 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(2001) |
|
"a post-Cold War black comedy about a corrupt world in which the kind of spying that made James Bond world famous no longer has a place"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(2009) |
|
"At virtually every turn the film feels like it's pulling punches and not delving into the potentially dangerous visual terrain its story and its attendant emotions are screaming for"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/4 |
|
(2004) |
|
"a flat, derivative psycho-thriller that suffers badly from having no chemistry between its two leads"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(2009) |
|
"Because of Scott's reliably indiscriminant overdirection, the film only works in fits and starts"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(2009) |
|
"saddled with side stories that are meant to put specific faces on the issues of the time, but feel meandering and unfocused"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1999) |
|
"A film Hitchcock would have been proud to make, which is as strong a compliment as one can give to Mingella's efforts in this uniformly first-rate, darkly chilling thriller."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1999) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(1990) |
|
"Offers the kind of variety and creative opportunities that help paper over the movie's weaker narrative aspects."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(1990) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(1951) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(2002) |
|
"a singular film, one that captures everything about Almodóvar’s career to this point, but also transcends it through the simple beauty of its idealism"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1984) |
|
"a powerful musical experience because the filmmakers have such utter confidence in the material that there is no need to dress it up"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1968) |
|
"frightening in a way few horror movies are because it taps so directly into real fears"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1968) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1999) |
|
"a fast-paced visual marvel with heart and a bit of humor"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
1/4 |
|
(1998) |
|
"Not only it is poorly written, badly acted, and generally incompetent in all cinematic areas, it is thoroughly uninspired"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1976) |
|
"created of scenes that slowly build in tension, until they literally explode in a final bloody climax"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(2004) |
|
"evokes the horrors of a world gone mad for laughs in an action film populated entirely with marionette puppets"
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(2004) |
|
"makes a surprisingly cogent, if gleefully vulgar, political argument that has legs because it doesn't take easy sides"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(2003) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"An absorbing thriller, one that works its narrative complications over a genuinely moving emotional foundation and is spiked with just enough dark humor to keep it from becoming overly serious."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1956) |
|
"Those who love it and find it spiritually moving truly, deeply love it, while everyone else would think it just plain vulgar if it weren’t so delightfully kitschy"
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/5 |
|
(2006) |
|
"The narrative, not surprisingly, is really just an excuse to string together a series of comic and musical setpieces, some of which work better than others."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1976) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1976) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(2004) |
|
"A frothy ditty about survival in unlikely circumstances."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1984) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1984) |
|
"seamlessly melds the best narrative mind tricks of science fiction literature with the visceral violence of the best action movies"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(2003) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(2009) |
|
"weighed down with so much grit and gloom that there's no fun left"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/5 |
|
(1983) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1983) |
|
"While some aspects of the film ... have not aged all that well, it still plays with sincerity and emotional resonance"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1933) |
|
"a tour de force for Lang, his last great film before moving on to the United States"
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/5 |
|
(2003) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(2003) |
|
"Updated in sleek, visually intoxicating, but rather meaningless fashion."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2006) |
|
"Lacking anything resembling subtext and anything resembling genuine suspense, The Beginning is little more than just another hackneyed rehash of increasingly diminishing returns."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1990) |
|
"both a funny and a sad look at contemporary small town life during the Reagan years"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/5 |
|
(2006) |
|
"It makes no apologies and takes no prisoners; this is a film, after all, in which the hero is the chief lobbyist for Big Tobacco."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1941) |
|
"Leigh and Olivier translate their real-life passion to celluloid, making it curiously difficult to discern what was performed and was simply there"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1994) |
|
"it is Bunnell's attention to visual style that makes the movie worth watching"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1994) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1977) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1977) |
|
"like many of Buñuel's works, a perversely funny film, especially in the way he undercuts conventional notions of both romance and cinema"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1996) |
|
"passable entertainment, but still trite and superficial"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/5 |
|
(2008) |
|
"If this film is any indication of the quality of the forthcoming television series, it will be blessedly short-lived."
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(2004) |
|
"a deeply confused Hollywood rendering of childhood innocence by way of computer-generated roller-coaster thrills"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1956) |
|
"a landmark Western that is at once a great, rousing adventure story, a fable about the nature of quest and fulfillment and an exploration of vicious racism"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1973) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1973) |
|
"the inherently gruesome comedy rises naturally from the over-the-top scenarios and Price's fantastically campy performance"
[movie review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(2007) |
|
"a requiem for human decency, trampled beneath the onslaught of capitalism, progress, and a heightened sense of purpose that becomes a twisted justification for personal excess"
[dvd review] |
|
Q Network Film Desk |
|
|
