“Opting to spare myself from crummy projection and those gropey, TSA-styled searches Disney demands at its press screenings, I just waited two days and headed to my favorite suburban multiplex in Woburn to kick off the summer season with a civilian crowd. Surprisingly, it’s a good movie, at times even very good. ” – The Improper Bostonian, 05/22/2013
“Darkness eventually replays an entire sequence from the beloved Wrath Of Khan, except with a couple of key roles swapped. Here it’s worth mentioning that with those original Trek movies, the even-numbered films delivered while the odd-numbered installments were notoriously lousy. Nifty of Abrams to keep the reversal theme going by inverting that particular axiom.” – Metro, 05/15/2013
“Brisk, affectionate mainstream entertainment. Modest in aspiration, Peeples is by no means a must-see movie, but it’s awfully charming all the same. It confirms that Tina Gordon Chism is a talent to keep an eye on. And hopefully someday soon, we’ll see her name on the posters instead of Tyler Perry’s.” – Philadelphia Weekly, 05/15/2013
“I was re-reading The Great Gatsby just the other day, and here is a question I never once asked: Who is Nick telling the story to? Well, we finally have an answer to this question nobody wondered about. The words fly from the typewriter in large blocks of text that sail into the audience in 3-D because this is a literary adaptation, after all.” – Philadelphia Weekly, 05/08/2013
“For about an hour, this is all terribly amusing. Rushdie is irreverent and goofy, piling on the kooky, surrealist interludes. But there is nothing to hang onto here; most scenes last only two or three minutes, and events don’t accrue so much as they just pig-pile on top of one another.” – Philadelphia Weekly, 05/08/2013
“Revolutionaries become paper-pushers in an office somewhere, old friends lose touch. It is a film about fading out, about how youthful passions dissolve. The day-to-day business of living so often saps us of our resolve, and even the most ardent convictions wither away over time.” – The Improper Bostonian, 05/08/2013
“It’s terribly difficult to spend an entire movie with Shannon’s Kuklinski. Gruff, emotionally constipated and remote, he’s an alienating presence and Vroman’s film aspires to no insight besides the fact that he killed lots of people. The chintzy musical score and dingy cinematography give The Iceman a cheap, direct to video feel. It’s a low-rent movie with an expensive cast.” – Metro, 05/03/2013
