LAMBScores: Maya’s Gangster Squad Haunts Bin Laden

by Shane Slater · February 1, 2013 · Featured, LAMBscores · 1 Comment

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January continues to be the dumping ground for weak films, but thankfully there are still some holdovers from Oscar season to keep us happy. This week we have scores for A Haunted House and Gangster Squad, but the big one is Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial film Zero Dark Thirty. Find out what the LAMB members thought of these films and don’t forget to visit the forums to add your reviews for the next edition of the LAMBScores.

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Rotten Tomatoes: 4.70 (94%)

IMDb: 3.85 (7.7/10)

LAMB: 4.09 (34)

Average: 4.21

 

5

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews

Wide Screen World

Fr. Dennis at the Movies

filmOphilia

Sobriety Test Movie Reviews

Two Dude Review

Cinema Won

Surrender to the Void

Films Worth Watching

Defiant Success

4.5

Lord of the Films

Love and Squalor Film

Go, See, Talk!

3 Guys 1 Movie

Your Face!

FlixChatter

An Online Universe

4

Two Tickets For…

Film Actually

Temple of Reviews

AngryVader’s Movie Blah…

Sean Kelly On Movies

Citizen Charlie

French Toast Sunday

3.5

The Movie Waffler

The Vern’s Videovanguard

3

Cinematic Corner

Sketchy Details

Flixploitation

The Cinematic Katzenjammer

Me On The Movie

Tips from Chip

2.5

The Movie Review Warehouse

2

Movies Hate You Too

 

LAMB Bites:

Surrender to the Void: “A gripping and entrancing film about one of the great manhunts in world history that features a magnificent performance from Jessica Chastain.”

The Movie Review Warehouse: “A little too much procedure, not enough cinema.”

Movies Hate You Too: “Keeping in mind the aspects of the film that work well, there’s not much here that you couldn’t find in a well produced America’s Most Wanted special.”

 

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Rotten Tomatoes: 1.65 (33%)

IMDb: 3.55 (7.1/10)

LAMB: 2.54 (25)

Average: 2.58

 

4

Time for a film

The Bishop Review

3.5

Two Oh Six

French Toast Sunday

3

Sobriety Test Movie Reviews

Go, See, Talk!

At The Back

Kirkham A Movie A Day

Temple of Reviews

Film Intel

Benend’s Basement

2.5

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews

Two Tickets For…

FlixChatter

AngryVader’s Movie Blah…

2

The Movie Waffler

Fr. Dennis at the Movies

The Velvet Cafe

Citizen Charlie

CinemaNerdz

SNG Movie Thoughts

1.5

An Online Universe

Reel Talk

Stop the Planet of the Apes… I want to get off

1

Movies Hate You Too

 

LAMB Bites:

Time for a film: “Supported by a strong cast and a superb score, Gangster Squad attempts to replicate a typical gangster style movie and does it well.”

FlixChatter: “A gritty story without the grit… there’s just no immersive quality nor sense of realism as the whole thing feels like one giant ‘gangster-ized’ set.”

An Online Universe: “Gangster Squad is a predictable and boring, almost cartoonish mob flick, which completely wastes both the talents of its cast and the audience’s time.”

 

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Rotten Tomatoes: 0.30 (6%)

IMDb: 2.55 (5.1/10)

LAMB: 1.33 (6)

Average: 1.39

 

Fr. Dennis at the Movies (3)

Sketchy Details (1.5)

Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews (1)

Sobriety Test Movie Reviews (1)

Two Oh Six (1)

Fogs’ Movie Reviews (0.5)