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LISA SCHWARZBAUM Movie Reviews

561 reviews, averaging 71.3% positive
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No (2013)

Entertainment Weekly
02/15/13 Outstanding "...superb, Oscar-nominated, fact-based... third in a trilogy of powerful political dramas from Pablo Larraín, including 'Tony Manero' and 'Post Mortem'..."
2. 02/15/13 Moderate "The idea is no less sweet for being unoriginal.... The execution, on the other hand, is perilously self-absorbed..."
3.

Lore (2012)

Entertainment Weekly
02/15/13 Excellent "...striking, slow-building... uses fractured, impressionistic imagery as a mirror of moral dislocation as the children make their way through an unfamiliar landscape."
4.

A Good Day to Die Hard

Entertainment Weekly
02/15/13 Moderate "...leaves room for McClane to make a few jokes about his thinning hair and to rue that he wasn't a better father when his kids were growing up. Oh, boo-hoo."
5.

Identity Thief

Entertainment Weekly
02/08/13 Good "There are no pauses in this hectic madcappery, not for a minute.... Even during more tender moments, Melissa McCarthy's working her butt off."
6.

The Gatekeepers (2012)

Entertainment Weekly
02/08/13 Outstanding "I don't know how Moreh persuaded six former heads of Israel's Shin Bet secret-service agency to talk... these are tough men who have never spoken about their work before."
7.

Warm Bodies

Entertainment Weekly
02/01/13 Very Good "...four performances deserve a shout-out: 'X-Men' ex-man Nicholas Hoult... Rob Corddry... 'Crazy, Stupid Love's' Analeigh Tipton... and then there's John Malkovich."
8.

Parker

Entertainment Weekly
01/25/13 Fair "...indistinguishable is the man in this unremarkably generic, insanely bloody and bullet-filled adaptation of the Parker novel..."
9.

Fairhaven

Entertainment Weekly
01/18/13 Excellent "...nuanced... personal tenderness combines with a good sense of composition and a naturalistic storytelling style to give a small, familiar premise a nice lilt."
10.

Hors Satan (Outside Satan)

Entertainment Weekly
01/18/13 Excellent "...austerely wild, religiously amoral... Bruno Dumont's rigorous, serious attention to the mysteries of good, evil, and faith rewards those willing to be confounded."
11.

56 Up

Entertainment Weekly
01/18/13 Outstanding "Here is a chronicle of real human souls evolving in real time, a longitudinal study unique to the medium of moving images -- and a documentary masterpiece."
12.

$ellebrity

Entertainment Weekly
01/18/13 Moderate "...teaches nothing new. But if you want to hear Jennifer Aniston and Elton John complain about the bad guys, you're in luck."
13.

Quartet (2012)

Entertainment Weekly
01/11/13 Very Good "...knows just the tune to soothe its mature target audience... Dustin Hoffman, a 75-year-old first-time feature director, conducts at a pleasant tempo."
14.

Struck by Lightning (2013)

Entertainment Weekly
01/11/13 Good "...pleasant... sticks to generic character sketches of high school student types... some charming, buzzy talents pitch in on this short little lark..."
15.

Not Fade Away (2012)

Entertainment Weekly
01/04/13 Very Good "...has the kind of attention to the details of time and place -- and the glorious, evocative soundtrack -- that made 'The Sopranos' so engrossing an experience..."
16.

The Guilt Trip (2012)

Entertainment Weekly
12/14/12 Good "...a collection of pit-stop-to-pit-stop set pieces... Streisand is her own once-in-a-lifetime trip, looking gawjuss with that divine voice and those killer fingernails..."
17.

Jack Reacher

Entertainment Weekly
12/14/12 Good (Not Great) "...the movie stumbles around looking for a unifying narrative tone, while the star soldiers on, offering up his generic action-hero stance of calm, opaque concentration."
18.

The Impossible

Entertainment Weekly
12/14/12 Excellent "...harrowing, riveting -- and uneasily 'uplifting'... It's agony, in a rewarding way, to squirm and cringe and groan through an ordeal so realistically re-created."
19.

Les Misérables (2012)

Entertainment Weekly
12/14/12 Moderate "...a sobering reminder of just how tinny a musical 'Les Misérables' was in the first place... a minor road-show carnival, leaving behind little but tinsel..."
20. 12/13/12 Excellent "...from the minute Gollum's two big round pale eyes meet Bilbo's -- and ours -- the film gets a second wind that lofts this chapter to the finish line."

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