Christopher Null Movie Reviews & Previews

The Decalogue (1989) 100% 4/5 “While it's imperfect, I have to say I feel a deep sense of achievement having finished the series.” – Filmcritic.com May 1, 2021 Full Review Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938) 89% 2/5 “Overrated pap.” – Filmcritic.com Apr 9, 2021 Full Review Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) 80% 2/5 “Overrated pap.” – Filmcritic.com Apr 9, 2021 Full Review The River (1984) 27% 3.5/5 “Sissy and Mel face off against a raging river -- and plenty more -- in this chest-thumping melodrama from On Golden Pond director Mark Rydell.” – Filmcritic.com Jul 23, 2019 Full Review Chinese Roulette (1976) 83% 3/5 “It just doesn't work.” – Filmcritic.com Jul 6, 2015 Full Review Jacob's Ladder (1990) 72% “One of Robbins' finest unheralded performances, plus a slew of supporting roles from then-unknowns Eriq LaSalle, Ving Rhames, Jason Alexander, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and an uncredited Macaulay Culkin.” – Austin Chronicle Aug 23, 2014 Full Review The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 95% 3.5/5 “The Citizen Kane of westerns.” – Contactmusic.com Apr 29, 2013 Full Review Rio Bravo (1959) 96% 3.5/5 “A definitive piece of Americana by way of Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo is what the late 1950s studio system was all about” – Contactmusic.com Apr 23, 2013 Full Review 4/5 “So much legal craziness that you'll soon agree the whole system is totally out of whack.” – Filmcritic.com Mar 4, 2013 Full Review Hamlet (1948) 96% 3.5/5 “A solid rendition if the classic play, though not really deserving of its platitudes.” – Filmcritic.com Feb 24, 2013 Full Review Brake (2012) 46% 2/5 “an idea for a short extended far beyond its creative shelf life” – Filmcritic.com Mar 22, 2012 Full Review Last Days Here (2011) 86% 4/5 “For a heavy metal film, there is a lot of soul here.” – Filmcritic.com Mar 1, 2012 Full Review Stagecoach (1939) 100% 4/5 “Classic, yet hopelessly dated.” – Filmcritic.com Feb 10, 2012 Full Review The Vow (2012) 31% 1.5/5 “a cross between Romantic Conflict for Dummies and Tepid Soup for the Soul” – Filmcritic.com Feb 9, 2012 Full Review W.E. (2011) 13% 2/5 “behaves better as a museum piece that should be framed, hung and admired than as a moving piece of cinema that encourages you to embrace and interact with it.” – Filmcritic.com Feb 2, 2012 Full Review Kitty Foyle (1940) 75% 3/5 “It's an odd and unique testament to 1940s' zeitgeist, a period of hope and despair, both of which are reflected in Ms. Foyle.” – Filmcritic.com Jan 31, 2012 Full Review The Grey (2012) 80% 4/5 “In this vast expanse of hopelessness, The Grey is a rare mainstream action picture, exploratory in genre and of whatever lies beyond” – Filmcritic.com Jan 26, 2012 Full Review Newlyweds (2011) 73% 4/5 “Okay, so he's not Woody Allen. That's setting the bar a bit too high. But for Burns, he's never been better.” – Filmcritic.com Jan 12, 2012 Full Review I Melt With You (2011) 16% 2/5 “Good Lord, is this what's waiting on the other side of 40?” – Filmcritic.com Dec 8, 2011 Full Review We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) 74% 4.5/5 “It's not gonna be a pleasant chat.” – Filmcritic.com Dec 1, 2011 Full Review Rampart (2011) 73% 2/5 “all atmosphere and paranoia but little in the way of momentum” – Filmcritic.com Nov 23, 2011 Full Review Arthur Christmas (2011) 92% 3.5/5 “quiet and intimate” – Filmcritic.com Nov 23, 2011 Full Review Another Happy Day (2011) 47% 2.5/5 “Writer/director Sam Levinson isn't so much making a movie as organizing a circus” – Filmcritic.com Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Jack and Jill (2011) 3% 2/5 “bad, but not abysmal” – Filmcritic.com Nov 10, 2011 Full Review Anonymous (2011) 47% 2.5/5 “don't go into Roland Emmerich's Anonymous expecting some kind of enlightenment” – Filmcritic.com Oct 27, 2011 Full Review

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