| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Consequences of Love (Le Conseguenze dell'amore) - Unrated | April 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours) - Unrated | April 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Medicine for Melancholy - Unrated | April 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Brothers Bloom - PG-13 | April 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| (500) Days of Summer - PG-13 | April 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Il Divo - Unrated | April 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| LOL - Unrated | First time I saw it, I thought it was largely forgettable. On second viewing, I realized it quite subtly captured the zeitgeist: yearning to connect, an inability to do so, an emotional authenticity, all wrapped up in a digital package. It's my research in 82 minutes. | December 15, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Kill Bill: Volume 1 - R | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| 2 Fast 2 Furious - PG-13 | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Ring - PG-13 | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Saw II - R | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| White Chicks - PG-13 | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| School of Rock - PG-13 | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Wedding Crashers - R | September 14, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| In Search of a Midnight Kiss - Unrated |
Surprisingly fresh, digital, honest, funny. atomculture.wordpress.com |
August 16, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Reprise - R | May 27, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Fall - R |
It's true, the movie's kind of boring. Why? Despite a brilliantly funny child actress playing an injured girl in a infirmary, The Fall simply lacks any forward motion and conviction. We don't know where it's going and we don't care. Lee Pace -- however much I adore him -- is not a strong lead. He's depressed about something and lacks the gravitas or viciousness (either would be fine) to make us care. When we do find out what's his problems are -- and what he plans to do about it -- we care even less. The problem is trivial and its solution maudlin. Tarsem spends too much time in this world. His fantasy world is more interesting, but here too, slow editing and an uninteresting storyline plague the plot. Everything needed to be faster, wittier and much much more provocative. |
May 27, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Redbelt - R |
Isn't as transcendent as it wants to be, but Mamet smartly bends the conventions of the sports movie -- spending more than half the movie explaining how the fighter got to the match. As is typical for Mamet, the dialogue is dense and rapid and the plot slightly convoluted (but flows easily). The makes the movies engaging to watch, distracting you from realizing that not much is happening. In the end, the theme is familiar: one lone man believes in something greater than money or self-gain and has to fight the forces around him -- including his wife! -- to vindicate his belief in the higher power. Mamet stops at the vindication, cutting off the movie right when it should end: after our hero, up to his neck in crap (a lawsuit, counter-suit, suicide, betrayal, debt) and perhaps his convictions dwindling, realizes his ideals can still empower him. |
May 27, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Baghead - R | Interesting. It does in fact bend genres. Problem is, it's not very memorable. You leave the theater thinking "weird. cool" and then you never think about it again. | May 27, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Speed Racer - PG | I saw it drunk. It was fun. | May 13, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Sex and the City - R | May 13, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Katyn - Unrated | Artfully done. I loved it — except when I left I wanted to kill myself. Following some realist conventions, the movie’s editing did not compel the viewer forward, per se. What we saw instead where glimpses of several stories played out subtly and across time, all of which eventually came together in the story of the mass murder. The movie held back on the horror until the end, which softened the tone and prepared the viewer for the brutal finale. | May 7, 2008 | N/A | |||
| The Visitor - PG-13 | See full review: atomculture.wordpress.com. Solid, subtle, somehow powerful. McCarthy builds on his theme of the power of random connections, but does better with the grander narrative. The subtle moments are the best. | May 7, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Funny Ha Ha - Unrated | Leading the charge for best mumblecore movie I'm sure, it's almost unwatchable; the characters are so obnoxious, but that might be its greatest asset. This isn't a portrait of every person of my generation, but still, as a depiction of the few it does portray, it resonates. And its bad film quality is as much as boon as a vice. | April 9, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Southland Tales - R | Too much extratextual stuff to make it comprehensible, and not fast or witty enough to make the mess interesting. I was prepared to love it despite bad reviews, but it just wasn't intellectually stimulating. And "ambitious but flawed" movies need to be thought-provoking and entertaining to watch. | March 18, 2008 | N/A |
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