THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 100 minutes |
“The Queen of Versailles” has much to offer-a rare glimpse into the lifestyles of the rich and freaky; a case study in denial as colossal as its subjects’ empty castle…
Posted on August 10, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THE WATCH
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
Vaughn and Hill are motormouth poets of the potty; they’re unrivaled when it comes to visionary verbal improv and everything that happens in “The Watch” is simply an excuse to let them let it rip…
Posted on August 2, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
SAVAGES
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 130 minutes |
By continuing to crank out clunkers like this, the filmmaker isn’t doing his reputation or his audience any favors…
Posted on July 10, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
Carell and Knightley couldn’t have less chemistry and their characters couldn’t have less in common…
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THAT’S MY BOY
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 114 minutes |
I went in prepared for one of the worst films in a mediocre season and laughed harder than I have in ages…
Posted on June 19, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
DARLING COMPANION
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 103 minutes |
This is what happens when a filmmaker runs out of things to say and then continues to make films anyway…
Posted on June 10, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 124 minutes |
A vastly human, often humorous meditation on final acts, “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” has its shortcomings but proves a desirable destination despite them…
Posted on June 6, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THE DICTATOR
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 83 minutes |
Let’s be honest: “Borat” was a seismic comic event, something new and brilliantly original, but it’s been downhill from there…
Posted on May 24, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 98 minutes |
Weisz is woefully underutilized. She’s far too talented an actress for material this melodramatic and shallow…
Posted on May 19, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
BULLY
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 98 minutes |
Hirsch wants to make you angry, to raise your blood pressure as a first step toward raising your consciousness. While he doesn’t make great cinema, there’s no doubt he makes his point…
Posted on May 9, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
CORIOLANUS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 122 minutes |
Even Shakespeare had his off days. Written toward the end of his career, “Coriolanus” is perhaps the closest the bard came to a flop…
Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THE RAVEN
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 111 minutes |
Among the other questions raised by this dreary costume trainwreck: What sort of a bet did the great Brendan Gleeson lose to get him within a mile of the movie? And who is the feebleminded filmmaker posing as “V for Vendetta” director James McTeigue?
Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
LOCKOUT
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 95 minutes |
What could have been an hour and a half of giddily retro sci-fi fun instead winds up a joyless recycling of tropes. You’ll wish your theater had an escape pod…
Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 111 minutes |
This is an endearingly old school exercise refreshingly devoid of angst or irony…
Posted on April 12, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 83 minutes |
Segel turns in a finely calibrated performance, it’s briefly interesting to watch Helms play slightly against type and Sarandon brings an aching quality to her underwritten role…
Posted on March 28, 2012 by Rick Kisonak