Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Frozen River (2008) | "
Courtney Hunt’s somber film Frozen River ventures deep into the trenches where hard-working Americans struggle to put food on the table." — New York Times Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Exiles (1961) | "
Despite its compact time frame the film conjures a powerful sensation of purgatory: a night like many others." — New York Times Posted Jul 7, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Amateurs (2007) | "
There are no laughs to be found in writer-director Michael Traeger's would-be comedy The Amateurs, but there is one big mystery: how actors of this caliber could have been convinced to take part." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) | "
Never surrendering its grip on the viewer, 4 Months is the rare film with gravity and speed -- a moral tale in the form of a suspense thriller." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| No End in Sight (2007) | "
No End in Sight, the latest Iraq documentary, is the first to attempt a detailed historical overview and probably the only one with the potential to reach across partisan lines, a true rarity in the sphere of political filmmaking." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 2, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Memories of Tomorrow (2006) | "
The script's subtler nuances are too often drowned out by awkward histrionics." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Disturbia (2007) | "
Has nowhere near the conceptual sophistication of Rear Window, where the protagonist's absorption in what he's watching mirrors the viewer's. The problem with Disturbia is that for most of the film you'll wish you weren't watching at all." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| Grindhouse (2007) | "
Setting aside the dubious coherence and suspect nostalgia of the enterprise, Grindhouse is a fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Meet the Robinsons (2007) | "
Zippy if forgettable." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 29, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| The Namesake (2007) | "
An intimate, melancholy look at the isolation and disorientation common to the immigrant experience." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 8, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Turistas (2006) | "
A wholly predictable bit of slasher unpleasantness and a muddled cautionary tale on the American propensity for foreign misadventures." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2006) | "
The film is alarming, endearing, and utterly unflappable." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Interkosmos (2006) | "
Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin." — Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| Brothers of the Head (2006) | "
The golden-hued footage is lovingly faked by ace cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, and the straight-faced result is as improbably touching as the Farrelly brothers' underrated Stuck on You." — Village Voice Posted Jul 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Shadowboxer (2006) | "
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when it becomes clear that this lurid, steroidal neo-noir is certifiably insane (or at least a lot funnier than it means to be), but it's pretty early on." — Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Gabrielle (2005) | "
At once robust and ethereal, this is an existential ghost story, with fresh blood pulsing through its veins." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Time to Leave (2006) | "
Time to Leave winds up a tiresome affirmation of man's biological duty to procreate; the position is simplistic verging on obnoxious, especially after 5x2's attack on the hetero family model." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Urbanscapes (2005) | "
Urbanscapes analyzes urban blight as a recurring phenomenon, with economic, social, and moral dimensions." — Village Voice Posted Jul 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Agnes and His Brothers (2006) | "
Painfully literal/ironic soundtrack choices add to the general unpleasantness, and the nods to Fassbinder's great In a Year of 13 Moons only emphasize what this scattershot satire most decidedly is not." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Crossing The Bridge: The Sound Of Istanbul () | "
Fatih Akin's rich documentary follow-up, Crossing the Bridge, digs deeper into Istanbul's musical and social history." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Cavite (2006) | "
A paragon of guerrilla resourcefulness and a model citizen of the global village, Cavite is a more anxious and vivid experience than most movies with budgets literally a thousand times bigger." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) | "
... thanks to lowered expectations ... and in a season of economically disastrous disaster movies, the mere fact that this Memorial Day juggernaut is not a catastrophe should spell good news for a depressed industry." — Village Voice Posted May 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| 12 and Holding (2006) | "
In Cuesta's cynical formulation, the pretense of empathy is simply license to mock, gawk, and vulgarize." — Village Voice Posted May 17, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| United 93 (2006) | "
Like most memorials, it is respectful, premised on competing obligations to the dead and the living, and eager to stress that the deaths were not in vain. It not only tells us we should never forget but also illustrates how we should remember." — Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Basic Instinct 2 (2006) | "
