— | Rotten 45%
| Bobby (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 97%
| 51 Birch Street (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Rotten 33%
| The Good German (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 64%
| Belle Toujours (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 70%
| Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 75%
| My Best Friend (2007) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Rotten 31%
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 79%
| The Last Winter (2007) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Rotten 23%
| Evan Almighty (2007) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 84%
| Old Joy (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Remember the Titans (2000) | "
Yakin's hackwork is so slickly manipulative and preachy it has the tone of a politician's TV commercial..." — Movieline Posted May 29, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) | "
The rough-and-tumble tone is bitterly entertaining but in the end doesn't contribute to a convincing historical portrait, and a pileup of half-baked resolutions spoils the buzz." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Stuff and Dough (2008) | "
Simultaneously lean and distracted." — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| California Split (1974) | "
Sold as a comedy, the film scans more like American-century Dostoyevsky, with comp cocktails." — Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) | "
A rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison." — Village Voice Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Love and Anger (1969) | "
Bristly and mad as hell, the coalescent result is both a fabulous time capsule and a prescient rediscovery for today's latent anti-war movement. Supps include new interviews, galleries, and a booklet of background info." — Village Voice Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Prix De Beaute (1930) | "
The breathtakingly lurid finale, set in a screening room, has an almost necrophilic obsessiveness." — Village Voice Posted Oct 31, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Laura (1944) | "
A hypnotic and deathlessly interpretable experience." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Somewhere in the Night (1946) | "
Joseph L. Mankiewicz's nervous nightmare (made in his first year of directing) isn't an all-hallowed member of the noir canon -- it's fairly slick, and Mankiewicz has little or no existentialist cred. But it sings the school's black-hearted lament." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Damnation (1987) | "
It's a serotonin-depleted ordeal, and yet seemingly a sketchbook of vibes and ideas to come, with some of the most magnificent black-and-white images shot anywhere in the world." — Village Voice Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Prefab People (1982) | "
An unrelenting, smell-the-sour-breath portrait of a blue-collar marriage dissolving under pressure from Communist-era poverty, masculine inadequacy, and restless depression." — Village Voice Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Innocents (1961) | "
Is it the finest, smartest, most visually savvy horror film ever made by a big studio?" — Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) | "
Amid the early-talkie crudeness you can see Renoir discover what it means to visually evoke the unpredictable flow of life with composition, movement, and depth." — Village Voice Posted May 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| 49 Up (2006) | "
For under-30 viewers who still think they're immortal, the latest installment could very well be the grimmest and most haunting of horror films." — Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| So Goes the Nation (2006) | "
A detailed and somewhat straggling account of the 2004 presidential election's flashpoint climax in Ohio." — Boston Phoenix Posted Oct 3, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Be With Me (2005) | "
Sometimes clumsy and dry, always sympathetic, and wryly interested in the impact food has on social intercourse, Be With Me is eventually affecting once its elliptical shape becomes clear." — Village Voice Posted Sep 26, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| All The King's Men (2006) | "
Penn goes for larger-than-life, wrapping his pinched frown around an unintelligible Louisiana drawl and swinging his arms like an autistic evangelist." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Solo Con Tu Pareja (1991) | "
Pushing the dull Cacho as a chick magnet capable of opening any pair of legs suggests that Cuarón's respect for women has gained serious ground since he was 29." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Keeping Mum (2006) | "
Obvious, simplistic, and never funny, Niall Johnson's movie may be useful only as real estate porn -- Cornwall and the Isle of Man never looked so super cute." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| The Ground Truth (2006) | "
Patricia Foulkrod's film backs itself into a Support Our Troops corner, elegizing the soldiers. Iraqis do not figure in, except as bad memories." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) | "
Tragedy, when it comes, does not involve us -- we're kept at arm's length through to the final retribution." — Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Man Push Cart (2006) | "
As a rhythmic cry for understanding, Man Push Cart has the simplicity of an Islamic hamd call to prayer." — Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Saint of 9/11 (2006) | "
Filmmaker Glenn Holsten sells it to the cheap seats anyway, fleshing out Judge's alcoholic struggles and his redoubtable activist work with mega-dramatic gimmickry and sentimental hosannas." — Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| The Wicker Man (2006) | "
This wasn’t a horror film the first time around, and LaBute makes sorry feints at effective creepiness." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Lower Depths (1935) | "
Renoir sought out balance and humanistic sympathy, reshaping the narrative so the thief (Jean Gabin) and the Baron (Louis Jouvet) bond over their mutual rebellion against the social system." — Village Voice Posted Aug 30, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Fando y Lis (1967) | "
An adorable, preposterous mutant film from the heyday of international do-your-own-thing moviemania." — Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Looking for Kitty (2006) | "
It might be the most maturely conceived role in Burns's films, but the plot around it is flimsy, the visual storytelling simpleminded, and the general ideas for character one-note." — Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Chess Players (1977) | "
Ray's film is an incisive dissection of culture shock and class privilege." — Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Idlewild (2006) | "
Idlewild has a sober, loving respect for history and the old South, and thereby grants itself a measure of distinction." — Village Voice Posted Aug 22, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| 10th & Wolf (2006) | "
A hellish and unconvincing celebration of badda-bing-ness." — Village Voice Posted Aug 22, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Calvaire (2005) | "
The very notion that movies about torture are considered 'horror,' and are more profitable now per foot of celluloid than any other type of independent film, is what's qualmy." — Village Voice Posted Aug 8, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Bridesmaid (2006) | "
... a psychodrama of typically brisk efficiency and relaxed gallows humor." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| My Country, My Country (2006) | "
... easily the most valuable piece of film to emerge about the war in all of its three-plus years." — Village Voice Posted Aug 2, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| John Tucker Must Die (2006) | "
The title's difficult to argue with, unless it's to maintain that we'd all be better off if the film's entire roster of characters had been shot in the head at the dump, greyhound-style." — Village Voice Posted Jul 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Azumi (2006) | "
The world seen through the bloodshot eyes of Xbox zombies." — Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Lady in the Water (2006) | "
Shyamalan is mystically assuming that any idea or image that pops into his skull will make a shapely tale, no matter how much cock-and-bull logic he has to invent to Gorilla Glue it together." — Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Overlord (1975) | "
It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Edmond (2006) | "
Edmond is all sizzle and little meat, a veritable tangent act dropped from Glengarry Glen Ross because it was several marks too silly." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Changing Times (2006) | "
We, in any case, are as unconvinced by his lovelorn saga as Deneuve's skeptical pragmatist -- that is, until a romance paperback deus ex machina shoots the film's lifelike credibility out of the water." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) | "
The film's Endsville, when we reach it, is almost an anticlimax, thanks to the masterfully orchestrated ensemble acting and the countless dramatic mini-explosions unleashed along the way." — Village Voice Posted Jul 11, 2006 |
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