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Jonathan Lack

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 79% 10/10 EDIT “Vintage Scorsese through and through - which includes his penchant for artistic evolution - The Wolf of Wall Street provides some of the most vibrant, energetic, and culturally impactful filmmaking of 2013.” – We Got This Covered Dec 20, 2013 Full Review Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) 74% 9/10 EDIT “Simultaneously honoring the spirit of the original while finding its own comic energy and satirical edge, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" is a triumph, the rare comedy sequel that really, truly works, and easily one of the funniest films this year.” – We Got This Covered Dec 17, 2013 Full Review The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) 74% 8/10 EDIT “While the film's needlessly abrupt ending prevents it from working on its own terms, "The Desolation of Smaug" is quite nearly a great Hobbit film, filled with wondrous invention, genuine pathos, and many great performances.” – We Got This Covered Dec 9, 2013 Full Review The Wind Rises (2013) 88% 10/10 EDIT “A dense, gorgeous, and impossibly rich masterwork, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises captures the air of an artist who has said all that he wishes to say.” – We Got This Covered Dec 2, 2013 Full Review Gravity (2013) 96% 10/10 EDIT “Gravity, for all its many accomplishments, is at its core a wondrous narrative, beautifully executed with an eye for innovation that matches its emotional and intellectual content.” – We Got This Covered Oct 3, 2013 Full Review Jobs (2013) 27% 7/10 EDIT “Jobs is a wildly imperfect movie, but it presents, defends, and decently executes a clear and insightful interpretation of its subject, and for that, I respect the film. I even daresay I enjoyed it.” – We Got This Covered Aug 15, 2013 Full Review Kick-Ass 2 (2013) 33% 5/10 EDIT “Kick-Ass 2 is not without its occasional pleasures, but viewed as either its own movie or a follow up to its predecessor, the sequel is a pretty severe disappointment, and a rough cinematic experience to boot.” – We Got This Covered Aug 14, 2013 Full Review Blue Jasmine (2013) 90% 9/10 EDIT “With absolutely dynamite work from Cate Blanchett and the rest of a large, deep ensemble, Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine is a tremendous character study, and an effectively topical one to boot.” – We Got This Covered Aug 9, 2013 Full Review Lovelace (2013) 53% 4/10 EDIT “Lovelace is one of the fluffiest, least substantive biopics I've ever seen, and I am baffled the film made it through the scripting and production phases without anyone ever once bothering to ask "for what exact purpose are we making this movie?"” – We Got This Covered Aug 8, 2013 Full Review Elysium (2013) 64% 6/10 EDIT “Elysium is entirely too heavy-handed and insubstantial to leave an impact. The effort may be extremely noble and respectable, but the finished product falls severely short” – We Got This Covered Aug 7, 2013 Full Review The Wolverine (2013) 71% 8/10 EDIT “In The Wolverine, James Mangold and Hugh Jackman have not only delivered the definitive take on one of modern pop culture's most enduring protagonists, but proved that there is life left indeed in the X-Men on film.” – We Got This Covered Jul 24, 2013 Full Review Pacific Rim (2013) 72% 10/10 EDIT “Guillermo Del Toro's "Pacific Rim" is as clear and celebratory an expression of what film at its most creative, earnest, and exuberant can achieve as any in recent memory, and one of the very best films of 2013.” – We Got This Covered Jul 9, 2013 Full Review Despicable Me 2 (2013) 75% 4/10 EDIT “Despicable Me 2 is not a bad film, but it is a frustratingly lazy and hollow one, and at this point, nothing makes me more depressed about the state of Hollywood than cash-grab animated sequels like these.” – We Got This Covered Jul 1, 2013 Full Review The Lone Ranger (2013) 31% 5/10 EDIT “The Lone Ranger may feature excellent direction from Gore Verbinski, but it is a tonally disastrous mess as a whole, and features perhaps the single worst performance of Johnny Depp's career.” – We Got This Covered Jul 1, 2013 Full Review White House Down (2013) 52% 6/10 EDIT “The film has its obvious strengths and failings, with a nice sense of spectacle and disappointing character work, but overall, I find it hard to deny that the sheer mental deficiency of "White House Down" is practically intoxicating.” – We Got This Covered Jun 26, 2013 Full Review Much Ado About Nothing (2012) 87% 8/10 EDIT “Much Ado About Nothing is a small-scale but immensely satisfying treat, and one of the most infectiously enjoyable Shakespeare films in living memory.” – We Got This Covered Jun 20, 2013 Full Review Monsters University (2013) 80% 8/10 EDIT “Even during those stretches when the film is a bit too mired in convention, Monsters University boasts terrific characters, gorgeous and clever visuals, truly intelligent and surprising humor, and a wildly poignant emotional undercurrent.” – We Got This Covered Jun 19, 2013 Full Review The Bling Ring (2013) 59% 9/10 EDIT “The Bling Ring is a gloriously repugnant fever dream of reckless excess, rampant insensitivity, and spiritual isolation, one that is absolutely effective in getting its desired visceral reaction from the audience.” – We Got This Covered Jun 13, 2013 Full Review The East (2013) 77% 5/10 EDIT “The East is a wooden and unappealing chore, treading familiar ground for the filmmakers with an additional layer of clunky, drama-killing political soap-boxing.” – We Got This Covered Jun 12, 2013 Full Review Man of Steel (2013) 57% 10/10 EDIT “At once vaster in scope than any superhero movie yet produced, and as intimately, crushingly emotional as any other entry in the genre, Man of Steel lands with the precise, explosive weight of a true historical milestone.” – We Got This Covered Jun 11, 2013 Full Review This Is the End (2013) 82% 8/10 EDIT “This is the End is a surprising and audacious pleasure, big on certifiably insane laughs but fueled by genuine intelligence and heart.” – We Got This Covered Jun 6, 2013 Full Review Fast & Furious 6 (2013) 71% 9/10 EDIT “As wildly fun and accomplished a summer blockbuster as there is likely to be all year, Fast & Furious 6 masters the unmistakable speed and ferocity of an endlessly enjoyable action classic.” – We Got This Covered May 22, 2013 Full Review The Hangover Part III (2013) 21% 7/10 EDIT “The Hangover Part III is not necessarily a great or hugely memorable comedy, but it is certainly a very, very fun one, of a piece with its predecessors while wrapping the series up in clever, satisfying ways.” – We Got This Covered May 22, 2013 Full Review Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) 84% 8/10 EDIT “The qualitative gap between narrative mechanics and character work is about as stark as it could be, but the latter is so effective, and the cast so tremendously effective in their roles, that Star Trek Into Darkness works well, all things considered.” – We Got This Covered May 16, 2013 Full Review The Great Gatsby (2013) 49% 6/10 EDIT “Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby flirts with inspiration, but ultimately just goes to prove my longstanding point that slavish accuracy to source material never makes for wholly compelling cinema.” – We Got This Covered May 9, 2013 Full Review
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