— | Rotten 6%
| Date Movie (2006) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Mar 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Les Pont des Arts (2006) | "
Rapturously beautiful." — Village Voice Posted Jan 19, 2006 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Fanny and Alexander (1982) |
Click here to read article — Images Posted Dec 24, 2005 |
N/A | Fresh 88%
| Caché (2005) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Dec 14, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Happy Here and Now (2002) | "
When Amelia takes the full multimedia plunge in the movie's final moments, Happy becomes something inexplicably (and metaphysically) beautiful." — Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dias de Santiago (2005) | "
If the movie lacks narrative originality, it leaves a singularly raw impression of having spent time inside someone's sweaty, ill-fitting skin." — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Gilles' Wife (2006) | "
Devos's performance is an expert workshop of internalized emotions and silent forbearance." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Unveiled (2005) | "
Unveiled overflows with sociopolitical outrage even if its portrayal of a gender-confused heroine is ultimately indecisive and laconic." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
— | Rotten 38%
| Flightplan (2005) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Oct 2, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Garcon Stupide (2006) | "
A better-late-than-never coming-of-age tale that is by turns earnest and corny, though never stupide." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| Côte d'Azur (2004) | "
Like many a French summer holiday, Côte d'Azur ends up being pretty, listless, and much too long." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Games of Love and Chance (2005) | "
Reading between the cuss words, the movie glimpses a sunny teen innocence just before it darkens irreversibly into adulthood." — Village Voice Posted Aug 30, 2005 |
— | Fresh 87%
| Kings and Queen (2005) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 14, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Sequins (2005) | "
Sequins hinges on its performances and newcomer Naymark is a marvel of quiet intelligence, endowing Claire with a complex mix of virginal purity and hormonal rage." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Mindhunters (2005) | "
In an era of wall-to-wall CSI, Mindhunters' ghoulish forensic hubbub not only feels tiring but hopelessly redundant." — Village Voice Posted May 10, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Le Grand Role (2005) | "
Director Steve Suissa spells out the acting metaphors for the cheap seats but leaves subtler points of intrigue unexplored." — Village Voice Posted May 3, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Ladies in Lavender (2005) | "
While they never look bored, Smith and Dench are clearly slumming, having played these roles in other costume pics." — Village Voice Posted Apr 26, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| The Amityville Horror (2005) | "
The Amityville Horror is a Xerox so tattered and faded that it's impossible to determine who's to blame for the overproduced mediocrity before our eyes." — Village Voice Posted Apr 19, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| 15 (2005) | "
The directionless lives on display all too easily translate into a directionless film." — Village Voice Posted Apr 12, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Happily Ever After (2005) | "
If there is any doubt as to whether French cinema is in a state of free fall, Yvan Attal's Happily Ever After should put such uncertainties to rest." — Village Voice Posted Apr 7, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Beyond the Sea (2005) | "
Grants a quiet dignity to its subjects without sanctifying them. And the less-than-ideal outcome of many of their lives rings all the more powerfully for being so plainly presented." — Village Voice Posted Mar 22, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| After the Apocalypse (2004) | "
A surprisingly engaging ride." — Village Voice Posted Mar 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Intimate Stories (2002) | "
It's a perfectly realized grace note whose lack of any obvious message only reinforces the movie's abundant wisdom and patient humanism." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Fear and Trembling (2004) | "
A film that professes a deep respect for the Japanese culture and then renders its Japanese characters as a bunch of screeching ninnies." — Village Voice Posted Nov 16, 2004 |
— | Fresh 92%
| Tarnation (2004) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Nov 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Who Killed Bambi (2004) | "
A sustained atmosphere of bleached-out horror." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Fish Without A Bicycle () | "
