Rotten 5/10
|
Rotten
40%
|
The Expendables (2010) |
"
Something about the large scope of the action confounds Stallone, and his excessively large number of unit directors. It's too hectic, too confusing to be cool, or exhilirating."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 20, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
95%
|
The Dirty Dozen (1967) |
"
However trite the scenario looks now, it's still better than all but the best of its copycats."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
81%
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) |
"
The first motion picture to successfully translate video game logic to cinema."
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 17, 2010
|
Rotten 0/10
|
—
|
Hell of the Living Dead (Virus)(Zombie Creeping Flesh)(Zombie Inferno)(Night of the Zombies) (1981) |
"
More than any of its myriad names, the truest is one that has never, as far as I know, been given to it in any release in any country: That F---awful Bruno Mattei Zombie Flick."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 15, 2010
|
Fresh 9/10
|
Fresh
86%
|
Fearless (1999) |
"
Especially as acted by Jeff Bridges, in one of the best performances of a career laden with outstanding work, Fearless is a bottomless character study."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 12, 2010
|
Rotten 4/10
|
Rotten
29%
|
Flashdance (1983) |
"
Crudely-made in just about every possible way, Flashdance has only nostalgia going for it."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 11, 2010
|
Fresh 6/10
|
Rotten
48%
|
Step Up 3-D (2010) |
"
It's the only one of the trilogy gauche enough to be amusing... so loopy that you'd need to have a heart of flint not to be carried away."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 9, 2010
|
Fresh 7/10
|
—
|
House on the Edge of the Park () |
"
Deodato's control over the movie is incredibly precise, the sign of a much better filmmaker than the material arguably deserves."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 8, 2010
|
Rotten 6/10
|
Rotten
53%
|
Agora (2010) |
"
All of the ideas and themes it puts forth are fascinating and could be quite enlightening for the modern age, if the film they were attached to was even a tiny bit fun to watch."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 7, 2010
|
Rotten 3/10
|
Rotten
13%
|
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) |
"
The film's target audience... is going to largely be much too young to have any first-hand experience with the James Bond tropes being satirised."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 5, 2010
|
Fresh 10/10
|
Fresh
98%
|
Babe (1995) |
"
Every movie for children should be made with this much care, expressing this much unparalleled richness and beauty"
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 4, 2010
|
Fresh 7/10
|
Fresh
94%
|
Best Worst Movie (2010) |
"
A tribute to human endurance: most of the people we spend time with ended up somewhere far different than they wanted to, but most of them are pretty content, and none of them have given up."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 3, 2010
|
Rotten 3/10
|
Rotten
0%
|
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (Pranks) (Death Dorm) (1982) |
"
Intensely, aggressively, crudely, claustrophobically typical."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Aug 1, 2010
|
Fresh 7/10
|
Fresh
74%
|
Ramona and Beezus (2010) |
"
A pleasant way to pass some time and be made happy and sad by little things that are well-observed."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 30, 2010
|
Rotten 5/10
|
Fresh
66%
|
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010) |
"
A thin-blooded mystery that goes nowhere, and goes there in the most clumsy, ungracious manner that it possibly could."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 29, 2010
|
Fresh 6/10
|
Fresh
71%
|
Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
"
Every bit as confident and slick as its two predecessors; but it is hard to ignore a distinct feeling of deflation."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 29, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
64%
|
Back to the Future Part II (1989) |
"
Taken as a pair, the first two films ask a number of unresolved and unresolvable questions about causality, order, and intention; and taken as a pair, they're also a hell of a lot of fun."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 28, 2010
|
Fresh 9/10
|
Fresh
96%
|
Back to the Future (1985) |
"
Boasts probably the tightest screenplay of any film in Zemeckis's body of work."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 27, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
91%
|
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (Flesh for Frankenstein) (1974) |
"
Disgusting? Yes. Obscene? Oh, certainly. Likely to deprave and corrupt? Paul Morrissey absolutely hopes so. And above all else, wildly funny."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 25, 2010
|
Rotten 6/10
|
Fresh
61%
|
Salt (2010) |
"
Very nearly saved, but only barely, by two things: craftsmanship and star power."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 24, 2010
|
Rotten 4/10
|
Rotten
43%
|
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) |
"
There is exactly one element of the film that's of any use whatsoever: Nicolas Cage is absolutely on fire, bringing 1000% to a role that does not require, justify, or reward such effort."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
Fresh 9/10
|
Fresh
64%
|
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2010) |
"
Parts of it are befuddling, but it's a privilege to be befuddled by a film that has been put together with this much insight and precision"
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
Fresh 7/10
|
Fresh
86%
|
The Matrix (1999) |
"
Exemplifies the idea that a sufficiently cool outcome justifies all of the tortured narrative it takes to get there."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 22, 2010
|
Rotten 1/10
|
Rotten
18%
|
Faces of Death (1999) |
"
Without the carrot of controversy to draw in viewers, Faces of Death would have only the stick of unconvincing faux-documentary footage."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 19, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
87%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
What it is (an action-heavy heist movie with several mind-blowing setpieces) is an entirely pleasant substitute for what it isn't (a psychologically complex investigation into dream logic)."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 17, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
95%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
Generous and warm-hearted to a fault, though as faults go, that's one of the best to have."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 16, 2010
|
Fresh 6/10
|
Fresh
79%
|
Despicable Me (2010) |
"
It's perfectly harmless fun, that devolves by inches into perfectly harmless pablum."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 14, 2010
|
Fresh 6/10
|
Fresh
64%
|
Predators (2010) |
"
If the nicest thing you can say about Predators is that it's the best sequel that Predator has ever had, well: that's just not a very high bar to clear, now is it?"
