Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| City Slickers (1991) | "
A different way of tackling the sons-and-fathers story, but right up there with the best of them--and a tremendous western comedy as well." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| City Slickers (1991) | "
A comedy that was and is ambitious and counterintuitive." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| The Ice Storm (1997) | "
Change, or the struggle to make change fit into the established system, is Lee's most familiar chord. He struck it loudest in The Ice Storm." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 81%
| The Ice Storm (1997) | "
As in any joke, destiny is a major character." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Last Emperor (1987) | "
One of cinema's greatest cinematographic performances combines with a director's epic vision and superb craftsmanship to create a visual masterpiece. Restored by Criterion, this set is well worth remembering." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| The Last Emperor (1987) | "
The Last Emperor is most decisively a lesson of nobility." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Indie Sex () | "
A fascinating subject that deserves all the intelligent attention it gets. Just, with The Celluloid Closet or Pornography: A History of Civilization, there have been better efforts." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| This Sporting Life (1963) | "
"You'll be what you are, self-reliant." A ringing quote that defines a film, a movement, a director, and a tremendous DVD set." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| This Sporting Life (1963) | "
This Sporting Life is a quintessential entrant in Britain's kitchen-sink realism of the late-'50s and '60s." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Lady Vanishes (1938) | "
Hitchcock and film lovers alike should not pass up this worthy copy of one of the director's British-made masterworks." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| The Lady Vanishes (1938) | "
What separates Lady Vanishes39 Steps, and makes it more remarkable, is its genuine sense of purpose." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Full Metal Jacket (1987) | "
A hyper-violent, foul-mouthed war movie that outpaces Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and a dozen others for sheer motive force. This disc, packaged with so many other Kubrick classics, only makes it better." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| Full Metal Jacket (1987) | "
Somehow after the decadence of Barry Lyndon and a philosophical look at horror in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick settled into a film of unrestrained vitriol and aggression." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 19, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 95%
| The Princess Bride (1987) | "
Lacking the commentaries and home video footage that graced previous The Princess Bride DVD releases, and short any comment from Reiner or Goldman, this pedestrian set hardly excites." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| The Princess Bride (1987) | "
A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world."" — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| As You Like It (2006) | "
Branagh's film suffers when that boldness does not go far enough, creating an adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Hustler (1961) | "
The Hustler reaffirms your faith in the movies." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 97%
| The Hustler (1961) | "
This is the purest examination of an athlete's internal struggle ever mounted for the screen." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Glastonbury (2007) | "
Sure, the film is about change, but did new culture come from Glastonbury, or did Glastonbury adapt to the culture? Without an answer to this or many similar questions, Glastonbury is a pretty spectacle with no documentary weight." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 79%
| Glastonbury (2007) | "
It's hard to pin down the intent and even the honesty of the filmmaker." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Big (1988) | "
Marshall's film is gold." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Big (1988) | "
The consummate '80s film about kid-dom and growing old too fast." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| That Thing You Do! (1996) | "
Get this edition if you like the movie, but stick to the theatrical release available as a feature on the first disc." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Guns of Navarone (1961) | "
A cold, hard caper." — Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| The Guns of Navarone (1961) | "
David Niven is the subservient but stylish chemist Miller, rounding out a film that ranks among the best war movies." — Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | James Stewart - Signature Collection (2006) | "
Cagney's well worth remembering, and this set is a good start to a specific corner of his career." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Major League (1989) | "
With baseball season underway, it's perfect timing to bring back this quotable classic. Remember The Ueck: "Just a bit outside!"" — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Major League (1989) | "
Consider Ward's comic framework and Major League is a top-tier baseball film." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | "
Thirty-one years, plus well over a decade since I was abruptly introduced to the film. It is, as it was then, extraordinary." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | "
A wonderful charm filters through these almost collegiate efforts, as if these underfunded Brits, in doing their best, did it better." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2006 |
— | Rotten 24%
| The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Rotten 38%
| Scoop (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Fresh 67%
| A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Rotten 57%
| Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Fresh 79%
| Why We Fight (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Fresh 73%
| Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Inside Man (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Rotten 11%
| All The King's Men (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Rotten 39%
| Nacho Libre (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
— | Fresh 76%
| Joyeux Noël (2006) |
Click here to read article — Stylus Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Point Break (1991) | "
Surfing. Bank robbery. Skydiving. Johnny Utah. If you can stomach the contents, Point Break is a dumbly entertaining treat." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 1, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 68%
| Point Break (1991) | "
In terms of Hollywood history, Bigelow's film is the perfect document of its time." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 1, 2006 |
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