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The Social Network

reviewed on October 1st, 2010 02:52AM

"What? A movie about Facebook? No, that sounds dumb. I'm not seeing that." That's the thought on the majority of peoples' minds when they hear about The Social Network. That's not what this movie is. Not even close. I want to start out by...

A Serious Man

reviewed on February 15th, 2010 11:37PM

I loved this movie. The Coens are back doing what they do best- a dark, dark comedy, this time with 100% more message! The opening quote of the film truly sets the tone of the film, "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." La...

Toy Story 3

reviewed on June 24th, 2010 03:24AM

What is there to say that hasn't been said already? This is the perfect ending to a series that literally defined my childhood. I was 5 years old when the first film came out, and from then on, I treated my toys as if they were alive. I would t...

Inception

reviewed on July 16th, 2010 04:43PM

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling..." Quite frankly, after seeing this movie, I have no interest in seeing any other movie this year. Nothing will come close. It is, simply put, a wondrous piece of cinema. Christopher ...

Black Swan

reviewed on December 24th, 2010 02:49AM

Darren Aronofsky has done it again. I'm sure hundreds of reviews of this movie have started out with exactly this line, but it needs to be said. This film does exactly what it sets out to and every player involved in making it should be proud. ...

Where The Wild Things Are

reviewed on December 3rd, 2009 01:10AM

As with (thus far) every Spike Jonze movie, I didn't like it right away. It ended and I sat there saying, "what just happened?" But although I was slightly taken aback, I still knew I had just witnessed something powerful. I truly felt like a kid ...

Phoebe in Wonderland

reviewed on December 3rd, 2009 01:01AM

This is a beautiful and depressing heartfelt story of a young girl who just doesn't seem to fit into her world. She wants to, desperately, but for reasons she can't understand or begin to explain, she HAS to do things. She HAS to wash her hands a ...

Away We Go

reviewed on December 2nd, 2009 11:32PM

"I will love you, even if I can't find your vagina." I love this movie. It's hilarious and quirky and totally crazy at parts, but within every moment of absurdity, there lies truth. Every relationship in the movie feels real, like these people ...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

reviewed on November 30th, 2009 03:22PM

Wes Anderson once again did not disappoint me. After a string of great live action films, he made this, an entire film shot with stop-motion technology, something that hasn't been done for quite some time. The result is a movie that feels much l...

Four Lions

reviewed on November 16th, 2010 11:46AM

Four Lions is of the funniest movies I've seen in ages. It's also one of the scariest. It's a satire in the most extreme, as it's asking us to follow and sympathize with characters who are terrorists. The movie basically asks, what kind of pers...

The Kids Are All Right

reviewed on August 6th, 2010 02:33PM

This is a very heartfelt comedy about an unconventional family. By unconventional, I mean there's two moms (Julianne Moore and Annette Bening) and no dad in sight. Each mother had a child, both using the same sperm donor, three years apart. Now...

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

reviewed on December 1st, 2009 11:33PM

This is a seriously fucked up movie! Not only does our friend Werner Herzog focus a ton of screen time to random reptiles (crocodiles, iguanas, snakes, lizards), but Nicolas Cage is just as drugged out as ever. Only this time he's supposed to be...

Moon

reviewed on December 2nd, 2009 11:09PM

Soooooo good. Sam Rockwell is fantastic in his performance as a lonely man driven to insanity (?) on the moon. The question mark is there because the movie is not at all what you'd expect. It sounds far more boring than it actually is, and in fact...

The Cabin in the Woods

reviewed on April 13th, 2012 04:18PM

In one word, this movie is brilliant. In a few more words, it's also scary, funny, surprising, and very entertaining. If you've ever watched a horror movie, you probably know the set up. But right from the get go, literally from the first scene...

Drive

reviewed on September 17th, 2011 07:28PM

Drive to Drive. That's a command. You need to drive to the nearest theater that’s playing Drive and see it. That is, if you can handle it. Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive is a brutal, violent and shocking movie that will leave many movie...

