World War Z: Current Rotten Tomatoes Score: 70%
“A genuine nail biter.”- Soren Anderson, Seattle Times
“Essentially, it boils down to familiar fare: a well-paced, entertaining, conventional action thriller where a reluctant hero saves the day.”- Claudia Puig, USA Today
“Entertaining as hell”- Richard Roeper, RichardRoeper.com
“World War Z bucks the current trend in summer blockbusters by feeling weirdly understuffed. It’s an episodic adventure without enough episodes.”- AA Dowd, AV Club
“Robustly mounted, magnificently photographed and bone-crunchingly terrifying, World War Z towers above every other alleged summer blockbuster. It’s the real deal.”- Rex Reed, New York Observer (the critic who thinks Melissa McCarthy is too fat)
Monsters University: Current Rotten Tomatoes Score: 82%
“Not every film can be a “Finding Nemo” or a “Ratatouille.”- Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
“Monsters University is exactly the rebound Pixar needed after 2011′s Cars 2 left some wondering if the studio had lost its magic.”- Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
“A gentle, poky riff on college-comedy clichés, complete with a villainous, snobbish fraternity, a heroic, outcast fraternity, and a stuffy, intimidating dean (Helen Mirren, wonderfully severe).”- AA Dowd, AV Club
“Watchable, but unoriginal, laugh-starved and far from Pixar’s best and most ambitious.”- Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
“Monsters University is the leading contender for best movie of the summer and top animated film of the year.”- Cameron Meier, Orlando Weekly
The Bling Ring: Current Rotten Tomatoes Score: 62%
“‘The Bling Ring’ occupies a vertiginous middle ground between banality and transcendence, and its refusal to commit to one or the other is both a mark of integrity and a source of frustration.”- AO Scott, New York Times
“It’s a hell of a headline but ultimately not much of a movie. Coppola perpetuates vapidity instead of processing it.”- Matt Pais, Red Eye
“The Bling Ring is the cinematic equivalent of the vapid, superficial kids it features – all visual panache and minimal substance.”- Claudia Puig, USA Today
“Watching The Bling Ring, the audience is invited to understand the impulses of these child-woman thieves, even as Coppola stands firmly apart from their craziness and sees them for who they are.”- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
”It could have been one of those ripped-from-the-headlines quickies you see on subpar cable. Instead, The Bling Ring plugs into the zeitgeist of trash culture and sparks like a live wire.”- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
