'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' with Daisy Ridley. 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens': Negative reviews have been few, but pointed Star Wars: The Force Awakens is currently enjoying a 91 percent approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics. The average rating of the latest movie in the George Lucas-founded Star Wars franchise is 8.3/10. That's quite a bit higher than the Rt top critics' rating for The Force Awakens' three predecessors, all directed by Lucas – his first (and, to date, last) films since Star Wars back in 1977: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith: 67 percent approval and 7/10 average. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones: 41 percent approval and 6.2/10 average. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: 41 percent approval and 5.5/10 average. Gushing reviews have poured forth from both little-known online outlets and major publications. They're everywhere. Of course, there...
- 12/19/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Paramount Pictures
Every normal person loves a good movie, but if there’s one thing movie critics aren’t, it’s normal people. Sure, you can write a perfectly decent review extolling the virtues of the latest hit film, but that gets old after a while. Good is boring. It’s much more fun writing about bad movies. Beneath the surface of every respectable journalist who writes movie reviews lies a sadistic monster, gleefully waiting for a horrible film to come out so that they can use the power of their words against it. These are the people who root for Anton Ego, the caustic food critic, when watching Ratatouille.
While this sort of cut throat film criticism is entertaining, it starts to feel a little cruel, in a making-fun-of-the-kid-with-crutches way, when the movie they’re deriding is legitimately awful. Or at least it would, if it wasn’t absolutely hilarious.
Every normal person loves a good movie, but if there’s one thing movie critics aren’t, it’s normal people. Sure, you can write a perfectly decent review extolling the virtues of the latest hit film, but that gets old after a while. Good is boring. It’s much more fun writing about bad movies. Beneath the surface of every respectable journalist who writes movie reviews lies a sadistic monster, gleefully waiting for a horrible film to come out so that they can use the power of their words against it. These are the people who root for Anton Ego, the caustic food critic, when watching Ratatouille.
While this sort of cut throat film criticism is entertaining, it starts to feel a little cruel, in a making-fun-of-the-kid-with-crutches way, when the movie they’re deriding is legitimately awful. Or at least it would, if it wasn’t absolutely hilarious.
- 8/30/2014
- by Audrey Fox
- Obsessed with Film
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 30, 2013
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
James Gandolfini (Killing Them Softly) and The Sopranos creator David Chase partnered up again for drama movie Not Fade Away, which was described as a “love letter to an era” by the Washington Examiner.
Written and directed by Chase, the drama movie is the coming of age story of a group friends in a 1960s New Jersey suburb, who form a rock band and try to make it big.
Gandolfini heads up a cast that includes Brad Garrett (TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond), Christopher McDonald (TV’s Harry’s Law), Molly Price (The Good Doctor), John Magaro (My Soul to Take), Jack Huston (TV’s Boardwalk Empire) and Will Brill (King Kelly).
Not Fade Away also features a soundtrack that was supervised by music guru and Sopranos actor Steven Van Zandt, and critics praised the music, among other aspects of the movie.
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
James Gandolfini (Killing Them Softly) and The Sopranos creator David Chase partnered up again for drama movie Not Fade Away, which was described as a “love letter to an era” by the Washington Examiner.
Written and directed by Chase, the drama movie is the coming of age story of a group friends in a 1960s New Jersey suburb, who form a rock band and try to make it big.
Gandolfini heads up a cast that includes Brad Garrett (TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond), Christopher McDonald (TV’s Harry’s Law), Molly Price (The Good Doctor), John Magaro (My Soul to Take), Jack Huston (TV’s Boardwalk Empire) and Will Brill (King Kelly).
Not Fade Away also features a soundtrack that was supervised by music guru and Sopranos actor Steven Van Zandt, and critics praised the music, among other aspects of the movie.
- 4/12/2013
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
If may seem entirely apparent that in order to succeed you need quality. A dash of talent and invention here, a wonderful peace of transitory execution there, that’s what maketh a movie young Padawan (alas Geroge Lucas doesn’t make this list even though he really should). But looking around us it soon becomes apparent that we often find ourselves swimming amongst a mediocre cesspool of light entertainment and most appropriately of all shite entertainment. And not only is it allowed to exist, but we (and by we I mean all) actively encourage it.
Don’t act like you didn’t. You went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End didn’t you. You disgust me. That time you went and watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon, make no mistake, I was sitting there judging you from atop my pedestal of good taste, casting an arched...
Don’t act like you didn’t. You went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End didn’t you. You disgust me. That time you went and watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon, make no mistake, I was sitting there judging you from atop my pedestal of good taste, casting an arched...
- 6/20/2012
- by Ross Jones-Morris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The awards may have already been handed out, but the 45th Chicago International Film Festival doesn’t officially wrap until tomorrow. Catch up with the coverage coming out of the festival: “For its trouble, Ciff has always struggled with the second-city syndrome that swept through Daley Plaza last Friday,” notes J.R. Jones, Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall and Joshua Katzman in their overview of the festival for the Chicago Reader. “Unlike the big …...
- 10/21/2009
- Indiewire
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