Up in the Air

reviewed on December 29th, 2009 08:26PM

Thus far, Jason Reitman has done me no wrong. Thank You For Smoking was great, Juno was great, and now, Up in the Air is fantastic. It may very well be his best film yet, which is saying something, because his first two movies are both near and ...

True Grit

reviewed on December 28th, 2010 01:25AM

Here we have another movie where Jeff Bridges gets to be awesome. He portrays Rooster Cogburn completely realistically-he's a drunk, he's cocky, and he's got a bit of a dark side. At the same time, he's dedicated, hard-working, and has a softer ...

Bronson

reviewed on February 15th, 2010 10:57PM

Tom Hardy is fantastic as Bronson. His monologues in the theater setting contain the perfect amount of insanity to show off just how crazy this character is. Charles Bronson (not his real name) is a fascinating person. He was raised normally, w...

Django Unchained

reviewed on December 26th, 2012 12:20AM

This movie is a hell of a ride. From the opening shots set to a classic Western score followed up by Dr. King Schultz's bouncing-tooth wagon, you know you're in for something special. The movie features a lot of Tarantino's trademarks, from the ...

How To Train Your Dragon

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 04:11PM

I wasn't planning on seeing this movie, due to the fact that the trailers were bad and it was a DreamWorks Animation film. But, the boys over at the /Filmcast were singing its praises, and it turns out they were well deserved. The film is wonder...

Killing Them Softly

reviewed on December 24th, 2012 01:20AM

This movie is a strange animal. It's a strange hybrid between Quentin Tarantino and Terrence Malick, it has the talky, everyday feel of a Tarantino film, complete with mob setting, and it also has the stylistic beauty of a Malick film and the mea...

In The Loop

reviewed on January 20th, 2010 02:07AM

Ah, Political Satire. Here comes another one, yet again completely brilliant. It's amazing what sort of things can potentially happen in the political world, while the story we hear on the news is always so tame and uneventful. The lives of pol...

The Princess and the Frog

reviewed on December 19th, 2009 12:28AM

Finally! Disney goes back to what they do well, and it rocked! I had a blast with this movie. It's got all the classic Disney madness, with an awesome villain and likeable characters, including the minor side-characters. I particularly liked...

Never Let Me Go

reviewed on October 7th, 2010 01:52AM

Never Let Me Go is an extraordinarily powerful film that poses the age-old question: What is the meaning of our lives? As these three characters live together and grow together, they struggle to determine their purpose in a life without choices. ...

The Dark Knight Rises

reviewed on July 22nd, 2012 03:29PM

Spoilers will ensue. The Dark Knight Rises is an excellent movie. It's not better than The Dark Knight, and a majority of this review is going to involve comparing the two films, so just be ready for that. Firstly, I believe that The Dark K...

Kick-Ass

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 05:08PM

"Three assholes laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me?" Dave Lizewski, teenager with a difficult-to-spell name, has had enough of being bullied and watching other kids get bullied. He wonders...

People Like Us

reviewed on June 30th, 2012 11:51PM

So much of this movie is just great cinema. It's absolutely gorgeous to look at, and even the editing is well done. Technically this film is nearly perfect. The writing is also fantastic. For once I felt like these were real conversations that...

The Fighter

reviewed on December 25th, 2010 01:59AM

I think the title of this movie should have been The Fighters. Fighting doesn't have to be merely physical, and every character in the movie fights for something. Yes, the emphasis is supposed to be on Wahlberg's Mickey Ward, but the movie focus...

World's Greatest Dad

reviewed on December 7th, 2009 09:58PM

WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Oh MAN what a Fucked up movie! Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a writer who wants nothing more than to be recognized for his work. His semi-girlfriend keeps ditching him to hang out with the other ...

Prometheus

reviewed on June 8th, 2012 10:31PM

Prometheus is a movie that's going to divide people. There are going to be people who love the movie because it's a fun, exciting, sci-fi/horror adventure, and there are going to be people who hate it because of the ending. I'm one of the former...

Sherlock Holmes

reviewed on December 29th, 2009 08:37PM

I had a really good time with this movie. I laughed a ton through the first half and found Robert Downey Jr.'s performance to be particularly well done. The chemistry between him and Jude Law is hilarious and fun, which adds quite a lot to the f...