Strong performances are marred by a script whose dialogue ranges from cheesy to unspeakably bad." — Village Voice Posted Oct 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Shall We Dance? (2004) | "
Exemplifies its distributor at its most blatantly opportunistic -- plundering the recycling bin for a no-brainer cash-in." — Village Voice Posted Oct 12, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Remember Me, My Love (2004) | "
The 48-year-old Morante is the real thing; like Deneuve, Rampling, and Huppert, she graces middle age with both intelligence and a rumpled, lived-in sex appeal." — Village Voice Posted Aug 31, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| It's Easier for A Camel (2003) | "
Long-winded, jokingly self-deprecating, and clichéd." — Village Voice Posted Aug 17, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| Intimate Strangers (2004) | "
A bland chamber drama for those who like their French cinema tame, talky, and just a little titillating." — Village Voice Posted Jul 27, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| The Clearing (2004) | "
With the emotional reins of the movie firmly in her grasp, Mirren never condescends to her character, investing her with an unshakable poise that unnerves even as it reassures those around her." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Two Brothers (2004) | "
Returning to the territory of his 1989 hit The Bear, Jean-Jacques Annaud delivers another refreshingly mature fable of bestial devotion." — Village Voice Posted Jun 22, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Love Me If You Dare (2004) | "
Fans of Amélie will rejoice in the film's CGI-aided flights of fancy; all others will groan audibly and often as director Yann Samuell piles on the Nutrasweetened visuals." — Village Voice Posted May 18, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Mudge Boy (2004) | "
The film projects a shy modesty, a virtue largely attributable to Emile Hirsch's unflashy performance as the titular 14-year-old farm boy." — Village Voice Posted May 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 39%
| Man on Fire (2004) | "
Intentional or not, Man on Fire's over-the-top evocation of Christian retribution goes a long way to making this otherwise standard revenge fantasy watchable." — Village Voice Posted Apr 27, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Morlang (2001) | "
A murder mystery so artfully restrained you almost expect Diana Rigg to deliver a witty epilogue." — Village Voice Posted Apr 27, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Connie and Carla (2004) | "
The phrase 'written by Nia Vardalos' should send any self-respecting moviegoer screaming into the night, pursued by the comedienne's frizzy-haired brand of hysteria and the brain meltdown it inevitably induces." — Village Voice Posted Apr 13, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Johnson Family Vacation (2004) | "
Like Bow Wow's exasperated upstart, you too will be asking, 'Are we there yet?' not 20 minutes in." — Village Voice Posted Apr 6, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Marathon (2004) | "
Marathon offers one of the most inventive reimaginings of the MTA since D.A. Pennebaker's 1953 cine-poem Daybreak Express." — Village Voice Posted Mar 30, 2004 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) |
Click here to read article — Images Posted Mar 16, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Bon Voyage (2004) | "
Relies on its considerable star power to conceal its even more considerable lack of substance." — Village Voice Posted Mar 16, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| La Mentale: The Code (2004) | "
Attends to a thick stew of (soap-) operatic emotion, turning each internecine skirmish into an occasion for melodramatic brooding." — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| My Baby's Daddy (2004) | "
A tired send-up of hip-hop-isms that also aspires to be a Waiting to Exhale for men." — Village Voice Posted Jan 13, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| My Flesh and Blood (2003) | "
Single motherhood has seldom looked as daunting and enervating as it does in this unsentimental documentary." — Village Voice Posted Nov 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| El Leyton (2002) | "
A barely elevated telenovela." — Village Voice Posted Nov 18, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Gothika (2003) | "
All horror tropes, please report for duty." — Village Voice Posted Nov 18, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| Scary Movie 3 (2003) | "
Rebounds nicely from its sophomore misfire, giddily inbreeding the plots of a half-dozen box office overachievers—from The Ring to 8 Mile -- until the result assumes a comically unstoppable life of its own." — Village Voice Posted Oct 28, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Porn Theater (2003) | "
Knowingly antiquated in a world of Internet porn, it taps into the sepulchral undercurrents of communal spectatorship." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2003 |
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