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Lost River (2015) Movie Critic Review

Lost River (2015) Movie Critic Review
Lost River (2015) Movie Critic Review
Runtime:     95 min
Rating:     Rated R for disturbing violent images, language and some sexual content
Production:     Bold Films
Genres:     Thriller, Fantasy
Country:     USA
Language:     English 
Director:      Ryan Gosling
Stars:        Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith



Lost River (2015) Critic Review: A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

IMDB By 6.1 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2366608/

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The monetary destruction of Detroit has no less than one advantage – we can now make persuading post-whole-world destroying films right here at home. "Lost River," a convincing workmanship film from Ryan Gosling recommends that provincial limbo is surrounding us, and the well off are pushing the last couple of survivors through the doors of Hell. The popular Robert Doisneau picture of the entryway to perdition is reproduced in Ben Mendelsohn's bordello of fake blood, the most irregular segment of this really odd film. It's the place Christina Hendricks consents to remain in a plastic case, similar to a see-thru Iron Maiden, and let individuals move around her to synth pop. That seems like an arbitrary combination of words, so I may need to move down a bit.

Hendricks is the mother of two in a dying area from which all the are fleeing. But she grew up in that house and doesn’t want to sign it over to the sleazy bank man . So she agrees to go to his “Twin Peaks”-esque burlesque house and work with Eva Mendes on dance routines that involve getting butchered. It’s all prosthetics, but that doesn’t make the moment where Hendricks rips her face off any easier to watch.

Her older son Bones is entering his first relationship with screwy neighbor Rat and hates that his mother has to work in such places. But he can no longer pitch in by collecting scrap metal from the decaying urban frontier now that Bully runs the streets. Bully, an aggro Matt Smith who sits in a plush chair attached to a convertible and screams “look at my muscles” into a microphone as he trawls the naked streets, will allow no competitors in the scavenging business. As Hendricks and Mendelsohn ramp up for a conflict, so do Smith and De Caestecker.

In the event that the plot sounds strange, that is nothing on the tone, in which there are sudden slices to flaring houses, zoos overwhelm with weeds and surrendered open lodging. Hendricks, an exemplary vision of magnificence dressed to the nines as usual, is similar to a being from a different universe. It's unmistakable that nothing here is intended to be taken at face esteem, that substantial imagery is grinding away, yet in the midst of all the very workmanship coordinated specificity there are snippets of narrative style naturalism. The mix is fairly compelling.

Gosling is clearly under the spell of his recent master Nicolas Winding Refn. The color saturated rooms just drip cool, and when the electronic music kicks in it’s like an outtake from “Only God Forgives” or “Drive.” This film isn’t nearly as violent – nor does it have the same nihilism. It’s still angry, but the thread that family can conquer all is the persisting theme.

On the off chance that the plot sounds weird, that is nothing on the tone, in which there are sudden cuts to flaring houses, zoos overpower with weeds and surrendered open cabin. Hendricks, a model vision of radiance dressed to the nines obviously, is like a being from an alternate universe. It's unmistakable that nothing here is proposed to be taken at face regard, that considerable symbolism is granulating endlessly, yet amidst all the very workmanship facilitated specificity there are bits of account style naturalism. The blend is genuinely convincing.

SCORE: 6.1 / 10


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The Cobbler (2015) Movie Critic Review

The Cobbler (2015) Movie Critic Review
The Cobbler (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for some violence, language and brief partial nudity
Production:     Voltage Pictures
Genres:     Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
Country:     USA
Languages:     English, Yiddish  
Director:      Thomas McCarthy
Stars:        Dan Stevens, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi




The Cobbler (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  The Cobbler Movie Directed by Thomas McCarthy. Under Production: Voltage Pictures. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Dan Stevens, Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi

IMDB By 5.3 : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203616/

Critic Reviews for  The Cobbler 2015 - MDBReviews

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Bilge Ebiri | New York Magazine/Vulture  
 Throughout The Cobbler, Sandler himself seems more invested than he's been for a long time. But the rest of this ghastly movie lets him down.
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Molly Eichel | Philadelphia Inquirer
 A failed fairy tale with a saccharine, klezmer-inflected tone undercut by the movie's own plot.
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Gary Goldstein | Los Angeles Times
 "The Cobbler" is a wildly ill-conceived curio from director Tom McCarthy, who co-wrote with Paul Sado.
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Esther Zuckerman | Entertainment Weekly 
 What starts off as a potentially charming fantasy never finds its footing.
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Kerry Lengel | Arizona Republic 
 "The Cobbler" definitely won't please the audience for Sandler's mainstream blockbusters, and it's unlikely to win him new fans among the indie intelligentsia, either.
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Bruce Demara | Toronto Star
 Fans of Adam Sandler are a hardy lot, impervious to the derision of friends and family and the slings and arrows his films frequently attract from critics. The Cobbler is likely to test their mettle.
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Andy Webster | New York Times  
 The sophomoric humor may be absent, but in its place is only a soufflé of whimsy, seasoned with soot, that fails to rise.
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Amy Nicholson | L.A. Weekly
 The Cobbler has invented a new category of terrible: cruel schmaltz
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Peter Travers | Rolling Stone 
 It's a toxic smear of curdled whimsy about a New York shoe-repair man (a lumbering Adam Sandler), who transforms into his customers when he puts on their shoes. The film is beyond awful.
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Stephen Whitty | Newark Star-Ledger 
 Maybe there's a good movie in here somewhere - or would have been, more than 40 years ago, with Judd Hirsch as the shoemaker. Or nearly 60 years ago, as a quick "Twilight Zone" episode. But as it's done today, it's just forced and unfunny and fake.
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A.A. Dowd | AV Club 
 Flamboyant caricatures and casual prejudice have always been cornerstones of the Adam Sandler empire, and The Cobbler is no exception.
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Lou Lumenick | New York Post    
 A painfully earnest and totally unfunny magic-realist fable set on the Lower East Side that works in no way whatsoever.
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Rex Reed | New York Observer 
 It revives the pleasant art of storytelling most of today's young filmmakers have all but abandoned, and cures (temporarily, anyway) my allergy to Adam Sandler.
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Eva (2015) Movie Critic Review

Eva (2015) Movie Critic Review
Eva (2015) Movie Critic Review
Production:     Canal+
Genres:     Sci-Fi, Drama, Fantasy
Countries:     Spain, France
Language:     Spanish, USA
Director:      Kike Maíllo
Stars:        Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann





Eva (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Eva Movie Directed by Kike Maíllo. Under Production: Kike Maíllo. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann

IMDB By 6.6 :-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298554/

Critic Reviews for  Eva 2015 - MDBReviews

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Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post     The relationship between Alex and Eva is sweet, and it grounds the film, even if certain secrets about it are telegraphed by the script.
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Neil Genzlinger | New York Times     
If the ending feels a little dismaying somehow, that's only because the film has done a good job of making you care about its characters, human and otherwise.
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Farran Smith Nehme | New York Post     
The final scenes are so good, even moving, that they make the earlier stuff look better. But a film concerned with the nature of emotion needs human engagement throughout.
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Roger Moore | Tribune News Service 

Great tone, good acting, but this sci-fi tale of sentient robots gives away its ending pretty much at the opening credits.
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Cinderella (2015) Movie Critic Review

Cinderella (2015) Movie Critic Review
Rating:     Rated PG for mild thematic elements
Production:     Walt Disney Pictures
Genres:     Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Family
Country:     USA
Language:     English 
Director;     Kenneth Branagh
Stars:    Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden







Cinderella (2015) English Movie Critic Review -  Cinderella Movie Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Under Production: Walt Disney Pictures. In Cinema Mar 13, 2015 with Stars: Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden

IMDB By 7.8 :-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661199

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Christian Toto | ColoradoParent.comThey didn't turn Cinderella into an action heroine or reboot the story for our cynical age. And thank heavens for that...
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Nathalie Atkinson | Globe and MailIn being faithful to the traditional tale interpreted by Disney in their animated 1950 classic, this Cinderella is crisp escapist enjoyment.
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Colin Covert | Minneapolis Star TribuneDisney's new live-action "Cinderella" is not a reboot. It's a case of sliding a glass slipper on a movie to make sure it's the classic that studio executives are looking for.
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Nancy Churnin | Dallas Morning NewsDisney's Cinderella has been magically transformed into as sumptuous a live-action re-imagining of its 1950 animated classic as any princess could dream of.
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Betsy Sharkey | Los Angeles TimesAs pure of heart as its heroine, "Cinderella" floats across the screen like a gossamer confection, full of elegant beauty and quiet grace.
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Joe Neumaier | New York Daily NewsDisney's live-action retelling of its cornerstone princess tale is an often sparkling movie that never disrespects the kid audience even as it wins over the parents.
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Joe Morgenstern | Wall Street JournalDisney's new live-action version is for the most part beguilingly good, even though it's no replacement for the studio's 1950 animated classic.
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Digging Up the Marrow (2015) Movie Review




Digging Up the Marrow (2015) Movie Review
Production:     ArieScope Pictures
Genres:     Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Country:     USA
Language:     English  
Director:    Adam Green
Stars:    Adam Green , Alex Pardee , Dave Brockie , Don Coscarelli

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RogerEbert.com | Simon AbramsGreen, who plays a snotty version of himself, doesn't follow through on any of the ideas that make his film stand out. As a result, Digging Up the Marrow just uselessly lies there, like a cat during a heat wave.
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Village Voice | Nick SchagerAfter poking fun at both Green's lack of originality and the hackneyed nature of found-footage shockers, Digging Up the Marrow merely resorts to climactic shaky-cam footage of people running through the pitch-black woods -- thereby becoming the very dull, clichéd thing it mocks.
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The Hollywood Reporter | Frank ScheckA playfully self-reflexive exercise whose endless in-jokes will best be appreciated by only the most ardent genre aficionados.
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The Dissolve | Mike D'AngeloDigging Up The Marrow is more of an affectionate comedy than a horror movie, despite a third act that features some tense moments and hostile critters.
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The A.V. Club | Ignatiy VishnevetskyAdam Green’s hybrid mockumentary Digging Up The Marrow deserves credit for trying to re-think the done-to-death found-footage horror formula, even if its self-reflexive angle amounts to little more than a whole lot of unrealized potential.
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Seventh Son (2015) Movie Review

Seventh Son (2015)
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for intense fantasy violence and action throughout, frightening images and brief strong language
Production:     Warner Bros. Pictures
Genres:     Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Countries:     USA, China, UK, Canada
Language:     English
Director:       Sergey Bodrov
Writers:        Charles Leavitt , Steven Knight
Stars:          Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges

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Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
It's a thoroughly incoherent, generally inane and surprisingly entertaining tale of witches and monsters and what legendary film critic Joe Bob Briggs calls “beast fu,” all set in a sub-Tolkien, sub-“Game of Thrones” pseudo-medieval universe.

The Dissolve Scott Tobias
The film is overstuffed, but it's swift and unpretentious, barreling through a non-stop series of action setpieces without pausing too long to take a breath. The busyness doesn't eradicate the clichés, much less enrich the film emotionally or thematically, but there's no time to think about them when Bodrov and his screenwriters, Charles Leavitt and Steven Knight, are moving along to the next sensation. It's transporting in that sense, and that sense alone.

New York Post Kyle Smith
Seventh Son is not a good movie, but it's also not a pretentious one, and I call that a fair trade.