The Karate Kid

reviewed on June 24th, 2010 03:45AM

This movie is beat-for-beat the original movie. If you liked the original, you'll probably like this as well. There are subtle differences, some of which I really liked, but it's basically the same movie again. If anything, this movie made me...

Avatar

reviewed on December 29th, 2009 08:07PM

Avatar was awesome. Yes, the basic storyline was unoriginal, but the film is about so much more than that. The way it was told (through its amazing visuals and unique story elements) was so original that I found myself not caring that I've heard...

Predators

reviewed on July 9th, 2010 03:23PM

Nimrod Antal and Robert Rodriguez have more than made up for the AVP movies and Predator 2. Predators is exactly what I wanted out of this franchise since I saw the original for the first time. We begin the movie with the characters in free fa...

The Expendables

reviewed on August 13th, 2010 02:56AM

Yup, this is one of the manliest movies ever. Be sure to pack your balls, because this movie is going to rock them. This isn't going to be a review where I blather on about the merits of the storytelling or about the quality of the acting (altho...

Despicable Me

reviewed on July 15th, 2010 07:13PM

This was a very enjoyable movie. It started out a little slow for me, but once the little girls got involved it became a lot more interesting. As I expected, the story dealt heavily with their relationship with Gru and how they change him. I ...

The Box

reviewed on December 2nd, 2009 08:38PM

Richard Kelly delivers yet another crazy sci-fi movie, this time with less flying twins or evil bunnies. Considering his other works, this is incredibly straightforward. The ethical dilemma is simple, yet very interesting, and I liked all of the c...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

reviewed on August 13th, 2010 09:44PM

Right off the bat, I want to say that I enjoyed this movie. It's a lot of fun, and there are a lot of very funny gags taken from classic video games, comic books, and our recent ADHD driven culture. I had a good time, and I laughed a lot. Tha...

It's Complicated

reviewed on January 1st, 2010 12:36AM

I liked this movie far more than I thought I would. Maybe it's just because I love every actor in the movie, or maybe it's because they all gave hilarious and heartfelt performances. I don't know what it was, but the movie always felt real to me...

The A-Team

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 11:08PM

"I love it when a plan comes together..." I don't know if it was just that this has been a really weak summer for movies, but this movie REALLY hit the spot! It had everything I can ask for in a summer blockbuster. It had great characters pla...

Invictus

reviewed on December 19th, 2009 12:34AM

I had low hopes for this movie after hearing quite a few negative(ish) reviews for the film. But I saw it, and was surprised to find that I actually really liked it! I think the main reason, of course, is Morgan Freeman's portrayal of Nelson Man...

Due Date

reviewed on November 11th, 2010 04:58PM

Due Date is a road comedy. It's episodic by nature, so we get scene after scene of things going terribly wrong and the humor comes from the characters dealing with the situation. Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) has some anger issues. He's jea...

Date Night

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 04:37PM

"I'm going to count to three!" "One..." Due to the comedic talents of Steve Carell and Tina Fey, this movie was funny. Without them, it is nothing. Unfortunately, it is also because of them that the movie isn't as good as it could be. The pr...

The Messenger

reviewed on February 6th, 2010 02:26AM

This film started off extremely well. It was powerful, it was gripping, and I truly felt for each and every person that received the news of their child's death in the war. It felt very real, and very true. I can't even imagine what it would ta...

The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day

reviewed on December 8th, 2009 07:23PM

This movie was awesome. Granted, Troy Duffy set out to make essentially the same movie. There's a little bit of a different plot, (a better one, I'd say) but nearly every character from the first movie drops by. The action is identical to the firs...

Zombieland

reviewed on December 7th, 2009 10:13PM

This was absolutely one of the best times I've had in the theater this year. It was both hilarious and heartfelt, and found what I believe to be the perfect balance between the two. It never takes itself too seriously, as even in a sad moment, th...

Law Abiding Citizen

reviewed on December 3rd, 2009 01:03AM

Not bad at all. Not great, but not bad at all. Critics seem to be bashing this for no apparent reason, as I thought it was a fun little flick. The acting was right where it needed to be, especially Gerard Butler. His take on a justice-crazed man w...

