Movie Reviews Published by ColeSmithey.com - Page 21 of 93

401-420 of 1,853 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Last Stand (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Jan 2013

After watching Arnold Schwarzenegger's lukewarm performance, you'll hope that this bombastic exercise in gunplay is his last stand as an actor…

Read Review

Review of Broken City (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 18 Jan 2013

How low can Russell Crowe and Mark Wahlberg go? This is one filmic limbo that hits the floor with a dull thud…

Read Review

Review of A Haunted House (1975)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 13 Jan 2013

Mining the spoof genre he helped reenergize with the Scary Movie franchise, Marlon Wayans comes up short with a well-worn scattershot approach…

Read Review

Review of A Haunted House (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 13 Jan 2013

Mining the spoof genre he helped reenergize with the Scary Movie franchise, Marlon Wayans comes up short with a well-worn scattershot approach…

Read Review

Review of Barbara (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 Jan 2013

Despite the limited scope of its predictable narrative, Barbara remains a compelling character study thanks to Nina Hoss's enigmatic performance…

Read Review

Review of Gangster Squad (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 Jan 2013

As an old-fashioned gangster picture tempered with noir overtones Gangster Squad is feast for the eyes…

Read Review

Review of Jack Reacher (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 07 Jan 2013

So long as you accept that the twain will never meet between the film and book versions of Jack Reacher, you should be able to enjoy each exclusively…

Read Review

Review of Caligula (1979)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 14 Dec 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] If ever there was a filmic guide to pagan Roman debauchery - real or imagined - Caligula is it…

Read Review

Review of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 12 Dec 2012

Peter Jackson has formally moved away from the artistic act of directing, and into the business of creating synthetic movie product…

Read Review

Review of Django Unchained (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 Dec 2012

Campy, funny, shocking, and seeping with sardonic social commentary, Django Unchained is Quentin Tarantino's finest film to date…

Read Review

Review of Les Misérables (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 07 Dec 2012

Audiences new to Boubil & Schoenberg's stage musical - based on Victor Hugo's novel of historical fiction - may be surprised to discover that…

Read Review

Review of In Cold Blood (1967)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 06 Dec 2012

[VIDEO ESSAY] Screenwriter-director Richard Brooks's faithful adaptation of Truman Capote's innovative 1966 non-fiction novel, about a 1959…

Read Review

Review of This Is 40 (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 30 Nov 2012

From a bang-for-buck perspective This is 40 gives up big dividends in laughs…

Read Review

Review of Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 28 Nov 2012

The film's greatest achievement is that it doesn't glorify its subject…

Read Review

Review of West of Memphis (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 28 Nov 2012

West of Memphis is part of a sea change in the way that cinema stimulates social change. There is nowhere to hide…

Read Review

Review of Waiting for Lightning (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2012

It's not many Americans whose names are engraved on the Great Wall of China. Daredevil Danny May certainly deserves the honor. Get stoked…

Read Review

Review of Deadfall (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 26 Nov 2012

Your standard issue cold-weather crime thriller, Deadfall comes complete with gratuitous sex, a hot-pursuit chase sequence involving snowmobiles,…

Read Review

Review of California Solo (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 23 Nov 2012

One of the U.K.'s unsung character-actors, Carlyle sinks his teeth in and gives a remarkable performance…

Read Review

Review of Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 22 Nov 2012

Silver Linings Playbook is a Hollywood romantic comedy made to mask the horrific downside of mental illness while still giving the audience…

Read Review

Review of Hitchcock (2012)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 21 Nov 2012

Hitchcock falls prey to its unfocused narrative intentions…

Read Review

Page 21 of 93

ColeSmithey.com features reviews by:

Cole Smithey (1,865)

Top publishers this month:

Popular Movies Right Now

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Parasite

2019

87%251 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

78%1,656 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

71%170 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews