Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| Breaking Point (2009) | "
The whole production feels like a rejected Law & Order spec script writ (slightly) larger." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 73%
| That Evening Sun (2009) | "
The entire exercise feels thin and reedy, trading in geriatric sentiment instead of hard-forged emotion." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Little Traitor (2007) | "
Numbingly simplistic in concept and execution..." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 34%
| St. Trinian's (2009) | "
Despite a plucky soundtrack and frantic editing, the movie shows otherwise wan interest in the gaggle of faux-transgressive bad girls who bare their dulled claws at England’s establishment ethos..." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Yes Men Fix the World (2009) | "
The stunts are exhilarating, as much for their audacity as for the gullibility of their targets. But once the ruse is exposed, the short-term gain of humanist outrage evaporates into the chum of an obfuscating news cycle." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 9%
| Not Forgotten (2009) | "
Not Forgotten is weighted down by obvious creative choices that mar what might have played out like a telenovela episode of Twin Peaks." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| Give Me Your Hand (2009) | "
What’s refreshing about Pascal-Alex Vincent’s dramatically thin but richly atmospheric feature debut is that it recognizes the essential truth of the conceit: all seminal voyages are journeys of heightened awareness, as visceral as they are emotional." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 87%
| Amreeka (2009) | "
As it stands, the movie just serves up another warmed-over Ellis Island rehash." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 18%
| Spread (2009) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 100%
| Passing Strange (2010) | "
Rousing, devastating, invigorating, painful, joyful, soulful -- all those adjectives don’t even begin to describe Passing Strange, but it’s a start." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Jonas Mekas - Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) | "
Reality TV is junk food in comparison to this nourishing feast of human experience." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
What emerges is a familiar if uninspired pattern of marital alienation mixed with formulaic coming-of-age epiphanies." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 50%
| The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) | "
For a man prone to unleashed inhibitions, [director] Durst’s creative approach feels all bottled up." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| My Name is Bruce (2008) | "
Add two stars—or even three—if you’re as passionate about cheesy B-actor Campbell as he is about himself." — Time Out Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh 6/6
| Fresh 100%
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) | "
Jeanne Dielman is immersion cinema, a brilliant example of maximal minimalism that fuses viewer with subject so profoundly, the marathon experience transcends simple spectatorship." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 25%
| Bedtime Stories (2008) | "
Lazy, simplistic and self-serving are the best ways to describe the bedtime stories Skeeter Bronson (Sandler) tells his niece and nephew, and the words just as aptly apply to the film that showcases them." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 29, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 80%
| Nothing But the Truth (2008) | "
There’s a halfway point when the rush of watching the inner machinations of power players turns into the listless predictability of a TV courtroom drama, crossed with the voyeurism of a mild grindhouse prison movie." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 17, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 88%
| Firemen's Ball (1968) | "
The nonprofessional actors, hammy slapstick and overwrought politics make it a better conversation piece than viewing experience." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 68%
| Cadillac Records (2008) | "
An earnest, raucous but minor film." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 37%
| Transporter 3 (2008) | "
Who knew a nice blazer could be used as an improvised nunchuck?" — Time Out New York Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 88%
| Bolt (2008) | "
The results are downright schizophrenic -- a whiplash contrast between touching and tried-and-true." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| N/A | Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (2008) | "
Directors Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan examine where their homeland will be in ten years, and the answer reveals a nation full of contradictions." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 50%
| Gardens of the Night (2008) | "
Ferociously queasy-making for its first half before flatlining into banality." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 41%
| My Name is Bruce (2008) | "
Add two stars -- or even three -- if you’re as passionate about cheesy B-actor Campbell as he is about himself. All others can skip the good-natured self-aggrandizement of the Bubba Ho-Tep star." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 20%
| The Elephant King (2008) | "
Naïveté drives the characters and the filmmaking -- a lethal combination for a movie that’s desperate to come across as world-weary and wise." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
A dash of levity is key, and while Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch had almost too much to spare -- to the point of being facile exercises in braggadocio -- Ritchie’s latest is a sleeker model, less impetuous and more experienced." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 32%