Entertainment Weekly Kyle Anderson
(Bridges) has a tendency to make mistakes, especially when it comes to science fiction and fantasy titles. He has followed up the minor disasters that were "R.I.P.D." and "The Giver" with Seventh Son.

The Hollywood Reporter Jordan Mintzer
If anything, the movie offers up the guilty pleasure of seeing Bridges and Moore duel it out in front of countless green screens and a few stunning Canadian backdrops - two great actors clawing at each other with magic staffs and fake fire, trying to survive in the netherworld of heroic kitsch.

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Director Sergei Bodrov's movie is based on a kids' book in which Tom was a 12-year-old, and the actors wisely pitch their performances to a young crowd.

USA Today Claudia Puig
Moore goes into operatic mode as Mother Malkin, a nasty witch who morphs into a menacing winged dragon. The worst performance, however, belongs to Jeff Bridges as a marble-mouthed, curmudgeonly knight named Master Gregory.

Tribune News Service Roger Moore
The only question that's worth considering in Seventh Son is whether this all-star B-movie is bad enough to cost Julianne Moore her “Still Alice” Oscar. And the answer to that is, “Not really.”

Variety Peter Debruge
Given the fine past work of its many parents, there was clearly potential here, but as delivered, Seventh Son amounts to nothing short of a creative miscarriage.

Slant Magazine Elise Nakhnikian
As is often the case in films like this, Seventh Son is at its weakest when it tries to leaven its brink-of-disaster gravity with a little nerdy humor. 




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Jupiter Ascending (2015) Movie Review

Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Rating:     Rated PG-13 for some violence, sequences of sci-fi action, some suggestive content and partial nudity
Production:     Warner Bros. Pictures
Genres:     Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country:     USA
Language:     English
Directors:      Andy Wachowski , Lana Wachowski
Writers:        Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars:          Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne


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TheWrap Alonso DuraldeWho cares if the story is occasionally impenetrable or if some gags land with a thud when the thrills and the eye candy keep coming at such a breathless pace? Jupiter Ascending doesn't break the new ground that the Wachowskis have managed in the past...but the film never slacks in its efforts to wow us.

HitFix Drew McWeeny

 Fast, frequently teetering on the cusp of the ridiculous, and eye-poppingly pretty, Jupiter Ascending is a wicked slice of entertainment, and a heck of an antidote to the typical February box-office blahs.

Total Film

Both visually and in the action stakes, Jupiter Ascending could give pretty much any space movie a run for its money.

Time Out London Tom Huddleston

This is one mad mess from start to finish... But the sheer ambition is impossible to ignore, and the sense of fun is infectious: you may fear for your sanity during Jupiter Ascending, but you'll come out smiling.

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

It's all very chaotic and entertaining, like a bizarre cult sci-fi TV show that somehow survived a threat of mid-season cancellation.

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

It's blandly, often listlessly bad, check-the-blockbuster-boxes bad, just-out-of-film-school-and-shopping-a-tentpole-screenplay bad.

The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy

Even with all its familiar action tropes, less-than-fresh special effects and loopy plotting, the most depressing element in the Wachowski siblings' latest sci-fi mash is that, as they conceive it, human society has been around for more than a billion years but is still presided over by a rivalrous British-style royal family that treacherously behaves as if it were the 1550s.

Variety Peter Debruge

 While the Wachowskis have always put their greatest emphasis on aesthetics, they allow the visual impulse to get the best of them here, investing so much attention in creating unique fashions, technology, architecture and design that they've blinded themselves to the huge logical gaps in their own story.

Empire Kim Newman

 Like too much filmed space opera, this is wonderfully imaginative when it comes to costume, art direction, special effects, spaceships and incidental alien creatures but stuck with old-hat character types and a resolutely unspecial storyline. It's frequently entertaining, but as much for its terrible moments as its inspired touches.

Tribune News Service Roger Moore

An excruciatingly empty chunk of eye candy that spends over two hours trying to convince us they're not ripping off “Dune.”
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