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Bamako – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ June 26, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

I want to preface this by saying that I apologize for the brevity of this review and the last one, but there really just wasn’t a whole lot for me to expand on in either film. MetaCritic Score: 81 I had high hopes for Bamako. Scores in the 80s are tough to come by on [...]

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ June 24, 2008 ⋅ One comment

So, several weeks ago I spent some time browsing over MetaCritic’s “All-Time High Scores” list to see how some of my favorite movies from the past decade have graded out compared to the all-time greats. There were some names that I expected to be up there (4. Pan’s Labyrinth 98, 16. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon [...]

Control – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MetaCritic Score: 78 I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but, before discovering Control, I had no idea who Ian Curtis was and wouldn’t have been able to identify a Joy Division album if you played the whole thing for me. What makes this even worse is the fact that even a brief skimming of [...]

Starting Out in the Evening – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ June 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MetaCritic Score: 78 I’m a sucker for shout outs to my hometown(s) in film, music, TV, etc., so Starting Out in the Evening had a little bit of a leg up in my book as soon as one of the characters made an off-hand reference to growing up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Starting Out centers [...]

Hannah Takes the Stairs – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ June 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MetaCritic Score: 63 Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Hey IFC First Take, I really like the majority of your movies, but will you please give me the last 83 minutes of my life back? My time could have been better spent alphabetizing my refrigerator or counting my leg hairs. OK, now that I’ve vented my frustration a bit I [...]

El Orfanato (The Orphanage) – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ June 2, 2008 ⋅ One comment

MetaCritic Score: 74 I’m going to start with a mini-rant here, but bear with me. One pet peeve of mine is when studios put tags like “*Generic Big Name Director* Presents…” on the poster/box for a new movie when they served as a producer, but didn’t direct the movie themselves. Usually the director whose coattails [...]

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ May 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

MetaCritic Score: 92 Wow. What a movie. I will get this out of the way right up front, I think The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was the best picture to come out last year. It took me a couple days to decide, but I would rank it slightly above the Oscar winner, No Country [...]

The Savages – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ May 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MetaCritic Score: 85 I need to watch something cheery one of these days. A large part of me loves these compelling, dark family dramas, but enough of them without something positive to break them up tends to wear you down. That being said, I still really liked The Savages quite a bit. Philip Seymour Hoffman [...]

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ May 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MetaCritic Score: 84 I’m sort of on a Philip Seymour Hoffman kick recently. He’s always been one of my favorite actors, but without planning it at all he’s popped up in 3 of the last four movies I’ve rented (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Savages, Scent of a Woman) and the next one [...]

Juno – Movie Review

By David Heiser ⋅ April 25, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

MetaCritic Score: 81 I was really disappointed I missed Juno in theaters. It got all kinds of great reviews and everyone raved about the witty dialogue. I liked Superbad and was interested to see another performance by Michael Cera. Needless to say, I went into Juno with some pretty high expectations. I left feeling satisfied, [...]

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