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 14, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
76%
|
Predator (1987) |
"
It achieves a sort of sublime purity: it is Action Movie, nothing more and nothing less."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 13, 2010
|
Rotten 3/10
|
—
|
Ta Paidia tou Diavolou (Island of Death)(Psychic Killer 2)(Cruel Destination) (2003) |
"
In all the annals of cinematic sex & violence, there are few examples I've seen where both of those things seem so dismally functional."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 12, 2010
|
Rotten 1/10
|
Rotten
7%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
The story isn't the bad part of The Last Airbender - in fact, it's the best part... The bad part is almost everything else."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 10, 2010
|
Rotten 6/10
|
Rotten
51%
|
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2010) |
"
If [the film] is only incidentally and by chance a compelling human drama, it's luscious to look at."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 8, 2010
|
Rotten 3/10
|
Rotten
52%
|
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) |
"
Certainly the Twilight film in which the most violence happens, which gives it the illusion of having the most incident."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
Rotten 4/10
|
Rotten
44%
|
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) |
"
In 1957, raw novelty was enough to boost the film to unheard-of financial success, but novelty is one thing very much not on the film's side any more."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
Rotten 1/10
|
—
|
Don't Go in the House (1980) |
"
The violence it depicts is not nearly as off-putting as the perfunctory misogyny the film evinces, and even that isn't half so obscene as the ridiculously shabby quality of the whole thing."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 4, 2010
|
Rotten 5/10
|
Rotten
55%
|
The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
"
Director Michael Winterbottom... projects such profound disinterest in the material that even the most appalling moments come across through a thick layer of gauze and insipidness."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 2, 2010
|
Fresh 9/10
|
Fresh
81%
|
I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) (2010) |
"
The visual depiction of the ecstatic."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jul 1, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
86%
|
Romancing the Stone (1984) |
"
A grand example of the rarest combination of adventure, humor, and sexual chemistry which all crackle along with abandon."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 29, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Rotten
56%
|
I Spit on Your Grave (Day of the Woman) (1978) |
"
A precise and damning indictment of male sexuality, perhaps the most stridently anti-masculine film ever made by a male filmmaker."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 28, 2010
|
Fresh 7/10
|
Fresh
69%
|
Ondine (2010) |
"
Has such a breezy, playful sense of despair about it... The appeal is very much its delicacy, both as magical realism love story and bleak story of broken people in a run-down community."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 25, 2010
|
Rotten 6/10
|
Rotten
39%
|
Gedo senki (Tales from Earthsea) (2010) |
"
The worst project ever put out by Ghibli... a sometimes clumsy and hectic sword 'n sorcery adventure, not a bad one, but nor a particularly memorable one."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
Fresh 8/10
|
Fresh
95%
|
Winter's Bone (2010) |
"
Kudos to Debra Granik for making a film that packs as many surprising punches as this one, and doing it in a refreshingly cinematic idiom."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 22, 2010
|
Fresh 9/10
|
Fresh
97%
|
The Incredibles (2004) |
"
Assembled with an intense amount of care and love so that every cut, every sound, every movement, builds to a euphonious whole."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 22, 2010
|
Rotten 4/10
|
—
|
Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper (1999) |
"
It's not very good in an objective, universal sense. As a Joe D'Amato film, it's the next thing to a masterpiece."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 21, 2010
|
Fresh 9/10
|
Fresh
99%
|
Toy Story 3 (2010) |
"
Another summer, another Pixar feature, another masterpiece."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 18, 2010
|
Rotten 5/10
|
Fresh
67%
|
The Karate Kid (2010) |
"
It's incredibly perfunctory and lacks the remotest hint of sparkle; and that's actually enough to put it a bit ahead of the pack in this, the most grotesque movie summer in memory."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
Rotten 6/10
|
Fresh
78%
|
OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Lost in Rio) (2010) |
"
By sacrificing the knowing anachronisms of its predecessor, Lost in Rio also sacrifices most of its wit."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
Fresh 7/10
|
Fresh
94%
|
Neko no Ongaeshi (The Cat Returns) (2002) |
"
Undeniably sweet, but it is also undeniably slight, and not remotely as visually rich as we've all come to expect from Studio Ghibli."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 16, 2010
|
Rotten 3/10
|
Rotten
47%
|
The A-Team (2010) |
"
Doesn't even offer good explosions as recompense for its reedy story."
—
Antagony & Ecstasy
Posted Jun 14, 2010
|