Movie Reviews Published by Looking Closer - Page 3 of 21

41-60 of 416 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 08 Dec 2015

The movie ends up like Davy Jones himself -- many-tentacled, full of bluster, and devoid of a beating heart…

Read Review

Review of Ratatouille (2007)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 08 Dec 2015

There is so much to enjoy and celebrate here, Ratatouille deserves more than a review: it could (and probably will) inspire books about…

Read Review

Review of Radio (2003)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 30 Nov 2015

Despite the fine efforts of Harris and Gooding, Jr., Radio nearly drowns in James Horner's overbearingly sentimental music…

Read Review

Review of Radio (2001)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 30 Nov 2015

Despite the fine efforts of Harris and Gooding, Jr., Radio nearly drowns in James Horner's overbearingly sentimental music…

Read Review

Review of Radio (2009)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 30 Nov 2015

Despite the fine efforts of Harris and Gooding, Jr., Radio nearly drowns in James Horner's overbearingly sentimental music…

Read Review

Review of Radio (2013)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 30 Nov 2015

Despite the fine efforts of Harris and Gooding, Jr., Radio nearly drowns in James Horner's overbearingly sentimental music…

Read Review

Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 29 Nov 2015

Mistress America moves with a vitality that makes moviegoers justified in recalling it as a high-spirited musical…

Read Review

Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 21 Nov 2015

McCarthy's screenplay keeps things moving at a furious pace, so that it feels like an action movie with a time bomb ticking in the background…

Read Review

Review of Ant-Man (2015)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 21 Nov 2015

The same tepid, timeworn routine with a few chocolate sprinkles of 'fun' on top. ... Marvel has become its own antonym…

Read Review

Review of Inside Out (2015)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 18 Jun 2015

I don't think I've ever seen a film that more powerfully portrays the fierce intelligence, but also the fragility, of a child's mind for…

Read Review

Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 14 Jun 2015

It's bursting with imagination, wit, enough real-world stunts to create a sense of high stakes, and performances that register with real…

Read Review

Review of Something, Anything (2015)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 21 Feb 2015

Harrill has made something quiet, observant, and quite contrary to the popular narrative of American love stories…

Read Review

Review of Selma (2014)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 07 Feb 2015

It is artful, inspiring, perfectly cast and powerfully acted, beautifully shot, scored with sensitivity rather than sentimentality,…

Read Review

Review of As It Is in Heaven (2014)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 06 Feb 2015

This suspenseful film was shot without any special effects over the course of 17 days…

Read Review

Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 12 Dec 2014

It bears little resemblance to the [source material]. But in its fictions, technical execution, and visual artistry, it has some admirable qualities…

Read Review

Review of Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 23 Oct 2014

A police procedural cake pan [filled] with horror-genre cake batter…

Read Review

Review of Boyhood (2014)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 24 Jul 2014

Isn't this what good therapists do -- help people understand trouble, hurt, hopes, and dreams by digging deep into memory and experience…

Read Review

Review of Boyhood (1951)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 24 Jul 2014

Isn't this what good therapists do -- help people understand trouble, hurt, hopes, and dreams by digging deep into memory and experience…

Read Review

Review of Gloria (2013)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 04 Jul 2014

You will probably warm to this odd and unglamorous character. You'll come to appreciate her expressions, her wit, her imagination, and her courage…

Read Review

Review of Gloria (2013)

By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Looking Closer (416) on 04 Jul 2014

You will probably warm to this odd and unglamorous character. You'll come to appreciate her expressions, her wit, her imagination, and her courage…

Read Review

Page 3 of 21

Looking Closer features reviews by:

Jeffrey Overstreet (498)
J. Robert Parks (42)

Top publishers this month:

Popular Movies Right Now

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Joker

2019

81%299 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

The Judge

2014

67%866 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Ask the Dust

2006

57%248 Reviews

Resurrection

2022

61%35 Reviews

The Incredible Hulk

1977

67%885 Reviews

Threads

1984

83%216 Reviews

Serenity

2019

44%122 Reviews

Welcome to the Sticks

2008

72%423 Reviews

The Breadwinner

2017

79%160 Reviews

Red Sparrow

2018

59%1,014 Reviews

Blossoms in the Dust

1941

68%16 Reviews

Dead Man Down

2013

59%621 Reviews