— | N/A | As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001) |
Click here to read article — New York Times Posted Apr 14, 2008 |
— | N/A | Seven Men from Now (1956) |
Click here to read article — New York Times Posted Jan 21, 2006 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Nightmare Alley (1947) |
Click here to read article — New York Times Posted Dec 6, 2004 |
— | Rotten 40%
| Lies (1999) |
Click here to read article — New York Times Posted Aug 30, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| Mean Girls (2004) | "
This tart and often charming new comedy is a version of the heart-of-darkness teen social comedy Heathers for the tweener audience." — New York Times Posted Apr 29, 2004 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Clay Bird (2004) | "
Set in Bangladesh in the 1960's, Tareque Masud's intelligent drama questions the nature of dedication to Islam." — New York Times Posted Apr 29, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 5%
| Godsend (2004) | "
You'd be better off downloading the trailer: a much more convincing piece of storytelling." — New York Times Posted Apr 29, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| MC5 * A True Testimonial (2004) | "
A riveting, all-elbows- and-knuckles documentary about the proto-punk warriors known as the MC5." — New York Times Posted Apr 22, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 99%
| Twilight Samurai (2004) | "
The director Yoji Yamada's devotion to somber, everyday detail will test the patience of many viewers of this initially slow-going character drama." — New York Times Posted Apr 22, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| 13 Going on 30 (2004) | "
While essentially a retread of Big, what keeps this body-switch comedy going is the director's love for actors, and his refusal to judge them by the characters they play." — New York Times Posted Apr 22, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) | "
Quentin Tarantino's deliciously perverse semisequel is the most voluptuous comic-book movie ever made." — New York Times Posted Apr 15, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Klezmer on Fish Street (2004) | "
After all the squirming and twisting, the film never secures a strong grip on its subject." — New York Times Posted Apr 15, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 4%
| The Whole Ten Yards (2004) | "
The sequel to The Whole Nine Yards is more afterthought than accomplishment, a cocktail made with orange juice and Champale instead of actual bubbly." — New York Times Posted Apr 8, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 30%
| The Alamo (2004) | "
In re-enacting the actual events surrounding the storied 1836 battle, this oppressively solemn historical-action movie is both elegiac and trivial." — New York Times Posted Apr 8, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Home on the Range (2004) | "
Disney's western cartoon comedy may be the first film to require cortisone treatments from jamming its elbow in the audience's ribs so often." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 91%
| Shaolin Soccer (2002) | "
This kung-fu comedy is so unabashed in its cheesiness that it could be spread on crackers; it may spike your cholesterol levels." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) | "
Guillermo del Toro lets loose with a vaudevillian rambunctiousness that makes his adaptation of the Hellboy comic book series daffy, loose and lovable." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 94%
| Vodka Lemon () | "
This movie has an antic, mordant visual poetry that matches up with the rancor and feeling in its population's souls." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | B-Happy (2003) | "
This cooled-out melodrama from Chile is often so natural it has the on-the-fly illumination of improvisation." — New York Times Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| Fuse (2004) | "
Featured in the New Directors/New Films series, this droll, soulful comedy-drama tells us that after the smoke clears, life goes on." — New York Times Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Untold Scandal (2003) | "
This viciously purring Korean comedy of sexual conquest in the New Directors/New Films Series employs many of the plot mechanisms used in Christopher Hampton's version of Liaisons Dangereuses." — New York Times Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Silent Waters (2004) | "
Silent Waters, in the New Directors/New Films series, is several different movies, and most of them feel negligible and meandering, until the film finally packs a wallop." — New York Times Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 95%
| The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004) | "
The title of this movie isn't a metaphor. The filmmakers have actually made a movie about a pale and needy newborn camel whose mother ignores it." — New York Times Posted Mar 25, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 26%
| Never Die Alone (2004) | "
DMX is the perfect actor for this stylized and often satisfying film adaptation of Donald Goines's novel." — New York Times Posted Mar 25, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Strong Shoulders (2004) | "
In this dazzling and minimalist drama, the director Ursula Meier has created an unforgettable portrait of a young woman desperate to prove she's as good as any man." — New York Times Posted Mar 25, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Everyday People (2004) | "
Jim McKay's ensemble drama, the opening feature in the annual New Directors/New Films series, has a roaming, lived-in quality." — New York Times Posted Mar 24, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| Intermission (2004) | "
