Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 44%
| The Girl From Monaco (2009) | "
It's not at all as disposable as it seems at first glance." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Rotten 44%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
I can't figure out how a character as great [as Scrat] keeps ending up in movies like this." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/10
| Rotten 50%
| Uncle Sam (1996) | "
The worst of everything in the slasher subgenre consolidated into 89 endless minutes." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 5, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
Essential viewing for anyone with even a slight interest in the quality and substance of their health and food, which darn well ought to include everybody." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
The film is not great, but it is very good in most respects, and a few isolated moments achieve greatness." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Rotten 47%
| Miami Vice (2006) | "
Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
If I conclude that the film is ultimately a touch on the trivial side, I do not believe that I am accusing it of anything that the filmmakers didn't intend it to be." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 86%
| Collateral (2004) | "
If anyone is ever to mount an argument for the superiority of video over film, this movie would of necessity be very near to the center of that argument." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Approaches the line that's ever-present in Allen's films dividing funny misanthropy from sour misanthropy, and tramples all over it." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 29, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 82%
| Opera (1991) | "
An art film through and through, though it be an art film with an unusual number of bloody deaths... one of Argento's most memorable films." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 29, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Young Mr. Lincoln (1940) | "
John Ford produced greater films, but perhaps not a single one that was more perfect or more Fordian... [there's] a confidence of purpose and a unity across all the elements of its creation." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 29, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 61%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Maddening and fascinating in a way that only a true artist could possibly manage, and piddling questions like whether or not the film "works" are completely beside the point." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 27, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 67%
| Ali (2001) | "
More than competently mounted, with a hollowness just discernible in its core... feels like the first draft of whatever film Michael Mann set out to make." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 1/10
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
Shrieking and ugly and tedious and soft-headed, not even giving the thin comfort of being hilariously bad." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 25, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 46%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
For a woefully unconvincing summertime romantic comedy, it's not without a certain ramshackle, rickety old charm." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 96%
| The Insider (1999) | "
Not a single shot could be improved in either lighting or framing; nor is there even a single cut that could be moved by so much as a frame without damaging the exactitude of its placement." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
An exquisite gem of a science-fiction picture... pitched squarely at the patient, intelligent adults in the audience who want to have a good think." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/10
| Rotten 17%
| Year One (2009) | "
About as funny as watching Black and Cera darning socks. No, I take that back, I think either of those men could make darning socks look pretty amusing." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 89%
| Heat (1995) | "
A slow-moving, overburdened, well-meant and at times quite entertaining slog." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
Full-up with caricatures... fails in the most dire way to make any comments on the state of parenting and coupling in America rooted in actual observation." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Scott has ratcheted back on nearly all of his bad habits." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 97%
| The Last of the Mohicans (1992) | "
Positively sprints through its narrative, achieving the adventuresome spirit so hopelessly absent from Cooper's clumsy and simple novel." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 90%
| Bay of Blood (1971) | "
If only one-hundredth of the films it influenced had one-hundredth of its perfection, the horror film would be a much less disreputable and more wonderful thing than has been the case." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| N/A | L.A. Takedown (1989) | "
A film much better written than executed... has the appearance at every moment of a hatchet job that got cranked out in record time because nobody involved had any real desire to make it." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
As delicate, even effervescent, as any story about the dissolution of family ties could possibly be." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 94%
| Manhunter (1986) | "
At the very worst an intriguing misfire, and often much better than that." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
Stands up as a motion picture in addition to working as a delivery system for gags... as fine a mystery and character study as it is a comedy." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
Nothing at all besides two funnymen and one disposable, objectified woman running from place to place, screaming a bit, joking about bodily functions, and running around a bit more." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 11%
| The Keep (1983) | "
After a brilliant opening act, the plot gets flabbier and flabbier until around the half-way point, when it stops making any sense whatsoever." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| N/A | The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) | "
Isn't nearly as visionary as the best examples of the giallo form." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 8, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 100%
| Tokyo Drifter (1966) | "
Distills the aesthetic of the 1960s into one feature-length blast." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 7, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Thief (1981) | "
Not just the best film of [Michael Mann's] career, but one of the best American films of the whole of the 1980s." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 93%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
A rickety, old-fashioned scare picture made by a man who proved many years ago that he has nothing left to prove in the horror genre." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 4, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| N/A | The Jericho Mile (1979) | "
Peter Strauss gives one of the great one-off performances in television history." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 2, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| The Big Parade (1925) | "
Though a virtually uncountable number of war films in the intervening 84 years have trodden upon much the same ground, few of them indeed have been able to equal its achievements." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Jun 1, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 91%
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969) | "
One of the most self-assured debuts of all time, a work so certain in its conception and execution that almost 40 years later I'd still quickly rank it as one of Argento's finest." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 31, 2009 |
Fresh 9.5/10
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
A sweet and gentle fable... sad & funny & thrilling all at once." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
It's a fine movie to like, although nearly impossible to love. And from the man who gave us the immensely lovable Brick, this is a minor disappointment." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2/10
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
Atrociously dumb." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 28, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
None of the ginormous action sequence carry any real weight because the filmmakers have made absolutely no effort to convince us to care about what's happening." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 25, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 81%
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) | "
Robert Donat at the peak of his skills... as moving today as it was upon its premiere." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 24, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 67%
| The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) | "
Plot and coherence aren't really so important as atmosphere and style and thrills, and these things [the film] possesses in abundance." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 24, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Rotten 58%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
I do not know if history will judge this an important document of the Times In Which We Live, but it surely seems to me that it captured something vital." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 23, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 46%
| Management (2009) | "
Presents characters whose behavior is the behavior of grotesques; there is no connection drawn between what happens on the page and what is recognisably human." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 92%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
A bit like watching sausages getting made, but it's fascinating... made from the trenches for people who have no idea what casting looks like." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 70%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
This isn't much more than a pleasant sports comedy and family drama hybrid, but it's surely entertaining. The very model of a summertime arthouse flick." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 19, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 100%
| Fury (1936) | "
The film's message is resonant far beyond the moment of its creation, speaking even to our modern-day political reality." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 17, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 37%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
Let no man be so crude as to accuse it of its predecessor's insipidity. Let us be forgiving, and say that it is merely weak. It is the vanilla soft-serve of summer adventure movies." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 25%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
Where I see thrilling structural and formal exploration, another viewer could see so much pretentious twaddle, and that's a perfectly reasonable response." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted May 12, 2009 |
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