Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Day of the Triffids (1963) | "
Botanical dread" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Daughters of Darkness (1971) | "
Makes decadence drolly enchanted" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dark Passage (1947) | "
Delmer Daves' paramount noir dreamscape" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Dark Habits (1984) | "
Possibly the first work to hint at the tender sadness of [Almodóvar's]later phase" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | These Are The Damned (1963) | "
'The age of senseless violence,' by Joseph Losey" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Daisy Miller (1974) | "
A slender recital, yet more affecting than the entire Merchant-Ivory canon" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| The Box (2009) | "
The most disturbing thing here is the yellow, oval-patterned 1970s wallpaper" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
The razzle-dazzle is just about seamless, but warmth is sacrificed along the way" — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
The most watered-down episode of M*A*S*H* looks like a Joseph Heller classic by comparison" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Heartfelt, never less than pretty, and occasionally effulgent" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Kristen Stewart does herself no favors by following her performance in Adventureland with this mope-a-palooza retread" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Sledgehammer hogwash of the shrillest kind" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Emmerich deals in crayon-kit characterizations and shots of famous monuments crumbling into dust" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| The Road (2009) | "
Filmed as if dictated by Jehovah but ultimately boasting only a fraction of the artistic value of, say, Terminator: Salvation" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) | "
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is more controlled in its absurdism than Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, but it is easily the lesser work." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Macbeth (1971) | "
Polanski's worldview of brutish power-plays couldn't be more at home in Shakespeare's medieval times" — CinePassion Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Flying Down to Rio (1933) | "
A quintessential piece of Thirties musical kookiness right out of Man Ray" — CinePassion Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Easy Rider (1969) | "
Despite it all, it's a valuable document of hepcat actors taking snapshots of America circa 1969" — CinePassion Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
Nobody gets offended, nothing gets questioned, the crowd goes home properly cheered." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Thin Man (1934) | "
A style of pure ebullience" — CinePassion Posted Nov 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Sleeper (1973) | "
Allen's investigation of a "cosmic screwing" registers Kubrickian sci-fi" — CinePassion Posted Nov 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Honeymoon Killers (1970) | "
Kastle is a born filmmaker with an uncanny feeling for the startling close-up and the excruciating long-take" — CinePassion Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Oedipus Rex (1967) | "
Fervid chanting and handheld tracking shots inform Pasolini's jangling, fabulously blunt pageant, filled to the brim with mysterious splendor" — CinePassion Posted Nov 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Ivan's Childhood (1962) | "
The plot is straight out of the grayish, state-approved, thesis-tidy Ballad of a Soldier bin, but the landscapes and visions are Andrei Tarkovsky's and nobody else's" — CinePassion Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Vixen (1968) | "
A furiously inspired anthology of lusty American fixations" — CinePassion Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Cyclist (1989) | "
Makhmalbaf builds the race towards a crowd-pleasing climax, but the film's concluding freeze-frame entraps rather than cheerleads his underdog" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) | "
Further developments of Hammer Studios as a spook-house Ealing" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Cross of Iron (1977) | "
War is hell, but for Peckinpah it's also the sadist's Olympian joke" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Crimes of the Future (1970) | "
A great analytical joke by David Cronenberg, who has already the impeccable deadpan style to tell it" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Crime and Punishment (1935) | "
Dostoyevskian? No, no -- Sternbergian!" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Cria Cuervos (1977) | "
Rejection of "childhood innocence"" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Craig's Wife (1936) | "
An indictment of a system where womanhood is made to deform itself" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Cracking Up (1983) | "
A twilight smorgasbord, serenely avant-garde, and the culmination of the development of Lewis' cinematic language" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Countdown (1968) | "
Blocky men test themselves in perilous missions, but modernist tension cracks the mold of classicism" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Le Corbeau (1943) | "
A searching light on humanity's warts and pockmarks" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Streetfight (1975) | "
A flamethrower of confrontational cartooning" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Conversation Piece (1974) | "
A spry drawing room comedy with roots in My Man Godfrey" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Contraband (1940) | "
The story traces the gradual erosion of the Dane's neutrality in the face of menace, but Powell's freewheeling camera can't be stilled by patriotic piety" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Conan the Barbarian (1982) | "
Visualizing Robert E. Howard's creation in the midst of the Reagan era is an offer the auteur can't refuse" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Comment Ça Va? (1976) | "
Jean-Luc Godard's wry exercise on the quicksands of communication" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Grim Reaper (1962) | "
Bernardo Bertolucci the poet, declaring a change of medium" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Comes a Horseman (1978) | "
Pakula approaches the open spaces of the frontier to escape from urban claustrophobia and instead finds reflections of it" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Come and See (1985) | "
Or: Ivan Got His Gun" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| College (1927) | "
Cartesian slapstick" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| La Collectionneuse (1971) | "
A translucent comedy of procrastination" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Coffy (1973) | "
Grier is the movie's bristling force" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Cloak and Dagger (1946) | "
The ugly ruthlessness on both sides of the conflict attests to Lang's pragmatic refusal to pit simple "good" versus "evil"" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| The City of the Living Dead (1980) | "
Total cinema" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Christmas Holiday (1944) | "
Dark elation, double lives, a variety of musical cathedrals" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Christine (1983) | "
Fifties fetishism here is not nostalgia but critique, the cultural residue that deforms consciousness" — CinePassion Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
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