Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Spring Fever (2009) | "
I think there’s meant to be a tender love story buried somewhere in all this remote melodrama, but none of the five major characters makes the slightest impression." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
The overall look of the film, with its breathtaking aerial views of South American landscapes and its symbolic interplay of squares and circles, puts every other animation studio to shame." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Thirst (2009) | "
The movie as a whole—which runs nearly two-and-a-quarter hours—has no sense of rhythm or flow whatsoever." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Air Doll (2009) | "
This follow-up, despite having been in the works for years, feels a tad rushed." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 94%
| Fish Tank (2009) | "
I’m just having trouble comprehending the fuss being made in other quarters, because this film is awfully familiar—basically just a contemporary gloss on the classic British kitchen sink/angry young (wo)man drama." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Don't Look Back (2009) | "
Don’t Look Back leans hard on a conventionally atonal musical score and cheap shock cuts, as well as some dubious special effects." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Youth Without Youth may have been messier and more risible (though the climactic twist here is pretty damn dumb), but I’ll take its dazzingly surreal middle third over this film’s endless declamatory hooey." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Thorn in the Heart (2009) | "
The title raises expectations of angst a-plenty, but the tone throughout is one of warm regard; you could make a documentary about some random octogenarian plucked off the street and have a good shot at stumbling onto a more eventful and interesting life." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Demetri Martin makes little impression as Tiber, and the rest of the cast tends to indulge stale ‘60s stereotypes." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, but a thing of plodding inevitability is just two hours of my time amiably wasted." — AV Club Posted May 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zodiac (2007) | "
Scene by scene, Zodiac is the director's most visually restrained work to date, taking its cue from the mostly functional mise-en-scène of the police procedural..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Oct 15, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| The 11th Hour (2007) | "
A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies." — Village Voice Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Time (2007) | "
I can't see how anybody, no matter how keen to preserve a positive self-image, could fail to identify with Time, [director] Kim's cheerfully lunatic allegory about two young lovers." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| Marie Antoinette (2006) | "
But in order to enjoy the movie, you have to accept the fact that it's a gauzy, pop-morose mood piece, not a character study or history lesson." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Oct 20, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Hollywoodland (2006) | "
The facts are banal, the inventions lackluster." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Sep 12, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 69%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
Only the magnitude of the tragedy gives the film dramatic weight ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Aug 11, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| Scoop (2006) | "
Scoop makes other late Allen comedies look even more feeble by comparison, but it's still only half of a great movie ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Aug 7, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| The Descent (2006) | "
Part of the fun is the way that Marshall strives to make his outlandish scenario at least marginally plausible ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Aug 7, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 53%
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) | "
We want comic adventure and Deppian eccentricity, and wind up with regrettably little of either." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jul 7, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Superman Returns (2006) | "
Trouble is, Singer can't decide whether he's making a sequel or a remake." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jun 30, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Poseidon (2006) | "
Even with a less irritating protagonist, though, it's hard to imagine how Poseidon could have succeeded." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| L'Enfant (2006) | "
[Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's] achievement here is both formidable and intensely moving ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted May 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Friends With Money (2006) | "
It's not clear to me whether Holofcener means to suggest that you can't have any degree of personal autonomy without a decent income, or the inverse ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Inside Man (2006) | "
Inside Man seems less interested in Case's ancient war crimes than in the contemporary spectacle of a Sikh hostage having his turban forcibly removed by the NYPD ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 11, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 52%
| Lucky # Slevin (2006) | "
Lucky Number Slevin can't boast of a single interesting or novel idea, but it did hold my attention throughout ..." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Apr 11, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| V For Vendetta (2005) | "
