Positive Movie Reviews ( blueant )
Triangle, Christopher Smith
" Horror that escalates its somewhat familiar premise with confidence and seems to infinitely test our imagination. You endure it with pleasure. "
Near Dark, Kathryn Bigelow
" Positions a multitude of vampire mythos within a landscape of American western to create stylish, unforgettable myth of its own. "
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Edgar Wright
" 8-bit nerd's porn, Wright's masterpiece. Film you will not dare judge for its faults but embrace for unabashed frenentic energy. "
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Andrew Dominik
" Replaces violence, anxiety and noise of the frontier with tranquility of a legend that fades willingly and ultimately never dies. "
The Rock, Michael Bay
" As if carved in actual stone- monument for 90's action-formula, exploited to its limit with enough humor, patos and violence. "
Reconstruction, Christoffer Boe
" Love-story that deconstructs both the love and the story and assembles them into devastating, emotional punch-line- fictitious but cruely hurtful. "
I Saw The Devil, Kim Ji-woon
" As blood-thirsty and gut-wrenching as its restless antagonits, mercilessly bending the cliches of serial killer genre and morality of revenge. "
The International, Tom Tykwer
" Tykwer injects style and scope into over-familiar conspiracy story even if plotting limps slowly between each carefully constructed, impressive set piece. "
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
" Science-fiction noir that imprinted its style and substance upon the very fabric of cinematic matter. Nuanced and ever-inspiring monument of imagination. "
Hot Tub Time Machine, Steve Pink
" Hilarious concept providing plenty of opportunitues for sentimental laughs turned into a moderately entertaining film that capitalizes on some of them. "
Internal Affairs, Mike Figgis
" Cop thriller so skillfully induced with unsetlling erotic tone that it turns familar routine into exciting game of underplayed power struggle. "
Rififi, Jules Dassin
" A quintesential French noir- tough gangsters, silent heist and deception that all boil down to sexual tension and bullied femme fatale. "
Heat, Michael Mann
" Slow-burning rather than sizzling, pondering all emotions and suddenly exploding into noisy violence Heat amounts to nothing less than genre excellence. "
Farewell (L'affaire Farewell), Christian Carion
" Carion fills the gaps in convoluted political and historical setting with style, crafting engaging, curiously energetic and vividly cinematic spy thriller. "
The Losers, Sylvain White
" Actioner that is too generic to steal spotlight from other, better comic book adaptations but remains entertaining and often surprisingly stylish. "
Stardust, Matthew Vaughn
" Fails to deliver some of Gaiman's humour but translates plot with sense of awe reserved for best of fairy tales. "
Lincoln Lawyer, Brad Furman
" Between a style of TV show and plot of pulp crime novel it efficiently delivers all required thrills, twists and drama. "
The Fighter, David O. Russell
" There's an emotional resonance, brilliant performances, vibrant style and tremendous amount of cinematic value here, regardless of your investment into boxing. "
Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor), Timur Bekmambetov
" Puts a distinctly Eastern European spin on the urban fantasy and is wonderfully realized if a tad muddled in its plotting. "
Day Watch (Dnevnoy Dozor), Timur Bekmambetov
" Provokes a headache by cramming too much plot into already convoluted set-up but set-pieces and grotesque imagery remain unforgettable and unique. "
Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick
" Kubrick's last sends him down grotesque path that might usually be reserved for Lynch but feels gripping, humorous and perfectly suitable. "
Dust Devil (Director's Cut), Richard Stanley
" Horror of such extraordinary thematic and symbolic range that its visual poetry becomes merely an excuse to indulge in its complexity. "
Hardware, Richard Stanley
" Cyberpunk cult classic that embodies a whole genre of dystopian sci-fi and an era of tangible dread of the new century. "
Blue Steel, Kathryn Bigelow
" Bigelow leaves little room for logic in this 'feminist' cop thriller effectively crammed with sexual tension, gun fetishism and unpredictable twists. "
Pontypool, Bruce McDonald
" You need not know arcana of semiotics to be spooked by this intriguing zombie horror that embraces verbal scares over violence. "
Crumb, Terry Zwigoff
" In a story of a peculiar individual Zwigoff discovers patterns of intimate relationships and events that, invisibly, shape all of us. "
Pumpkinhead, Stan Winston
" Pumpkinhead is a vicious onscreen entity inhabiting a great looking film that benefits from atmospheric setting and folklore origins. "
The Believer, Henry Bean
" Albeit throuhg stereotypes and often in a preaching voice The Believer, supported by Gosling's intense performance, bravely tackles provocative racial issues. "
Leopard (Il Gattopardo), Luchino Visconti
" Masterpiece of truly majestic scope and everlasting vigour- epic historical drama that vividly brings to life full-blooded characters and "
Fright Night (2011), Craig Gillespie
" Fright Night reinvigorates clever premise from the original and identifies itself as bloodier, meaner, creepier and all around more dynamic horror. "
Down Terrace, Ben Wheatley
" Low-budget but focused kitchen sink/gangster drama benefiting from ingenious characters, witty dialogue and solid performances that crystalize its indiosyncratic grotesque mood. "
Them (Ils), David Moreau, Xavier Palud
" Intense albeit bloodless French horror that requires other, better films to contextualize its purposeless, teenage villains but is swift and effective. "
Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder
" Leaves so little to imagination that despite visual splendour never holds your attention- lifeless, dull, bombastic collage of ideas and inspirations. "
Negative Movie Reviews ( blueant )
The Social Network, David Fincher
" Like an equation it's precise but albeit visually stunning it has a heart of stone and rings oddly inhumane tones. "
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Gavin Hood
" Not as bad as disappointing - squandering violent, rich mythology into lazily written camp that for fans will be downright insulting. "
A Nightmare On Elm Street (2009), Samuel Bayer
" Unnecessary, scareless remake that is incompetent, lifeless, dull and uninspired- all at the same time and consistently from start to finish. "
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Michael Bay
" All sound and fury, indulged by the scale of ubiquitous destruction to the point of being incomprehensible, overlong and nauseatingly dull. "
Jonah Hex, Jimmy Hayword
" Sometimes you call things for what they are- this is a turd, film lost somewhere between cutting floor and miscarriaged conception. "
Salt, Philip Noyce
" Jolie is magnetic but film goes through motions mechanically- aware of its idiocy and predictability and denies us real pay off. "
A Serbian Film (Srpski Film), Srđan Spasojević
" You will strive to watch it not because of the excessive sexual violence but because it hides unforgivably dull, pretensious affair. "
Tron: Legacy, Joseph Kosinski
" Pretty visuals try hard to cover the absence of tension in a primitive plot but fail to inspire like original did. "
Battle: Los Angeles, Johnathan Liebesman
" Independence Day post Iraq that tries hard to bring chaos and violence of modern warfare closer to home but ineptly misfires. "
Rampart, Oren Moverman
" Tries to assess superficial machismo of cop-movie cliches but in itself remains a dull, pointless throwback to familiar motions and characters. "
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
" If it's the greatest of films it is also the emptiest-cinematic con concealing technicaly visionary automaton devoided of heart and emotions. "
