Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Missing Person (2009) | "
It’s beautiful dread." — SpoutBlog Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Trash Humpers (2009) | "
Never has the bizarre beauty of degraded low-grade video been exploited to this extent." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
A lament for the lost luxuries of time and space." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| A Prophet (2009) | "
A beautifully made but not completely intellectually satisfying mirror on contemporary French upward mobility." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Bears the mark of a painter, full of deceptively beautiful imagery masking multiple layers of meaning." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| 35 Shots of Rum (2009) | "
Bittersweet." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
This is scary in a way that unrelenting brutality could never be." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
A powerfully loony portrait of American rot." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Frownland (2008) | "
A very nearly unbearably bleak ode to the white blind rage inspired by the mundane." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
"Fun!"" — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Maid (2009) | "
Saavedra, in an incredibly vanity-free performance, never shies away from Raquel’s darkest edges and still forces us to empathize with the frustrations and stunted loneliness of a life lived in servants’ quarters." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
Fontaine hits a few trite beats -- personal agony begets a flurry of groundbreaking creative activity, as when Coco responds to heartbreak by designing her signature suit -- but Coco herself is a thrillingly atypical, genuinely complicated heroine." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| Harmony and Me (2009) | "
Harmony is a finely tuned comedy, complete with precisely scripted jokes and comic set pieces that swerve toward the playfully perverse." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
The first thing that marks In The Loop as a break from the norm is its refusal to flatter the viewer's intelligence; the second, is the way the film forces them to use it." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
More entertaining on a base level than a Belgian film about poor people has any right to be." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 81%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
A crayon-colorful comedy steeped in colloquial American English." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The GoodTimesKid (2005) | "
Photographed with a shabby romanticism." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| The Headless Woman (2009) | "
Martel rips Antonioniennui off its foundations by refusing to throw the audience a bone of indentification via the disorienting effects of lust/love." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 85%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
A must see for anyone interested in internet fame and the phenomenon of casual over-sharing, even if the storytelling tactics are surprisingly stale." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
An irresistible pop culture mashup." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Riotously funny." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
The movie is a far more convincing fantasy of performance-as-self-discovery than the High School Musical franchise." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Windmill Movie (2009) | "
One gets swept up in the first soapy, then tragic melodrama of the life matter that overwhelmed Rogers' desire/compulsion/ability to make art." — Cinematical Posted Jun 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Winnebago Man (2009) | "
The filmmaker never makes it about him %u2014 it's clear throughout that he's onscreen because that's the most direct way to tell this story, and he wants nothing more than to serve as a conduit between what he sees and what he wants us to see. You don't" — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| Downloading Nancy (2008) | "
Director Johan Renck essentially builds Nancy and Albert's reality out of an aggregation of overwrought kitsch... and so what seem like occasional lapses into deadpan moments of fantasy aren't always productive in contrast. Heavily art directed for unplea" — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
...as [a] densely layered, intensely visual work of creative autobiography, Tetro claims a key place in the Coppola filmography. At least, for the first time in the last few decades worth of filmography, it feels like it's got somewhere to take you." — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
The Hangover, Todd Phillips' return to fratastic form after the disappointing School for Scoundrels, marks itself as an aesthetic step up for the Old School director right from the get go." — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
If Johnson doesn’t reinvent the con man wheel, he pulls off a magic act in the romance department, reinvigorating the fiction that first love can be the last/best/only love ever needed." — SpoutBlog Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Glorious." — SpoutBlog Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
A psychological thriller that looks like art but satisfies as a work of genre." — SpoutBlog Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
At once austere and seductive." — SpoutBlog Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Audience Of One (2009) | "
Real-life mockumentary." — SpoutBlog Posted May 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Julia (2008) | "
Thrillingly far off the rails." — SpoutBlog Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The magic of Limits is that Jarmusch has used rigorous formalism to construct what feels like a loose, dreamy continuum of ideas." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Throw Down Your Heart (2009) | "
A beautiful illustration of powerlessness in the face of art." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Exploding Girl (2009) | "
Beautifully restrained." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
Uber crowd-pleasing...both candy for confirmed theater nerds, and functioning propaganda for the uninitiated." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 78%
| Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) | "
On one level, Valentino: The Last Emperor offers a rare glimpse at the bond between two men who have truly been partners for life. But it’s also a bittersweet portrait of the end of fashion as art and of supreme luxury as an aspirational construct." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
Two Lovers is a testament to the childish madness of infatuation, and maybe even true love's impossibility." — SpoutBlog Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 44%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
He's Just Not That Into You is smart for what it is, but it refuses to be condescendingly smarter than the people it exists to please. And that makes it even smarter." — SpoutBlog Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Spring Breakdown (2008) | "
Spring Breakdown rides a very fine line between total trash and intelligent provocation, mall multiplex dreck and Troma-esque satire via the grotesque." — SpoutBlog Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Humpday (2009) | "
A whip-smart, uproariously funny comedy which uses a "bros will be bros" dare as the in point to talk about the inevitable loss of self in long term relationships." — SpoutBlog Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
Moon manages to be both derivative and deliberately rebellious in its treatment of sci-fi tropes. Moon is a story that digs deep into the traumas of people being people." — SpoutBlog Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Cargo 200 (2008) | "
Balabanov has crafted horror setpieces as vile (and strangely aesthetically pleasing) as anything you might see in contemporary torture porn, but Cargo's slow-burn build give each act of rape, murder, torture and necrophilia that much more weight." — SpoutBlog Posted Jan 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Revolutionary Road (2008) | "
Certainly the best work Mendes has ever produced for the screen, Revolutionary Road works as a showcase for performances: DiCaprio and Winslet are at the top of their game." — SpoutBlog Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Rourke delivers a performance that seems to start and end in the cardiovascular system, making everything Rourke actually does seem effortless. As if he's just breathing it." — SpoutBlog Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
Milk is a film about the politics of sex, in which the political process itself not only takes precedence over but seems to stand in for the complexities of real life sexuality." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noel) is a darkly comic dysfunctional family fairy tale, more Meet Me In Saint Louis than The Royal Tenenbaums, with a healthy dose of A Midsummer Night's Dream thrown in." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Synecdoche is impeccably acted, inventively designed, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, and often devastatingly sad." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | 5-25-77 (2005) | "
Under the miasma of autobiography...it seems like within '77 there's an earnest love letter...the moment when sci-fi nerds in small towns around the world found the franchises that would make their obsessions seem more normal." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 20, 2008 |
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