|
4/4
|
100%
|
Le Amiche (1955) |
"
An Antonioni film will frequently pose a riddle, and then never answer it; here the mystery of why Rosetta tries to kill herself becomes a pretense for the rest of the film."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2010
|
|
A
|
89%
|
Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
97%
|
L'Armée des ombres (Army in the Shadows) (1969) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
91%
|
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
——
|
Oz - The Complete First Season (2002) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
98%
|
The War Tapes (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A
|
95%
|
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù) (2003) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
La Moustache (2005) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
A-
|
91%
|
Water (2005) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
3.5/4
|
98%
|
Inside Job (2010) |
"
If No End in Sight took on the tone of a tragedy, then Inside Job becomes dark, despairing comedy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2010
|
|
B+
|
86%
|
Inside Man (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Go (1999) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
B+
|
87%
|
The Proposition (2005) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
B+
|
82%
|
Nine to Five (9 to 5) (1980) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
B+
|
23%
|
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
84%
|
The Time That Remains (2011) |
"
One of the many simple conceits of Elia Suleiman's film is the way in which one man's silence becomes a metaphor for an entire nation's. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
57%
|
Film socialisme (2011) |
"
Godard has always used clips from and references to other movies in his work, and here he goes further to use other forms of media. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
93%
|
My Joy (2011) |
"
Loznitsa's documentaries are mainly compilations of archival footage, so it makes sense that his first fiction film is also essentially a compilation"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2010
|
|
|
——
|
Hamlet (2010) |
"
The play's the thing, and it sings."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 25, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Il y a Longtemps que Je T'aime (I've Loved You So Long) (2008) |
"
Much will be written about Kristen Scott Thomas's performance...most of it justified."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2008
|
|
B
|
75%
|
Factotum (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
B
|
69%
|
World Trade Center (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
B
|
60%
|
The Boynton Beach Club (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) |
"
The more you know going into the movie, the more you sense it leaving out."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
|
The Heretics (2009) |
"
The women interviewed seem thoughtful and searching. They deserve a movie that does more than take them at their word."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
100%
|
Toy Story 2 (1999) |
"
Our emotional autobiographies influence our film tastes more than we'd care to admit."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 1, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
65%
|
The Universe of Keith Haring (2008) |
"
The Universe of Keith Haring is content to slide on hagiography and shortchange cultural critique."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 23, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
Obscene (2008) |
"
Obscene is a brief, pleasant time-killer that genially preaches to the choir yet, while it's always enjoyable, this review's readers should seek Grove books out first."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
Quilombo Country () |
"
The film ends with a slow-motion shot of quilombo dwellers dancing, the tension between old and new worlds unresolved."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 22, 2008
|
|
B-
|
48%
|
Idlewild (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
The Robber (2011) |
"
The Robber's race to mediocrity ends with a dying phone call, which among other things is the death of inspiration. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Jews And Baseball: An American Love Story (2010) |
"
The film feels simultaneously micromanaged and slapdash, spouting generalities about the game while neglecting to show a full at-bat. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 7, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
89%
|
Breath Made Visible: Anna Halprin (2010) |
"
In the same way that listening to a clip of a song is less satisfying than grooving to the whole number, so too is a snippet of a dance number less edifying than watching the entire piece."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
20%
|
Red Birds (2010) |
"
As each new bird chimes in, the experiment begins to prove irritating."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 20, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
Dancing Across Borders (2010) |
"
The film spends an inordinate amount of time with people talking about what a good dancer Sy is, as opposed to showing him actually dancing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
Formosa Betrayed (2010) |
"
This is a lot of Graham Greene hugger-mugger, the tale of a rube who believes that he can do good abroad."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
21%
|
Leap Year (2010) |
"
Leap Year is like most relationships: You keep waiting for it to get better, until you finally accept that it won't."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 6, 2010
|
|
C+
|
47%
|
Renaissance (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
C+
|
54%
|
Flicka (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
C+
|
17%
|
Land of the Blind (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
C+
|
76%
|
Absolute Wilson (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
C+
|
77%
|
The Mudge Boy (2003) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
After the Storm (2009) |
"
The kids themselves drop in and out of the movie, their personal conflicts briefly raised and left unresolved, which is a shame, because the few bits of their home lives post-Katrina that we discover are intriguing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 5, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
72%
|
We Are What We Are (2011) |
"
Few things are more irritating than movies that get their jollies off of abusing women, a preference We Are What We Are then emphasizes by showing the dead prostitute's battered face."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 15, 2011
|
|
|
83%
|
Yesterday Was a Lie (2009) |
"
What starts off as noir feels like kids playing around. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 9, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
91%
|
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) (2010) |
"
These ingredients combine for a sort of idiot salad, but because it's a foreign film with boobs in it, Secret passes for high art."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2010
|
|
|
——
|
Evelyn Waugh Collection (2010) |
"
Two adaptations of works by a masterful author, one pretty solid and one far below masterful."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 23, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
56%
|
It's Complicated (2009) |
"
The character names are irrelevant as the plot's a hoary, hokey pretense to gather under the stars."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
66%
|
The Blind Side (2009) |
"
The movie's title refers to the area of a football field that the left tackle protects, but it could easily refer to an audience unaware of its prejudices."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2009
|
|
D
|
40%
|
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) |
—
The Cinema Source
Posted Oct 18, 2008
|
67%
——
98%
