LAMBScores: From Russia with Love and Vampires

by Nick Powell · December 10, 2012 · LAMBscores · 6 Comments

This week’s edition of the LAMBScores brings one of the year’s “most anticipated” and one of the year’s best. Oh, and there’s that drama based off of a Tolstoy novel. We breakdown the scores for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Silver Linings Playbook, and Anna Karenina. As always, if you want to join in on the discussion, post your own scores over at the LAMB forums.

Rotten Tomatoes: 4.50 (90%)
IMDB: 4.15 (8.3/10)
LAMB: 4.26 (19)
Average: 4.30

Temple of Reviews
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews
Sobriety Test Movie Reviews
Cinema Nerdz
Surrender to the Void
Let’s Go to the Movies
Defiant Success
Duke and the Movies
The Sanity Clause
And So It Begins…
Film Actually
Big Thoughts from a Small Mind
Sean Kelly on Movies
Rorschach Movie Reviews
Two Tickets For…
Citizen Charlie
Lord of the Films
The Movie Waffler
Fr. Dennis at the Movies

LAMB Bites:
Two Tickets For...: “A film that wears many hats, maybe to its own detriment, but is bolstered to must-see status by electrifying performances by Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro”
Duke and the Movies: “The film is an optimistic tale back-dropped in a cynical world. It’s a unique and beautiful imagination from David O. Russell that dares to go against the consensus of pessimism with wondrous cinematic expression: it loves, lives, feels, and embraces imperfection and defies normalcy.”
The Sanity Clause: “By getting in your face and putting everything on the surface, O. Russell surprises ewe when we learn the characters have depth and that all their disabilities matter to the plot. The style is often clumsy and awkward, but oh so right and fun in terms of capturing the feel of this disability.”

Rotten Tomatoes: 2.35 (47%)
IMDB: 2.95 (5.9/10)
LAMB: 2.79 (17)
Average: 2.70

Can’t Stop the Movies
Fr. Dennis at the Movies 
The Movie Review Warehouse
Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob
Time for a Film
The Cinematic Corner
Inspired Ground
Go, See, Talk!
Let’s Go to the Movies
Angry Vader’s Movie Blah
Kirkham A Movie A Day
Two Tickets For…
Sobriety Test Movie Reviews
Citizen Charlie
An Online Universe
Movies Hate You Too 
Duke and the Movies

 

Rotten Tomatoes: 3.05 (61%)
IMDB: 3.55 (7.1/10)
LAMB: 3.13 (12)
Average: 3.24
At the Back (5)
The Movie Review Warehouse (5)
Midnight Review
(4)
Fr. Dennis at the Movies (4)
Rambling Film (4)
Go, See, Talk! (3)
Sobriety Test Movie Reviews (2.5)
Love and Squalor Film (2.5)
The Sanity Clause (2.5)
And So It Begins… (2.5)
Dan the Man’s Movie Reviews (2)
The Movie Waffler (0.5)