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OWEN GLEIBERMAN Movie Reviews

582 reviews, averaging 69.8% positive
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1.

Inside Llewyn Davis

Entertainment Weekly
05/18/13 Good "...ultimately frustrating.... a tantalizing teaser of a movie that only made me hungry to see a folk-music drama that could take the truly audacious risk of total sincerity."
2.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Entertainment Weekly
05/17/13 Outstanding "...the characters pop out at us with a new dynamism.... a sleek, thrilling epic that's also a triumphantly witty popcorn morality play."
3.

Augustine

Entertainment Weekly
05/17/13 Moderate "...stodgy... the clunking message is that the ambitious doctor needs his patient far more than she needs him."
4.

The Bling Ring

Entertainment Weekly
05/16/13 Excellent "...arresting.... The acting is so authentic that it takes a while to differentiate the girls, and that's part of the film's texture, too: its unsensational look at sensational crimes."
5. 05/10/13 Good (Not Great) "...a poor man's 'Being There' with a didactic theme (TV is colonizing our brains!) that gets old fast."
6.

Generation Um...

Entertainment Weekly
05/10/13 Fair "Reeves summons his usual pensive blankness to play a depressive wastrel who sulks through New York's East Village, then turns a camera on his party-girl paramours..."
7.

Stories We Tell

Entertainment Weekly
05/10/13 Outstanding "Polley deconstructs the story she's telling.... By the end, the rug gets pulled out from under us, showing that even the reality we think we see may be an illusion..."
8.

Peeples

Entertainment Weekly
05/10/13 Good (Not Great) "...the actors are amiable, but the film often seems to want to turn these characters into benignly goofy role models."
9.

Greetings from Tim Buckley

Entertainment Weekly
05/03/13 Outstanding "Penn Badgley does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail.... This is a melancholy wisp of a movie. Yet it lingers in the heart."
10.

Iron Man 3

Entertainment Weekly
05/03/13 Outstanding "...an ominously exciting, shoot-the-works comic-book spectacular.... features a climax that's a flat-out epic piece of action-fantasy engineering.... I was transported."
11.

Love is All You Need

Entertainment Weekly
05/03/13 Moderate "...director Susanne Bier applies her heavy-handed touch.... The two actors click so smoothly that all that's really keeping them apart is the script."
12. 05/03/13 Good "The social critique is sharp, the characters less so."
13.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Entertainment Weekly
04/26/13 Outstanding "...remarkable... Riz Ahmed gives a smoldering performance that announces the arrival of a major actor.... The film meanders at times, but mostly it's bracing."
14.

Arthur Newman

Entertainment Weekly
04/26/13 Good "Firth embodies the character with a robot stare and a flat affect that expresses each thought as a kind of minimalist hologram of emotion.... How indie-ironic!"
15.

42 (2013)

Entertainment Weekly
04/12/13 Excellent "...enjoyable in a square, uncomplicated, stirringly old-fashioned way.... makes the struggle look every bit as brutal and scary as it was.... a rousing tribute..."
16.

To the Wonder

Entertainment Weekly
04/12/13 Good "...ethereal and incantatory, with a soundtrack woven out of whispers and classical music; if anything, it makes Malick's 'The Tree of Life' look like a Noël Coward play."
17.

The Angels' Share

Entertainment Weekly
04/12/13 Very Good "...a spiky neo-realist version of a feel-good fable.... it's the ultimate Scottish heist: stealing priceless whiskey out of a cask. It's all a bit facile, but hard to resist."
18.

Trance (2013)

Entertainment Weekly
04/05/13 Weak "...it turns into a fusion of 'Spellbound,' 'Inception' at its most convoluted, and the head-scratchingly half-baked identity games of 'Vanilla Sky.' "
19.

The Company You Keep (2013)

Entertainment Weekly
04/05/13 Good (Not Great) "...accepts that these people went to extremes to stop a war.... it chews on issues of violence in a muffled way, but restraint is not the quality this story was calling for."
20.

Upstream Color

Entertainment Weekly
04/05/13 Good "...weaves a vivid emotional texture out of handheld streetscapes and quasi-sci-fi images... an experience that's more unsettling visual poem than movie."

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