Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 71%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
What saves the movie, insofar as it is saved, is the absolute commitment of the filmmakers... all of whom either don't notice or don't care how very pwecious their scenario is." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 46%
| Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) | "
It is difficult to say whether its greatest failure is in its story, its characters, or its animation." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Fresh 69%
| Scrooge (1970) | "
[Finney is] the only element of this production that is really up to much good... the film lacks energy or dramatic thrust." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 85%
| The Emperor's New Groove (2000) | "
[The] lightest and wackiest of all Disney features." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| The Terminator (1984) | "
I remain perpetually amazed by how magnificently Cameron keeps the tension up... there is not a single moment that isn't operating at 100%." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 82%
| Fantasia 2000 (1999) | "
A lightweight affair... Despite some momentary flashes of brilliance, this is no successor to the great Fantasia." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 5, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
Cage and Herzog click together better than just about any first-time actor & director combination in recent memory." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 88%
| Tarzan (1999) | "
The most legitimately touching Disney feature of the 1990s." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 71%
| The Road (2009) | "
One of the grimmest end-of-the-world movies in recent memory." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 86%
| Mulan (1998) | "
What is chiefly impressive is that the appropriation of Chinese iconography in a film that was plainly made by Western animators feels ultimately so natural and successful." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
It's given new life to a filmmaker who'd been getting a bit too ossified in his style and tics." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 83%
| Hercules (1997) | "
The most flat-out childish film of the Disney Renaissance: this is both its great triumph and ultimately the reason that it's so hard to care about it all that much." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 13%
| Piranha 2: The Spawning (1982) | "
The piranha attack scenes are handled with minimal grace, giving us plenty of nice, long looks at just how fake the props are." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 73%
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) | "
If not for some hopelessly incompetent and wasted attempts to lighten the mood... it might well be able to compete with Beauty and the Beast as the best film of the Disney Renaissance." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| Pocahontas (1995) | "
The film of the Disney Renaissance likeliest to elicit a shudder of dismay from all but the most maniacal Disney buffs." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 81%
| A Christmas Carol (1951) | "
If I dare to say it, a more dramatically successful work than Dickens's novella." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 29, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 92%
| The Lion King (1994) | "
The animation is extraordinarily beautiful, and more technically accomplished than any other film of the Disney Renaissance... [but] the drama and characters are terribly lacking." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 29, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 92%
| Aladdin (1992) | "
It's awfully close to being a great story, but it keeps having to settle for pretty darn good." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 93%
| Beauty and the Beast (1991) | "
This isn't merely the best of the princess features; it's very close to being the best Disney movie of them all." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 62%
| The Rescuers Down Under (1990) | "
There's only the one thing it does flat-out wrong: this otherwise delightful adventure-comedy has a completely meandering, aimless story." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 26, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 90%
| The Little Mermaid (1989) | "
The long-awaited proof that Disney animation could, in fact, return almost the quality and beauty of its Golden Age." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 44%
| All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) | "
Don Bluth's second outright triumph; a film whose burial in the last 20 years is nothing short of a crime." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 42%
| Oliver and Company (1988) | "
Quite insipid and wretchedly unengaging." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Fresh 71%
| The Land Before Time (1988) | "
What charmed me when I first saw it as a six-year-old in theaters now strikes me as rather middling, indifferent storytelling and character development." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 63%
| An American Tail (1986) | "
Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Boring, but I'll say this about New Moon: it appears to have been made by people more familiar with the craft of cinema than Twilight was." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 80%
| The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (1986) | "
If the film fails to click on all the emotional levels that Disney might have wanted, at least it's a brightly-paced bit of comedy and fun." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 100%
| Ninotchka (1939) | "
The masterpiece among Lubitsch's later films." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 60%
| The Black Cauldron (1985) | "
It may have cost five times the amount of any other Disney film in the preceding two decades, but by God that money ended up on screen." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 22, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 94%
| The Secret of NIMH (1982) | "
The award-winning book had a pretty crackerjack story to begin with, but in some respects, I think Bluth and his co-writers have bettered it." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 22, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 68%
| The Fox and the Hound (1981) | "
Cloying and cutesy, a helpless callback to a number of truly classic movies that it couldn't hope to equal, let alone better." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 84%
| The Rescuers (1977) | "
The one completely successful Disney feature produced between 1967 and the beginning of the company's renaissance in 1989." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 91%
| The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) | "
One of the most charming of all Disney features... like anyone else, when I see it I am swiftly and inexorably carried back to childhood, in accordance with the drippy clichés." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
A more delightfully bad movie hasn't been seen in all of 2009." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| Robin Hood (1973) | "
Blatantly caters to a juvenile audience, without making even the slightest attempt to entertain the grown-ups unless it happens that they like Saturday morning cartoon-level hijinks." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Fresh 65%
| The Aristocats (1970) | "
Insofar as the film has any real ambition driving it, that ambition seems to be that the Disney brand name must be kept alive until somebody could figure out what to do with it." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 38%
| See You in the Morning (1989) | "
It might have been nice to actually have some kind of emotional response to it, in addition to just nodding and thinking, "ah yes, this seems to be properly observed."" — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 89%
| The Jungle Book (1967) | "
It's not merely disappointing but frankly soul-wracking that The Jungle Book isn't any better than it is." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 96%
| Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) | "
It competes only with It Happened One Night for the title of Capra's most entertaining film ever." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 73%
| The Sword in the Stone (1963) | "
It makes a good effort at being something like My First Arthur Story." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 15, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 67%
| Orphans (1987) | "
Great performances and characters feel a bit imprisoned by the walls of the film frame." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 91%
| Sleeping Beauty (1959) | "
One of the handful of Disney features that can be rightfully called perfect." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Even when director Lee Daniels overplays his hand the worst, the film is always wholly worthy of discussion." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 87%
| Lady and the Tramp (1955) | "
Easily the most beautifully-animated piece to come out of the Disney Studios since the Golden Age ended." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| N/A | Dream Lover (1986) | "
[The filmmakers] wager everything on the audience finding mid-'80s dream research to be the height of compelling cinema." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 83%
| Peter Pan (1953) | "
Not an especially mature film, probably the most "kiddie movie" of all the 1950s Disney features." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 45%
| The Box (2009) | "
Impales itself on the smug awareness of how stuffed full of extraordinarily twisty ideas it is, without bothering to make sure that those ideas add up to anything halfway worthwhile." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 81%
| Alice in Wonderland (1951) | "
An emotionally chilly exercise... At the same time it is gorgeous indeed, one of the most singular movies in the Disney canon visually." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
The biggest surprise... is that it isn't absolutely dreadful. Perfectly pointless, maybe, but not dreadful." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 92%
| Cinderella (1950) | "
Great animation, but not quite as great as the pre-war standard; deeply problematic gender issues in a reed-thin story; some brilliant characters, a lot of fairly dull ones." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
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