Brooklyn's Finest

reviewed on March 30th, 2010 11:51PM

I was fully behind each of the characters in this movie. I felt for all of them, and wanted each of them to get what they wanted. The stories were convincing, they were well acted, and they felt real. I'm sure these are the sorts of things that...

Extract

reviewed on December 31st, 2009 08:06PM

Mike Judge's third film is probably his weakest, but I still enjoyed it. I was expecting great things after the fantastic Office Space and the absurdly hilarious Idiocracy, but Extract underwhelmed me. It isn't bad though, it's highly watchable,...

New York, I Love You

reviewed on February 15th, 2010 11:46PM

This film was not nearly as good as its predecessor, "Paris, Je T'aime." That film contained shorts that were not only completely unique and original, but also extremely well made and entertaining. New York, I Love You had quite a few shorts tha...

The Bourne Legacy

reviewed on December 27th, 2012 03:14PM

The Bourne Legacy isn't as good as any of the previous three Bourne films. It suffers from the fact that it clearly exists only to keep capitalizing on the Bourne franchise, as well as from the complete lack of Bourne. However, I'm not here to w...

She's Out of My League

reviewed on March 31st, 2010 12:06AM

I was quite surprised by this movie. I didn't expect anything from it, and I ended up being able to enjoy it for what it was. It's not your typical romantic comedy fare, as far as the basic storyline goes. Normally, the two who end up together ...

The Expendables 2

reviewed on August 18th, 2012 11:19PM

I enjoyed the first Expendables for what it was. I got some intense, awesome throwback action and some one-liners and it entertained me. I can still watch it and appreciate what it's doing. There isn't much of a plot, but it didn't really need ...

The Informant

reviewed on February 6th, 2010 02:17AM

I finally got around to seeing this movie recently, and it was a bit of a letdown. It wasn't terrible, and in fact many things about it were done quite well. Soderbergh's directing was top-notch as usual (Ocean's 12 aside). In the end, however,...

Snow White and the Huntsman

reviewed on June 10th, 2012 08:02PM

This is a perfectly serviceable Snow White adaptation. It's far superior to "Mirror Mirror" which was released a few months prior, simply due to the quality of the filmmaking and the script. It's a much darker take on the Snow White story which ...

The Book of Eli

reviewed on January 20th, 2010 01:48AM

This is a movie that tackles the subject the most movies are afraid to: religion. However, it manages to do so by disguising any and all subtext within a post-apocalyptic action movie. The movie started off slowly. Very slowly. If you're goi...

Knight & Day

reviewed on June 24th, 2010 03:01AM

I wanted to love this movie. I really did. The trailers were awesome, it looked like the actors were having fun, it looked like another perfect summer movie. Alas, that is not what I was treated to. Don't get me wrong, it's not a BAD movie. ...

Machete

reviewed on September 5th, 2010 03:23AM

Machete was a lot of fun... sometimes. The first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes were wonderful, glorious balls-to-the-wall action and gore that left me giddy for more. In between all of that, though, is a muddled and often boring mess of a m...

Life of Pi

reviewed on February 2nd, 2013 11:42PM

This is a very ambitious film. It wants to both prove the existence of God and disprove religion at the same time. It wants to open the door to all belief systems and comment on the art of storytelling, while simultaneously telling a simple stor...

Cyrus

reviewed on December 25th, 2010 01:39AM

Up until we meet Cyrus, this is a pretty good movie. It begins as the tale of a terribly depressed man named John who still hasn't gotten over his divorce from his wife seven years prior. She's getting remarried and invites him to the engagement...

The Dictator

reviewed on May 16th, 2012 11:12PM

Sacha Baron Cohen is really trying to create a character as memorable as Borat. The movie takes a different route than his last two character-based comedies by actually following a narrative rather than simply putting a crazy character into every...

Clash of the Titans

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 04:26PM

"Release the Kraken!" I've never seen the original film on which this is based, but I've head it's campy fun. This film tried to take a more serious approach to the material. Did it succeed? It certainly succeeded in being serious, but about...

