Sleeper hit vs. box office flop vs. ‘Rotten Tomatoes’. For art’s sake vs. is that porn or what? Oscars vs. BAFTA vs. Golden Globes, Sundance vs. Cannes. And by the way, the Razzies and MTV Movie Awards. Let the world’s Roger Eberts weed out the bad from the good, but remember, we all like to score.
- 83% Easier With Practice
In a desperate attempt to promote his yet unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell (a remarkably sensitive and honest performance from Brian Geraghty) hits the road on a self-planned book tour with his younger, looser brother Sean (the sly and funny Kel ONeill). The brothers inherent disparity makes them discordant road buddies and after lukewarm audi… - 36% Brooklyn’s Finest
It’s appropriately gritty, and soaked in the kind of palpable tension Antoine Fuqua delivers so well, but Brooklyn’s Finest suffers from the comparisons its cliched script provokes. - Nausea
The Man is a lonely, eccentric who works in a book store; amusing himself with his absurdist outlook on reality. - 67% Shutter Island
It may not rank with Scorsese’s best work, but Shutter Island’s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained. - 48% Blood Done Sign My Name
Even among civil rights movies, Blood Done Sign My Name is remarkably earnest, but its big heart can’t cover for the bland acting and TV-style melodrama that blunts the movie’s impact. - 19% Cop Out
Cop Out is a cliched buddy action/comedy that suffers from stale gags and slack pacing. - 90% Off and Running
With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers – one mixed-race and one Korean – Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. - 82% Avatar
It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron’s singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking. - 73% District 13: Ultimatum
District 13 bites off more than it can chew with its political subtext and questionable script, but the many action sequences are never less than entertaining. - 59% Green Zone
Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in Green Zone, a film set in the chaotic early days of the Iraqi War when no one could be trusted and every decision could detonate unforeseen consequences.
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