Online Film Critics Society

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New – 4/2/15] | Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
• [New – 4/3/15] | James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
  • Excerpt: Effie Gray’ Is A Beautiful-But-Boring British Period Piece
• [New – 3/26/15] | Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
  • Excerpt: A stultifyingly dreary costume drama that’s far too timid and tasteful for its own good.
• [New – 10/10/14] | Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
• [New – 4/3/15] | Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
  • Excerpt: This is an interesting story, but it’s treated here in a fashion that’s at once timorous and overstated.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New – 3/5/15] | José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
  • Excerpt: Alex Garland debuta como director con una propuesta que recauchuta con elegancia campos y temáticas largamente exprimidos por la ciencia-ficción universal. Delicada, limpia, atrevida y turbadora a ratos, se atasca un poco en sus giros, pero es una propuesta notable y hermosa.
• [New – 4/9/15] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
  • Excerpt: An intriguing four-character sci-fi drama about explorers of artificial intelligence.
• [New – 4/9/15] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: doesn’t hold a candle to Spike Jonze’s “Her” for insights into man’s relationship with artificial intelligence. For all its stunning locations, brilliant design and seamless visual effects, the story begs the question ‘Is that all there is?’
• [New – 1/23/15] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: There’s nothing fresh or even usefully true in its cartoonish dichotomy about men, but this pseudo-SF flick will expound upon it with pretentious tedium.
• [New – 1/23/15] | Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
• [New – 4/9/15] | Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
  • Excerpt: Smart, sexy, and back-loaded with a terrific twist ending, “Ex Machina” is an elegant sci-fi movie that considers the possibilities of artificial intelligence in thought-provoking ways.
• [New – 1/22/15] | David Upton @ So So Gay
  • Excerpt: While the visceral world of Alex Garland’s imagination is one of almost generic modernity, this simple canvas emboldens his realisation of a trio of characters whose subjectivity and agency is consistently in question.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New – 3/5/15] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: The film starts off well enough, even as we struggle to determine just who is who and how they are related, but once the crime has been committed, the only real pleasure to be found is in Hopkins engaging in psychological warfare.
• [New – 3/5/15] | Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
  • Excerpt: This foreseeable crime drama falls flat – yet it does pose this thought: “There are two ways a man can be rich in this world: you can have money you you can have friends. But you cannot have both.”
• [New – 3/5/15] | Carson Lund @ Slant Magazine
  • Excerpt: Without committing to any particular narrative focus, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken devolves into something like an interminable newscast of the actual events, intercutting perfunctorily between the clumsily scheming captors, their confused loved ones back home, and the increasingly delirious prisoners.
• [New – 4/3/15] | Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
• [New – 3/20/15] | Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New – 4/9/15] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
  • Excerpt: A sentimental movie with a message worth pondering about what it takes to keep love alive.
• [New – 4/9/15] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: a fantastical love story Sparks fans will probably love, made more endurable for the rest of us by a cast giving it more commitment than it’s worth.
• [New – 4/9/15] | Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
  • Excerpt: This predictably sudsy screen adaptation unabashedly oozes slush and sentimentality….
• [New – 4/9/15] | Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
  • Excerpt: The treacle flows for well over two hours, an interminable serving of the author’s trademark schmaltz.

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New – 2/5/15] | Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
  • Excerpt: If noble intentions were art, The Water Diviner would be as great as it clearly wants to be. But they aren’t and it’s not.
• [New – 4/9/15] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
  • Excerpt: When director Crowe sticks to historical adventure, his film is tense and exciting. But it lacks a sense of magic that it needs to make it fully engaging.
• [New – 3/26/15] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
  • Excerpt: Not quite a wash…
• [New – 4/3/15] | Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
• [New – 3/26/15] | Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
  • Excerpt: Earnest and well-intentioned – if also formulaic and expectedly maudlin – the compelling premise is given a surprisingly relaxed, somewhat low-key treatment by the first-time director.
• [New – 1/9/15] | Sarah Ward @ artsHub

Reviews for this film from our members:

• [New – 3/26/15] | Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
  • Excerpt: In this imaginative but inept cautionary parable—the Un Certain Regard prize-winner at Cannes—a girl searches for her beloved dog, who becomes a canine Spartacus after being brutalized by a cruel dog-fighting ring.
• [New – 4/2/15] | Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
• [New – 3/19/15] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
  • Excerpt: A poignant Hungarian parable about the terrible things that can happen when there is no reverence for dogs as fellow companions.
• [New – 4/2/15] | Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: The filmmaker was wise choosing a species known for its capacity for unconditional love to make his point, its perversion all the more emotionally wrenching.
• [New – 4/9/15] | Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
  • Excerpt: Chronicling the harrowing journey of mixed-breed dog Hagen, White God asks that the viewer accept some distinctly human-like behaviors from an animal.