lifes mysteries Suffused with warmth it expresses a potent admiration for human striving and accomplishment |
0 | The uncomplicated narrative resists stylization Greens presentation turns everyone into mannequins rendering their emotions theoretical That may well be his point but it didnt work for me |
1 | On the surface writerdirector Eugne Greens film La Sapienza is slow strange and awkward but stick with it and it may win you over |
1 | Layered with reels of swirling shots of Romes most beautiful buildings all crucially shot from the ground upwards staring at the heavens La Sapienza is visually stunning |
1 | The Sapience juxtaposes insights on how people are emotionally connected with ruminations on the buildings and spaces through which they move in which they live and in Alexandres case which they also create |
1 | If you can groove into this nonrealistic mode the film casts a spell |
1 | A beautiful space for people and light |
0 | This kind of formalism needs to do more than walk through classical wonders It should want to create cinema that can stand near or beside them This movie defensively consecrates whats already there You dont need a film to do that |
1 | An exquisite rumination on life love and art that tickles the heart and mind in equal measure |
1 | Greens richly textured painterly images fuse with the story to evoke the essence of humane urbanity and the relationships that it fosters whether educational familial or erotic |
1 | Green doesnt so much use his characters as mouthpieces as emotionally invest them in art turning opinions into feelings |
1 | La Sapienza strikes this reviewer as easily the most astonishing and important movie to emerge from France in quite some time |
1 | The movie is an unapologetically rarefied undertaking and at the same time a gracious and inviting film |
0 | Pretentious stuffy and slow Theres some beautiful scenery here but oh what you must put up with to earn it |
1 | While La Sapienza is unsatisfying as drama its frequently beautiful just as a tour through architecturally significant Italian buildings |
1 | La Sapienza alternately feels like a selfreflexive love story or a haunted history lesson its best scenes play like both |
1 | A picture that balances heart and mind with nuance |
1 | As in Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf both the younger couple and their older mentors are changed from a relationship |
1 | This recalls Manoel de Oliveira and Eric Rohmer in its pokerfaced style deliberately archaic storytelling and magisterial epiphanies |
1 | Although a lovefiction crossed with documentary lecture and superb Raphael OByrne cinematography La Sapienza is as close as celluloid can approach to architecture |
1 | Eugne Greens mannered direction doesnt work for every situation its homogenously applied to but at its most effective it inspires an enhanced sensitivity to the import of every gesture visual or verbal |
1 | Uncle Tom suffers from an overreliance on pundits Its most compelling insights come from people whove never been quoted in a Twitter or Facebook battle |
1 | An incredibly relevant and insightful documentary that delves into the past present and future of the black American conservative movement |
1 | Its a little misleading in some areas especially if you know the players involved in this doc but there are a lot of interesting historical facts about the breakdown of the Black family and how the whole welfare system targeted the Black community |
1 | Like a modern day Davy Crockett in search of new frontier Masters identifies his and his fellow riders connection with the wild mustang |
1 | The end result is part buddy trailtrip mosey and part factual gallop |
0 | Mostly it remains focused on the notveryinteresting personal stories of four cowboyloving guys on a gapyear adventure |
1 | The film has plenty of magnificently shot footage of the horses galloping across the landscapes |
1 | The lads are daringly bonkers and their horses are suicidally brave or misguided |
0 | The gift shop DVD from an exciting horse farm |
1 | We get to see some beautiful country along the way and theres some pertinent thinking on the levels of intervention needed in managing Americas wild horse population |