| Forever Strong (2008) | "
American rugby is the setting for this earnest sausage party of macho posturing, bro-dacious life lessons and value-focused sportsmanship that give wayward teens the strength to rise above sinful temptations." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 74%
| Virtual JFK (2008) | "
Koji Masutani and Blight methodically examine how John F. Kennedy’s stalwart authority and nuanced judgment preserved an unambiguous, if fragile, peace at six different inflammatory moments during his presidency." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 40%
| YPF (2008) | "
The jarring skips required for clockwork peeks into each sexual narrative turn all the participants into reductive character sketches, spouting pithy one-liners and sporting ready-to-wear emotions on their sleeves." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 39%
| The Rocker (2008) | "
About as edgy as a Jonas Brothers concert, this harmless homage to ’80s hair bands and 21st-century emo teenyboppers is wholesome in its debauchery and good-natured in its antiauthoritarianism." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 20, 2008 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 38%
| Henry Poole Is Here (2008) | "
Why develop character when you’ve got stylish images and music full of weepy uplift?" — Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 68%
| CSNY Déjà Vu (2008) | "
Neil Young rolls the cameras on himself and geriatric bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash as they tenaciously cling to social relevance by generally preaching to the converted during their 2006 antiwar Freedom of Speech tour." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 36%
| August (2008) | "
August tries to bluff its way into success as a deeply felt parable of greed, loyalty and family ties, but ends up being just as fatuous as those burst-bubble paper-tiger corporations it eviscerates." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
Three dimensions are one too many for this flat tale of geological grandiosity." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 9, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 79%
| Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) | "
By all means, teach our children about America’s storied past, but don’t use it to put lipstick on a narrative pig bred for selling bacon." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 87%
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008) | "
Young-adult in conception and execution, this award-winning animated romance with a Thanatos twist is an underdeveloped sci-fi Groundhog Day." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 89%
| Kung Fu Panda (2008) | "
A parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda, which forgoes the rigors of character development for lazy, bone-crunching mayhem." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 55%
| The Foot Fist Way (2008) | "
Those with a yen for foolish grandeur are in for a treat. But don’t be deluded into thinking there’s more in store." — Time Out New York Posted May 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 29%
| Tehilim (2007) | "
Imagine a Jewish L’Avventura without any of the profound existential rumination, troubling emotional ennui or unnervingly seductive filmmaking, and a picture will form of this well-intentioned but ultimately simplistic tale of loss." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 31%
| Chaos Theory (2008) | "
What emerges is a short movie that feels too long, a heartfelt drama too playful to be sincere, and a narrative touching on adult themes but sabotaged by schematic false notes." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 60%
| Nana (2005) | "
Harajuku lovers will get a kick out of Japanese box-office smash Nana, a very kawaii celebration of girl power based on a popular manga about two 20-year-olds who share the same first name." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 26%
| Sex and Death 101 (2008) | "
Sloppy execution and too-cheeky dialogue capsize an outdated modern myth about confronting fate amid feminist saber rattling and sexist prejudices." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 20%
| Chapter 27 (2008) | "
Chapman’s villainy isn’t tragic or misunderstood; it’s simple insanity. To dwell on it is to wallow in pain. Elevate yourself, and stay away." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Fresh 5/6
| N/A | It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) | "
A bleak thriller realized with utter vibrancy, Robert Hamer’s savory stew of London’s lower class roils with an emotional brutality and precision that most films don’t dare attempt, let alone achieve." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 0%
| Witless Protection (2008) | "
Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
A welcome, sweet-natured road trip that happily and willfully exploits Vince Vaughn’s marquee value to showcase a quartet of very deserving upstart comedians." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 48%
| Lost in Beijing (2008) | "
The situations may be forced, but the struggles with basic vices -- greed, jealousy, lust, deception -- are convincingly elemental." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 15%
| Hitman (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 77%
| Canvas (2007) | "
A pair of well-shaded performances by Joe Pantoliano and Marcia Gay Harden dignifies a sincere but innocuous look at a blue-collar husband’s struggle with his wife’s schizophrenia." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 5%
| Good Luck Chuck (2007) | "
A cesspool of irrational plot points and flaccid punch lines." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
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