Movie Reviews Published by NPR - Page 44 of 86

861-880 of 1,713 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Pompeii (2014)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 21 Feb 2014

Anderson's repeated hurling of flaming volcanic projectiles directly at the screen — the dominant feature of the latter third of Pompeii…

Read Review

Review of Bethlehem (2013)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 20 Feb 2014

Bethlehem qualifies as a promising debut for its first-time actors and director, but it's slack at first, and the thriller tricks it uses to…

Read Review

Review of In Secret (2014)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 20 Feb 2014

Rather than revealing the brutish natures of Zola's characters, the movie's lovers seem simply to be following a yellowed script, more with…

Read Review

Review of Antichrist (2009)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 19 Feb 2014

For a hymn to panic and hostility, the movie is curiously artful…

Read Review

Review of Orphan (2009)

By Nathan Lee (205) for NPR (1,713) on 18 Feb 2014

The movie is, as these things go, enjoyably trashy…

Read Review

Review of RoboCop (2014)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 14 Feb 2014

It's well made, polished, and hits every mark — but is it crazy to want a futuristic sci-fi action flick about a motorcycle-riding metal…

Read Review

Review of The Returned (2013)

By Tomas Hachard (101) for NPR (1,713) on 13 Feb 2014

Zombies are a versatile source for metaphor, whether they represent a deadened consumerist society, a victimized minority or a worldwide medical…

Read Review

Review of Death at a Funeral (2010)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Feb 2014

The original was a little sharper, with actual satirical swipes at modern British life…

Read Review

Review of The Last of the Unjust (2013)

By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Feb 2014

Murmelstein died in Rome in 1989, and having witnessed the terrible dilemmas he suffered and the mass rescues he pulled off, we can only be…

Read Review

Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

By Joel Arnold (26) for NPR (1,713) on 06 Feb 2014

The Lego Movie maybe be one giant advertisement, but all the way to its plastic-mat foundation, it's an earnest piece of work — a cash grab…

Read Review

Review of A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 06 Feb 2014

The effect eventually becomes that of about a dozen story pitches all strung together…

Read Review

Review of The Monuments Men (2014)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 06 Feb 2014

There's lots of information, some nice images, plenty of earnest sermonizing about culture and almost no suspense, or tension, or character…

Read Review

Review of Labor Day (2013)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 31 Jan 2014

Labor Day may be filled with autumn's falling leaves, but it makes sense that they're bringing it out as a prelude to spring, for the sap —…

Read Review

Review of Charlie Victor Romeo (2014)

By Mark Jenkins (515) for NPR (1,713) on 31 Jan 2014

That the same performers keep returning in different roles, playing Peruvian and Japanese flyers as well as American ones, only adds to the…

Read Review

Review of At Middleton (2013)

By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 30 Jan 2014

Though it's fun to watch Garcia let out his inner goofball, the jewels in the crown of At Middleton are the dynamic sisters Farmiga…

Read Review

Review of Run & Jump (2014)

By Joel Arnold (26) for NPR (1,713) on 24 Jan 2014

Focusing on this tumultuous period of adjustment, Run & Jump is uneven but admirably authentic in its observation of a family trying to retain…

Read Review

Review of Gloria (1980)

By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 24 Jan 2014

The film's director, Sebastian Lelio, is up to all kinds of mischief, the least of which is Gloria's abundant hairdo and outsized spectacles,…

Read Review

Review of Gloria (2014)

By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 24 Jan 2014

The film's director, Sebastian Lelio, is up to all kinds of mischief, the least of which is Gloria's abundant hairdo and outsized spectacles,…

Read Review

Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013)

By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 23 Jan 2014

Stranger by the Lake has become a psychosexually intriguing blend of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window and William Friedkin's Cruising — one…

Read Review

Review of Big Bad Wolves (2013)

By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 16 Jan 2014

There's black comedy, and then, in the darkest corner of an airtight box buried deep underground, there's the humor of Big Bad Wolves…

Read Review

Page 44 of 86

Related publishers:

NPR features reviews by:

Popular Movies Right Now

Gone Girl

2014

81%1,229 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

The Invitation

2022

47%33 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Hereditary

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews