By aj, on January 12th, 2013%
Rating: 3.75 of 5
I don’t think anyone would deny that Quentin Tarantino is a talented filmmaker. He also has a style so when you go to one of his movies you pretty much know what you’re getting yourself into.
So, I can’t say that Django Unchained surprised me, especially after seeing the panel at Comic . . . → Read More: Django Unchained
By aj, on January 6th, 2013%
Rating: 3.5 of 5
This is a harder movie to review than it should be.
Because Robert Downey Jr. is incredibly sharp and entertaining. He pulls off the eccentric but brilliant character with a flare that seems realistic however stylized it is. Jude Law as Watson is a strong enough counterpoint to ground Sherlock and make . . . → Read More: Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
By aj, on November 18th, 2012%
Rating: 3.25 of 5
When the two Snow White movies were coming out last year, I was curious about both. Mostly I thought Snow White and the Huntsman would be the more enjoyable (though I wasn’t sure about Kristen Stewart) and I thought Mirror, Mirror would be more laughable because I don’t have a lot of . . . → Read More: Mirror, Mirror
By aj, on November 17th, 2012%
Rating: 3 of 5
I don’t even know what to say. And it’s not because I was shocked by the twist ending because I was surprised at how it manifest itself but I was also expecting something. spoiler »As soon as Jasper died I knew it wasn’t real. I mean, maybe they could get away with . . . → Read More: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
By aj, on October 27th, 2012%
Rating: 3.5 of 5
Argo is one of those hard movies to analyze because a lot of things were really well done without having a significant impact, at least on me.
Everyone always raves about period pieces – the dramatic costumes, the make up or sets or whatever it takes to make us believe we’re in . . . → Read More: Argo
By aj, on September 22nd, 2012%
Rating: 3 of 5
Maybe I don’t watch enough dramas, but Trouble with the Curve feels a little like a more traditional sports movie, like from the 80s and 90s. The kind that don’t exist anymore. Maybe it’s because it has all the elements of an old school sports movie (like I knew exactly how it . . . → Read More: Trouble with the Curve
By aj, on August 25th, 2012%
Rating: 3 of 5
The Bourne Legacy is a decent reboot. They worked hard to incorporate elements from earlier films and while somethings worked considerably better, others didn’t.
Jeremy Renner makes a good Treadstone agent (even if they’re not calling it Treadstone any more – even if they reinvent it 100 times within different branches of . . . → Read More: The Bourne Legacy
By aj, on July 21st, 2012%
Rating: 3.5 of 5
After a while, when you’ve seen a few movies by certain directors, you learn their style so well that you can be impressed but few things are unexpected.
The Dark Knight Rises is a Christopher Nolan movie and so it’s very well made, structurally sharp, intelligent and takes the time to actually . . . → Read More: The Dark Knight Rises
By aj, on July 8th, 2012%
Rating: 3.25 of 5
History Lesson: Spider-man was the first superhero I ever knew. Of course he had his amazing friends who I liked a lot and sometimes the X-Men who were interesting. But Spider-man was the central figure in my superhero world and even back then I knew the difference between the lead and the . . . → Read More: The Amazing Spider-man
By aj, on June 23rd, 2012%
Rating: 3 of 5
I don’t know why I bother rating animated movies, except that in some ways these reviews are my own version of collecting movie stubs.
But I can’t really rate directing. I know it happens and I know it’s important but I don’t really understand how it works in an animated film. Production . . . → Read More: Brave
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