The plot, already mired in nonsensical backstory, collapses with the late-inning introduction of a tired metafictional device (not to mention a wildly lunging Usual Suspects twist)." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Half Nelson (2006) | "
Sardonic yet moving, Half Nelson deftly outlines the perils of youthful idealism without lapsing into knee-jerk cynicism." — Village Voice Posted Mar 22, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| In Between Days (2006) | "
Painful, funny, unsentimental, perfectly measured in its ambiguities, it's exemplary low-budget filmmaking, the rare DV movie with an assured visual style and a strong sense of place." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Man Push Cart (2006) | "
Bahrani and his DP Michael Simmonds illuminate the murky beauty -- and hardscrabble economics -- of New York's all-night shadowland." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Old Joy (2006) | "
A film of microscopic mood shifts, at once open-ended and precise." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | "
The destination is a pageant that will demonstrate, in grotesque, stomach-churning detail, that beauty is skin-deep and that you don't have to win to be a winner." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| The Science of Sleep (2006) | "
The hyperactive juvenile whimsy and the stoner dream theories are out of control -- and fascinatingly close to pathology." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Art School Confidential (2006) | "
A satisfyingly bilious satire." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Intruder (2005) | "
This mysterious object may be Denis's most gorgeous film (which is saying something), but more than that, it's a fearless filmmaker's boldest experiment yet, a direct line from her unconscious to yours." — Village Voice Posted Dec 20, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| The Family Stone (2005) | "
It's hard to fathom why anyone would voluntarily endure a holiday family reunion movie (hereafter HFRM) -- a genre devised solely to demonstrate how grotesque and how heartwarming families can be." — Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Grace Lee Project (2005) | "
A breezy first-person video essay that goes in search of the average Asian American woman, all the while wondering if there is in fact such a thing." — Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) | "
A would-be cross between Showgirls and Raise the Red Lantern, too dumb to cause offense though falling short of the oblivious abandon that could have vaulted it into high camp." — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Love Streams (1984) | "
Love Streams is at once a culmination of the director's obsessions and his most atypical film." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Proof (2005) | "
John Madden's competent, monotonous film version, not exactly stagebound but hardly freewheeling, only underscores its mechanical nature." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| The Cave (2005) | "
Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp." — Village Voice Posted Aug 30, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Three Dancing Slaves (2005) | "
This lulling, banal, and rather pleasant film cultivates a mood of zone-out voyeurism." — Village Voice Posted Aug 23, 2005 |
— | Rotten 40%
| The Yakuza Papers: Vol.1 - Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Red Eye (2005) | "
Craven's terror-alert white-knuckler is a zippy, unpretentious entry in the subgenre, hinging on the enforced proximity of cat and mouse." — Village Voice Posted Aug 16, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Century of the Self (2002) | "
The true subject of Curtis's lucid, pessimistic film, it turns out, is the frightening adaptability of consumer capitalism." — Village Voice Posted Aug 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Darwin's Nightmare (2006) | "
It illuminates the sinister logic of a new world order that depends on corrupt globalization to put an acceptable face on age-old colonialism." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Tony Takitani (2005) | "
Tony Takitani conveys a powerfully tangible sense of loss and loneliness. In both concrete and existential terms, it's a film that dwells on what the dead leave behind and how the living carry on." — Village Voice Posted Jul 26, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Last Days (2005) | "
In place of psychological clarity, Last Days affords a woozy existential coherence." — Village Voice Posted Jul 19, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| The Island (2005) | "
For Bay, restraint means not dropping a fireball on a large urban center within the first act." — Village Voice Posted Jul 19, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Tropical Malady (2005) | "
World cinema's premier maker of mysterious objects, Apichatpong Weerasethakul is on a one-man mission to change the way we watch movies." — Village Voice Posted Jun 28, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| The World (2005) | "
The World is the director's most accessible film. But it's also his most despairing." — Village Voice Posted Jun 28, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| The Talent Given Us (2004) | "
This raw, fascinating, often unpleasant film is not in the least coy about its queasy mix of exploitation and therapeutic exhibitionism." — Village Voice Posted Jun 14, 2005 |
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