Robert Wilonsky

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Observer Jun 29, 2023 Magnolia, the third film from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, is a brilliant piece of garbage -- mesmerizing, but only because you can't believe someone has the temerity to put so much into so little. Go to Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% 89%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Observer Apr 29, 2020 It's a film about style that has none, a film about tough guys that has no punch, a cocktail without the booze. Go to Full Review The Rat Pack (1998) 57% 58%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Observer Dec 15, 2018 In space, apparently, no one can hear you direct. Go to Full Review Event Horizon (1997) 37% 61%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News May 5, 2016 B+ A little too rambling at two and a half hours, but otherwise just the right shade of light and bright for a movie about superheroes fighting superheroes. Go to Full Review Captain America: Civil War (2016) 90% 84%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News Mar 23, 2016 In the words of The Joker in a far better Batman movie: "Why so serious?" Go to Full Review Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) 28% 63%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News Dec 23, 2015 A The Big Short sticks in the throat. You laugh at it only because you can't believe it was this awful -- that people were (and are) this awful. It's the horror movie soundtracked with nervous, incredulous giggles wrung from the rot of the soul. Go to Full Review The Big Short (2015) 89% 88%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News Oct 29, 2015 B- It's a narrative ready-made for the big screen -- the flipside to the feel-good story that was Friday Night Lights, in which the Carter Cowboys played a major role as the big-city villains who wrested away Odessa Permian's rightful title. Go to Full Review Carter High (2015) - - 61%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News Jul 30, 2015 B+ This is comfort-food cinema. Gorge on the endless buffet. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) 94% 81%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News Jul 16, 2015 B+ Marvel hasn't made a movie this fun - this bright, this charming, this joyful -- since the first Iron Man, in which Robert Downey Jr.'s entitled smirk was its most lethal weapon. Go to Full Review Ant-Man (2015) 83% 80%

Robert Wilonsky New Times Feb 23, 2015 What makes Crash so gripping -- so terrifying in spots, so moving in others, and even a little funny at times -- is how nothing happens as we think it will. Go to Full Review Crash (2004) 73% 88%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Observer Oct 15, 2014 [Friedkin] knew he wasn't making art; he was concocting gross-out pop -- a movie so "scary" it borders on being silly. Go to Full Review The Exorcist (1973) 78% 87%

Robert Wilonsky New Times Jul 9, 2014 From Justin to Kelly is a musical so pedestrian it trips over its feet every time someone breaks into song or dance. Go to Full Review From Justin to Kelly (2003) 8% 39%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News Jun 5, 2014 B+ The tag line alone - "Live. Die. Repeat." - guarantees $30 million at least on opening day. It will deserve every penny. Go to Full Review Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 91% 90%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News May 29, 2014 C- The down-for-anything cast, along with a handful of welcome cameos, can't prop up its weakest link: Seth MacFarlane. Go to Full Review A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) 33% 41%

Robert Wilonsky New Times May 7, 2014 The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is precisely what a documentary ought to be: engaging and revelatory, turning forgotten footnotes and discarded minutiae into the stuff of riveting drama and poignant laughs. Go to Full Review The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999) 97% 81%

Robert Wilonsky Dallas Morning News May 1, 2014 B- When Garfield conceals Peter's confused-angry- betrayed scowl beneath that shiny red mask, Spider-Man 2 summons the giddy derring-do of the best Iron Man offerings. It's a good movie that could have been great. Go to Full Review The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) 51% 64%

Robert Wilonsky Village Voice Dec 20, 2011 Crowe is back to what he's good at: small stories populated by everyday people. Go to Full Review We Bought a Zoo (2011) 64% 71%

Robert Wilonsky Village Voice Sep 20, 2011 It really happened, it's really corny, and it's really great. Go to Full Review Moneyball (2011) 94% 86%

Robert Wilonsky Village Voice Mar 15, 2011 That's not to dismiss Paul's simple pleasures -- if nothing else, its fondness for sex and drugs and four-letter words rescues its references from the soft hands of wee ones into which they've fallen of late. Go to Full Review Paul (2011) 70% 62%

Robert Wilonsky Village Voice Nov 2, 2010 I found my son's Kryptonite: boring superhero rip-offs voiced by check-cashing actors. At least Steve Carell used an accent. Go to Full Review Megamind (2010) 73% 72%