MCN Critics Roundup
The DVD Wrapup: Larry Fessenden, My Favorite Martian, Testament of Youth, A Special Day and more
Like Clint Howard, Larry Fessenden is a seemingly tireless supporting actor whose horror-perfect face is far better known than his name, at least outside of Hollywood and fan conventions. If they hadn’t found work in the pictures, both could easily be mistaken for carnies, roustabouts, road-crew workers and reprobates of all stripe. Fessenden’s background may smack of East Coast establishment, but he caught exploitation fever in his teens and hasn’t had time to look back since then. At 52, he has more than a dozen credits as an actor (84), director (22), producer (58), writer (13), editor (15) and cinematographer (14).
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Tomorrowland, Aladdin, Dope, Big Eden, Requiescant, Alleluia and ore
Despite releasing Tomorrowland and Aladdin on Blu-ray almost simultaneously, Disney may not be asking consumers to draw any conclusions about the company’s past, present and future, but, what the hell, what better time?
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — July 5
The Amazing Spider-Man |||Yellow|Yellow|Green Savages |||Yellow||Green Starry Starry Night (NY) ||||Green| The Do-Deca Pentathlon (limited) |||Red|| The Magic of Belle Isle (limited) |||Red|| Last Ride (NY) |||Green||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — June 28
Magic Mike |Green||Green||Yellow People Like Us |||Green||Yellow Beasts of the Southern Wild (NY, LA) |Green||Green|Green|Green Ted |Yellow||Green||Yellow Take This Waltz (NY)|Green||Green|Green|Green Neil Young Journeys (limited) ||||Green| Unforgivable (limited)|Green||Green||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – June 21
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter |Yellow||Green||Red Brave |Yellow||Green||Green Seeking a Friend for the End of the World |Yellow||Yellow|| The Invisible War (limited)|||Green|Green|Green Nate and Margaret (NY) |||Green|| To Rome with Love (limited) |Yellow||Yellow|Yellow|Green
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — June 14
Rock of Ages |Red||||Red That’s My Boy |||||Red Your Sister’s Sister (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green| The Woman in the Fifth (limited) |||Green|Green| Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (NY) |||Green|Green| Patang: The Kite (NY, Chicago) |||Green|| Farewell My Queen (Les adieux à la reine) (LA) |Green||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — June 7
Prometheus |Yellow||Green||Green Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted |||||Green Peace, Love and Misunderstanding (limited) |Yellow||Red|Yellow| Safety Not Guaranteed |Green|||Green|Yellow Lola Versus (limited) |||||Yellow Paul Williams: Still Alive (NY) |||Green|Green| Children of Paradise (LA) ||||Green|Green Double Trouble (LA) |Yellow||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – May 31
Snow White and the Huntsman |Yellow|||| 6 Month Rule (NY, LA) |||Red|Red| A Cat in Paris (limited) |Green||Yellow|Green| Wallander (NY, LA) |||Green|| Battlefield America ||||| For Greater Glory |||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — May 24
Men in Black 3 |Yellow||Green||Yellow Moonrise Kingdom (NY, LA) |Green||Green||Green Oslo, August 31 (NY) |||Green|Green| Chernobyl Diaries |||||Red The Intouchables (limited) |Green||||Green
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – May 17
Battleship |Red||||Yellow The Dictator |Yellow||||Yellow What to Expect When You’re Expecting |Red||||Yellow Elena (NY) |Green||Green|Green| Hysteria (limited) |||Green|Green| Mansome (limited) |||Yellow|| Polisse (limited) |Red||Yellow|| The Samaritan (limited) |||Red|| Lovely Molly (limited) ||||Yellow|
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — May 10
Dark Shadows |Yellow||Green|Red|Green God Bless America (limited) |||Green|Green| I Wish (limited) ||||Green| Under African Skies (limited) ||||Green| Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish (NY) ||||Yellow| Where Do We Go Now? (NY, LA) |Green||Red|Yellow| Patience: After Sebald (NY) |||Green|| You Are Here (NY) |||Green|Green| The Cup|Yellow|||| Steve Jobs: Lost Interview|Yellow||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — May 3
Marvel’s The Avengers |Yellow||Yellow|Green| First Position (limited) |||Green|Green| The Perfect Family (limited) |||Yellow|| Last Call at the Oasis (limited) ||||Green| The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (limited) |Yellow|||| You Hurt My Feelings (ReRun Gastropub, Brooklyn) |||Green||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – April 26
The Five Year Engagement |Yellow||||Yellow The Raven |||||Yellow Bernie (limited) |Yellow||||Green Sound of My Voice (limited) ||||Green| Headhunters (Magnolia) (limited) |Green||||Yellow The Pirates! Band of Misfits |||Yellow|| Elles (limited) |Yellow|||| Warriors of Rainbow (limited) |Green||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – April 19
Think Like a Man |||Green|| Darling Companion |||Yellow||Green Goodbye First Love (limited) |||Green|Green| My Way |||Green|Green|Green Oki’s Movie (NY) |||Green||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – April 12
The Cabin in the Woods |||Green|Green| The Three Stooges |Yellow|||| A Simple Life (limited) |Green|||Green| Detention (limited) |||Green|Green| Here (NY) |||Green|| Monsieur Lazhar |Green|||Green| Life Happens |||Yellow|| The Lady (limited) |Red||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – April 5
Titanic in 3-D ||||| American Reunion ||||| Damsels in Distress (NY, LA) |Green||Yellow|Yellow| Surviving Progress (NY) |||Green|| We Have a Pope (limited) |Green||Green||Green We the Party (limited) |||Green|| Keyhole (limited) |Green|||Yellow| The Hunter (limited) |Yellow||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup — March 29
Mirror, Mirror |Yellow|||| Wrath of the Titans ||||| The Island President (NY) |||Green|Green| Goon (limited) ||||| Love in the Buff (limited) |Green||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – March 22
The Hunger Games |Yellow||Green|Green| The Raid: Redemption |||Green|| The Deep Blue Sea (NY, LA) |Yellow||Green|| Musical Chairs (NY) |||Green|| October Baby |||Red|| Free Men |Green||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – March 15
21 Jump Street |Yellow|||| Casa de mi Padre (limited) ||||| Gerhard Richter Painting (NY) |||Green|Green| Jeff, Who Lives at Home (limited) |Green|||Green| The Kid with a Bike (limited) |Green||Green|Green| Natural Selection (limited) ||||Yellow| Delicacy (limited) |||Yellow|| Reuniting the Rubens (NY) |Red||||
Read the full article »Critics Roundup – March 8
John Carter |Yellow||Yellow|Green|Green Silent House ||||Yellow|Yellow Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (limited) |||||Green Friends with Kids (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green| Footnote (NY, LA) |Green|||Green| The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (limited) |||Green|Green| Sound of Noise (limited) ||||Green| Attenberg (NY) |||Green|Green|
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