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A.O.SCOTT rated Ice Age: Continental Drift
and wrote a review Ice Age: Continental Drift
” ...witty and touching and marvelously concise, part of a series that has managed to stay fresh and inventive after many years in the pop-culture spotlight...…“ (more)Jan 9th, 2013 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Trouble With the Curve
and wrote a review Trouble With the Curve
”“Trouble With the Curve” is either an off-speed pitch that just catches the edge of the strike zone or a bloop single lofted into right field. The…“ (more)Jan 4th, 2013 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Promised Land
and wrote a review Promised Land
”Viewers who are already skeptical of fracking are likely to find gratification in the film’s sentimental, studiously ambiguous conclusion. Those seeking…“ (more)Jan 3rd, 2013 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Django Unchained
and wrote a review Django Unchained
”“Django Unchained” is unabashedly and self-consciously pulpy... It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane. But it is also a troubling…“ (more)Dec 26th, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated This Is 40
and wrote a review This Is 40
”It snuggles up next to you, breathes in your face, dribbles crumbs on your shirt and laughs at its own jokes. Such proximity makes it easy to notice flaws,…“ (more)Dec 21st, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Jack Reacher
and wrote a review Jack Reacher
”Reacher is far less enigmatic than he or anyone else in the movie thinks he is. And also less interesting.... the movie’s atmosphere of weary brutality…“ (more)Dec 21st, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Men in Black 3
and wrote a review Men in Black 3
”Your expectations may be pleasantly low, and you may therefore be pleasantly surprised when they are exceeded... It manages, in the end, to be touching…“ (more)Dec 12th, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Playing for Keeps
and wrote a review Playing for Keeps
”Sometimes it swerves toward farce, sometimes into the zone of smiley family comedy and at other times into full-on weepiness. None of it is especially…“ (more)Dec 7th, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Snow White and the Huntsman
and wrote a review Snow White and the Huntsman
”There is something exciting about how seriously 'Snow White and the Huntsman' takes its themes... exceptional work... “ (more)Dec 6th, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Wreck-It Ralph
and wrote a review Wreck-It Ralph
”...a 93-minute blast of color, noise, ingenuity and fun... “Wreck-It Ralph” manages to be touching as well as silly, thrilling and just a bit exhausting.…“ (more)Dec 3rd, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Killing Them Softly
and wrote a review Killing Them Softly
”...a grisly little crime movie...it's sapped of vitality by its own self-conscious, curatorial fastidiousness...the movie is more concerned with conjuring…“ (more)Nov 30th, 2012 Details -
A.O.SCOTT rated Life of Pi
and wrote a review Life of Pi
”The movie invites you to believe in all kinds of marvelous things, but it also may cause you to doubt what you see with your own eyes — or even to wonder…“ (more)Nov 29th, 2012 Details