... pay no attention to the sputtering of various critics and pundits to the effect that V for Vendetta glorifies terrorism." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Mar 17, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 19%
| Firewall (2006) | "
Part of the problem is that first-time screenwriter Joe Forte—potentially ironic name!—keeps squandering terrific ideas." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Feb 14, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 61%
| The New World (2005) | "
But in the quest for greater accessibility, I fear that some of The New World's eerie beauty may have been lost." — Las Vegas Weekly Posted Jan 26, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Charlotte Sometimes (2002) | "
The film's nervous reticence makes it both precious and a little unwieldy, like a matchstick palace built on a subway platform." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 31, 2003 |
Fresh 84/100
| Fresh 91%
| Adaptation (2002) | "
What makes Adaptation more than just a clever stunt is the way that Laroche's fickle enthusiasm, Orlean's quiet longing and "Kaufman"'s paralyzing self-doubt dovetail to form a potent, funny-sad disquisition on the value of compromise." — Man Who Viewed Too Much Posted Dec 1, 2002 |
Fresh 63/100
| Fresh 65%
| Solaris (2002) | "
Whatever else one might say of Soderbergh and Clooney, they understand that clout is something you exercise, not something you safeguard." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 25, 2002 |
Rotten 48/100
| Fresh 69%
| Personal Velocity (2002) | "
Even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering, Miller's hand often feels unsure." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 19, 2002 |
Fresh 66/100
| Fresh 92%
| Talk to Her (2002) | "
At heart, it's a sick, scandalous joke, but you can't quite bring yourself to laugh at something so deeply felt and so gravely elegant." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 19, 2002 |
Fresh 57/100
| Fresh 82%
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) | "
Once again, Chris Columbus stays out of J.K. Rowling's way, sticking to the text and hitting each narrative beat cleanly and vigorously." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2002 |
Fresh 67/100
| Fresh 91%
| Far From Heaven (2002) | "
Visually ravishing, subtly provocative, both entertainment and dissertation." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 4, 2002 |
Fresh 80/100
| Fresh 97%
| American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002) | "
Slowly but surely devolves into a fascinating, cringe-inducing portrait of cultural solipsism, climaxing in an emotional meltdown that wouldn't look out of place in mid-period Cassavetes." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2002 |
Rotten 48/100
| Rotten 18%
| Love in the Time of Money (2002) | "
Absurdities and clichés accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2002 |
Fresh 66/100
| Fresh 82%
| Derrida (2002) | "
As an introduction to the man's theories and influence, Derrida is all but useless; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man, however, it's invaluable." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 21, 2002 |
Fresh 70/100
| Fresh 88%
| Roger Dodger (2002) | "
It's a movie dominated by conversation yet devoid of theatricality or staginess: a pictorial gabfest." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 21, 2002 |
Fresh 60/100
| Fresh 81%
| Take Care of My Cat (2001) | "
Evokes a palpable sense of disconnection, made all the more poignant by the incessant use of cell phones." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2002 |
Rotten 41/100
| Fresh 72%
| Auto Focus (2002) | "
Combines the least appealing aspects of the biopic (episodic narrative, lack of imagination) with the least appealing aspects of the junkie's-downward-spiral genre (wearying repetition, lofty condescension)." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2002 |
Fresh 63/100
| Fresh 71%
| The Ring (2002) | "
Boasts a real heart-stopper of a finale—an uncanny phosphor nightmare that depicts a marrow-deep fear shared by every kid who grew up in the video age." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2002 |
Fresh 61/100
| Fresh 75%
| Safe Conduct (2002) | "
Rises and falls on the strength of its individual episodes. Mostly, it rises, though its extreme length ill suits its anecdotal structure (or perhaps vice versa)." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2002 |
Rotten 38/100
| Fresh 72%
| Pipe Dream (2002) | "
A singularly off-putting romantic comedy." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2002 |
Fresh 69/100
| Fresh 73%
| Heaven (2002) | "
Far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2002 |
Fresh 63/100
| Fresh 97%
| Spirited Away (2002) | "
Has few rivals as a work of visual imagination." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2002 |
Rotten 35/100
| Rotten 38%
| Ted Bundy (2002) | "
An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2002 |
Rotten 18/100
| Rotten 51%
| In Praise of Love (2001) | "
Impenetrable pseudo-philosophical gibberish." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 3, 2002 |
Rotten 50/100
| Rotten 48%
| City by the Sea (2002) | "
Suffers from a schematic, overdetermined rigidity, as if screenwriter Ken Hixon had plotted the scenario on graph paper before setting it down in type." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 3, 2002 |
Rotten 47/100
| Rotten 57%
| Corpus Callosum (2002) | "
Sometimes feels uncomfortably like a 93-minute Photoshop
demonstration." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 26, 2002 |
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