Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Bad Lieutenant (1992) | "
One of the landmark independent films of the 1990s is given a first-rate, informative, and cleaned-up DVD. The film is a masterpiece, but not for the faint of heart." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Friday the 13th - Part 6: Jason Lives (1986) | "
Better than the second and third entries in the Scream series, this sequel is one elaborate in-joke about itself, and if you like the series you might have affection for what it's trying to do." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Friday the 13th - Part 5: A New Beginning (1985) | "
Jason kills again--or does he?" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 20%
| Friday the 13th - Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984) | "
Jason gets the proper sendoff." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Haunted Castle (1921) | "
The Haunted Castle makes the viewer wait in a state of anticipation for something to resonate on screen--and it feels positively endless." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Hobson's Choice (1954) | "
Hobson's Choice is a superb addition to the Lean canon, and a charming and surprising selection by Criterion." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | La Femme Publique (1984) | "
Mondo Video should be commended for their handsome presentation of one of Zulawski's most lush, explosively romantic films." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Faces (1968) | "
People compare Cassavetes to jazz because his films are lively, vivid, and bursting with energy, and Criterion packs this two-disc set of Faces with extras bursting with vitality. Enthusiasts will be pleased." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Shadows (1959) | "
Shadows feels like a Beatnik relic, which gives it tremendous value." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Friday the 13th - Part 3 (1982) | "
So bad it's good, or so bad it's mind-numbing? You decide." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Friday the 13th - Part 2 (1981) | "
Friday the 13th Part 2 is more existential than mumblecore art house cinema, paring life down to the basics: f****g and death." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980) | "
Friday the 13th is the one that started them all, but that doesn't necessarily make it any good, does it?" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | George Wallace (1997) | "
One of the finest television films John Frankenheimer made during his final decade of filmmaking, George Wallace deserves a more substantial DVD treatment." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Casablanca (1942) | "
This handsomely packaged three-disc DVD box set is jam-packed with extras, meant to please fans and cinema history buffs alike." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Dec 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 14%
| Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1999) | "
This one was made for the fans, and they'll delight in the latest surreal battle against the Tall Man." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) | "
Kiss of the Spider Woman's beautifully compelling story of compassion and love cannot be separated from the time the film was made." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Before the Rain (1994) | "
If it's only as politically savvy as a college term paper, it's also as gritty as an old-school western." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Night of the Living Dead (1968) | "
This shocker from 1968 is a time capsule of our fears from yesteryear." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | "
We learn that Indiana Jones was named after the family dog. Aren't you glad you tuned in for his latest adventure?" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | "
Raiders of the Lost Ark holds up as a spectacle film, spooky funhouse ride and rollicking adventure yarn. Steven Spielberg was, then and now, the finest director of grand-scale Hollywood blockbusters." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted May 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Lost Highway (1997) | "
We still await the definitive DVD release of Lost Highway, a film crying out for rediscovery." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 1, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) | "
See the Baron dance with Venus! See a man outrun a speeding bullet! See the beautiful, mad fiasco that is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen%u2014see it if you dare!" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Walker (1987) | "
One of the greatest and most representative movies of the 1980s is still able to ironically laugh at the savagery and stupidity happening in our world right now." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Tragic Ceremony (1972) | "
Don't watch the trailer on the extras, because like so many of these low-budget shockers it shows all the best parts in advance, so why bother watching the rest? Then again, maybe that's not such a bad idea." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Feb 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Ricco the Machine (1973) | "
Ricco the Mean Machine is a throwback to when men could smack women around if they talked back too loud. In other words, it has a broad appeal to cultural anthropologists, ironic hipsters, bad movie buffs, and chauvinist pigs." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) | "
Greenaway creates his thesis over the decaying corpses of animals, which doesn't inspire a middle-of-the-road kind of viewer response." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) | "
Greenaway creates his thesis over the decaying corpses of animals, which doesn't inspire a middle-of-the-road kind of viewer response." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Freethinker (1994) | "
This epic-length video essay is alternately a tedious school assignment and an eye-opener." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) | "
Unflinching, uncompromising, and finally available in an uncensored version in America, this is one of the dark hidden gems of 1970s Euro horror." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Eyes Wide Shut (1999) | "
Eyes Wide Shut merits reevaluation and reappraisal." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 19, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | "
The fiercely ironic A Clockwork Orange has held up over time as a provocative comic horror show." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 19, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| The Two Jakes (1990) | "
If you're going to write a love letter to yourself, Jack, this is the way to do it." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Chinatown (1974) | "
You know what to expect: it's Chinatown." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| From Beyond (1986) | "
This respectable piece of 1980s splatter cinema gets a classy DVD treatment." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Spider Baby (1964) | "
Spider Baby is unclassifiable weirdness, and that's meant as a compliment." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972) | "
Clever title, insufferable movie!" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Return of the Living Dead (1985) | "
Here's a bit of saucy punk dialogue that sums up the movie. Boy: "Hey Casey, do you like sex with death?" Girl: "Yeah, so **** off and die."" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Deliverance (1972) | "
A haunting masterpiece, as mysterious as the deep, dark woods." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 27, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | On the Silver Globe (1987) | "
This fascinating cult item would be an even richer collectible if the DVD included a sense of the project's lost battle against government censorship." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Ivan's Childhood (1962) | "
Criterion deserves a medal." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Caine Mutiny (1954) | "
This movie gives "standard" quality a good name, and would be worth watching for the trial scene alone where Bogie intensely rambles on about how he studied the wardroom icebox key with "geometric logic."" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted May 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Jane Eyre (1944) | "
Have fun with this hot-blooded Victorian soap opera." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (1968) | "
The films of Alejandro Jodorowsky will blow your mind." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Phantasm (1978) | "
Phantasm remains a hallucinogenic horror classic, and this seems to be the definitive DVD treatment." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Thieves Like Us (1974) | "
The late Robert Altman had a good run, with a handful of enduring classics for the ages and a dozen great films that would be the high water mark of another director's career." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 80%
| The Chocolate War (1988) | "
Slant Magazine's student governing body has elected to peer pressure you into selecting The Chocolate War." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) | "
For a horror series best known for its cult status, Anchor Bay went all out on making Phantasm III look great, and skimped on the extras (for anybody who cares)." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 14, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Re-Animator (1985) | "
Packed with bonus features, Re-Animator is lovingly brought back to life by Anchor Bay." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Night of the Comet (1984) | "
A bare-bones DVD that feels slapped together." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Mar 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Satan's Playground (2005) | "
Satan's Playground announces filmmaker Dante Tomaselli as a horror talent to watch out for." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 22, 2006 |
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