August 2010
46 posts
“Director Edgar Wright will have only himself to blame if excited kids are so...”
– commends the New York Post
“The PG-13 rating might very well refer to an advisory that nobody above (rather...”
– controlled-burns NewsBlaze
“The results mean nothing beyond racking up an arbitrary score!”
– exalts Mark Dujsik
“A cotton candy blob disguising a black hole!”
– brags Critic’s Notebook
“A movie has never been this blatant, this outrageous, this nonchalant about...”
– adores Flick Filosopher
“An infuriating exercise in geek-baiting populated by unlikable characters that...”
– happily blares eFilmCritic
“To win [Ramona], [Scott] needs to duel her ex-boyfriends in fantasy sequences...”
– roars East Bay Express
“An assault on the senses that’s numb in the heart!”
– metaphors The Onion AV Club
“It’s the indulgence of everything a not-quite-adult, no-longer-a-kid manchild...”
– enthusiastically babbles Flick Filmosopher
“If such an experience defines the current generation, the alarmist Chicken...”
– prognosticates Critic’s Notebook
“Scott [Pilgrim] is a low-wattage and barely sentient drip with all the charisma...”
– praises eFilmCritic
“As monotonous and enervating as one long, sneering in-joke!”
– praises the Washington Post
“Just as there are some amusement park attractions that require riders to be a...”
– quips Dr. Frank Swietek
“The center doesn’t hold!”
– muses Yeats The Onion AV Club
“Wright trades in his hard-earned street credentials for a flagrant sell-out move...”
– says “The Smartest Film Critic in the World”
“After 20 minutes, I sensed I was intruding on the movie’s love affair with...”
– voyeuristically enthuses the New York Post
“The alternately cranky and cartoonish comedy can’t seem to decide whether...”
– fires NewsBlaze
“The movie tongues its cheek, raises its eyebrows, and nudges our elbow in every...”
– blazes Mark Dujsik
“A clip reel of console carnage!”
– salivates Brian Orndorf
“About as complete and coherent a film as was the blur of light and sound that...”
– says Critic’s Notebook
“Twilight for boys!”
– proclaims Flick Filosopher
“Cera is more of a mooncalf than usual!”
– yells East Bay Express
“About as edgy as a trip to the auto department at Sears!”
– raves eFilmCritic
“[Scott Pilgrim] looks like and has all the personality of a fetus!”
– admires The Kansas City Star
“Wright uses so many split-screen effects that we may as well be peering at the...”
– psychically broadcasts Movieline
“There’s no room for any real growth, just literalized level-ups that bring our...”
– rants Time Out New York
“A discouragingly limp movie in which nothing is at stake!”
– gushes Hollywood Reporter
“An insular, punishingly alienating experience preaching only to the faithful,...”
– praises Philadelphia Weekly
“First of all, I’m not a video gamer. I have discovered more appealing ways...”
– boasts the St. Petersberg Times
“Does Wright feel any connection to this milieu? I doubt it!”
– playfully-extrapolates New York magazine
“The movie frame becomes a graffiti zone where the filmmakers can insert all...”
– rants Hollywood Reporter
“A relentless barrage of long-form, CGI-enhanced PlayStation battle...”
– worships Philadelphia Weekly
“Cera dials down his patented semi-castrato hysteria!”
– worships New York magazine
“The ups and downs of romance reduced to archer-than-arch line readings and...”
– praises Time Out New York
“One big exaggerated shrug, albeit one with special effects!”
– blazes Movieline
“A hyperstylized environment for the glibly ironic misfits inhabiting this arcade...”
– raves the St. Petersburg Times
“Singularly fixated on video games and shallow visions of women as...”
– said in awe by Philadelphia Weekly
“The fights revolve around battles with fists, poorly staged martial arts,...”
– screams Hollywood Reporter
“Clearly directed at an audience with generational ADD!”
– commends The New York Observer
“Cera is a superhero for an indecisive generation!”
– hums New York magazine
“Offers no possible point of entry to anybody over the age of 30!”
– screams Philadelphia Weekly
“Scott Pilgrim is a superhero who wears his security blankie as both a cape and a...”
– beholds Movieline
“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World proves… that nerds can be just as shallow and...”
– exalts Philadelphia Weekly
“Wright leaps over the line from chattery cleverness to all-out...”
– rants Movieline
“The screen pullulates with graphic life… any claim upon our emotions is...”
– praises The New Yorker
“[A] faux hip, self-congratulatory, dork-pandering assault!”
– raves the Boston Phoenix