Surprise hovers over this dry-roasted and altogether compelling Irish comedy-drama like a creature waiting to stun the cast of the movie into submission." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | "
Michel Gondry's angular and intelligent romantic comedy isn't entirely consistent. Even as you laugh, it's a movie you admire more than love." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 76%
| Dawn of the Dead (2004) | "
Mr. Snyder's blood feast is strictly by the numbers: this second-rater could be the world's most expensive Troma film." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2004 |
— | Fresh 69%
| Iris (2000) |
Click here to read article — New York Times Posted Mar 16, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 46%
| Secret Window (2004) | "
Johnny Depp's performance as a trebly beset writer is the highlight of this underwhelming suspense thriller based on a Stephen King novella." — New York Times Posted Mar 11, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| Distant (2004) | "
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's wry, modest meditation on pettiness works on a minimalist scale." — New York Times Posted Mar 11, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 46%
| Hidalgo (2004) | "
This primitively plotted family action adventure is one of the few movies that seem to be making up their plots as they go along." — New York Times Posted Mar 4, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Starsky & Hutch (2004) | "
The big-screen adaptation of the 1970's television cop show Starsky & Hutch has a crafty, can-you-dig-it? spirit." — New York Times Posted Mar 4, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| Risk/Reward (2004) | "
This just-the-facts documentary follows a group of women through their grueling schedules in the financial world." — New York Times Posted Feb 26, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 89%
| Good Bye, Lenin! (2004) | "
Wolfgang Becker's social satire has a knobby tone that somewhat mutes its crowd-pleasing ambitions and keeps it from becoming My Big, Fat Life Is Beautiful." — New York Times Posted Feb 26, 2004 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 23%
| Havana Nights (2004) | "
This reimagining of the recklessly melodramatic 1987 original is packed with flashy, taffeta silliness." — New York Times Posted Feb 26, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Lost Boys of Sudan (2004) | "
This tidy and fascinating documentary follows the plight of two young African refugees transplanted to the U.S. to make a better life." — New York Times Posted Feb 19, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Kitchen Stories (2004) | "
The Norwegian writer and director Bent Hamer's wry, uninflected deadpan social comedy points as straight and true as a compass fixed on magnetic north." — New York Times Posted Feb 19, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 46%
| Eurotrip (2004) | "
Now that bad taste has become officially institutionalized, this sometimes funny comedy has all of the anarchic charge of getting a tattoo at Wal-Mart." — New York Times Posted Feb 19, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 42%
| Love Object (2004) | "
Robert Parigi shows a kicky sense of humor in this brisk low-budget film, and ably creates a smirking menace." — New York Times Posted Feb 13, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Robot Stories (2004) | "
Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece, which details the ways robots have complicated the lives of humans, has a dexterous sense of wonder that nonetheless leaves the film feeling a bit detached." — New York Times Posted Feb 12, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 79%
| Miracle (2004) | "
This movie version of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team's Cinderella season does a yeoman's job of recycling the day-old dough that passes for its story." — New York Times Posted Feb 5, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 69%
| Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) | "
A movie featuring Ice Cube bellowing 'No more profanity!' and meaning it should produce a lot more laughs than this intermittently amusing sequel." — New York Times Posted Feb 5, 2004 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Blind Shaft (2004) | "
It's the last thing you'd expect: a movie that is a commentary on socialism, a film noir and entirely compelling. But that is the case with Li Yang's Blind Shaft." — New York Times Posted Feb 4, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004) | "
In this affecting and effective documentary, a placid artist returns to the place where he was tortured by the Khmer Rouge to confront the men who worked as guards." — New York Times Posted Feb 2, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| Eat This New York (2002) | "
It will be impossible for you to walk past a shuttered restaurant and not feel a chill after seeing this documentary." — New York Times Posted Jan 29, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Torque (2004) | "
This monotonously macho action-adventure film wears testosterone as if it were a new fragrance." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Teacher's Pet (2004) | "
Disney's marvelously quick-witted and gloriously goofy hand-drawn feature gets more laughs out of 74 minutes than many recent live-action comedies got out of much more time." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 19%
| Chasing Liberty (2004) | "
Mandy Moore stars in a romantic comedy that stumbles trying to stay in the footfalls left before it by Roman Holiday and It Happened One Night." — New York Times Posted Jan 8, 2004 |
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