Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 83%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is an instant classic and one of the year’s best films." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 89%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
Jason Reitman’s dry, moving “comedy,” based on the Walter Kirn novel, is a sly indictment of Corporate America, Marketing America and Frequent Flying America." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
Departures is a loving tribute to the Japanese way of death." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
It's marvelous work all around, especially by Foxx and Downey. Their duet makes The Soloist sing." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Coraline (2009) | "
For all the polished electrons of the latest works from Pixar, Blue Sky or DreamWorks, Selick and Co. show that stop-motion animation still looks, moves and feels like nothing at all the computer animator's terrabytes can mimic." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 64%
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) |
Click here to read article — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 61%
| The Duchess (2008) |
Click here to read article — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
Perhaps it is simply an accident of timing that puts Milk in theaters at this moment. But fate or simple fortunate timing, Milk arrives as one of the best films of 2008." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | "
[A] taut, tense and witty tale of human tragedy and triumphant humanity set against the sweep of modern India." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
Rachel Getting Married is a magical wallow in excess, a too-happy, too-sad, too-indulgent plunge into an over-planned wedding." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Frozen River (2008) | "
Courtney Hunt's Frozen River is the first great film of the fall. It has great actors playing vivid characters in a setting that makes for a clash of cultures." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Aug 21, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) | "
Filmmaker Alex Gibney had access to those who knew the guy, the famous, the infamous and the obscure, and he paints a picture of a serious journalist who saw himself documenting 'the death of the American Dream.'" — Orlando Sentinel Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Mongol (2008) | "
Mongol, from its thrilling battles to its intimate romance, has the look, scale, story and feel of an old-fashioned epic in the best and biggest sense of the word." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| WALL-E (2008) | "
The idea that an ancient Hollywood musical, with its love duets and foot-tapping dance numbers, would be the thing that awakens emotions in both humans and robots, is pure genius." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Foot Fist Way (2008) | "
If I had my way, every indie comedy would be done The Foot Fist Way." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Young@Heart (2008) | "
Young@Heart is nothing less than an ode to joy." — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| The Counterfeiters (2008) | "
This dark, absorbing thriller is not just a moral exercise in the awful choices faced by those determined to survive history's worst genocide. It invites us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of a not-quite-lovable rogue." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Apr 24, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 84%
| Kabluey (2008) | "
It's a sweet, ingenious, twisted and surreal comedy, kind of Samuel Beckett by way of Adam Sandler." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 80%
| In Bruges (2008) | "
This dark comedy shifts effortlessly between silly and sobering, and it finally gives Colin Farrell the chance to be as funny as we've long suspected he could be." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007) | "
Julien Temple's film is an energizing work of art, a visually striking and inspiring look at a band that never 'sold out' and the leader who saw to it that they didn't." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Band's Visit (2007) | "
Like no fish-out-of-water film in recent memory, it leaves you with the hope that these fish will find their way back to water, and maybe learn to share that puddle before the desert dries it up entirely." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
Animated by hand, often in glorious black and white, this French classic has the pathos, wit and intellectual sting of great political filmmaking." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) | "
It's a subject and a film that perfectly blends the tragic with the triumphant." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jan 10, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 66%
| The Kite Runner (2007) | "
Visually arresting, politically controversial, perhaps its greatest virtue is its simple message of making wrong right." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Atonement (2007) | "
A film that instantly joins the ranks of the great screen romances." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
The story is vintage McCarthy in its sense of place and its poetic voice. And it is vintage Coens for some of those same traits, and its cruel, graphic violence." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Beowulf (2007) | "
Zemeckis has found the dark psychological underpinnings of this Dark Ages tale, and his version of it will endure even as the technology he used to tell it is replaced by something even more stunning." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| My Kid Could Paint That (2007) | "
My Kid Could Paint That is a documentary that brings to the fore questions of youth exploitation, celebrity culture, the "con game" that is modern art and media's role in the whole tangled mess." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Michael Clayton (2007) | "
Stop printing the ballots. Don't waste money on those "for your consideration" Oscar ads. There is but one contender for best supporting actor this year, and it is Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
It's a gorgeous, self-assured, thrilling and entertainingly intimate epic, an actor's picture in front of and behind the camera." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Oct 4, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) | "
When it comes to the Apollo program, nobody relates the saga of men going to the moon quite like the corps of 24 who actually made the trip." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 72%
| In the Valley of Elah (2007) | "
In the Valley of Elah is another in a long line of great Tommy Lee Jones performances." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Simpsons Movie (2007) | "
With a hearty 'Woo-hooo' and no 'doh' spared, The Simpsons make the journey from small screen to big with their subversive wit, their wanderlust and their sentimental streak entirely intact." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jul 25, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Hairspray (2007) | "
It's a toe-tapper to make your forget sashaying pirates, comic-book heroes, robot Camaros and cartoons. This is the movie event of the summer." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Sicko (2007) | "
The film is an alternately depressing and uplifting experience, a documentary whose ironies -- taking sick Americans to Cuba for cheaper, better health care -- won't be lost on anybody." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jun 28, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Once (2007) | "
This lovely tale of a love affair between a Dublin street musician and a flower girl will leave you wistful for more. It's a movie to fall in love with and a movie to fall in love during. It is the most naturalistic musical ever." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jun 28, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 87%
| After The Wedding (2007) | "
Lovely, dense and surprising." — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 31, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Why We Fight (2006) |
Click here to read article — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 74%
| The Painted Veil (2006) |
Click here to read article — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 78%
| Brick (2006) |
Click here to read article — Orlando Sentinel Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Lives of Others (2006) | "
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's film is a melodrama in a minor key, quietly affecting, quietly chilling, quietly quiet. It captures the drab architecture of totalitarianism, the soul-dead buildings of a soul-dead state." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Mar 16, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Miss Potter (2006) | "
With Miss Potter, Renee Zellweger has won back that precious thing that stardom rips away and the tabloids won't let you reclaim: her charm." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Mar 8, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Venus (2006) | "
O'Toole spent so many years being better than the little material that he was offered that it's heartening to see him sprint toward the finish of his career with such a flourish. If this is his curtain call, it's a glorious one." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Feb 9, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 84%
| Sweet Land (2006) | "
Terrific acting, a perfectly captured period setting, and a simple, aching farm courtship, that's all Sweet Land is." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jan 26, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | "
A violent fantasy set during the Spanish Civil War, this magical film from Guillermo del Toro manages that intellectual high-mindedness, even as it resonates on a primal, mythic level." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jan 19, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
This compact, fierce and frightening domestic thriller is the most violent film in many a day. The rage is in the angry words, the deepest thoughts of its 'heroine,' and the fear about what might come from those words is palpable." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jan 12, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 80%
| Little Children (2006) | "
Little Children is disturbing and smart and the best satire of modern American suburbia since American Beauty." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Jan 5, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 78%
| Charlotte's Web (2006) | "
"Some pig?" Sure. Some spider. And some book. Some movie, too." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Dec 15, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Babel (2006) | "
It's a great film made with style and heart and hope, a cautionary parable and an almost certain Oscar contender." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Nov 10, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 87%
| The Last King of Scotland (2006) | "
If this genius turn by Whitaker (he starred in Bird and The Crying Game) doesn't earn an Oscar nomination, then those little statues will lose what little meaning they have." — Orlando Sentinel Posted Nov 3, 2006 |
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