2013 Films

Reviews for this film from our members: Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row Excerpt: The Selfish Giant is an assured and disciplined work, raw like a festering wound, and devastatingly blunt, establishing Barnard as one of the strongest voices in British independent cinema. [New – 1/9/14] | Don Simpson @ Smells Like Screen Spirit Excerpt: Barnard compliments her biting socio-economic commentary, with a visual juxtaposition of the tranquility of pre-industrial environments with the gritty aftermath of failed industrialization. Natural elements are portrayed with transcendent lyricism, while manmade creations are riddled with disarming malaise.

Reviews for this film from our members: Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas Excerpt: Walking with Dinosaurs has no business being in theaters and is like watching children dressed as these prehistoric creatures run around a playground. Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies Excerpt: [T]he battle between the movie’s educational and story-time modes is arduous. Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com Excerpt: Unfortunately dopey, it’s a nonsensical, mind-numbing disappointment. [New – 1/16/14] | Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian] MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com Excerpt: Sub-vaudeville 1950s sitcom humor and a horrifically dated message about boys as heroes and girls as the heroes’ property. You know, […]

Reviews for this film from our members: Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian] Excerpt: Il nuovo film di Martin Scorsese è il racconto, feroce e travolgente, di un’ambizione senza confini. Il suo ritratto del microcosmo dei broker di Wall Street è più efficace di un trattato di antropologia culturale. Mario Alegre @ Primera Hora [Spanish] Excerpt: Scorsese hasn’t been this radical since the criminally underrated Bringing Out the Dead. It’s like watching the man behind Taxi Driver directing his version of Superbad or The Hangover. [New – 4/3/14] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian] Excerpt: Vuk je možda […]

Reviews for this film from our members: Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas Excerpt: Without Madea, there’d be no point in such an exercise, and even with her it’s only so enjoyable. Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures Excerpt: There’s a certain brilliance to the awfulness of “A Madea Christmas,” so much that there’s a tiny part of me that wonders if Tyler Perry’s entire career is really a long con with his audience just to produce this movie. [New – 1/2/14] | Michael Dequina @ TheMovieReport.com

Reviews for this film from our members: Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas Excerpt: Back for more of the same just shy of a decade later, the crew’s random one-liners and annoying personas haven’t aged well, though die-hards of Adam McKay’s original likely won’t notice. Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire Excerpt: In their big, expensive, hyper-marketed Christmas studio movie, they’re doing the same kind of Fox-mocking that Jon Stewart does every night. But there is an argument to be made that what they’re doing is ballsier. Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International Excerpt: About the only gag that doesn’t get recycled in this […]

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 12/12] | Jamie S. Rich @ Oregon Live Excerpt: Our inability to identify with [Townshend] means we can’t identify with the film’s central horror, and thus “Contracted” isn’t all that unsettling.

Reviews for this film from our members: [New – 12/12] | Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International Excerpt: Star snowboarder Kevin Pearce’s near-fatal 2009 accident serves as the catalyst for Lucy Walker’s dramatic, thoughtful film about the prices paid for the addictive allure of extreme sports.

Reviews for this film from our members: Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian] Excerpt: La serializzazione del blockbuster è ormai compiuta, con forme talmente spudorate da risultare insultanti per qualsiasi spettatore non addomesticato. Mario Alegre @ Primera Hora [Spanish] Excerpt: The second installment in the new trilogy by director Peter Jackson files the rough edges of its predecessor while continuing to marginalize the protagonist. Dragan Antulov @ Croatian [Croatian] [New – 5/22/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan Excerpt: …again, there is simply so much thrown at it one might just as well cut the rather unimportant Bilbo […]

Reviews for this film from our members: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: A moving, candid, and intimate documentary filled with many magical moments. [New – 12/13/13] | Carson Lund @ In Review Online Excerpt: If the reputation of Ingmar Bergman is all too often subsumed by the mystique of “Ingmar Bergman,” the man’s actual work fogged by the uncritical exaltation showered upon his place in the canon, then consider the new documentary portrait Liv & Ingmar just another drop in an ocean of blind worship.

Reviews for this film from our members: Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com Excerpt: A moving, candid, and intimate documentary filled with many magical moments. [New – 12/13/13] | Carson Lund @ In Review Online Excerpt: If the reputation of Ingmar Bergman is all too often subsumed by the mystique of “Ingmar Bergman,” the man’s actual work fogged by the uncritical exaltation showered upon his place in the canon, then consider the new documentary portrait Liv & Ingmar just another drop in an ocean of blind worship.