|
8/10
|
30%
|
Machete Kills (2013) |
"
Basically, take a Screwy Squirrel cartoon, and replace the titular rodent with a unfailingly snarling Mexican."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 15, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
10%
|
Runner Runner (2013) |
"
Stars Justin Timberlake, the perfect vanilla pseudoadult for a story of pseudoadult intrigues and pleasures."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
88%
|
Rush (2013) |
"
Really snappy entertainment, and the great art of making slick entertainment for adult audiences has been too long forgotten."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
38%
|
Ravenous (1999) |
"
More than just a gory horror film in period dress, though it bears saying over and over again that even as a simple Western-horror hybrid, this is pretty great."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
92%
|
The Mummy (1932) |
"
A Dracula rip-off that is, in fact, considerably better than Dracula in almost every regard."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
33%
|
The Mummy's Tomb (1942) |
"
The first Universal mummy movie that's not really worth it."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
75%
|
The Mummy's Hand (1940) |
"
Charming and easygoing enough in its matinee-movie way, though there are enough unforced errors throughout that it's really hard to think of this as one of Universal's most shining moments."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
40%
|
The Mummy's Ghost (1944) |
"
The signs of laziness set in almost immediately."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 14, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
98%
|
Gravity (2013) |
"
A magnificent thriller, and one of the most dumbfoundingly impressive technological feats in the 20 years since Jurassic Park put the world on notice about CGI."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
82%
|
Don Jon (2013) |
"
A film with tense, ironic energy in the way that scenes flow and shots collide, but in a way that feels a bit overfamiliar and safe."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Oct 4, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
91%
|
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"
It's arguably the most fun Harry Potter film to watch: inventive, quick-moving, playful, beautiful."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 28, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
81%
|
Prisoners (2013) |
"
The very model of an Oscarbaiting exercise in social critique and deeply ambiguous character drama. Except for the part where the script makes it feel more like a trashy beach read."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 27, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
91%
|
Y Tu Mamá También (2001) |
"
A monumental, transformational motion picture, challenging the viewer and changing the way you think of movies being put together."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 25, 2013
|
|
2/10
|
5%
|
Battle of the Year (2013) |
"
After months of patient waiting, 2013 has finally produced a movie that's so bad it's good."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 23, 2013
|
|
5/10
|
36%
|
Great Expectations (1998) |
"
Cuarón and company end up throwing all the style they've got at the film... to compensate for a perpetually stalled drama."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 22, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
91%
|
In a World... (2013) |
"
One of the most charming and delightful movies in a very long time."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
99%
|
Short Term 12 (2013) |
"
Appealingly people-driven, assuming that watching decent human beings strive to be their best selves is inherently interesting and worthwhile."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 20, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
97%
|
A Little Princess (1995) |
"
One of the very best children's movies of the past quarter-century."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 18, 2013
|
|
1/10
|
35%
|
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) |
"
The most slapped-together, pointless, allover terrible horror film of 2013; and I will remind you that 2013 bore witness to Texas Chainsaw 3D. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 16, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
67%
|
Sólo Con Tu Pareja (1991) |
"
Very much the work of a young filmmaker of obvious talent in need of just a smidgen more discipline, training, and experience."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 15, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
90%
|
The Trouble With Harry (1955) |
"
One of the absolute funniest movies of the 1950s, not least because it is perhaps the most puckish."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 15, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
56%
|
Instructions Not Included (2013) |
"
Unevenly handled, slurrying emotions in a way that feels careless rather than cleverly unconventional."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 13, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
60%
|
Riddick (2013) |
"
The film regains its footing in a pretty terrifically-executed, if generic, final sequence."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 12, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
57%
|
Pitch Black (2000) |
"
A solid creature feature, but not at all a revelatory one."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 11, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
29%
|
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"
Makes absolutely no sense in its theatrical cut and still feels awfully messy in Twohy's director's cut."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 11, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) (1994) |
"
No better swan song to such a rich, weighty career has yet been filmed."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 8, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
74%
|
The Grandmaster (2013) |
"
The American version is beautiful and moody, and it is muddy in expression, but probably worth seeing anyway."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 6, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
100%
|
Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu) (1993) |
"
The story of how to become a new, better, more whole self... There is nothing less tragic than that."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
90%
|
Three Colors: White (Trzy kolory: Bialy) (Trois Couleurs: Blanc) (1994) |
"
As probing and meaningful as any arthouse hit of the '90s, lacking only the drama and mystical qualities of Blue and Red to overtly flag itself as such. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 5, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
——
|
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) |
"
Ridiculous and stupid nonsense even according to the generous grading curve afforded to the beach movies."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 3, 2013
|
|
10/10
|
97%
|
Stop Making Sense (1999) |
"
It's all so precise even as it is totally loopy, and the music pressed up in our face so urgently and enticingly, that the movie is as close to perfect as it gets. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 1, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
75%
|
You're Next (2013) |
"
There comes a point where the difference between bad-on-purpose and just-plain-bad is wholly academic."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 1, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
62%
|
Cube (1998) |
"
[Director Vincenzo] Natali's handling of mood and pace leave Cube one of the tightest horror-thrillers of the late '90s. "
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Sep 1, 2013
|
|
9/10
|
91%
|
Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
"
Enough of a pointed study of character that it's more than just a collection of some of the best and most ridiculous jokes in a generation."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 29, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
89%
|
The World's End (2013) |
"
The most inventive, humane comedy in ages, probably the best-directed action film of the summer, and easily the most intelligent science-fiction story in a year lousy with the things."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 28, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
91%
|
Blue Jasmine (2013) |
"
The best imaginable marriage of performer and character."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 27, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
81%
|
Hellboy (2004) |
"
It would be quite impossible to claim is that the filmmaker's love of his subject isn't apparent throughout every lovingly-crafted frame."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 26, 2013
|
|
2/10
|
0%
|
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil (1991) |
"
A mildewy little smear of a late slasher film."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 25, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
——
|
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) |
"
The fifth of the [AIP beach movies] in just a 23-month span, and it's not remotely surprising that a long-delayed fatigue kicked in, and hard."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
——
|
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1989) |
"
As cheap and as horrendously acted as you'd ever want a DTV movie released in 1990 to be."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 23, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
73%
|
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) |
"
A film with its heart very clearly in the right place, and its imagination left behind in a locked root cellar."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 22, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
18%
|
Domino (2005) |
"
While visual anarchy can be starling and bracing in chunks, Domino quickly settles into a one-tone-fits-all groove that's desperately wearying."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 18, 2013
|
|
4/10
|
27%
|
Planes (2013) |
"
That Planes couldn't even manage to improve upon Cars 2 is downright heartbreaking."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 16, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
78%
|
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) |
"
Easily the most consistently entertaining movie in the [beach party] series."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
|
3/10
|
——
|
The Carpenter (1988) |
"
An exceptionally badly-made movie that's so loopy and weird that it's fun regardless of anything else."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
|
6/10
|
——
|
Dive Bomber (1941) |
"
This is a docudrama at best, and that director, with those actors, was not the right man to make a docudrama."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 12, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
66%
|
Spy Game (2001) |
"
Capably anchored by [Robert] Redford giving the spunkiest, most alive performance he gave in a decade in either direction."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 9, 2013
|
|
8/10
|
94%
|
Fruitvale Station (2013) |
"
An utterly moving and rich slice-of-life fable."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 7, 2013
|
|
7/10
|
93%
|
In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
"
The film's flatly descriptive approach to exploring race in America probably felt a bit more intense and meaningful in the thick of the Civil Rights Era than it does now."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 6, 2013
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