It's Kind of a Funny Story

reviewed on September 30th, 2010 02:43AM

Spoilers will follow. Minor spoilers, but spoilers nonetheless. From the opening scene of this movie, I knew I was in for something unique. Not a lot of movies have the balls to open on a kid preparing to jump off a bridge. Then he turns aro...

This is 40

reviewed on December 24th, 2012 01:33AM

I wish there was more to this film. That's not to say that I wish it was longer, because it was definitely too long. This isn't the longest Apatow film, but it felt like the longest because it's the first one that doesn't have anything resemblin...

Alice in Wonderland

reviewed on March 30th, 2010 11:41PM

Sigh. I'm disappointed in you, Tim Burton. Alice in Wonderland is a great story, but this is not that story. This is not even a very good story. Have you read that poem "Jabberwocky"? That's what this movie is. It merely takes place in the w...

The Men Who Stare at Goats

reviewed on December 2nd, 2009 03:18PM

I'm not going to lie, this movie let me down. It's such a great topic to make a movie about, but the material was handled very poorly. For some reason, the jokes just weren't working for me. I smiled a few times, sure, but a lot of it seemed am...

Green Zone

reviewed on March 30th, 2010 11:58PM

This movie was so full of cliches I don't even know where to begin. I believe the "twist" is something that is already in America's consciousness, so the movie is simply preaching to the choir. In case you haven't followed the news in the past d...

Grown Ups

reviewed on July 15th, 2010 06:59PM

With this cast, there was some potential for a good, funny movie to be made. The problem is that this movie feels like the cast thought the same thing, merely assuming that every joke they made would be comedy gold. It's either that, or they jus...

Battleship

reviewed on May 18th, 2012 10:16PM

As difficult as I imagine it was trying to adapt the board game "Battleship" for the big screen, I still think they could have done a much better job than this. Still, I'm going to analyze this film as a FILM, and not as a board game adaptation. ...

Little Fockers

reviewed on December 28th, 2010 01:15AM

OH MY GOD, WHY? Here we find ourselves with a completely unnecessary movie that nobody asked for that's completely devoid of plot or sense of logic. After proving himself to be a quality husband twice, DeNiro still doesn't trust Gaylord Focker t...

Jonah Hex

reviewed on June 24th, 2010 03:35AM

I don't know why I'm bothering to write a review for this movie. You already know it's garbage. But I guess I'm here to convince you that it's not the worst garbage you've ever seen. I can see how this might make a really cool graphic novel. ...

Couples Retreat

reviewed on December 3rd, 2009 01:12AM

It's always disappointing to me when a great premise is wasted. This movie ditched originality for formulaic Hollywood plotlines and two dimensional characters that I really didn't care for. In fact, I hated most of the characters. That's not how ...

A Nightmare on Elm Street

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 05:37PM

This movie was garbage. I hate to be blasphemous, but I've never seen the original films. Any of them. I was, however, aware of the stories, and have seen the "best kills" videos on youtube. So I know the character, and I had certain expectati...

Sucker Punch

reviewed on March 25th, 2011 02:51AM

I tried. I really, really tried to like this movie. I even tried turning off my brain and just "enjoying it for what it was," which is my usual reaction when a movie starts being incredibly stupid. But I couldn't. I couldn't make it all the wa...

Men In Black II

reviewed on June 15th, 2012 12:56AM

What the HELL went wrong? Will Smith is really trying in this one. He's really, really trying. Too hard, in fact. He's trying to carry the movie on his own. He's trying to take over. He's trying to play the comedy too hard. And none of it r...

Old Dogs

reviewed on November 30th, 2009 03:28PM

It was Thanksgiving, and my mom dragged the family to see this hunk o' crap instead of something like Men Who Stare at Goats, which she saw and hated. This, of course, was right up her alley. And I do have to say, her enjoyment of the film rubbe...

The Last Airbender

reviewed on July 8th, 2010 03:31AM

Okay, let's start off with everything I liked about the movie: Great. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's move on to everything I hated about the movie. I should start by saying that I've never seen the original series on which th...

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